1988년 11월 25일부터 1989년 1월 5일까지 일본 도쿄도 아다치구에서 1518세의 남성 비행 청소년 들이 주 2회의 아르바이트를 마치고 귀가하던 17세 여고생 후루타 준코를 납치한 뒤 감금하며 온갖 가혹행위와 고문, 폭행, 성폭행 등을 저지르고 방치하여 살해한 뒤 시신을 콘크리트 등과 함께 드럼통에.

그러나 그는 살인 사건에서 자신의 역할에 대해 매우 솔직한 것으로 알려져 있다.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 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.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026.
A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. 
A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 3, 2026.

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.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026.

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.

Com › han0069 › humanities세계의 범죄자들 18. 이 시기, 오구라는 미나토 신지의 집에 틀어박히다시피 했는데 미나토의 친구인 f의 오토바이가 도난당하여 같이 찾아주던 중 미야노 히로시 에게 부탁하여 f의 오토바이를 되찾아준다. 1988년 11월 25일부터 1989년 1월 5일까지 일본 도쿄도 아다치구에서 1518세의 남성 비행 청소년 들이 주 2회의 아르바이트를 마치고 귀가하던 17세 여고생 후루타 준코를 납치한 뒤 감금하며 온갖 가혹행위와 고문, 폭행, 성폭행 등을 저지르고 방치하여 살해한 뒤 시신을 콘크리트 등과 함께 드럼통에. Com › discover › 미야노히로시tiktok.

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Junko furuta was a 17yearold high school student in saitama, japan. 이들은 c가 부모와 동거하는 집을 아지트로 삼았다. Com › han0069 › humanities세계의 범죄자들 18. 1 중학교 졸업 후 미용사로 활동하였지만 이혼 후에는 시계 부품을 수입하는 일에 종사하였다. 4명의 소년들의 납치 a군 미야노 히로시 b군 오구라 유즈루 c군 미나토 노부하루 d군 와타나베 야스시, Com › index극혐주의 일본에서 일어난 최악의 강력범죄, 여고생 콘크리트 살인. 일본의 범죄자, 극청회의 두목이자 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건의 주범.

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1987년, 히로시 a는 고등학교를 중퇴한 뒤 유즈루 b, 야스시 d와 함께다니며 상해, 절도, 건조물 침입 등의 범죄를 저지르고 다니게 된다. 이때 담당형사가 실수로 너, 사람을 죽이면 안 되잖아, 그런데 그때 불행하게도 흔히 말하는 동네 불량배 미야노 히로시 18세와 미나토 신지 15세의 눈에 띄게 된다.

히로시 가해자a는 준코에게 너네 부모님한테 실종신고 같은거 하지 말라고 전화해라고 협박한 뒤. 그러나 그는 살인 사건에서 자신의 역할에 대해 매우 솔직한 것으로 알려져 있다. 히로시는 신지에게 준코가 타고 가는 자전거를 발로 차라고 시켰고, 신지는 그대로 준코의 자전거를 발로 차서 넘어뜨린다. 4명의 소년들의 납치 a군 미야노 히로시 b군 오구라 유즈루 c군 미나토 노부하루 d군 와타나베 야스시. 여고생 콘크리트 살인 사건의 가해자들 중에서도 최악으로 평가받는 범인이다.

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1 중학교 졸업 후 미용사로 활동하였지만 이혼 후에는 시계 부품을 수입하는 일에 종사하였다.. mamoru miyano live tour 20122013 ~beginning..

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미야노 히로시 a와 오구라 유즈루 b는 중학교 때부터 친한 선후배 관계로 지내왔다. 홀린 듯이 영상을 보게 되었는데 주제가 1980년대 일본의 여고생 콘크리트 사건이었다 read more, 1986년, 미야노 히로시 a는 와타나베 야스시 d의 누나와 교제를 하게 되면서 그와 친해진다. 이유도 없는 끔찍한 청소년 범죄뉴스속오.

결국 다음날 준코는 싸늘한 주검으로 발견됐다. 그리하여 미야노는 부모와 교감할 수 있는 시간이 적었던 외로운 어린 시절을 보내게 된다, 천인공노할 여고생 콘크리트 사건의 주범으로 익히 알려진 미야노 히로시 한때 일웹에서 그의 근황이라고 주장하는 사진이 범행 당시 사진과 함께 돌아다닌 적이 있었다 그러나 사실 오른쪽의 인물은 미야노 히로시가 아니다.

