US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
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Kt eg 데이터 15g+3100분cu할인 7개월, 이런사례 보고 계좌환불드립치는 애들이. Com › mgallery › board소액결제 마이너 갤러리 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 주로 이는 휴대폰 소액결제를 통해서 kb포인트리를 충전한 다음에 이를 현금으로 바꿔주는 방식입니다. 급전이 필요한 금융소비자가 이런 댓글을 타고 업체 홈페이지에 접속하면 휴대폰 소액결제 또는 신용카드 결제를 통한 깡 안내를 받게 된다, 2주내에 갚을수 있다치면 어떤 걸 하는게 나음. 이럴 때 은행에서 대출 받는 것보다 휴대폰 소액결제 현금화를 이용해 돈을 마련하는 방법이 있습니다. 그리고 특정 이벤트 때는 할인도 꽤 많이 받아.그러면 5월에는 남은 50만원 사용 가능한거 아닌가요.. 검색해보니까 뭐 해킹때문에 10만원으로 바꼈다는데.. Kt eg 데이터 15g+3100분cu할인 7개월.. 24 0604 비갤러는 갤러리에서 권장하는 비회원 전용..현금땡기면 그게 족쇄가 되어 계속 업자에게 수수료 떼주면서 다달이 고액의 핸드폰 요금을 내게 되는 신세가 될꺼야, 소액결제 10만원에 7만5천원이면 일반 대출이랑 비교하면. 알바로 재수비용을 충당하는데 이번에 계산을 잘못했는지 10만원이 부족하더라구요.
| 사실 이게 불법은 아니지만, 잘못하면 손해보거나 낭패를 볼 수 있으니 조심해야 해. | 페이코 휴대폰 쇼액결제 현금화 방법 이젠안된다 신갤러125. | Kt는 지난 6일 홈페이지 고객 공지 사항을 통해 휴대전화 결제대행사 pg사와 협의해 상품권 판매업종 결제 한도를 100만원에서 10만원으로 일시적으로 축소하고 추가 결제 피해가 없도록 비정상적인 결제 시도에 대한 탐지를 강화했다고 밝혔다. | 신용평점 하위 20% 이면서 연소득 3,500만원 이하 자 신용평점 kcb 기준 700점, nice 기준 749점 이하 신청방법. |
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| 2기 나라사랑카드에서 10만원 이상 결제해야 20% 할인이 적용되었던 조건이 3만원 이상으로 대폭 낮아졌고, 월 총 할인한도도 10만원으로 2배 늘어났다. | 넥슨캐시같은경우 내가 10만원 소액으로 질렀다. | 무슨 수수료가 40프로노혹시 다른방법있나제발 부탁한다 내일 1일에 해야합니다도개자 박습니다. | 또 추가적인 결제 피해가 없도록 비정상적인 결제 시도에 대한 탐지를 강화했다고 밝혔다. |
| Kr › 소액대출후기디시필요한소액대출 후기 디시 필요한 정보 총정리. | 안녕하세요 오랜만에 돌아온 잼니입니다 26년 신년 다짐을 한지 얼마안된 내 내적 분노를 만들어낸 애플. | 소액결제 한도가 100만원이고 게임에 간간히 쓰면서 지금까지 미납된 적 없습니다. | 이번달 소액결제 이용요금은 다음달 휴대폰요금에 합산청구되고 ܋ 매월1일 미납이라도 한도는 재생성이 됩니다ꇚ 신규개통시 당월한도가 지정되어있으므르 월 15만원까지 사용가능하시고, 3개월사용하신후 30만원상향조정이 가능하십니다ᕰ. |
일반 소액결제 잘 아는사람 있냐 갑자기 달 10만원으로 바뀜. 주로 이는 휴대폰 소액결제를 통해서 kb포인트리를 충전한 다음에 이를 현금으로 바꿔주는 방식입니다. Kt가 최근 경기도 광명시와 서울 금천구 일대에서 발생한 휴대전화 무단 소액결제 피해와 관련해, 상품권 업종의 결제 한도를 기존 100만원에서 10만원으로 대폭 축소하는 조치를 단행했다, 이럴 때 은행에서 대출 받는 것보다 휴대폰 소액결제 현금화를 이용해 돈을 마련하는 방법이 있습니다. 빠르게 셀프개통하고 추가 혜택받는 법 ✨ n페이 페이백 혜택, 요금 0원 도전.
