US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 19, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
보물섬의 맏형, 최연장자이자 보물섬 결성을 처음으로 제안한 개국공신이다. 오늘은 많은 20대 남성들에게 고민거리가 되는 20대 m자 탈모 디시에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 여기서 부작용에 대해 먼저 얘기하고자 한다. 같은 멤버 강민석의 말에 따르면 원래는 유튜브를 할 생각이 없었으나, read more.
다양한 주제와 관련된 글들을 확인할 수 있습니다, 보잉의 운영 차질이 상황을 악화시키며, 17,000대 이상의 항공기 주문 백로그가 지속되고 있다. 같은 멤버 강민석의 말에 따르면 원래는 유튜브를 할 생각이 없었으나, read more. Redirecting to sgall. Com › story › 1645270fuck탈모 20대 후반 입니다 m자 탈모인가요 대한민국 1등 탈모 커.보드게임 bgw 독일 멘사 어워드 가벼운 게임 시상 폐지. Com › d_zeropaper › 22184385623320대에 찾아온 m자탈모 그리고 프로페시아, 마이녹실 10년 솔직후기. 근데 시발 핀쥬베 솔직히 거기 피나성분 진짜 ㅈ도안들어있는데 가격 창렬임시발ㅋㅋㅋ 탈모초기면 직구해서 써보는것도 추천하긴함 21. Com › story › 1645270fuck탈모 20대 후반 입니다 m자 탈모인가요 대한민국 1등 탈모 커.
| m자 부분이 약간 올라가고 한쪽 m자 부위가 다른 모발보다 밀도가 많이 떨어져서 어제 탈모 한의원 가봤는데 한의사가 m자 탈모여도 무조건 유전이라고는 할수 없데이유가 1. | 1 정의 m자 탈모는 머리 위쪽 양쪽이 후퇴하여 m자 형태를 형성하는 탈모의 한 유형입니다. | 아 24라 써놨네 ㅎㅇ 보통 20대 중반, 즉 군머갔다와서 시작됨 그래서 막아야할때 막아야함 내가 왜이렇게 잘 아냐. | 상파울루대 연구진은 160여 명의 장수인을 대상으로 유전자 해독 연구를 진행했으며, 특히 110세 이상인 슈퍼센티네리언 20명의 유전자를 분석한 결과, 유럽, 아프리카, 아메리카 원주민 혈통이 섞인 다양한 인종적 배경이 장수에 기여했을 가능성을 제시했다. |
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| 같은 멤버 강민석의 말에 따르면 원래는 유튜브를 할 생각이 없었으나, read more. | Com › board › view선천적 m자이마로 속 썩히는 새끼들 꼭봐라 그림 그려왔다 ㅅㅂ 탈모. | 선천적 m자이마로 속 썩히는 새끼들 꼭봐라 그림 그려왔다. | 16% |
| 이렇든, 원래 m자형 이마와 m자 탈모를 구분하는 것은 치료를 시작하고, 경과를 확인하는 데 있어 굉장히 중요합니다. | 다양한 주제와 관련된 글들을 확인할 수 있습니다. | 20살 이전까진 미용실가면 숱 너무 많아서 좀 쳐내야겠다는 소리 들었음. | 12% |
| 20살 m자 탈모 디시에 대한 소개 안녕하세요. | 이어 정수리 부위가 빠지고, 두 탈모 부위가 만나 대머리 형태가 된다. | 여기서 부작용에 대해 먼저 얘기하고자 한다. | 22% |
| 돌이켜보면 21살 초반부터 탈모오기 시작했던것 같은데, 그때 군대에 있을때. | 남자는 먼저 앞머리가 m자 모양으로 빠진다. | 탈모약 직구해서 3년간 쳐먹어도 아무 문제없다. | 50% |
엠자가 깊어진 것 같아서 일주일 전에 종로 ㅂㄹ의원 다녀왔는데 탈모 아니라고 그냥 이마가 넓은거라고 하셨습니다 그런데 예전에 찍은 사진이랑.. 진료실에 온 30대 남자가 이렇게 말했습니다.. M자 라인도 눈에 띄게 전진했고 모발도 더 굵어졌다..
업계가 원하는 바라고 생각합니다 독일 멘사는 오랜 역사를 자랑하는 보드게임 시상식을 가벼운 게임에서 전문가용 게임으로 전환하기로 결정했습니다. 선천적 m자이마로 속 썩히는 새끼들 꼭봐라 그림 그려왔다. 대한민국 1등 40만회원의 탈모커뮤니티, 101 멀쩡하네 약먹지말고 그냥 사셈 05, 머리는 누구나 빠진다특히 40대부터는 피해갈수없는 숙명이다여러분들이 괴로운건, 대부분 20대이기때문일거다머리숱이없으면 삶에 큰 불편을 초래한다바람많이부는날 외출이 어렵고, 속도감,격한동작,땀을 유발하는 각종 스포츠자.
이 호르몬 dht가 과도하게 분비되면 모낭이 수축되고 모발을. 초기 단계 이마가 점점 넓어지면서 두피가 드러나기 시작. 원래가 100%고 탈모때매 70% 수준까지 털렸다면 59개월차에 다시 한 85% 수준까지 올라온 느낌이었다. 엠자탈모는 통상적으로 20대부터 시작해. 전체 탈모증 환자의 8090%가 이 유형이다.
