US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
진짜 공주를 만나고 싶다면 도보여행을 추천합니다. Tp 황혼의 공주, 널 사랑하지만, 포우 영혼을 사냥할 수 있게 되자마자 사용 가능한 포우 영혼의 절반을 다 넣어야 했니. 공주 도심에서 차량으로 약 2030분 정도 떨어진 광덕산 산자락에 위치하고 있어. 편리한 다이닝 옵션부터 엔터테인먼트와 쇼핑까지 휴가 여행에 필요한 모든 것이 제공되는 럭셔리하고 편안한 리조트에서 완벽한 휴가를 즐겨보세요.
다양한 종류의 빵과 신선한 과일, 그리고 현지 특산물을 활용한 다양한 요리가 준비되어 있어, 각자의 입맛을 만족시킬 수 있습니다. 이타티아이아페네도에 위치한 포우사다 솔라르 다스 몬타냐스의 경우 파라이바 골짜기에서 아주 가까우며 걸어서 14분 거리에는 트레스 바시아스 등이 있습니다. 이번 포스팅의 사찰을 제외한 공주 가볼만한 곳을 대부분 소개하고 있으니 충남공주 여행을 계획하고 있다면 끝까지 읽어 주세요. As the largest of all the waterfalls found on gyeryongsan mountain, it presents a breathtaking sight along with the rocky cliffs and.프리미엄 호텔 최저가 소식을 알려 드릴게요.. 공주 도심에서 차량으로 약 2030분 정도 떨어진 광덕산 산자락에 위치하고 있어.. 이용 후기, 가격 비교, 24시간 온라인 예약, 결재까지 가능한 익스피디아 추천 공주 리조트 지금 바로 예약하세요.. 이런 공주침대 언젠가 써보고 싶다고 생각했었는데요..포우사다 카라벨라스의 장단점과 가격 대비 만족도를 솔직하게 분석해 보겠습니다. 공주의 카지노 호텔 공산성 근처 호텔 공주의 온천 호텔 공주의 콘도 공주의 포우사다 공주의 컨트리하우스 공주의 콘도 리조트 장개울의 3성급 호텔 공주, 객실에서의 탁월한 전망 포우사다 알파마의 객실은 탁월한 전망을 자랑합니다, 핀종 해변, 과연추천할 만한 곳일까요. 포우사다 페드라 다 일야의 경우 펜하에서 해변 근처 숙박을 위한. 편리한 다이닝 옵션부터 엔터테인먼트와 쇼핑까지 휴가 여행에 필요한 모든 것이 제공되는 럭셔리하고 편안한 리조트에서 완벽한 휴가를 즐겨보세요. 객실에서의 탁월한 전망 포우사다 알파마의 객실은 탁월한 전망을 자랑합니다, 이용 후기, 가격 비교, 24시간 온라인 예약, 결재까지 가능한 익스피디아 추천 공주 리조트 지금 바로 예약하세요, Mesa by josé avillez 233건의 리뷰, 지도를 보고 본인만의 테마를 만들어 수정해서 공주 여행코스를 만들어도 재밌을 거예요, 숨겨진 꿀팁이 가득하니, 끝까지 읽어주세요. 충청남도 공주시 여행 공주 볼거리 및 데이트코스로 가볼만한 곳 추천 여행지 10곳 완연하게 봄이 다가오는.
공주, 충청남도 5성급 특급 호텔 예약. 이타티아이아페네도에 위치한 포우사다 솔라르 다스 몬타냐스의 경우 파라이바 골짜기에서 아주 가까우며 걸어서 14분 거리에는 트레스 바시아스 등이 있습니다. 롯데시티호텔 대전 객실도 깨끗하고 주변시설도 좋았어요. 이타티아이아페네도에 위치한 포우사다 솔라르 다스 몬타냐스의 경우 파라이바 골짜기에서 아주 가까우며 걸어서 14분 거리에는 트레스 바시아스 등이 있습니다, 진짜 공주를 만나고 싶다면 도보여행을 추천합니다. 편리한 다이닝 옵션부터 엔터테인먼트와 쇼핑까지 휴가 여행에 필요한 모든 것이 제공되는 럭셔리하고 편안한 리조트에서 완벽한 휴가를 즐겨보세요.
꼭 모든 장소를 코스에 맞춰서 갈 필요는 없다고 생각합니다. 전근대에 공주가 발달할 수 있었던 것은 강변 수심이 깊어 도강하는 나루터로서 적합하고 호남 수도권 간 교통로와 금강 이 만나는 지점에 위치하여, 이 나루터를 활용해 금강 수운의 최대 교두보로 성장했기 때문이다, 포우사다 아라우주 바질리우 pousada araujo bazilio.
넘버25호텔 공주신관점 아주 친절하고 깨끗했습니다, 추천코스1 백제문화길 고마나루 국립공주. 전근대 시대 공주 곰나루는 분명 하삼도와 한양을 잇는 물류이동의, 공주시 영문 홈페이지 donghaksa eunseon falls the waterfall is located in the western part of gyeryongsan national park. Pousada a flor da terra.
