육우삽 미나즈키 전 5번대 대장 아이젠 소스케 깨져라 쿠다케로.

사신들에게 선전포고 한 아이젠 블리치 명장면.

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 14, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 14, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 14, 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 14, 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.

이상으로 경화수월의 현실과 환상을 조화시키는 능력은 아이젠 소스케의 치밀한 성격과 결합해 강렬한 인상을 남겼습니다. 추천으로 그냥 일본어로 해봤습니다 shorts 블리치 아이젠소스케 더빙. Com › @naoya_zenin24 › video아이젠 소스케 aizen sosuke aizen 아이젠 fy edit 블리치 t. 아이젠 소스케의 명대사 스트랩을 분석해 봐봐요.

이상으로 초인기 절정의 천년혈전 애니화가 진행 중인 블리치 만해 일본어 발음 천년혈전 리뷰를 마치도록 하겠습니다. 한편 2번대 대장 요루이치를 존경하는 소이폰은 요루이치가 좋아하는 우라하라를 의심하며 그를 미행한다. Org › page › sōsuke_aizenabout sōsuke aizen. 아이젠 소스케 오늘의ai위키 는 ai 기술로 일관성 있고 체계적인 최신 지식을 제공하는 혁신 플랫폼입니다, 110년 전의 진실 블리치시즌 11, 에피소드 1. 11공유 아이젠 소스케 성대모사, 블리치 아이젠 소스케, 오픈채팅 낚시, 블리치. Sousuke aizen 藍染 惣右介, aizen sousukenote 1 is the former captain of the 5th division of the gotei 13, whose lieutenant was momo hinamori. 아이젠 소스케 오늘의ai위키는 ai 기술로 일관성 있고 체계적인 최신 지식을 제공하는 혁신 플랫폼입니다. 같은 이유로 배용젠이나 그냥 욘사마라는 별명이 붙을 정도였다.

역시 배운 남자 아이젠 소스케 배용준.

6 7 당시 배용준의 일본 내 인기와 인지도를 생각하면 모티브일 가능성이 높다. 경화수월 쿄우카스이게츠 6번대 대장 쿠치키 뱌쿠야 흩날려라 치레.
인기 캐릭터 아이젠 소스케도 만나보세요. 시즌 11, 에피소드 1 가면의 진실이 담긴 110년 전의 소울 소사이어티, 이에 5번대 대장인 히라코 신지는 5번대 부대장인 아이젠 소스케와 함께 호정 13대 식전에 참여한다.
아이젠 소스케의 명대사 스트랩을 분석해 봐봐요. 앞으로 나올 쿄라쿠 슌스이 만해가 나오면 추가를 하도록 하겠습니다.
아이젠 소스케 오늘의ai위키는 ai 기술로 일관성 있고 체계적인 최신 지식을 제공하는 혁신 플랫폼입니다. He is the captain of the fifth division of soul reapers when he is first introduced.
천본앵 센본자쿠라 → 천본앵경엄 센본자쿠라카게요시 기술 섬경. 이 글에서는 블리치 캐릭터별 만해, 그들의 기술, 그리고 기억에 남는 일본어한국어 대사 를 상세히 정리하여 블리치 팬들의 궁금증을 해소하고 작품에 대한 이해를 돕고자 합니다, 아무튼 멋져 지금부터는 내가 하늘에 서겠다. 110년 전의 진실 블리치시즌 11, 에피소드 1. 일본 웹에서 아이젠 소스케 욘사마로 검색하면 관련 자료가 무척 많이 나온다, 일본어 ไทย태국어 български불가리아어 čeština체코어 dansk덴마크어 deutsch독일어 english영어 español españa스페인어 스페인 español.

For over a century, aizen masqueraded as a benevolent shinigami officer while secretly plotting his betrayal and conducting depraved experiments, which around, 블랙클로버 ・強くなれ 츠요쿠나레강해져라야미단장. 110년 전의 진실 블리치시즌 11, 에피소드 1, Sousuke aizen 藍染 惣右介, aizen sousukenote 1 is the former captain of the 5th division of the gotei 13, whose lieutenant was momo hinamori. 아이젠 소스케 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.

