US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 19, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 19, 2026.
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.
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 19, 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 19, 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.
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.
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.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 19, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 19, 2026.
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.
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.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 19, 2026.
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.
FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 19, 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 19, 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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 19, 2026.
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.
FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 19, 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 19, 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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 19, 2026.
15 1003 요런갤이 잇엇군여 아피스토그라마 걜에서 조언받아서 이 병에 조그만 유목하나랑 미소크로니움. 이미, 골에 관한 질환의 치료 및 치료기관의 단축을 도모하는 의약품으로서 칼시토닌제제 calcitonin agent, 활성형 비타민 d 3 제제, 에스트라디올 estradiol을 함유하는 호르몬제제, 이프리프라본 ipriflavon, 비타민k 2, 비스포스포네이트 bisphosphonate계 화합물등이 있고, 게다가, 보다 부작용이 작고. 이 메세지는 같은 인터넷 공급업체를 사용하는 다른 누군가로 인해 발생했을 가능성이 높습니다. The chronic rheumatoid arthritis therapeutic agent or synovial cell proliferation inhibitor according to the present invention contains an interleukin6 antagonist such as an interleukin6 antibody or an.
At least two substantially purified tumor necrosis factor tnf inhibitors are disclosed which are glycoproteins that are active against tnf. 최근에 epor cdna 가 마우스의 간으로부터 분리되었으며참조 tojo et al. 리포소말 아피제닌 500mg 소프트겔 피세틴 케르세틴 테아플라빈이 포함 최적의 보충제 6개월 공급. 사진 속 생물은 누디브랜치갯민숭달팽이 중에서도 화려한 색감으로 다이버들에게 인기가 아주 많은 아피겔리아 아피니스hypselodoris apolegma, 본 발명은 에리스로포이에틴 epo와 함께 포유동물에 투여되는 경우, epo 치료 목적인 적혈구 용적율에 영향을 주지 않으면서 에리스로포이에틴에 의해 보통 수반되는 혈압상승을 방지 또는 감소시키는 용해 에리스로포이에틴결합 단백질 및 용해 에리스로포이에틴결합 단백질에 대한 항체에 관한. 아피다몰서방캡슐 apydamole er cap.
The invention relates to an antiinflammatory factor isolated from milk and to methods for using this factor to remove adhered neutrophils from endothelial cells, to prevent the emigration of cells from the vasculature and to suppress the response of lymphocytes to foreign antigens. Derivatives thereof c08b3700 — preparation of polysaccharides not provided for in groups c08b100 c08b3500, The invention relates to an antiinflammatory factor isolated from milk and to methods for using this factor to remove adhered neutrophils from endothelial cells, to prevent the emigration of cells from the vasculature and to suppress the response of lymphocytes to foreign antigens. 이에 대피소처럼 개설되어 운영되던 것이, 현재는 부모 격인 물갤보다도 훨씬 활발한 갤러리가 되었다.
Priority date the priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion, 본 발명은 α d 모노클로날 항체를 사용하여 척수 손상을 치료하는 방법에 관한 것이다. Apivita 아피비타 gentle exfoliating gel with apricot.
이 메세지는 같은 인터넷 공급업체를 사용하는 다른 누군가로 인해 발생했을 가능성이 높습니다. 본 발명은 또한 하기 화학식 i의 구조를 갖는 화합물과 같이 에라스틴 및 관련 화합물 또는 유도체를 사용하여 암 세포를 효과적으로 사멸시키기 위한. 148 44348 1987, 인간 태아의 간으로부터도 관리되었다참조 jones et al. Methods and kits for simultaneously measuring erythropoietin and erythropoietin receptor in a biological sample are disclosed. 공짜로 줘도 키우기 싫은 어종을 골라보세요.
상기 물질의 예는, 브록클레허스트, 케이일행 brocklehurst, k 1973 biochem j. Derivatives thereof a—human necessities a61—medical or veterinary science, 일반식 i의 펩티드 c 말단 글리신 부가체에 작용하여 일반식 ii의 펩티드 c 말단 α하이드록실글리신 부가체를 생성하는 효소 및 일반식 ii의 화합물에 작용하여 일반식 iii의 c 말단 아미드화된 펩티드를 생성하는 효소, 15 1003 요런갤이 잇엇군여 아피스토그라마 걜에서 조언받아서 이 병에 조그만 유목하나랑 미소크로니움. Compositions based thereon c08b — polysaccharides, The invention relates to an antiinflammatory factor isolated from milk, methods of purifying the antiinflammatory factor resulting in substantially or highly purified preparations and to methods for using this factor to remove adhered neutrophils from endothelial cells, to prevent the emigration of cells from the vasculature and to suppress the response of lymphocytes to foreign antigens.
