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 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.
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 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 4, 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 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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 4, 2026.
Days ago ↓av女優の風俗嬢出演作品一覧を紹介しています♪お遊び前のプレイ参考にどうぞ↓ 「fc2－ppv－4586356る」出演のav作品 リンク先はfanzaなので、安心してサンプル動画が見られますよ！ 指名して遊ぶ前に、作品を観て予習して興奮を高めて挑みましょう！. Fc2コンテンツマーケットで配信されている動画の中で、av女優さんが出演している作品をリストアップしています。 女優名をクリックすると、その女優さんが出演しているfanza動画なども含む作品のまとめページにリンクします。 最高の愛人。 イチャイチャ大好きな超美人olのまとわりつくイチャイチャセックス. Most relevant videos for av wiki fc2 on porntrex. 原作mamaya バ先のパート主婦 41を家に連れ込んだら10年ぶりの汗だく本気セックスで巨乳首ビン勃ち放尿アクメした話 欲求不満な人妻を快楽堕ち.
Work › fc2 › 4836574fc2ppv4836574爆乳美魔女降臨！！激エロおっぱいしゃぶり尽くし.. Fc2ppv月間人気ランキング av女優大辞典wiki 暮らし カテゴリーの変更を依頼 記事元 share.. fc2コンテンツマーケット（アダルト） ※その他の月間ランキングは「fc2ppv月間人気ランキング」をご覧下さい。 ※その他のfc2ppvは「fc2ppvリスト一覧」をご覧下さい。..
Work › fc2fc2 素人女優 wiki.. A trusted partner of the kingdom of saudi arabia with a presence of over 50 years, thales provides advanced solutions in defence, public security, civil read more..
素人av女優名wikiとは？ 素人名義作品の 出演av女優名 をまとめています！ 「旦那だけでは物足りない絶倫人妻」相性を確認するという理由で、いきなりフェラを始めてしまうド変態を晒す若妻はそのままホテルで生チン中出しsexをしてしまう！ さらに今回だけでは飽き足らず「これからも会ってくれますか？ 」とセフレ契約まで結んでしまう絶倫痴女っぷりも披露！ いちか30歳結婚5年 自分の顔より大きいデカマラで爆裂hカップ×中出し×ntr大人の背徳ランジェリー性交「デカチン大好きです♪」自分の顔よりも大きいデカマラで奥まで突かれて、イキ乱れ─。 ばいんっばいんに弾けるデカh乳。 旦那公認ntrでこっそり中出し！ 禁断の本気sexッ！ 結婚2年目 なみさん 27歳 33. Days ago ↓av女優の風俗嬢出演作品一覧を紹介しています♪お遊び前のプレイ参考にどうぞ↓ 「fc2－ppv－4586356る」出演のav作品 リンク先はfanzaなので、安心してサンプル動画が見られますよ！ 指名して遊ぶ前に、作品を観て予習して興奮を高めて挑みましょう！. Chromium is an opensource browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web, Thales group building a future. 原作mamaya バ先のパート主婦 41を家に連れ込んだら10年ぶりの汗だく本気セックスで巨乳首ビン勃ち放尿アクメした話 欲求不満な人妻を快楽堕ち.
新宿こさつまん毛ボーボー！ 卑猥なまんこの金髪ギャルと生交尾⇒ぴちゃぴちゃ割れ目からイキ潮連射＆大量中出しren※先着順で超高画質進呈. Days ago fc2ppv4836574に出演女優の名前は？葉月保奈美作品詳細は？爆乳美魔女降臨！！激エロおっぱいしゃぶり尽くし中出し！！ ギャラクシィ☆堂 fc2動画 出演女優の名前まとめwiki. 素人av女優名wikiとは？ 素人名義作品の 出演av女優名 をまとめています！ 「旦那だけでは物足りない絶倫人妻」相性を確認するという理由で、いきなりフェラを始めてしまうド変態を晒す若妻はそのままホテルで生チン中出しsexをしてしまう！ さらに今回だけでは飽き足らず「これからも会ってくれますか？ 」とセフレ契約まで結んでしまう絶倫痴女っぷりも披露！ いちか30歳結婚5年 自分の顔より大きいデカマラで爆裂hカップ×中出し×ntr大人の背徳ランジェリー性交「デカチン大好きです♪」自分の顔よりも大きいデカマラで奥まで突かれて、イキ乱れ─。 ばいんっばいんに弾けるデカh乳。 旦那公認ntrでこっそり中出し！ 禁断の本気sexッ！ 結婚2年目 なみさん 27歳 33. Chromium is an opensource browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. Fc2ppv4831575 個撮※50本限定超特価※メンズエステをデリバリーしたら美人そうな人妻が！マスク取ったら美人過ぎて土下座してハメ撮り懇願！. Most relevant videos for avwikifc2 on porntrex.
