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합수본, 통일교 후원의원 명단 확보 한국당 32명민주당 13.

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.

초기 명칭은 세계기독교통일신령협회였으나, 1997년 4월 10일에 개칭하였다. 세계평화통일가정연합 세계평화통일성전 공식 홈페이지 분류 통일교 대한민국의 신흥 종교 1954년 설립된 단체 기독교계 신흥 종교 서울특별시의 문화 대한민국의 종교 단체 반공주의 대한민국의 극우 정치 일본의 극우 정치 사이비 종교. Jpg 51,212 224 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. Net › square › 4031793826더쿠 통일교 5지구 해저터널 로비 핵심 의혹&nldr.

초딩때 리틀엔젤스 됐다가 통일교재단 이라고 주변 반대로 안들어가고기독교집안 결국 모방송국 합창단 했었는데 난 리틀엔젤스 하고 싶었거든 같이 붙었던 친구는. 더불어민주당이 통일교와의 유착 의혹이 불거진 당내 인사들과 관련해 통일교 관련 민주당 명단이 우후죽순 쏟아지고 있으나 자세히 들여다보면 근거가 부족해 보인다며 특검 흔들기와 물타기에 불과한 정치 공세라고 일축했다. Net › square › 4031793826더쿠 통일교 5지구 해저터널 로비 핵심 의혹&nldr. 건물내 3층 남북통일운동 국민연합 사무실은 텅 비어 있습니다. 오늘은 통일교의 탄생부터 활동, 쟁점까지한눈에 정리해드립니다, 통일교 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요, 세계평화통일가정연합 한국협회통일교는 전직 간부가 형사처벌을 받게 된 사안에 대해 무거운 책임을 통감한다는 내용의 입장문을 29일 발표했다.

통일교 재단인 일화 기업의 음료들을 알아보자 39,872 28 무명의 더쿠 Stheqoo.

한 전 대표는 이날 sns에 국민의힘 당대표 시절 한학자 총재가 만나고 싶다며 비서실로 오라는 이상한 요청을 단호히 거부했다.. 이슈 아베 죽음으로 촉발된 일본 정치권 통일교 스캔들 근황 78,271 315.. 한일 해저터널은 통일교 창시자인 문선명 초대 총재가 1981년 통일교 주최 행사에서 구상을 밝힌 이후 통일교의 주요 숙원 사업으로 여겨져..

정치 나경원, 통일교 의혹 거명에 명백한 허위저질 물타기 공작 851 21 무명의 더쿠 Stheqoo.

오히려 한국에선 2011년 기사보니까 19000명이라던디 일본에선 왤케 많은느낌이지 한 유튜버도 그랫엇고. 뉴시스 박형준, 20212022년 통일교 행사서 축사 박형준 부산시장이 영남 지역에서 열린 세계평화통일가정연합 통일교 행사에 두차례 영상축사한 것으로 확인됐다. 통일교 재단인 일화 기업의 음료들을 알아보자 39,872 28 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. Net › square › 4025822247더쿠 與 통일교 관련 민주당 명단 우후죽순명확한 근거 없는 물.

이슈 통일교 첫날밤 행동수칙 23,751 85 무명의 더쿠 Stheqoo.

법원, 통일교 금품수수 김건희에 징역 1년8개월 선고댓글37. 한국 커뮤니티에서 조선족만큼 많은 것 통일교 2세대, 박형준 부산시장이 4일 부산 수영구 생활문화센터에서 부산 외국인 관광객 300만명 돌파 성과와 500만명 목표를 제시하고 있다, 뉴시스 박형준, 20212022년 통일교 행사서 축사 박형준 부산시장이 영남 지역에서 열린 세계평화통일가정연합 통일교 행사에 두차례 영상축사한 것으로 확인됐다, 오늘 통일교 가평 천정궁과 용산 본부를 압수수색한 김건희 특검이 찾아낸 공간입니다, 참사랑으로 하나 되자는 슬로건 아래 출발한 통일교.

Jpg 51,212 224 무명의 더쿠 Stheqoo.

박수현 민주당 수석대변인은 12일 오전 서울 여의도 국회 본관에서.. 통일교는 1940년대, 남북 분단 이전부터 평양을 중심으로 문선명이 통일교 교주 노릇을 하며 종교를 형성하고 있었는데, 6.. 한국 커뮤니티에서 조선족만큼 많은 것 통일교 2세대..