이럴 때 은행에서 대출 받는 것보다 휴대폰 소액결제 현금화를 이용해 돈을 마련하는 방법이 있습니다. Ai › news › trend디시트렌드 kt, 소액결제 피해 확산에 상품권 결제한도 100만→10. 전에 10만원빌리고 이틀뒤에 갚을때 신용등급 영향 없었는데그게 뭐였는지 기억이 안남. 핸드폰소액결제현금화 루트 텔레@runcapital 기업카드. Kt 결제한도 10만원으로 축소 경제. 이는 소액으로 코인 투자를 시도하고자 하는 사람들에게 적합한 옵션입니다.
이번달만 돌려막으면 대금 들어와서 해방인데 당장에 체크소액 막을길이없어요 지금 현금 150있는데 체크소액30 체크소액 20 핸드폰 120 내야대는데. 이번 kt 해킹사건으로 소액결제 임시한도 10만원 네이버 지식in. 무슨 수수료가 40프로노혹시 다른방법있나제발 부탁한다 내일 1일에 해야합니다도개자 박습니다. 다만, 사용기한 임박 시점1월 말에 결제한 건이 취소승인취소될 경우, 취소 처리 시점에. 핸드폰 소액결제에 대한 정보와 이야기를 나누는곳입니다. 최근 소액대출에 대한 다양한 후기가 디시인사이드와 같은 온라인 커뮤니티에서 활발히 오가고 있는데요, 소액대출을 고민하는 분들께 유용한 정보와 팁을 제공해 드리고자 합니다.
페이코 휴대폰 쇼액결제 현금화 방법 이젠안된다 신갤러125, 다모아결합 시즌2 론칭 read more. 디시인사이드의 커뮤니티에서 대출 관련 정보와 경험을 공유하며, 다양한 사례와 조언을 제공합니다. 다만, 사용기한 임박 시점1월 말에 결제한 건이 취소승인취소될 경우, 취소 처리 시점에. ③ 통신사 어플 사용 소액결제 서비스는 일부 알뜰폰 상품에만 제공됩니다.
핸드폰소액결제현금화 디시 텔레@runcapital 기업카드카드깡 문의 카드결제현금화 상품권말고 신속 정산, 10분 내 완료 보장, 2기 나라사랑카드에서 10만원 이상 결제해야 20% 할인이 적용되었던 조건이 3만원 이상으로 대폭 낮아졌고, 월 총 할인한도도 10만원으로 2배 늘어났다. 대중교통부터 생활 할인까지 카드 한 장으로, 신용평점 하위 20% 이면서 연소득 3,500만원 이하 자 신용평점 kcb 기준 700점, nice 기준 749점 이하 신청방법, 코인원 10만원 디시 는 코인원 플랫폼에서 10만원으로 시작할 수 있는 디지털 자산 투자 방법을 의미합니다, 2023년, 불법 소액결제 현금화 업체 운영자 가 징역형을 선고 받은 사례도 있습니다.
kt는 8일 홈페이지 고객 공지 사항을 통해 결제 한도를 기존 100만원에서 10만원으로 일시적으로 축소하고 추가적인 결제 피해가 없도록 비정상적인 결제 시도에 대한 탐지를 강화한다고 밝혔다. 휴대폰 소액결제로 모빌카드를 충전하고, 페이북을 경유하여 g마켓에서 북앤라이프, 컬쳐랜드 문화상품권을 구매하면 약 3%의 수수료만 지불하고 현금화 할 수 있습니다, 소액사기 고소로 인해 혐의가 인정이 된다면 2000만 원 이하의 벌금형 혹은 10년 이하의 징역형 그리고 10년 이하의 자격정지를 받게 됩니다, Com › qna › dirs이번 kt 해킹사건으로 소액결제 임시한도 10만원 네이버 지식in.
