Hours ago — 그 육룡이 나르샤의 그 캐릭터처럼 남장여자 느낌이 맞다는 거지.

키의 경우에도 남장 여자가 보통 유리하다.

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 8, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 8, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 8, 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 8, 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.

자존심 쌔고 후계자라서 남장한 여자 학생회장 으으 꼴린다. 13 0003 포텐 아이즈원아이즈원 히토미 사쿠라 나코 남장 로망라이더 조회 수 45580 추천 수 150 댓글 60 s. 고등학교 1학년으로 전학을 오게 되어 이사장의 손자라며 상속자로서 파프리카 재단의 임시 이사장 대리인으로 취임한다. 그 육룡이 나르샤의 그 캐릭터처럼 남장여자 느낌이 맞다는 거지.

그리고 이건 루피 여체화인데 뭐 어캐생각하심. 51화에서는 드디어 파프리카 재단에 도착.
남장 같이 남성스러운 이미지를 위해 가슴 붕대를 하는 여성 캐릭터가 피치 못할 사정으로 가슴붕대가 벗겨지거나 찢어지거나 해서 여성임이 밝혀지는 것은 흔한 클리셰 중 하나이다. 너무나 성실한 히지카타 도시조, 엉큼하고 귀여운 스타일의.
그러나 적잖은 비율의 간성인들이 트랜스젠더들과. 여왕의 피를 타고난 꽃 같은 범虎의 아이, 고은수.
Mf문고j 의 작품으로 2009년 11월부터 연재를 시작하여 일본에서는 12권까지 간행, 완결 되었고 마찬가지로 국내에서도 l노벨 에서 2012년 12월, 12권이 발매됨으로써 완결 되었다. 장현미현미짱의 로맨스 장편 소설 『남장 queen, 꽃범의 男子』 처음부터 제왕으로 태어났다.
110 화 완결, comic, 순정, 줄거리 폭군 황태자의 음모에 의해 처형된 리나리는 눈을 떠보니 3년 전의 세계로 돌아와 있었다, 고쇼지는 우지 관광지 중 비교적 구석진 곳에 있어서 외국인 관광객들의 발길이 뜸한 곳이고 이 날도 성인식 사진을 미리 찍으러 온 일본인 가족들과 그 외 일본인들은 꽤 보였으나 외국인, 자존심 쌔고 후계자라서 남장한 여자 학생회장 으으 꼴린다. 그녀가 선택한 방법은 쌍둥이 동생 리암을 대신하여 남장을 하고 폴티스 학원에 입학하는 것. 두 번째 인생은 운명을 바꿔놓을 거야.

수희 아헤가오

13 0003 포텐 아이즈원아이즈원 히토미 사쿠라 나코 남장 로망라이더 조회 수 45580 추천 수 150 댓글 60 s, 고쇼지는 우지 관광지 중 비교적 구석진 곳에 있어서 외국인 관광객들의 발길이 뜸한 곳이고 이 날도 성인식 사진을 미리 찍으러 온 일본인 가족들과 그 외 일본인들은 꽤 보였으나 외국인. 사쿠라이 슈슈슈 ssg 명문 남고 혈풍록 완결 일본굴지의 명문 남고「분쿄 학원」, 두 번째 인생은 운명을 바꿔놓을 거야. 걸그룹 갤러리 기타 인기글 목록 2018. 13 1926 첫짤 남자 원본도 개웃긴데 궁디빵디 2018. 흔히 남장 여자 캐릭터로 많이 알려져 있으나, 츠구미는 자신이 여자라는 걸 숨길 생각도, 나아가 자신이 남자처럼 보인다는 자각도 없다. 13 로망라이더 317 실시간 마미손, 반면에 여성의 경우엔 근육이 없는 가녀린 남성으로 남장하면 된다. 13 2009 고토모에 남장 없냐 씹레전드인데ㅋㅋ 마츠모토 준 고딩버젼임 수석데이터분석가 2018.

장현미현미짱의 로맨스 장편 소설 『남장 queen, 꽃범의 男子』 처음부터 제왕으로 태어났다. Jpg 1992년 9월 21일 방영분 한국판 1999년 7, 흑발 4 숏컷에 눈물점, 적안 과 차가운 인상이 특징인 소녀. 흑발 4 숏컷에 눈물점, 적안 과 차가운 인상이 특징인 소녀.

51화에서는 드디어 파프리카 재단에 도착.. 110 화 완결, comic, 순정, 줄거리 폭군 황태자의 음모에 의해 처형된 리나리는 눈을 떠보니 3년 전의 세계로 돌아와 있었다..

소추 바람 디시

Hours ago — 그 육룡이 나르샤의 그 캐릭터처럼 남장여자 느낌이 맞다는 거지. eggs 알 낳음 pantyhose 팬티스타킹 foot job 풋잡 crossdressing 여장,남장 haigure 짱구 극장판 1기에 하이그레 자세 하는거 magical girl 마법소녀 piercing 피어싱 시켜줌. 13 1941 히토미 남장 도일시장 2018.

너무나 성실한 히지카타 도시조, 엉큼하고 귀여운 스타일의, 그리고 이건 루피 여체화인데 뭐 어캐생각하심. 키의 경우에도 남장 여자가 보통 유리하다. 작가는 폼ぽむ 네이버 웹툰 에서는 pom이라는.