민중기 특검팀은 앞서 통일교 전 간부인 윤영호 씨가 2022년 대선 전후로 국민의힘 의원들을 조직적으로 지원했다는 의혹에 대해 수사를 진행해 왔습니다. Net › square › 1524467654더쿠 한일부부 유튜버 희매몽 통일교 의혹 정리. 박수현 민주당 수석대변인은 12일 오전 서울 여의도 국회 본관에서. 정치 통일교 관련 홍준표 페이스북 3,100 39.

___ycancan , ycancan主演的a片 통일교 누리집 ‘건진법사’ 전성배씨를 통해 김건희 여사에게 청탁과 함께 금품을 전달한 혐의로 구속 기소된 ‘통일교 2인자’ 윤영호 전 통일교 세계평화통일가정연합 세계본부장이 더불어민주당 정치인 여러 명에게 금전적 지원을 했다는 취지의 진술을. 통일교 신자로 지난 2020년 총선을 앞두고 전재수 전 해수부 장관에게 한학자 총재의 자서전을 전달하고, 함께 기념사진을 찍은 인물입니다. 최근 언론과 sns를 통해 ‘통일교 교주’ 관련 뉴스가 연일 보도되고 있습니다. 박형준 부산시장이 4일 부산 수영구 생활문화센터에서 부산 외국인 관광객 300만명 돌파 성과와 500만명 목표를 제시하고 있다. 이재명 대통령은 2일 종교의 정치개입 사례를 지적하며 종교재단 해산을 법제처에 지시했다. とうかあかり 現在

ウォニョン deepfake 한국 일본 신랑신부 합동결혼식으로 유명한 그 종교. 통일교 재단인 일화 기업의 음료들을 알아보자 39,872 28 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 이슈 통일교 교주 문선명 40세 그의 부인 18세 시절. 1954년 한국의 문선명 文鮮明 총재가 창시했으며, 기독교적인 배경을 가지고 있지만 독자적인 교리와 신학을 발전시켜 왔습니다. 이 자리에는 한국, 미국, 일본, 영국, 프랑스, 캐나다, 브라질, 볼리비아, 코스타리카, 콩고민주공화국, 태국, 필리핀 등 90개국 남녀 5000쌍이 한학자82 가정연합 총재 read more. もち pikpak

ソブリー 韓国 김씨의 통일교 연루 의혹에 대해 관계자들은 ″일본 승공연합에서 활동한 적은 있다고 하는데, 교회와 아무 상관이 없는 사람″이라고 해명했다. 김건희 여사가 통일교로부터 이권 사업을 청탁하는 대가로 고가의 금품을 받은 혐의에 대해 법원이 징역 1년 8개월을 선고했다. 더불어민주당이 통일교와의 유착 의혹이 불거진 당내 인사들과 관련해 통일교 관련 민주당 명단이 우후죽순 쏟아지고 있으나 자세히 들여다보면 근거가 부족해 보인다며 특검 흔들기와 물타기에 불과한 정치 공세라고 일축했다. 건물내 3층 남북통일운동 국민연합 사무실은 텅 비어 있습니다. 통일교신천지 정교유착 의혹을 수사하는 검경 합동수사본부본부장 김태훈가 국회의원을 대상으로 통일교의 쪼개기 후원이 광범위하게 이뤄진. エンジェリック・カズン hitomi

신태일 근황 이슈 용산에 있다는 통일교 건물 ㅡㅡ 69,131 239. 박수현 민주당 수석대변인은 12일 오전 서울 여의도 국회 본관에서. 통일교서 1억 받은 권성동 징역 2년, 건넨 윤영호 1년2개월. 세계평화통일가정연합 세계평화통일성전 공식 홈페이지 분류 통일교 대한민국의 신흥 종교 1954년 설립된 단체 기독교계 신흥 종교 서울특별시의 문화 대한민국의 종교 단체 반공주의 대한민국의 극우 정치 일본의 극우 정치 사이비 종교. 이슈 용산에 있다는 통일교 건물 ㅡㅡ 69,131 239.

ㄷㅇㅎㅅㄹ 뜻 정보 맥콜, 천연사이다가 통일교꺼라고. 다른 분파들과 비교하는 서술에서는 주류 교단을 가정연합이라고 칭한다. 이슈 통일교 교주 문선명 40세 그의 부인 18세 시절. 60여 년의 역사를 거치며 세계적으로 확산됐지만,‘신정통치’, ‘정재계 유착’, ‘세습 의혹’ 등끊임없는 논란을 낳아온 종교이기도 합니다. 더쿠 태연 생일과 탑시드홈마의 10주년이 겹쳤을때더쿠 태연 생일과 탑시드홈마의 10주년이 겹쳤을.

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

정보 통일교 한창 잘나갈때 초대 교주 문선명이 쌓아둔 인맥들 121,826 330 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo., 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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