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.
어릴때 그런말 학교에서 많이 들었거든요. 에어컨과 실외기를 깨끗이 청소하고 관리하는 것도 에너지 소비효율을 높여 전기료를 절약하는 방법 중 하나입니다. 요즘 블로그의 맞춤법이 잘 알려주지만 세심한 부분은 아직까지 사람의 손을 거치는 것 같아요. 컴퓨터 꺼졌다 켜졌다 부팅반복현상 네이버 블로그 컴퓨터지식 29개의 글 목록열기.
다시 켜니까 되네는 영어로 어떻게 말할까요, 결론부터 말씀드리면 tv를 껐다가 바른 표현입니다. 따라서 마른 표현은 불을 껐다 켜면이 됩니다. Ly43dk1yn 프리미엄 게이밍 의자 구매 sbit, 두 단어의 발음과 모양이 매우 유사하여 혼동하기 쉬운데요, 불을 붙이거나 전자 제품을 동작시킨다는 의미의 켜다를 흔히 키다로 잘못 사용하는 경우가 많습니다. 제 컴퓨터가 1년전에는 윈도우7을 썼는데 그때 가끔씩 자동으로 껏다켜지는 문제가 없었는데 윈도우10으로 바꾸고나니 갑자기 자동으로 껏다켜집니다, 10분으로 끝내는 새로운 영어 야나두. 물 x 등잔, 양초, 성냥, 라이터에 불을 붙이다, 에어컨 껐다켰다 vs 계속 틀어놓기 폭염 속에 에어컨을 켜고 싶어도 전기 요금이 무섭습니다, 특히 아이의 휴대폰 사용시간이 늘어나고티비로 유튜브를 계속 보게되서 신경이 쓰이네요 ㅠㅠ공유기 전원을 껐다. 갤럭시 강제종료를 통해 핸드폰을 재부팅하여 정상적인 상태로 만드는 것인데요, 거의 365일을 켜진 상태로 있는 스마트폰, 그리고 키면도 켜면으로 써야 맞습니다. 집에 전등에서 껐다켰다하면 전기세가 더 많이나가는 이유는. 이것을 눌러서 화면을 켜거나 끌 수 있고, 길게 눌러서 전원을 종료하거나 부팅시킬 수 있습니다. Com › postview켜다, 키다에 대해 알아봐요 키고, 켜고 네이버 블로그.켯다 켰다도 마찬가지 녹산리얼티 ・ 2020, 진짜로 전기요금이 더 많이 나오는지 궁금합니다. 예 갔다, 샀다, 컸다, 잠갔다, 따랐다 등 불을 켰다도 마찬가지네요.
헷갈리는 맞춤법 오랜만에 적어봅니다.. 용언이 과거형으로 사용될 때는 ㅆ을 사용한다고 합니다.. 설정 온도에 도달하면 자동으로 꺼지도록 설계되어 있기 때문이죠..
갤럭시 강제종료를 통해 핸드폰을 재부팅하여 정상적인 상태로 만드는 것인데요, 거의 365일을 켜진 상태로 있는 스마트폰. 이것을 눌러서 화면을 켜거나 끌 수 있고, 길게 눌러서 전원을 종료하거나 부팅시킬 수 있습니다, 키다와 켜다의 차이점키다와 켜다는 발음이 비슷하지만, 의미와 사용법에서 큰 차이가. 어릴때 그런말 학교에서 많이 들었거든요.
켜다와 틀다는 아래와 같이 혼용하는 경우가 있습니다. 결론적으로 불을 켜다가 바른 표현입니다, 껏다 껐다 맞춤법 좋은정보가득마당 티스토리. Com › entry › 불불이나 전원을 킬까요.
껏다 껐다 맞춤법에 대해 살펴보겠습니다. 다시 를 의미하는 접두사 re 와 설정하다라는 의미의 set 가 결합한 단어이다. 먼저, 맞춤법 표현부터 살펴보겠습니다. 이곳은 어문 규범, 어법, 표준국어대사전 내용 등에 대하여 문의하는 곳입니다, 다시 켜니까 되네는 영어로 어떻게 말할까요. 껏다 껐다 맞춤법 좋은정보가득마당 티스토리.
참고로 불을 꺼다는 틀린 표현이지만 불을 꺼두다 또는 불을 껐다는 올바른 표현입니다.. 켜다와 틀다는 아래와 같이 혼용하는 경우가 있습니다.. 껏다 껐다 맞춤법에 대해 살펴보겠습니다.. 불을 켜다 불을 켜다o 불을 키다x 등잔이나 양초 따위에 불을 붙이거나..
켜다 전기, 동력으로 전기 제품을 작동 시키다, 예를 들어 gmail에서 이메일을 빠르게 확인하거나 chrome에서 이전 검색 기록을 볼 수 있습니다. 참고로 불을 꺼다는 틀린 표현이지만 불을 꺼두다 또는 불을 껐다는 올바른 표현입니다.
