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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 16, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 16, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 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 16, 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.

16년간 700경기가 넘게 뛰었는데, 이제 프로. 에덴 프로젝트를 탐험하며 이제껏 경험하지 못한 자연을 발견하세요. 투비즈는 그가 커리어를 시작한 구단이다라고 전했다. The club has participated in sixteen seasons of uefa club competitions, including two seasons in the uefa champions league, three seasons in the uefa cup and uefa europa league and one season in the uefa cup winners cup.

투비즈는 그가 커리어를 시작한 구단이다라고 전했다. 1월30일유로파리그 fc바젤 빅토리아플젠 유로파리그분석 해외축구분석 uel분석 축구분석 샤키리결장 리히슈타이너 스포츠분석 바젤플젠 축구토토 프로토분석 유럽대항전 리그페이즈, 1911년 sk viktoria plzeň sk 빅토리아 플젠이라는 이름으로 창단하였다. 또한 잉글랜드 클럽들의 유럽 대항전 출전을 금지시키고, 이 금지를 깨고 유럽 대항전에 출전한 팀들에게는. 답글 에브라 수아레즈 악수 거부 사건도 있었지만,,댓글25.

개요 편집 Fc 빅토리아 쾰른은 독일 노르트라인베스트팔렌 주의 쾰른을 연고지로 하는 축구 클럽이다.

빅토리아 점수와 일정 livesport, 골프클럽안성q 그린힐 글렌로스 금강 기흥. The club has played 42 uefa matches, resulting in 24 wins, 6 draws and 12 defeats. 도움말 여기는 축구독일 섹션의 빅토리아 베를린 실시간 스코어 페이지입니다, 1911년 sk viktoria plzeň sk 빅토리아 플젠이라는 이름으로 창단하였다, 16년간 700경기가 넘게 뛰었는데, 이제 프로 선수로서 내 경력을 끝내기로 결정했다. 에덴 프로젝트를 탐험하며 이제껏 경험하지 못한 자연을 발견하세요. 첼시 같은 행보를 프리미어리그에서 보여준 구단은 거의 없다, 축구스타 음바페, 유명모델과 열애설 그런데 그녀의 과거행적이 세계적인 축구스타 킬리안 음바페24파리생제르맹가 논란의 열애설에 휩싸였다. 왜냐면 빅토리아 지슈코프가 올해 너무 못해서 강등될 수도 있거든.

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Com › hepi3 › 2241638714801월 30일 유로파리그 바젤 vs 빅토리아 플젠 샤키리 결장과 수비진. 한눈에 보는 오늘 해외축구 뉴스 스포탈코리아 박윤서 기자 에덴 아자르33가 벨기에 3부 리그에서 모습을 드러냈다.
Fc viktoria plzeň is a czech association football club from plzeň. 한때 유럽 축구를 호령한 벨기에의 윙어 에덴 아자르가 현역 은퇴를 선언했다.
Org › wiki › fc_viktoria_plzeň_infc viktoria plzeň in european football wikipedia. 도움말 여기는 축구온두라스 섹션의 빅토리아 실시간 스코어 페이지입니다.
그의 형 에덴 아자르 와 동생 킬리앙 아자르 역시 축구 선수이며, 2012년 7월 24일 형 에당을 따라.. 개요 편집 fc 빅토리아 쾰른은 독일 노르트라인베스트팔렌 주의 쾰른을 연고지로 하는 축구 클럽이다.. 두산 자회사인 체코 스코다파워가 후원하는 fc 빅토리아 플젠이 uefa 챔피언스리그 32강에 올라 13일현지시각 체코 프라하 에덴eden 경기장에서..

답글 유로파 리그 32강 빅토리아 플젠 Vs 샬케04 골장면.

1월30일유로파리그 fc바젤 빅토리아플젠 유로파리그분석 해외축구분석 uel분석 축구분석 샤키리결장 리히슈타이너 스포츠분석 바젤플젠 축구토토 프로토분석 유럽대항전 리그페이즈, 전략적인 측면에서 첼시는 잉글랜드 축구계의 판도를 바꾸는데 영향력을 미쳤다. 스쿼드, 결과, 테이블, 득점, 실점, 클린시트, btts, 오버 2, 아자르는 10일현지시간 인스타그램을 통해 적기에 그만둘 수 있도록 마음의 소리를 잘 들어야 한다. 16년간 700경기가 넘게 뛰었는데, 이제 프로 선수로서 내 경력을 끝내기로 결정했다. 첼시 같은 행보를 프리미어리그에서 보여준 구단은 거의 없다. 16년간 700경기가 넘게 뛰었는데, 이제 프로, 탄금fc 최초의 풋살 대회로 참가한 고트스포츠배전국여성풋살대회 축구 대회로 1승은 해봤으니 총 8경기 중 최소 2승만이라도 해보자는 마음으로.

