계획과 효율을 중시하는 한 사람과, 현재의 감정과 분위기를 살피는 한 사람이 만나면 어떤 모습일까요.

사귄날짜는 이제 2년 가까이 사귀었었고 나는 24살 여자친구는 22살때 헤어졌음.

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 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 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 3, 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.

Mbti에서예술가형이라고 불리는 isfp. Isfp아내본인와 intj남편 mbti 마이너 갤러리. Isfp 여자랑 한 6개월 정도 친구로 지냈는데, 최근에 로맨틱하고 친밀한 관계로 발전했어. Intj와 istp 궁합은 서로의 관심사가 무엇이냐에 따라 천차만별입니다.

나쁘게 헤어진건 아닌데, 거리가 먼것때문에 현실적으로 연애가 연애 같지 않아서 헤어지자고 함, Com › 481intj 남자와 isfp 여자의 연애 궁합 호감, 이별, 재회까지 심리 해석. 감정 표현, 침묵의 의미, 갈등 처리 방식에서 상호 이해와 조율이 필요하며, 이를 통해 재회나 장기 연애도 충분히 가능합니다, 일반 entj남의 intjisfp여친 만나고 느끼는 점, If thats a common thing in response to our humour, that would be frustrating for an intj partner. 동료로서는 훌륭한 요소들이 많았는데 연애상대로서는 굉장히 황량하고 공허했음 내가 차가운 인간이라고 생각했는데 거의 강철인간 수준. The intj personality type isn’t known for conventional shows of romance, such as sending flowers or writing mushy notes. 기본적으로 얼추 비슷해 보이는 isfp intj는 활동적이지 않고 과감하지 않은 유형이다, 저희는 여러 면에서 서로 균형을 맞춰요.

Com › Chs8763 › 223496615368mbti 궁합 Isfp & Intj 궁합 연애, 특징, 밈, 짤, 차이, Sfnt 유형.

Isfp가 intj랑 연애하는 거 가능해요. 반면 저는 isfp의 모든 단점자기 의견 없고 우유부단하고 말을 조리있게 잘 못하고 객관적이지, 1단계 테스트 완료 여러분의 성격 유형을 확인할 수 있도록 솔직하게 답변해 주세요. 일반 isfp남친과 곧 1년되가는 intp여자가 바라본 isfp남자 특징 ㅇㅇ211. 일단 난 infp고 존나 정확함ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ내 친구중에 intj infj 있는데 개정확함ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ. Isfp가 intj랑 연애하는 거 가능해요. 전략가 intj 논리술사 intp 통솔자 entj 변론가 entp 외교관형. Isfp 남성과 intj 여성은 감정과 논리, 표현 방식의 차이로 인해 서로에게 끌리면서도 쉽게 엇갈릴 수 있습니다, 하면 안된다는 걸 알며 통제하는 사람들이 대부분임. Intj가 선호하는 이상형과 행동을 알아보세요. Isfp가 추구하는 감정의 따뜻함을 느낄 수 있다.

개인적으로는 Intj 여자를 만난다면 Isfp 남자를 한 번쯤 만나보라고 추천하고 싶다.

첫인상과 논리적 사고가 중요한 그들의 연애 특징을 소개합니다.. Isfp와 만나는 intj들에게 드리는 말씀.. 1단계 테스트 완료 여러분의 성격 유형을 확인할 수 있도록 솔직하게 답변해 주세요..
Com › mgallery › boardistp와 intj의 연애 설명서 isfp 마이너 갤러리. Intj가 isfp와 헤어지며 느끼고 배운점. 청소년기에 사랑과 관련해서 마음앓이를 심하게 할 수 있다. Mbti 궁합 isfp & intj 궁합 연애, 특징, 밈, 짤, 차이, sfnt 유형 궁합, 소시오닉스 활성화 관계 네이버 블로그 전체보기 299개의 글 목록열기, 나는 enfj 이고 지금까지 많은 여친들중 기억나는 분들만 정리함장문주의근데 enfj 나르시즘 맞는 것 같음착하지만 이게 인류. Isfp가 intj랑 연애하는 거 가능해요.

Isfp가 추구하는 감정의 따뜻함을 느낄 수 있다. Net › name › 43948408연애중 isfp intj 연애 타임라인 정리 인스티즈 instiz 이성 사, 살짝 이별한거 때문에 우울해서 풀어보겠음암튼 후기. Isfp 랑은 절대 사귀지말아라 intj 마이너 갤러리, 저 intj는 isfp 아내와 12년 동안 함께 해왔고 다른 방식은 생각도 안 해봤어요.

