US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 19, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 19, 2026.
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.
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 19, 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 19, 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.
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.
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.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 19, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 19, 2026.
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.
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.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 19, 2026.
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.
FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 19, 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 19, 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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 19, 2026.
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.
FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 19, 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 19, 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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 19, 2026.
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본 문서의 내용은 대부분 리치마작 에서 사용하는 용어이며, 국표마작 등 다른 종류의 마작에서는 통용되지 않는. 방한복, 비옷 등에 달려있는 머리덮개. 「頭」は韓国語で「머리」という。 頭部という意味のほか、髪や髪型、「頭がよい・悪い」のように頭脳という意味がある。 人の頭は「머리」という。 「대가리」は動物や魚の頭、人の頭の俗語。, 머임とはどういう意味ですか? 韓国語に関する質問. 좀비고 내에서 통하는 용어를 정리해 둔 문서, 머임 meoim머임的意思머 is colloquialism of 뭐. Com › questions › 19539775what is the meaning of 머임. Com › questions › 19539775what is the meaning of 머임.하지만 이제 그는 역사적인 3기 연임을 앞두고 있다.. 「頭」は韓国語で「머리」という。 頭部という意味のほか、髪や髪型、「頭がよい・悪い」のように頭脳という意味がある。 人の頭は「머리」という。 「대가리」は動物や魚の頭、人の頭の俗語。.. 研究社 新英和中辞典発音síːm, siːm変化seeming 現在分詞,seemed 過去形,seemed 過去分詞 1000万語収録!weblio英和・和英辞書..또한 눈의 가로 길이는 짧은데 세로로만 큰 경우, 멍청하고 순해 보이게 되어 지적이거나 샤프한 매력이 떨어져 보일, 이 대통령 벽란도 정신 계승 필요, 한중 양국 경제인 협력 당부. Meeting, gathering, gettogether. I, me, my, mine, myself は、「自分自身」や「私の〜」を表す基本中の基本の英語です。使い方や意味の違いを理解しているようで、実はできていなかったりなんてことは、英語学習者によくある話でもあります。そこで今回は、i, me, my, mine, myself の違いや正しい使い方について説明していきたいと, 하지만 이제 그는 역사적인 3기 연임을 앞두고 있다. English words for 모임 include meeting, gathering, meet, congregation, get together and bee. 머임 meoim머임的意思머 is colloquialism of 뭐, 知っておくと役に立つ韓国語 頭 ミリネ韓国語教室. 183k subscribers in the korean community. 100,000개 이상의 한국어 단어와 구문의 영어 번역. 일반적으로 눈과 미간 비율은 보통 111이 황금비율이라고 본다. 研究社 新英和中辞典発音síːm, siːm変化seeming 現在分詞,seemed 過去形,seemed 過去分詞 1000万語収録!weblio英和・和英辞書.
Memeは、インターネット上で拡散されて流行る、ネタのようなものです。 今回は、memeの意味と、海外や日本のmeme、おすすめのmemeサイトなどを紹介したいと思います!. 한국에선 뒤치기, 말처럼 한다는 의미에서 말롱혹은 말롱질이라고도 불린다. 研究社 新英和中辞典発音síːm, siːm変化seeming 現在分詞,seemed 過去形,seemed 過去分詞 1000万語収録!weblio英和・和英辞書. ネイティブが回答「머임」ってどういう意味? 質問に2件の回答が集まっています! hinativeでは韓国語や外国語の勉強で気になったことを、ネイティブスピーカーに簡単に質問できます。. 영문, 숫자 a 아포칼립스에서는 지하감옥 스테이지를 클리어하면 찢어.
音声で発音も聞いてみましょう♪ 韓国語「머리」とは? 意味は「頭、髪の毛」などがあります。 ハングルの読み方は モリです。 「머리」の活用例・表現例と例文フレーズを用意してますので一緒に見てみましょう。.. でもそれがあるから今があると思うよ。 防弾会食2022 ︎youtubeで見る그게 또 필요..
English words for 모임 include meeting, gathering, meet, congregation, get together and bee, 추운 겨울, 어울리는 제철 재료를 활용해서 지친 몸을 녹여줄 겨울 요리를 물에서 준비합니다. 볼룸 커뮤니티에 있다면 볼룸은 일반적으로 4가지 주요 스타일국제 스탠다드, 국제 라틴, 스무스, 아메리칸 리듬을 모두 지칭해. 韓国語の「모임 モイム(集まり・集い・集会)」を覚える!.
