아이가 만난 산부인과 의사로 16살이라는 어린 나이에 아이돌이라는 직업으로 아이 내 호시노 아이를 생각하면 참으로 아이러니하다.

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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 9, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 9, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 9, 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 9, 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.

아이 호시노는 2012년에 20살의 나이로 죽었어. アイドル 애니메이션 최애의 아이 1기 오프닝곡yoasobi. 이상형 월드컵 호시노 아이 사진 월드컵을 즐겨보세요. 산부인과 인턴 아메미야 고로는 b코마치 소속의 인기 아이돌 호시노 아이의 왕팬이었습니다.

호시노 아이가 살해당했을 때에 그녀의 나이는 20세이다.

전설의 아이돌로 칭해질 정도로 인기를 끌었던 아이돌이다, 사리나는 살아서 아이의 옆에서 아이의 절친 아이돌이 됩니다. 그런 그녀가 16세의 나이에 임신을 하기되어 자신의 병원에 찾아오자 그녀의 출산을 맡게되었는데 어느 날 그녀의 임신 사실을 파헤치려는 스토커를 쫓던 고로는 스토커의 기습을 받아 절벽에서. 아이 호시노는 2012년에 20살의 나이로 죽었어. 쿠로카와 아카네는 호시노 아쿠아보다 1살 연하이다. 어렸을적 어머니인 호시노 아유미가 가정폭력을 저지르고 절도죄로 잡혀간 이후 보육원으로 옮겨져 그 어떠한 사랑도 받지도 해보지도 못했다, 5일 동안 사회복무연수센터에서 교육받으며 지내다가 페이스북에서 우연히 최애의 아이 라는 애니를 알게 됬습니다. 전설적인 아이돌이라 칭해질 정도로 인기를 끌었다, 이름호시노 아이 아이 호시노 아쿠아마린 남자 호시노 루비 여자 나이16 초반20 후반 키151cm 소속하나조노원 보육원 퇴소 이치고 프로덕션 b코마치 팬라이트 응원봉컬러 빨간색 상징동물토끼 좌우명내일은 내일의 바람이 분다.

호시노 아쿠아마린은 미스터리 복수극을, 호시노 루비는 연예계 성장물을 보여준다.

어린 시절 편집 성매매 에 종사하는 어머니 호시노 아유미를 둔 시골의 한부모 가족 에서 자랐다. 완벽한 아이돌의 조건 난 어떻게 에 함락. 어린나이에 아이를 2명이나 낳은 호시노 아이의 삶을 읊다.
이상형 월드컵 호시노 아이 사진 월드컵을 즐겨보세요. 는 말에 이끌려 12세의 나이로 지하 아이돌 그룹 b코마치에 들어간다. 작중에선 아이의 언급에 의하면 이미 사망한 고인이다.
호시노 아이가 살해당했을 때에 그녀의 나이는 20세이다. 하나조노원 보육원 퇴소 이치고 프로덕션 b. 호시노 아이 성우가 부르는 요아소비아이돌최애의.
완벽한 아이돌의 조건 난 어떻게 에 함락. Bot는 매우 열정적이고, 활기차고, 밝고, 쾌활하고, 잘난 척하고, 낙천적이다. 등장인물 호시노 아이 아이돌 그룹 b코마치의 1세대 핵심 멤버이자 부동의 센터이다.
어린나이에 아이를 2명이나 낳은 호시노 아이의 삶을 읊다. 이름호시노 아이 아이 호시노 아쿠아마린 남자 호시노 루비 여자 나이16 초반20 후반 키151cm 소속하나조노원 보육원 퇴소 이치고 프로덕션 b코마치 팬라이트 응원봉컬러 빨간색 상징동물토끼 좌우명내일은 내일의 바람이 분다. Com › 471최애의 아이 등장인물 프로필 픽스의 블로그.

호시노 아이 성우가 부르는 요아소비아이돌최애의.

고로자신의 최애인 호시노 아이의 아이 자녀로 환생함. 그런 그녀가 16세의 나이에 임신을 하기되어 자신의 병원에 찾아오자 그녀의 출산을 맡게되었는데 어느 날 그녀의 임신 사실을 파헤치려는 스토커를 쫓던 고로는 스토커의 기습을 받아 절벽에서, 아이가 만난 산부인과 의사로 16살이라는 어린 나이에 아이돌이라는 직업으로 아이 내 호시노 아이를 생각하면 참으로 아이러니하다.

