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.
3 여담이지만 유로 2008 때에도 네덜란드의 뤼트 판니스텔로이 와 파트리크 비에라 가 서로 설전을 펼쳤고, 에브라는 전 동료였던 판니스텔로이를 옹호하였다. 박지성은 2002 월드컵을 시작으로 본인의 얼굴을 세계에 알리기 시작했습니다. 리그 분포를 살펴보면 epl은 박지성과. 뉴스 디시미디어 디시이슈 1 2 고기압 두겹 덮은 한반도찜통더위 끝 안보인다 아들 미안입소식서 ‘삭발’ 차은우만 잔뜩 찍혔다 14세 소녀 임신시킨 55세 유튜버사랑의 결실 주장 우혜원 치어리더, 시크한 표정도 완벽한 비주얼.
Com › board › view조선 축구선수 재산 순위 알려준다 202211202404 해외축구.. 박지성 재산 500억 202211202404 해외축구 갤러리..Com › smileng1 › 223855533308박지성 연봉 듣고 기절&mldr, Com › sw20woo › 222499383654박지성 맨유, 연봉, 재산, 프로필 정리 네이버 블로그. 파트리스 에브라 정말 으리으리한 으리파네여 2002. 박지성 결혼 생활jpg 나는 솔로 갤러리. 박지성은 2002 월드컵을 시작으로 본인의 얼굴을 세계에 알리기 시작했습니다. Com › sw20woo › 222499383654박지성 맨유, 연봉, 재산, 프로필 정리 네이버 블로그. 월수입 2억이면 아나운서들 여러명씩 거느리고 살수있겠네. 박지성은 2002 월드컵을 시작으로 본인의 얼굴을 세계에 알리기 시작했습니다.
3 여담이지만 유로 2008 때에도 네덜란드의 뤼트 판니스텔로이 와 파트리크 비에라 가 서로 설전을 펼쳤고, 에브라는 전 동료였던 판니스텔로이를 옹호하였다.. 지난해 영국의 한 주간지에 따르면 박지성의 재산은 1500만 파운드, 약 우리나라 돈으로 257억원에 이른다.. 스포츠뉴스목록열기 스포츠뉴스 박지성 재산 총정리|선수 연봉광고사업까지 풋볼리즘 ・ 51분 전 url 복사 이웃추가 공유하기.. 박지성 재산 중 건물은 용인시에 위치해 있는 지하2층 지상7층의 건물을 가지고 있으며 이 건물의 가치는 시세 약 250억 원이라고 전해지고 있습니다 연 임대수익만 최소 2억원이 발생한다고 하네요..32 0803 45 2 4216715 김민재 하나 뺏다고 팀이 무실점이란걸 하네ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 해갤러118, 영국 ‘선데이타임스’가 28일한국 시각 발표한 프리미어리그 선수 재산 순위에서 박지성은 1500만 파운드약 257억원로 17위에 올랐다. 리그 분포를 살펴보면 epl은 박지성과. 한편 ‘골프 황제’ 타이거 우즈가 5억7000만 파운드 약 9760억원의 재산을 보유해 가장 부유한 스포츠 선수로 선정됐다, 해버지 박지성과 월드 클래스 손흥민의 축구 실력 못지않은 남다른 재력이 공개됐다. 축구선수 박지성의 재산 규모가 공개됐다.
박지성 시절에는 당연히 라이벌이 일본이였고 모두가 한일전을 주목했는데 손흥민이 주장되고서는 중국이 라이벌 에휴 씨발 06. Com › board › view조선 축구선수 재산 순위 알려준다 202211202404 해외축구. 최초의 한국인 메이저리거이며, 강속구와 낙차 큰 커브볼을 주무기로 코리안 read more, 39 0804 24 2 4216719 손절 타이밍은 기가 막히게 아는 해갤러118. 아시아 최초 프리미어리그 득점왕 타이틀을 획득한 손흥민은 2022 발롱도르. 특히 지난해에는 전 박지성 13번 후계자 도르구, 햄스트링 부상으로 10주 out 상승12.
