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필리핀 2주 간략 여행후기 여행 마이너 갤러리.

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 7, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 7, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 7, 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 7, 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.

여행먹방 필리핀에서 한국남자 이미지가 그렇게 안좋아. 제가 느낀 필리핀 여자들의 특징입니다. Com › 188필리핀 여자, 조심해야 할 현실적 조언. 필리핀결혼자체를 하는건 베트남여자수준으로 쉬워보인다.

우선 옆에 데려온 여자가 진짜 필리핀 일반인이었고.

여행동남아 갤러리 연초에 설연휴 맞아 써보는 작년 필리핀 세부 가성비충 유흥 후기 오라오라걸림160.. 왠만하면 추접스런 모습 안보임 아 물론.. 또한, 가족 중심의 문화와 종교적 가치관이 한국 남성들과 잘 맞습니다.. 아시아나 특가석자리, 아시아나 부사장, 아시아나 유니폼..
60k views 3 years ago, 필리핀결혼자체를 하는건 베트남여자수준으로 쉬워보인다, 안녕 편의상 반말로 할께난 스물아홉에 필리핀와서 살고 있고지금은 한국나이로 서른두살이야. 혹시나 나처럼 바보같은 놈들이 있을까봐 념글못본 사람 있을까봐 다시 적는 가이드임 1.

필리핀 여자친구와 동거 100일차 후기, 국제커플의 이상과 현실.

여친의 필리핀 대가족을 모두 부양해야한다. 둥이키친 dungyikitchen @92dungyi 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 내 이름이 없는 칸쵸를 직접 만들어봤어요. 필리핀 여성들은 우선 매우 온순한 편입니다. 태국동남아시아에서 제일 잘사는 나라라서 그런지 교육수준도 어느정도 되고, 대화가 잘통했다, D7발권d6 d1일주일간 열라 어플돌려 고르고 고름동남아것들 약속안지키는 걸 알기에 첫날 도시락은 4명 중복으로 잡아둠d0도시락 a 와꾸수준 준수, 필리핀여친이 몸매도진짜좋고 나랑 나이차이도 많이나고 어리고 몸도함부로굴린적없는 그런애인데, 문화차이인지 지능차이인지 여친이 생각이 깊지않아보였다. 33년을 모쏠로 살면서 지금 이여자가 유일하게 나를 남자 취급해주는 생물이다 항상 너무 고맙고 안쓰럽고 일하다가 가끔 마누라 생각하면 눈물샤워. Com › 188필리핀 여자, 조심해야 할 현실적 조언. 필리핀 여자 만나는법을 한번도 안쓴 이유.
클럽서 밤새 마시다 짱깨게스트가 너무 존못이라 떡안치구 튀었다구 함. 필리핀 여자친구와 동거 100일차 후기, 국제커플의 이상과 현실. 여행먹방 필리핀에서 한국남자 이미지가 그렇게 안좋아. 우선 옆에 데려온 여자가 진짜 필리핀 일반인이었고.
혹시나 나처럼 바보같은 놈들이 있을까봐 념글못본 사람 있을까봐 다시 적는 가이드임 1. 첫번째는 키가 170이 넘는 필리핀서양 혼혈이었는데 몸매가 진짜 말도안되게 좋았음. 둥이키친 dungyikitchen @92dungyi 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 내 이름이 없는 칸쵸를 직접 만들어봤어요. 다른애는 고양이성에 키좀 크고 몸매가 ㅅ타치임.
코로나로 동남아 2년간 안다녀오다가 이번에 필리핀 세부로 처음갔다. 아직 사귄지는 7개월밖에 안됐지만 심심하니 함 써볼게 처음 쓰는거니 양해좀 나도 처음에는 필녀랑 사귈지는 상상조차 한적. 7% 필리핀 여성들은 영어를 유창하게 구사할 수 있어 국제결혼에서 큰 장점이 됩니다. 필리핀여자는 보통 2021살이면 다 결혼한다고 하더라.
33년을 모쏠로 살면서 지금 이여자가 유일하게 나를 남자 취급해주는 생물이다 항상 너무 고맙고 안쓰럽고 일하다가 가끔 마누라 생각하면 눈물샤워. Com › 188필리핀 여자, 조심해야 할 현실적 조언. 왠만하면 추접스런 모습 안보임 아 물론. 필리핀 여성들은 우선 매우 온순한 편입니다.
별 말은 못하겠고 센타라 형 이후로 스쿰빗22이라는 후기 괴물이 나타났죠 후기를 쓰기 위해 방타이를 했던 전설중에 전설임미다 요새 여행중으신거 같던데 굿럭임미다 스쿰빗형 여튼 형님들 동생님들 센타라 저 가면속에 가려진 추악한 내면을 아셔야댐미다. 그냥 길가다 여자가 말걸기도하고 그래 너 돈많아보여서 그런거야 아예 다이렉트로 말할게 진짜 결혼할만한 여자를 만나려면 필리핀에서 일하던, 한국에서 필리핀 왔다갔다하면서 사업을하던. 사회초년생이 선배님들께 앙헬레스 임금에 대해 물어보고 싶어요. Com › mgallery › board심심해서 쓰는 필리핀 여친썰 국제결혼 마이너 갤러리.
필리핀 여자들 싸보이지만 개인적인 여성으로써 자존심, 조금이라도 건들면 잘생기고 돈많고 떠나서 그냥 빠이임, 필리핀 여자친구와 동거 100일차 후기, 국제커플의 이상과 현실. 필리핀 여자 붙잡고 20대가 좋냐 30대가 좋냐 하면 95%는 30대가 더 좋다고 함, 필리핀결혼자체를 하는건 베트남여자수준으로 쉬워보인다.

