US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 16, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 16, 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 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.
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 16, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 16, 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 16, 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 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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 16, 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 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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 16, 2026.
트위터에서 인증받는 방법 트위터 사용자가 자신의 트윗에서 경고를 해제하려면 어떻게 해야 하나요. 이 과정을 거치면 대부분 정상적으로 볼 수 있지만, 정책상 차단된 콘텐츠는 어쩔 수 없다는 점도 기억해 두세요. 트위터 보기 안눌러짐 원인, x 민감 콘텐츠 뜻과 경고 어떻게 조치 문오군이 ・ 2025. 웹, android 또는 ios용 트위터 또는 x에서 민감한 내용의 콘텐츠를 볼 수 없나요.
특히 정보나 이슈를 빠르게 받아들여야 할 때 이러한 경고는 번거롭게 느껴질 수 있는데요, 오늘은 트위터 x에서 민감한 콘텐츠를 자유롭게 볼 수, 트위터 민감한 콘텐츠 해제에 대한 궁금증을 가지고 계신 분들이 정말 많으시더라고요. 미디어 설정 에서 민감한 콘텐츠를 표시할지 여부와 언제 표시할지를 설정할 수 있습니다. 특히 정보나 이슈를 빠르게 받아들여야 할 때 이러한 경고는 번거롭게 느껴질 수 있는데요, 오늘은 트위터 x에서 민감한 콘텐츠를 자유롭게 볼 수. 이러한 옵션은 안드로이드 앱의 동일한 위치에서 찾을 수 있지만 아이폰용 x. 민감한 내용의 미디어 신고하기 및 보기 트위터 도움말. 트위터 보기 안눌러짐 원인, x 민감 콘텐츠 뜻과 경고 어떻게 조치 문오군이 ・ 2025.내용이 유용하셨다면 공감과 댓글 부탁드립니다.. 필요 없는 답답함은 줄이고, 안전하게 sns를 즐기시길 바랍니다.. 이번 글에서는 자세한 원인과 해결 방법에 대해 안내드리겠습니다.. 개인정보 및 보안에 있는 표시되는 read more..마지막으로, 민감한 콘텐츠 숨기기라는 옵션을 선택 취소해야 합니다. 트위터 현 x는 모두가 안전하게 플랫폼을 사용할 수 있도록 민감한 미디어에 자동 경고 레이블을 붙입니다. 이 과정을 거치면 대부분 정상적으로 볼 수 있지만, 정책상 차단된 콘텐츠는 어쩔 수 없다는 점도 기억해 두세요. 또한 x에서 앞으로 올리는 게시물에 대해 알림이 적절하게 표시. 트위터 민감한 콘텐츠 해제에 대한 궁금증을 가지고 계신 분들이 정말 많으시더라고요, X트위터에서 민감한 콘텐츠 차단 해제 방법, 바로 볼 수, Pc에서는 멀쩡한데, 핸드폰에선 계속 가려지나요.
미디어 설정 에서 민감한 콘텐츠를 표시할지 여부와 언제 표시할지를 설정할 수 있습니다, 이러한 옵션은 안드로이드 앱의 동일한 위치에서 찾을 수 있지만 아이폰용 x. X는 사용자들이 안전하고 즐거운 환경에서 소셜 미디어를 이용할 수 있도록 자동 필터링 시스템을 운영합니다, 이제부터는 모든 미디어가 표시되기 시작합니다. Com › @hdsystem77 › video내 논문 복사, 저작권 범죄가 될 수 있다.
설정에서 민감한 콘텐츠 허용하는 것도 안 돼. 의무 표기 ai로 생성하거나 편집한 콘텐츠 이미지, 영상, 사진 등를 사용할 경우, 시청 화면에 ai 생성 콘텐츠임을 지속적으로 안내해야 합니다. 이 가이드에서는 민감한 콘텐츠를 표시하기 위해 어떤 설정을 조정해야 하는지 설명합니다. 이 과정을 거치면 대부분 정상적으로 볼 수 있지만, 정책상 차단된 콘텐츠는 어쩔 수 없다는 점도 기억해 두세요. 개인정보 및 보안에 있는 표시되는 read more.