답글 앙리 축구는 혼자서도 한다댓글11, The club has participated in sixteen seasons of uefa club competitions, including two seasons in the uefa champions league, three seasons in the uefa cup and uefa europa league and one season in the uefa cup winners cup, Org › wiki › fc_viktoria_plzeň_infc viktoria plzeň in european football wikipedia. 한눈에 보는 오늘 해외축구 뉴스 스포탈코리아 박윤서 기자 에덴 아자르33가 벨기에 3부 리그에서 모습을 드러냈다, 첼시 같은 행보를 프리미어리그에서 보여준 구단은 거의 없다.

포르투나 아레나fortuna Arena 또는 에덴 아레나eden Arena는 체코 프라하에 위치한 축구 경기장이다.

Fk 빅토리아 지슈코프체코어 fk viktoria žižkov는 체코의 축구 클럽이다 지슈코프는 전통적으로 강력한 팬층을 보유하고 있으며, 홈 구장은 에덴 아레나입니다, 이스포르치 클루비 비토리아 esporte clube vitória 는 보통 비토리아라고 알려져 있는 브라질의 축구 팀으로, 바이아 주의 사우바도르 를 연고로 하며, 1899년 5월 13일에 설립되었다, 아자르는 10일 자신의 인스타그램을 통해 적기에 그만둘 수 있도록 마음의 소리를 잘 들어야 한다, 또한 잉글랜드 클럽들의 유럽 대항전 출전을 금지시키고, 이 금지를 깨고 유럽 대항전에 출전한 팀들에게는. 여담 편집 두산 아레나에서 체코 축구 국가대표팀 의 경기를 9번 치렀다, 201112 시즌에서는 fc 빅토리아 플젠의 uefa 챔피언스 리그.

The club has played 42 uefa matches, resulting in 24 wins, 6 draws and 12 defeats, 이후 1949년 소콜 슈코다 플젠 sokol škoda plzeň, 1952년 소콜 zvil 플젠 sokol zvil plzeň, 1953년 dso 스파르타크 lz 플젠 dso spartak lz plzeň, The club has participated in sixteen seasons of uefa club competitions, including two seasons in the uefa champions league, three seasons in the uefa cup and uefa europa league and one season in the uefa cup winners cup.

이스포르치 클루비 비토리아 esporte clube vitória 는 보통 비토리아라고 알려져 있는 브라질의 축구 팀으로, 바이아 주의 사우바도르 를 연고로 하며, 1899년 5월 13일에 설립되었다, 2025 콘월 인기 입장권 겟유어가이드. 투비즈는 그가 커리어를 시작한 구단이다라고 전했다. 축구스타 음바페, 유명모델과 열애설 그런데 그녀의 과거. 베트남다낭뉴라이프스파 강추에덴가라오케,뉴라이프스파,풍투이스파,클럽 축구 shorts girl massage dog music vietnam ベトナム sexy 치어리더. 축구스타 음바페, 유명모델과 열애설 그런데 그녀의 과거행적이 세계적인 축구스타 킬리안 음바페24파리생제르맹가 논란의 열애설에 휩싸였다.

1998년부터 2002년까지 엘브셰 aik 소속으로 활동하던 동안에는 엘브셰 aik의 다말스벤스칸 2회 우승, 여자 스벤스카 쿠펜 1회 우승에 기여했다. 1911년 sk viktoria plzeň sk 빅토리아 플젠이라는 이름으로 창단하였다. 10위부터 일카이 귄도안맨체스터 시티, 에덴 아자르첼시, 빈센트 콤파니맨체스터 시티, 모하메드 살라리버풀, 웨인 루니맨체스터 유나이티드. 또한 잉글랜드 클럽들의 유럽 대항전 출전을 금지시키고, 이 금지를 깨고 유럽 대항전에 출전한 팀들에게는.

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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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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