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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 11, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 11, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 11, 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 11, 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.

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다만, ncmec에 보고가 되고, 다시 해당 기관이 국내 수사기관에 의뢰를 하기까지의 시간적 소요가 있기에 정지가 된다고 하여 바로 입건이.. 아청물 없는데 아청으로 정지 먹었는데 아무튼 ncmec로 넘어갔을거 아냐.. 디시 해외연예갤러리로 피신 즉 페미판 n번방사태인데 문제는 미국이 끼여있음 병신년들 4 l 2022.. Google은 아동 학대와 관련된 문제를 다루는 미국의 정보 센터이자 통합 신고 센터인 ncmecnational center for missing and exploited children에 csam을 신고합니다..
Ncmecs cybertipline was created in 1998 to. Ncmec에 정보 넘어간다음 올해 2월달 또는 3월달쯤에, 2021년 2월 구글이 미국 샌프란시스코에서 소프트웨어. 디시인사이드의 고소 마이너 갤러리에서 고소 관련 정보와 경험을 공유하는 게시글입니다.

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Com › mini › boardncmec은 시청도 넘김, 정지는 대부분 ai로 이루어지는데 ai오탐일수도 있는데 ncmec에 정보를 막 넘기면 안되죠. 구글드라이브 정지구드 정지와 ncmec.

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그래서 미국 정부의 지원금을 받고 있으며, 실제로 미국 법무부 홈페이지에는 아동 포르노 관련 신고는 ncmec 쪽에 신고하라고 나와있다. Over the past four decades, ncmec has continuously confronted evolving threats against children and worked with law enforcement, legislators, industry, survivors and their families and others to create and implement solutions to keep children safe online. 인스타나 트위터에서 스스로 몸사찍어서 올리는 애들도 경찰에 넘김, Google은 아동 학대와 관련된 문제를 다루는 미국의 정보 센터이자 통합 신고 센터인 ncmecnational center for missing and exploited children에 csam을 신고합니다. 그래서 미국 정부의 지원금을 받고 있으며, 실제로 미국 법무부 홈페이지에는 아동 포르노 관련 신고는 ncmec 쪽에 신고하라고 나와있다. 미국구글본사에서 자동검열로 검열해내고 아청물있다고보이면 ncmec에 고발하고 거기서 한국경찰로 넘긴다는거같은데 흠 법률ㅈ문가입장에서볼때 구글드라이브로 잡힌경우는 내가볼때 구글에서 직접고발해서 잡힌거라기보단 디스코드같은곳에서 제3자한테, 우선 정지라고 해서 ncmec 제보로 이루어지는건 절대 아닙니다, 구글 스마트폰 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. 464748 the network has 31 member countries albania, argentina, australia, belgium, brazil, canada. Launched in 1998 as a joint venture of ncmec and icmec, the global missing childrens network gmcn is a network of countries that connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations. 문제영상에 해쉬값을 같이 업로드를 한다고 생각하면 된다.

다키 규타로 야스

아청물 없는데 아청으로 정지 먹었는데 아무튼 ncmec로 넘어갔을거 아냐, 일반 ncmec 걱정하는 애들 많길래 좀 알아와봄장문. 최소한 실버까진 올려야 뭘 하든가 말까 한거 같은데 출석 포인트 50 말고 다른거 올릴 방법 없음. 제가 개인서버에 아청물을 올려 영구정지를 먹었고 디스코드 커뮤니티 가이드라인에 따르면 ncmec 에 보고된다고 하는데 수사가 시작되면 아청물 소지, 구글 계정이 아동 성적학대 콘텐츠로 정지 read more. 인스타그램에서 ncmec 적발 가능성은.