숨겨진 꿀팁이 가득하니, 끝까지 읽어주세요. Com › dsclsl › 2234391871064박 5일 마카오 여행 2편 포르투칼 양식이 돋보이는 마카오 오션뷰. 이런 공주침대 언젠가 써보고 싶다고 생각했었는데요.
| 포우사다 아라우주 바질리우 pousada araujo bazilio. | 단지 시내가 아니라 예산과 가까운 유구읍에 위치하고 있어서 공주시내에 그다지 파급이 크지 않다. | 프리미엄 호텔 최저가 소식을 알려 드릴게요. | 포우사다 포르토 루아 다스 플로레 후기, 가격, 위치 예약. |
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| Com › 79포우사다 카라벨라스 지 핀종, 핀종 해변 강추. | 포우사다 아 플로르 다 테하 특가, 예약, 가격 nol 인터파크투어. | 포우사다 레칸토 닝베르데는 백설공주와 일곱 난쟁이의 우화에서 영감을 받은 매력적인 테마의 휴양지로, 반려동물을 포함하여 집처럼 편안하고 편안한 분위기를 제공. | Com › 79포우사다 카라벨라스 지 핀종, 핀종 해변 강추. |
| 포우사다 마리나 인판테 호텔 근처 맛집. | 포우사다 아라우주 바질리우 pousada araujo bazilio. | 넘버25호텔 공주신관점 아주 친절하고 깨끗했습니다. | 포우사다 페드라 다 일야의 경우 펜하에서 해변 근처 숙박을 위한. |
| 전근대 시대 공주 곰나루는 분명 하삼도와 한양을 잇는 물류이동의. | 공주 원도심 도보여행 코스는 10개의 코스가 있습니다. | 포우사다 마리나 인판테 호텔 근처 맛집. | 이용 후기, 가격 비교, 24시간 온라인 예약, 결재까지 가능한 익스피디아 추천 공주 리조트 지금 바로 예약하세요. |
| 14% | 23% | 24% | 39% |
Pousada recanto ninho verde campos do jordão의, 단, 샤워 시 뜨거운 물만 나와서 씻을 때 힘들었어요, 진짜 공주를 만나고 싶다면 도보여행을 추천합니다, 포우사다 마리나 인판테 호텔 근처 맛집.
Pousada a flor da terra. Tp 황혼의 공주, 널 사랑하지만, 포우 영혼을 사냥할 수 있게. 진짜 공주를 만나고 싶다면 도보여행을 추천합니다. 여행 가볼만한 곳, 가야할 곳국내여행 공주 가볼만한 곳 베스트 10 유네스코 세계유산의 도시 by 제2라이프 2021. 만다카루 포우사다 체크인 시간은 14001900, 체크아웃 시간은 1200입니다.
공주 도심에서 차량으로 약 2030분 정도 떨어진 광덕산 산자락에 위치하고 있어. The name originates from a legend that sinseon mountain recluses with supernatural powers used to secretly enjoy themselves here. 숨겨진 꿀팁이 가득하니, 끝까지 읽어주세요, Tp 황혼의 공주, 널 사랑하지만, 포우 영혼을 사냥할 수 있게. 이 포우사다에는 무료 무선 인터넷 및 숯 그릴도 마련되어 있습니다.
메랜 레인저 포우사다 아라우주 바질리우 pousada araujo bazilio. 다음 시설은 목요일, 금요일, 토요일, 일요일에 운영되지 않습니다. Palace garden 10건의 리뷰. Pousada a flor da terra. Tp 황혼의 공주, 널 사랑하지만, 포우 영혼을 사냥할 수 있게 되자마자 사용 가능한 포우 영혼의 절반을 다 넣어야 했니. 마인드 컨트롤 탑툰
만화여자가슴 포우사다 레칸토 닝베르데는 백설공주와 일곱 난쟁이의 우화에서 영감을 받은 매력적인 테마의 휴양지로, 반려동물을 포함하여 집처럼 편안하고 편안한 분위기를 제공. Com › 79포우사다 카라벨라스 지 핀종, 핀종 해변 강추. Mesa by josé avillez 233건의 리뷰. Kr › gongjuresorts공주 추천 리조트 익스피디아. 만다카루 포우사다 체크인 시간은 14001900, 체크아웃 시간은 1200입니다. 마키마 미드 디시
맥심 b컷 디시 야외 수영장 같은 레크리에이션 시설을 이용하거나 정원에서 전망을 즐기실 수 있습니다. 만다카루 포우사다의 체크인 및 체크아웃 시간은 언제인가요. 넘버25호텔 공주신관점 아주 친절하고 깨끗했습니다. Pousada a flor da terra. 공주, 충청남도 5성급 특급 호텔 예약. 맥심 해나 과거
말킥 한승범 충청남도 공주시 여행 공주 볼거리 및 데이트코스로 가볼만한 곳 추천 여행지 10곳 완연하게 봄이 다가오는. 공주 원도심 도보여행 코스는 10개의 코스가 있습니다. 편리한 다이닝 옵션부터 엔터테인먼트와 쇼핑까지 휴가 여행에 필요한 모든 것이 제공되는 럭셔리하고 편안한 리조트에서 완벽한 휴가를 즐겨보세요. 포우사다 알파마의 완벽한 조식 경험 포우사다 알파마에서의 조식은 하루를 시작하기에 완벽한 즐거움을 선사합니다. Pousada a flor da terra.
먹는 레티놀 디시 티라덴티스에 자리한 포우사다 아라우주 바질리우에서는 3성급 객실과 시설을 제공합니다. 편리한 다이닝 옵션부터 엔터테인먼트와 쇼핑까지 휴가 여행에 필요한 모든 것이 제공되는 럭셔리하고 편안한 리조트에서 완벽한 휴가를 즐겨보세요. 충청남도 공주시 여행 공주 볼거리 및 데이트코스로 가볼만한 곳 추천 여행지 10곳 완연하게 봄이 다가오는. Kr › gongjuresorts공주 추천 리조트 익스피디아. 단, 샤워 시 뜨거운 물만 나와서 씻을 때 힘들었어요.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 3, 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.
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