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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 4, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 4, 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 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.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.

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.

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 4, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 4, 2026.

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.

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배우에이미배우 에이미 艾米, Ai Mi, Aimee, 아이미 아역 배우는 처음입니다.

9 하지만 휘성이 프로포폴 투약 혐의로 경찰 조사를 받고 있다는 사실이 밝혀지면서 에이미의, 두진위, 중국 틱톡에서 활발하게 활동하는 인플루언서 틱톡커 에이미 amy는 2000년생으로 2024년 현재 24살입니다, 확 달라진 에이미 새출발 하고 싶어, 연예활동 계획은 아직 방송인 에이미가 한국에 돌아왔다, 에이미 미니 팬미팅 absolutely 티스토리.
에이미1 艾米 ài mǐ, aimee.. 9 하지만 휘성이 프로포폴 투약 혐의로 경찰 조사를 받고 있다는 사실이 밝혀지면서 에이미의.. Com › y_ee1 › 223475212451중국 배우 에이미 아이미 艾米 프로필 작품활동, 웨이보 네이버.. 그간 미국을 거쳐 중국 광저우에서 지냈다는 에이미는 지난 20일 오후 7시 20분쯤 중국발..
Keywords 쥐징이 시상식 캐리, read more, Com › entry › 2005년이후에태어난2005년 이후에 태어난, 8 그 연예인은 휘성 이었지만 휘성은 인스타그램에서 허위 사실이라고 해명하였다. 2025년 아이치이 함성의 밤에서 수상했고 단오연 과 노래했다. 타임머신 마약 에이미, ptsd 진단조현병 걸린 美. 예명인 에이미는 미국 시민권 자로서 영어 이름인데, 일부 기사에서는 영어 이름인 에이미 리와 혼용되어 본명이 이에이미라고 나오는 경우도 있다. 프로포폴 혐의로 강제퇴거 조치가 내려진 방송인 에이미가 30일 미국 la로 출국하는 비행기에 올랐다. 그간 미국을 거쳐 중국 광저우에서 지냈다는 에이미는 지난 20일 오후 7시 20분께 중국발 비행기를 타고 인천국제공항에 모습을 드러냈다.

Com › y_ee1 › 223475212451중국 배우 에이미 아이미 艾米 프로필 작품활동, 웨이보, 예명인 에이미는 미국 시민권 자로서 영어 이름인데, 일부 기사에서는 영어 이름인 에이미 리와 혼용되어 본명이 이에이미라고 나오는 경우도 있다. 구중자 커플로 유명한 이윤예, 맹자의는 현재 드라마 상공주尚公主를 같이 촬영하고 있습니다. 8 그 연예인은 휘성 이었지만 휘성은 인스타그램에서 허위 사실이라고 해명하였다.

타임머신 마약 에이미, Ptsd 진단조현병 걸린 美.

Sbs연예뉴스 백승철 기자 20일 오후 중국 광저우에서 입국한 방송인 에이미가 인천국제공항 입국장을 빠져나오고 있다.. 백풍석 조로사의 사매 백랑화 역으로 출연했다..

중국 두진위는 뛰어난 미모와 댄스 실력으로 많은 인기를 얻고 있습니다, 그녀들에 대한 기사가 올라와서 포스팅을 하려고 하는데요 오역이 있을 수 있으니 양해부탁드리며, 제가 받은 이 이메일에는 에이미라는 청취자가 장문의 메일을 보내셨습니다, 이번 페이지에서는 큰 며느리의 김장 핑계와 가족 여행 이야기라는, 에이미 미니 팬미팅 absolutely 티스토리. Keywords 쥐징이 시상식 캐리, read more.

2021년 1월 13일, 강제 출국되었던 방송인 에이미가 입국한다는 소식이 있습니다, 제가 받은 이 이메일에는 에이미라는 청취자가 장문의 메일을 보내셨습니다. 에이미 배우는 가족과의 소중한 순간을 공유하는 따뜻한 이야기를 전합니다. 1 fm fairchild radio, 캐나다 벤쿠버에서 장저한 3번째.

배우이자 요리사인데 에이미 절친인 닐 패트릭 해리스의 남편.

대한민국 오후를 여는 유일석간 문화일보 munhwa. 틱톡커 amy는 아름다운 외모와 뛰어난 춤 실력으로 많은 팬들을 보유하고 있는데요. 아마 안경을 쓴 게 노진구와 닮은 듯, 중국뿐 아니라 아시아권 여러 나라로 방송된다고 알고 있다고 말했다. 이어 그 방송이 최종단계에서 어떤 결정이 내려질지는 100% 확실하지는 않다. `프로포폴 투약 혐의` 에이미, 오늘 미국 출국, 최종 행선지가.

프로포폴 및 졸피뎀 투약 등 혐의로 강제출국된 지 5년 만이다. 한국외대 에이미, 에이미 중국배우, 중국배우 에이미, 중국 장미. 오늘밤 드디어 에로의 여왕을 꿈꾸는 여배우가 시청자를 찾아갑니다. 에이미, 오늘30일 강제 출국 집행中 활동 검토. 아이미는 2008년 7월 13일 중국 본토에서 태어났습니다. 2025년 아이치이 함성의 밤에서 수상했고 단오연 과 노래했다.

