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.
202324 시즌 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 무패우승 스쿼드 등번호 스탯. Com › sports › soccer레버쿠젠 스쿼드. 분데스리가 역대 리그우승이 현재까지 없었던 팀이었지만 202324 시즌 강력한 우승 후보로 떠오르고 있습니다. 05 27세 급여 17 177cm 72kg 마름 등번호 25번 4 5 아르헨티나 일반선수.
Again 2002가 아닌 the first 2024이다.. 역대 무패우승 역사영국의 풋볼 리그 디비전 1이 창립된 이후 초대 우승팀이었던 프레스턴 노스 엔드 fc가 차지한 무패우승이 역대 무패우승 역사의 출발이다.. 아르헨티나 축구 선수 에세키엘 팔라시오스는 중앙 미드필더로, ca 리버 플레이트와 바이어 04 레버쿠젠에서 활약하며 코파 리베르타도레스와 분데스리가 우승을 경험했고, 아르헨티나 국가대표로도 뛰며 코파 아메리카와 fifa 월드컵 우승에 기여했다.. 참고 과거 데이터는 완벽하지 않을 수 있습니다..Org › wiki › 에세키엘에세키엘 팔라시오스 축구 선수 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. Com 에 말했다시피 리뉴얼된 맹카우터는 레버쿠젠 특집으로 탑소바와 팔라시오스를 소개한다고 한 적이 있었는데요. 댓글로 가기 추천비추 기록 이 게시물을 fmkorea. 22년 만에 유럽 최정상에 오를 기회를 가진 바이어 04 레버쿠젠은 무패행진으로 분데스리가 우승을 코앞에 두고 있다, Aiscore football livescore는 2600 개 이상의 축구 리그, 컵 및 토너먼트에서 비할 데없는 축구 라이브 스코어 및 축구 결과를 제공합니다, 2023년 9월 26일, 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 과 2028년까지 재계약을 맺었다. 22년 만에 유럽 최정상에 오를 기회를 가진 바이어 04 레버쿠젠은 무패행진으로 분데스리가 우승을 코앞에 두고 있다. 에세키엘 팔라시오스25, cm, 아르헨티나, 2019년 12월 16일, 분데스리가 의 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 에서 팔라시오스의 영입을 발표하였다.
에세키엘 팔라시오스_ 레버쿠젠 무패 우승, 아르헨티나 월드컵 우승 멤버_exequiel palacios_선수 소개 네이버 블로그 1998년생 5개의 글 목록열기.. Com › sports › soccer레버쿠젠 스쿼드..25 바이어 레버쿠젠 페이지로 이동 출생 1998. 32번, 구스타보 푸에르타, 중앙 미드. 2019년 12월 16일, 분데스리가 의 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 에서 팔라시오스의 영입을 발표하였다. Org › wiki › 에세키엘에세키엘 팔라시오스 축구 선수 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 분데스리가 클럽 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 의 202324 시즌을 정리한 문서이다. 202324 시즌 분데스리가 최고의 미드필더로 활약하며 팀의 무패 우승에 기여했다.
| 현재 분데스리가 1위를 기록하고 있는 팀입니다. | 레버쿠젠 스쿼드 잉글랜드 프리미어리그 epl 잉글랜드 챔피언쉽 championship 잉글랜드 리그컵 efl컵 carabaocup 잉글랜드 fa컵 englandfacup 독일 분데스리가 bundesliga 독일 분데스리가2 2bundesliga 독일 fa컵 dfbpokal 스페인 라리가 laliga 스페인 라리가2 laliga2 스페인 fa컵 copadelrey 프랑스 리그1. |
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| 25 2019년 12월 16일, 분데스리가의 바이어 04 레버쿠젠에서 팔라시오스의 영입을 발표하였다. | Ca 리버 플레이트 20152019 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 2020. |
| 레버쿠젠 스쿼드 잉글랜드 프리미어리그 epl 잉글랜드 챔피언쉽 championship 잉글랜드 리그컵 efl컵 carabaocup 잉글랜드 fa컵 englandfacup 독일 분데스리가 bundesliga 독일 분데스리가2 2bundesliga 독일 fa컵 dfbpokal 스페인 라리가 laliga 스페인 라리가2 laliga2 스페인 fa컵 copadelrey 프랑스 리그1. | Com › zzzzxh › 223499173256코파fm2024 아르헨티나 14번, 분데스리가 무패우승 레버쿠젠 cm, cdm. |
오늘은 독일 명문 축구팀 바이엘 04 레버쿠젠 선수 명단에 대한 포스팅입니다, 2019년 12월 16일, 분데스리가의 바이어 04 레버쿠젠에서 팔라시오스의 영입을 발표하였다. 2425 시즌 레버쿠젠 스쿼드 작년 레버쿠젠 창단첫 분데스리가 우승을, 그것도 무패우승을 했던 알론소감독, Ca 리버 플레이트 20152019 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 2020. 2023년 9월 26일, 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 과 2028년까지 재계약을 맺었다.
Cdm wc22 엑세키엘 팔라시오스 +7 등번호 25번, 축구화 아디다스 프레데터 피파가 구현하지 못하는 선수입니다. 25번, 에세키엘 팔라시오스, 수비형 미드필더. 분데스리가 클럽 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 의 202324 시즌을 정리한 문서이다, 마이데일리 김성호 기자독일 분데스리가 선두를 질주하고 있는 바이어 04 레버쿠젠의 아르헨티나 출신 미드필더 에제키엘 팔라시오스.
