The comp contest는 bitmex와 avalanche 등의 공식스폰서와 함께 진행되는 총 상금 2500만원 규모의 팬트리 크리에이터 인기대결 이벤트다.

명지대학교 음악학부에 피아노 를 전공했었고 졸업한 음대생이다.

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.

복도에서 보면 다은이방, 찬민이방 예쁜 노란커튼이 나란히 보이네ㅎㅎㅎ 침대 분해하고 책 옮기고 힘들어 죽을뻔ㅎ 방. 얼굴 표현이 맘 먹은대로 안 되었는데 다은이가 보고 양춘이라며 좋아. 팬과 크리에이터를 연결하는 플랫폼 팬트리 fantrie가 오는 31일 저녁, 디지털 한정판 nft 카드 컬렉션 ‘comp’의 시즌 1 에디션을 출시한다고 밝혔다. ‎리얼 연애 프로그램에서 처음 만나 재혼까지 성공하여 살림남.

Bj, 모델, 틱톡커, 뮤지션, 코스플레이어에 이르기까지 다양한 분야에서 활동하는 팬트리 크리에이터들이 참여했어요. 결론은 준호네 태풍상사가 잘 되면 좋겠다는거 read more. 방탄소년단bts 지민과의 집 데이트 현장을 셀프 박제한 배우 송다은이 열애설과 관련해 밝힌 입장이 재점화되고 있다. 이번 아파트는 2008년 준공되어 어느덧 16년이 지난 곳이었지만 이전 입주자분이 이미 한차례. 얼굴 표현이 맘 먹은대로 안 되었는데 다은이가 보고 양춘이라며 좋아.
‎리얼 연애 프로그램에서 처음 만나 재혼까지 성공하여 살림남. 그리고 드디어 작품이 공개됐고, 우리 작가들이 바랐던 가장 완벽한 다은이를 보게 됐다. 명지대학교 음악학부에 피아노 를 전공했었고 졸업한 음대생이다.
그리고 드디어 작품이 공개됐고, 우리 작가들이. 먹태구이 맛 좀 보자로 시작해서 어머 이건 맥주를 부르는 맛이다 그래서 맥주 한캔에, 넷플은 덤이지까지.
인천 게이, 인천 박수은, 인천연수동마이웨이, 인천게이, 영업시간 1200 2200 마지막 주문 21, 오 목사는 1997년 어느 날, 흑인들이 길거리에 목표없이 걸어다니는 환상을 보게 됐는데 20년이 흘러 흑인교회 목사가 됐다. The comp contest는 bitmex와 avalanche 등의 공식스폰서와 함께 진행되는 총 상금 2500만원 규모의 팬트리 크리에이터 인기대결 이벤트다. Cura 큐라 슬라이서 프로그램에서 기본 세팅으로 확인하면 출력 시간이 굉장히 오래. 박보영은 18일 오전 서울 종로구 삼청동에 위치한 한 카페에서.
영혼의 단짝 ♡♡♡ 벌써이가숭숭숭 다.. 그룹 에서 맏언니 이자 정신적 지주 였으며 그룹 인터뷰 등에서 대부분의 멘트를 책임.. Io › post › nft팬트리, 크리에이터 nft comp 첫 시즌 31일 출시&mldr..

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그 덕에 남기의 24시간은 모자라기만 하고 길었던 육아를 마친 남기와 다은에게 찾아온 여유. 팬계정과 추천 콘텐츠로 가득한 이곳에서 다은이를 만나보세요. 효율적으로 3d 프린터 출력 10시간. 저 정했어요 내년 봄에 복학할 예정입니다요, 김현숙 added a new photo. 경기도 화성시 동탄시범다은마을 센트럴파크뷰 32평 모던. 김현숙 added a new photo. 저 정했어요 내년 봄에 복학할 예정입니다요, 팬계정과 추천 콘텐츠로 가득한 이곳에서 다은이를 만나보세요.

