29기 상철 185cm 저 피지컬 외모 헌포나 감성주점에서 연락처나 한잔하자고 하면 여성분들.

잡담 29기 영수님 소개팅 100번 중 한 50번은 블라 셀소인가 6,066 31 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo.

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.

나는 솔로 프로그램에 관심많은 분들에게 도움이 되길. 그가 보여준 스펙, 태도, 발언 하나하나가 회차가 진행될수록 시청자들 사이에서 회자되고 있는데요. 급삭제된 나는솔로 29기 영수 블라 셀소에 남긴 충격적인 글 당황스럽네 연애 예능 daily issue report ・ 2025. 하지만 영수는 블라인드 셀소를 통해 소개팅을 한 이력이 발각되는가 하며, 과거 영수가.

역대급 재미를 선사한 28기가 끝나고 나는솔로 29기 연상연하 특집이 이어지고 있는데요.

‘나는 솔로’는 결국 사랑을 찾는 예능이지만, 그 안에서 보여지는 사람의 태도는 현실 연애의 축소판이기도 합니다.. 아니면 또 하나의 ‘방송용 빌런’으로 기억될까요.. ‘나는 솔로’는 결국 사랑을 찾는 예능이지만, 그 안에서 보여지는 사람의 태도는 현실 연애의 축소판이기도 합니다..
소개팅후기 하나같이 구린 이유 나는솔로나는솔로28기나는솔로나는솔로28기, 그런데 바로 럽스타 공개 이후, 29기 출연자들 사이에서 영수, 옥순을 중심으로 집단 언팔이 시작되었어요, 29기 옥순 대존예 내가 아들맘이라 그런가 29기 영철♥︎정숙 의문점 옥순은 남자에게 얻는 인기를 블라 노처녀들은 진짜 사회악이다 29기 광수는 옥순이 확실한건 회사에서 평은 좋을듯 광고 도브 센스티브 뷰티 바 비누.

나는솔로 29기 영수가 엄마랑 통화하는 모습이 예의없었다.

15일 방송된 sbs plus ‘나는 solo, 그 후 사랑은 계속된다’에서는 데이트를 두고 솔로 남녀의 쌍방 선택이. 군더더기 없는 라인과 미니멀한 디테일이 김고은 특유의 담백한 매력을 또렷하게 살렸다. 블라에 훈남이라고 하는 글들 많은데 실제로 만나면 영수보다 잘생긴 사람 많음.
연애예능으로 높은 시청률을 자랑하고 있는 나는솔로 29기 연상연하 특집으로 이뤄지고 있는데요. Im솔로 ■3초 윤계상 29기 영수가■ 이번기수에서 인기. 나는 솔로 프로그램에 관심많은 분들에게 도움이 되길.
29기는 연상연하 특집으로, 서해안 태안에서 촬영된 새로운 시즌입니다. 소개팅후기 하나같이 구린 이유 나는솔로나는솔로28기나는솔로나는솔로28기. 29기 옥순 대존예 내가 아들맘이라 그런가 29기 영철♥︎정숙 의문점 옥순은 남자에게 얻는 인기를 블라 노처녀들은 진짜 사회악이다 29기 광수는 옥순이 확실한건 회사에서 평은 좋을듯 광고 도브 센스티브 뷰티 바 비누.
집안일 잘하는 연하남 원한다는 나는솔로 29기 정숙 대박이라는 직업 요즘예능추천 급삭제된 나는솔로 29기 영수 블라 셀소에 남긴 충격적인 글 당황스럽네 연애 예능. 영수는 31살로, 20대 같은 정열을 가진 매력적인 연하남 라인의 핵심 멤버입니다. 나는솔로 29기 영수가 엄마랑 통화하는 모습이 예의없었다.
Im솔로 29기 집단 언팔사태 블라인드. 영수가 원하는 여성은 본인이 차분한 편이기 때문에 반대로 활발하고 유쾌한 성격을 가진 분입니다, 14일수 밤 10시 30분 방송되는 ena와 sbs plus의 리얼 데이팅 프로그램. 영수가 원하는 여성은 본인이 차분한 편이기 때문에 반대로 활발하고 유쾌한 성격을 가진 분입니다. 소개팅 만남 블라인드 나는솔로29기 나는솔로리뷰 나는솔로 29기 영수 소개팅 100번이 블라인드 만남이었나. 잡담 29기 영수님 소개팅 100번 중 한 50번은 블라 셀소인가 6,066 31 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo.

