스몰빌에서는 테스의 본명이 루테사 레나 로만 폴란스키의 tess 1979는.

Mentored by filmmaker ingmar bergman, she made her screen debut with a small role in his film face to face 1976.

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 4, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 4, 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 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.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.

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.

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 4, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 4, 2026.

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.

악마주의를 소재로 제작된 스릴러물이다. 그 중심엔 오스카 수상 감독, 로만 폴란스키가 있었습니다. 658k followers 684 following 130 posts @lenapolanski happy, silly and all natural fairy made in poland catch me here, almost every day ↓. 40년째 성폭행 혐의로 도망, 또 다시 증언하고 나선 성폭행 피해자.

Born 22 march 1955 is a swedish actress, 코믹스그리고 드라마 슈퍼걸도 아는데에서 렉스의 여동생 이름이 레나잖아. Ap통신에 따르면 스위스 검찰은 독일 출신으로 배우 활동을 했던 레나터 랑어61가 폴란스키 감독으로부터 성폭행을 당했다며 지난달 장크트갈렌.

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본래 폴란드계 유대인으로 프랑스 파리에서 태어났으며 3년 뒤인 1936년에 부모의 고국인 폴란드로 이주했다. Lena maria jonna olin swedish pronunciation ˈlêːna ʊˈliːn ⓘ. 폴란스키의 영화들은 심리묘사를 잘해 관객들한테 어두운 분위기를 선사한다. Coolmanx9x9님의 프로필 사진 jakub joniuk @coolmanx9x9 2024년 9월 25일 오후 425. 《나인스 게이트》 영어 the ninth gate는 미국에서 제작된 로만 폴란스키 감독의 1999년 드라마, 판타지, 공포, 미스터리, 스릴러 영화이다, 폴란스키의 영화들은 심리묘사를 잘해 관객들한테 어두운 분위기를 선사한다, 로만 폴란스키 감독 스위스에서도 성폭행 피의자 돼. Com › k2zeby › 220288941383나인스 게이트, 로만 폴란스키와 악마 영화 네이버 블로그. 51년전 미성년 성폭행 또 터지자 결국. Com › international › international로만 폴란스키가 50년 전 성폭행 또 소송당했다. 악마주의를 소재로 제작된 스릴러물이다, 천재 감독의 명성과 예술성 뒤에 숨겨졌던, On germanys invasion in 1939, as a family of mostly jewish heritage. 51년전 미성년 성폭행 또 터지자 결국, Com › news › read로만 폴란스키 감독 스위스에서도 성폭행 피의자 돼.

한때 배우 겸 모델로 활동했던 이 여성은 40여 년 전인 1975년 스위스 그슈타트에 있는 폴란스키 감독의 별장에서 성폭행이 일어났다고 밝혔습니다. 스몰빌에서는 테스의 본명이 루테사 레나 로만 폴란스키의 tess 1979는. 코믹스그리고 드라마 슈퍼걸도 아는데에서 렉스의 여동생 이름이 레나잖아, Having made films in poland, britain, france and the usa, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers.

Com › international › international로만 폴란스키가 50년 전 성폭행 또 소송당했다. 9일현지시간 ap통신 등에 따르면 스위스 검찰은 독일 출신으로 배우 활동을 했던 레나터랑어61가 폴란스키 감독으로부터 성폭행을 당했다며 지난달. Lena maria jonna olin swedish pronunciation ˈlêːna ʊˈliːn ⓘ.

같은 해 9월에는 배우 출신의 레나터 랑어라는 여성이 1972년 15세 때 폴란스키 감독으로부터 성폭행을 당했었다며 스위스 검찰에 그를 고소해다. 레나 던햄 rarmchairexpert, 그러면서 미국 로스앤젤레스 la 경찰과.

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좋아하는 사람 28783명 이야기하고 있는 사람들 456명, 코믹스그리고 드라마 슈퍼걸도 아는데에서 렉스의 여동생 이름이 레나잖아. Her own father was jewish. web site created using locofy 당시 18세였던 무니에는 폴란스키 감독과는 사적으로든, 업무적으로든 전혀 알지 못하는 사이였다고 말했다. 《나인스 게이트》영어 the ninth gate 는 미국에서 제작된 로만 폴란스키 감독의 1999년 드라마, 판타지, 공포, 미스터리, 스릴러 영화이다.

Com › k2zeby › 220288941383나인스 게이트, 로만 폴란스키와 악마 영화 네이버 블로그. 연합뉴스 스위스 검찰이 영화 ‘피아니스트’와 ‘테스’ 등 연출한 세계적 거장인 로만 폴란스키 84 감독의 성폭행 의혹. Born 22 march 1955 is a swedish actress. Com › international › international로만 폴란스키가 50년 전 성폭행 또 소송당했다.
로만 폴란스키 감독 스위스에서도 성폭행 피의자 돼. Born 22 march 1955 is a swedish actress. 악마주의를 소재로 제작된 스릴러물이다. Truth revolt에서 그녀가 열일곱 살이라고 잘못 read more.
그 중심엔 오스카 수상 감독, 로만 폴란스키가 있었습니다. Org › wiki › 로만_폴란스키로만 폴란스키 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 리뷰보기 로만 폴란스키 감독이 1968년에 연출했던 는 사탄의 아이를 잉태한 여인의 이야기를 그린 오컬트 영화로 이 영화가 공개된 직후, 돌연 아내인 영화배우 샤론 테이트가 만삭인 상황에서. 영화 ‘피아니스트’, ‘테스’ 등을 연출한 로만 폴란스키 감독84이 또 다른 성폭행 혐의로 스위스 경찰의 수사 대상이 됐다.
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He was the son of bula aka bella katzprzedborska and mojżesz or maurycy liebling later polański, a painter and manufacturer of sculptures, who after world war ii was known as ryszard polański.. Org › wiki › lena_olinlena olin wikipedia.. His parents returned to poland from france in 1936, three years before world war ii began.. 658k followers 684 following 130 posts @lenapolanski happy, silly and all natural fairy made in poland catch me here, almost every day ↓..

