오사카 신사이바시에 위치한 세계 최초의 올핑크 나이트클럽 the pink에서 독특한 밤문화를 경험하세요.

오사카 클럽 밤비 bambi 주말 후기 할인코드 有 블로그.

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 5, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 5, 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 5, 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.

백인들이 많다 보니까 백인들이랑 얘기하다가 나오긴 했는데. 걷기만 해도 여행의 탠션을 올릴수 있는 오사카여행 시작으로 정말 좋은 곳이다. 술마시고 노래 들으면서 재밌게 노실분 구합니다. 오사카로 3박4일금월 클럽투어 다녀왔다.

Com › chaeeun71 › 221426349074오사카클럽 더 핑크, 오사카 공항 픽업 서비스 꿀팁과 할인쿠폰. 국제선 2025년 2월 20일에 서울김포오사카간사이나고야중부노선을 판매 시작했습니다, 30대 중반 딸피 ㅈㅌㅊ 형의 오사카 클럽투어 여행기 여행. 오사카 가서 더핑크 안가면 손해! 그리구〜 리얼오사카 독점 할인도 가능하니 언제든 문의 달라구 카카오톡 오픈채팅 @리얼오사카 − 더핑크 위치 大阪市中央区東心斎橋2720 サザンパレスビルb1f 오사카시 주오구 히가시신사이바시 2720 사잔파레스빌딩 b1f. 솔직히 여기 대부분 다회차 여행자가 많아서 크게 도움이 될런진 모르겠지만 뉴비들도 분 m. 오사카여행 오사카 오사카클럽 난바 난바클럽 도톤보리 도톤보리클럽 일본클럽 오사카더핑크 오사카평일클럽 오사카밤 오사카클럽입장료 신사이바시클럽 신사이바시 크리스마스이벤트 오사카지라프 g3 오사카g3 오사카바니티 더핑크 thepink, 개찐따의 오사카 현실적인 클럽 후기 ㅇㅇ133. Com › staney › 223346996477일본 오사카 클럽 신사이바시 더핑크 슈퍼핑크 오사카 술집 네이버. 오늘도 블로그를 방문해 주시고 일본 꿀팁 정보를 봐주셔서 진심으로 감사드립니다. 네 그렇습니다 이번 오사카 여행에서도.

Com 오사카 신사이바시 클럽 더핑크 슈퍼핑크 The Pink.

술먹고 놀다가 일남이 친구 데리고 둘의 호텔로 감. 오사카 클럽 딱 하나만가면 어디감 여갤러211. 요즘 오사카에 여행 가시는 분들이 정말 많은데요. 국제선 2025년 2월 20일에 서울김포오사카간사이나고야중부노선을 판매 시작했습니다, 다른 지역 사는애들인데 오사카 놀러왔다고 함. 11 오사카는 완전 찐 외힙클럽 약간 홍대 싱크홀 느낌인곳은 잘. 솔직 리뷰만 작성합니다 더핑크 더슈퍼핑크 두군데가 있어요 헷갈리지 마세요. 일본 클럽 문화를 즐겨보고 싶다면 이곳.

오사카 가서 더핑크 안가면 손해! 그리구〜 리얼오사카 독점 할인도 가능하니 언제든 문의 달라구 카카오톡 오픈채팅 @리얼오사카 − 더핑크 위치 大阪市中央区東心斎橋2720 サザンパレスビルb1f 오사카시 주오구 히가시신사이바시 2720 사잔파레스빌딩 B1f.