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도대체 44일간 무슨일이 있었던 것일까요.. 천인공노할 여고생 콘크리트 사건의 주범으로 익히 알려진 미야노 히로시 한때 일웹에서 그의 근황이라고 주장하는 사짐이.. 이때 담당형사가 실수로 너, 사람을 죽이면 안 되잖아..

2009년 석방된 후 미야노 히로시는 이름을 요코야마로 바꾸었다. 일본에서는 너무나도 끔찍한 일이 벌어집니다, 히로시는 준코의 사체를 이불로 싸고 여행용 가방에 넣어 테이프로 칭칭 감았습니다, 피해자가 40일 감금돼있던 미나토 신지의 집 사진온라인 커뮤니티 1988년 11월25일 저녁 8시30분쯤, 일본 사이타마현 미사토시에 있던 주범 미야노 히로시 당시 18세는 자전거를 타고 지나가던 후루타 준코를 발견하고 범행을 저질렀다.

4명의 소년들의 납치 a군 미야노 히로시 b군 오구라 유즈루 c군 미나토 노부하루 d군 와타나베 야스시. 천인공노할 여고생 콘크리트 사건의 주범으로 익히 알려진 미야노 히로시한때 일웹에서 그의 근황이라고 주장하는 사짐이 범행 당시 사진과 함께 돌아다닌 적이 있었다그러나 사실 오른쪽의 인물은 미야노 히로시가 아니다그의 정체는 한국계 미국인 킥복서이자 mma 파이터인 조 손손형민으로, 이에 히로시는 공범들이 모두 불었다고 생각하며 사건의 전모를 자백한다. 1986년, 미야노 히로시 a는 와타나베 야스시 d의 누나와 교제를 하게 되면서 그와 친해진다. 1987년, 히로시 a는 고등학교를 중퇴한 뒤 유즈루 b, 야스시 d와 함께다니며 상해, 절도, 건조물 침입 등의 범죄를 저지르고 다니게 된다, 그런데 그때 불행하게도 흔히 말하는 동네 불량배 미야노 히로시 18세와 미나토 신지 15세의 눈에 띄게 된다.

결국 다음날 준코는 싸늘한 주검으로 발견됐다. 1988년 11월 26일1989년 1월 5일, 44일간 일본 도쿄도 아다치구 에서 1518세의 소년들이 주 2회의 아르바이트를 마치고 귀가하던 여고생을 납치해 온갖 가혹행위, 폭행, 성폭행을 저지르고 살해해 공사장 인근의 드럼통에 넣어 콘크리트로 묻어 은폐한 사건으로, 일본 역사상 가장 끔찍한 범죄로 손꼽힌다. 콘크리트 사건 가해자들 근황이라는데 202110202402 만화, Com › best › 3569529272극혐주의 일본에서 일어난 최악의 강력범죄, 여고생 콘크리트 살인. 미야노 히로시 宮野裕史 1970년 4월 30일 생 출소후 성을 요코하마로 바꿔서 요코하마 히로시가 되었다.

부모는 아버지 미야노 료큐, 어머니 미야노 시즈에, 둘다 1942년생, Kr › society › 20260104여고생 납치해 고문성폭행&mldr. 1988년 11월 25일부터 1989년 1월 5일까지 일본 도쿄도 아다치구에서 1518세의 남성 비행 청소년 들이 주 2회의 아르바이트를 마치고 귀가하던 17세 여고생 후루타 준코를 납치한 뒤 감금하며 온갖 가혹행위와 고문, 폭행, 성폭행 등을 저지르고 방치하여 살해한 뒤 시신을 콘크리트 등과 함께 드럼통에, 이들은 20㎏에 육박하는 아령을 준코의 복부에 떨어뜨리고 반응이 없는 준코를 깨우기 위해 불로 피부를 지지기도 했다.

결국 다음날 준코는 싸늘한 주검으로 발견됐다. 1987년, 히로시 a는 고등학교를 중퇴한 뒤 유즈루 b, 야스시 d와 함께다니며 상해, 절도, 건조물 침입 등의 범죄를 저지르고 다니게 된다, 일본 사이타마현 미사토시, 주범인 미야노 히로시 宮野裕史, 당시 18세는 자전거를 타고 지나가던 후루타 준코 古田順子, 당시 17세를 발견하게 된다. 그런데 약간 자극적인 썸네일과 디바제시카님의 미모에 반해서.

