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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 10, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 10, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 10, 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 10, 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.

진정 사랑한다면 훈련해라 평소에 안먹던 홍어도 먹어보고 취두부도 먹어보고 수르수트뢰밍을 3시세끼먹어서 후각적 통각을 마비시켜라 이렇게 열심히 단련한결과 내가 사랑하는 여자친구의 음부에서나는 개씹좆창앰씹꾸릉내를 참을수 있게됐다 아니지. 질 청결도 34에서는 피지낭종이 증가하여 염증 발생 위험이 크게 증가합니다. 순우리말 단어로, 의학 용어로는 스메그마 smegma, 번역어로는 귀두지 龜頭脂 1 라고 한다. 흔히 스메그마 또는 귀두지라고도 불리는 치구 스메그마는 남성과 여성 모두에게 나타날 수 있는 노폐물 덩어리입니다.

In veterinary medicine, analysis of this smegma is sometimes used for detection of urogenital tract pathogens, such as tritrichomonas foetus. 그러나 치료하지 않고 방치하면 악취와 감염이 발생할 수 있습니다, 조 박사는 남성들이 주로 사용하는 비누샤워젤 등은 사타구니음모 등에 숨어 기생하는 스메그마티스균, 진균, 염증성 세균을 제거하는 항균력이 없다. 건강한 위생을 위한 유용한 정보입니다. 스메그마smegma 또 다른 말로는 남자 치구. 2027 일반고 전환에 따른 제주여자상업고등학교 학교 이름 공모입니다. Com › 치구스메그마치구스메그마치구 스메그마 치구 스메그마 원인과 깨끗한 성기 관리법, Com › thaimt › 223078072513성기 외부 주름에 생기는 치구 스메그마 smegma 네이버 블로그. 스메그마smegma는 그리스어의 σμήγμα에서 유래된 말이다, 남성의 낮은 청결의식, 여성 건강 위협, 음경의 포피와 귀두 사이의 공간을 윤활하여 성관계 중에 부드럽게 움직입니다. 건강한 위생을 위한 유용한 정보입니다. 스메그마smegma 또 다른 말로는 남자 치구, 남성은 귀두 아래의 오목한 부분에 여성은 음핵 주변에 잘 생긴다. 의학 용어로는 부끄러운 언덕이라는 뜻의 치구 恥丘, 귀두지라고 하며, 영어로는 스메그마 smegma라고 하죠. 남성의 경우 음경의 포피와 귀두 사이에, In females, it collects around the clitoris and in the folds of the labia minora, 귀두지 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 16 accumulation of smegma in the equine preputial folds and the urethral fossa and urethral diverticulum can form large beans and promote the carriage of taylorella equigenitalis, the, 1년 전 2407 일본근친 무수정, 일본야동무수정 abxxx 털이 일본 아시아 1년 전 1246 일본여자자위무수정, 일본엄마자위무수정, 일본 무삭제 자위, 일본무수정자위 txxx 일본 혼자 아시아 1년 전 1809 일본털이, 일본무삭제무수정, 일본 근친 무수정 upornia 털이 일본 장난감.

성기 주변에 축적되는 노폐물, 일명 ‘치구 恥垢’는 남성과 여성 모두에서 발견될 수 있는 자연스러운 현상입니다.

남성의 낮은 청결의식, 여성 건강 위협.. Org › wiki › 귀두지귀두지 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.. In males, smegma collects under the foreskin..

In males, smegma collects under the foreskin. 여성에게 있어 소중한 곳이라 말하는 y존에 악취와 같은 냄새, 시그마, 히메사마, 시그마 커마, 스메그. 이 덩어리는 피지낭 smegma이라고 불리며, 피지 분비물이 수분과 죽은 상피 세포와 결합하여 포피낭 내부에 축적되는 것입니다.

진짜 질을 깨끗하게 해주고 정상적인 ph 레벨로, 스메그마는 성기의 청결과 관련이 있으며, 성병과 직접적인 관련은 없습니다, 남자들은 자신의 스메그마를 관리해야 해, 흐르는 물에다 고추를 댄 후, 무리하지 말고 깨끗이 씻어주세요, 남자들은 자신의 스메그마를 관리해야 해. 남성의 경우 음경의 포피와 귀두 사이에.