무엇보다 박지성은 2002 한일 월드컵 4강 신화의 주역이었다. 밝혀진 충격 진실 이데일리 e뉴스 박종민 기자 박지성 32퀸즈파크 레인저스의 재산 규모와 순위가 공개됐다. 스포츠스타 카테고리로 분류된 박지성 갤러리입니다. 파트리스 에브라 정말 으리으리한 으리파네여 2002. 싱가폴 이겼다고 팬들이 좋아하지않았음 오히려 싱가폴잡고 신나하면 격식없다고 욕먹음 선수들이나 팬들이나 위닝멘탈리티가 당연시 되었던 시절임 ㄹㅇ 박지성시대야 말로 꽃이 지고나서 그게 봄인줄알았다는 말이 딱 어울리는 시대임 nft 발행하기 577 20 11, 어린 시절과 성장 배경 가난을 딛고 일어난 노력의 아이콘박지성은 1981년 경기도 수원에서 태어났습니다.
한국인 프리미어리거 1호 박지성32퀸즈파크 레인저스이 잉글랜드 프리미어리그epl 부자 순위에 이름을 올렸다. 시간이 참 빠르게 흘러가는 것 같습니다. 박지성 등번호 마지막으로 에인트호번으로 돌아왔을 때 박지성이 사용한 등번호는 33번이다, 박지성 재산 중 건물은 용인시에 위치해 있는 지하2층 지상7층의 건물을 가지고 있으며 이 건물의 가치는 시세 약 250억 원이라고 전해지고 있습니다 연 임대수익만 최소 2억원이 발생한다고 하네요. 박지성 부동산 이야기가 나오자 집사부일체 멤버인 양세형과 육성재는 감탄을 금치 못했습니다.
밑에 박지성 재산 1000억이란 글을 보고. 저도 1000억이라고해서 의문을가졌는데그정도로 벌지는않았을거라고 생각하고잇었는데박찬호가 메이져진출해서 여태까지번돈이 거의 1000억정도인데 read more. 신빡 0805 30 1 4216720 박지성때 해축인기 ㅇㅈㄹ ㅇㅇ223.
영국 ‘선데이타임스’가 28일한국 시각 발표한 프리미어리그 선수 재산 순위에서 박지성은 1500만 파운드약 257억원로 17위에 올랐다. 이데일리 e뉴스 박종민 기자 박지성32퀸즈파크 레인저스의 재산 규모와 순위가 공개됐다. 28일한국시각 영국 타임스의 주말판 선데이타임스는 epl에서. 전재우 기자푸른한국닷컴지난 28일현지시간 선데이 타임스는 박지성퀸즈파크 레인저스의 재산이 약 1500만 파운드약 257억원에 달한다고 전했다.
지난해 영국의 한 주간지에 따르면 박지성의 재산은 1500만 파운드, 약 우리나라 돈으로 257억원에 이른다, 박지성 가족에 대해 몰랐던 사실 youtu. Com › board › view손흥민, 박지성 재산 누가 많을까.
파트리스 에브라 정말 으리으리한 으리파네여 2002, 영국일간지 더 선데이 타임스는 28일한국시간 잉글랜드 프리미어리그이하 epl 선수들의 재산을 계산해 순위를 매긴 자료를 발표. 아시아 최초 프리미어리그 득점왕 타이틀을 획득한 손흥민은 2022 발롱도르. 방송,연예,스포츠 39개의 글 목록열기 0, 공사비는 대부분 박지성 본인이 메우겠다고 밝혔으며, 당시 연봉과 광고를 포함해 수백억 원의 재산을 벌어들이면서 건물을 세우기에는 주머니 사정이.
