트럼프 대통령은 18일현지시간 사회관계망서비스sns 트루스소셜에 왕관을 쓴 자신이 시위대에 ‘오물 폭격’을 퍼붓는 영상을 게시했다.

신라 왕관 선물 대한민국에서도 왕노릇하다 탄핵당한 대통령이 있었다는 왕관이 주는 중의적 메시지를 트럼프는 알까.

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, July 29, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, July 29, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, July 29, 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, July 29, 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.

Kr › news › pc트럼프가 받은 ‘신라 왕관’, 미국인들 반응이&mldr. 더 킹 영원의 군주에서는 21세기까지 이어지는 가상의 대한제국 황제가 착용하는 왕관이 신라 금관과 서양 왕관을 섞은 듯한 모습. 왕관을 쓰고 있으며 앞면에 트럼프의 잭이 그려져 있다. 도널드 트럼프 제47대 대통령 당선인이 2025년 1월 20일을 기해 임기가 만료되는 조 바이든 전 대통령 으로부터 국정을 인계받기 위해 설치한 대통령직인수위원회 다.

친트럼프 진영에서는 트럼프가 치킨 호크가 아니다는 근거로 이라크 전쟁 반대를 예시로 들지만, 트럼프 대통령은 전쟁 반대 여론이 높아졌던 2004년에 와서야 이라크 전쟁을 강력하게 반대하기 시작했으며, 그전에는 중립적이거나 동의하는 듯한 발언을.

미국 전역에서 도널드 트럼프 대통령 국정 운영방식에 반대하는 시위가 벌어지자 트럼프 대통령이 왕관을 쓴 합성 이미지를 공유하며 시위대를.. 도널드 트럼프 2기 행정부의 각종 논란에 대한 반발로 인해 설립된 미국의 정치단체.. 도널드 트럼프는 1946년 6월 14일 뉴욕주 뉴욕시 퀸스 에서 태어났다.. 21 그리고 그로버 클리블랜드 이후로 132년 만 read more..
도널드 트럼프 대통령의 두 번째 행정부는 1기 행정부보다 미국 우선주의america first를 더욱 강화한 외교 정책을 추진할 것으로 예상된다. 29일 이 대통령은 국립경주박물관에서 열린 한미 정상회담에 앞서 트럼프 대통령에게 신라 천마총 금관을. 특히 더그 포드 캐나다 온타리오 주지사는 2월까지 수차례 워싱턴 d. 트럼프 대통령은 18일현지시간 사회관계망서비스sns 트루스소셜에 왕관을 쓴 자신이 시위대에 ‘오물 폭격’을 퍼붓는 영상을 게시했다. 미국 곳곳에서 ‘왕은 없다’는 구호가 울려 퍼지자 도널드 트럼프 대통령은 왕관을 썼다, 이러한 발굴 정황 때문에 이 금관이 일상적으로 쓰던 read more. Kr › news › world신라 금관 받고 ‘황홀경’ 빠진 트럼프왕관 쓴 합성영상, 속마음 담. 멕시코, 일본, 유럽 등지의 20여 개국에서 시위가 벌어졌다. 한국에 있는 트럼프월드 라는 이름의 건물들은 대우건설 이 이 기업과 제휴를 맺고 컨설팅과 노하우를 전수받아 브랜드 이름을 들여온 것이다.

부친 프레드 트럼프 는 언론의 집중 공격을 당했다.

이 단체에서 시위를 조직해 도널드 트럼프 반대 운동을 펼쳤다. 부친 프레드 트럼프 는 언론의 집중 공격을 당했다. 29일 이 대통령은 국립경주박물관에서 열린 한미 정상회담에 앞서 트럼프 대통령에게 신라 천마총 금관을. 이를 두고 외신들은 트럼프 대통령의 권위주의적. 결론 이번 ‘신라 왕관 선물’은 단순한 외교 이벤트를 넘어, 한국이 고유 문화유산을 활용해 외교 무대에서 전략적으로 메시지를 던진 사례라 할 수 있습니다, 미국 곳곳에서 ‘왕은 없다’는 구호가 울려 퍼지자 도널드 트럼프 대통령은 왕관을 썼다.
하지만 트럼프 입장에서는, 오히려 자신을 조롱하던 이들을 향한 반전의 승리처럼 느껴질 수도 있습니다.. 미국 역사상 최고령 대통령이며,20 미국 역사상 가장 많은 재산을 보유한 대통령이기도 하다.. 트럼프 왕관과 금190돈 훈장 가격, 그 화제의 배경과 의미를 모두 파헤치다 트럼프 전 대통령이 선물로 받은 왕관과 금190돈 훈장이 최근 국내외 주요 뉴스에 오르내리면서, 많은 이들의 관심을 끌고 있다.. 티파니 트럼프 도널드 트럼프의 넷째이자 차녀..
한국에 있는 트럼프월드 라는 이름의 건물들은 대우건설 이 이 기업과 제휴를 맺고 컨설팅과 노하우를 전수받아 브랜드 이름을 들여온 것이다, 티파니 트럼프 도널드 트럼프의 넷째이자 차녀, 왕관을 쓰고 있으며 앞면에 트럼프의 잭이 그려져 있다, 이번 글에서는 이 두 가지의 의미, 배경, 그리고 최신 기사들을 토대로 상세히 분석해보겠다, Com › mrsanahi › 224058327885트럼프에게 왕관선물 국내외 주요 반응 네이버 블로그.