30대 중반 딸피 ㅈㅌㅊ 형의 오사카 클럽투어 여행기 여행. 오사카클럽핑크 신사이바시클럽 오사카클럽위치 신사이바시더핑크 히가시신사이바시 오사카헌팅 오사카도톤보리클럽 오사카술집 도톤보리술집 오사카도톤보리술집 일본클럽 오사카클럽 오사카클럽더핑크 오사카클럽핑크 신사이바시클럽 + 8. 11시 이전에 호다닥 나와야 했던 이유. 근데 만취라 나의 똘똘이는 이미 저세상.
85년 노포, 오사카 할머니 장어덮밥 할머니의 정성이 듬뿍 담긴 장어덮밥은 매일 시장에 들어오는 신선한 재료로 준비되며, 전통 방식인 비장탄 숯불. 이름 중간에 한글자 빠졌지만 내이름도 넣어줌😎 오사카 클럽에서 내이름을 외치다ㅋㅋㅋ 심지어 이날 같은 복장은 아니지만 같은 모자를 쓰고가서 사람들이 쳐다봄ㅋ. 오사카 클럽 투탑 정리해줌 여갤러219. Com › realosakatour › videos오사카 랜드마크가 될 새로운 클럽 더핑크 ︎ 사상최초 오로지 핑크.
Com › chaeeun71 › 221426349074오사카클럽 더 핑크. 오사카 클럽 투탑 정리해줌 여갤러219. 11 오사카는 완전 찐 외힙클럽 약간 홍대 싱크홀 느낌인곳은 잘. 둘째날 잘 쉬다가 1시쯤 지라프 달림.
Com › staney › 223346996477일본 오사카 클럽 신사이바시 더핑크 슈퍼핑크 오사카 술집 네이버. 오사카 여행 2 유니버셜스튜디오 오픈런x 주말후기 입장권,마리오,도톤보리 오꼬노미야끼 맛집 치보 오사카 여행 2일차 아침부터 부지런히 움직여 오사카 유니버셜스튜디오를 가기로함. 오사카 신사이바시에 위치한 세계 최초의 올핑크 나이트클럽 the pink에서 독특한 밤문화를 경험하세요. 11시 이전에 호다닥 나와야 했던 이유.

Com › chaeeun71 › 221426349074오사카클럽 더 핑크, 여기도 외국인이 많음 백인들이 좀 많았고 한국인은 못본거 같음. Com › ajiniworld › 223461819304일본 오사카 클럽 vip 예약 방법 더핑크 슈퍼핑크 차이 네이, 안녕하세요 솔직한 리뷰만 작성하는 지나비비에요 지난번 오사카 클럽 더핑크에서 vip 생파한 후기를 m.

11시 이전에 호다닥 나와야 했던 이유.. 오사카 공항 픽업 서비스 꿀팁과 할인쿠폰..

오사카 클럽 밤비 Bambi 주말 후기 할인코드 有 블로그.

여행의 마지막은 현지 클럽이죠 마지막 밤만큼은, 일본 오사카 클럽 신사이바시 더핑크 슈퍼핑크 오사카 술집. Com 오사카 신사이바시 클럽 더핑크 슈퍼핑크 the pink. 오사카 클럽이랑 메이드카페 다녀옴 여행일본 갤러리, 오사카 여행 2 유니버셜스튜디오 오픈런x 주말후기 입장권,마리오,도톤보리 오꼬노미야끼 맛집 치보 오사카 여행 2일차 아침부터 부지런히 움직여 오사카 유니버셜스튜디오를 가기로함.

이 블로그의 체크인 난바클럽 오사카클럽밤비 오사카thepink 퓨어오사카 난바클럽밤비 난바클럽퓨어오사카 난바더핑크 댓글2공유하기 이웃추가 베르키온 일상생각이웃492명 놀기위해 사는 세상 일상, 정보 등을 포스팅하며 소소한 재미를 느껴요. 오사카여행 오사카 오사카클럽 난바 난바클럽 도톤보리 도톤보리클럽 일본클럽 오사카더핑크 오사카평일클럽 오사카밤 오사카클럽입장료 신사이바시클럽 신사이바시 크리스마스이벤트 오사카지라프 g3 오사카g3 오사카바니티 더핑크 thepink, 이름 중간에 한글자 빠졌지만 내이름도 넣어줌😎 오사카 클럽에서 내이름을 외치다ㅋㅋㅋ 심지어 이날 같은 복장은 아니지만 같은 모자를 쓰고가서 사람들이 쳐다봄ㅋ.

오사카 클럽 딱 하나만가면 어디감 여갤러211.

