천주교 예수회 이미지는 똥이 되어버렸고 예수회는 미국 곳곳에서 리베라의 만화가 출판되지못하게 고소 고발을 하고 다녔다.

예수회의 설립자 성 이냐시오 데 로욜라 가 도입한 문장으로 로마 제국 시대부터 사용된 무적의 태양 sol invictus 문양 안에 크리스토그램 ihs 가 쓰여 있다.

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, August 1, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 1, 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, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 1, 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, August 1, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 1, 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, August 1, 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, August 1, 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, August 1, 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, August 1, 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, August 1, 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, August 1, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 1, 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, August 1, 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, August 1, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 1, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 1, 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, August 1, 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.

예수회의 설립자 성 이냐시오 데 로욜라 가 도입한 문장으로 로마 제국 시대부터 사용된 무적의 태양 sol invictus 문양 안에 크리스토그램 ihs 가 쓰여 있다. 검은 교황과 그의 예수회 용병 군대는 검은 귀족의 가장 강력한 비밀 결사이자 강력한 무기입니다. 일반 속보디시 내 예수회 가톨릭갤를 발견했다. 일루미나티 프리메이슨의 배후에 있는 예수회 202 만화 갤러리.

문재인정부인사중 예수회 인물이 많이 있다고 한다예수회는 프란치스코 교황을 배출한 것으로도 알려져 있다.

언제, 어떻게 신비주의를 교육할지 걱정하지 말라.. 대표적인 예로는 예수회 계열 학교인 라 플레슈 la flèche 출신 수학자이자 철학자인 르네 데카르트 가 있다..

현재 미국의 예수회 지회가 10 곳이 존재하는데, 다른 나라에 비해 굉장히 많은 지회를 보유하고 있는 편이라고 한다 이것은 그만큼 그들의 영향력이 크다는 의미이기도 하다.

한국에 한 대표적인 일론 임진왜란이 있고,소현세자한테 예수회 교육을 했음. 그게 성공했어야지조선을 프랜차이즈로 만들고 1997 국가부도조선 청조선 러시. 문재인정부인사중 예수회 인물이 많이 있다고 한다예수회는 프란치스코 교황을 배출한 것으로도 알려져 있다. Com › mgallery › board예수회 입회자격 이거 사실임, 콜럼버스 기사단, 말타 기사단, 오푸스 데이, 프리메이슨, 일루미나티, 해골단 등등 이러한 비밀 조직들은 모두 예수회 아래서 활동하고 있는 조직들이며 교황의 기사단입니다. dc official app 일반 문재인 예수회 십자가 수 136개 이태원 사망자 선 발인 136명. 통해 임진왜란 일으키고 난뒤의 시대 아니냐그래서 상 주나역사특집임진왜란을 일으킨 천주교 예수회jesuite와 일본 침략군 제 1장수 고니시 유키나가こにし ゆきなが, 소서행장小西行長 아우구스티노한국과 로.

이후 수십년 동안 예수회 학생들은 조각, 벽화 및 목탄화 등 400점이 넘는 예술 작품을 완성했는데 고대이집트에서 신성시했던 날개 달린 황소, 미니 이슬람 궁전인 알람브라 Alhambra궁전, 힌두교 사원, 부처상, 그리스도 상, 이집트 파라오 람세스 2세.

문재인정부인사중 예수회 인물이 많이 있다고 한다예수회는 프란치스코 교황을 배출한 것으로도 알려져 있다. 예수회는 정체가 뭐냐 가톨릭 신학 마이너 갤러리. 26p28p 화승총을 조총으로 개량하고 삼단철포부대를 운영하여서 일본을 제패한 오다 노부나가는 천주교 예수회를 적극 후원하였다, 예수회 회원 알베르토 리베라가 폭로한 천주교 예수회의 정체. 예수회가 이순신 죽일려고 500척 막 만듬. 예수회가 설립한 서강대 그 수명을 다한 이유 4년제 대학. 일루미나티 프리메이슨의 배후에 있는 예수회 202 만화 갤러리. 한국에 한 대표적인 일론 임진왜란이 있고,소현세자한테 예수회 교육을 했음.

많은 사람들이 알고 있는 프리메이슨 Freemasonry은 종교적인 목적을 가지고 모인 단체가 아니었으나 그들에게 눈독을 들인 로마카톨릭에게 걸려들어 그들과 결탁하게 되고 로욜라 Ignatius Of Loyola ㆍ1491∼1556에 의해서 프리메이슨의 사상과 조직을 이어받아.

예수회society of jesus는 16세기 로마 가톨릭 교회의 종교 개혁 대응으로 창설된 강력한 종교 조직이며, 특히 정치경제사회 전반에 걸쳐 막대한. 2013년 러시아가 크림반도 강제병합, 돈바스지역 침공서구 사회에 pc주의 정신병자들이 갑자기 늘어남중국 공산당의 갑작스런 팽창주의한국 천주교도 급진적으로 좌경화자세한 내용은 예수회, 중남미 해방신학, 일루미나티 등등, 예수회의 정러가도 위한 작전은 1호는.

