US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 14, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
악플에 대해서는 여자로서 어느정도 불쾌하나. 이런 관점에서 뽀미언니 출신에 조여정은 그 순수하고 귀여운 얼굴에 볼륨감 넘치는 가슴과 날씬한 바디라인으로 2010년 인기 최고의 얼짱몸짱으로 거듭나게 된 것이다. 원래 가슴이 좀크면 쳐지니마련이니김혜수처럼 살짝 끌어올리는식으로 하징 너무 밥공기 엎어놓은것처럼 나 가슴수술 했어요. 이런 관점에서 뽀미언니 출신에 조여정은 그 순수하고 귀여운 얼굴에 볼륨감 넘치는 가슴과 날씬한 바디라인으로 2010년 인기 최고의 얼짱몸짱으로 거듭나게 된 것이다.
Com › ggii1205 › 130086835053방자전조여정 베드신으로 화제가 된 방자전 조여정 베드신노출 수, 노출작품에 출연하기 전인 5년 전에도 조여정 가슴성형 의혹은 화보를 통해 이미 네티즌들 사이에서 화제가 됐던 바 있다. 사진조여정, 가슴라인 돋보이는 드레스 osen지형준 기자 김주혁 조여정 류승범 등이 출연하는 영화 방자전김대우 감독 제작보고회가 6일 오전 서울. 2010년 6월 3일 개봉하는 영화 방자전은 개봉 전부터 핫 이슈다, 배우 조여정이 영화 방자전을 통해 파격적인 노출연기를 선보인 소감에 대해 밝혀 눈길을 끌었다. Tv리포트 박민경 기자 영화 방자전이 심의상의 이유로 국내에서 이용하지 못했던 19금 포스터와 영상을 공개했다. 방자전의 조여정, 가슴성형의 붐을 불러오나. 가슴은 기본, 성기노출은 덤에로가 몰려온다 네이버 블로그. 속옷비치는 시스루 조여정 비키니 사진 방자전 조여정 가슴수술 논란 배우 조여정이 파격적인 시스루룩으로 화제를. 키는 163cm, 체중은 45kg, 혈액형은 ab형으로 동국대학교 영상대학원 공연예술학과를 졸업했다, 수술이 능사는 아니겠지만, 가슴확대 수술을 통해 제2의 인생을 사는 듯하다는 많은 사례자들을 보면 한번뿐인 인생 보다 자신감 있게 살아보고자 하는 적극적인 태도의 변화도 나쁘지 않은 것 같다. Flickr photos, groups, and tags related to the 방자전조여정가슴 flickr tag. 25일 서울 왕십리 cgv에서 열린 언론시사를 통해 첫 공개된 ‘방자전’은 예상을 뛰어넘는 파격 노출신과 촌철살인 유머, 감동적이지만, 이런 관점에서 뽀미언니 출신에 조여정은 그 순수하고 귀여운 얼굴에 볼륨감 넘치는 가슴과 날씬한 바디라인으로 2010년 인기 최고의 얼짱몸짱으로 거듭나게 된 것이다. 또한, 조여정은 방자전 이후 아저씨 팬들이 많이 생겼다며 베이글녀라는 애칭이 붙게 된 사연을 밝혔다. 이날 그는 가슴부분이 황금 비닐로 장식된 블랙 드레스를 입고, 사진조여정, 가슴라인 돋보이는 드레스 osen지형준 기자 김주혁 조여정 류승범 등이 출연하는 영화 방자전김대우 감독 제작보고회가 6일 오전 서울. Com › site › data사진돋보이는 가슴라인 조여정, 춘향이로 돌아 왔어요. 조여정은 노출신이 과하다고 생각하지는 않는다, 과연 줄줄이 이어지는 아슬아슬한 영화들이 관객과 즐겁게 만날 수.류승범,김주혁,오달수 등의 연기파 배우들의 대거 출연과 더불어 글래머러스한 여배우 조여정의 첫 베드신으로 연일 화제를 모으고 있다. 오늘은 그런 조여정 그녀의 이야기에 대해서 알아보자, Com › entiz › read뒤늦게 방자전을 봤는데 조여정 뜨아, 이어 방자전에 함께 출연했던 류현경을 가리키며 특히 현경이가 많은 도움을 줬다고 고마움을 전했다, 조여정은 자신의 대표작인 ‘방자전’에 대해.
7분 30초 삭제씬은 온라인 공개로 화제. Com › ggii1205 › 130086835053방자전조여정 베드신으로 화제가 된 방자전 조여정 베드신노출 수. 노출작품에 출연하기 전인 5년 전에도 조여정 가슴성형 의혹은 화보를 통해 이미 네티즌들 사이에서 화제가 됐던 바 있다, 과연 줄줄이 이어지는 아슬아슬한 영화들이 관객과 즐겁게 만날 수, Com › site › data사진돋보이는 가슴라인 조여정, 춘향이로 돌아 왔어요.
25일 서울 왕십리 cgv에서 열린 언론시사를 통해 첫 공개된 ‘방자전’은 예상을 뛰어넘는 파격 노출신과 촌철살인 유머, 감동적이지만, 조여정은 노출신이 과하다고 생각하지는 않는다. 방자전의 조여정, 가슴성형의 붐을 불러오나.
영화 ‘방자전’김대우 감독이 베일을 벗었다.. Obs플러스 고민서 기자 배우 조여정이 자신과 둘러싼 가슴성형설에 모호한 답변을 했다..
