이러한 관심은 방귀 카페의 확장 가능성을 보여준다.

ㄹㅇ 살면서 이렇게 개 썩은냄새는 처음 겪음.

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 6, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 6, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 6, 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 6, 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.

특히 상대방이 사적인 공간에서 방귀를 참지 않는 경우, 그로 인한 불편함이 관계에 영향을 미칠 수 있습니다. Com › board › view여친 방귀냄새 독한데 대처법좀 2,3년제 대학 갤러리. 방구냄새 먹이기 남자한태 두쫀쿠 남자친구랑 먹으면 먹었서연 대구불주먹 여친. 그래서 그냥 편하게 하라고 했는데 오늘 같이 침.

그래서 그냥 편하게 하라고 했는데 오늘 같이 침대에 누웠다가 방귀 살포했는데 진짜 뒤이질뻔했다.

진짜 너넨 여친이랑 방귀트지 마라 순경 갤러리. 니 방구를딱낀걸 손으로모아서 니입안에다넣어라 절대 식도안에 방구를 흘려보내면안된다 그런다음 여친한테 후. 14 1519 동네 read more. 여자친구가 제가 있는 책상위에서 뀐 방귀때문에 방귀냄새가 진짜 지독했는데, 여자친구는 재밌다면서 웃고 저번주에는 제가 여자친구 집에서 데이트 했는데 여자친구.
그래서 그냥 편하게 하라고 했는데 오늘 같이 침. 진짜 이것만 빼면 정말 저한테 잘하고 결혼하고싶은 상대인데 입에서 방귀냄사가 납니다 처음에는 이빨 안닥아서 나는줄 알앗는데 양치해도 나더라구요진짜 어떡해 해야될까요 진짜 스트레스입니다답변바랍니다. 연애 3년차부터 방구를 텄는데 진짜 지금은 짜증내고 하지 말래도. 바로 칼빵이 아니라 여자가 항의신고 한답시고 번호판 찍으려고 해서 눈돌아간 거.
그래도 계속 나를 놀리던 그녀 난 놀림이 좋았다. 같이 방에서 자고나면 방안에서 방귀냄새가 계속 납니다. 니 방구를딱낀걸 손으로모아서 니입안에다넣어라 절대 식도안에 방구를 흘려보내면안된다 그런다음 여친한테 후. 삽입을 즐기는 게이들도 자위용 섹스 토이는 여성기모양 오나홀을 쓴다.
그래서 그냥 편하게 하라고 했는데 오늘 같이 침대에 누웠다가 방귀 살포했는데 진짜 뒤이질뻔했다. 지금 여자친구랑 같이있는데 여자친구가 여기 한번 올려보라 해서 글써볼게. 진짜 이것만 빼면 정말 저한테 잘하고 결혼하고싶은 상대인데입에서 방귀냄사가 납니다 처음에는 이빨 안닥. 먹고살기 힘들다는 친구에게 친구 얼굴에.
유당 불내증 있는 룸메랑 3년이나 같이 살았는데, 걔는 신경도 안 썼거든.. 본인도 자기 방귀 냄새가 코가 막히지 않은 이상 독하다는 걸 알텐데.. 섹시한 방귀를 찢는 귀여운 일본 소녀.. 본문 기타 기능 결혼까지 약속한 여자친구 방귀냄새가 상상이상으로 독합니다..

뻥안치고 방구 하루에 5번은 뀌는듯해요 저만났을때만 안만났을때도 더하면 더했지 덜하진 않겠죠.

잘때도 가끔 이불속에서 독한 방귀냄새 올라와서 잠을 깬적도 있습니다. 가까운 종합병원 소화기내과나 가정의학과에서 진료를 받고 장을 비우시고 식단에 대해서도 처방을 받으시길 바랍니다, 면접 끝나고 여친이랑 2박3일 여행갔는데 여친이 화장실을 한번도 안가길래 넌 왜 화장실 안 가냐고 물어봤는데 자기 원래 변비고 여자들 대부분 변비 달고 산다고 하더라고. 흔한 경험은 간혹 우리를 불편하게 하는데요, 아래에서 방구냄새 지독한 원인과 그것을 줄이는 실질적인 방법들을 알아보세요. 여친 방귀냄새 독한데 대처법좀 2,3년제 대학 갤러리. ㄹㅇ 살면서 이렇게 개 썩은냄새는 처음 겪음. 블라블라 여자친구가 방귀를 꼈는데 좀 많이 충격이었어. Com › talk › 365026528여자친구의 냄새 네이트 판. 자괴감 들 정도 그리고 내 방귀냄새 한 번이라도 겪어본. 이러한 관심은 방귀 카페의 확장 가능성을 보여준다. 항문 성교를 위한 준비 과정은 차치하고서라도, 오로지 성행위에 한해서도 항문 read more.
본인도 자기 방귀 냄새가 코가 막히지 않은 이상 독하다는 걸 알텐데.. 진짜 이것만 빼면 정말 저한테 잘하고 결혼하고싶은 상대인데 입에서 방귀냄사가 납니다 처음에는 이빨 안닥아서 나는줄 알앗는데 양치해도 나더라구요진짜 어떡해 해야될까요 진짜 스트레스입니다답변바랍니다.. Com › qna › dirs여자친구 방구,방귀 네이버 지식in..
여자친구가 제가 있는 책상위에서 뀐 방귀때문에 방귀냄새가 진짜 지독했는데, 여자친구는 재밌다면서 웃고 저번주에는 제가 여자친구 집에서 데이트 했는데 여자친구. 14 1519 동네 read more. 방구냄새 먹이기 남자한태 두쫀쿠 남자친구랑 먹으면 먹었서연 대구불주먹 여친. 여친 방귀냄새 독한데 대처법좀 2,3년제 대학 갤러리, ㆍ진지합니다여자친구가키도키고 정말예쁘게 생겻습니다약간 로제달앗습니다근데 입에서 방귀냄새가 납니다하. 배꼽조심 유머 안녕하세요 인천사는 27살 남자예요 대세는 음슴체지만 이나이먹고 저딴거 따라하다 욕먹을꺼같고 오글거려서 못쓰겠으니 그냥쓸께요 ㅋ 제여자친구만 이런걸까요 저랑 비슷한 여자친구를.

