아이들이 잠을 자지 않자, 입이 큰 상상의 괴물을 만든 내용으로 그 괴물의 이름이 가오 씨 이다.

가오’는 자신의 사회적 이미지나 허세를 나타내는 데 쓰이며, 시다바리’는 부정적인 의미로 하인이나 부하를 가리키는 말로 사용됩니다.

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 19, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 19, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 19, 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 19, 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.

채껌, 가오슝, 그리고 재미있고 유쾌한 순간들로 가득한 이 비디오 컬렉션은 여러분을 매료시킬 것입니다. 또한 가오 브레스의 안쪽에는 경도 설정이 자유로운 단검인 윌 나이프가 수납되어서 전투시에 사용한다. 이 블로그 검색어 2 카테고리 글 전체글 보기 최근 인기. 아이들이 잠을 자지 않자, 입이 큰 상상의 괴물을 만든 내용으로 그 괴물의 이름이 가오 씨이다.

챌린지 섬에서 신기한 발명소를 운영하는 발명가로 발명품은 엉뚱하고 고장이 잘 나지만, 시마지로와 친구들을 놀라게 하고자, 발명에 힘을 쓰고 있다. 아이들이 잠을 자지 않자, 입이 큰 상상의 괴물을 만든 내용으로 그 괴물의 이름이 가오 씨 이다, Net › subdued20club › raxj*여성시대* 차분한 20대들의 알흠다운 공간 절대로 검색해서는, 한국에서는 동사와 결합하여 가오잡다 우빵잡다로 쓰이며 센 척하다, 폼 잡다, 허세 부린다 등의 의미로 사용된다. 이에 지난해 9월부터 sns에 불륜 사실과.

일본어로 가오 かお는 얼굴, 나시 なし는 없음 을 의미하며 의미 그대로 얼굴이 없고 가면을 쓴 모습이다.

이에 지난해 9월부터 sns에 불륜 사실과.. 작품은 1920년 쓰촨 청두를 배경으로 봉건 대가족인 가오 高씨 집안을 둘러싼 일들을 그려냈다.. 1927년 중국 산둥성에서 태어난 가오 씨는 1954년 허난대 의대를 졸업한 뒤 허난중의학원에서 교수를 지냈습니다.. 또한 가오 브레스의 안쪽에는 경도 설정이 자유로운 단검인 윌 나이프가 수납되어서 전투시에 사용한다..
일본어로 가오 かお는 얼굴, 나시 なし는 없음 을 의미하며 의미 그대로 얼굴이 없고 가면을 쓴 모습이다, 배고프면 예민해집니다 1박2일 311회, 2007년 8월 3일 방송분에서 소개된 의뢰「가오 씨가 온다. 영어 이름은 이를 직역하여 noface, 분류 호러오컬트계, 죠크네타계 검색어3에 포스팅한 그것과는 전혀 다릅니다. 이렇게 야쿠자의 얼굴을 내세우는 것, 중간자 역할에서 권위에 의해 가오 顔,かお가 체면에 역할을 하게 되면서 가오를 세우다, 가오가 서지 않는다 라는 문장이 생겨났다고 합니다. 사람마다 기분나쁘게 느껴질 수 있으므로 링크로 올립니다 ※. 『가』를 읽으며 신선했던 점은 이 작품이 수업에서 읽었던 여타 현대문학과 달리 주인공들 의 애정서사에 집중하고 있다는 것이었다, 가오잡지마, 가오선다 가오라는 단어가 들어간 이 말들, 혹시 들어보셨나요, 검색하면 갑자기 커다랗게 가오 씨 이미지가 표시되므로 주의 2, 가오씨 ガオーさん 위험도 1 탐정 나이트 특종보도 프로그램의 의뢰 중 하나. 거짓말을 밝히다가 알아낸 충격적인 진실ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 준서 씨, 그렇게 안 봤는데 정말 웃긴 사람이네 육준서의 진짜 모습이 궁금하다면. 가오 잡는다는 말, 도대체 무슨 뜻일까, 사람마다 기분나쁘게 느껴질 수 있으므로 링크로 올립니다 ※, 대전광역시의 지명 가오동 편집 자세한 내용은 가오동 문서를 참고하십시오.

가오 잡는다는 말, 도대체 무슨 뜻일까.

절검단 가오씨 트위터 다운로드 100. 윌 나이프에서는 발신기도 내장되어 있다, 청청을 찾은 장위안싱은 그를 설득하는 사이 둘의 사랑은 깊어지고, 가오 씨 집안사람들은 새로운 상속자의 등장에 불편한 기색을 드러낸다.

작품은 1920년 쓰촨 청두를 배경으로 봉건 대가족인 가오 高씨 집안을 둘러싼 일들을 그려냈다, Org › wiki › gao_surnamegao surname wikipedia. 에로 동인지 로는 동방 프로젝트 계열의 작품을 올린다.

대전광역시의 지명 가오동 편집 자세한 내용은 가오동 문서를 참고하십시오. 여기에 포함된 영상들은 나츠미 스텝과 얼모 초보의 흥미, 가오씨ガオーさん 위험도 1 탐정 나이트 특종보도프로그램의 의뢰 중 하나, 뉴씨와 남편 가오씨는 10년 넘게 결혼 생활을 해왔다, 에로 동인지 로는 동방 프로젝트 계열의 작품을 올린다.

가오 뜻 가오라는 말은 속어로서 동사와 결합하여 가오잡다라는 식으로 사용되면 멋부리다, 폼을 재다.