최세희 노출 매일경제 스타투데이 김소연 인턴기자박지성 sbs 해설위원의 재력이 300억500억 원 대라는 추측이 나왔다. Com › board › view손흥민, 박지성 재산 누가 많을까. 밝혀진 충격 진실 이데일리 e뉴스 박종민 기자 박지성 32퀸즈파크 레인저스의 재산 규모와 순위가 공개됐다. 이 글에서는 박지성의 축구 커리어와 어린 시절 어려움 극복 스토리, 많은 이들이 궁금해하는 현재 재산, 수입원, 그리고 최근 활동까지 총정리하여 소개하겠습니다. 공사비는 대부분 박지성 본인이 메우겠다고 밝혔으며, 당시 연봉과 광고를 포함해 수백억 원의 재산을 벌어들이면서 건물을 세우기에는 주머니 사정이. 초 고화질 귀멸의 칼날 폰 배경화면
츠지이마루 디시 방송,연예,스포츠 39개의 글 목록열기 0. 매체에 따르면 박지성은 디미타르 베르바토프풀럼, 다비드 실바맨체스터 시티 등과 함께. 밝혀진 충격 진실 이데일리 e뉴스 박종민 기자 박지성 32퀸즈파크 레인저스의 재산 규모와 순위가 공개됐다. 영국일간지 더 선데이 타임스는 28일한국시간 잉글랜드 프리미어리그이하 epl 선수들의 재산을 계산해 순위를 매긴 자료를 발표. 절실함 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 출처무한도전 문제시 dm 주시면 삭제 조치. 채류진 실물 디시
첫사랑 야동 지난 22일 tvn ‘명단공개 2015’에서는 ‘탐나는 도다. 축구선수 박지성의 재산 규모가 공개됐다. 영국 주간지 선데이 타임즈는 29일 한국시간 박지성의 재산이 1500만 파운드 약 257억원에 이른다고 보도했다. Com › board › view손흥민, 박지성 재산 누가 많을까. 한편 ‘골프 황제’ 타이거 우즈가 5억7000만 파운드 약 9760억원의 재산을 보유해 가장 부유한 스포츠 선수로 선정됐다. 최 솜이 라이 키 후기 디시
초승달 결혼 18일 방송된 채널a `풍문으로 들었쇼`이하 `풍문쇼`에서는 박지성에 대한 이야기를 나눴다. 박지성 시절에는 당연히 라이벌이 일본이였고 모두가 한일전을 주목했는데 손흥민이 주장되고서는 중국이 라이벌 에휴 씨발 06. 관련기관에서 다챙겨먹고 read more. 뉴스 디시미디어 디시이슈 1 2 고기압 두겹 덮은 한반도찜통더위 끝 안보인다 아들 미안입소식서 ‘삭발’ 차은우만 잔뜩 찍혔다 14세 소녀 임신시킨 55세 유튜버사랑의 결실 주장 우혜원 치어리더, 시크한 표정도 완벽한 비주얼. 방송,연예,스포츠 39개의 글 목록열기 0.
체인 소맨 총의 악마 몇화 드레스, 커튼, 신발 장식에 완벽하며, 알리익스프레스에서 직접 구매해 특별한 프로젝트를 완성해보세요. 뉴스 디시미디어 디시이슈 1 2 고기압 두겹 덮은 한반도찜통더위 끝 안보인다 아들 미안입소식서 ‘삭발’ 차은우만 잔뜩 찍혔다 14세 소녀 임신시킨 55세 유튜버사랑의 결실 주장 우혜원 치어리더, 시크한 표정도 완벽한 비주얼. 18일 방송된 채널a `풍문으로 들었쇼`이하 `풍문쇼`에서는 박지성에 대한 이야기를 나눴다. 이새끼도 맨유 갔는데 당연한거지 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅌㅋㅋㅌㅋ 그냥 동양인새끼들은 아시아 마케팅 용이었는데 왜 자꾸 현실을 외면하고, 왜곡하려드는가. 연봉으로만 따진 박지성 재산 수입은 566억 7천만원 입니다 하지만 이뿐만이 아니죠 그는 국민스포츠 스타로서 6개월에 4억원 이상, 1년에 10억원 이상 어마어마한 광고 출연료를 받았으며 확인된 광고만 무려 25개 입니다.
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.
박지성 등번호 마지막으로 에인트호번으로 돌아왔을 때 박지성이 사용한 등번호는 33번이다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.