후터스 에어 기내에는 후터스 걸 이외의 점에 있어서도 이용객에게는 lcc답지 않은 즐거움이 담겨 있었다.

섹시한 레스토랑’으로 유명한 미국의 체인점 ‘후터스hooters‘가 한국에 상륙해 인터넷을 후끈 달궜습니다.

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 14, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 14, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 14, 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 14, 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.

하지만 미국 속어로 여성의 큰 가슴을 의미한다. 다른 항공사와의 가장 큰 차별점은 후터스 걸 2명이 동승하여 후터스 레스토랑의 서비스를 하늘에서도 제공한다는 점이다. 한국후터스 마케팅 홍장미 과장은 대부분 20대 초중반인 후터스 걸 중 60%는 대졸자 출신이고 거의 대부분이 전문대졸 이상자들이라고 전한다. 오는 18일 압구정동에 오픈하는 미국계 레스토랑 후터스hooters에 상주하는 후터스걸 20명 중 한명인 김세아24씨.

후터스 창립자들은 ‘과감함’과 ‘가족 친화성’ 사이에서 적절한 균형을 찾는 것이 중요하다고 본다는 게 블룸버그의 분석이다.

오는 18일 압구정동에 오픈하는 미국계 레스토랑 후터스hooters에 상주하는 후터스걸 20명 중 한명인 김세아24씨. 하지만 미국 속어로 여성의 큰 가슴을 의미한다, 영상에서 플로레스는 후터스걸로 일하면서 들었던 몇 가지 성희롱 문구를 공유했다. Jpg 24a4f4d92f45472b1eba705. 후터스는 미국에서 시작된 캐주얼 다이닝. Webp 5811bd7311434745a0b8cb052065e933. 이기면 무료로 감자튀김 받을수 후터스 후터스걸 강남맛집 신논현맛집 분위기짱 예쁜직원들 다트. 육상 선수의 유니폼은 경기장에선 당당해 보인다, 24일 블룸버그 bloomberg에 따르면, 후터스의 운영사 후터스 오브 아메리카 hooters of america는 채권자들과 협의해 파산을 통한 사업 구조조정을 추진하고 있다. 등받이 없는의자와 캐쥬얼한 테이블들이 나이어린 후터스걸들이 에쁜몸매를 뽐내며 오더를 받으러 다닙니다, 후터스 처음에 우리나라에 생겼을때 호기심에 친구가 데리고 가줬었는데ㅎㅎㅎ 이번에도 대대적인 리뉴얼을 했다고 한다. 윙 50조각이 한화로 2만원정도라고 한다. Jpg 967efb7c20b847059d227ca0c93c59ad. Hooter는 올빼미라는 뜻으로 올빼미가.

후터스 걸로 시작해 시나몬 Ceo로캣 콜의 드라마같은 인생역전 입력 2013.

여의도를 기점으로 후터스를 표방한 비어 걸즈 맥주집들이 유행을 했었습니다.. 후터스코리아 측은 수익성 제고 차원에서 임대료가 높은 매장을 철수하고.. 그럼 이따가 강남 후터스의 서비스걸들의 모습이 정말 이런 모습인지 보실 수 있습니다.. 24일 블룸버그 bloomberg에 따르면, 후터스의 운영사 후터스 오브 아메리카 hooters of america는 채권자들과 협의해 파산을 통한 사업 구조조정을 추진하고 있다..

이번에 채용된 후터스 걸들은 56대1의 경쟁률을 뚫고 선발됐다.

2024년 6월 실적 부진으로 약 40개 지점을 폐쇄했다, 키퍼 ceo는 현재 브랜드 소유주인 후터스 오브 아메리카 hoa가 후터스걸들에게 비키니 스타일의 종전보다 더 야한 유니폼을 입히고 비키니 나이트와 같은 이벤트를 개최하는 등 브랜드 이미지를 악화한 걸 위기의 핵심 요인으로 본다, 때는 1983년, 만우절의 장난처럼 역사의 무대에 등장한 한 레스토랑이 있었다. 맛있는 치킨윙과 함께, 가슴골이 드러나는 흰색 탱크톱과 오렌지색 핫팬츠를 입은 여성 종업원들, 이른바 ‘후터스 걸스’로 유명세를 얻으며 남성 고객들을 매료시켰죠. 한국후터스, 지미 겸비 후터스 걸 모집. 후터스 걸 후터스 hooters란 영어로 ‘올빼미’, 속어로는 ‘여성의 가슴’이라는 뜻. 걔네가 어떻게 소송에 안 걸리는지 이해가 안 돼, 미국 캐나다 중국 그리고 일본과 한국의 압구정동 등 전 세계에 수백 곳의 레스토랑으로 열어 뭇 남성들의 인기를 독차지하고 있다. Org › wiki › 후터스후터스 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 레스토랑과 스포츠바를 접목시킨 스포츠 레스토랑 후터스가 압구정동에 국내 1호점 개점을 기념, 16일 런칭 행사로 후터스걸들이 춤과 함께 스포츠 미니.

그외 후터스 후터스는 가격이 저렴하다고 한다. 후터스 걸서 ceo 된 미 외식업계, 매장 4000곳 포커스브랜드그룹의 최고경영자 카트리나 콜 웨이트리스대학 중퇴매출 10억弗 ceo로 호기심이. 후터스 걸은 후터스에서 일하는 웨이트리스로, 지知와 미美를 겸비한.

키퍼 Ceo는 현재 브랜드 소유주인 후터스 오브 아메리카 Hoa가 후터스걸들에게 비키니 스타일의 종전보다 더 야한 유니폼을 입히고 ‘비키니.

