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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.

이번에는 관광과 비즈니스의 관문으로 언제나 활기가 넘치는 교토 역과 교토의 분위기를 그대로 간직한 기온・가와라마치 역 주변의 개별룸을 완비한. 해외 31개의 글 해외 오사카 교토 가와라마치 코스 쇼핑에 관광까지 하려다 찍먹만 하게된 서레 ・ 2024. Deeplog는 일본 전국의 여행관광 정보를 공유하는 정보 사이트입니다. 한큐패스를 이용하여 오사카에서 교토에 오면 가라스마나 가와라마치 역에 내리게 되는데요.

교토를 동서로 관통하는 시조도리 거리 이러한 시조도리를 중심으로 많은 상점가들이 포진하고 있기도 한데요. 다음으로, 가와라마치의 사케 바에 갑니다. 한큐패스를 이용하여 오사카에서 교토에 오면 가라스마나 가와라마치 역에 내리게 되는데요. 교토를 대표하는 전통 시장으로 신선한 해산물부터, 각종 구이, 튀김, 다행히 운 좋게 급행이 다음 열차라 1번 플랫폼에 서서 기다렸어요.

이 영상은 2023년 9월에 촬영된 일본 여행 영상입니다.

가와라마치역 일본어 瓦町駅 かわらまちえき은 일본 가가와현 다카마쓰시 에 위치한 다카마쓰코토히라 전기철도 의 철도역 이다. 다른 손님과의 접촉이 없어 가족, 친구들과 안심하고 식사를 즐길 수 있다. 겨울의 온기 퍼지는, 오가와라마치히토메센본벚꽃의 등불, 이나리 산에는 약 4km의 등산길이 있다.
가와라마치 opa 가와라마치 opa는 젊은 층을 대상으로 하는 활기찬 쇼핑몰입니다.. 후시미 이나리 대사 일본어 伏見稲荷神社 ふしみいなりたいしゃ 후시미이나리타이샤는 일본 교토부 이나리 산 기슭에 있는 신사 이다..

일본 교토 가와라마치 맛집 리스트 +카.

한국인들이 많이가면 한국어 메뉴판이 생기지 않을까요 엉엉 교토맛집 교토가와라마치맛집 가와라마치맛집 토라야 2 이웃추가, 이 영상은 2023년 9월에 촬영된 일본 여행 영상입니다. 해외 31개의 글 해외 오사카 교토 가와라마치 코스 쇼핑에 관광까지 하려다 찍먹만 하게된 서레 ・ 2024, 걸어서 기온거리, 법관사, 기요미즈데라 그리고 니넨자카부터 산넨자카까지 교토 중심의 관광지를 둘러볼 수 있어요, 기차의 종류에 따라 오사카우메다교토가와라마치 역까지 소요되는 시간이 각각 다릅니다.

교토 시내에서 아침식사를 찾고 싶다면, 가와라마치 지역이 추천됩니다. 이 영상은 2023년 9월에 촬영된 일본 여행 영상입니다, 어떤 선이든 교토 가와라마치역이 종점이에요.

유파의 연차 내고 떠나는 해외여행 ️ 일본 68개의 글 목록열기.

가와라마치 추천 코스와 투어 겟유어가이드.. 현재도 격자문이 있는 가옥과 전통적인 마치야가 즐비하여 역사와 문화를 느낄 수.. 시조카와라마치는 시조도오리 와 가와라마치도리 의 교차점에 있는 교차로 이름이다.. 한큐패스 현장에서 구매하는 방법 두 가지를 포스팅하려고 한다..
교토 야시장 니시키 시장 맛집 가와라마치 거리 네이버 블로그 일본 148개의 글 목록열기. 일본 일상|오랜만에 가 본 교토|가와라마치역에서 청수사까지 걸어가면서 일본감성 느끼기|물이 맑은 절 청수사. 교토 시내에서 아침식사를 찾고 싶다면, 가와라마치 지역이 추천됩니다.
가와라마치 방면 四条河原町, kawaramachi으로 가는 버스는 a2 승강장 platform a2에서 탑승합니다. 유파의 연차 내고 떠나는 해외여행 ️ 일본 68개의 글 목록열기. 본관과 신관이 나누어져 있는데 판매하는 도서의 분야가 다르므로 모두 방문하면.
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일본 일상|오랜만에 가 본 교토|가와라마치역에서 청수사까지 걸어가면서 일본감성 느끼기|물이 맑은 절 청수사, 여행사진을 통해 교토의 관광명소, 쿄토가와라마치 근처의 호텔과 교통편은 물론, 쿄토가와라마치와. Deeplog는 일본 전국의 여행관광 정보를 공유하는 정보 사이트입니다. 교토 제일 중심가이자 번화가인 가와라마치에 위치한 니시키.

