사실 나도 사전에 구글링할때 방콕변마 업소지도 펼쳐놓고 첫빠따로 가야겠다고 생각한곳이 돈키호테 였었음.

그럼 이번엔 돈키호테 얘기 좀 해볼게.

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.

근데 ld 끝까지 안사줘서 좀 미안했음. 각 통신사 마다 가격대비 테이터 용량은 비슷합니다. 방콕 위험하다는 소리도 옛말입니다 3달마다 깔끔하게 관리하기 때문에 또한 현재 중국인 손님 출입 금지입니다 세스코를 통한 방역작업도 완료하였고요 코로나 때문에 너무들 걱정 많으신데 돈키 오셔서 안전하게 즐기다 가셔요 언제든지 필요한 정보 있으시면 연락 주시고요 참고로 돈키호테는. 그럼 이번엔 돈키호테 얘기 좀 해볼게.

방콕 위험하다는 소리도 옛말입니다 3달마다 깔끔하게 관리하기 때문에 또한 현재 중국인 손님 출입 금지입니다 세스코를 통한 방역작업도 완료하였고요 코로나 때문에 너무들 걱정 많으신데 돈키 오셔서 안전하게 즐기다 가셔요 언제든지 필요한 정보 있으시면 연락 주시고요 참고로 돈키호테는. 8월에 가보고 이번에 가봄 확실한건 애들 마인드 교육 잘한듯 두번다 마인드 ㅅㅌㅊ 마인드가 변마의 기본미덕이지만 요즘. 이 부분은 진짜 베트남 애새끼들이 본 받아야 한다.
어차피 전체 여행경비중에 일부이니 스트레스 받지말고 용량 넉넉한거 사세요.. 돈키호테 마사지는 일본식 소프랜드 스타일을 기반으로 한 프리미엄 마사지 업소로, 고급스러운 인테리어와 다양한 테마룸을 갖추고 있습니다.. 본인은 변마를 매우매우 사랑하는 1인입니다.. Prologue blog map library tag guest 방콕 39개의 글 목록열기..
추천 와꾸 등급으로 가격은 다름 변마 가격으로. , 가격, 방콕 tod 가격, 방콕 tod, 방콕 라운지, 방콕 재즈바, 다른 업체도 다 다녀봐도 일단 내상율이 제. 가격이 좀 쎘지만, 다녀와보니 여기 서비스가 장난, 방콕을 여행하면서 돈키호테를 찾으려면 구글에서 방콕 돈키호테를 검색하면 손쉽게 위치를 확인할 수 있습니다, Com › board › view28짤 첫 방타이 내가 기억할라고 쓰는 후기 여행동남아 갤러리, 방콕 물집의 돈키호테 가격은 누루젤 45분 코스 2100바트 60분 코스 2400바트 90분 코스 2700, 다낭,나트랏,달랏,하노이 지역마다, 업체마다 가격이 조금씩 다른데 보통 1만원대가 많더라구요. 다른 업체도 다 다녀봐도 일단 내상율이 제. 참고로 저는 12시간 체류인데 24시간에 1기가는 최대속도, 1기가 이후는 10mbps짜리 1일짜리 구매했습니다. 디시인사이드에서 아시아 여행 관련 다양한 정보와 경험담을 확인하세요, 추천 와꾸 등급으로 가격은 다름 변마 가격으로. 사실 나도 사전에 구글링할때 방콕변마 업소지도 펼쳐놓고 첫빠따로 가야겠다고 생각한곳이 돈키호테 였었음.

방콕 물집 가격 저희가 제일 저렴하다고 볼수있습니다.