성남fc 팔라시오스 11번 photo. 같이보기 1 아르헨티나 중원을 보면 알수있지만 정말 답이 없기로 유명하다 공격수들은 많지만 정작 공을 연계할수있는 미드는 디 마리아말고 없는데 디 마리아도 기복이 있고 디발라는 전술적 제한이 심한데다가 둘 다 공미다, 레버쿠젠 현역의 베스트 라인업과 후보선수를 알려주세요. 같이보기 1 아르헨티나 중원을 보면 알수있지만 정말 답이 없기로 유명하다 공격수들은 많지만 정작 공을 연계할수있는 미드는 디 마리아말고 없는데 디 마리아도 기복이 있고 디발라는 전술적 제한이 심한데다가 둘 다 공미다. 25 바이어 레버쿠젠 페이지로 이동 출생 1998.
분데스리가 레버쿠젠 스쿼드를 알려주세요. 역대 무패우승 역사영국의 풋볼 리그 디비전 1이 창립된 이후 초대 우승팀이었던 프레스턴 노스 엔드 fc가 차지한 무패우승이 역대 무패우승 역사의 출발이다, 현재 분데스리가의 바이어 레버쿠젠에서 뛰고 있다. Again 2002가 아닌 the first 2024이다.
25 2019년 12월 16일, 분데스리가의 바이어 04 레버쿠젠에서 팔라시오스의 영입을 발표하였다. 5 종합 스포츠 클럽인 tsv 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 산하에 있었으나 1999년 bayer 04 leverkusen fußball gmbh라는 이름으로 독립했다. 루카시 흐라데츠키 lukáš hrádecký gk, 핀란드, 1989, 2023 24 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 무패우승 트레블 스쿼드 등번호 스탯bayer 04 leverkusen eingetragener verein 1, Com › entry › 202425시즌2024 25 시즌 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 선수명단 스쿼드 등번호 여름 이적, 25 바이어 레버쿠젠 페이지로 이동 출생 1998.
레버쿠젠 mf 부인 뒷끝작렬→월드컵 우승, 팔라시오스 선수가 등번호 11번을 달고 성남의 일원으로. 2425 시즌 레버쿠젠 스쿼드 작년 레버쿠젠 창단첫 분데스리가 우승을, 그것도 무패우승을 했던 알론소감독. 05 27세 급여 29 178cm 71kg 마름 등번호 25번 4 5 아르헨티나 탑클래스.
박영자 x 05 27세 급여 29 178cm 71kg 마름 등번호 25번 4 5 아르헨티나 탑클래스. 2019년 12월 16일, 분데스리가의 바이어 04 레버쿠젠에서 팔라시오스의 영입을 발표하였다. Com › zzzzxh › 223499173256코파fm2024 아르헨티나 14번, 분데스리가 무패우승 레버쿠젠 cm, cdm. 팔라시오스 선수가 등번호 11번을 달고 성남의 일원으로 함께합니다 팔라시오스 선수에게 많은 응원 부탁드립니다. 25번, 에세키엘 팔라시오스, 수비형 미드필더. 백지헌 ㄴㅊ
발신 통화 뜻 한국 축구의 레전드 차범근 과 손흥민 이 활약했던 클럽으로도 알려져 있다. 0527세 급여 24 178cm 69kg 마름 등번호 25번 4. Com에서 엑셀퀴엘 팔라시오스의 기록 출전수, 득점수, 카드수을 비롯하여, 30개 종목 5000개 이상 대회의 실시간스코어, 경기결과 및 통계를 확인하세요. Comkr의 엑셀퀴엘 팔라시오스, 레버쿠젠의 선수 프로필에서 선수기록, 출전경력, 이적내역 및 선수 평점을 체크하세요. 마이데일리 김성호 기자독일 분데스리가 선두를 질주하고 있는 바이어 04 레버쿠젠의 아르헨티나 출신 미드필더 에제키엘 팔라시오스. 박솔이 93 야동
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배이 ㄸㄱ 2023년 9월 26일, 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 과 2028년까지 재계약을 맺었다. 참고 과거 데이터는 완벽하지 않을 수 있습니다. 202021 시즌에서는 로테이션 자원으로 활용되었고, 12경기에 출전한다. 2023년 9월 26일, 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 과 2028년까지 재계약을 맺었다. 2019년 12월 16일, 분데스리가 의 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 에서 팔라시오스의 영입을 발표하였다.
발기찬 사정 45 Aiscore football livescore는 2600 개 이상의 축구 리그, 컵 및 토너먼트에서 비할 데없는 축구 라이브 스코어 및 축구 결과를 제공합니다. 레버쿠젠 mf 부인 뒷끝작렬→월드컵 우승. 2425 시즌 레버쿠젠 스쿼드 작년 레버쿠젠 창단첫 분데스리가 우승을, 그것도 무패우승을 했던 알론소감독. 0527세 급여 20 177cm 67kg 마름 등번호 14번 4. 아르헨티나 국적의 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 소속 미드필더.
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.
2023년 9월 26일, 바이어 04 레버쿠젠 과 2028년까지 재계약을 맺었다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.