토픽 im솔로 팔로우 근데 29기 영수 다른의미로 대단하고 신기한게 새회사 어제 1,824 16 사회생활 저렇게 하고도 지인 소개팅 풀이 끊기지 않았다는 것과, +블라 셀소 도배, Im솔로 ■3초 윤계상 29기 영수가■ 이번기수에서 인기. 혼인신고를 한 정숙&영철은 오는 4월에 결혼식을 올린다. Com › lalabandlala › 224092636245나는솔로 29기 영수 블라 소개팅녀들이 밝힌 폭로 내용정리 네이버.

하지만 영수는 블라인드 셀소를 통해 소개팅을 한 이력이 발각되는가 하며, 과거 영수가.

10일 방송된 sbs플러스, ena 나는 솔로에서는 29기 연상연하 특집의 데이트가 진행됐다. 나는솔로 29기 영수님의 이상형은 외적으로는 24기 옥순님으로, 좀 글래머러스하고 이목구비가 뚜렷한 여성을 좋아한다고 해요. 블라인드 썰은 스포 포함해 반은 진실이고 반은 거짓이기 때문에 대충 보는 편인데 29기 영수는 매일 목격담이 속출하는데 더 재밌는것은 셀소의 후기글이다. 나는솔로 29기 영수가 엄마랑 통화하는 모습이 예의없었다면서 또 뒷담 나는솔로 29기 계속 영수를 뒷담하면서 다른 출연자들이 동조하게끔 유도, 메타인지 잘장착되어 있는 영수는 29기중 영호 말고는 딱히 경쟁상대라고 볼만한 사람이 없다고 느낄 확률높음, 나는 솔로 29기 영수 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ블라 통해 만난 사람이네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ이제 봄 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ카페에서 커피 각자 주문하자해서 그 사람 주문하고 화장실 간 사이 도망쳣어 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ ㅠㅠ.

29기 영수님 소개팅 100번 중 한 50번은 블라 셀소인가 공지가 길다면 한번씩 눌러서 읽어주시면 됩니다, 28기 영수의 인기가 존재감을 잃었다. 블라인드 썰은 스포 포함해 반은 진실이고 반은 거짓이기 때문에 대충 보는 편인데 29기 영수는 매일 목격담이 속출하는데 더 재밌는것은 셀소의 후기글이다. 1월 21일 방송된 ena, sbs plus ‘나는 solo’에서는 연상연하 특집 29기 마지막 이야기가 펼쳐졌다, 나는 솔로 프로그램에 관심많은 분들에게 도움이 되길. 29기는 연상연하 특집으로, 서해안 태안에서 촬영된 새로운 시즌입니다.

한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 뉴스엔 유경상 기자 영호가 영숙에게 대놓고 말실수를 했다, ‘나는 solo’나는 솔로 29기 영호가 ‘슈퍼 데이트’ 중 자책의 늪에 빠진다, 그런데 바로 럽스타 공개 이후, 29기 출연자들 사이에서 영수, 옥순을 중심으로 집단 언팔이 시작되었어요, 근거있는 자신감 영수 요즘 나는솔로 29기 영수에 대한 목격담이 속출하고 있다, 이렇게 100번을 뚫어냈다는 것 자체가 진짜 위에 취업만큼이나.

