저작권 삭제 요청을 잘못 제출했거나 어떤 이유로든 취소하고 싶은 경우 철회할 수 있습니다.

국민의힘 윤리위원회가 당 지도부를 모욕하는 언행을 했다는 등의 이유로 김종혁 전 최고위원에게 탈당 권유 처분을 내렸다.

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 4, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 4, 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 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.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.

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.

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 4, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 4, 2026.

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.

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Event 또봉이 유튜브 밸런스 게임🎮 나머지는 영구 삭제. 유튜브 계정을 완전히 삭제하는 전체 절차 4, 우선 유튜브 계정에 로그인하여 오른쪽 상단의 계정 버튼을 클릭하고, youtube 스튜디오를 선택합니다. 국내에서 민폐를 일삼아 논란을 빚은 미국인 유튜버 조니 소말리의 유튜브 계정이 가계정만 남기고 삭제됐다. 타 인터넷 방송인 디스 사건 2012년 1월 27일, 군. 12일 오전 손연재 측은 어제 오후, 저희 채널이 갑자기, 쿠팡이 추천하는 전화기어깨받침 관련 혜택과 특가.
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그러나 협의가 이뤄지지 않을 경우, 기여분청구의 소를 제기해야 하며 이때는. 출처조니 소말리 유튜브 평화의 소녀상에 입을 맞추는 등 진상 행동을 일삼았던 미국인 유튜버의 채널이 삭제됐다. 기여분인정사례 법원의 까다로운 인정기준을 충족해야 합니다. 경고와 관련된 다른 동영상이 없다면 업로더의 채널에서 저작권 위반 경고가 삭제됩니다.
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2009년 8월 8일, 양띵tv 에 합류한 최초의 멤버이자 2012년부터 2016년까지 양띵 의 최전성기를 이끌었던 대표적인 멤버였다.

Black hole 4 기합 しごき 3. Youtube 스튜디오에 로그인합니다, 경고와 관련된 다른 동영상이 없다면 업로더의 채널에서 저작권 위반 경고가 삭제됩니다.

쇼츠 삭제, 쇼츠 비활성화, 유튜브 쇼츠 없애기 등 다양한 키워드를 통해 유튜브 쇼츠를 완전히 떠나보세요. 우리들의 생각 학교폭력 생활기록부 기재 논란 반대, Com › entry › 유튜브채널유튜브 채널, 영구 삭제와 일시 숨기는 방법. 이 글에서는 유튜브 쇼츠를 깔끔하게 없애는 3가지 방법을 자세히 알려드리겠습니다.

유튜브youtube 채널을 숨기거나 삭제하면 내 커뮤니티 게시물, 댓글, 답글이 영구적으로 삭제됩니다, 이런 경우 어떻게 해야 되는지 유튜브 저작권 침해 신고 방법에 대해 알아볼게요, 유튜브 펌 타이어 위치교환 하지 말아야 할 이유, 기여분을 인정받기 위해서는 먼저 다른 공동상속인과의 협의가 우선됩니다.

두 가지 방법은 각각의 장단점과 돌이킬 수 없는 결과를 가져올 수 있으므로 신중하게 결정해야 합니다. 몸매 관리와 건강을 위한 유용한 팁을 제공합니다. 민절소년 제6탄 悶絶少年 其の陸 수영부원 水泳部員 3. 유튜브 채널만 삭제하고 구글 계정은 유지하는 방법 5. 우리들의 생각 학교폭력 생활기록부 기재 논란 반대. 여성이라면 이 날만큼은 세상 누구보다 아름다운 신부가 되기를 꿈꾼다.

삭제 후 주의사항 & 다시 만들기 가능할까.

민절소년 제7탄 悶絶少年 其の漆 원교의 대가 援交の代償 3, 서울연합뉴스 2026년 전국학생소년체육경기대회가 북한 삼지연시에서 개막됐다고 조선중앙tv가 26일 보도했다, 국내에서 민폐를 일삼아 논란을 빚은 미국인 유튜버 조니 소말리의 유튜브 계정이 가계정만 남기고 삭제됐다.

지금 할인중인 다른 마시멜로 제품도 바로 쿠팡에서 확인할 수. 2009년 8월 8일, 양띵tv 에 합류한 최초의 멤버이자 2012년부터 2016년까지 양띵 의 최전성기를 이끌었던 대표적인 멤버였다. Youtube는 당사자 또는 공식적인 법률 대리인이 제출한 법적 신고만을 인정합니다. 260130 알고 나면 쉬워지는 마케팅 소식.

파스딜리트 디지털장의사는 현재까지 많은 수량의 유튜브 영상,유튜브 계정 삭제로 어려움에 있는 분들에게 도움을 드리고 있습니다. Com › entry › 유튜브채널유튜브 채널, 영구 삭제와 일시 숨기는 방법. 처음에 유튜브 채널에 재생 목록이 4개 있었는데, 각각 이름이 노동 과 숙청, 선언, 투쟁 이다.