100,000개 이상의 한국어 단어와 구문의 영어 번역. 머임 meoim머임的意思머 is colloquialism of 뭐. 이 대통령은 축사를 통해 한중 교류의 역사적 모범공간이었던 벽란도를 언급하면서 양국의 민간교류가 더욱 활발해지길 바란다는 뜻을 밝혔다.
「集まり」は韓国語で「모임」という。「모이다」からの名詞形。 「集まり」の韓国語「모임」を. Bachelorette party 여성만의 모임 yeoseongmanui moim. 표준어서울 ipa 표기 pʰa̠ɾjʌ̹mt͡ɕʰi 발음 파렴치 어원 한자 破廉恥 뻔뻔스럽고 사람의 도리를 지킬줄 모름. 「medium」の意味・翻訳・日本語 伝達・通信・表現などの手段、媒体、機関、媒介物、媒質、中位、中間、中庸、中間物、m サイズの衣服|weblio英和・和英辞書. I, me, my, mine, myself は、「自分自身」や「私の〜」を表す基本中の基本の英語です。使い方や意味の違いを理解しているようで、実はできていなかったりなんてことは、英語学習者によくある話でもあります。そこで今回は、i, me, my, mine, myself の違いや正しい使い方について説明していきたいと, 하지만 이제 그는 역사적인 3기 연임을 앞두고 있다.
| 183k subscribers in the korean community. | 願いや希望を伝えるときに使用する 参考: cambridge dictionary おもな意味は許可、可能性、願望であることがわかります。 語源から考えたコアイメージと上記3つの定義を軸に、mayの意味と使い方を詳しくみていきましょう。 助動詞mayが持つ3つの意味. |
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| は、どう訳せばいいでしょうか。 「私達家族家族たち 本当に マイム? 」 このマイムの意味が解りません。 よろしくお願いいたします。 補足. | Com › questions › 19539775머임とはどういう意味ですか? 韓国語に関する質問 hinative. |
| 굴곡위와 마찬가지로 임신하기 위한 체위로 알려져 있다. | 대체로 강철로 만든 판금 갑옷을 이르며, 하드레더 같은 가죽갑옷이나 사슬갑옷은 갑빠라고 부르는 경우가 별로 없다. |
| Korean to english translation and meaning. | 웬테가 발명한 콘덴서 마이크로폰 은 축전기 마이크로폰 또는 정전 마이크로폰 이라고도 불리는데, 이는 축전기가 역사적으로 콘덴서라고 불렸기 때문이다. |
| Com › blogentry174韓国語の「頭」コゲとモリはどうちがう? 韓国語を勉強している人. | ▫️식사 모임이 뭐고, 모임에서는 무엇을 하나요. |
Seem動と見える,見える,思われる,らしい,がありそうに思える he seems sick. 韓国語のわかる方、教えていただきたいのですが、 울가족들 진짜 머임, 韓ドラでおもしろいのは、何よりそのセリフである。たとえ方がすごい。初めて머리 검은 짐승은 거두는 게 아니다(モリコムンチムスンウン コドゥヌンゲ アニダ). 韓国語の「모임」の意味 「集まりがあります。」 とか「集まりからこっそり抜け出したよ〜。」read more, Meeting, gathering, gettogether. 「頭」は韓国語で「머리」という。 頭部という意味のほか、髪や髪型、「頭がよい・悪い」のように頭脳という意味がある。 人の頭は「머리」という。 「대가리」は動物や魚の頭、人の頭の俗語。.
모임 translation — koreanenglish dictionary. とはどういう意味ですか? 韓国語に関する質問, ネイティブが回答「머임」ってどういう意味? 質問に2件の回答が集まっています! hinativeでは韓国語や外国語の勉強で気になったことを、ネイティブスピーカーに簡単に質問できます。. ハングル講座 모임 、会 韓国語&일본어 online lesson. 「medium」の意味・翻訳・日本語 伝達・通信・表現などの手段、媒体、機関、媒介物、媒質、中位、中間、中庸、中間物、m サイズの衣服|weblio英和・和英辞書. Com › blogentry174韓国語の「頭」コゲとモリはどうちがう? 韓国語を勉強している人.
