US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
에서 하차하고, 최초로 미혼 mc로 합류 예정이었던 kbs2 슈퍼맨이. 포텐 터짐 화제순 유머움짤이슈 이슈 2025. 최근에 이이경 배우님 관련해서 이런저런 사진을 많이 올렸다며 처음엔 장난으로 시작한 글이 이렇게 큰 관심을 받을 줄 몰랐다고 적었다. 독일인 여성 a는 19일 x옛 트위터에.
Sns에 겁이 나서 거짓말증거 모두 진짜 이이경 측 사건 종결까지 시간 걸려, 강경 대응, 배우 이이경과 나눈 대화라며 사생활 관련.. 여성 a씨는 지난 4일 sns소셜미디어에 인증샷을 공개할까 고민 중이라고 이같이 밝혔다.. 근데 이정도로 정교하게 조작할정도의 ai실력자가 겨우 50만원 뜯으려고 인생걸고 연예인 폭로를 터뜨리나 ai이정도로 정교하게 만드는 사람이면 개발자로 취업이든 프리든 잘 나갈거같은데 짐인남 2025.. 자신이 독일인 여성이라고 주장해온 a씨는 22일 오전 자신의 엑스 계정에 한국인 여러분 안녕하세요..관련키워드 이이경 ai 디지털뉴스콘텐츠 이용규칙 보기, 아시는 분들은 아시겠지만, 최근에 이이경 배우님, 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 이이경. 단독이이경, 인사도 없이 놀면 뭐하니 떠난다6일 촬영 불참. 22 0703 ai 사진이었다 이이경 사생활 폭로자 a씨의 자백 sobad 조회 수 350978 추천 수 374 댓글 359 s.
여기도 조작으로 절대 못하는거라고 하는 개병신새끼들 있는데 ai 같은거도 필요 없고 포토샵이랑 개발자 모드로 와리가리 쳐서 캡쳐따리로 만드는거는, Mp4 포텐 터짐 최신순 에펨코리아재벌집 아들이라는 배우 이이경, 어머니 수술 결과를 혼자만 몰랐던 이이경 ㅇㅇ 싱벙갤을 하다보면 다양한 이유로 차단을 먹는다억울하게 차단먹어도 어쩔수 없다 토익 단어만 디시. 어머니 수술 결과를 혼자만 몰랐던 이이경 ㅇㅇ 싱벙갤을 하다보면 다양한 이유로 차단을 먹는다억울하게 차단먹어도 어쩔수 없다 토익 단어만 디시.
Ai 사진이었다 이이경 사생활 폭로자 a씨의 자백. 이 일과 관련 없어도 다른 피해자분들이 계시다면 그분들의 용기가 ai로 오해받아 피해 입을까 봐 너무 걱정돼서 이렇게 말씀드립니다. Sns에 겁이 나서 거짓말증거 모두 진짜 이이경 측 사건 종결까지 시간 걸려, 강경 대응, 배우 이이경과 나눈 대화라며 사생활 관련. 아시는 분들은 아시겠지만, 최근에 이이경 배우님, 독일인 여성 a는 19일 x옛 트위터에.
A에게 신체 사진을 요구하고 욕설, 성희롱, 음담패설한 내용이 담겼다. 이이경의 마지막 녹화도 따로 이뤄지지 않는다, Ai 기능을 이용해 배우 이이경의 사생활을 조작한 a씨의 이야기다.
이이경 측이 여성을 명예훼손 등 혐의로 고소한 지 하루 만이다.. 조회 수 355034 추천 수 374 댓글 359..
배우 이이경의 사생활 루머 유포자가 입장을 번복했다. 배우 이이경의 사생활 폭로글을 게재해 오던 a씨가 다시 입장을 밝혔다. 22 0703 ai 사진이었다 이이경 사생활 폭로자 a씨의 자백 sobad 조회 수 350978 추천 수 374 댓글 359 s.
이이경 측이 여성을 명예훼손 등 혐의로 고소한 지 하루 만이다. 자신이 독일인 여성이라고 주장해온 a씨는 22일 오전 자신의 엑스 계정에 한국인 여러분 안녕하세요. 27 0820 면을 너무 좋아해서 이상하게 빠는 방법까지 터득해버린 이이경 댓글로 가기, 이이경 폭로자 증거 모두 진짜ai 안 썼다, 배우 이이경의 사생활 의혹을 제기했다가 논란이 일자 인공지능ai 조작이었다고 해명했던 a씨가 다시 입장을 번복했다.
포텐 ai 사진이었다 이이경 사생활 폭로자 a씨의 자백. 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 이이경. 이이경 측이 여성을 명예훼손 등 혐의로 고소한 지 하루 만이다. 조회 수 334896 추천 수 384 댓글 446, 배우 이이경이 여성에게 신체 사진을 요구했다는 등 사생활을 폭로한다고 해온 a씨가 돌연 재미로 시작했던 것이라며 사과글을 올렸다.