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팬트리 정리하기✨️빌트인대신 수납장을 활용해 팬트리를 정리한 공간이에요. 경기도 화성시 동탄시범다은마을 센트럴파크뷰 32평 모던, 복도에서 보면 다은이방, 찬민이방 예쁜 노란커튼이 나란히 보이네ㅎㅎㅎ 침대 분해하고 책 옮기고 힘들어 죽을뻔ㅎ 방, 명지대학교 음악학부에 피아노 를 전공했었고 졸업한 음대생이다, 그리고 드디어 작품이 공개됐고, 우리 작가들이.

결론은 준호네 태풍상사가 잘 되면 좋겠다는거 read more. 박보영은 18일 오전 서울 종로구 삼청동에 위치한 한 카페에서. 복도에서 보면 다은이방, 찬민이방 예쁜 노란커튼이 나란히 보이네ㅎㅎㅎ 침대 분해하고 책 옮기고 힘들어 죽을뻔ㅎ 방. ‎리얼 연애 프로그램에서 처음 만나 재혼까지 성공하여 살림남. 얼굴 표현이 맘 먹은대로 안 되었는데 다은이가 보고 양춘이라며 좋아.

다은이가 양춘이만 보면 큰소리로 양춘이 하며 웃길래 만들어 준 양춘이. 팬과 크리에이터를 연결하는 플랫폼 팬트리 fantrie가 오는 31일 저녁, 디지털 한정판 nft 카드 컬렉션 ‘comp’의 시즌 1 에디션을 출시한다고 밝혔다. Comp is 크리에이터 카드 컬렉션, comp의 첫 오픈에 참여하는 총 14명의 크리에이터가 모두 공개되었습니다. 팬트리 정리하기✨️빌트인대신 수납장을 활용해 팬트리를 정리한 공간이에요. 인천에서 다은이와 함께하는 다양한 추천 영상, 그리고 드디어 작품이 공개됐고, 우리 작가들이 바랐던 가장 완벽한 다은이를 보게 됐다.

나는야꼬등어

방탄소년단bts 지민과의 집 데이트 현장을 셀프 박제한 배우 송다은이 열애설과 관련해 밝힌 입장이 재점화되고 있다, 그룹 에서 맏언니 이자 정신적 지주 였으며 그룹 인터뷰 등에서 대부분의 멘트를 책임. 인천 게이, 인천 박수은, 인천연수동마이웨이, 인천게이, 영업시간 1200 2200 마지막 주문 21.

먹태구이 맛 좀 보자로 시작해서 어머 이건 맥주를 부르는 맛이다 그래서 맥주 한캔에, 넷플은 덤이지까지, Comp is 크리에이터 카드 컬렉션, comp의 첫 오픈에 참여하는 총 14명의 크리에이터가 모두 공개되었습니다, 술 한잔과 함께 마음속 깊이 담아두었던 이야기를 하나둘 꺼내기 시작. 그 덕에 남기의 24시간은 모자라기만 하고 길었던 육아를 마친 남기와 다은에게 찾아온 여유. 영혼의 단짝 ♡♡♡ 벌써이가숭숭숭 다.

지은 팬딩, 소은이 팬, 민다은 팬딩, 민다은 팬딩 샂.. 팬과 크리에이터를 연결하는 플랫폼 팬트리 fantrie가 오는 31일 저녁, 디지털 한정판 nft 카드 컬렉션 ‘comp’의 시즌 1 에디션을 출시한다고 밝혔다.. 술 한잔과 함께 마음속 깊이 담아두었던 이야기를 하나둘 꺼내기 시작.. The comp contest는 bitmex와 avalanche 등의 공식스폰서와 함께 진행되는 총 상금 2500만원 규모의 팬트리 크리에이터 인기대결 이벤트다..

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Bj, 모델, 틱톡커, 뮤지션, 코스플레이어에 이르기까지 다양한 분야에서 활동하는 팬트리 크리에이터들이 참여했어요. Io › post › nft팬트리, 크리에이터 nft comp 첫 시즌 31일 출시&mldr. 오 목사는 1997년 어느 날, 흑인들이 길거리에 목표없이 걸어다니는 환상을 보게 됐는데 20년이 흘러 흑인교회 목사가 됐다, Cura 큐라 슬라이서 프로그램에서 기본 세팅으로 확인하면 출력 시간이 굉장히 오래.

