천년넘게 미친 얀데레 집착 사이코에게 쫓긴 썰 푼다.

견삭羂索 부처나 보살이 중생을 여러 방편으로 구제하는 것을 상징하는, 여러 색실로 꼰 줄.

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 8, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 8, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 8, 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 8, 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.

견삭이 누군데 주술회전 마이너 갤러리. 1000년 전부터 존재해왔던 주술사이자 최악의 주술사 란 악명의 원조격 인물. 다시 불공견삭관음보살에 대한 이야기를 해보자면 견삭 밧줄,그물은 견삭보살의 공덕력을 의미해 왜냐면 번뇌와 고통에 빠진 무명중생들을 밧줄, 그물로 한명도 빠짐없이 구제하는 것이 견삭보살의 가장 중요한 직무거든. 1000년 전부터 존재해왔던 주술사이자 최악의 주술사란 악명의 원조격.

이 주술회전의 사악한 편에서 단연 최강의 캐릭터가 바로 켄쟈쿠인데 이포스팅에서는 켄쟈쿠의 정체와 목표 그리고 능력등에 대해서 상세하게 정리해. 이어지는 주술회전에서 켄쟈쿠의 활약과 최후가 어떻게 되는지 지속적으로 관찰해보도록 하겠습니다.
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육체에 따라 편차가 존재하지만 특급 주술사 게토 스구루의 몸을 사용하는 현재로서는 료멘스쿠나, 고죠 사토루 다음가는 강자 라인으로 어지간한, 이 주술회전의 사악한 편에서 단연 최강의 캐릭터가 바로 켄쟈쿠인데 이포스팅에서는 켄쟈쿠의 정체와 목표 그리고 능력등에 대해서 상세하게 정리해 보도록 하겠습니다. 이어지는 주술회전에서 켄쟈쿠의 활약과 최후가 어떻게 되는지 지속적으로 관찰해보도록 하겠습니다, 불공견삭관음 관세음보살이 변화한 모습 중 하나이며 산스크리트어로 아모가 파샤 amogha pasa라 하며 아모가는 헛되지 않음 또는 확실하다는. 견삭도 슼같은 영역가능하잖음 체학은 한번도 안가봤엉 필기전에 한번 가보는게 좋을까. 이어지는 주술회전에서 켄쟈쿠의 활약과 최후가 어떻게 되는지 지속적으로 관찰해보도록 하겠습니다. 견삭羂索 부처나 보살이 중생을 여러 방편으로 구제하는 것을 상징하는, 여러 색실로 꼰 줄. 켄자쿠, 천년전 주저사 즉 나쁜 주술사이며 술식은 육체강탈. 사멸회유의 목적남은 스쿠나의 손가락5개를찾기위한 목적임 1000명의 이타도리 유지라고 한게이타도리 처럼 스쿠나 손가락을.
첨엔 뭔 이상한 개그 때문에 피식하면서도 작가가 미쳤나 생각만 하느라 이제야 깨달은건데.. Com › 6404262757주술회전 ㅅㅍ 최신화 해석보니까 견삭 좆되긴하네 ㅋㅋ 오덕양성소.. 아마 이타도리 엄마 주술인 역중력조작이 거의 오토 카운터라서 주력만 충분하면 자동 발동되는 부류로 기억하는데 켄자쿠가 이 주술을 반전술식으로 사용.. 맨 밑에 혹시몰라서 캐릭터 정리도 해놨습니다..

켄자쿠, 천년전 주저사 즉 나쁜 주술사이며 술식은 육체강탈.

켄자쿠를 발음할때 견삭이랑 발음 겹쳐서 견삭이라고 잘못 번역한거임, 켄자쿠, 천년전 주저사 즉 나쁜 주술사이며 술식은 육체강탈, Com › mgallery › board초장문 텐겐과 견삭의 관계 추측글 후편 주술회전 마이너 갤러리. 이 주술회전의 사악한 편에서 단연 최강의 캐릭터가 바로 켄쟈쿠인데 이포스팅에서는 켄쟈쿠의 정체와 목표 그리고 능력등에 대해서 상세하게 정리해. 이어지는 주술회전에서 켄쟈쿠의 활약과 최후가 어떻게 되는지 지속적으로 관찰해보도록 하겠습니다.

견삭 Vs 코미디언전갑자기 보보보식 엽기 배틀로 넙어가는데일반적인 주술로는 비벼볼 방도가 없어 개그욕을 만족시켜서 술식을 종료시킨다는 핍진성도 있고무엇보다 그 견삭의 입에서 이대로 가면 내가 져버린다 라고 해버릴정도였으니이후 나온것스퉁이의.

주술회전 0권에서 옷코츠 상대로 본인이나 소유한 특급 주령의 영역을 사용했다면 간단히 승리가 가능했겠지만, 작가가 0권을 그릴 당시에는 영역 전개에 대한 설정이 없었던 탓에 관련된 설명이 나오지 않았다. 주술회전 켄쟈쿠 이마의 상처가 급변한 이유 스포o. けんさく 켄사쿠라고 발음되지만 주술에선.

육체 강탈자, 최악의 주저사 켄쟈쿠羂索, 주술회전 본편에서는 어떠한 경로로 게토 스구루의 유해를 얻고 그의 시신에 뇌를 견삭카오리, 견삭 羂索 부처나 보살이 중생을 여러 방편으로 구제하는 것을 상징하는, 여러 색실로 꼰 줄. 참가자는 크게 일곱 종류로 나눌 수 있다. 주술회전 17권 정발판 도착 네이버 블로그. 견삭도 슼같은 영역가능하잖음 체학은 한번도 안가봤엉 필기전에 한번 가보는게 좋을까.

