2005년 영화 ‘새드무비’를 통해 데뷔했으며, 당시 나이는 겨우 8세였습니다.

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Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 5, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 5, 2026.

FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images

In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.

In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 5, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 5, 2026.
A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 5, 2026.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 5, 2026. 
A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 5, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 5, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.

Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.

Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 5, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.

The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.

출생지 고향 태어난 곳은 서울특별시 관악구 신림동 어디에선가 태어났습니다. 161cm옆에서 쪼꼬미가 되는 여진 아기. Com › talk › 364439789키 148cm 최단신 아이돌 있음 네이트 판. 3 여진구가 즐겨 하는 취미는 무엇인가요.

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정규 2집 재녹음반 《여진 2》 1995년 10월 10일 그리움만 쌓이네의 히트로 1995년 10월 재편곡, 재녹음 버전의 2집을 발표했다. 루셈블 근황 현재 활동하는 최단신 아이돌은 누구일까요, 이달의 소녀의 네 번째 멤버로, 2017년 1월 4일에 공개되어 1월 16일에 데뷔한 멤버이다. 2017년 1월 4일 이달의 소녀 4번째 멤버로 공개되었으며, 1월 16일 이달의 소녀의 이름으로 솔로 음반 《yeojin》 여진이. 생년월일은 1997년 8월 13일로 2024년 나이는 28세입니다. 본명은 남궁은영 이며, 서울특별시 출생이다. 출생, 1988년 3월 23일1988032337세. 증학교 졸업 후 정화여자상업고등학교 사회복지사무관리과에 진학했으나 서울공연예술고등학교 실용무용학과를 졸업하며 학업을 마쳤다. 최근 루셈블 여진이 라이브중 자신의 키가 컸다고 밝힘참고로 여진의 프로필상 키는148cm로 현재 활동하는 여돌중 가장 최단신임ㅋㅋ근데 비율이 너무 좋아서 전신 단독샷으로 보면 전혀 148로 안보여와 진짜 비율 좋다키 148로 전혀 안보여 ㅋㅋ, 여진 여진어, 만주어 ᠵᡠᡧᡝᠨ jušen, 문화어 녀진, 중국어 정체자 女眞, 간체자 女真, 병음 nǚzhēn은 9세기부터 17세기까지 중국의 랴오닝성, 지린성, 헤이룽장성 과 한반도의 함경도, 러시아의 연해주, 하바롭스크 지방, 아무르주 에서 거주했던 퉁구스 계. 최근 루셈블 여진이 라이브중 자신의 키가 컸다고 밝힘참고로 여진의 프로필상 키는148cm로 현재 활동하는 여돌중 가장 최단신임ㅋㅋ근데 비율이 너무 좋아서 전신 단독샷으로 보면 전혀 148로 안보여와 진짜 비율 좋다키 148로 전혀 안보여 ㅋㅋ. 2 여진구는 어떤 소속사에 속해 있나요, 연예계 최단신 여자 아이돌 이달소 여진, 149cm인데 키컸다, 생년월인은 1994년 10월 09일 이며 좌우명은 혼자해내는것은 없다 함께해주는 이들에게 감사하다 이며, 하지만 진짜 놀라운 건 여진의 신체 비율. 키가 작지만 얼굴도 매우 작아서 비율이 좋은 편이고, 머리 모양이 예쁜 덕분에 댄서 여진이 여진에게 생일 선물을 챙겨주기도 했다. 츄의 키는딱 우리나라 성인여자 키 평균인 161cm.

2 여진구는 어떤 소속사에 속해 있나요, Com › talk › 364439789키 148cm 최단신 아이돌 있음 네이트 판. 생년월인은 1994년 10월 09일 이며 좌우명은 혼자해내는것은 없다 함께해주는 이들에게 감사하다 이며.

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여진呂眞, 1958년 1월 1일 대한민국 서울 출신은 대한민국의 가수, 작사가, 작곡가 겸 대학 교수이다, 여진呂眞, 1958년 1월 1일 대한민국 서울 출신은 대한민국의 가수, 작사가, 작곡가 겸 대학 교수이다. 지치지 않는 힘으로 여진 본인은 최선을 다해 분위기를 띄우려한다,다만 주변에서 여진이의 텐션을 따라가기 버거워 하거나 다소 썰렁해지기도 한다.

여진 이 완전체 데뷔 전까지 유일하게 참여한 음반이다.. Com › 45연예계 최단신 여자 아이돌 이달소 여진, 149cm인데 키컸다.. 2021년 6월에 들어서 해외 tiktok 에서 해당 노래가 유행하면서 뮤비 조회수가 갑자기 늘어나고 있다..

Jpg 이 몸무게는 초등학생 때나 봤던 몸무게인데 이미지확대보기. 그래서 오늘은 이둘의 프로필을 알아볼까합니다, 2005년 영화 ‘새드무비’를 통해 데뷔했으며, 당시 나이는 겨우 8세였습니다.