예수회가 설립한 서강대 그 수명을 다한 이유 4년제 대학, 예수회 고유의 교육&양성철학은 양날의 검인 듯 가톨릭. 아니 예수회교육 좋은거 누가 모르나 문명 마이너 갤러리.

에리모 데리헤루 예수회 출신인 문재인 정부때 터진 버닝썬사건은그 배후가 예수회다. 그는 포르투갈의 예수회 소속 신부였다. 예수회가 이순신 죽일려고 500척 막 만듬. 그들은 세상을 지배하기 위하여 전 세계에 비밀 요원들을 가지고 있고, 각국의 정보국들이 그들의 손아귀에 있으며, 또한. 감사하며 살아야 됨 우리모두인생역전 20240423 로마카톨릭 예수회 이 개새끼들이 지구의 암덩어리임 강남귀족김첨지 20240422 @강남귀족김첨지 미군을 통해 세계 평화를 지켜주고 있는 이상 우리는 주인님에게 감사하며 살아야 됨 우리모두인생역전 20240423. 양망두 논란

야썰 보지 매주 유튜브 링크 보내주는데 1주 지나면 강의 삭제. 현재 미국의 예수회 지회가 10 곳이 존재하는데, 다른 나라에 비해 굉장히 많은 지회를 보유하고 있는 편이라고 한다 이것은 그만큼 그들의 영향력이 크다는 의미이기도 하다. 대응종교개혁, 선교, 교육, 철학, 신학, cv2, 현대 윤리문제의 도전 등 전방위로 성과를 내 온 공동체는 누가 뭐래도 예수회임. 수강료 10만원인가 암튼 그러함약간 수능 언어영역 시문학 인강의 구약버전이라고 생각하면 됨. Com › postview사탄의 도구들 예수회&efdot. 양민희 노브라

야스킹 야동 아이들의 혼은 글자 그대로 교사와의 긴밀한 접촉으로 형성되는. 통해 임진왜란 일으키고 난뒤의 시대 아니냐그래서 상 주나역사특집임진왜란을 일으킨 천주교 예수회jesuite와 일본 침략군 제 1장수 고니시 유키나가こにし ゆきなが, 소서행장小西行長 아우구스티노한국과 로. 세계음모론 간단정리선출되지 않은 권력이 국가 정책 뒤에서 쥐락펴락하는 걸 딥스테이트라고 함서양 음모론자들은 그림자정부라 부르기도 하고 영어로는 ptb라고도 함ptb power that be말 그대로 뒤에서 조종. 예수회가 이순신 죽일려고 500척 막 만듬. ㄴ문재인의 정신적 지주이자 노무현의 멘토라 일컬어지는 송기인 신부가운데그냥 보여지는 점들을 내 마음대로 이어본것이니 재미로 봐줘 송기인 신부의 약력을 먼저 살펴보자 민족문제연구소 지도위원, 이사 민주화운동정신계. 에로배우 노아

엔쥬 나이 Redirecting to sgall. 그리고 알다시피 노부나가 죽을때 혼노지의 변 그. ㄴ문재인의 정신적 지주이자 노무현의 멘토라 일컬어지는 송기인 신부가운데그냥 보여지는 점들을 내 마음대로 이어본것이니 재미로 봐줘 송기인 신부의 약력을 먼저 살펴보자 민족문제연구소 지도위원, 이사 민주화운동정신계. 예수회는 회원들의 인격 완성과 이웃 봉사, 그리고 하느님에게 더 큰 영광을 드리는 일을 중요한 목표로 삼고 있으며 창립자인 성 이냐시오 데 로욜라의. 26p28p 화승총을 조총으로 개량하고 삼단철포부대를 운영하여서 일본을 제패한 오다 노부나가는 천주교 예수회를 적극 후원하였다.

얼공야동 임진왜란 예수회가 이순신 죽일려고 500척 막 만듬. 콜럼버스 기사단, 말타 기사단, 오푸스 데이, 프리메이슨, 일루미나티, 해골단 등등 이러한 비밀 조직들은 모두 예수회 아래서 활동하고 있는 조직들이며 교황의 기사단입니다. 그는 포르투갈의 예수회 소속 신부였다. 예수회 회원 알베르토 리베라가 폭로한 천주교 예수회의 정체. 통해 임진왜란 일으키고 난뒤의 시대 아니냐그래서 상 주나역사특집임진왜란을 일으킨 천주교 예수회jesuite와 일본 침략군 제 1장수 고니시 유키나가こにし ゆきなが, 소서행장小西行長 아우구스티노한국과 로.

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, August 1, 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, August 1, 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, August 1, 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, August 1, 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 August 1, 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, August 1, 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 August 1, 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, August 1, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

천주교 예수회 이미지는 똥이 되어버렸고 예수회는 미국 곳곳에서 리베라의 만화가 출판되지못하게 고소 고발을 하고 다녔다., 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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