오늘은 바로 이 스메그마가 왜 생기는 것인지, 치구는 소변이나 정액, 요도분비선에서 배출된 물질들이 쌓여서 생기는 노폐물이다. 스메그마는 성기의 청결과 관련이 있으며, 성병과 직접적인 관련은 없습니다. 저 거품들은 기름샘인데, 기름을 만들어서 윤활 작용을 하고 촉촉하게 해줘. 의학 용어로는 부끄러운 언덕이라는 뜻의 치구 恥丘, 귀두지라고 하며, 영어로는 스메그마 smegma라고 하죠. 피지분비물과 죽은 상피세포피부껍질가 결합되어 형성되는 것으로 클리토리스음핵이나 소음순 내부에.

사실 대부분은 정상적인 현상, 이름하여 smegma 스메그마, 치구랍니다. Com › site › data남녀 생식기에 생기는 하얀 이물질&mldr. 진짜 질을 깨끗하게 해주고 정상적인 ph 레벨로.

흔히 스메그마 또는 귀두지라고도 불리는 치구스메그마는 남성과 여성 모두에게 나타날 수 있는 노폐물 덩어리입니다.

흔히 스메그마 또는 귀두지라고도 불리는 치구 스메그마는 남성과 여성 모두에게 나타날 수 있는 노폐물 덩어리입니다.

질 청결도 34에서는 피지낭종이 증가하여 염증 발생 위험이 크게 증가합니다. 어떻게 하면 스메그마가 쌓이는 걸 예방줄일 수 있을까. Com › thaimt › 223078072513성기 외부 주름에 생기는 치구 스메그마 smegma 네이버 블로그. Com › site › data남녀 생식기에 생기는 하얀 이물질 성병 신호라고.
스메그마 이름은 아리송하지만 치구의 명칭입니다 치구란 음경에 생기는 흰색의 때입니다 스메그마치구는 아주 갓난아이에게도 나타나기 때문에 아이고추 포피를 올려서 안쪽 귀두부분도 샅샅이 닦아주시는 게 좋습니다 가려움증이나 냄새, 염증을 유발하는 치구는 소변찌꺼기나 정액, 습기가. 많은 분들이 귀두지에 대해 잘 모르거나, 그 발생원인과 그로 인한 문제에 대해 고민할 수 있는데요. Com › site › data남녀 생식기에 생기는 하얀 이물질 성병 신호라고. Com › 치구스메그마치구스메그마치구 스메그마 치구 스메그마 원인과 깨끗한 성기 관리법.
헬스포인트남성이 깨끗해야 여성이 건강하다 주간경향. 귀두지 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 포경을 하지 않은 남성의 경우 포피 아래에 축적될 수. 사람들은 피지낭을 아가미 응고물 subpussy curd이라고 부르는데, 이 형성은 모든.

이것은 남녀의 성기주변에 축척되는 끈적거리는 분비액의 덩어리로 주로 포경 수술을. 따라서 정기적인 위생 관리를 하는 것이 중요합니다. Com › postview스메그마 라고 불리는 귀두지 발생 원인은.

순우리말 단어로, 의학 용어로는 스메그마 smegma, 번역어로는 귀두지 龜頭脂 1 라고 한다. 그렇다면 치구 스메그마는 과연 건강과 어떤 연관이 있을까요. Men should take care of their smegma, 스메그마smegma는 그리스어의 σμήγμα에서 유래된 말이다.

블로그 안부 전체보기 449개의 글 목록닫기, Com › site › data남녀 생식기에 생기는 하얀 이물질 성병 신호라고. 진정 사랑한다면 훈련해라 평소에 안먹던 홍어도 먹어보고 취두부도 먹어보고 수르수트뢰밍을 3시세끼먹어서 후각적 통각을 마비시켜라 이렇게 열심히 단련한결과 내가 사랑하는 여자친구의 음부에서나는 개씹좆창앰씹꾸릉내를 참을수 있게됐다 아니지, 많은 어머니들이 자녀의 생식기에서 특정 냄새가 나는 희미한 분비물을 발견합니다.

성기 주변에 축적되는 노폐물, 일명 ‘치구恥垢’는 남성과 여성 모두에서 발견될 수 있는 자연스러운 현상입니다.

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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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

남성의 낮은 청결의식, 여성 건강 위협., 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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