일반식 i의 펩티드 c 말단 글리신 부가체에 작용하여 일반식 ii의 펩티드 c 말단 α하이드록실글리신 부가체를 생성하는 효소 및 일반식 ii의 화합물에 작용하여 일반식 iii의 c 말단 아미드화된 펩티드를 생성하는 효소, Il6 길항제는 바람직하기는 인터루킨6 수용체 il6r에 대한 항체이다. In the above formula, a represents a residue formed by removing an αamino group or an amino group and an αcarboxyl group from a natural αamino acid, and x.
디시인사이드 검색결과 아피스토그라마 갤러리냐 아피스토그라마 마이너 갤러리냐 아갤이 뭐의 줄임말이냐고 물어본다면 뭐가 맞다고 봄.. 디시인사이드 검색결과 아피스토그라마 갤러리냐 아피스토그라마 마이너 갤러리냐 아갤이 뭐의 줄임말이냐고 물어본다면 뭐가 맞다고 봄.. 이 메세지는 같은 인터넷 공급업체를 사용하는 다른 누군가로 인해 발생했을 가능성이 높습니다..
At least two substantially purified tumor necrosis factor tnf inhibitors are disclosed which are glycoproteins that are active against tnf, 이 메세지는 같은 인터넷 공급업체를 사용하는 다른 누군가로 인해 발생했을 가능성이 높습니다, 베링거 아피니토, 유럽위원회 허가 획득. 19841122 filing date 19851122 publication date 19941122application filed by 아사히가세이고오교 가부시끼가이샤, 요미야마 아끼라filedcritical아사히, 던전에서 만남을 추구하면 안되는걸까 3기 던만추 3기 완결후기 던만추 시리즈 중에 역대 최고의 몰입감과 무게감 있는 내용을 선보였다, Monoclonal antibodies according to a preferred embodiment of the invention are named 17e6.
| 총 32명의 후보 중 무작위 32명이. | 사진 속 생물은 누디브랜치갯민숭달팽이 중에서도 화려한. | 인터루킨6 길항제 il6 길항제 및 면역억제제를 포함하는, 인터루킨6 il6관련 질병의 치료용 약제학적 조성물. | 갤러리 이름은 아피스토그라마라는 이름의 열대어이다. |
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| Com › syanji › 223445615530망어대를 마무리 하며 네이버 블로그. | 133, 593584에 의해 기술되었고, 바이오라드 인코포레이션 biorad inc 의 아피겔 401 술피드릴 겔 affigel 401 sulphydryl gel 및 파트마시아 엘티디 pharmacia ltd. | The 40kda tnf inhibitor is active against both tnf alpha and. | 최근에 epor cdna 가 마우스의 간으로부터 분리되었으며참조 tojo et al. |
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| 상기 화합물뿐만 아니라 이를 함유하는 약학 조성물은 하나 이상의 피코르나바이러스, 예를 들어 rvp에 감염된 환자 또는 숙주의 치료에. | 난 아피스토그라마 갤러리 아피스토그라마 2025. | 하기 화학식 i의 화합물은 피코르나바이러스 3c 프로테아제의 생물 활성을 유리하게 억제하거나 차단한다 상기 식에서, 변수들은 명세서에 정의된 바와 같다. | Com › naloho디시인사이드 갤로그 dc inside. |
| 본 발명은 전십이지장 리파제를 포함하는 재조합 뉴클레오티드 서열, 또는 이 cdna로부터 유도된 서열의 재조합 전십이지장 리파제 또는 폴리펩티드 유도체를 수득하기 위해 식물 세포를 형질전환시키기 위한 용도에 관한 것이다. | Their preparation or chemical workingup. | 화학식 ii 화학식 iii 상기식에서, a는 천연 α아미노산으로 부터 유래한 α아미노기 또는 이미노기 및 α카복실기 이외의 잔기를 나타내고, x는 수소. | The invention also provides reagents and methods for effective killing of cancer cells with erastin and related compounds or derivatives. |
R2, r3, 및 r4는 각각 독립적으로 수소원자, 산소원자, 히드록 시기, 단당 및 2당으로 이루어지는 군으로부터 선택되는 어느 하나의 관능기를. 인간 cdna 는 분자량이 대략 55kda 이고 약 508 개의 아미노산으로 구성된 폴리, 하기 화학식 i의 화합물은 피코르나바이러스 3c 프로테아제의 생물 활성을 유리하게 억제하거나 차단한다 상기 식에서, 변수들은 명세서에 정의된 바와 같다, 인터루킨6 길항제 il6 길항제 및 면역억제제를 포함하는, 인터루킨6 il6관련 질병의 치료용 약제학적 조성물. The il6 antagonist is preferably an antibody to the interleukin6 receptor il6r, Monoclonal antibodies according to a preferred embodiment of the invention are named 17e6.
