그 뒤 박경석 대대장은 채명신 사단장에게 강재구 사건은 사고가 아니라 살신성인 이라고 강하게 주장했고, 이에 채명신 사단장도 역시 재구상 재정에, 아예 부대 이름을 재구대대로 개명시키며 그를 기렸다.

국제앰네스티 편지쓰기 캠페인을 통해 6개월 동안 전 세계에서 박경석 사례자를 응원하고 서울시에 탄원하는 편지가 46만 통 모였습니다.

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.

그 뒤 박경석 대대장은 채명신 사단장에게 강재구 사건은 사고가 아니라 살신성인 이라고 강하게 주장했고, 이에 채명신 사단장도 역시 재구상 재정에, 아예 부대 이름을 재구대대로 개명시키며 그를 기렸다. 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대아래 전장연 대표가 17일 오전 11시 46분, 경찰에 체포됐다. 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대전장연 공동대표는 해병대 수색대 출신이다. 박경석 朴敬石, park kyungsuk 프로필 정보 박경석은 장애인 인권운동가로, 전국장애인차별철폐연대 상임공동대표 및 여러 장애인 권익 관련 단체의 대표직을 맡고 있는 인물입니다.

‘장애인 권리예산’ 보장에 대해 대통령직인수위원회가 답변해달라고 촉구하는 삭발 시위 4일째, 28 1445 댓글 0 박경석 썬그룹 천안공장 공장장이 자사 제품이 전시된 공간에서 사진 촬영하고 있다, 이번 사건으로 박경석 대표와 전장연은 추가적인 법적 책임과 사회적 비판에 직면하게 되었습니다. 정치인 전장연 상임대표 오징어 게임 2 등장인물 분류동명이인. 28 1445 댓글 0 박경석 썬그룹 천안공장 공장장이 자사 제품이 전시된 공간에서 사진 촬영하고 있다.

박경석 군인 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.

박경석 朴敬石 1, 1960년 9월 29일 은 대한민국 의 장애인 인권 운동가이다, 대한민국의 박경석을 위한 편지쓰기 캠페인. 시선집중 전국장애인차별철폐연대, 노르웨이와 베를린에서. 반면 박경석 측은 4월 6일에도 동일한 퍼포먼스를 하겠다고 밝혔다. 본관은 밀양密陽이며 일제강점기 충청남도 연기군.
박경석 대표 왼쪽가 두 발로 걸었던 마지막 순간.. 백발의 꽁지머리를 한 박경석62 전국장애인차별철폐연대전장연.. 판결 결과 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대전장연 공동대표의 집회 및 시위에 관한 법률집시법 위반과 업무방해 혐의에 대해 유죄가 확정됐다.. 국제앰네스티 편지쓰기 캠페인을 통해 6개월 동안 전 세계에서 박경석 사례자를 응원하고 서울시에 탄원하는 편지가 46만 통 모였습니다..

서울 남대문경찰서가 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대아래 전장연 대표에게 최후통첩을 날렸다.

박경석을 응원하는 전 세계의 목소리 장애인차별철폐의날. 제1112대 국회의원을 지낸 박경석사진 전 대한지적공사 사장이 12일 오후12시20분께 별세했다. 자세한 내용은 박경석 오징어 게임 문서를 참고하십시오.

특히 아버지는 기독교가 박해받던 시절부터 3대째 기독교인 집안이었어요. 정치인 전장연 상임대표 오징어 게임 2 등장인물 분류동명이인. 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대 상임공동대표가 지난 2020년 4월 13일 오후 서울 마포구 에서 시사프로 ‘썰전라이브’에서 일대일 토론 출연을. 10대 경제대국인데 장애인 복지는 꼴찌 약자 갈라치지 않는 국가 되어야 인터뷰 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대 대표 이동권은 모두의 문제 약자, 박경석 군인 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 이준석 국민의힘 대표 왼쪽와 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대 상임공동대표 오른쪽가 13일 오후 서울 마포구 에서 시사프로 ‘썰전라이브’에.

판결 박경석 전장연 대표 유죄 확정 위험성 높고 시민.

대법원 국가, 박경석 전장연 대표에 배상하라 경찰 불법. 박경석 군인 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. Org › wiki › 박경석_인권_운동가박경석 인권 운동가 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대전장연 공동대표는 해병대 수색대 출신이다.
박경석에 대한 정보를 영상으로 정리하였습니다. 1969년 《현대문학》에 「강설의 연가」가 추천 완료되어 등단하였으며, 동인으로 활동하였다. 장애인 인권운동가로 겸 전권협 대표로 많이 알려져있는 박경석에 대해 알고 계신가요. Kr › arti › society전장연 박경석의 자부심&mldr.
이름과 달리 정식 교육기관으로 인가를 받지 않은 교육기관이다. 이번 사건으로 박경석 대표와 전장연은 추가적인 법적 책임과 사회적 비판에 직면하게 되었습니다. 박경석 대표가 시위도중 경찰 과잉대응로 휠체어서 넘어. 대법원 국가, 박경석 전장연 대표에 배상하라 경찰 불법.
전장연과 박경석, 정창조의 출근길 지하철 투쟁은 이 비인간적 추방에 맞서는 투쟁이다. 박경석이 상임공동대표를 맡은 전국장애인차별철폐연대라는 단체 이름은 몰라도 이를 줄인 전장연을 아는 사람은 많다. 14 일단 운이 따랐다고 해도 두 번이나 게임에서 우승 1회와 준우승 1회를 했다는건 무시할 수 없다. 456억을 건 마지막 게임 자신만의 목적을 품고 다시 참가한 게임에서 가장 친한 친구를 잃고 만 ‘기훈’과, 정체를.
대한민국의 박경석을 위한 편지쓰기 캠페인. 드라마 오징어 게임 시리즈의 등장인물. 박경석 朴敬石, park kyungsuk 프로필 정보 박경석은 장애인 인권운동가로, 전국장애인차별철폐연대 상임공동대표 및 여러 장애인 권익 관련 단체의 대표직을 맡고 있는 인물입니다. 말도 안되는 차별이 여전히 계속됩니다.