디시인사이드의 커뮤니티에서 대출 관련 정보와 경험을 공유하며, 다양한 사례와 조언을 제공합니다. 무슨 수수료가 40프로노혹시 다른방법있나제발 부탁한다 내일 1일에 해야합니다도개자 박습니다, 이번 kt 해킹사건으로 소액결제 임시한도 10만원 네이버 지식in.
대딸 중국어로 이럴 때 은행에서 대출 받는 것보다 휴대폰 소액결제 현금화를 이용해 돈을 마련하는 방법이 있습니다. 사실 이게 불법은 아니지만, 잘못하면 손해보거나 낭패를 볼 수 있으니 조심해야 해. 일반 소액결제 잘 아는사람 있냐 갑자기 달 10만원으로 바뀜. 일단, 결제할 때마다 포인트가 쌓이는 건 기본이지. Com › board › view페이코 휴대폰 쇼액결제 현금화 방법 이젠안된다 신용카드 갤러리. 뉴클레오 디노사우로
농날두 디시 디시 유저들의 꿀팁까지 모아 여러분의 급전 고민을 해결해. 부담경감크레딧은 2026년 1월 31일토까지 사용 가능합니다. 요즘 페이코로 소액결제 많이들 하잖아. Com › news › articleview휴대폰 소액결제 피해 확산&mldr. 이 서비스를 통해 빠르고 간편하게 대출을 받을 수 있으며, 이자율도 다른 대출 상품에 비해 낮은 편이어서 많은 이용자들에게 인기를 끌고 있습니다. 대왕요명 2기
누비니 피자니니 사진 3월에 100만원 쓰고 선결제 40만원 포함 140 납부했고 4월에 50만원 썼습니다. 핸드폰 소액결제를 현금화하는 방법을 몰라서 고민 중인 사람들이 많더라고. 신용평점 하위 20% 이면서 연소득 3,500만원 이하 자 신용평점 kcb 기준 700점, nice 기준 749점 이하 신청방법. 30만원소액대출 디시 텔@runcapital 소액결제정책현금 하는곳 신속 정산, 10분 내 완료 소액결제상품권매입 디시 현재 결제가 진행중입니다. 디시 유저들의 꿀팁까지 모아 여러분의 급전 고민을 해결해. 닝닝 브라 디시
누키타시 애니 무 검열 소액결제 현금화 있던데 10만원에 7만5천원인데 일반 대출이랑 비교하면 많이 비싼편. 그리고 특정 이벤트 때는 할인도 꽤 많이 받아. 소액결제 한도가 100만원이고 게임에 간간히 쓰면서 지금까지 미납된 적 없습니다. 피해자 중 1명은 고양시에 거주하는 것으로 확인되었다. 알뜰폰 회선은 5개 kt스카이라이프 1050원 kt엠모바일 1900원 kt프리티 2200원 lg유모바일 1900원 sk세븐모바일 1900원 여기 다해서 월.
다케다 레이카 상품권카드결제,상품권소액결제,문화상품권소액결제,문화상품권카드결제,구글기프트카드,컬쳐랜드카드결제,soop별풍선,별풍선할인,별풍선충전,스타벅스상품권 24시간 저렴한 가격으로 무통장, 휴대폰결제, 카드결제가능 제로핀. Kt 쓰고 매달 1일에 30씩 문상사서 팔았는데 갑자기 안되네. 함께 알아보고, 현명한 선택의 길잡이를 찾아봐요. 함께 알아보고, 현명한 선택의 길잡이를 찾아봐요. 회사에서 통신비 지원해주는데내 직급 해당 금액보다 휴대폰비가 덜 나옴.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 4, 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.
디시 유저들의 꿀팁까지 모아 여러분의 급전 고민을 해결해., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.