이맹둥꼭지노출 1988년 11월 26일1989년 1월 5일, 44일간 일본 도쿄도 아다치구 에서 1518세의 소년들이 주 2회의 아르바이트를 마치고 귀가하던 여고생을 납치해 온갖 가혹행위, 폭행, 성폭행을 저지르고 살해해 공사장 인근의 드럼통에 넣어 콘크리트로 묻어 은폐한 사건으로, 일본 역사상 가장 끔찍한 범죄로 손꼽힌다. 3 당시 아다치구는 야쿠자 와 미야노의 극청회와도 같은. 그리고 얼마 뒤 히로시 가해자a 대장는 자신의 친구들을 노부하루 가해자c의 집으로 불러들인다. 미야노 히로시일본어 宮野 裕史, 1970년 4월 30일 는 일본의 살인자이다. 1986년, 미야노 히로시 a는 와타나베 야스시 d의 누나와 교제를 하게 되면서 그와 친해진다. 은교 손가락 디시

윤가놈 오른팔 아르바이트를 하고 귀가하는 17살의 여고생을 read more. Junko furuta was a 17yearold high school student in saitama, japan. 4명의 소년들의 납치 a군 미야노 히로시 b군 오구라 유즈루 c군 미나토 노부하루 d군 와타나베 야스시. In 1988, after turning down a classmate, she was kidnapped by him and three of his read more. 홀린 듯이 영상을 보게 되었는데 주제가 1980년대 일본의 여고생 콘크리트 사건이었다 read more. 으냉이 디시

윤공주 라방 일정 Junko furuta was a 17yearold high school student in saitama, japan. 3 당시 아다치구는 야쿠자 와 미야노의 극청회와도 같은. 미야노 히로시일본어 宮野 裕史, 1970년 4월 30일 는 일본의 살인자이다. 미야노 히로시 宮野裕史 1970년 4월 30일 생 출소후 성을 요코하마로 바꿔서 요코하마 히로시가 되었다. 이들은 20㎏에 육박하는 아령을 준코의 복부에 떨어뜨리고 반응이 없는 준코를 깨우기 위해 불로 피부를 지지기도 했다. 이, 맹둥 방송 사고

윤공주 메롱바 야동 이들은 20㎏에 육박하는 아령을 준코의 복부에 떨어뜨리고 반응이 없는 준코를 깨우기 위해 불로 피부를 지지기도 했다. Com › han0069 › humanities세계의 범죄자들 18. 천인공노할 여고생 콘크리트 사건의 주범으로 익히 알려진 미야노 히로시 한때 일웹에서 그의 근황이라고 주장하는 사진이 범행 당시 사진과 함께 돌아다닌 적이 있었다 그러나 사실 오른쪽의 인물은 미야노 히로시가 아니다. 이 시기, 오구라는 미나토 신지의 집에 틀어박히다시피 했는데 미나토의 친구인 f의 오토바이가 도난당하여 같이 찾아주던 중 미야노 히로시 에게 부탁하여 f의 오토바이를 되찾아준다. 3 당시 아다치구는 야쿠자 와 미야노의 극청회와도 같은.

유혜디 최신 이 시기, 오구라는 미나토 신지의 집에 틀어박히다시피 했는데 미나토의 친구인 f의 오토바이가 도난당하여 같이 찾아주던 중 미야노 히로시 에게 부탁하여 f의 오토바이를 되찾아준다. 그리고 소년 c에게 준코의 자전거를 발로 차라고 지시하는데 공격을 받고 쓰러진 준코에게 a가 나타나 위험하니 집까지 데려다 주겠다며 접근한다. 결국 다음날 준코는 싸늘한 주검으로 발견됐다. 1983년은 토요일로 시작하는 평년이다. 아르바이트를 하고 귀가하는 17살의 여고생을 read more.

This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 3, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on June 3, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

1988년 11월 25일부터 1989년 1월 5일까지 일본 도쿄도 아다치구에서 1518세의 남성 비행 청소년 들이 주 2회의 아르바이트를 마치고 귀가하던 17세 여고생 후루타 준코를 납치한 뒤 감금하며 온갖 가혹행위와 고문, 폭행, 성폭행 등을 저지르고 방치하여 살해한 뒤 시신을 콘크리트 등과 함께 드럼통에., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

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