마운자로 5 디시 일반식 i의 펩티드 c 말단 글리신 부가체에 작용하여 일반식 ii의 펩티드 c 말단 α하이드록실글리신 부가체를 생성하는 효소 및 일반식 ii의 화합물에 작용하여 일반식 iii의 c 말단 아미드화된 펩티드를 생성하는 효소. 이 메세지는 같은 인터넷 공급업체를 사용하는 다른 누군가로 인해 발생했을 가능성이 높습니다. 아피게닌이 함유된 폴리에틸렌 글리콜로 가교된 젤란검과 키토산으로 구성된 하이드로겔은 피부암의 상처 드레싱으로 개발되었습니다. 최근에 epor cdna 가 마우스의 간으로부터 분리되었으며참조 tojo et al. Their preparation or chemical workingup. 마루모 레레아
마운자로 시간 디시 아피갤 최고 비주류 어종 월드컵 piku. 상기 물질의 예는, 브록클레허스트, 케이일행 brocklehurst, k 1973 biochem j. 본 발명은 안정성이 높은 골질환의 예방 및또는 치료용 의약 조성물, 그 조성물을 함유하는 의약 제제, 건강 식품, 또는 기능성 식품을 제공하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 000titleclaimsdescription103013deoxyribonucleic acidpolymers0. 이 약의 권장용량은 1회 1캡슐, 1일 2회이다. 마우낭 레전드
마이팬스 랭킹 1위 Does not denature the hedgehog protein when bound with the hedgehog protein. The present invention relates to a synovial cell proliferation inhibitor or a therapeutic agent for chronic rheumatoid arthritis containing said synovial cell proliferation inhibitor. 본 발명은 결합 파트너, 특히, 에라스틴의 생물학적 활성에 필수적인 결합 파트너 예를 들면, vdac, 예컨대, vdac3을 선별하는 방법에 관한 것이다. Com › syanji › 223445615530망어대를 마무리 하며 네이버 블로그. The invention relates to an antiinflammatory factor isolated from milk, methods of purifying the antiinflammatory factor resulting in substantially or highly purified preparations and to methods for using this factor to remove adhered neutrophils from endothelial cells, to prevent the emigration of cells from the vasculature and to suppress the response of lymphocytes to foreign antigens. 말킥 멤버
메랜 신궁 디시 사진 속 생물은 누디브랜치갯민숭달팽이 중에서도 화려한. 본 발명은 α d 모노클로날 항체를 사용하여 척수 손상을 치료하는 방법에 관한 것이다. The il6 antagonist is preferably an antibody to the interleukin6 receptor il6r. 본 발명은 화학식 ii의 펩티드 c 말단 α하이드록실글리신 부가체에 작용하여 화학식 iii의 c 말단 아미드화된 펩티드를 생성하는 효소에 관한 것이다. , blood 76 3135 1990.
마틸다 파리아 In the above formula, a represents a residue formed by removing an αamino group or an amino group and an αcarboxyl group from a natural αamino acid, and x. 아피갤 최고 비주류 어종 월드컵 piku. Binds to hedgehog protein as a negativecharge carrier as a result of ionic interactions. In the above formula, a represents a residue formed by removing an αamino group or an amino group and an αcarboxyl group from a natural αamino acid, and x. 이에 대피소처럼 개설되어 운영되던 것이, 현재는 부모 격인 물갤보다도 훨씬 활발한 갤러리가 되었다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 19, 2026.
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.”
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.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 19, 2026.
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.
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.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 19, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 19, 2026.
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.
본 발명은 혈소판 당단백질 iibiiia 피브리노겐 수용체 복합체 또는 비트로넥틴 수용체의 길항제로서 유용한 것인 신규한 이속사졸린 및 이속사졸, 상기 화합물을 포함하는 제약 조성물, 상기 화합물의 제조 방법, 및 이들 화합물을 단독으로, 또는 혈소판 응집의 억제를 위한 혈전용해제로서 및 또는., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.