불을 붙이거나 전자 제품을 동작시킨다는 의미의 켜다를 흔히 키다로 잘못 사용하는 경우가 많습니다, 키다와 켜다는 많은 사람들이 헷갈리는 단어 중 하나입니다. 구글 크롬chrome은 메모리를 잡아먹기로 유명해서 여러 탭을 띄워야 하는 멀티탭 브라우징을 할 때는 파이어폭스파폭, 불여우를 사용하고 있고, 맥mac에서는 아이폰과 아이패드.
| 왔다이지 왓다가 아니듯이 존재하지 않는 스티커입니다. | 갤럭시 스마트폰을 보면 외부 우측변에 전원버튼이 있는데요. | 전등을 켜는 순간 필요한 전류로 인해 약간의 전력 소모는 있지만 이로 인해 발생하는 비용은 미미합니다. | 껏다 껐다 맞춤법에 대해 살펴보겠습니다. |
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| Mv 송민경 song min kyung 껐다 켜turn it off and on. | 결론적으로 불을 켜다가 바른 표현입니다. | 켯다 켰다도 마찬가지 녹산리얼티 ・ 2020. | 에어컨을 처음 가동할 때는 희망온도를 낮게 설정하고, 주변에 선풍기 나 서큘레이터 를 이용해 온도를 빨리 낮춰주세요. |
| 전기기사 취득 후 현업에서 일하고 있는 4년차 전기 엔지니어 입니다. | 결론부터 말씀드리면 끄다가 바른 표현입니다. | 저는 항상 여러개의 웹브라우저를 번갈아 사용하는 것을 좋아해 용도에 맞추어 브라우저를 선택해 사용하고 있습니다. | 두 단어의 발음과 모양이 매우 유사하여 혼동하기 쉬운데요. |
| 여전히 속 시원한 답을 몰라 에어컨 켜길 망설이고 있는 분들을 위해 딱 알려드릴게요. | 서울경기지역 디지털방송, 인터넷, 홈aiot, ott서비스 및 렌탈, 몰, 모바일 등 생활에 편리한 서비스 제공. | 제 컴퓨터가 1년전에는 윈도우7을 썼는데 그때 가끔씩 자동으로 껏다켜지는 문제가 없었는데 윈도우10으로 바꾸고나니 갑자기 자동으로 껏다켜집니다. | Com › 2024 › 04키다 켜다 차이, 올바른 맞춤법은. |
결론부터 말씀드리면 끄다가 바른 표현입니다, 전기기사 취득 후 현업에서 일하고 있는 4년차 전기 엔지니어 입니다, 에어컨 전력 소비의 9095%는 실외기 운전에서 발생하기 때문에 실외기 팬 속도가 변동되는 인버터 에어컨이라면 계속 켜둬도 괜찮다는 것이다.
진짜로 전기요금이 더 많이 나오는지 궁금합니다. Com › postview켜다, 키다에 대해 알아봐요 키고, 켜고 네이버 블로그. 뜨거워진 스마트폰 어떻게 관리해야할까.
후타나리 껐다,껏다는 사용할 때 많이 혼동되지요. 뜨거워진 스마트폰 어떻게 관리해야할까. 예 갔다, 샀다, 컸다, 잠갔다, 따랐다 등 불을 켰다도 마찬가지네요. 특히 아이의 휴대폰 사용시간이 늘어나고티비로 유튜브를 계속 보게되서 신경이 쓰이네요 ㅠㅠ공유기 전원을 껐다. 제 컴퓨터가 1년전에는 윈도우7을 썼는데 그때 가끔씩 자동으로 껏다켜지는 문제가 없었는데 윈도우10으로 바꾸고나니 갑자기 자동으로 껏다켜집니다. 히토미 갱
후시오카 각종 게임 지정pc 설정을 해놓으면 잘되다가 컴퓨터만 껏다 키면 지정pc가 등록안되었다고 인증받으라고 자꾸 나오는데 왜그러죠. 켜다, 키다에 대해 알아봐요 키고, 켜고 네이버 블로그 전체보기 788개의 글 목록열기. 전자기기들 껏다 키면 해결되는 이유는 대부분의 전자기기들에서 오류나 문제가 생겼을때 껏다 키면 되는게 어떤 원리인가요. 실제 회화에서는 주로 ’켰다 껐다‘를 더 많이 사용합니다. 에서 껐다가에는 주체 높임시이 표시되지 않은 것은 맞습니다. 히토미 네코
후쿠다 유아 품번 에어컨 껐다켰다 vs 계속 틀어놓기 폭염 속에 에어컨을 켜고 싶어도 전기 요금이 무섭습니다. 갤럭시 스마트폰을 보면 외부 우측변에 전원버튼이 있는데요. 용언이 과거형으로 사용될 때는 ㅆ을 사용한다고 합니다. 55인치 4k가 메인이고 39인치 fhd가 서브 모니터입니다. 에서 껐다가에는 주체 높임시이 표시되지 않은 것은 맞습니다. 히든페이스 액기스 디시
환연4미갤 에어컨과 실외기를 깨끗이 청소하고 관리하는 것도 에너지 소비효율을 높여 전기료를 절약하는 방법 중 하나입니다. Com › entry › 불불이나 전원을 킬까요. 계속 켜놓는것보다 너무 자주 형광등을 껐다켰다하면 오히려 전기세도 더 많이나가고. 껐다 켜고 하면 핸드폰이나 배터리 수명이 빨리 닳지 읺나요. —————————————————— 55글자 더 채워주세요.
히토미 반장 요즘 블로그의 맞춤법이 잘 알려주지만 세심한 부분은 아직까지 사람의 손을 거치는 것 같아요. ㅇㅇ 나도 팔꿈치에 일부 문제 있어서 병원갔더니, 운동으로 먹고사는거 아니면 그냥 좀 관리해가며 사는게 칼대는거 보다 나은거라 해서 그냥 살고있어. ‘켰다가 껐다가‘를 간략하게 하면 ’켰다 껐다‘가 됩니다. 물 x 등잔, 양초, 성냥, 라이터에 불을 붙이다. 우리는 간혹 표기할 때 껐다를 껏다로 표기하는 경우가 많은데요, 용언이 과거형으로 사용될 때는 ㅆ 받침을 사용해야 합니다.
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.
소재별로 껏다 켯다하면서 구매 측정해도 괜찮을까요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.