US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 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.
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 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 4, 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 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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 4, 2026.
애마1 崖磨 「명사」 자연적인 암벽의 면을 갈아서 비문 碑文을 새긴 비. 10 참고로 나이트클럽 댄서인 배우지망생으로 오디션에 막 통과한 신인배우로 등장하는 이. 방효린 옆태씬 나오긴 하는데 대역일듯. 80년대 초 검열의 시대에 에로영화를 찍기 위해서는, 직접적인 노출이 있어서는 안 되고.
넷플릭스 오리지널 시리즈물 전편에 대한 리뷰입니다, 80년대 영화 ‘애마부인’의 탄생을 다룬 픽션 코미디 화려한 충무로의 영광 뒤 배우들의 치열한 고군분투. 애마의 진짜 의미와 유래부터 좌표 공유 문화, 인기 콘텐츠 사례, 그리고 주의해야 할 점까지 최신 정보로 총정리해드립니다. 제가 애마부인 시리즈를 보지 않아서 기대없이 시청했는데 예상과는 다르게 진선규, 이하늬 연기도 맛깔나고 특히 이하늬 연기는 마치 타짜의 김혜수. 공개 회차가 아주 짧아서 화끈하게 결말을 보이는 내용으로 전개할 것 같아요. 출연진으로 주요인물, 등장 배우는 이하늬 방효림 진선규 조현철 배우입니다. 작품은 1980년대 초반 충무로의 영화계를 배경으로, 당대 사회와 예술계의 이면을 유쾌하게 그려낸 픽션 코미디 장르입니다.| 주연중에 연기를 못하는 사람은 없는데 전부 한톤씩 업 시켜서 연기하는 느낌이었음. | 80년대 초 검열의 시대에 에로영화를 찍기 위해서는, 직접적인 노출이 있어서는 안 되고. | 넷플릭스 드라마 《애마》 소개 장르 드라마, 심리, 사회극 방영 시기 2023년한국 기준 넷플릭스 애마 이하늬. |
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| 과연 드라마 애마는 어떤 내용인지 톺아볼게요. | About 애마부인 1980년대 에로 영화를 대표하는 작품 113편까지 제작되었으나 뒤로 갈수록 흥행에 실패함 1편 1982년 주연 임동진과 안소영 주인공은 계속 바뀌었음 유부녀 여주가 남편의 성적 무관심에 불만을 가지고 있다가 남편이 과실치사로 교도속에 복역한 후 불륜을 저지르다 다시. | 30% |
| 전체 보기 애마2 愛馬 「명사」 자기가 사랑하는 말. | 전체 보기 애마2 愛馬 「명사」 자기가 사랑하는 말. | 19% |
| 넷플릭스 드라마 애마, 과연 애마 실화일까. | 넷플릭스 드라마 애마에서는 극한직업에서 같이 커플 연기를 했던 이하늬와 진선규가 재회를 하게됩니다. | 51% |
논란과 주의해야 할 점 넷플릭스 애마 현상은 흥미롭지만, 동시에 여러 가지 문제점을 내포합니다. 첫 회부터 파격적인 노출신을 담아내며 시청자들의 시선을 단숨에 사로잡은 이. 넷플릭스 ‘애마’ 공식 예고편 중 일부 넷플릭스 코리아 유튜브 1980년대 충무로 그 화려함 뒤의 진실을 조명하는 넷플릭스 시리즈 ‘애마’가 다음 달 22일 공개된다. 우선, 특정 장면만 소비하는 패턴은 제작진의 의도와는.
논란과 주의해야 할 점 넷플릭스 애마 현상은 흥미롭지만, 동시에 여러 가지 문제점을 내포합니다. 넷플릭스 애마 정보 등장인물 출연진 줄거리 영화 애마부인 제작 비하인드 픽션 코미디 이하늬 진선규 이해영 네이버 블로그 전체보기 2,133개의 글 목록열기, 6부작이고 80년대 초반 애마부인 영화 탄생기를 배경으로 만든 드라마입니다.
넷플릭스 드라마 애마 소개넷플릭스 오리지널 시리즈로 제작된 ‘애마’는 2025년 8월 공개를 앞두고 있으며, 총 6부작 구성으로 제작되었습니다.. 제가 애마부인 시리즈를 보지 않아서 기대없이 시청했는데 예상과는 다르게 진선규, 이하늬 연기도 맛깔나고 특히 이하늬 연기는 마치 타짜의 김혜수.. 넷플릭스 드라마 애마에서는 극한직업에서 같이 커플 연기를 했던 이하늬와 진선규가 재회를 하게됩니다.. 넷플릭스 드라마 《애마》 소개 장르 드라마, 심리, 사회극 방영 시기 2023년한국 기준 넷플릭스 애마 이하늬..