이라는 제목으로 한 장의 사진이 게시되었다. 침착해야돼, 침착하자고 그리고 차분한 마음으로 김대우 감독을 만났다. 2010년 6월 3일 개봉하는 영화 방자전은 개봉 전부터 핫 이슈다. 그렇다고 원래 가슴이 막 미친듯 작은것도 아니고 방자전이나 후궁에서도 자연산 가슴으로 깠어야 더 자연스러웠을텐데 때는 조선시대인데 가슴에 실리콘이 있으니, 방자와 춘향의 사랑이 떳떳할 수 없는 사랑, 비밀스럽고 가슴 아픈 사랑이기 때문에 과하지 않은 것.
황금비닐로 가슴 감싼 조여정, 가슴골이 헉 방자전의 히로인 조여정이 육감적인 몸매를 뽐냈다. 과거 비키니 사진이 공개되면서 성형을 한 게, 오늘은 그런 조여정 그녀의 이야기에 대해서 알아보자. 속옷비치는 시스루 조여정 비키니 사진 방자전 조여정 가슴수술 논란 배우 조여정이 파격적인 시스루룩으로 화제를.
방자전 시사회가 25일 서울 왕십리 cgv에서 진행된 가운데, 농도높은 베드신을 찍으며 요염한 춘향을 연기한 조여정 29은 비밀스럽고 가슴 아픈 사랑이기 때문에 이를 표현하기에는 과하지 않은 신 아닌가며 베드신을 너무나 아름답게 찍어주셔서 실제. 침착해야돼, 침착하자고 그리고 차분한 마음으로 김대우 감독을 만났다, 지난 2010년 방자전에서 글래머러스한 몸매로 화제가 된 조여정은 한동안 가슴 성형설에 시달렸다. 조여정은 자신의 대표작인 ‘방자전’에 대해.
공유와잎 트위터 그러나 조여정은 당시 이미지 때문에 몸매를 감췄다고 해명하며 논란을 잠재웠었다. 포토엔조여정,살짝 보이는 가슴골 유혹적이야. 포토엔조여정,살짝 보이는 가슴골 유혹적이야 정사, 스캔들, 음란서생등으로 익히 세간에 화제가 됐던 김대우 감독의 19禁 사극 차기작 방자전. 25일 서울 왕십리 cgv에서 열린 언론시사를 통해 첫 공개된 ‘방자전’은 예상을 뛰어넘는 파격 노출신과 촌철살인 유머, 감동적이지만. 방자전 시사회가 25일 서울 왕십리 cgv에서 진행된 가운데, 농도높은 베드신을 찍으며 요염한 춘향을 연기한 조여정 29은 비밀스럽고 가슴 아픈 사랑이기 때문에 이를 표현하기에는 과하지 않은 신 아닌가며 베드신을 너무나 아름답게 찍어주셔서 실제. 과즙세연 리엑션
곽혈수 무슨 일 방자와 춘향의 사랑이 떳떳할 수 없는 사랑, 비밀스럽고 가슴 아픈 사랑이기 때문에 과하지 않은 것. 이어 방자전에 함께 출연했던 류현경을 가리키며 특히 현경이가 많은 도움을 줬다고 고마움을 전했다. 방자전 조여정 가슴 존나 수술티나네 ㅡ,ㅡ 인생다산nom118. 영화 방자전 예고편 캡처 조여정, 방자전 속 과감한 노출남녀 감정 돋보여 더팩트 김문정 인턴기자 조여정이 19일 방송된 sbs 파워fm 최화정의 파워타임에 출연해 영화 선택 기준에 대해 밝혀 관심을 모았다. 원래 가슴이 좀크면 쳐지니마련이니김혜수처럼 살짝 끌어올리는식으로 하징 너무 밥공기 엎어놓은것처럼 나 가슴수술 했어요. 광야의 야수들
군인 게이 영화 ‘방자전’김대우 감독이 베일을 벗었다. 키는 163cm, 체중은 45kg, 혈액형은 ab형으로 동국대학교 영상대학원 공연예술학과를 졸업했다. 키는 163cm, 체중은 45kg, 혈액형은 ab형으로 동국대학교 영상대학원 공연예술학과를 졸업했다. 영화 방자전 예고편 캡처 조여정, 방자전 속 과감한 노출남녀 감정 돋보여 더팩트 김문정 인턴기자 조여정이 19일 방송된 sbs 파워fm 최화정의 파워타임에 출연해 영화 선택 기준에 대해 밝혀 관심을 모았다. Com › jjnam008 › 60114068405조여정 가슴성형 의혹. 귀멸의 칼날 무한성 토렌트
군산지효 자위 배우 아프게 말아달라 pd, 조여정 가슴성형 논란에 호소. 오늘은 그런 조여정 그녀의 이야기에 대해서 알아보자. 지난 2010년 방자전에서 글래머러스한 몸매로 화제가 된 조여정은 한동안 가슴 성형설에 시달렸다. 조여정 프로필과 모델 활동 조여정은 1981년 2월 10일생으로 서울특별시에서 태어난 창녕 조 씨이다. 조여정 영화 방자전에서 과감한 노출신 선보여.
귀요미 사까시 최근 한 온라인 커뮤니티 게시판에는 가슴성형 전이라는 제목으로 조여정의 과거 사진이 공개되며 누리꾼들 사이에서 조여정의 가슴 성형의혹이 불거졌다. 방자전의 김대우 감독과 김주혁, 조여정, 류승범 등 주연 배우들은 25일 서울 왕십리 cgv에서 열린 언론시사회 및 간담회에 참석했다. 악플에 대해서는 여자로서 어느정도 불쾌하나. Kr › news › culture`방자전` 파격 베드신, 소문만큼 화끈했다. 배우 아프게 말아달라 pd, 조여정 가슴성형 논란에 호소.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 14, 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.
황금비닐로 가슴 감싼 조여정, 가슴골이 헉 방자전의 히로인 조여정이 육감적인 몸매를 뽐냈다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.