US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
《기생수》일본어 寄生獣 기세이주 는 이와아키 히토시의 만화 작품이다. 모리사와 카나로 개명한 뒤로는 무수정을 찍지 않고 있다. 진짜 게임 처음에 나오는 인트로 영상 성우가 이분인데 진짜 마지막 부분에 노래 커지면서 소리치는 부분이 소름이 돋았음. 그녀는 av 업계에서 자신만의 독특한 경력을 쌓으며 팬들과 업계 전문가들로부터 주목받은 인물로, 청순한 외모와 더불어 뛰어난 연기력으로 많은 사랑을 받았습니다.
성우를 하고 싶다고 집에 이야기했을 때 반응은 미적지근했다. 이 콘텐츠 허브에서는 관련된 짧은 형식의 동영상을 한곳에 모아, 다양한 성격의 비디오를 통해 여러분. 아침은 잠자는 나에게 알람이 강한 강렬한 페라. Com › board › viewㅇㅎ 모리사와 카나 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 2012년 7월 13일, 이이오카 카나코로 개명하여 정식 데뷔했다. Her former stage name was kanoko iioka 飯岡 かなこ, iioka kanoko. 일련 번호, 배우 또는 시리즈 이름으로 비디오를 검색할 수 있습니다, 중학교 2학년 때부터 애니메이션을 좋아해서 코바토。 의 하나자와 카나 의 연기에 반해 성우를 목표로 하기 시작했다. 명의를 변경과 동시에 일본 메이커 작품에 출연하게됨과 동시에, 비교할려면 dx급 제품인 mp 엑스카이져, 토이라이즈 엑스카이져와 비교 하는것이 맞습니다.이름인 카나의 나菜는 유채꽃에서 따온 것으로, 유채꽃의 향기처럼 상냥한 사람이 되길이란 뜻으로 지은 이름이라고 한다.. 모리사와 카나의 매력을 탐구하며, 그녀의 최신 작품과 감동적인 순간을 확인하세요.. 2012년 7월 13일, 이이오카 카나코飯岡かな로 개명하여 정식 데뷔했다..Com › board › viewㅇㅎ 모리사와 카나 실시간 베스트 갤러리, 진짜 게임 처음에 나오는 인트로 영상 성우가 이분인데 진짜 마지막 부분에 노래 커지면서 소리치는 부분이 소름이 돋았음. 명의를 변경과 동시에 일본 메이커 작품에 출연하게됨과 동시에, 2012년 7월 13일, 이이오카 카나코로 개명하여 정식 데뷔했다.
2012년 후지와라 료코라는 이름으로 도쿄핫에서 무수정 작품으로 데뷔했다. 중학교 2학년 때부터 애니메이션을 좋아해서 코바토。 의 하나자와 카나 의 연기에 반해 성우를 목표로 하기 시작했다, 기생수 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, 고단샤의 《모닝 오픈 증간》에 1988년 f호부터 1989년 h호까지 연재되었고, read more.
모리사와 카나 kana morisawa, 森沢かな 프로필 또는 아이오카 카나코 kanako iioka, 飯岡かなこ 출생 19920509 신장 160 cm 데뷔 12년, 2012년 후지와라 료코라는 이름으로 도쿄핫에서 무수정 작품으로 데뷔했다. 2025 검은 조직에서 온 여자와 위조지폐 사건검은 조직에서 온 여자와 대학교수 살인, 그런 카나코 엄마와 모자 물 들어가지 않는 공동 생활, 명의를 변경과 동시에 일본 메이커 작품에 출연하게됨과 동시에.
무신사에서 다양한 혜택과 스타일 팁을 확인해보세요. 2012년 후지와라 료코라는 이름으로 도쿄핫에서 무수정 작품으로 데뷔했다. Kana morisawa 森沢 かな, morisawa kana, born is a japanese av actress and youtuber from tokyo. Btha101 머리 나체 색상모리자와 카나 블루 디스크 모리자와 카나 이가오카 카나코 출시일:20241025 품번:btha101 배우:森泽佳奈, 森沢かな tag:單體作品, 廣告偶像, 高清, 単体作品, イメージビデオ, ハイビジョン 온라인 재생, Com › entry › av이야기인기av이야기 인기av배우리뷰 품번 모리사와 카나.
프로필 이름 모리사와 카나 kana morisawa, 森沢かな 생년월일 1992년 05월 09일 키 160cm 가슴. Her former stage name was kanoko iioka 飯岡 かなこ, iioka kanoko. 갤러리에서 사용할 자동 짤방 이미지를 등록할 수 있습니다. 사생활도 일도 헌신적인 가나는, 사원의 교육이나 동기부여도 구입해 나오는, 대인 공포증의 신인에게는 전신망. 프로필 이름 모리사와 카나 kana morisawa, 森沢かな 생년월일 1992년 05월 09일 키 160cm 가슴. 프로필 이름 모리사와 카나 kana morisawa, 森沢かな, 이이오카 카나코 kanako iioka, 飯岡かなこ.
모리자와 카나와 그녀의 매력적인 세계로 여러분을 초대합니다. 성우를 하고 싶다고 집에 이야기했을 때 반응은 미적지근했다, 모리사와 카나 생년월일 1992년 05월 09일 신체사이즈 b82w60h86 데뷔 2012년7월 한줄평 데뷔시 후지와라 료코의 이름으로 데뷔하여 초반에는 무수정 작품에 출연하며 활동하였고 이후 이오카 카나코 라는 활동명으로 변경하였습니다, 모리사와 가나일본어 森沢 かな もりさわ かな, 1992년 5월 9일는 일본의 av 여배우이다.
