Rkimetsunoyaiba 코쿠시보 스포일러.

귀멸의 칼날 최강의 귀신 👹 상현의 1 코쿠시보 완벽 분석 귀멸의 칼날 鬼滅の刃에는 다양한 ‘십이귀월’이 등장하지만, 그중에서도 절대적인 강자로 군림한 존재가 있습니다.

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 12, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 12, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 12, 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 12, 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.

이 틈은 단단한 외피 아래 존재하는 근육 조직의 동선에서 비롯된 것이었어요. Com › baum0409 › 223564125925코쿠시보에 대해 알아보자. Com › baum0409 › 223564125925코쿠시보에 대해 알아보자. 코쿠시보의 체구는 텐겐과 맞먹는 수준의 거구인데, 평소에도 엄청난 떡대에 근육질임이.

귀멸의 칼날 최강의 귀신 👹 상현의 1 코쿠시보 완벽 분석 귀멸의 칼날 鬼滅の刃에는 다양한 ‘십이귀월’이 등장하지만, 그중에서도 절대적인 강자로 군림한 존재가 있습니다. 도깨비인 것을 감안해도 최소 120kg 이상으로 상정해야 한다. 이 틈은 단단한 외피 아래 존재하는 근육 조직의 동선에서 비롯된 것이었어요, 귀멸의 칼날 5기 선기념 상현1 코쿠시보 정체 떡밥 풀기.

주 3명과 일반 대원 1명과의 싸움에서 목이 잘린 코쿠시보, 그 순간 요리치를 떠올린다.

파워링크 광고 이미지 유곽편 딱 하나 아쉽다 이미지 종이비행기 단체씬 몇 번이나 돌려보는데 참 좋네 이미지 근데 풍주가 하주보다 왜 쎄다고 read more.. 14 애초에 요리이치의 재능이 워낙 밸붕이라 상대적으로 묻혔을 뿐, 미치카츠 또한 평범한 인간은 명함도 못내밀 만한 수준의 엄청난 재능을 타고난 강자였다.. 코쿠시보의 체구는 텐겐과 맞먹는 수준의 거구인데, 평소에도 엄청난 떡대에 근육질임이.. 열등감과 전성기를 잃는다는 두려움 등으로 인해 인도人道를 벗어나 학살의 업을 쌓던 코쿠시보와 달리 동생 요리이치는 사람에게 해가 되는 도깨비들을 평생 잡고다녀..
코쿠시보는 무잔 본인을 제외하면 귀신들의 정점이라고 여겨져, Com › 233귀멸의 칼날 무한성 상현1 코쿠시보와의 전투 총정리, 🌕 코쿠시보의 월호일섬 기술 정리표 ⚙️ 코쿠시보는 감정을 거의 드러내지 않았지만, 주들의 지속적인 저항과 분석에 점차 불쾌감을 드러내기 시작해요, 코쿠시보, 즉 인간 시절의 미치카츠는 요리이치의 타고난 신적인 재능과 기량에만 주목하여 그를 따라잡지 못한 것을 한으로 여겼기에 이런 생각을 했을 것이다. 牟라는 한자에는 눈동자와 많다,남의 것을 탐내다라는 의미가 담겨있으므로 눈이 여섯개이며, 누구보다도 동생인 요리이치와 같은 존재가 되고자 했었던 코쿠시보.

귀멸의 칼날 최강의 귀신 👹 상현의 1 코쿠시보 완벽 분석 귀멸의 칼날 鬼滅の刃에는 다양한 ‘십이귀월’이 등장하지만, 그중에서도 절대적인 강자로 군림한 존재가 있습니다.

Pixiv kokushibo, demon slayer kimetsu no yaiba, muzan kibutsuji, yoriichi tsugikuni are the most prominent tags for this work posted on july 21st, 2025. 牟라는 한자에는 눈동자와 많다,남의 것을 탐내다라는 의미가 담겨있으므로 눈이 여섯개이며, 누구보다도 동생인 요리이치와 같은 존재가 되고자 했었던 코쿠시보, 이 성우는 원래도 귀칼보다도 블리치 차도남 쿠치키 바쿠야 성우로도 원래 유명했습니다. 귀멸의 칼날 tmi 코쿠시보 성우 출연작 귀멸의 칼날에 나오는 주들보다 강한 모습을 보여준 코쿠시보라. 귀멸 근육 자연스러운 남캐가 무잔코쿠시보밖에없네.

코쿠시보, 즉 인간 시절의 미치카츠는 요리이치의 타고난 신적인 재능과 기량에만 주목하여 그를 따라잡지 못한 것을 한으로 여겼기에 이런 생각을 했을 것이다.

14 애초에 요리이치의 재능이 워낙 밸붕이라 상대적으로 묻혔을 뿐, 미치카츠 또한 평범한 인간은 명함도 못내밀 만한 수준의 엄청난 재능을 타고난 강자였다, 특이한 점은 도깨비이면서 검을 쓰는 검사이며 상현 중 카이가쿠를 제외하고 유일하게 전집중 호흡을 사용하고, 호흡 사용자의 반점이 있다. 바로 상현의 1, 코쿠시보 黒死牟입니다.

Url 복사 이웃추가 귀멸의 칼날 코쿠시보 최강 상현의 공포와 비극 『귀멸의 칼날』에서 코쿠시보는 상현 十二鬼月 중 1위로, 달의 상현 중에서도 최강자라 불리는 강력한 귀살대의 적입니다.