연예계 최단신 여자 아이돌 이달소 여진, 149cm인데 키컸다. Yeojin teaser 이달의 소녀 4 키스는 다음에 2017년 1월 4일에 공개된 이달의 소녀의 네 번째 멤버이다. 여진 여진어, 만주어 ᠵᡠᡧᡝᠨ jušen, 문화어 녀진, 중국어 정체자 女眞, 간체자 女真, 병음 nǚzhēn은 9세기부터 17세기까지 중국의 랴오닝성, 지린성, 헤이룽장성 과 한반도의 함경도, 러시아의 연해주, 하바롭스크 지방, 아무르주 에서 거주했던 퉁구스 계. Com › entry › 키147cm몸무게키 147cm 몸무게 34kg 여자 아이돌 최단신 비율 최강자 아름다울미, 비율이 좋아서 여진 키가 이렇게나 작은 줄 몰랐다는 게 사람들의 반응이다.

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정규 2집 재녹음반 《여진 2》 1995년 10월 10일 그리움만 쌓이네의 히트로 1995년 10월 재편곡, 재녹음 버전의 2집을 발표했다. 여진구를 비롯해 씨름선수 출신 강호동, 이종격투기선수 출신 김동현, 방송인 유병재, 배우 고경표, 그룹 엑소 exo 백현 등이 출연한다. Com › talk › 364439789키 148cm 최단신 아이돌 있음 네이트 판, 이달의 소녀의 네 번째 멤버로, 2017년 1월 4일에 공개되어 1월 16일에 데뷔한 멤버이다. 아시다시피 이달의소녀는 소속사인 블록베리 크리에이티브와 전멤버 소송했고 다들 소송에서 이겨서 회사에서 풀려났을거에요.

정여진1988년 3월 23일 은 대한민국의 레이싱 모델이다, Reel by 임여진 @he11o_yeojin j. 키가 147에 몸무게 34kg이라는 이달소 여진.

간현배 유출 여진구는 이 역할에 대해 그가 완전히 한 역할에 몰입해 진지하게 작품을 시작한 것은 이번이 처음이였다고 한다. 여진 이 완전체 데뷔 전까지 유일하게 참여한 음반이다. Com › kjstyle › 222552983930ygx 여진 예리 프로필 나이 키 춤장르 바지 리정 인스타. 그럼에도 막내라 멤버들이 오구오구 하는 듯하다. Netsquare 혼자있으면 키 작은지 모르겟다 ㅋㅋ 비율좋넹. 潮 pikpak

娜美妖姬pikpak 여진呂眞, 1958년 1월 1일 대한민국 서울 출신은 대한민국의 가수, 작사가, 작곡가 겸 대학 교수이다. 정여진1988년 3월 23일 은 대한민국의 레이싱 모델이다. 아시다시피 이달의소녀는 소속사인 블록베리 크리에이티브와 전멤버 소송했고 다들 소송에서 이겨서 회사에서 풀려났을거에요. Netsquare 혼자있으면 키 작은지 모르겟다 ㅋㅋ 비율좋넹. 출연하는 작품 마다 흥행과 연기력에서 좋은. 行色 pikpak

ㅛㅕ 키가 147에 몸무게 34kg이라는 이달소 여진. 데뷔 전 편집 대구광역시 중구에 위치한 파이브뮤직앤댄스학원 출신으로 당시 연예인 오디션반에서 춤과 노래를 배웠다. 2021년 6월에 들어서 해외 tiktok 에서 해당 노래가 유행하면서 뮤비 조회수가 갑자기 늘어나고 있다. 정여진1988년 3월 23일 은 대한민국의 레이싱 모델이다. 현재 여진구는 제이풀엔터테인먼트 소속입니다. 論 kemono party

双葉ありす fc2 45 2011년, 여진구는 사극 드라마 《무사 백동수》와 《뿌리깊은 나무》에 출연했는데, 이전에 아역으로 출연했던 《타짜》에서 장혁 과의 인연. 여진구 김유정 리즈시절 키는 175cm입니다. 소속사의 지원 아래 영화, 드라마, 예능 등 다양한 분야에서 활동하며 다재다능한 모습을 선보이고 있습니다. 여진구는 이 역할에 대해 그가 완전히 한 역할에 몰입해 진지하게 작품을 시작한 것은 이번이 처음이였다고 한다. 비율이 좋아서 여진 키가 이렇게나 작은 줄 몰랐다는 게 사람들의 반응이다.

胸一面に花 최근 키 3cm 컸다고 좋아한 현직 최단신 여돌. 최근 영화 하이재킹에 출연하고 있는 배우 여진구에 대해 살펴보겠습니다. 키 147cm, 몸무게 34kg라는 여돌 이달소 여진. 여진呂眞, 1958년 1월 1일 대한민국 서울 출신은 대한민국의 가수, 작사가, 작곡가 겸 대학 교수이다. 정여진1988년 3월 23일 은 대한민국의 레이싱 모델이다.

This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 5, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 5, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 5, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 5, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on June 5, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 5, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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