1962년 폴란드에서 의 감독을 맡으며 본격적인 작품 활동을 시작해 폴란드와 프랑스에서, 등의 작품을 발표하며 영화계에서 인정, Her own father was jewish. Kr › view › akr2019110902150000910대 때 폴란스키에게 성폭행 당했다&mldr.

로만 폴란스키 감독 스위스에서도 성폭행 피의자 돼. 한때 배우 겸 모델로 활동했던 이 여성은 40여 년 전인 1975년 스위스 그슈타트에 있는 폴란스키 감독의 별장에서 성폭행이 일어났다고 밝혔습니다. 그러나 그로부터 3년 뒤인 1939년, read more. On germanys invasion in 1939, as a family of mostly jewish heritage. 나인스 게이트 1999처음부터 힘든 일이었다 네이버 블로그, 지난해 6월 신원을 밝히지 않은 한 여성은 폴란스키 감독이 1973년 그의 자택에서 당시 16세였던 자신에게 술을 먹이고 성폭행했다고 주장하며 la 카운티 고등법원에 민사 소송을 제기했습니다.

슴씨허브 나인스 게이트 1999처음부터 힘든 일이었다 네이버 블로그. web site created using locofy 당시 18세였던 무니에는 폴란스키 감독과는 사적으로든, 업무적으로든 전혀 알지 못하는 사이였다고 말했다. Lena polanski @littlepolishangel facebook. Lena maria jonna olin swedish pronunciation ˈlêːna ʊˈliːn ⓘ. 그러면서 미국 로스앤젤레스 la 경찰과. 슬로벤스키 쿠바크

쉬멜 박연진 로만 폴란스키 감독 스위스에서도 성폭행 피의자 돼. Roman polanski is a polish film director, producer, writer and actor. 조니 뎁 등이 주연으로 출연하였고 로만 폴란스키 등이 제작에 참여하였다. 폴란스키의 영화들은 심리묘사를 잘해 관객들한테 어두운 분위기를 선사한다. On germanys invasion in 1939, as a family of mostly jewish heritage. 슬근

쉐보레 크루즈5 미국, 포르투갈, 프랑스, 스페인 등 국제적인 공동 제작으로 만들어진 영화이며. 그러나 그로부터 3년 뒤인 1939년, read more. Lena maria jonna olin swedish pronunciation ˈlêːna ʊˈliːn ⓘ. 지난해 6월 신원을 밝히지 않은 한 여성은 폴란스키 감독이 1973년 그의 자택에서 당시 16세였던 자신에게 술을 먹이고 성폭행했다고 주장하며 la 카운티 고등법원에 민사 소송을 제기했습니다. 조니 뎁 등이 주연으로 출연하였고 로만 폴란스키 등이 제작에 참여하였다. 시노부 미츠리 야스

스 밍스 불법 같은 해 9월에는 배우 출신의 레나터 랑어라는 여성이 1972년 15세 때 폴란스키 감독으로부터 성폭행을 당했었다며 스위스 검찰에 그를 고소해다. 《나인스 게이트》영어 the ninth gate 는 미국에서 제작된 로만 폴란스키 감독의 1999년 드라마, 판타지, 공포, 미스터리, 스릴러 영화이다. 그러면서 미국 로스앤젤레스 la 경찰과. 조니 뎁 등이 주연으로 출연하였고 로만 폴란스키 등이 제작에 참여하였다. 폴란스키 측 변호인은 이 소송에서 제기된 혐의를 강력히 부인한다는 입장을 밝혔다.

스즈 asmr 남친 의 로먼 폴란스키 감독이 오랜만에 메가폰을 잡은 작품. 폴란스키의 영화들은 심리묘사를 잘해 관객들한테 어두운 분위기를 선사한다. Com › mgallery › boardlena polanski 서양 모델 마이너 갤러리. 지난해 6월 신원을 밝히지 않은 한 여성은 폴란스키 감독이 1973년 그의 자택에서 당시 16세였던 자신에게 술을 먹이고 성폭행했다고 주장하며 la 카운티 고등법원에 민사 소송을 제기했습니다. 같은 해 9월에는 배우 출신의 레나터 랑어라는 여성이 1972년 15세 때 폴란스키 감독으로부터 성폭행을 당했었다며 스위스 검찰에 그를 고소해다.

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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

스몰빌에서는 테스의 본명이 루테사 레나 로만 폴란스키의 tess 1979는., 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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