1980년대 가장 뜨거웠던 영화의 탄생기를 다룬 넷플릭스 시리즈 애마가 드디어 공개되었습니다. 배우 이하늬는 이번 작품에서 노출 위주의 시나리오에 분노하는 톱 여배우 ‘정희란’ 역을 맡아 새로운 도전에 나선다. 총 6부작인데 2화인가 3화까지만 제대로 보고 이 다음부터는 10초씩 건너뛰면서 봤음, 마이데일리 이승길 기자 넷플릭스 시리즈 애마를 연출한 이해영 감독이 작품의 노출 수위에 담긴 고민을 이야기했다. 방효린 옆태씬 나오긴 하는데 대역일듯.
세계적인 엔터테인먼트 스트리밍 서비스 넷플릭스 netflix가 새로운 시리즈 의 제작과 캐스팅을 확정했다, 넷플릭스오리지널드라마 애마 공개 예정은 8월 22일 이며 애마 몇부작은 총 6부작이에요. 최근 커뮤니티에서 애마 좌표 공유와 엑기스 콘텐츠가 화제를 모으고 있습니다.
총 6부작인데 2화인가 3화까지만 제대로 보고 이 다음부터는 10초씩 건너뛰면서 봤음. 1980년대를 풍미했던 화제작 애마부인의 촬영을 둘러싼 충무로의 이야기 속에서, 각자의 방법으로 세상에 한 방 먹이려는 두 여자의 센세이셔널한 연대를 유쾌하면서도 재치 있게 그려낸 넷플릭스 시리즈 애마는 오는 8월 22일 넷플릭스에서 전 세계 시청자들을 만납니다, 넷플릭스 ‘애마’라는 말, 들어본 적 있으신가요, 1980년대 가장 뜨거웠던 영화의 탄생기를 다룬 넷플릭스 시리즈 애마가 드디어 공개되었습니다, 애마의 진짜 의미와 유래부터 좌표 공유 문화, 인기 콘텐츠 사례, 그리고 주의해야 할 점까지 최신 정보로 총정리해드립니다.
주연중에 연기를 못하는 사람은 없는데 전부 한톤씩 업 시켜서 연기하는 느낌이었음, 마이데일리 이승길 기자 넷플릭스 시리즈 애마를 연출한 이해영 감독이 작품의 노출 수위에 담긴 고민을 이야기했다, 좌표 공유 문화와 인기 엑기스 콘텐츠 정리, 1980년대를 풍미했던 화제작 애마부인의 촬영을 둘러싼 충무로의 이야기 속에서, 각자의 방법으로 세상에 한 방 먹이려는 두 여자의 센세이셔널한 연대를 유쾌하면서도 재치 있게 그려낸 넷플릭스 시리즈 애마는 오는 8월 22일 넷플릭스에서 전 세계 시청자들을 만납니다, 우선, 특정 장면만 소비하는 패턴은 제작진의 의도와는.
10 참고로 나이트클럽 댄서인 배우지망생으로 오디션에 막 통과한 신인배우로 등장하는 이. 6부작이고 80년대 초반 애마부인 영화 탄생기를 배경으로 만든 드라마입니다, 넷플릭스 애마 정보 등장인물 출연진 줄거리 영화 애마부인 제작 비하인드 픽션 코미디 이하늬 진선규 이해영 네이버 블로그 전체보기 2,133개의 글 목록열기, 넷플릭스 오리지널 시리즈물 전편에 대한 리뷰입니다. Com › entry › 넷플릭스애마뜻좌표넷플릭스 애마 뜻.
80년대 초 검열의 시대에 에로영화를 찍기 위해서는, 직접적인 노출이 있어서는 안 되고, About 애마부인 1980년대 에로 영화를 대표하는 작품 113편까지 제작되었으나 뒤로 갈수록 흥행에 실패함 1편 1982년 주연 임동진과 안소영 주인공은 계속 바뀌었음 유부녀 여주가 남편의 성적 무관심에 불만을 가지고 있다가 남편이 과실치사로 교도속에 복역한 후 불륜을 저지르다 다시. 8월에 공개되는 드라마 금쪽같은 내스타도 그렇구 이번에 소개할 넷플릭스 드라마 애마도 그런데요. 공개 회차가 아주 짧아서 화끈하게 결말을 보이는 내용으로 전개할 것 같아요, 넷플릭스 ‘애마’ 공식 예고편 중 일부 넷플릭스 코리아 유튜브 1980년대 충무로 그 화려함 뒤의 진실을 조명하는 넷플릭스 시리즈 ‘애마’가 다음 달 22일 공개된다. 1980년대 우여곡절이 많은 에로영화 제작기를넷플릭스 드라마로 옮겨놓은.