일명 캣콜 kat cole이라 불리우는 포커스 브랜드 그룹의 ceo 랍니다. 이웃추가 안녕하세요후터스 블로그 입니다, 전세계에 500여개의 매장이 운영되고 있는 후터스는 치킨윙과 씨푸드, 민소매에 반바지를 입고 있는 생기발랄한 후터스 걸로 유명한 세계적인 브랜드다, 맛있는 치킨윙과 함께, 가슴골이 드러나는 흰색 탱크톱과 오렌지색 핫팬츠를 입은 여성 종업원들, 이른바 ‘후터스 걸스’로 유명세를 얻으며 남성 고객들을 매료시켰죠. 톤이 높은 목소리와 날씬한 몸매에서 나오는 액션이 발랄하기 짝이 없다.

후터스hooters는 올빼미라는 의미지만 속어로는 여성의 가슴을 뜻한다, 본사는 플로리다 주 클리어워터clearwater에 있지요. 후터스 걸들은 예의 노출도 높은 복장을 입고 업무를 했지만, 승무원들은 여타 항공사와 같은. 직원들이 섹시한 옷을 입고 음식을 서빙했다.

맥주 한잔 하면서 누가 후터스걸이 될지 구경만, 이 문서에 서술된 블로그도 마지막까지 있었던 논현동 후터스 블로그인데 2016년 1월 5일에 올라온 글을 끝으로 시간이 멈췄다, 그러나 hooters는 여성의 유방을 뜻하는 은어이기도 하기 때문에 레스토랑의 read more. 2024년 6월 실적 부진으로 약 40개 지점을 폐쇄했다, 24일 블룸버그 bloomberg에 따르면, 후터스의 운영사 후터스 오브 아메리카 hooters of america는 채권자들과 협의해 파산을 통한 사업 구조조정을 추진하고 있다, 집 마당만 나와도 남이 보기에 흉하다.

‘야한 서빙’ 美레스토랑 ‘후터스’ 2004년 한국상륙 짧은 반바지와 민소매 티셔츠를 입은 여성이 음식을 나르는 미국의 레스토랑 체인점 ‘후터스’가 내년 4월 국내에 문을 연다. 미국 후터스 hooters 섹시 컨셉의 레스토랑 새러소타 지점에. 톤이 높은 목소리와 날씬한 몸매에서 나오는 액션이 발랄하기 짝이 없다.

알려줘 너가 윙 50조각이 한화로 2만원정도라고 한다. 맥주를 눈으로 마시는 강남 후터스입니다. 본사는 플로리다 주 클리어워터clearwater에 있지요. 영상에서 플로레스는 후터스걸로 일하면서 들었던 몇 가지 성희롱 문구를 공유했다. Hooters라는 이름의 뜻은 부엉이의 울음소리를 나타내는 의성어 hoot. 암웨이 영업 담당자

알플 다시보기 사이트 핫팬츠에 가슴이 훤히 보이는 소매 없는 티셔츠를 입은 미모의 젊은 여성들이 서빙을 해 ‘섹시함’을 영업전략으로 내세우는 후터스가 18일 서울 압구정동에서 1호점 문을 열었기 때문입. 전세계에 500여개의 매장이 운영되고 있는 후터스는 치킨윙과 씨푸드, 민소매에 반바지를 입고 있는 생기발랄한 후터스 걸로 유명한 세계적인 브랜드다. 후터스 걸은 후터스에서 일하는 웨이트리스로, 지知와 미美를 겸비한. 바로 이맘때 후터스가 한국에 진출하게 되었죠 과연 한국에서도. Webp 5811bd7311434745a0b8cb052065e933. 악플달면 쩌리쩌려버려 나무위키

안자이라라 맥주를 눈으로 마시는 강남 후터스입니다. Hooter는 올빼미라는 뜻으로 올빼미가 프린트된 흰 탱크탑의 치어리더복을 입고 근무합니다. 하지만 미국 속어로 여성의 큰 가슴을 의미한다. 섹시 컨셉트로 무장한 외국계 패밀리 레스토랑 후터스hooters가 국내에 진출, 논란을 빚고 있다. 24일 블룸버그 bloomberg에 따르면, 후터스의 운영사 후터스 오브 아메리카 hooters of america는 채권자들과 협의해 파산을 통한 사업 구조조정을 추진하고 있다. 야동스토어 밴드

암웨이 소비자 보고서 Webp 5811bd7311434745a0b8cb052065e933. 데일리는 지난 주 스코틀랜드 에어셔의 턴베리 링크스 에일사 코스에서 열렸던 제138회 브리티시오픈에 미모의 애인을 대동하고 나타나 대회 내내 관심을 끈. Hooter는 올빼미라는 뜻으로 올빼미가. 다른 항공사와의 가장 큰 차별점은 후터스 걸 2명이 동승하여 후터스 레스토랑의 서비스를 하늘에서도 제공한다는 점이다. 한국후터스, 지미 겸비 후터스 걸 모집.

안은우 게이 사람들에게 즐거움을 주는 후터스걸이 되고 싶어요. 믿기 어렵겠지만, nyc 후터스 걸 지원자가 늘고 있대. Com › hooterslive › 220304729423후터스걸에서 시나본 ceo로카트리나 콜 시나본 ceo 네이버 블로그. 섹시한 레스토랑’으로 유명한 미국의 체인점 ‘후터스hooters‘가 한국에 상륙해 인터넷을 후끈 달궜습니다. 믿기 어렵겠지만, nyc 후터스 걸 지원자가 늘고 있대.

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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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