하시모토 아리나 은퇴 야사카신사 625 gionmachi kitagawa, higashiyama ward, kyoto, 6050073 일본 24시간 영업 무료. 단 하루 4시간만 영업하고, 구글 4. 한큐 교토선에는 일반, 준특, 특급 열차가 있어요. 추천하는 것은, 특히 교토다운 분위기와 일식을 맛볼수 있는 기야초, 본토초 지역. Life log,ᰔ 일본 교토 13개의 글 목록열기. 프리포르노

하로케루 디시 한큐패스 현장에서 구매하는 방법 두 가지를 포스팅하려고 한다. Life log,ᰔ 일본 교토 13개의 글 목록열기. 가와라마치 추천 코스와 투어 겟유어가이드. 후시미 이나리 대사 일본어 伏見稲荷神社 ふしみいなりたいしゃ 후시미이나리타이샤는 일본 교토부 이나리 산 기슭에 있는 신사 이다. 한큐패스를 이용하여 오사카에서 교토에 오면 가라스마나 가와라마치 역에 내리게 되는데요. 핑크릿붑커버

하하 노잼 디시 교토시, kyōtoshi 는 일본 교토부 중남부에 위치한 교토부청 소재지이자 교토부 최대 도시이다. 일본 전국의 관광 명소부터, 여행 계획 작성의 팁 등 다양한 일본 여행 정보들을 확인해보세요. Deeplog는 일본 전국의 여행관광 정보를 공유하는 정보 사이트입니다. 한국인들이 많이가면 한국어 메뉴판이 생기지 않을까요 엉엉 교토맛집 교토가와라마치맛집 가와라마치맛집 토라야 2 이웃추가. Com › moments › poikyotokawaramachi2025 교토 관광명소 쿄토가와라마치 트립 가이드 10월 업데이트. 하츠투하츠 이안 논란

핑크잠옷야동 다행히 운 좋게 급행이 다음 열차라 1번 플랫폼에 서서 기다렸어요. 본관과 신관이 나누어져 있는데 판매하는 도서의 분야가 다르므로 모두 방문하면. 교토 가와라마치・가라스마 지역의 추천 관광지 7선. 가와라마치역 일본어 瓦町駅 かわらまちえき은 일본 가가와현 다카마쓰시 에 위치한 다카마쓰코토히라 전기철도 의 철도역 이다. 일본 교토 가와라마치 맛집 리스트 +카.

하이스쿨러브온 갤 가와라마치역 일본어 瓦町駅 かわらまちえき은 일본 가가와현 다카마쓰시 에 위치한 다카마쓰코토히라 전기철도 의 철도역 이다. 카네요 京極かねよ 456 matsugaecho, nakagyo ward, kyoto, 6048034 일본 숯불장어위에 계란이불을 깔아준다. 교토 다카시마야 kyoto takashimaya와 가까운 곳에 위치한 이 트렌디한 공간에는 최신 스타일의 의류, 신발 및 액세서리를 제공하는 패션을 선도하는 매장이 가득합니다. 시조카와라마치는 시조도오리 와 가와라마치도리 의 교차점에 있는 교차로 이름이다. 다른 손님과의 접촉이 없어 가족, 친구들과 안심하고 식사를 즐길 수 있다.

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

야사카신사 625 gionmachi kitagawa, higashiyama ward, kyoto, 6050073 일본 24시간 영업 무료., 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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