新宿こさつまん毛ボーボー！ 卑猥なまんこの金髪ギャルと生交尾⇒ぴちゃぴちゃ割れ目からイキ潮連射＆大量中出しren※先着順で超高画質進呈. 名前女優名：五芭（いつは） 旧名義&別名： 生年月日：2003年5月8日身長とサイズ：t163 b84dカップ w54 h83. Thales group building a future. Days ago 新着ビデオ検索 svdvd 600 av wiki 新着の hd モザイク破壊fc2ppv4779534 期間＆数量限定 2000pt⇒600pt 一つ星レストランで働くパティシエをハメ撮りして中出ししちゃいました 超お得. と切に感じたものですから、mgs動画・fanza素人・fanza動画で配信されているav作品に出演しているav女優名まとめサイトを作成しました。 女優名・レーベルシリーズ名をクリック（タップ）すると、それぞれのまとめページに遷移しますのでav女優の名前を見つけるも良し！ 気に入ったav女優の他の作品を探すもよし！ ぐるぐるとサイト内を巡回してみてください。 家まで送ってイイですか？ まとめてあるメーカー一覧はサイト上部にあるグローバルメニュー、av女優別の作品一覧はサイドメニューを参照してください。 蛇足的なことですけど、素人系avの場合個人的に感じることは、パッケージの女優さんの顔とスタイルが本編でのそれとは必ずしも一致しないということ。, Sns@itsuha_1004 read more.
Subs jav uncensored korean bj dance mgs mosaic removed western porn. 当サイトは、素人系のav作品に関する総合まとめサイトです。 2007年9月2日開設以来、2025年6月1日に 33,000項目 を突破しました。 今後とも編集をよろしくお願いします。 ルールから逸脱した編集を繰り返すメンバーは随時参加を取り消します。 心当たりのある方は「編集メンバー削除告知」をご確認下さい。 （20250809） 現在編集メンバーの整理を進めています。 過去1年以内に編集履歴のないメンバーは順次削除 していきます。 削除後、編集されたい場合は再度メンバー申請して下さい。 （20250508） 掲示板を日々必ずチェックして下さい。 編集に関わる重要なことが確認・提案・審議されています。 → wiki編集について 3 ／ 伝言板. ガチ恋中の175㎝hカップのリングガール。 何でも受け入れちゃうデートとセックス. Work › fc2 › 4836574fc2ppv4836574爆乳美魔女降臨！！激エロおっぱいしゃぶり尽くし. 「fc2」タグが付いたav女優一覧。 633名のav女優を掲載。 タグからav女優を探せます。.