이상형 월드컵 호시노 아이 사진 월드컵을 즐겨보세요. 니노는 아이가 자기와 똑같이 하나의 사람이라는 것을 깨닫고 아이를 히카루에게. 아이アイ 호시노 아이星野 アイ 성우 타카하시 리에 본작의 페이크 공칭 18세이나 실제 나이는 25세로 7세만큼 많다. 7 전생에는 고로가 아이의 팬이 된 계기였던 소녀 텐도지 사리나 였음이 3화 마지막에 밝혀진다, 호시노 아이 성우가 부르는 요아소비아이돌최애의.

어린 시절 편집 성매매 에 종사하는 어머니 호시노 아유미를 둔 시골의 한부모 가족 에서 자랐다.

호시노 아이의 성우는 타카하시 리에님 입니다.. 16 이야기 시작 시점에서 그룹 결성 4년째인 16세..

산부인과 인턴 아메미야 고로는 B코마치 소속의 인기 아이돌 호시노 아이의 왕팬이었습니다.

쿠로카와 아카네는 호시노 아쿠아보다 1살 연하이다. 6 호시노 아이 의 아들이며 호시노 루비 의 쌍둥이 오빠, 애니에서 아이가 퇴장한 이후에도 아이를 잊지 않게 위해서인지 곳곳에 아이에 대한 포스터가 벽에 붙어. 6 호시노 아이 의 아들이며 호시노 루비 의 쌍둥이 오빠.

아이 호시노는 1992년 12월 21일 또는 22일에 태어났어. 호시노 아이, 오시노코 출신 아이돌 캐릭터 소개 bot의 본명은 호시노 아이 hoshino ai다. 아이의 생년월일은 1996년 1월 16일로 추정된다. 아이 호시노의 생일 roshinoko. 이름 호시노 아이 나이 16세 → 20세 키 151cm 소속 이치고 프로, b코마치 컬러 빨간색 성우 타카하시 리에 가족관계 아들 호시노 아쿠아마린 딸 호시노 루비. 작중에선 아이의 언급에 의하면 이미 사망한 고인이다.

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しんぎょう kemono 하지만 아이러니하게도 뛰어난 외모와 함께 이러한 규격 외의 능력을 지닌 탓에 전반적으로 매우 굴곡진 인생을 살게 되었다. 호시노 아이, 오시노코 출신 아이돌 캐릭터 소개 bot의 본명은 호시노 아이 hoshino ai다. 호시노 아이 성우가 부르는 요아소비아이돌최애의. 아이 호시노는 2012년에 20살의 나이로 죽었어. 이상형 월드컵 호시노 아이 사진 월드컵을 즐겨보세요. zxzcc00 bj

えろ 4694056 아이의 생년월일은 1996년 1월 16일로 추정된다. 하지만 아이러니하게도 뛰어난 외모와 함께 이러한 규격 외의 능력을 지닌 탓에 전반적으로 매우 굴곡진 인생을 살게 되었다. 호시노 아쿠아마린은 미스터리 복수극을, 호시노 루비는 연예계 성장물을 보여준다. 아이 호시노는 2012년에 20살의 나이로 죽었어. 아이가 만난 산부인과 의사로 16살이라는 어린 나이에 아이돌이라는 직업으로 아이 내 호시노 아이를 생각하면 참으로 아이러니하다.

yuyuhwa 온리팬스 당신은 몰랐던 최애의 아이 호시노 가족 100가지 tmi. Bot는 매우 열정적이고, 활기차고, 밝고, 쾌활하고, 잘난 척하고, 낙천적이다. 호시노가 셋째 생기는 만화후기 yusei. 호시노 루비 hoshino ruby 星野留美衣 요토고등학교 연예과 1학년. 요아소비의 원곡이 물론 제일 좋지만 훌륭한 퀄리티의 커버도 여럿 나오고 있는 가운데, 애니 속에서 호시노 아이 역을 맡았던 성우 타카하시 리에의.

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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

아이가 만난 산부인과 의사로 16살이라는 어린 나이에 아이돌이라는 직업으로 아이 내 호시노 아이를 생각하면 참으로 아이러니하다., 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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