그녀들에 대한 기사가 올라와서 포스팅을 하려고 하는데요 오역이 있을 수 있으니 양해부탁드리며. 2025년 cctv 송사열전대송사인전에 게스트로 출연해 이청조 를 맡았다, 에이미 艾米 ài mǐ, aimee, 아이미, 틱톡커 amy는 아름다운 외모와 뛰어난 춤 실력으로 많은 팬들을 보유하고 있는데요.

Com › Dasomju91 › 224102313751중국배우 아이미 에이미 艾米 프로필 차기작 사진 아역 네이버 블로.

에이미는 28일 일간스포츠와 인터뷰에서 중국의 한 방송과 긍정적인 이야기가 오고 갔다며 한국. 배우 에이미 艾米, ai mi, aimee, 아이미 어려도 영롱한 눈빛과 빛나는 비주얼이 눈에 확, 배우이자 요리사인데 에이미 절친인 닐 패트릭 해리스의 남편.

한국외대 에이미, 에이미 중국배우, 중국배우 에이미, 중국 장미. 소개 이름 에이미 艾米, ai mi, aimee, 아이미출생 2008년 7월 13일 베이징시국적 중국민족 한족신체 163 cm 44 kg별자리 게자리학력 북경, 어려도 영롱한 눈빛과 빛나는 비주얼이 눈에 확. 확 달라진 에이미 새출발 하고 싶어, 연예활동 계획은 아직 방송인 에이미가 한국에 돌아왔다.

배우 에이미 艾米, Ai Mi, Aimee, 아이미 어려도 영롱한 눈빛과 빛나는 비주얼이 눈에 확.

팔로워 1,255명, 팔로잉 9명, 게시물 24개 艾米 @aimi_haha님의 instagram 사진 및 동영상 보기. 팔로워 1,255명, 팔로잉 9명, 게시물 24개 艾米 @aimi_haha님의 instagram 사진 및 동영상 보기. Com › entry › 2005년이후에태어난2005년 이후에 태어난. 강제 퇴거 명령을 받은 에이미는 당초 괌으로 출국, 활동 편집 2023년 국풍대전에 참여해 왕학윤 과 코스프레를 했다, Com › y_ee1 › 223475212451중국 배우 에이미 아이미 艾米 프로필 작품활동, 웨이보.

히토미 중독 디시 Com › entry › 어려도영롱한눈빛과어려도 영롱한 눈빛과 빛나는 비주얼이 눈에 확. Com › ekin08 › 223640410328예미 艾米,아이미 배우 네이버 블로그. 요새 중국 쪽에서 아이미가 어쩌고저쩌고 하는 이야기가 많이 나오길래 처음엔 에이미의 중국. 에이미는 2016년 4월 16일 인스타그램을 통해 자신과 함께 프로포폴과 졸피뎀을 투약한 연예인이 있다고 폭로했다. Sbs연예뉴스 백승철 기자 20일 오후 중국 광저우에서 입국한 방송인 에이미가 인천국제공항 입국장을 빠져나오고 있다. 히토미엔주

히토미 타임스톱 중국에서의 거주지 등은 아직 결정되지 않았다. Keywords 쥐징이 시상식 캐리, read more. 이번 페이지에서는 큰 며느리의 김장 핑계와 가족 여행 이야기라는. 성인용품 쇼핑몰 ‘에이치플레이’에서 한국 최초로 성인용품 모델로 화제가 되었던 에로배우 ‘에이미amy’가 오늘밤 케이블tv 티캐스트의 르포 전문채널 채널뷰에 등장해 그녀만의 진솔한 이야기를 시청자. 2025년 아이치이 함성의 밤에서 수상했고 단오연 과 노래했다. 히토미 채두

히토미 죽고싶은 예명인 에이미는 미국 시민권 자로서 영어 이름인데, 일부 기사에서는 영어 이름인 에이미 리와 혼용되어 본명이 이에이미라고 나오는 경우도 있다. 에이미 입국 소식 2015년 12월 말, 에이미는 강제 출국한 후 5년간 한국에 오지 못함 때문에 그동안 중국 광저우에서 생활하고 있었음 에이미는 입국 금지. 강제 퇴거 명령을 받은 에이미는 당초 괌으로 출국. 확 달라진 에이미 새출발 하고 싶어, 연예활동 계획은 아직 방송인 에이미가 한국에 돌아왔다. 에이미, 오늘30일 강제 출국 집행中 활동 검토. 히톰ㅣ

히토미 토라도라 배우이자 요리사인데 에이미 절친인 닐 패트릭 해리스의 남편. Tiktok에서 중국인 에이미 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. 9 하지만 휘성이 프로포폴 투약 혐의로 경찰 조사를 받고 있다는 사실이 밝혀지면서 에이미의. 2014년, 판타지 영화 동도에서의 활약으로 정식 데뷔를 선언했습니다. 백풍석 조로사의 사매 백랑화 역으로 출연했다.

히토미 시스터 Tiktok에서 중국인 에이미 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. 배우 에이미 艾米, ai mi, aimee, 아이미 어려도 영롱한 눈빛과 빛나는 비주얼이 눈에 확. 어려도 영롱한 눈빛과 빛나는 비주얼이 눈에 확. 이어 그 방송이 최종단계에서 어떤 결정이 내려질지는 100% 확실하지는 않다. 아마 안경을 쓴 게 노진구와 닮은 듯.

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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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