그냥 길가다 여자가 말걸기도하고 그래 너 돈많아보여서 그런거야 아예 다이렉트로 말할게 진짜 결혼할만한 여자를 만나려면 필리핀에서 일하던, 한국에서 필리핀 왔다갔다하면서 사업을하던.

상대방을 위해 적극적으로 노력하고, 새로운 것을 배우려는 의지가 정말 강합니다. 필리핀 여자 붙잡고 20대가 좋냐 30대가 좋냐 하면 95%는 30대가 더 좋다고 함. 여행동남아 갤러리 연초에 설연휴 맞아 써보는 작년 필리핀 세부 가성비충 유흥 후기 오라오라걸림160. Com › board › view마닐라에서 만난 2명의 여자 후기 여행동남아 갤러리.

결론부터 말하면 절대 돈주고 여자 만나지 마라, 이전에 클락 3번넘게 갔었는데 한번도 이런일 없었다 참고로 이번여행에서 앱 사용해서 paygirl 첫날+둘째날 3명 만났다. 해외여행 다니면서 그 나라 사람들이랑 대화하고 노는거 좋아하는데 유독 필리핀 여자만 가까워지기 어렵다ㅠ 뭔가 한국 남자가 자기들을 원나잇. 이런 모습은 필리핀 여성들의 전형적인 특징 중 하나긴 합니다. 필리핀 여자 붙잡고 20대가 좋냐 30대가 좋냐 하면 95%는 30대가 더 좋다고 함. 클럽서 밤새 마시다 짱깨게스트가 너무 존못이라 떡안치구 튀었다구 함, 일게이들이 가장 관심있는것이 바로 이 ㅅㅅ지.

필리핀 여성들은 우선 매우 온순한 편입니다.

여친의 필리핀 대가족을 모두 부양해야한다.

같은 필리핀중에사도 필리핀 악센트없이 영어 하는애는 드문듯, 필리핀 여자친구와 동거 100일차 후기, 국제커플의 이상과 현실운명인 줄 알았는데ㅍㅇ. 토토충 이런거 아니고 합법비자 받아서 좆소회사 다니고 있어참고로 난 지금 필리핀에 대한 혐오가 극에 달해 있어. 또한, 가족 중심의 문화와 종교적 가치관이 한국 남성들과 잘 맞습니다.

필리핀 여자 붙잡고 20대가 좋냐 30대가 좋냐 하면 95%는 30대가 더 좋다고 함, 다른애는 고양이성에 키좀 크고 몸매가 ㅅ타치임, 태국,필리핀,베트남,인도네시아 여자 다사귀어본 소감 여행. 혹시나 나처럼 바보같은 놈들이 있을까봐 념글못본 사람 있을까봐 다시 적는 가이드임 1. 필리핀결혼자체를 하는건 베트남여자수준으로 쉬워보인다.

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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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

필리핀 2주 간략 여행후기 여행 마이너 갤러리., 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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