정수리와 앞머리의 연모화 진행 보통 유전탈모 시작되면 둘이 같이 빠진다. 가족력이 강해도 내가 19살이여서 탈모오기는, 20살m자탈모다 탈모관해서 총정리 해준다 부작용관련, 두타 + 미녹 하다가 아쉽거나 돈 많으면 모발이식 하셈 정우성 봐라 20대에 m자 밀렸는데 관리 잘하니까 지금 머리관련해서 아무도 모름. 20살m자탈모다 탈모관해서 총정리 해준다 부작용관련.
일반적으로 이마 라인이 확대되며, 두피가 보이기 시작하는 것이 특징입니다.. 그러나 그는 엠m자 탈모만 있고, 정수리 모발이 건강해 그 정도로까지는 되지 않을 겁니다라고 설명했습니다.. 외가쪽 m자탈모 유전이고 지루성 두피염도 있음..
엠자탈모는 통상적으로 20대부터 시작해. 업계가 원하는 바라고 생각합니다 독일 멘사는 오랜 역사를 자랑하는 보드게임 시상식을 가벼운 게임에서 전문가용 게임으로 전환하기로 결정했습니다. 대한민국 1등 40만회원의 탈모커뮤니티, 이어 정수리 부위가 빠지고, 두 탈모 부위가 만나 대머리 형태가 된다. 외가쪽 m자탈모 유전이고 지루성 두피염도 있음. Com › d_zeropaper › 22184385623320대에 찾아온 m자탈모 그리고 프로페시아, 마이녹실 10년 솔직후기.
이 호르몬 dht가 과도하게 분비되면 모낭이 수축되고 모발을. 군대에서는 넓은 이마와 m자 머리로 인해 대대장, 연대장님이라는 별명이 생기기도 했다. 17 101720 삭제 눈팅러 약으로 일단 유지시키면서 생각하는거임 심는거 필요해보임.
순수 끝판 왕 아트 근황 같은 멤버 강민석의 말에 따르면 원래는 유튜브를 할 생각이 없었으나, read more. 오늘은 남성건강의 고민 중 하나인 20살 m자 탈모 디시에 대해 이야기해보려고 합니다. 오늘은 많은 분들이 고민하는 탈모에 대해서 알아보고 m자 탈모 자가진단을 해보겠습니다. 형제가 함께 진료를 봤는데, 형은 엠자 탈모만 조금 있는 반면. 군대에서는 넓은 이마와 m자 머리로 인해 대대장, 연대장님이라는 별명이 생기기도 했다. 수피 팬미팅
소꿉친구 남친인데 저처럼 20대때 올수도 있고 30대에 올수도 있습니다 시기는 사람마다 달라요 탈모유전자는 x염색체 즉 모계유전이 강하다는 연구결과가 있습니다. 보잉의 운영 차질이 상황을 악화시키며, 17,000대 이상의 항공기 주문 백로그가 지속되고 있다. 나도 처음엔 멋모르고 사진 여러장 찍어보고 네이버 지식인에도 여러번 물어보는 등 진짜 m자탈모인 줄 알았다. 선천적 m자이마로 속 썩히는 새끼들 꼭봐라 그림 그려왔다. 주로 30대 이상 남성들에게 나타나는 탈모 증상으로 남성호르몬의 활성화로 인해 생성된 다이하이드로테스토스테론 dht가 남자 m자 탈모의 주요 원인입니다. 소꿉친구의 남친인데 무료 8
쇼난 데리헤루 이다 특히 정수리쪽은 빠지고 나서 먹어도 돌아온다는데 심각한 m자 탈모 제외하고는 제발 20대에 먹지마라고 권하고 싶다 부작용도 다양하고 먹으면 평생 먹어야하고 약 먹으면 서서히 약효 돌면서 서서히 하나씩 죽어갈건데 왜 20대에 시작할려고 하는데. 원래가 100%고 탈모때매 70% 수준까지 털렸다면 59개월차에 다시 한 85% 수준까지 올라온 느낌. Com › board › view20살 m자 탈모 어떤가요 탈모 갤러리. 20살 이전까진 미용실가면 숱 너무 많아서 좀 쳐내야겠다는 소리 들었음. 101 멀쩡하네 약먹지말고 그냥 사셈 05. 소피아 레인
손밍 누드 그러다 20살되서 m자부분이 더 파인거같아서 다른 피부과에 더 방문했고 거시서 m자탈모 초기라는 진단을 받았습니다. 168 예전사진 보면 ㄹㅇ 베지터마냥 더 밀려있었는데 m자부근만 2cm는 내려온 것 같다 2023. Com › 20살m자탈모디시해결법20살 m자 탈모 디시, 해결법 총정리 goodness82. 일반적으로 이마 라인이 확대되며, 두피가 보이기 시작하는 것이 특징입니다. 어릴때부터 라인이 있었긴 했는데 최근들어 조금 걱정이 되는데 많이 심해보이나요.
섹스 트위터 근데 시발 핀쥬베 솔직히 거기 피나성분 진짜 ㅈ도안들어있는데 가격 창렬임시발ㅋㅋㅋ 탈모초기면 직구해서 써보는것도 추천하긴함 21. 엠자탈모는 통상적으로 20대부터 시작해. 근데 시발 핀쥬베 솔직히 거기 피나성분 진짜 ㅈ도안들어있는데 가격 창렬임시발ㅋㅋㅋ 탈모초기면 직구해서 써보는것도 추천하긴함 21. 곽혈수라는 닉네임은 본명인 정현수를 read more. 다양한 주제와 관련된 글들을 확인할 수 있습니다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 19, 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.
아 24라 써놨네 ㅎㅇ 보통 20대 중반, 즉 군머갔다와서 시작됨 그래서 막아야할때 막아야함 내가 왜이렇게 잘 아냐., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.