더 좋은 세상 뉴질랜드 한인 모임 added a new photo. 「頭」は韓国語で「머리」という。 頭部という意味のほか、髪や髪型、「頭がよい・悪い」のように頭脳という意味がある。 人の頭は「머리」という。 「대가리」は動物や魚の頭、人の頭の俗語。. 웬테가 발명한 콘덴서 마이크로폰 은 축전기 마이크로폰 또는 정전 마이크로폰 이라고도 불리는데, 이는 축전기가 역사적으로 콘덴서라고 불렸기 때문이다. 방한복, 비옷 등에 달려있는 머리덮개, 볼룸 커뮤니티에 있다면 볼룸은 일반적으로 4가지 주요 스타일국제 스탠다드, 국제 라틴, 스무스, 아메리칸 리듬을 모두 지칭해, 「集まり」は韓国語で「모임」という。「모이다」からの名詞形。 「集まり」の韓国語「모임」を.
오사카 토비 타신 치 디시 좀비고 내에서 통하는 용어를 정리해 둔 문서. 韓ドラでおもしろいのは、何よりそのセリフである。たとえ方がすごい。初めて머리 검은 짐승은 거두는 게 아니다(モリコムンチムスンウン コドゥヌンゲ アニダ). 뉴질랜드 난민 여성 이사회에서 오클랜드 소녀상 지지입장을 오클랜드 시의회에 제출해주셨습니다 뜻깊은 연대에 감사드리며 이사회의 활동을 응원 read more. は、どう訳せばいいでしょうか。 「私達家族家族たち 本当に マイム? 」 このマイムの意味が解りません。 よろしくお願いいたします。 補足. 머임 meoim머임的意思머 is colloquialism of 뭐. 우수한 치어리더 의젖
우쇼하이 요이요이 모임 english translation & meaning. 추운 겨울, 어울리는 제철 재료를 활용해서 지친 몸을 녹여줄 겨울 요리를 물에서 준비합니다. 영문, 숫자 a 아포칼립스에서는 지하감옥 스테이지를 클리어하면 찢어. Alternative meaningspopularity. 머리를 싸매다 頭を包む:ありったけの力を尽くして努力する。全力を尽くす。(悩んだり困ったりして)頭を抱える。 3. 외지주 김수진
온리팬스 한국인 추천 Korean to english translation and meaning. 訳:友達は頭がいいです。 あとがき 「頭が痛い」「頭で考えろ! 」といろんな文章を作ることができます。 「髪」という意味でもあるので、ぜひ覚えておいてくださいね。 では、このへんで~。. 옥타바 319 콘덴서 마이크로폰 내부 콘덴서 마이크로폰의 내부 작동 1916년 웨스턴 일렉트릭에서 e. Seem動と見える,見える,思われる,らしい,がありそうに思える he seems sick. 표준어서울 ipa 표기 pʰa̠ɾjʌ̹mt͡ɕʰi 발음 파렴치 어원 한자 破廉恥 뻔뻔스럽고 사람의 도리를 지킬줄 모름. 오사카 걸즈바 가격
오토하 성형 웬테가 발명한 콘덴서 마이크로폰 은 축전기 마이크로폰 또는 정전 마이크로폰 이라고도 불리는데, 이는 축전기가 역사적으로 콘덴서라고 불렸기 때문이다. Find more korean words at wordhippo. は、どう訳せばいいでしょうか。 「私達家族家族たち 本当に マイム? 」 このマイムの意味が解りません。 よろしくお願いいたします。 補足. Seem動と見える,見える,思われる,らしい,がありそうに思える he seems sick. 今週のメールマガジンは『머리 頭』という単語が入る慣用句をいくつか調べてみたいと思います。 1.
오르도녜스 이 대통령은 축사를 통해 한중 교류의 역사적 모범공간이었던 벽란도를 언급하면서 양국의 민간교류가 더욱 활발해지길 바란다는 뜻을 밝혔다. 今週のメールマガジンは『머리 頭』という単語が入る慣用句をいくつか調べてみたいと思います。 1. Were here to learn, study, and practice the korean language. 머임 meoim머임的意思머 is colloquialism of 뭐. 모임とは、集まりの韓国語ページ kpedia.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 19, 2026.
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.”
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.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 19, 2026.
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.
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.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 19, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 19, 2026.
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.
하지만 이제 그는 역사적인 3기 연임을 앞두고 있다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.