유일하게 술 자리가 제공된 순간은 2025년 apec 대한민국 경주 정상회의 8개국 정상 만찬에서 차남 에릭 트럼프 가 운영하는 와이너리의 와인 이 만찬주로 나왔던 때였는데, 이때조차 입에 대는 시늉만 하고 마시지 않았다. 이번 글에서는 이 두 가지의 의미, 배경, 그리고 최신 기사들을 토대로 상세히 분석해보겠다, 미국 곳곳에서 ‘왕은 없다’는 구호가 울려 퍼지자 도널드 트럼프 대통령은 왕관을 썼다. Club › lists › suggestions로널드 레이건 백악관 초상화 앤드루 잭슨 초상화. 금관총 금관의 무게가 692 g, 천마총 금관은 1,262 g 남짓이라 한국군 현용 방탄모 의 무게 1, 어려운 부분 70%79%, 85%93% 모든 왕관.

도널드 트럼프 제47대 대통령 당선인이 2025년 1월 20일을 기해 임기가 만료되는 조 바이든 전 대통령 으로부터 국정을 인계받기 위해 설치한 대통령직인수위원회 다.

진아리 본인도 트럼프 일편단심인데다가 공식에서도 밀어주고 있어서 진아리와 이어질 가능성이 적은 체스와는 달리 트럼프는 완전히 선역으로 변한다면 이어질 가능성이 매우 높았으나 2기를 끝으로 작품이 완결되어버려서 가능성 또한 없어졌다.

왕관을 쓰고 있으며 앞면에 트럼프의 잭이 그려져 있다. Hour ago — h1 도난당했던 루브르 박물관 왕관 근황jpg h2 오늘 역사를 쓴 은, 도널드 트럼프 제47대 대통령 당선인이 2025년 1월 20일을 기해 임기가 만료되는 조 바이든 전 대통령 으로부터 국정을 인계받기 위해 설치한 대통령직인수위원회 다, 美 오바마 전 대통령 초상화 속 꽃의 의미는. 이재명 대통령으로부터 선물받은 천마총 금관 모양을 착용한 도널드 트럼프 대통령의 합성 영상이 온라인에서 밈 meme화돼 급속도로 퍼지고 있다.

를 방문했는데 그가 만난 트럼프 측 인사들은 모두 트럼프 대통령의 계획에 대해 잘 모르는 것처럼 보였다고 Wsj 에 전했다.

Club › lists › suggestions로널드 레이건 백악관 초상화 앤드루 잭슨 초상화, 하지만 트럼프 입장에서는, 오히려 자신을 조롱하던 이들을 향한 반전의 승리처럼 느껴질 수도 있습니다, 에서 트럼프 자신의 생일이자 미군 창립 250 왕관을 주면 어떡하냐는 볼멘소리가 나왔다, 이후 경영권을 물려받은 도널드 트럼프 가 2016년 제45대 미국 대통령 에 당선되면서 전 세계적으로 주목받기 시작했다. 2 멜라니아 트럼프 도널드 트럼프의 세 번째 부인이자 미국의 제47대 영부인. 티파니 트럼프 도널드 트럼프의 넷째이자 차녀.

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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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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 July 29, 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, July 29, 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 July 29, 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, July 29, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

트럼프 대통령은 18일현지시간 사회관계망서비스sns 트루스소셜에 왕관을 쓴 자신이 시위대에 ‘오물 폭격’을 퍼붓는 영상을 게시했다., 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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