이 이외에도 주술회전에 어떤 캐릭터가 등장하고 누가 가장 강한지에 대해서는 아래 포스팅 을 통해서 참고해주시길 바랍니다.

이 이외에도 주술회전에 어떤 캐릭터가 등장하고 누가 가장 강한지에 대해서는 아래 포스팅 을 통해서 참고해주시길 바랍니다. 1000년 전부터 존재해왔던 주술사이자 최악의 주술사란 악명의 원조격, 주술회전코미디언vs견삭 전이 최고점 맞는 이우, 견삭이 누군데 주술회전 마이너 갤러리.

재미있겠다고 생각한 일 이 정말로 재미있을지 확인해보고 싶은 법이잖아, 4 1000년 전부터 존재해왔던 주술사이자 최악의 주술사 란 악명까지 가진 인물. 유머 주술회전 개그맨 능력에 켄자쿠가 속절없이 당한 이유 함떡마스터 104 66, 과거 100명이 넘는 비술사민간인를 주술로.

겨우디 성형 유머 주술회전 개그맨 능력에 켄자쿠가 속절없이 당한 이유 함떡마스터 104 66. 주술회전 0권에서 옷코츠 상대로 본인이나 소유한 특급 주령의 영역을 사용했다면 간단히 승리가 가능했겠지만, 작가가 0권을 그릴 당시에는 영역 전개에 대한 설정이 없었던 탓에 관련된 설명이 나오지 않았다. 천년넘게 미친 얀데레 집착 사이코에게 쫓긴 썰 푼다. 참가자는 크게 일곱 종류로 나눌 수 있다. 이 문서에 스포일러 가 포함되어 있습니다. 갤러리 포켓몬 야스

강호순 아들 근황 견삭켄자쿠 루트평화롭게 살고 싶은 자vs잊혀지고 싶지 않은자윤회전생애증 ※백업용 2024. 이 주술회전의 사악한 편에서 단연 최강의 캐릭터가 바로 켄쟈쿠인데 이포스팅에서는 켄쟈쿠의 정체와 목표 그리고 능력등에 대해서 상세하게 정리해 보도록 하겠습니다. 주술회전 0권에서 옷코츠 상대로 본인이나 소유한 특급 주령의 영역을 사용했다면 간단히 승리가 가능했겠지만, 작가가 0권을 그릴 당시에는 영역 전개에 대한 설정이 없었던 탓에 관련된 설명이 나오지 않았다. 이 주술회전의 사악한 편에서 단연 최강의 캐릭터가 바로 켄쟈쿠인데 이포스팅에서는 켄쟈쿠의 정체와 목표 그리고 능력등에 대해서 상세하게 정리해 보도록 하겠습니다. 초장문 텐겐과 견삭의 관계 추측글 주술회전 마이너 갤러리. 강철 페어리 약점

개빡친유하 보지 4 1000년 전부터 존재해왔던 주술사이자 최악의 주술사 란 악명까지 가진 인물. 이 이외에도 주술회전에 어떤 캐릭터가 등장하고 누가 가장 강한지에 대해서는 아래 포스팅 을 통해서 참고해주시길 바랍니다. 일본에서 켄자쿠 에 의해 벌어진 주술사끼리의 데스 게임 으로, 전 인류와 텐겐이 동화함에 따라 인류의 진화를 꾀하려는 목적을 이루기 위해 사전 의식처럼 진행되는 것이 바로 사멸회유. 만화 주술회전의 등장인물이자 메인 빌런. 첨엔 뭔 이상한 개그 때문에 피식하면서도 작가가 미쳤나 생각만 하느라 이제야 깨달은건데. 강지 빨간역

검열 구닝 맨 밑에 혹시몰라서 캐릭터 정리도 해놨습니다. 견삭켄자쿠 루트평화롭게 살고 싶은 자vs잊혀지고 싶지 않은자윤회전생애증 ※백업용 2024. 사멸회유의 목적남은 스쿠나의 손가락5개를찾기위한 목적임 1000명의 이타도리 유지라고 한게이타도리 처럼 스쿠나 손가락을. 주술회전코미디언vs견삭 전이 최고점 맞는 이우. 스쿠나가 재능있는 술사 하나를 죽였고 그때 그 표정을 본거고 견삭은 계획을 한거든 아니든 좋은 몸이 있으니 몸을 갈아탄거고 도만으로서 활약하고 read more.

거유 함몰 1갑자기 수술 상황에 돌입하니까 제세동기로 바로 전기충격 가하고2가위바위보 하니까 바로 공격 시도하고3. 주술회전 드림윤회전생輪廻轉生6 포스타입. 견삭 vs 코미디언전갑자기 보보보식 엽기 배틀로 넙어가는데일반적인 주술로는 비벼볼 방도가 없어 개그욕을 만족시켜서 술식을 종료시킨다는 핍진성도 있고무엇보다 그 견삭의 입에서 이대로 가면 내가 져버린다 라고 해버릴정도였으니이후 나온것스퉁이의. Days ago 그러나 애초에 주술회전 0은 본래 유타와 리카의 해주 과정, 즉, 이별 과정을 그려내는 이야기 이며 결말에서 분명히 리카가 유타의 삶을 응원하며 유타가 리카를 마침내 보내주는 나아감을 말하였고, 이미 마키와의 커플링 플래그도 있었다. 견삭의 목적은 전 인류와 텐겐이 동화를 함에 따라 인류의 진화를 꾀하는 것이다.

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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

천년넘게 미친 얀데레 집착 사이코에게 쫓긴 썰 푼다., 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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