| 다만, 최근 x버전 업데이트와 함께 해당 설정이 안보이거나 안될때 없을때 상황이 버전에 따라 다르게 보입니다. | 막상 눌러보면 별것도 없는 경우가 많은데요. | Kr › news › endpage이 대통령 한국인 건들면 패가망신, 빈말 같나&mldr. | 여기에서 연령 제한 콘텐츠에 대해 자세히. |
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| 이재명 대통령은 30일 한국인을 건들면 패가망신, 빈말 같습니까라며 초국가 스캠 범죄에 대한 강력 대응을 강조했다. | Com › techmo_ › 223417790426트위터 x 콘텐츠 경고 없애기 민감한 콘텐츠 해제 설정하는 방법 네. | 왜 내가 18살 이상인데 x가 민감한 콘텐츠를 막는 거지. | Ios 디바이스 이 도움말의 앞부분에서 강조했듯이 ios 앱에는 콘텐츠 삭제 경고 트위터 옵션이 없습니다. |
| X에서 민감한 콘텐츠 경고가 자주 등장하는 이유는 플랫폼의 콘텐츠 관리 정책과 관련이 있어요. | 이곳에 라는 체크박스가 있다면, 체크해주시고요. | 갑자기 보기 버튼이 안 눌러져서 답답한가요. | 트위터 민감한 콘텐츠 해제하기 경고 메시지 없애는 법. |
| 설정에서 민감한 콘텐츠 허용하는 것도 안 돼. | 개인정보 및 보안에 있는 표시되는 read more. | 여기에서 민감한 콘텐츠 숨기기를 찾을 수 있습니다. | 앱 및 웹 버전에서 민감한 콘텐츠 경고를 건너뛰는 방법. |
| 사용자들은 이를 통해 의견을 나누고 다양한 정보를 손쉽게 공유할 수 있습니다. | 민감한 콘텐츠가 포함될 수 있는 미디어 표시 확인란을 선택하기만 하면 됩니다. | 이번 글에서는 자세한 원인과 해결 방법에 대해 안내드리겠습니다. | 이 영상에서는 twitterx에서 민감한 콘텐츠 제한을 해제하고 민감한 콘텐츠를 자유롭게 볼 수 있도록 설정하는 방법을 단계별로 설명합니다. |
X에 따르면 경고 라벨은 폭력이나 나체와 같은 잠재적으로 민감한 내용을 위한 것입니다. 위의 사진 처럼 아이폰 트위터 민감한 콘텐츠 해제 없을때 는 아래의 pc버전에서 따라. 간단한 설정이지만, 트위터를 더욱 편하게 사용하는 데 큰 도움이 될 거예요. X에서 민감한 콘텐츠 설정 해제 방법2025 x에서 민감한 콘텐츠 보기트위터 x에서 민감한 콘텐츠 설정 해제 방법트위터 빠르고 쉬운 가이드. Com › techmo_ › 223417790426트위터 x 콘텐츠 경고 없애기 민감한 콘텐츠 해제 설정하는 방법 네. 트위터 콘텐츠 경고 버튼이 눌리지 않는 이유와 이를 해결하는 방법을 이 글에서 단계별로 안내합니다.
X트위터에서 민감한 콘텐츠 차단 해제 방법, 바로 볼 수, X에 따르면 경고 라벨은 폭력이나 나체와 같은 잠재적으로 민감한 내용을 위한 것입니다. 위의 사진 처럼 아이폰 트위터 민감한 콘텐츠 해제 없을때 는 아래의 pc버전에서 따라. 설정은 제대로 한 것 같은데, 계속 경고창이 반복되어 짜증 나셨죠. 이제부터는 모든 미디어가 표시되기 시작합니다, 설정은 제대로 한 것 같은데, 계속 경고창이 반복되어 짜증 나셨죠.
설정은 제대로 한 것 같은데, 계속 경고창이 반복되어 짜증 나셨죠.. 이렇게 트위터 및 x 민감한 콘텐츠 설정과 해제하는 방법에 대해서 알아봤습니다.. 위의 사진 처럼 아이폰 트위터 민감한 콘텐츠 해제 없을때 는 아래의 pc버전에서 따라..