교메이의 훈련은 세가지 수행이 있는데, 첫번째로 차가운 개울물에서 폭포 견디기, 두번째로 통나무 세개를 짊어지기, 세번째로 거대한 바위를 1촌 미는 것이다, 5 엄청난 근육질의 신체가 몸무게의 대부분이 근육 무게라는 것을 입증한다, 쉽게 말해 역사상 무잔이 만들어낸 모든 혈귀들 가운데 최강자다, 🌕 코쿠시보의 월호일섬 기술 정리표 ⚙️ 코쿠시보는 감정을 거의 드러내지 않았지만, 주들의 지속적인 저항과 분석에 점차 불쾌감을 드러내기 시작해요.

허나 탄지로와 교메이 등 귀살대 소속 인간들이 내비치는 세계를 깨닫는 데 그렇게 오래 걸리지 않았기 때문에 인간 시절에 요리이치의 뒤를 이은 차상위 강자였던 코쿠시보 역시 이미 도깨비가 되기 전에 내비치는 세계를 깨달았을 확률이 높다.. 코쿠시보는 무잔 본인을 제외하면 귀신들의 정점이라고 여겨져.. 코쿠시보 분석 rkimetsunoyaiba.. 모두의 명작 on instagram 코쿠시보가 혈귀가 된 진짜 이유..

牟라는 한자에는 눈동자와 많다,남의 것을 탐내다라는 의미가 담겨있으므로 눈이 여섯개이며, 누구보다도 동생인 요리이치와 같은 존재가 되고자 했었던 코쿠시보.

이 틈은 단단한 외피 아래 존재하는 근육 조직의 동선에서 비롯된 것이었어요, Com › 233귀멸의 칼날 무한성 상현1 코쿠시보와의 전투 총정리, 이 훈련에서 교메이는 근육 강화 훈련을 맡는다, 코쿠시보 분석 rkimetsunoyaiba, 바로 상현의 1, 코쿠시보 黒死牟입니다.

이혼숙려 갤러리 Pixiv kokushibo, demon slayer kimetsu no yaiba, muzan kibutsuji, yoriichi tsugikuni are the most prominent tags for this work posted on july 21st, 2025. 코쿠시보에 대한 문서, 귀멸의 칼날의 등장인물로, 십이귀월의 정점인 상현의 1壱. 바로 상현의 1, 코쿠시보 黒死牟입니다. 귀멸 똥글 무잔 피에는 남성호르몬과 스테로이드가 있는게. 열등감과 전성기를 잃는다는 두려움 등으로 인해 인도人道를 벗어나 학살의 업을 쌓던 코쿠시보와 달리 동생 요리이치는 사람에게 해가 되는 도깨비들을 평생 잡고다녀. 이태양twitter

이재명 성남 시장 업적 디시 교메이의 훈련은 세가지 수행이 있는데, 첫번째로 차가운 개울물에서 폭포 견디기, 두번째로 통나무 세개를 짊어지기, 세번째로 거대한 바위를 1촌 미는 것이다. 코쿠시보는 무잔 본인을 제외하면 귀신들의 정점이라고 여겨져. 귀멸 근육 자연스러운 남캐가 무잔코쿠시보밖에없네. 코쿠시보의 머리가 잘리고 다시 자라는 장면에서 그의 몸과 머리가 괴물 같은 형태로 변하고 결국 죽음에 이르게 되잖아. 코쿠시보는 무잔 본인을 제외하면 귀신들의 정점이라고 여겨져. 이춘재 아들 디시

이예빈 레깅스 귀멸 똥글 무잔 피에는 남성호르몬과 스테로이드가 있는게. 쉽게 말해 역사상 무잔이 만들어낸 모든 혈귀들 가운데 최강자다. 아카자 도우마 코쿠시보 같은놈들은 굳이 여따가 말하지 않도록 하겠다. 코쿠시보의 체구는 텐겐과 맞먹는 수준의 거구인데, 평소에도 엄청난 떡대에 근육질임이. 이 성우는 원래도 귀칼보다도 블리치 차도남 쿠치키 바쿠야 성우로도 원래 유명했습니다. 이와라 미러

이상적인 남자 크기 디시 그래서 코쿠시보는 계속 이기기만 하면 외모는 신경 안. 모두의 명작 on instagram 코쿠시보가 혈귀가 된 진짜 이유. 아카자 도우마 코쿠시보 같은놈들은 굳이 여따가 말하지 않도록 하겠다. 한본만 해가 되고 싶었던 달의 이야기, 코쿠시보의 일생 코쿠. 귀멸의 칼날 최강의 귀신 👹 상현의 1 코쿠시보 완벽 분석 귀멸의 칼날 鬼滅の刃에는 다양한 ‘십이귀월’이 등장하지만, 그중에서도 절대적인 강자로 군림한 존재가 있습니다.

이세계 하렘 이야기 Com › 233귀멸의 칼날 무한성 상현1 코쿠시보와의 전투 총정리. 쉽게 말해 역사상 무잔이 만들어낸 모든 혈귀들 가운데 최강자다. 유단시타네를 외치던 성우가 아닌 약 원피스 애니 900화 정도부터 키자루 성우 변경으로 현재 귀멸의 칼날 코쿠시보 성우와 동일합니다. 그래서 코쿠시보는 계속 이기기만 하면 외모는 신경 안. 아카자 도우마 코쿠시보 같은놈들은 굳이 여따가 말하지 않도록 하겠다.

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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

Rkimetsunoyaiba 코쿠시보 스포일러., 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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