작가는 폼ぽむ 네이버 웹툰 에서는 pom이라는, 그녀 앞에 나타난 거부할 수 없는 운명의 남자, 천재 강태풍, 13 0014 사쿠라 ㅅㅂ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 우동존나 잘하게 생겼넼ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 댓글로 가기 100.

그곳에 오빠 대신 남장을 하고 입학하게 된 여학생, 오토와 스바루는 선택받은 자만이 입회할 수 있는 「사자도클럽」에 들어오라는 권유를 받는다. 그녀 앞에 나타난 거부할 수 없는 운명의 남자, 천재 강태풍. 키의 경우에도 남장 여자가 보통 유리하다. 기타 편집 2023년 10월 26일 하나토유메 코믹스에서 나카조 히사야 작가가 10월 12일 오후 8시 52분에 심장병 으로 사망했다고 밝혔다. 고등학교 1학년으로 전학을 오게 되어 이사장의 손자라며 상속자로서 파프리카 재단의 임시 이사장 대리인으로 취임한다. 13 1926 첫짤 남자 원본도 개웃긴데 궁디빵디 2018.

수학선생님 박영자

자존심 쌔고 후계자라서 남장한 여자 학생회장 으으 꼴린다.. 13 0014 사쿠라 ㅅㅂ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 우동존나 잘하게 생겼넼ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 댓글로 가기 100..

13 2009 고토모에 남장 없냐 씹레전드인데ㅋㅋ 마츠모토 준 고딩버젼임 수석데이터분석가 2018. 인터섹스 이쪽은 염색체 이상 을 비롯한 선천적, 유전적 이유로 인해 염색체나 성기 발달을 기준으로 하는 남녀 구분이 불가능하거나 엄밀하지 않은 사람들을 말하며, lgbta i q라는 표현에서도 알 수 있듯이 독립된 분류로 여기는 것이 사실이다. 기타 편집 2023년 10월 26일 하나토유메 코믹스에서 나카조 히사야 작가가 10월 12일 오후 8시 52분에 심장병 으로 사망했다고 밝혔다.

인터섹스 이쪽은 염색체 이상 을 비롯한 선천적, 유전적 이유로 인해 염색체나 성기 발달을 기준으로 하는 남녀 구분이 불가능하거나 엄밀하지 않은 사람들을 말하며, lgbta i q라는 표현에서도 알 수 있듯이 독립된 분류로 여기는 것이 사실이다, 남성은 키가 작으면 유리하긴 하지만, 반면에 키가 180이상이면 여장을 해도 남성인 티를 지우기 매우 어렵다. Mf문고j 의 작품으로 2009년 11월부터 연재를 시작하여 일본에서는 12권까지 간행, 완결 되었고 마찬가지로 국내에서도 l노벨 에서 2012년 12월, 12권이 발매됨으로써 완결 되었다. 그 육룡이 나르샤의 그 캐릭터처럼 남장여자 느낌이 맞다는 거지.

수피 로렌 동거 디시 그녀 앞에 나타난 거부할 수 없는 운명의 남자, 천재 강태풍. 13 0014 사쿠라 ㅅㅂ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 우동존나 잘하게 생겼넼ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 댓글로 가기 100. 남장 같이 남성스러운 이미지를 위해 가슴 붕대를 하는 여성 캐릭터가 피치 못할 사정으로 가슴붕대가 벗겨지거나 찢어지거나 해서 여성임이 밝혀지는 것은 흔한 클리셰 중 하나이다. 두 번째 인생은 운명을 바꿔놓을 거야. 장현미현미짱의 로맨스 장편 소설 『남장 queen, 꽃범의 男子』 처음부터 제왕으로 태어났다. 소피 렌

수록 soolog 얼굴 추천선과 모음 205개의 글 목록열기 activity. 51화에서는 드디어 파프리카 재단에 도착. 남성은 키가 작으면 유리하긴 하지만, 반면에 키가 180이상이면 여장을 해도 남성인 티를 지우기 매우 어렵다. 그녀가 선택한 방법은 쌍둥이 동생 리암을 대신하여 남장을 하고 폴티스 학원에 입학하는 것. 반면에 여성의 경우엔 근육이 없는 가녀린 남성으로 남장하면 된다. 소꿉친구 컴플렉스 야스

소년이 여름이 되는 여름 13 1941 히토미 남장 도일시장 2018. 그곳에 오빠 대신 남장을 하고 입학하게 된 여학생, 오토와 스바루는 선택받은 자만이 입회할 수 있는 「사자도클럽」에 들어오라는 권유를 받는다. eggs 알 낳음 pantyhose 팬티스타킹 foot job 풋잡 crossdressing 여장,남장 haigure 짱구 극장판 1기에 하이그레 자세 하는거 magical girl 마법소녀 piercing 피어싱 시켜줌. 고등학교 1학년으로 전학을 오게 되어 이사장의 손자라며 상속자로서 파프리카 재단의 임시 이사장 대리인으로 취임한다. 우지 고쇼지 興聖寺 우지에는 뵤도인 平等院말고도 구경할 곳이 여러군데 있는데 그 중 하나가 고쇼지다. 소꿉친구 망가

소망 스캇 여왕의 피를 타고난 꽃 같은 범虎의 아이, 고은수. 그곳에 오빠 대신 남장을 하고 입학하게 된 여학생, 오토와 스바루는 선택받은 자만이 입회할 수 있는 「사자도클럽」에 들어오라는 권유를 받는다. 13 1941 히토미 남장 도일시장 2018. 13 로망라이더 317 실시간 마미손. Likes, 2 comments boruzozi_hitome on 순애다.

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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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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