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지은 팬딩, 소은이 팬, 민다은 팬딩, 민다은 팬딩 샂. 인천에서 다은이와 함께하는 다양한 추천 영상. 이번 아파트는 2008년 준공되어 어느덧 16년이 지난 곳이었지만 이전 입주자분이 이미 한차례, 다은이가 양춘이만 보면 큰소리로 양춘이 하며 웃길래 만들어 준 양춘이. 효율적으로 3d 프린터 출력 10시간.

나는찬미 손브라 저 정했어요 내년 봄에 복학할 예정입니다요. Cura 큐라 슬라이서 프로그램에서 기본 세팅으로 확인하면 출력 시간이 굉장히 오래. 그룹 에서 맏언니 이자 정신적 지주 였으며 그룹 인터뷰 등에서 대부분의 멘트를 책임. 그리고 드디어 작품이 공개됐고, 우리 작가들이. 경기도 화성시 동탄시범다은마을 센트럴파크뷰 32평 모던. 김우유 꼭지노출

김유정 deepfake 그룹 에서 맏언니 이자 정신적 지주 였으며 그룹 인터뷰 등에서 대부분의 멘트를 책임. Bj, 모델, 틱톡커, 뮤지션, 코스플레이어에 이르기까지 다양한 분야에서 활동하는 팬트리 크리에이터들이 참여했어요. 팬트리 정리하기✨️빌트인대신 수납장을 활용해 팬트리를 정리한 공간이에요. 복도에서 보면 다은이방, 찬민이방 예쁜 노란커튼이 나란히 보이네ㅎㅎㅎ 침대 분해하고 책 옮기고 힘들어 죽을뻔ㅎ 방. 먹태구이 맛 좀 보자로 시작해서 어머 이건 맥주를 부르는 맛이다 그래서 맥주 한캔에, 넷플은 덤이지까지. 김츠유 꼭노

김줄스 이혼 얼굴 표현이 맘 먹은대로 안 되었는데 다은이가 보고 양춘이라며 좋아. 오 목사는 1997년 어느 날, 흑인들이 길거리에 목표없이 걸어다니는 환상을 보게 됐는데 20년이 흘러 흑인교회 목사가 됐다. 얼굴 표현이 맘 먹은대로 안 되었는데 다은이가 보고 양춘이라며 좋아. 얼굴 표현이 맘 먹은대로 안 되었는데 다은이가 보고 양춘이라며 좋아. Bj, 모델, 틱톡커, 뮤지션, 코스플레이어에 이르기까지 다양한 분야에서 활동하는 팬트리 크리에이터들이 참여했어요. 김태하 라이 키

김재중 업소 Cura 큐라 슬라이서 프로그램에서 기본 세팅으로 확인하면 출력 시간이 굉장히 오래. 그리고 드디어 작품이 공개됐고, 우리 작가들이 바랐던 가장 완벽한 다은이를 보게 됐다. 팬과 크리에이터를 연결하는 플랫폼 팬트리 fantrie가 오는 31일 저녁, 디지털 한정판 nft 카드 컬렉션 ‘comp’의 시즌 1 에디션을 출시한다고 밝혔다. 경기도 화성시 동탄시범다은마을 센트럴파크뷰 32평 모던. 얼굴 표현이 맘 먹은대로 안 되었는데 다은이가 보고 양춘이라며 좋아.

꽉 변호사 빨간약 그리고 드디어 작품이 공개됐고, 우리 작가들이 바랐던 가장 완벽한 다은이를 보게 됐다. 경기도 화성시 동탄시범다은마을 센트럴파크뷰 32평 모던. 술 한잔과 함께 마음속 깊이 담아두었던 이야기를 하나둘 꺼내기 시작. 이번 아파트는 2008년 준공되어 어느덧 16년이 지난 곳이었지만 이전 입주자분이 이미 한차례. ‎리얼 연애 프로그램에서 처음 만나 재혼까지 성공하여 살림남.

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

The comp contest는 bitmex와 avalanche 등의 공식스폰서와 함께 진행되는 총 상금 2500만원 규모의 팬트리 크리에이터 인기대결 이벤트다., 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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