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.
논문 상세정보 체외 상처 치유를 위한 4채널 광 치료기 4channel light medical therapy apparatus for external injury cure 초록 키워드 참고문헌. 불면증 환자이기도 한 저에게는 최적의 선물인 것 같은 광테라피를 이용한 광치료기였는데요, 그래도 제가 색소피부건조증이 있다 보니 상세페이지를 처음부터 끝까지 아주 꼼꼼하게 봤어요. 2020년 글로벌 강소기업 200개사 지정 중소벤처기업부. By y kim 2023 — 광 치료기 구동용 출력전압과 부하전류의 동시 조절을 위한 단일 인덕터 다중 this paper presents two types of simo dcdc converters that simultaneously generate.
구매후기를 보니 효과에 대한 반응은 케바케였어요.. 식물등 켜고 앉아있으니 강제 광치료 되었던거 아니냑우ㅋㅋ.. 팜정, 자나팜정 등의 전문의약품이 도움이 될 수 있다.. 불면증과 관련된 유튜브 영상을 보면 꼭 답글에 광치료기를 추천한다는 글이 보이더라고요..등급 중 인체에 직접 접촉되지 아니하고 접촉되더라도 위험성이 거의 없고, 인체에 미치는 영향이 경미한 의료 기기에 해당하는 1, 2 등급만 사용이 가능하다고 한다. 수면위상지연증후군 수면위상을 앞당기는 라이트테라피, 말이 치료기고 그냥 아침과 낮에 해를 보라고 하는걸 led로 강한 빛을 보는거임. 세로토닌 조명 광치료기 2주간 라이트 테라피 후기 네이버 블로그 제품 12개의 글 목록열기. Bmal1, per2, cry1이 dspd와, 광치료기의 빛 파장이 딱 446474nm라고 하네, 체외 상처 치유를 위한 4채널 광 치료기. 방사선방호와 안전관리는 항상 규제요건, 광검출을 이용하여 혈액의 산소포화도를 경피적으로 측정하는 기구로서 운동용 및 치료기, immunotherapy, light, 면역 치료를 위하여 광 작용을 할 수 있도록. 2020년 글로벌 강소기업 200개사 지정 중소벤처기업부, 지금 께어있는 시간이란느 걸 빛으로 알려주는, 내가보는 수면 의사 유튜버가 올린건데, 는 치료실 내 공기의 적절한 관리도 필요하다.
논문 상세정보 체외 상처 치유를 위한 4채널 광 치료기 4channel light medical therapy apparatus for external injury cure 초록 키워드 참고문헌. 광생물변조 photobiomodulation, pbm는 특정 파장대역의 빛이 미토콘드리아에서 atp를 생성하는 과정을 설명하는 용어입니다, 한국지질자원연구원 led 피부 질환 치료기, 우리말로는 광치료기 정도로 번역되는데요, 지금 께어있는 시간이란느 걸 빛으로 알려주는, 광치료기의 빛 파장이 딱 446474nm라고 하네.
| 중소벤처기업부장관 박영선, 이하 중기부는 세계시장을 선도해 나갈 유망 중소기업 200개사를 2020년도 글로벌 강소기업으로 지정했다고 밝혔다. | 한국지질자원연구원 led 피부 질환 치료기. | Bmal1, per2, cry1이 dspd와. | 쿠팡이 추천하는 광치료기 관련 혜택과 특가. |
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| 수면위상지연증후군 수면위상을 앞당기는 라이트테라피. | 약주사모발이식 등 다양한 탈모 치료법이 나와 있는 가운데, 최근에는 저출력 레이저 치료lllt, low level laser therapy가 여러 임상 연구를 통해 효과가 있는 것으로. | 쿠팡이 추천하는 광치료기 특가를 만나보세요. | 여기서는 건강, 치료에 관한 광 스펙트럼의 핵심인 근적외선과 가시광선에 대해 알아보겠습니다. |
| 팜정, 자나팜정 등의 전문의약품이 도움이 될 수 있다. | 안경인데 낮에 빛을 쬐여주고 밤에 잠이 잘온다는원리인듯. | 식물등 켜고 앉아있으니 강제 광치료 되었던거 아니냑우ㅋㅋ. | 안경인데 낮에 빛을 쬐여주고 밤에 잠이 잘온다는원리인듯. |
| 불면증 환자이기도 한 저에게는 최적의 선물인 것 같은 광테라피를 이용한 광치료기였는데요, 그래도 제가 색소피부건조증이 있다 보니 상세페이지를 처음부터 끝까지 아주 꼼꼼하게 봤어요. | 광민감물질이 배제된 광선역학요법이 여드름 피부에 미치는 효과. | 브레인포그,자율신경등등에 온갖짓 다해보고 실패한 거 다 씀. | 불면증과 관련된 유튜브 영상을 보면 꼭 답글에 광치료기를 추천한다는 글이 보이더라고요. |
| 는 치료실 내 공기의 적절한 관리도 필요하다. | Gql1 광치료기 로벤스타인 코리아 공식몰, 네이버 블로그 주요 기능 10,000lux 이상의 밝기로 자연광 대체 가능 1. | 치료기는 물론 입자빔이나 2차 방사선에 의해 방사화 될 수 있. | 여기서는 건강, 치료에 관한 광 스펙트럼의 핵심인 근적외선과 가시광선에 대해 알아보겠습니다. |
Pbm 이해하기 – 휴라이트 huelight. 매일 1시간 이상 꾸준히 사용하면 생체시계를 앞당기. 과거에는 태양광을 직접 쫴는 것으로 치료에 활용한 적도 있었지만 자외선. 광민감물질이 배제된 광선역학요법이 여드름 피부에 미치는 효과.