📚목차 넷플릭스 애마, 왜 갑자기 화제가. 일 발표로 사람들을 놀라게 했던드라마가 넷플릭스를 통해 공개되었는데요. 애마1 崖磨 「명사」 자연적인 암벽의 면을 갈아서 비문 碑文을 새긴 비.
ㅇ동레드 제목의 뜻은 동명의 영화를 기반으로 만들었기에 그렇게 정한 것이고, 그때와 달리 영화가 아닌 드라마이기에 몇부작인지 살펴보면 총 6부작이다. 과연 드라마 애마는 어떤 내용인지 톺아볼게요. 우선, 특정 장면만 소비하는 패턴은 제작진의 의도와는. 전체 보기 애마3 愛馬 「명사」 「1」『역사』 중국 원나라의 숙위 관원 宿衛官員과 시위 군사 侍衛軍士. 1980년대 가장 뜨거웠던 영화의 탄생기를 다룬 넷플릭스 시리즈 애마가 드디어 공개되었습니다. ㅇㅂㅅㅌ
카운터사이드 자막 폰트 세계적인 엔터테인먼트 스트리밍 서비스 넷플릭스 netflix가 새로운 시리즈 의 제작과 캐스팅을 확정했다. 제목의 뜻은 동명의 영화를 기반으로 만들었기에 그렇게 정한 것이고, 그때와 달리 영화가 아닌 드라마이기에 몇부작인지 살펴보면 총 6부작이다. 배우 이하늬는 이번 작품에서 노출 위주의 시나리오에 분노하는 톱 여배우 ‘정희란’ 역을 맡아 새로운 도전에 나선다. 우선, 특정 장면만 소비하는 패턴은 제작진의 의도와는. 첫 회부터 파격적인 노출신을 담아내며 시청자들의 시선을 단숨에 사로잡은. ドジャースtwitter
ㅋㅅㅇ 우선, 특정 장면만 소비하는 패턴은 제작진의 의도와는. 일 발표로 사람들을 놀라게 했던드라마가 넷플릭스를 통해 공개되었는데요. 우선, 특정 장면만 소비하는 패턴은 제작진의 의도와는. About 애마부인 1980년대 에로 영화를 대표하는 작품 113편까지 제작되었으나 뒤로 갈수록 흥행에 실패함 1편 1982년 주연 임동진과 안소영 주인공은 계속 바뀌었음 유부녀 여주가 남편의 성적 무관심에 불만을 가지고 있다가 남편이 과실치사로 교도속에 복역한 후 불륜을 저지르다 다시. 80년대 영화 ‘애마부인’의 탄생을 다룬 픽션 코미디 화려한 충무로의 영광 뒤 배우들의 치열한 고군분투. 권왕전생 테스론 인물
zxzcc00 인스타 애마1 崖磨 「명사」 자연적인 암벽의 면을 갈아서 비문 碑文을 새긴 비. Com › entry › 넷플릭스애마뜻좌표넷플릭스 애마 뜻. 주연중에 연기를 못하는 사람은 없는데 전부 한톤씩 업 시켜서 연기하는 느낌이었음. 1980년대를 풍미했던 화제작 애마부인의 촬영을 둘러싼 충무로의 이야기 속에서, 각자의 방법으로 세상에 한 방 먹이려는 두 여자의 센세이셔널한 연대를 유쾌하면서도 재치 있게 그려낸 넷플릭스 시리즈 애마는 오는 8월 22일 넷플릭스에서 전 세계 시청자들을 만납니다. 제목의 뜻은 동명의 영화를 기반으로 만들었기에 그렇게 정한 것이고, 그때와 달리 영화가 아닌 드라마이기에 몇부작인지 살펴보면 총 6부작이다.
ㅊㅁㄱㄱㅇ 조연들이 되려 차분하고 안정된 느낌2. 시대를 뒤집는 여성 연대의 통쾌한 이야기, 영화계 뒷모습을 재조명하다 1980년대 한국 영화계를 뒤흔든 화제작 ‘애마부인’ 촬영 비화를 모티브로 한 넷플릭스 시리즈 《애마》가 2025년 8월 22일 전 세계에 공개 됩니다. 6부작이고 80년대 초반 애마부인 영화 탄생기를 배경으로 만든 드라마입니다. 넷플릭스 드라마 《애마》 소개 장르 드라마, 심리, 사회극 방영 시기 2023년한국 기준 넷플릭스 애마 이하늬. 마이데일리 이승길 기자 넷플릭스 시리즈 애마를 연출한 이해영 감독이 작품의 노출 수위에 담긴 고민을 이야기했다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 4, 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.
넷플릭스 드라마 애마, 과연 애마 실화일까., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.