US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
기본용어 굿즈 グッズ특전 特典 or ノベルティー온라인 オンライン애니메 アニメ박스 ボックス생일 生日 or バースデー극장판 劇場版트레이딩 랜덤 トレーディング ランダム 피규어류 피규어. 피규어 フィギュア figure 넨도로이드 ねんどろいど nendoroid 파샤코레 ぱしゃこれ pasha colle 코스터 コースター coaster 캔뱃지 バッジ can badge 클리어화일 クリアファイル clear file 태피스트리 タペストリー tapestry 모찌모찌마스코트 모찌마스 もちもちマスコット. Day ago 글쓰기 목록 이전글 다음글 게임 엔드필드 일본어로 플레이 해보려고 계정 새로 팠는데 1 talionyx 2233284 활동내역 작성글 쪽지 마이피 타임라인 출석일수 4094일 lv. 피규어 및 토이관련 자주 사용하는 용어를 알려주세요.
넨도로이드 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, Literally figure budding tribe, or, closer to the true meaning, figurine lover tribe is a japanese term which refers to otaku who collect figurines. 1 그런데도 한국에서 피규어라고 읽는 이유는 아마도 흔히 있는 일본어의 영향인 듯하다figure의 일본어 표기는 フィギュア. 일본어 한마디 실전에서 바로 사용하는 일본어회화 피규어 파는 곳이 어디에요. 대괴수 시리즈 추억의 대괴수시리즈를 만나보세요, 피규어 및 토이관련 자주 사용하는 용어를 알려주세요. おもちゃ는 일본어로 장난감을 의미합니다, 피규어 쪽은 최대한 원화에 근접한 모습으로 내고 퀄리티 자체도 준수하지만, 너무 밋밋하거나 해서 다른 업체에 비교당하는 경향이 크다, 영화 또는 애니메이션 주인공을 정밀하게 표현하는 것에 중점을 둔다, 피규어 フィギュア figure 넨도로이드 ねんどろいど nendoroid 파샤코레 ぱしゃこれ pasha colle 코스터 コースター coaster 캔뱃지 バッジ can badge 클리어화일 クリアファイル clear file 태피스트리 タペストリー tapestry 모찌모찌마스코트 모찌마스 もちもちマスコット.일반적으로 크기가 큰 피규어 상일수록 등급에 상관없이 프리미엄이 높은 경향이 있으며 보통 이런 상품들은 a상이나 b상 및 라스트 원 상에 배정된다.. 경기포커스신문 퇴직 이후의 삶을 어떻게 꾸려야 할지 고민하는 중장년부터, 간병과 돌봄 문제로 어려움을 겪는 어르신과 가족까지.. We was just saying how much we needed a figurine..직관적으로 피규어라는 단어가 영어에서 왔다는 것을 알 수, 여러 가지 설들이 있지만 정황상 오타쿠들이 흔히 쓰는 xxx 캐릭터 이름 쨩 이라는 어투에 오타쿠들이 좋아하는 미소녀 피규어 에서 198090년대 여자 어린이들 사이에 유행했던 인형 장난감인 미미 인형 한국식 바비인형 브랜드를 연상하여 미미쨩이라고. @dirty_lex_iii 「フィギュア(ふぃぎゅあ figua)」 the literal translation of figurine is 「人形(にんぎょう)」, but the one on the photo is specifically called 「フィギュア」in japan, Com › questions › 10532047이것은 일본어로 무엇이라고 하나요, Org › wiki › 피규어피규어 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. @dirty_lex_iii 「フィギュア(ふぃぎゅあ figua)」 the literal translation of figurine is 「人形(にんぎょう)」, but the one on the photo is specifically called 「フィギュア」in japan.
15 1845 고죠 룩업 피규어 사고싶은데 일본어로 알려줄 펭 없냐 code 9ccc 댓글2 목록수정삭제. 게코는 월광 을 일본어로 발음한 것으로, 이 gecko 와는 전혀 상관없는 뜻이다, 이는 한국어로는 이등병 니토짱으로 번역됩니다, 일본,홍콩 정품 피규어 쇼핑몰 피규어팜 당일 배송 365일 이벤트 진행 중. 넨도로이드일본어 ねんどろいど, 영어 nendoroid 는 2006년에 일본의 굿 스마일 컴퍼니가 첫선을 보인 소형 플라스틱 피규어 상표로, 약칭은 넨도로일본어.
이 페이지에 기재된 이용할 수 있는 시설은 오사카 주유패스를로 입장할 수 있습니다. 피규어 가 대표적인데, 자세한건 피규어 부카케 문서로. 넨도로이드 일본어 ねんどろいど, 영어 nendoroid는 2006년에 일본의 굿 스마일 컴퍼니 가 첫선을 보인 소형 플라스틱 피규어 상표로, 약칭은 넨도로 일본어 ねんどろ다, 영어 로는 피겨린 figurine이라고 하며 종종 figure라고도 한다. 파파고 검색해도 이상한거만 나오네 ㅠㅠ. 하지만 입지와는 별개로 실질적인 회사의 규모는 업계 2인자라해도 과언이 아닐 정도이다.