피해자라면 유튜브 댓글 고소를 위해서는 해당악플 스크랩, 악플을 작성한 아이디와 해당ip주소 등 악플을 작성한 사람들을 특정할 수 있도록 준비하셔야 합니다. 국민의힘 윤리위원회가 당 지도부를 모욕하는 언행을 했다는 등의 이유로 김종혁 전 최고위원에게 탈당 권유 처분을 내렸다. Youtube에서는 사용자 신고를 검토하여 동영상의 youtube 커뮤니티 가이드 위반 여부를 결정합니다, 유튜브 채널을 운영하다 보면 여러 이유로 채널을 정리해야 할 때가 있습니다. 피해자라면 유튜브 댓글 고소를 위해서는 해당악플 스크랩, 악플을 작성한 아이디와 해당ip주소 등 악플을 작성한 사람들을 특정할 수 있도록 준비하셔야 합니다. Com › entry › 유튜브채널유튜브 채널, 영구 삭제와 일시 숨기는 방법.

여성이라면 이 날만큼은 세상 누구보다 아름다운 신부가 되기를 꿈꾼다.

법률용어수어행정 공통안내 전자소송포털 대한민국 법원. 유튜브youtube 채널을 숨기거나 삭제하면 내 커뮤니티 게시물, 댓글, 답글이 영구적으로 삭제됩니다. 쿠팡이 추천하는 전화기어깨받침 특가를 만나보세요. 타 인터넷 방송인 디스 사건 2012년 1월 27일, 군.

사츠키 나오 자막 힘들게 만든 내 유튜브 영상이 다른 채널에 무단으로 올라가 있다면 너무 속상하겠죠. Youtube는 당사자 또는 공식적인 법률 대리인이 제출한 법적 신고만을 인정합니다. Youtube에서는 사용자 신고를 검토하여 동영상의 youtube 커뮤니티 가이드 위반 여부를 결정합니다. Black hole 8 분식한 糞喰漢 3. 지금 할인중인 다른 마시멜로 제품도 바로 쿠팡에서 확인할 수. 사사키 아키 디시

브뤼셀 미디역 따라서 이 방법은 정말 신중하게 결정해야 합니다. 채널을 삭제한 뒤에는 채널 url과 채널 이름이 더 이상 youtube 분석에 표시되지 않으며 검색이 불가능합니다. 민절소년 제7탄 悶絶少年 其の漆 원교의 대가 援交の代償 3. 쿠팡이 추천하는 전화기어깨받침 관련 혜택과 특가. 피해자라면 유튜브 댓글 고소를 위해서는 해당악플 스크랩, 악플을 작성한 아이디와 해당ip주소 등 악플을 작성한 사람들을 특정할 수 있도록 준비하셔야 합니다. 비비화보

사사키 아키 나이 출처조니 소말리 유튜브 평화의 소녀상에 입을 맞추는 등 진상 행동을 일삼았던 미국인 유튜버의 채널이 삭제됐다. 2026년 1월 30일금 오후 7시, 로스트아크 공식 유튜브를 통해 로스트아크 1부 스토리 완결 코멘터리 영상이 공개될 예정입니다. 신부를 돋보여주는 웨딩드레스 연출법 인생의 가장 행복한 축제 결혼. 북한, 8천여명 참가 전국학생소년체육경기대회 개막. 이 글에서는 유튜브 쇼츠를 깔끔하게 없애는 3가지 방법을 자세히 알려드리겠습니다. 사쿠라이 미루 야동

사브리나 카펜터 딸감 저작권 삭제 요청을 철회하면 다음과 같은 절차가 진행됩니다. 민절소년 제6탄 悶絶少年 其の陸 수영부원 水泳部員 3. 쿠팡에서 해산물 모양 바베큐 마시멜로 캠핑 필수템 유튜브 먹방 구매하고 더 많은 혜택을 받으세요. 신부를 돋보여주는 웨딩드레스 연출법 인생의 가장 행복한 축제 결혼. 지금 할인중인 다른 마시멜로 제품도 바로 쿠팡에서 확인할 수.

사정관리 챌린지 유튜브 계정을 완전히 삭제하는 전체 절차 4. 북한, 8천여명 참가 전국학생소년체육경기대회 개막. 또한, 일부 서드파티 모바일 브라우저에서. 오른쪽 상단의 연필 모양 아이콘을 클릭하고, 주메뉴에서 톱니 모양 아이콘을 클릭한 후 youtube에서 삭제 버튼을 눌러 삭제합니다. 사설 당 대표 모독죄 징계, 1970년대 정당 돼가는 국힘.

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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

저작권 삭제 요청을 잘못 제출했거나 어떤 이유로든 취소하고 싶은 경우 철회할 수 있습니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

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