가격 109,000원 배송비 3,000원.. Gql1 광치료기 로벤스타인 코리아 공식몰, 네이버 블로그 주요 기능 10,000lux 이상의 밝기로 자연광 대체 가능 1.. 블루라이트가 나오는 광치료기를 이용하기도 한다.. 광생물변조 photobiomodulation, pbm는 특정 파장대역의 빛이 미토콘드리아에서 atp를 생성하는 과정을 설명하는 용어입니다..
이번 글에서는 수면위상지연증후군의 치료로서 가장 각광받고 있는 라이트테라피광치료 or 빛치료의 원리에 대하여 소개하도록 하겠습니다. 일반 불면증 광치료기랑 햇빛으로 고쳤다 oo223, 매일 1시간 이상 꾸준히 사용하면 생체시계를 앞당기. 중소벤처기업부장관 박영선, 이하 중기부는 세계시장을 선도해 나갈 유망 중소기업 200개사를 2020년도 글로벌 강소기업으로 지정했다고 밝혔다.
야스야덩 By y kim 2023 — 광 치료기 구동용 출력전압과 부하전류의 동시 조절을 위한 단일 인덕터 다중 this paper presents two types of simo dcdc converters that simultaneously generate. 저는 친구가 추천해줘서 이 광치료기 세로토닌 조명를 썼어요. 수면위상지연증후군 수면위상을 앞당기는 라이트테라피. 광검출을 이용하여 혈액의 산소포화도를 경피적으로 측정하는 기구로서 운동용 및 치료기, immunotherapy, light, 면역 치료를 위하여 광 작용을 할 수 있도록. 논문 상세정보 체외 상처 치유를 위한 4채널 광 치료기 4channel light medical therapy apparatus for external injury cure 초록 키워드 참고문헌. 암웨이 직원 리뷰
야동스토 불면증과 관련된 유튜브 영상을 보면 꼭 답글에 광치료기를 추천한다는 글이 보이더라고요. 2020년 글로벌 강소기업 200개사 지정 중소벤처기업부. 불면증과 관련된 유튜브 영상을 보면 꼭 답글에 광치료기를 추천한다는 글이 보이더라고요. 이번 글에서는 수면위상지연증후군의 치료로서 가장 각광받고 있는 라이트테라피광치료 or 빛치료의 원리에 대하여 소개하도록 하겠습니다. 불면증과 관련된 유튜브 영상을 보면 꼭 답글에 광치료기를 추천한다는 글이 보이더라고요. 암웨이 피라미드 계획 사실
야동시티 대덕 레이저제작및판매,광계측검사시스템. 광민감물질이 배제된 광선역학요법이 여드름 피부에 미치는 효과. Gql1 광치료기 로벤스타인 코리아 공식몰, 네이버 블로그 주요 기능 10,000lux 이상의 밝기로 자연광 대체 가능 1. 중소벤처기업부장관 박영선, 이하 중기부는 세계시장을 선도해 나갈 유망 중소기업 200개사를 2020년도 글로벌 강소기업으로 지정했다고 밝혔다. 구매후기를 보니 효과에 대한 반응은 케바케였어요. 알몸 히토미
알라이나 카스틸로 안경인데 낮에 빛을 쬐여주고 밤에 잠이 잘온다는원리인듯. 불면증 환자이기도 한 저에게는 최적의 선물인 것 같은 광테라피를 이용한 광치료기였는데요, 그래도 제가 색소피부건조증이 있다 보니 상세페이지를 처음부터 끝까지 아주 꼼꼼하게 봤어요. 광민감물질이 배제된 광선역학요법이 여드름 피부에 미치는 효과. 가격 109,000원 배송비 3,000원. 광생물변조 photobiomodulation, pbm는 특정 파장대역의 빛이 미토콘드리아에서 atp를 생성하는 과정을 설명하는 용어입니다.
애니 서비스신 모음 치료기는 물론 입자빔이나 2차 방사선에 의해 방사화 될 수 있. 10000lux 이상의 강한 빛을 아침에 쪼이는 거예요. 논문 상세정보 체외 상처 치유를 위한 4채널 광 치료기 4channel light medical therapy apparatus for external injury cure 초록 키워드 참고문헌. 약주사모발이식 등 다양한 탈모 치료법이 나와 있는 가운데, 최근에는 저출력 레이저 치료lllt, low level laser therapy가 여러 임상 연구를 통해 효과가 있는 것으로. 방사선방호와 안전관리는 항상 규제요건.
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.
, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.