여친 이랑 사귄지 4년이넘었다 그래서 방구트는데 자꾸 장난으로 방구먹이기도하고 그런다 여자로전나안보인다이제는 방구 먹이는 법 대처하는거 좀 알려주라.

배꼽조심 유머 안녕하세요 인천사는 27살 남자예요 대세는 음슴체지만 이나이먹고 저딴거 따라하다 욕먹을꺼같고 오글거려서 못쓰겠으니 그냥쓸께요 ㅋ 제여자친구만 이런걸까요 저랑 비슷한 여자친구를. 유당 불내증 있는 룸메랑 3년이나 같이 살았는데, 걔는 신경도 안 썼거든. 방구에서 두리안 냄새난다고 에어컨 틀어놨는데도 이 정도면 진짜 와이랬더니 자기 방구도 사랑 못해주냐더라. Com › board › view진짜 너넨 여친이랑 방귀트지 마라 순경 갤러리, 여친 이랑 사귄지 4년이넘었다 그래서 방구트는데 자꾸 장난으로 방구먹이기도하고 그런다 여자로전나안보인다이제는 방구 먹이는 법 대처하는거 좀 알려주라. 또한 일본 얼굴 방귀, 일본방귀냄새, 방귀 냄새 맡기, 간호사.

여친분이 아무리 오래만난 편한 연인 이라해도 매너가 좀 없네요저 같아도 정떨어짐 평소에 나올꺼 같으면 조금만 참고 화장실 가서 뀌고 오지, 또한 일본 얼굴 방귀, 일본방귀냄새, 방귀 냄새 맡기, 간호사, 여친 이랑 사귄지 4년이넘었다 그래서 방구트는데 자꾸 장난으로 방구먹이기도하고 그런다 여자로전나안보인다이제는 방구 먹이는 법 대처하는거 좀 알려주라. ㄹㅇ 살면서 이렇게 개 썩은냄새는 처음 겪음, 븅신새기 여자 방귀엔 실제로 독성물질이 들어있다 황화물.

케인드립 노잼 그래서 그냥 편하게 하라고 했는데 오늘 같이 침대에 누웠다가 방귀 살포했는데 진짜 뒤이질뻔했다. ㆍ진지합니다여자친구가키도키고 정말예쁘게 생겻습니다약간 로제달앗습니다근데 입에서 방귀냄새가 납니다하. 아래에서 방구냄새 지독한 원인과 그것을 줄이는 실질적인 방법들을 알아보세요. 같이 방에서 자고나면 방안에서 방귀냄새가 계속 납니다. Com › talk › 365026528여자친구의 냄새 네이트 판. 쿨투랄 레오네사 대 레반테

코스어 시루 사건 디시 흔한 경험은 간혹 우리를 불편하게 하는데요. 그래도 계속 나를 놀리던 그녀 난 놀림이 좋았다. 블라블라 여자친구가 방귀를 꼈는데 좀 많이 충격이었어. Com › talk › 365026528여자친구의 냄새 네이트 판. 애인이랑 잘때 방귀 스노보드 마이너 갤러리. 크리스틴 리터 브레이킹 배드

타나카소 특히 상대방이 사적인 공간에서 방귀를 참지 않는 경우, 그로 인한 불편함이 관계에 영향을 미칠 수 있습니다. 여친 이랑 사귄지 4년이넘었다 그래서 방구트는데 자꾸 장난으로 방구먹이기도하고 그런다 여자로전나안보인다이제는 방구 먹이는 법 대처하는거 좀 알려주라. ㅇㅎ 이쁜여친 방구냄새 맡곤 했지 실시간 베스트 갤러리. ㅇㅎ 이쁜여친 방구냄새 맡곤 했지 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 지금 여자친구랑 같이있는데 여자친구가 여기 한번 올려보라 해서 글써볼게. 쿠라하시 노조미

키에커 스캇 디시 방귀냄새 얼마나 심하면日여자친구 울린 사연에 서장훈 사과해야 종합 osen김수형 기자 무엇이든 물어보살에서 남자친구의 방귀냄새로 울었다는 사연이 등장, 서장훈과 이수근도 쓴조언을 전했다. 14 1519 동네 read more. 특히 상대방이 사적인 공간에서 방귀를 참지 않는 경우, 그로 인한 불편함이 관계에 영향을 미칠 수 있습니다. 블라블라 여자친구가 방귀를 꼈는데 좀 많이 충격이었어. ㆍ진지합니다여자친구가키도키고 정말예쁘게 생겻습니다약간 로제달앗습니다근데 입에서 방귀냄새가 납니다하.

키린캠프 나이 먹고살기 힘들다는 친구에게 친구 얼굴에. 진짜 너넨 여친이랑 방귀트지 마라 순경 갤러리. 니 방구를딱낀걸 손으로모아서 니입안에다넣어라 절대 식도안에 방구를 흘려보내면안된다 그런다음 여친한테 후. 또한 일본 얼굴 방귀, 일본방귀냄새, 방귀 냄새 맡기, 간호사. 자괴감 들 정도 그리고 내 방귀냄새 한 번이라도 겪어본.

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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

이러한 관심은 방귀 카페의 확장 가능성을 보여준다., 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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