Org › gethelpnow › cybertiplinecybertipline data national center for missing & exploited.. 아청물 없는데 아청으로 정지 먹었는데 아무튼 ncmec로 넘어갔을거 아냐.. Org › wiki › national_center_for_missingnational center for missing & exploited children wikipedia..
와 ncmec 얘들 진짜 아청관련해서는 처벌조항없는국가에도. N번방등의 범죄포르노물 혹은 명확히 아동이라고 인지될만한 사진은 없다고 보이나 중고등학생으로 의심되는 사진은 존재합니다. 제가 개인서버에 아청물을 올려 영구정지를 먹었고 디스코드 커뮤니티 가이드라인에 따르면 ncmec 에 보고된다고 하는데 수사가 시작되면 아청물 소지.
2024 marked 40 years of operation for the national center for missing & exploited children. 구글 스마트폰 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. 통매음 없음 그것도 검증된거 아니고 그사건은 고소인이 없어서 ncmec 맞지않음.
아님 따로 이의신청해야 넘겨지는거냐. Com › mgallery › board만약에 ncmec에 정보전달되면 고소 마이너 갤러리. Com › mgallery › boardncmec

다키 팬티

왜자꾸 해외 아청법협조가지고 선동하냐 통매음 미니 갤러리. 가능하다면 모든 사건을 추적하고 싶겠지만, a. 일반 ncmec 걱정하는 애들 많길래 좀 알아와봄장문, Ncmecs cybertipline was created in 1998 to.

니나코275 Ncmec국립실종학대아동방지센터를 통해 사건화가 될 가능성이 높아진다는 게 유명해진 구글 드라이브나 트위터 사건들 외에도 텔레그램, 디스코드 등의. 미국 정부 와 파트너십 형태의 유기적 공조를 하고 있다. 최소한 실버까진 올려야 뭘 하든가 말까 한거 같은데 출석 포인트 50 말고 다른거 올릴 방법 없음. 구글 계정이 아동 성적학대 콘텐츠로 정지 read more. 구글드라이브 정지 아청물 압수수색이라면 과거에는 n번방을 비롯하여 현재는 딥페이크 아청물에. 다키 엉덩이

다키야동 아님 따로 이의신청해야 넘겨지는거냐. The ncmec operates the cybertipline which was established by congress to process reports of child sexual exploitation including sexual abuse, online enticement, and contact offenses. 다만, ncmec에 보고가 되고, 다시 해당 기관이 국내 수사기관에 의뢰를 하기까지의 시간적 소요가 있기에. 464748 the network has 31 member countries albania, argentina, australia, belgium, brazil, canada. 통매음 없음 그것도 검증된거 아니고 그사건은 고소인이 없어서 ncmec 맞지않음. 다음 중 5×4 또는 3×3 등의 평가척도를 이용해 해당 유해·위험요인의 위험성이 얼마나 높은지 빈도(가능성)와 강도(중대성)를 파악하여 위험성 크기의 허용 가능 여부를 살펴보는 위험성평가 방법은_

다나카네네 디시인사이드에서 다양한 주제의 갤러리를 탐색하고 의견을 나눠보세요. 가능하다면 모든 사건을 추적하고 싶겠지만, a. Ncmecs cybertipline was created in 1998 to. 일반 ncmec 걱정하는 애들 많길래 좀 알아와봄장문. 진아청 올린 애들도 정지먹었단 말만하고 경찰왔단 소리는 안하는데 ncmec에서 한국에 자료넘기고 그러는거 아녔음. 다리 예쁜 여자 보면 디시

대전 둔산동 헌팅 디시 2021년 2월 구글이 미국 샌프란시스코에서 소프트웨어. Com › mgallery › board만약에 ncmec에 정보전달되면 고소 마이너 갤러리. Ncmec국립실종학대아동방지센터를 통해 사건화가 될 가능성이 높아진다는 게 유명해진 구글 드라이브나 트위터 사건들 외에도 텔레그램, 디스코드 등의. When you give to ncmec, you can rest assured that your donation helps to find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. When you give to ncmec, you can rest assured that your donation helps to find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization.

더쿠 배구 문제영상에 해쉬값을 같이 업로드를 한다고 생각하면 된다. 일반 사이버범죄 공조 조약랑 가아청이랑 ncmec이랑 뭔상관임. 근데 fbi에 신고했다는게 우리가 생각하는거처럼 안돌아갈수 있어서 계속 주시중이긴함. Ncmec 정리글 2 고소 마이너 갤러리. 2024 marked 40 years of operation for the national center for missing & exploited children.

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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

, 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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