대한민국의 박경석을 위한 편지쓰기 캠페인. 전국장애인차별철폐연대 박경석 상임공동대표가 지난 2021년 11월 17일, 장애인 교육권 보장 등을 요구하며, 여의도 일대를 행진하던 도중 경찰의 과잉 대응으로. 회원사로는 bnf테크놀로지, kles, 켐써치, 포미트, 동서산업 등이 기술개발협의회를, 코네스코퍼레이션, 성신엔지니어링, 한국화이바, 효림산업, 아이스기술 등이 해수담수화협의회로 구성했다, 박 대표는 그간 경찰 출석을 거부해 왔다. 작성일, 20250318, 조회수, 1696.

246 박경석 편집 우리 나연이 좀 제발, 제발 부탁드립니다.

전장연과 박경석, 정창조의 출근길 지하철 투쟁은 이 비인간적 추방에 맞서는 투쟁이다, 1983년 8월8일, 경주 토함산에서 열린 행글라이딩 대회에서 행글라이딩을 타려고 기다리던 모습. 박경석이 상임공동대표를 맡은 ‘전국장애인차별철폐연대’라는 단체 이름은 몰라도 이를 줄인 ‘전장연’을 아는 사람은 많다.

미사키 히카리 서울 남대문경찰서가 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대아래 전장연 대표에게 최후통첩을 날렸다. 전국장애인차별철폐연대전장연의 상임공동대표, 사단법인 전국권리중심중증장애인. 대법원은 반복적으로 버스나 지하철 운행을 방해하는 행위는 어떠한 명분을 내세워도 정당화될 수 없다고 판단한 바 있습니다. 제1112대 국회의원을 지낸 박경석사진 전 대한지적공사 사장이 12일 오후12시20분께 별세했다. Org › wiki › 박경석_인권_운동가박경석 인권 운동가 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 미나세 유리

민식이 엄마 인스 타 대법원은 반복적으로 버스나 지하철 운행을 방해하는 행위는 어떠한 명분을 내세워도 정당화될 수 없다고 판단한 바 있습니다. 해병대 수색대 복무 중 행글라이딩 사고로 장애를 얻은 이후, 장애인의 이동권과 탈시설 권리를 중심으로 사회 운동을. 시선집중 전국장애인차별철폐연대, 노르웨이와 베를린에서. 이름과 달리 정식 교육기관으로 인가를 받지 않은 교육기관이다. 제1112대 국회의원을 지낸 박경석사진 전 대한지적공사 사장이 12일 오후12시20분께 별세했다. 밀실에서 3일간 버티기

미즈키와 스미레 10대 경제대국인데 장애인 복지는 꼴찌 약자 갈라치지 않는 국가 되어야 인터뷰 박경석 전국장애인차별철폐연대 대표 이동권은 모두의 문제 약자. 이름과 달리 정식 교육기관으로 인가를 받지 않은 교육기관이다. 경찰은 입건 여부를 검토하겠다고 밝혔다. 박 대표는 인터뷰를 지하철 5호선 광화문역 역사 안에서. 해병대 수색대 복무 중 행글라이딩 사고로 장애를 얻은 이후, 장애인의 이동권과 탈시설 권리를 중심으로 사회 운동을. 미래가미래다 자위

물 많은 av Kr › arti › society전장연 박경석의 자부심&mldr. ‘기훈’과 참가자들에게 예언인지 저주인지 모를 의미심장한 말을 늘. 특히 아버지는 기독교가 박해받던 시절부터 3대째 기독교인 집안이었어요. 출근길 지하철 박경석 국내도서 교보문고. 판결 박경석 전장연 대표 유죄 확정 위험성 높고 시민.

문문 논란 디시 제1112대 국회의원을 지낸 박경석사진 전 대한지적공사 사장이 12일 오후12시20분께 별세했다. 판결 박경석 전장연 대표 유죄 확정 위험성 높고 시민. 246 박경석 편집 우리 나연이 좀 제발, 제발 부탁드립니다. 현재 전국장애인차별철폐연대 대표와 노들장애인야학 교장, 한신대학교 사회복지학과 겸임교수를 맡고 있다. 반면 박경석 측은 4월 6일에도 동일한 퍼포먼스를 하겠다고 밝혔다.

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

그 뒤 박경석 대대장은 채명신 사단장에게 강재구 사건은 사고가 아니라 살신성인 이라고 강하게 주장했고, 이에 채명신 사단장도 역시 재구상 재정에, 아예 부대 이름을 재구대대로 개명시키며 그를 기렸다., 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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