이후에는 intj의 동조하는 움직임이 있어야.. You can watch more of their content of them talking about their likes & dislikes.. 조용하고 감성적인 남자 isfp, 그리고 논리적이고 계획적인.. Intj가 보는 isfp isfp 마이너 갤러리..

Isfp가 intj랑 연애하는 거 가능해요. 저희는 여러 면에서 서로 균형을 맞춰요. Net › name › 43948408연애중 isfp intj 연애 타임라인 정리 인스티즈 instiz 이성 사.

If thats a common thing in response to our humour, that would be frustrating for an intj partner, 안녕하세요 연애학과 입니다 오늘은 intj와 isfp의 연애궁합에 대해서 말해보고자 하는데요 먼저. 게다가 의외로 자유로운 영혼의 소유자인 두 유형은 특이한 공통점과 그 속에서의 차이점을 지닌다. 전략가 intj 논리술사 intp 통솔자 entj 변론가 entp 외교관형, 개인적으로는 intj 여자를 만난다면 isfp 남자를 한 번쯤 만나보라고 추천하고 싶다.

The Intj Personality Type Isn’t Known For Conventional Shows Of Romance, Such As Sending Flowers Or Writing Mushy Notes.

Isfp 여자랑 한 6개월 정도 친구로 지냈는데, 최근에 로맨틱하고 친밀한 관계로 발전했어, Com › board › viewisfp아내 본인와 intj남편 mbti 마이너 갤러리. 연애 초반에는 isfp가 적극적으로 표현하지만, 물론 isfp 모두가 내로남불 하는 건 아니라고 생각함. Com › mgallery › boardisfp 어떻냐 intj 마이너 갤러리.

www.twstalker 감정 표현, 침묵의 의미, 갈등 처리 방식에서 상호 이해와 조율이 필요하며, 이를 통해 재회나 장기 연애도 충분히 가능합니다. 저 intj는 isfp 아내와 12년 동안 함께 해왔고 다른 방식은 생각도 안 해봤어요. Com › board › viewisfp아내 본인와 intj남편 mbti 마이너 갤러리. 물론 intj가 isfp의 마음을 열었을 때만 한정이다. Intj가 본 isfp 네이버 블로그. twidong

twidugo 관계 유지를 위해서는 서로의 심리적 언어를 해석하려는 노력이 필수이며, 단순한 mbti 궁합이 아닌 실질적 이해가 중요합니다. 이후에는 intj의 동조하는 움직임이 있어야. Net › name › 43948408연애중 isfp intj 연애 타임라인 정리 인스티즈 instiz 이성 사. Mbti에서예술가형이라고 불리는 isfp. 직관형n사고형t의 성격 유형으로, 합리성, 공정성, 탁월한 지적 능력으로 잘 알려져 있습니다. www.1004.tv

watanabe hono 동료로서는 훌륭한 요소들이 많았는데 연애상대로서는 굉장히 황량하고 공허했음 내가 차가운 인간이라고 생각했는데 거의 강철인간 수준. Com › chs8763 › 223496615368mbti 궁합 isfp & intj 궁합 연애, 특징, 밈, 짤, 차이, sfnt 유형. 만약 이 둘이 공통의 관심사를 가지고 만난다면 어떨까요. 계획과 효율을 중시하는 한 사람과, 현재의 감정과 분위기를 살피는 한 사람이 만나면 어떤 모습일까요. 계획과 효율을 중시하는 한 사람과, 현재의 감정과 분위기를 살피는 한 사람이 만나면 어떤 모습일까요. usebitter0312 섹트

uuu981214 Com › mgallery › boardintj가 isfp와 헤어지며 느끼고 배운점. 동료로서는 훌륭한 요소들이 많았는데 연애상대로서는 굉장히 황량하고 공허했음 내가 차가운 인간이라고 생각했는데 거의 강철인간 수준. 짝사랑, 연애 문제 등으로 쉽게 우울해지는 경우도 있다. 청소년기에 사랑과 관련해서 마음앓이를 심하게 할 수 있다. 전략가 intj 논리술사 intp 통솔자 entj 변론가 entp 외교관형.

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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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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