US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 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.
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 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 10, 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 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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 10, 2026.
22억 원 현금 매입에서 65억 원대 시세로 껑충 뛴 그들의 고급 빌라 스토리를 공개합니다. Com › malname32 › 222302230632김연아가 17년 동안 모은 재산은 얼마나될까. 광고 한편 당 15억 김연아가 지금까지 모은 충격적인 재산. 김연아 11년 전 산 한강뷰 빌라 신혼집으로시세 22억→85.
피겨 여왕 김연아는 800만 달러 약 106억원 수준으로 추산됐다.. 박찬호 박세리도 제쳤다 대한민국 재산 1위 스포츠스타는.. 2019년 6월 기준 cf수입 1400억 추정,통 크게 질렀지만 희비 엇갈린 투자.. Kr › articles › 624172cf 한 편 출연료로 10억원을 받는다는 김연아의 재산 수준&mldr..한 누리꾼은 김연아의 지금까지 수입이 2000억 원이라고 추정했다, 유재석 재산 연봉 광고료 및 아파트 최근 국민 mc로 잘 알려져 있는 유재석이 논현동 건물을 현금으로 매, 24일 연예계에 따르면 김연아는 이 빌라를 2011년 12월 22억원에 매입했다, 이와 함께 김연아 남편 고우림의 집안, 가족, 재산 등에도 관심이 쏠렸습니다, 광고 한편 당 15억 김연아가 지금까지 모은 충격적인 재산. 김연아는 은퇴 이후에도 cf와 광고 모델료가 주 수입원입니다.
이는 김연아가 2021년부터 디올 앰버서더 홍보대사로 활동한 것에 대한 보상이 아니냐는 후문이다. 한국 스포츠 부호 top 10 – 박찬호, 손흥민은 어느 정도 부자일까. 이외에도 김연아 선수가 선수로 활발하게 활동했을 당시의 상금과 후원금을 고려하면 세금을 떼도 추가로 300400억은 벌었을 것으로 추측할 수 있습니다. 김연아는 직접 활동해 얻은 수입으로 많은 이들의 감탄을 자아냈다. 추정된 바에 따르면 김연아가 벌어들인 수입은 모두 2천억원에 달한다는 말이 있는데요.
한국 스포츠 부호 top 10 – 박찬호, 손흥민은 어느 정도 부자일까, 2019년 6월 기준 cf수입 1400억 추정,통 크게 질렀지만 희비 엇갈린 투자, Kr › news › articleview재산 1,000억 원에 비하면 껌 값 김연아, 화려한 봄 패션에 착용, 김연아 김연아재산 피겨여왕 연예인재산 스포츠스타재산. 피겨 여왕 김연아는 800만 달러 약 106억원 수준으로 추산됐다.
자산 2천억 세계최고 피겨선수 김연아 어쩌다김연아 50억. 이와 함께 김연아 남편 고우림의 집안, 가족, 재산 등에도 관심이 쏠렸습니다. 김연아는 직접 활동해 얻은 수입으로 많은 이들의 감탄을 자아냈다, 김연아가 17년 동안 모은 재산은 얼마나될까.
12 0828 별거하는 무직녀 재산 추정불가 ㄷㄷㄷ 감사 2025, 김연아가 17년 동안 모은 재산은 얼마나될까, 24일 연예계에 따르면 김연아는 이 빌라를 2011년 12월 22억원에 매입했다. 피겨 여왕 김연아는 800만 달러 약 106억원 수준으로 추산됐다. Cf 한 편 출연료로 10억원을 받는다는 김연아의 재산 수준. 국가대표 피겨스케이팅 선수 출신 김연아가 배우자 고우림과의 신혼집을 공개해 화제를 모으고 있다.
Com › malname32 › 222302230632김연아가 17년 동안 모은 재산은 얼마나될까. 최근 군대 전역을 마친 그룹 포레스텔라 고우림이 전 피겨스케이팅 선수 김연아와의 결혼에 대한 부담감은 없었다고 고백하며, 다시 두사람의 결혼, 신혼집 등이 재조명되고 있습니다. 재산 1000억 원에 비하면 껌 값 김연아, 화려한 봄 패션. 김연아 65억 추정 신혼집 공개탁 트인 한강뷰 눈길.
| 세계 최고의 피겨 스케이트 선수로 활약했던 김연아 선수는 놀랍게도 메이저리그에 진출했던 박찬호도, 골프에서 최고의 영예를 안았던 박세리보다도 더 많은 수입을 얻은 것으로 알려져 놀라움을 줍니다. | 김연아, 1년간 수입 115억세계 여자 스포츠스타 7위. |
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| Kr › articles › 624172cf 한 편 출연료로 10억원을 받는다는 김연아의 재산 수준&mldr. | 아내 김연아는 대한민국을 대표하는 전 피겨스케이팅 선수로, 2010년 밴쿠버 동계올림픽에서 금메달을 획득하며 ‘피겨. |
| 김연아는 은퇴 이후에도 cf와 광고 모델료가 주 수입원입니다. | 김연아 gettyimageskorea 김연아재산 손흥민순자산 최고부자스포츠인 마이클조던 신발장수 전준강 기자. |
| 그의 부동산 자산 가치는 약 170억 원 에서 180억 원 으로 평가되며, 이를 포함한 전체 재산은 대략500억 원에서700억 원이상 일 것으로 예상됩니다. | 김연아는 밴쿠버 동계올림픽에서 금메달을 목에 걸었던 지난해 같은 조사에서는 970만 달러의 수입으로 전체 5위에 올랐다. |
2019년 6월 기준 cf수입 1400억 추정,통 크게 질렀지만 희비 엇갈린 투자. 김연아 11년 전 산 한강뷰 빌라 신혼집으로시세 22억→85, 김연아는 밴쿠버 동계올림픽에서 금메달을 목에 걸었던 지난해 같은 조사에서는 970만 달러의 수입으로 전체 5위에 올랐다, 결혼식에서도 돋보인 안목과 센스 재산에 비례한 선행도 1위 피겨스케이트 선수 김연아가 강진으로 피해를 겪고 read more. ミリキャンバスの김연아 재산 추정 テンプレートを使って、より専門的なデザインを作成しましょう。, 한 누리꾼은 김연아의 지금까지 수입이 2000억 원이라고 추정했습니다.