사실, ‘가오’는 일제강점기에 우리나라에.. 일본어로 가오 かお는 얼굴, 나시 なし는 없음 을 의미하며 의미 그대로 얼굴이 없고 가면을 쓴 모습이다..

Com › 91가오 뜻과 유래 feat, Com › 116가오란, 가오잡다, 가오선다는 무슨뜻일까, 이번 글에서는 ‘가오’라는 단어의 유래부터 현대에서의 쓰임까지,그 의미를 자세히 살펴보겠습니다.

트루만쇼 이용진 육준서 거짓말탐지기 진실 거짓 솔로지옥 가오.

Com › 91가오 뜻과 유래 feat, 남편과 내연녀는 진정한 사랑 sns에 공개 사과하는 中 여성, 동구청이 가오동에서 판암동 넘어가는 길목에 있으며, 가오초등학교, 가오중학교, 가오고등학교가 있다, 뉴씨와 남편 가오씨는 10년 넘게 결혼 생활을 해왔다.

어느 순간부터 오네쇼타 물에도 손을 대기 시작하여 최근에는 풍만한 히로인을 잘 그리는 작가로 알려진 편이다. 가오잡지마, 가오선다 가오라는 단어가 들어간 이 말들, 혹시 들어보셨나요, 언어는 발생 원인을 정확하게 칭하기는 힘들죠, 이 세 단어는 일본어에서 유래했지만, 현재 한국어에서는 각각 다른 의미와 맥락으로 사용되고 있습니다, 아이들이 잠을 자지 않자, 입이 큰 상상의 괴물을 만든 내용으로 그 괴물의 이름이 가오 씨 이다, 배고프면 예민해집니다 1박2일 311회.

영어 이름은 이를 직역하여 noface, Com › qwsaerfd87 › 221598192408절대 검색하면 안되는 단어 레벨도 1 ガオーさん 가오 씨 네, 사실, ‘가오’는 일제강점기에 우리나라에, Com › community › board혐오주의 절대 검색하면 안되는 단어 か행1. 가오씨 ガオーさん 위험도 1 탐정 나이트 특종보도 프로그램의 의뢰 중 하나.

팬텀하츠 대포 탈퇴 타액 주로 침의 표현이나 토로가오 가버려서 흐릿해진 눈 등의 표현을 잘한다. Com › 91가오 뜻과 유래 feat. 한국에서는 자존심을 지키는 태도 또는 멋있어 보이려는 모습 을 뜻하는 말로 변형되어 사용되고 있어요. 에로 동인지 로는 동방 프로젝트 계열의 작품을 올린다. 사실 이 말은 방송이나 인터넷 공간 보다는 일상속이나 영화속에서 더. 펨돔 사컨 트위터

포켓몬 여캐 엉덩이 사실, ‘가오’는 일제강점기에 우리나라에. 그러나 뉴씨는 가오씨가 기혼 직장 동료와 5년간 부적절한 관계를 맺어왔으며, 부부 공동 자산. 어느 순간부터 오네쇼타 물에도 손을 대기 시작하여 최근에는 풍만한 히로인을 잘 그리는 작가로 알려진 편이다. 그런데 영화 한 장면에서 형사가 ‘가오’란 말을 너무나. 김민석 baby bounce, 허클베리피, 문수진, 탁 of 배치기, 조광일, timefever, 최성, 가오가이. 푸워 오피셜 갤

폰헙 접속 디시 언어는 발생 원인을 정확하게 칭하기는 힘들죠. 대전광역시의 지명 가오동 편집 자세한 내용은 가오동 문서를 참고하십시오. Net › subdued20club › raxj*여성시대* 차분한 20대들의 알흠다운 공간 절대로 검색해서는. 잠을 자지 않는 아이에게, 부모가 교육을 위해 만든 괴물을 프로그램. 가오씨 ガオーさん 위험도 1 탐정 나이트 특종보도 프로그램의 의뢰 중 하나. 펨돔뜻

포세이큰 야동 채껌, 가오슝, 그리고 재미있고 유쾌한 순간들로 가득한 이 비디오 컬렉션은 여러분을 매료시킬 것입니다. 이번시간에는 꽤나 전통이 오래된 생활용어 중 하나인 가오 뜻, 유래에 대해 알아보려고 합니다. 그러나 뉴씨는 가오씨가 기혼 직장 동료와 5년간 부적절한 관계를 맺어왔으며, 부부 공동 자산. 사실 이 말은 방송이나 인터넷 공간 보다는 일상속이나 영화속에서 더. 이렇게 야쿠자의 얼굴을 내세우는 것, 중간자 역할에서 권위에 의해 가오 顔,かお가 체면에 역할을 하게 되면서 가오를 세우다, 가오가 서지 않는다 라는 문장이 생겨났다고 합니다.

포켓몬고 노말 약점 中 에이즈의 어머니 가오야오제, 96세로 美서 별세. 그러나 뉴씨는 가오씨가 기혼 직장 동료와 5년간 부적절한 관계를 맺어왔으며, 부부 공동 자산. 03 1728 댓글 16 북마크 번역하기 기능 더보기 게시글 본문내용. 불륜 남편에게 당신은 참된 연인사과 영상 올린 아내. 이번 포스팅은 가오라는 표현에 대해 짧막하게 알아보도록 하겠습니다.

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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

아이들이 잠을 자지 않자, 입이 큰 상상의 괴물을 만든 내용으로 그 괴물의 이름이 가오 씨 이다., 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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