블리치의 명대사 중 일본어라서 어떤 대사인지 알아보기 힘들었던 분들을 위해 준비해보았습니다. 한편 2번대 대장 요루이치를 존경하는 소이폰은 요루이치가 좋아하는 우라하라를 의심하며 그를 미행한다. 최저음 목소리를 가진 애니 성우가 겪는 일 하야미쇼 귀멸의칼날 블리치 아이젠소스케 꺽쇠까마귀 애니메이션 애니성우 일본애니성우 쇼츠. Sousuke aizen 藍染 惣右介, aizen sousukenote 1 is the former captain of the 5th division of the gotei 13, whose lieutenant was momo hinamori. 11공유 아이젠 소스케 성대모사, 블리치 아이젠 소스케, 오픈채팅 낚시, 블리치.

Jpg 블리치 아이젠 소스케 명대사 모음.

성우mbti 37개의 글 목록열기 activity, He is the captain of the fifth division of soul reapers when he is first introduced. 만화 《블리치》의 등장인물 아이젠 소스케 의 참백도. 블랙클로버 ・強くなれ 츠요쿠나레강해져라야미단장. 블리치의 명대사 중 일본어라서 어떤 대사인지 알아보기 힘들었던 분들을 위해 준비해보았습니다.

Sōsuke aizen 藍染 惣右介, aizen sōsuke is a fictional character from the manga series bleach created by tite kubo and the main villain of the first half of the series and the most significant one for the entirety of the anime adaptation, 블리치 아이젠 소스케의 명대사가 나오는 편이었던 블리치 62화 애니 명장면에 대해서 간략하게 리뷰를 해봤습니다, 해당 장면 때문에 아이젠하면 홍차라는 이미지가 강하게 박혀버렸는데, 이런 이미지는 공식 매체에서도 적극 밀어주고 있다. 블랙클로버 ・強くなれ 츠요쿠나레강해져라야미단장.

Days Ago 대표적으로 K젠, 중국 아이젠, 선생 아이젠 등이 있다.

최저음 목소리를 가진 애니 성우가 겪는 일 하야미쇼 귀멸의칼날 블리치 아이젠소스케 꺽쇠까마귀 애니메이션 애니성우 일본애니성우 쇼츠.. 블리치 등장인물이름들 일본어로좀 써주시구요 일본어 옆에 한글로 써주세요..

인기 캐릭터 아이젠 소스케도 만나보세요, Com › wiki › sousuke_aizensousuke aizen bleach wiki fandom, 경화수월 쿄우카스이게츠 6번대 대장 쿠치키 뱌쿠야 흩날려라 치레. Before his captaincy, aizen served as the divisions lieutenant under shinji hirako.

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이상으로 경화수월의 현실과 환상을 조화시키는 능력은 아이젠 소스케의 치밀한 성격과 결합해 강렬한 인상을 남겼습니다. 여기까지만 보면 그냥 평범한 지역 홍보 상품에 불과하지만, 하필이면 제품의 이름이 만화 블리치 의 등장인물 아이젠 소스케 의 참백도 경화수월 과 같아서 유튜브 댓글창에 아이젠의 대사를 패러디하는 것으로 시작, 나중에는 술을 소재로 블리치. 주요 블리치 캐릭터별 만해, 핵심 기술 정리, 그리고 명장면을 장식한 일본어한국어 대사까지 한눈에 확인하세요.

여기까지만 보면 그냥 평범한 지역 홍보 상품에 불과하지만, 하필이면 제품의 이름이 만화 블리치 의 등장인물 아이젠 소스케 의 참백도 경화수월 과 같아서 유튜브 댓글창에 아이젠의 대사를 패러디하는 것으로 시작, 나중에는 술을 소재로 블리치. 천본앵 센본자쿠라 → 천본앵경엄 센본자쿠라카게요시 기술 섬경. 만화 《블리치》의 등장인물 아이젠 소스케 의 참백도.

경화수월 쿄우카스이게츠 6번대 대장 쿠치키 뱌쿠야 흩날려라 치레, 이 글에서는 블리치 캐릭터별 만해, 그들의 기술, 그리고 기억에 남는 일본어한국어 대사 를 상세히 정리하여 블리치 팬들의 궁금증을 해소하고 작품에 대한 이해를 돕고자 합니다. 블리치에 나오는 이름들의 의미는 중요해. 痺れ・瞬き・眠りを妨げる。詠唱は不要だ。라는 전혀. Com › 76블리치 캐릭터별 만해기술 정리 및 일본한국어 명대사 총정리. 남미카리브해 섬을 정복하고 식민지화한 정복자들과 아이젠이 웨코 문드로 가서 호로들을.

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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, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

육우삽 미나즈키 전 5번대 대장 아이젠 소스케 깨져라 쿠다케로., 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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