결혼식에서도 돋보인 안목과 센스 재산에 비례한 선행도 1위 피겨스케이트 선수 김연아가 강진으로 피해를 겪고 read more. 한 광고업계 관계자는 이미 특에이a급을 넘어 전무후무한 수준의 금액을 받고 있다며 김연아의 몸값 고공, 김연아 11년 전 산 한강뷰 빌라 신혼집으로시세 22억→85. 김연아는 직접 활동해 얻은 수입으로 많은 이들의 감탄을 자아냈다. 미국의 포브스에 따르면 김연아는 2009년에 각종 대회의 상금, 후원 계약 등으로 약 90억 원의 수입을 기록했다고 합니다. 김연아는 이미 2008년부터 각종 광고에 출연하면서 150억원가량추정의 수입을 올렸다.
Com › 1785김연아 재산 광고비 연금 수입 총정리. 고려대학교 사범대학 체육교육과 학사 고려대학교 대학원 체육학 석사과정 재학중 은퇴 2014년 2월 21일 재산 약 1000억원 예상 이렇게 오늘은 김연아 고우림 결혼 소식과 함께 김연아의 프로필 가족 사주, 재산 cf 출연료, 몸값등에대해 알아보았습니다, 최근 군대 전역을 마친 그룹 포레스텔라 고우림이 전 피겨스케이팅 선수 김연아와의 결혼에 대한 부담감은 없었다고 고백하며, 다시 두사람의 결혼, 신혼집 등이 재조명되고 있습니다.
미츄 화보집 디시 2019년 6월 기준 cf수입 1400억 추정,통 크게 질렀지만 희비 엇갈린 투자. 김연아는 은퇴 이후에도 cf와 광고 모델료가 주 수입원입니다. Kr › news › articleview재산 1,000억 원에 비하면 껌 값 김연아, 화려한 봄 패션에 착용. 유재석 재산 연봉 광고료 및 아파트 최근 국민 mc로 잘 알려져 있는 유재석이 논현동 건물을 현금으로 매. 세계 최고의 피겨 스케이트 선수로 활약했던 김연아 선수는 놀랍게도 메이저리그에 진출했던 박찬호도, 골프에서 최고의 영예를 안았던 박세리보다도 더 많은 수입을 얻은 것으로 알려져 놀라움을 줍니다. 물안경 짤
무잔 알몸 국가대표 피겨스케이팅 선수 출신 김연아가 배우자 고우림과의 신혼집을 공개해 화제를 모으고 있다. Kr › article › 2025013013161644498김연아 65억 추정 신혼집 공개&mldr. Kr › news › articleview재산 1,000억 원에 비하면 껌 값 김연아, 화려한 봄 패션에 착용. 미국의 포브스에 따르면 김연아는 2009년에 각종 대회의 상금, 후원 계약 등으로 약 90억 원의 수입을 기록했다고 합니다. 인사이트 전준강 기자 전 세계에서 가장 부자 스포츠계 인물은 누구일까. 미츄 화보집 후기
밈갤 추정된 바에 따르면 김연아가 벌어들인 수입은 모두 2천억원에 달한다는 말이 있는데요. 피겨여왕 김연아 재산 현황 총정리 프로필. 유재석 재산 연봉 광고료 및 아파트 최근 국민 mc로 잘 알려져 있는 유재석이 논현동 건물을 현금으로 매. 또한 2010년부터 2014년 까지는 매년 100억원 정도의. 22억 원 현금 매입에서 65억 원대 시세로 껑충 뛴 그들의 고급 빌라 스토리를 공개합니다. 미야울 브레인롯
민또 경또 로 블록 스 공포 게임 김연아, 마지막으로 받았던 포상금에 재산 수준. 업계 최정상급 모델료를 받아 연간 10억14억 원 수준의 광고료를 벌어들이기도 했습니다. 이외에도 김연아 선수가 선수로 활발하게 활동했을 당시의 상금과 후원금을 고려하면 세금을 떼도 추가로 300400억은 벌었을 것으로 추측할 수 있습니다. 김연아, 추정 수입 2000억 분석 보유한 부동산의 정체는. 재산 1000억 원에 비하면 껌 값 김연아, 화려한 봄 패션.
민트모카3 18 2231 근데 김연아 국적이 중국이나 미국이였으면 더 벌었으려나. 김연아의 수입은 1,630만 달러당시 한화 약 167억 4,300만 원로 추정됐습니다. 인사이트 전준강 기자 전 세계에서 가장 부자 스포츠계 인물은 누구일까. 김연아 광고료에 대해 얘기할 때 1500억중 절반을 세금으로 고려한다고 해도 800억 정도가 남습니다. 1510 url 복사 이웃추가 추정 재산 1000억 김연아, 남편 전역하자마자 ‘포르쉐 선물.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 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.
최근 군대 전역을 마친 그룹 포레스텔라 고우림이 전 피겨스케이팅 선수 김연아와의 결혼에 대한 부담감은 없었다고 고백하며, 다시 두사람의 결혼, 신혼집 등이 재조명되고 있습니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.