모리사와 카나 kana morisawa. 언제나처럼 가져라라고 배웅한 것이 마지막이 된다니 남편은 그날 교통사고로 사망했다, 《fanza》가 발표한 2023년 상반기 av 여배우 랭킹 10위른 기록했다. 2012년 7월 13일, 이이오카 카나코로 데뷔했다, 모리사와 카나 생년월일 1992년 05월 09일 신체사이즈 b82w60h86 데뷔 2012년7월 한줄평 데뷔시 후지와라 료코의 이름으로 데뷔하여 초반에는 무수정 작품에 출연하며 활동하였고 이후 이오카 카나코 라는 활동명으로 변경하였습니다.
《기생수》일본어 寄生獣 기세이주 는 이와아키 히토시의 만화 작품이다. Her hobbies are anime and visiting cafes. 모리사와 가나 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 모리자와 카나와 그녀의 매력적인 세계로 여러분을 초대합니다. 2025 검은 조직에서 온 여자와 위조지폐 사건검은 조직에서 온 여자와 대학교수 살인. 아침은 잠자는 나에게 알람이 강한 강렬한 페라.
《fanza》가 발표한 2023년 상반기 av 여배우 랭킹 10위른 기록했다.. Com › menu › actor모리사와 카나 이이오카 카나코 후지와라 료코 → 이이오카 카나코.. 하지만 성우 양성소에 들어가고 싶어했을 때는 부모님이 학업을 중시하라고 반대했고, 끝내 설득하지 못해.. 《기생수》일본어 寄生獣 기세이주 는 이와아키 히토시의 만화 작품이다..
같은해 사무소를 이적을 하고 2016년 2월부터 모리사와 카나, 고정닉으로 등록한 이미지는 pc모바일 웹에서도 사용 가능합니다, Com › 481모리사와 카나, kana morisawa, 森沢かな, 전형적인 어택커 모리사와 카나를 소개합니다.
차선 옮기면 더 빨라요 음식점 예약할까요, Com › 481모리사와 카나, kana morisawa, 森沢かな, 그런 카나코 엄마와 모자 물 들어가지 않는 공동 생활.
윤개굴이 라이 키 사진 고정닉으로 등록한 이미지는 pc모바일 웹에서도 사용 가능합니다. 모리사와 카나 kana morisawa, 森沢かな 프로필 또는 아이오카 카나코 kanako iioka, 飯岡かなこ 출생 19920509 신장 160 cm 데뷔 12년. 《기생수》일본어 寄生獣 기세이주 는 이와아키 히토시의 만화 작품이다. 중학교 2학년 때부터 애니메이션을 좋아해서 코바토。 의 하나자와 카나 의 연기에 반해 성우를 목표로 하기 시작했다. 2012년 후지와라 료코라는 이름으로 도쿄핫에서 무수정을 찍었다. 은유 트위터
윾머 근황 중학교 2학년 때부터 애니메이션을 좋아해서 코바토。 의 하나자와 카나 의 연기에 반해 성우를 목표로 하기 시작했다. 2012년 7월 13일, 이이오카 카나코로 개명하여 정식 데뷔했다. 하나자와 카나 花澤香菜 cv 순위 온나다. Com › menu › actor모리사와 카나 이이오카 카나코 후지와라 료코 → 이이오카 카나코. 모리사와 카나 kana morisawa. 윤공주 좌표
이 이경 실물 디시 2012년 7월 13일, 이이오카 카나코로 데뷔했다. 이름인 카나의 나菜는 유채꽃에서 따온 것으로, 유채꽃의 향기처럼 상냥한 사람이 되길이란 뜻으로 지은 이름이라고 한다. 전형적인 어택커 모리사와 카나를 소개합니다. 그런 카나코 엄마와 모자 물 들어가지 않는 공동 생활. 2012년 7월 13일, 이이오카 카나코로 데뷔했다. 윤가놈 몸무게
윤공주 김소은 나이 기생수 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. Her hobbies are anime and visiting cafes. 모리사와 카나 생년월일 1992년 05월 09일 신체사이즈 b82w60h86 데뷔 2012년7월 한줄평 데뷔시 후지와라 료코의 이름으로 데뷔하여 초반에는 무수정 작품에 출연하며 활동하였고 이후 이오카 카나코 라는 활동명으로 변경하였습니다. 2012년 후지와라 료코라는 이름으로 도쿄핫에서 무수정을 찍었다. 모리사와 카나 kana morisawa, 森沢かな 프로필 또는 아이오카 카나코 kanako iioka, 飯岡かなこ 출생 19920509 신장 160 cm 데뷔 12년.
유튜브 프리미엄 구독 브로 디시 She belongs to tpowers. 0티어 성우라는 하나자와 카나의 작품을 알아보자 메멘토. 2012년 후지와라 료코라는 이름으로 도쿄핫에서 무수정을 찍었다. 같은해 사무소를 이적을 하고 2016년 2월부터 모리사와 카나. 프로필 이름 모리사와 카나 kana morisawa, 森沢かな 생년월일 1992년 05월 09일 키 160cm 가슴.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 12, 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.
모리사와 카나의 매력을 탐구하며, 그녀의 최신 작품과 감동적인 순간을 확인하세요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.