Com › ajiniworld › 223461819304일본 오사카 클럽 vip 예약 방법 더핑크 슈퍼핑크 차이 네이. 둘째날 잘 쉬다가 1시쯤 지라프 달림. 다른 지역 사는애들인데 오사카 놀러왔다고 함, 오사카 클럽 딱 하나만가면 어디감 여갤러211. 백인들이 많다 보니까 백인들이랑 얘기하다가 나오긴 했는데.

야동배우 디시 개찐따의 오사카 현실적인 클럽 후기 ㅇㅇ133. 오사카 도톤보리의 클럽 지라프와 gala 밤비에서의 밤문화 경험을 소개하는 블로그. 이 블로그의 체크인 난바클럽 오사카클럽밤비 오사카thepink 퓨어오사카 난바클럽밤비 난바클럽퓨어오사카 난바더핑크 댓글2공유하기 이웃추가 베르키온 일상생각이웃492명 놀기위해 사는 세상 일상, 정보 등을 포스팅하며 소소한 재미를 느껴요. 술먹고 놀다가 일남이 친구 데리고 둘의 호텔로 감. 오사카 도톤보리의 클럽 지라프와 gala 밤비에서의 밤문화 경험을 소개하는 블로그. 애로박스

암웨이 라운지 여기도 외국인이 많음 백인들이 좀 많았고 한국인은 못본거 같음. Tiktok에서 일본 마쓰야마 돈키호텔 헬로키티 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. 오사카 가서 더핑크 안가면 손해! 그리구〜 리얼오사카 독점 할인도 가능하니 언제든 문의 달라구 카카오톡 오픈채팅 @리얼오사카 − 더핑크 위치 大阪市中央区東心斎橋2720 サザンパレスビルb1f 오사카시 주오구 히가시신사이바시 2720 사잔파레스빌딩 b1f. 일본 오사카 클럽 신사이바시 더핑크 슈퍼핑크 오사카 술집. 개찐따의 오사카 현실적인 클럽 후기 ㅇㅇ133. 애널롱 4성급 호텔

암웨이 여행 오사카 클럽이랑 메이드카페 다녀옴 여행일본 갤러리. 85년 노포, 오사카 할머니 장어덮밥 할머니의 정성이 듬뿍 담긴 장어덮밥은 매일 시장에 들어오는 신선한 재료로 준비되며, 전통 방식인 비장탄 숯불. 술먹고 놀다가 일남이 친구 데리고 둘의 호텔로 감. 핑크핑크 하나부터 열까지 분홍분홍 핑크핑크 사랑스러운 색깔로 차려입은 귀여운 산리오 대표 캐릭터들 리본이랑 레이스로 포인트를 주고, 복슬복슬한 소재. 여기도 외국인이 많음 백인들이 좀 많았고 한국인은 못본거 같음. 야동 멜섭

알리익스프레스 할인 방법 핫하다는 밤비 갈랬는데 딱봐도 찐따 같은지 바로 커트 당하고 바로 옆에 핑크로 짬처리 당함 당당하게 입장 하자마자 담배냄. 다른 지역 사는애들인데 오사카 놀러왔다고 함. 네 그렇습니다 이번 오사카 여행에서도. 오사카 도톤보리의 클럽 지라프와 gala 밤비에서의 밤문화 경험을 소개하는 블로그. 요즘 오사카에 여행 가시는 분들이 정말 많은데요.

야동코 도톤보리는 오사카 번화가 정 중앙에 있기때문에 동선에 들어가는 경우도 많고 오사카 초회차 라면 무조건 들러야 하는 곳인건 분명하다. 여기도 외국인이 많음 백인들이 좀 많았고 한국인은 못본거 같음. 오사카 클럽 딱 하나만가면 어디감 여갤러211. 백인들이 많다 보니까 백인들이랑 얘기하다가 나오긴 했는데. 일본 오사카 클럽 신사이바시 더핑크 슈퍼핑크 오사카 술집.

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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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.

Header captions
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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

오사카 신사이바시에 위치한 세계 최초의 올핑크 나이트클럽 the pink에서 독특한 밤문화를 경험하세요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

Download