피규어는 장식용 또는 수집용으로 제작된 작은 조각상이나 모형을 의미합니다. 제품의 페인팅을 할 때 마스킹 용도의 금속판을 말한다. 넨도로이드 일본어 ねんどろいど, 영어 nendoroid는 2006년에 일본의 굿 스마일 컴퍼니 가 첫선을 보인 소형 플라스틱 피규어 상표로, 약칭은 넨도로 일본어 ねんどろ다.
Day ago 글쓰기 목록 이전글 다음글 게임 엔드필드 일본어로 플레이 해보려고 계정 새로 팠는데 1 talionyx 2233284 활동내역 작성글 쪽지 마이피 타임라인 출석일수 4094일 lv. 초합금 제품 묵직한 중량감의 초합금 제품, Org › wiki › 넨도로이드넨도로이드 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 영화 또는 애니메이션 주인공을 정밀하게 표현하는 것에 중점을 둔다.
원피스 피규어 시리즈별, 캐릭터별 제품 총집합.. 핸드폰 고리 인형을 일본어로 뭐라고 할까..
@dirty_lex_iii 「フィギュア(ふぃぎゅあ figua)」 the literal translation of figurine is 「人形(にんぎょう)」, but the one on the photo is specifically called 「フィギュア」in japan. 일반적으로 애니메이션 이나 영화, 게임, 만화, 특촬물 등의 등장인물을 플라스틱, 금속 등으로 제작해 놓은 모형, 인형을 일컫는 말이다. ・최신 정보는 시설 홈페이지, sns에서 확인하시기.
영어 표현의 어원을 더 파고들면, 주조 를 뜻하는 그리스어 πλαστικός와 측량법 등을 뜻하는 라틴어 modus의 합성어이다, 캐릭터 굿즈 편집 봉제인형 및 피규어 제작 사업도 맡고 있는데, 주력은 ufo 캐쳐 등 경품으로 제공되는 프라이즈 피규어 및 봉제인형. 피규어 및 토이관련 자주 사용하는 용어를 알려주세요. 원피스 피규어 시리즈별, 캐릭터별 제품 총집합.
직관적으로 피규어라는 단어가 영어에서 왔다는 것을 알 수. 일본 av에서는 주류 장르 취급인지라 유명 시리즈물도 있다. 주로 프라이즈 피규어를 파는 거야, 아니면 스케일 피규어도 많이 팔아. My model figures were ruinified by my nephews.
무선조종 제품 rc카, 비행기, 배등 다양한 제품. 왕년의 피규어제작 업계 1위의 노하우 덕분에 호이호이상을 비롯한 sd미소녀 킷들의 얼굴 조형과 부분도색 퀄리티는 상당한 수준이며, 이 시기에 슈로대. 피규어 フィギュア figure 넨도로이드 ねんどろいど nendoroid 파샤코레 ぱしゃこれ pasha colle 코스터 コースター coaster 캔뱃지 バッジ can badge 클리어화일 クリアファイル clear file 태피스트리 タペストリー tapestry 모찌모찌마스코트 모찌마스 もちもちマスコット. 일본어 한마디 실전에서 바로 사용하는 일본어회화 피규어 파는 곳이 어디에요. 초합금 제품 묵직한 중량감의 초합금 제품.
일본어 にっこにっこに 영어 nico nico smile 스쿠페스 의 북미판에서 이렇게 번역되었다. このキャラクターのフィギュアが ありますか?. 대괴수 시리즈 추억의 대괴수시리즈를 만나보세요. 게코는 월광 을 일본어로 발음한 것으로, 이 gecko 와는 전혀 상관없는 뜻이다, Figure 피규어, 인형 first person perspective 1인칭 시점 캐릭터의 눈깔 시점으로 full color 풀 컬러 game sprite 게임의 스프라이트 multiwork series 여러 시리즈로 되어있음.
avmov 타이 피규어랑 스케일 피규어는 일본어로 뭐라고 해. 영어 표현의 어원을 더 파고들면, 주조 를 뜻하는 그리스어 πλαστικός와 측량법 등을 뜻하는 라틴어 modus의 합성어이다. 하지만 입지와는 별개로 실질적인 회사의 규모는 업계 2인자라해도 과언이 아닐 정도이다. 彼は新しいおもちゃを買ってもらいました。 ゲーム은 게임이라는 단어의 일본어 표현으로, 특히 비디오 게임이나 보드 게임과 같은 엔터테인먼트 형태를 설명할 때. 대괴수 시리즈 추억의 대괴수시리즈를 만나보세요. awwarabella (file or mega or link or grab or cloud or view or watch)
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av배우 지현 영화 또는 애니메이션 주인공을 정밀하게 표현하는 것에 중점을 둔다. 영화 또는 애니메이션 주인공을 정밀하게 표현하는 것에 중점을 둔다. 투디갤 일잘알 주술펭들아 투디갤 투디 투디 일잘알 주술펭들아 246863659 복사 view 976 2022. Figure를 외래어 표기법 으로 바르게 표기한다면 피겨 라는 표현이 올바르지만, 일본어 에서 유래한 1번 문단의 표기가 정밀 모형으로서의 명칭으로 굳어졌다. 대한민국에서 표기하는 피규어는 figure의 일본어식 표기인 휘규아일본어 フィギュア 를 그대로.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 4, 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.
Figure를 외래어 표기법 으로 바르게 표기한다면 피겨 라는 표현이 올바르지만, 일본어 에서 유래한 1번 문단의 표기가 정밀 모형으로서의 명칭으로 굳어졌다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.