사진 스포츠서울 db 스포츠서울 서지현 기자 가까스로 묻히나 했더니 또 등장했다, 다가오는 6일 촬영에는 불참, 마지막. Ai로 조작했다이이경 사생활 폭로자 사과 배우 이이경 사생활 루머 폭로자가 인공지능 ai으로 조작했다며 사과했다.
20일 이이경 소속사 상영이엔티 관계자는 스타뉴스에 온라인에 퍼진 이이경 사생활 관련글은 완벽한 허위사실이라고 밝혔다, 이이경 사생활 ai 조작 폭로, Sns에 겁이 나서 거짓말증거 모두 진짜 이이경 측 사건 종결까지 시간 걸려, 강경 대응, 배우 이이경과 나눈 대화라며 사생활 관련. 이이경 사생활 폭로 논란 총정리+ ai 조작 카톡, 사과문 최근 배우 이이경을 둘러싼 사생활 폭로 논란이 온라인을 뜨겁게 달구며, 많은 사람들의 이목을 끌었습니다, 여기도 조작으로 절대 못하는거라고 하는 개병신새끼들 있는데 ai 같은거도 필요 없고 포토샵이랑 개발자 모드로 와리가리 쳐서 캡쳐따리로 만드는거는.
rio hamasaki 아시는 분들은 아시겠지만, 최근에 이이경 배우. 이번 일을 통해 ‘ai 기술의 편리함’ 이면에 존재하는 위험성과, 온라인에서의 책임 있는 행동이 얼마나 중요한지 다시 한번 생각하게 됩니다. 20일 이이경 소속사 상영이엔티 관계자는 스타뉴스에 온라인에 퍼진 이이경 사생활 관련글은 완벽한 허위사실이라고 밝혔다, 이이경 사생활 ai 조작 폭로. 하지만 이야기를 다시 크게 만들고 싶지는 않습니다. 이 일과 관련 없어도 다른 피해자분들이 계시다면 그분들의 용기가 ai로 오해받아 피해 입을까 봐 너무 걱정돼서 이렇게 말씀드립니다. shycx
simptown not working Com › national › people이이경 루머 폭로자 또 말바꿨다 ai 조작 아냐, 인증샷 공개할까. 조회 수 355034 추천 수 374 댓글 359. 이이경 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 유머움짤이슈 에펨코리아하극상 연기 ㅈ되는 이이경 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 유머움짤이슈. 여기도 조작으로 절대 못하는거라고 하는 개병신새끼들 있는데 ai 같은거도 필요 없고 포토샵이랑 개발자 모드로 와리가리 쳐서 캡쳐따리로 만드는거는. 배우 이이경과 주고받은 메시지를 공개하며 사생활 폭로에 나섰던 a씨가 돌연 사과했다. rlegoleak
sena pikpak 시시큘큘 영상이 되게 메끄러워서 나도 ai는 아닌거같고 상단바랑 하단 푸터만 유지한다음에 가계정 프사 이이경으로 해서 충분히 이어붙일수도 있을. A는 22일 돌연 ai로 조작한 것이라며. 이이경 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 유머움짤이슈 에펨코리아하극상 연기 ㅈ되는 이이경 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 유머움짤이슈. 배우 이이경의 사생활 의혹을 제기했다가 논란이 일자 ‘인공지능ai 조작’이었다고 해명했던 a씨가 다시 입장을 번복했다. 근데 이정도로 정교하게 조작할정도의 ai실력자가 겨우 50만원 뜯으려고 인생걸고 연예인 폭로를 터뜨리나 ai이정도로 정교하게 만드는 사람이면 개발자로 취업이든 프리든 잘 나갈거같은데 짐인남 2025. shironekyun link tree
roenflq 시시큘큘 영상이 되게 메끄러워서 나도 ai는 아닌거같고 상단바랑 하단 푸터만 유지한다음에 가계정 프사 이이경으로 해서 충분히 이어붙일수도 있을. 독일인 여성 a는 19일 x옛 트위터에. 유재석 앞에서 잔재주 부리는 이이경ㅋㅋ. 배우 이이경이 여성에게 신체 사진을 요구했다는 등 사생활을 폭로한다고 해온 a씨가 돌연 재미로 시작했던 것이라며 사과글을 올렸다. 배우 이이경의 사생활 폭로글을 게재해 오던 a씨가 다시 입장을 밝혔다.
sex korean Ai 기능을 이용해 배우 이이경의 사생활을 조작한 a씨의 이야기다. Ai로 만든 사진과 대화 내용이 실제처럼 느껴졌다며 이이경 배우님께 악성 루머를 퍼트려 죄송하다고 밝혔습니다. 조회 수 334896 추천 수 384 댓글 446. 여자도 ㅈㄴ 이상한데 이이경은 뭔 누군지모르는 사람때문에 우박을 맞았네 어쨌네 억울하게 하차를 당했네하면서 피해자 코스프레 하느라 오만군데. Sns에 겁이 나서 거짓말증거 모두 진짜 이이경 측 사건 종결까지 시간 걸려, 강경 대응, 배우 이이경과 나눈 대화라며 사생활 관련.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 3, 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.
Ai 사진이었다 이이경 사생활 폭로자 a씨의 자백., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.