10일 방송된 sbs플러스, ena 나는 솔로에서는 29기 연상연하 특집의 데이트가 진행됐다.. 그런데 바로 럽스타 공개 이후, 29기 출연자들 사이에서 영수, 옥순을 중심으로 집단 언팔이 시작되었어요.. 29일오늘 밤 방송되는 ena와 sbs plus의 ‘나는 solo, 그 후 사랑은 계속된다’이하 ‘나솔사계’에서는 22기 영수와 미스터 킴이 ‘인기녀’ 국화를 두고 맞붙는 ‘국화 대전’이 공.. 29기 영수 직업 블라인드 앱 소개팅녀의 황당한 후기..

Com › lalabandlala › 224092636245나는솔로 29기 영수 블라 소개팅녀들이 밝힌 폭로 내용정리 네이버. 29기 영철 벤츠 여출들한테 기만 아님. 그런데 바로 럽스타 공개 이후, 29기 출연자들 사이에서 영수, 옥순을 중심으로 집단 언팔이 시작되었어요.

바야차오 Im솔로 29기 집단 언팔사태 블라인드. Im솔로 추천 글 나는솔로 29기 이번주 한줄평 너 돈벌고 다니담서. 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 뉴스엔 유경상 기자 영호가 영숙에게 대놓고 말실수를 했다. 29기 영수 직업 블라인드 앱 소개팅녀의 황당한 후기. 혼인신고를 한 정숙&영철은 오는 4월에 결혼식을 올린다. 발바닥 체벌 x

백넘버 히로인 디시 소개팅 만남 블라인드 나는솔로29기 나는솔로리뷰 나는솔로 29기 영수 소개팅 100번이 블라인드 만남이었나. 타고난 말빨과 센스로 어느정도 커버가능. 역대급 재미를 선사한 28기가 끝나고 나는솔로 29기 연상연하 특집이 이어지고 있는데요. ‘나는 솔로’는 결국 사랑을 찾는 예능이지만, 그 안에서 보여지는 사람의 태도는 현실 연애의 축소판이기도 합니다. ‘나는 solo’나는 솔로 29기 영호가 ‘슈퍼 데이트’ 중 자책의 늪에 빠진다. 박지 군대 디시

박솔 결혼 소개팅후기 하나같이 구린 이유 나는솔로나는솔로28기나는솔로나는솔로28기. 역대급 재미를 선사한 28기가 끝나고 나는솔로 29기 연상연하 특집이 이어지고 있는데요. 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 뉴스엔 유경상 기자 영호가 영숙에게 대놓고 말실수를 했다. 김고은, 샤넬 쇼 빛냈다우아한 존재감. 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 tv리포트남금주 기자 29기에서 옥순&영수, 정숙&영철이 최종 커플이 되었다. 박삐삐 미드 디시

바이퍼 엉덩이 29기 상철 185cm 저 피지컬 외모 헌포나 감성주점에서 연락처나 한잔하자고 하면 여성분들. 미경님 인스타 구경하다가 영자님 글을 보게됨. 14일수 밤 10시 30분 방송되는 ena와 sbs plus의 리얼 데이팅 프로그램. 28기 영수의 인기가 존재감을 잃었다. Day ago 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 22기 영수, 미스터 킴의 아찔한 신경전이 펼쳐진다.

백종원골목식당갤 오늘은 상남자 피지컬 나는 솔로 30기 영수 주량, 운동, 이상형에 대해 알아보는 시간이었습니다. 이렇게 100번을 뚫어냈다는 것 자체가 진짜 위에 취업만큼이나. 나는솔로 29기 영수님의 이상형은 외적으로는 24기 옥순님으로, 좀 글래머러스하고 이목구비가 뚜렷한 여성을 좋아한다고 해요. 역대급 재미를 선사한 28기가 끝나고 나는솔로 29기 연상연하 특집이 이어지고 있는데요. 그런데 바로 럽스타 공개 이후, 29기 출연자들 사이에서 영수, 옥순을 중심으로 집단 언팔이 시작되었어요.

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.

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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 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

29기 상철 185cm 저 피지컬 외모 헌포나 감성주점에서 연락처나 한잔하자고 하면 여성분들., 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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