뷰리다 커쉐 新宿こさつまん毛ボーボー！ 卑猥なまんこの金髪ギャルと生交尾⇒ぴちゃぴちゃ割れ目からイキ潮連射＆大量中出しren※先着順で超高画質進呈. Work › fc2fc2 素人女優 wiki. わおん。 困っている人妻の心の隙間を埋めるという事で、本物と交渉しています。 音フェラ動画を更新しているなっしー！ 素人！ リアル！. With its four brands bmw, mini, rollsroyce and bmw motorrad, the bmw group is the worlds leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also read more. Subs jav uncensored korean bj dance mgs mosaic removed western porn. 불꽃여자 최하린 트위터
부부 일본어로 爆乳美魔女降臨！ 激エロおっぱいしゃぶり尽くし中出し！ gcupに成長してた近所のいもぅっとみたいな幼馴染 数年越しの再会で子作りsexしてしまった。 新宿こさつギャップ萌え！ 清純系なのに「変態ドm」なめちゃかわ女子大生・20歳⇒涙目イラマでちんぽ咥えてまん汁大洪水ゆみ. Com fc2ppvデータベース fc2ppvdb db. Fc2ppv月間人気ランキング av女優大辞典wiki 暮らし カテゴリーの変更を依頼 記事元 share. Work › fc2fc2 素人女優 wiki. ▼女優名、または作品名が知りたい その30▼ 素人系総合 wiki. 봄세이 얼굴 디시
복지리 나무 위키 ▼女優名、または作品名が知りたい その30▼ 素人系総合 wiki. Days ago 新着ビデオ検索 svdvd 600 av wiki 新着の hd モザイク破壊fc2ppv4779534 期間＆数量限定 2000pt⇒600pt 一つ星レストランで働くパティシエをハメ撮りして中出ししちゃいました 超お得. Most relevant videos for av wiki fc2 on porntrex. Days ago ↓av女優の風俗嬢出演作品一覧を紹介しています♪お遊び前のプレイ参考にどうぞ↓ 「fc2－ppv－4586356る」出演のav作品 リンク先はfanzaなので、安心してサンプル動画が見られますよ！ 指名して遊ぶ前に、作品を観て予習して興奮を高めて挑みましょう！. Sns@itsuha_1004 read more. 부커 뜻
뷔 코 성형 디시 「fc2」タグが付いたav女優一覧。 633名のav女優を掲載。 タグからav女優を探せます。. Tùy chọn tìm kiếm tìm kiếm fthtd 106 avwiki tìm kiếm trong danh mục adult ividol anime asian amateur fc2ppv jav censored jav chn. 名前女優名：五芭（いつは） 旧名義&別名： 生年月日：2003年5月8日身長とサイズ：t163 b84dカップ w54 h83. 素人av女優名wikiとは？ 素人名義作品の 出演av女優名 をまとめています！ 「旦那だけでは物足りない絶倫人妻」相性を確認するという理由で、いきなりフェラを始めてしまうド変態を晒す若妻はそのままホテルで生チン中出しsexをしてしまう！ さらに今回だけでは飽き足らず「これからも会ってくれますか？ 」とセフレ契約まで結んでしまう絶倫痴女っぷりも披露！ いちか30歳結婚5年 自分の顔より大きいデカマラで爆裂hカップ×中出し×ntr大人の背徳ランジェリー性交「デカチン大好きです♪」自分の顔よりも大きいデカマラで奥まで突かれて、イキ乱れ─。 ばいんっばいんに弾けるデカh乳。 旦那公認ntrでこっそり中出し！ 禁断の本気sexッ！ 結婚2年目 なみさん 27歳 33. Fc2ppv4831575 個撮※50本限定超特価※メンズエステをデリバリーしたら美人そうな人妻が！マスク取ったら美人過ぎて土下座してハメ撮り懇願！.
벨 쑤시는 사부님 Fc2ppv4837260に出演女優の名前は？花宮きょうこ作品詳細は？ガチ恋中の175㎝hカップのリングガール。何でも受け入れちゃうデートとセックス イチャラブヘイタ fc2動画 出演女優の名前まとめwiki. 2020年からエロ動画の制作を個人ではじめました。 五反田や池袋のオナクラやメンエスが大好きです。 寝取られ交尾専門です。 素人人妻さんのみ撮り下しております。 抜けるパイズリ狭射を目指して個人撮影にて奮闘中です！ 巨乳認識→hカップ～ 削除率高め。 ヤバメの作品アップしてます。 土曜からお楽しみを。 ホソボソとやってます。 寝取られを中心にネカフェや民泊など色々ハメ撮りしています。 同人av作品をフォロワーさんと一緒に創り上げています。 複数メイン. ▼女優名、または作品名が知りたい その30▼ 素人系総合 wiki. 新宿こさつまん毛ボーボー！ 卑猥なまんこの金髪ギャルと生交尾⇒ぴちゃぴちゃ割れ目からイキ潮連射＆大量中出しren※先着順で超高画質進呈. Fc2ppv1713543c素人3q&yumi最终章 ️顶级偶像级清纯大小姐的甜蜜约会3连射篇 ️最终章 自译征用.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 4, 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.
Com fc2ppvデータベース fc2ppvdb db., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.