트위터 콘텐츠 경고, 왜 나타나는 걸까. Ios 디바이스 이 도움말의 앞부분에서 강조했듯이 ios 앱에는 콘텐츠 삭제 경고 트위터 옵션이 없습니다. 내용이 유용하셨다면 공감과 댓글 부탁드립니다, 그래서 노골적인 사진, 폭력적인 장면, 성인 콘텐츠 등은 ‘click to view’ 버튼을 통해 수동으로 확인하게 돼 있죠. 일부 그래픽 콘텐츠는 특정 연령대에 적합.
그래서 노골적인 사진, 폭력적인 장면, 성인 콘텐츠 등은 ‘click to view’ 버튼을 통해 수동으로 확인하게 돼 있죠. 갑자기 보기 버튼이 안 눌러져서 답답한가요. 그러나 가끔 민감한 콘텐츠에 마주치기도 합니다, X 구 트위터의 표시되는 콘텐츠에서 민감한 내용을 포함할 수 있는 미디어 표시를 활성화하고, 검색 설정뮤트 및 차단리스트로 피드 품질을 관리하세요. 트위터 콘텐츠 경고, 왜 나타나는 걸까, 트위터 콘텐츠 경고, 왜 나타나는 걸까.
트위터에서 인증받는 방법 트위터 사용자가 자신의 트윗에서 경고를 해제하려면 어떻게 해야 하나요. 위의 사진 처럼 아이폰 트위터 민감한 콘텐츠 해제 없을때 는 아래의 pc버전에서 따라, Kr › news › endpage이 대통령 한국인 건들면 패가망신, 빈말 같나&mldr. 이렇게 트위터 및 x 민감한 콘텐츠 설정과 해제하는 방법에 대해서 알아봤습니다. 李 한국인 건들면 패가망신, 빈말 같나. 앱 및 웹 버전에서 민감한 콘텐츠 경고를 건너뛰는 방법.
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뤼트 네이스타트 Com이나 ios 또는 android용 트위터 앱에서 신고하려는 트윗을 찾습니다. X는 사용자들이 안전하고 즐거운 환경에서 소셜 미디어를 이용할 수 있도록 자동 필터링 시스템을 운영합니다. 그러나 가끔 민감한 콘텐츠에 마주치기도 합니다. 위의 사진 처럼 아이폰 트위터 민감한 콘텐츠 해제 없을때 는 아래의 pc버전에서 따라. 이 영상에서는 twitterx에서 민감한 콘텐츠 제한을 해제하고 민감한 콘텐츠를 자유롭게 볼 수 있도록 설정하는 방법을 단계별로 설명합니다. 로 블록 스 프레디 야스
로스 뉴비니 피자니니 그래도 x 웹에서 설정만 바꿔주면 아이폰 트위터 앱에서도 정상적으로 민감한 콘텐츠 경고를 해제할 수 있다고 하니, 사용하는데에 크게 문제가 되지. 그래도 x 웹에서 설정만 바꿔주면 아이폰 트위터 앱에서도 정상적으로 민감한 콘텐츠 경고를 해제할 수 있다고 하니, 사용하는데에 크게 문제가 되지. X 구 트위터의 표시되는 콘텐츠에서 민감한 내용을 포함할 수 있는 미디어 표시를 활성화하고, 검색 설정뮤트 및 차단리스트로 피드 품질을 관리하세요. 트위터 민감한 콘텐츠 해제에 대한 궁금증을 가지고 계신 분들이. 내용에 도움이 되셨길 바라며 궁금한 점은 댓글로 남겨주시길 바랍니다. 르세라핌 더쿠
로스뉴비니 X에서 민감한 콘텐츠 설정 해제 방법2025 x에서 민감한 콘텐츠 보기트위터 x에서 민감한 콘텐츠 설정 해제 방법트위터 빠르고 쉬운 가이드. 李 한국인 건들면 패가망신, 빈말 같나. 이번 글에서는 콘텐츠 경고 트위터 관련 설정, 해제. 트위터 x를 사용하다 보면, 민감한 콘텐츠입니다라는 경고 때문에 내용을 확인하지 못하는 경우가 있습니다. 이 영상에서는 twitterx에서 민감한 콘텐츠 제한을 해제하고 민감한 콘텐츠를 자유롭게 볼 수 있도록 설정하는 방법을 단계별로 설명합니다.
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 16, 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.
1650 url 복사 이웃추가 트위터 보기 안눌러짐 원인, x 민감 콘텐츠 뜻과 경고 어떻게 조치., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.