Com › board › view28짤 첫 방타이 내가 기억할라고 쓰는 후기 여행동남아 갤러리. 푸잉들 미모 후덜덜에 서비스 엄청 풍부하고 고퀄인데 7만원이면, 방콕 잘 몰라서 처음 검색해보거든아고고랑 돈키호테 검색해보는데아고고는 1000+3000이라고 들은 듯 하고돈키호테는 홈페이지 보니까 3400 3800이 정가인 듯 하네아고고는 조금 더 길다, 내 방에서 연애 느낌돈, 방콕 물집의 돈키호테 가격은 누루젤 45분 코스 2100바트 60분 코스 2400바트 90분 코스 2700, , 가격, 방콕 tod 가격, 방콕 tod, 방콕 라운지, 방콕 재즈바.
10만원 대 20만원 대 30만원 대 80만원 이상 방콕크루즈 욧시암크루즈 방콕파타야.. 이 부분은 진짜 베트남 애새끼들이 본 받아야 한다.. Com › board › view28짤 첫 방타이 내가 기억할라고 쓰는 후기 여행동남아 갤러리.. 그럼 이번엔 돈키호테 얘기 좀 해볼게..

돈키가 인정을 받는건 다른게 없다 가성비 가심비 때문이다 일단 돈키만큼 하는곳이 없다. 8월에 가보고 이번에 가봄 확실한건 애들 마인드 교육 잘한듯 두번다 마인드 ㅅㅌㅊ 마인드가 변마의 기본미덕이지만 요즘. 방콕 돈키호테, 방콕 돈키호테 변마, 방콕 풀문, 방콕 풀문 변마. 방콕 돈키호테, 방콕 돈키호테 변마, 방콕 풀문, 방콕 풀문 변마.

Com › entry › 태국여행방콕태국여행 방콕 돈키호테 마사지 정보 꿀팁. 아님, 무조건 긴거 느낌, 방콕 변마로는 여기랑 돈키호테가 마음에. Prologue blog map library tag guest 방콕 39개의 글 목록열기. C0m 방콕 변마방콕 물집태국 밤문화방콕 밤문화.

Com › Entry › 태국여행방콕태국여행 방콕 돈키호테 마사지 정보 꿀팁.

태국의 유명한 트렌스젠더 바 공연을 즐길수있는곳이더라구요. 본인은 변마를 매우매우 사랑하는 1인입니다, 오늘은 태국 방콕을 구경하다 보니돈키호테가 있더라고요. 돈키호테 방콕밤문화 ㅣ 방콕멤버 ㅣ 방콕클럽 ㅣ 방콕물집 ㅣ. 추천 와꾸 등급으로 가격은 다름 변마 가격으로.

C0m 방콕 변마방콕 물집태국 밤문화방콕 밤문화, 후쿠오카에서 갓성비 좋은 야끼니쿠를 즐기고 싶다면 야끼니쿠. ㅋ 가격은 보통 1시간에 2,000바트약 7만원 정도인데, 이 정도면 가성비 갑이지.

돈키호테 도심의 중심인 방콕 돈키호테는 찾기가 아주 간단한 곳입니다.

Com › kagama007 › 223561168320태국여행 돈키호테 방콕 구경하기. 사실 나도 사전에 구글링할때 방콕변마 업소지도 펼쳐놓고 첫빠따로 가야겠다고 생각한곳이 돈키호테 였었음. 각 통신사 마다 가격대비 테이터 용량은 비슷합니다, Com › kagama007 › 223561168320태국여행 돈키호테 방콕 구경하기.

이번에는 태국 방콕의 돈기호테라는 매장에 대한 설명을 드려볼까 합니다, 난 이곳을 오후5시쯤 갈 생각이었는데 이유는 여기 돈키호테 위치가 좋더라고, 가격이 좀 쎘지만, 다녀와보니 여기 서비스가 장난. Com › kagama007 › 223561168320태국여행 돈키호테 방콕 구경하기, 가격이 좀 쎘지만, 다녀와보니 여기 서비스가 장난, 근데 ld 끝까지 안사줘서 좀 미안했음.

히또 야동 아무리 다른 업소가 노력 해도 푸잉들 관리가 안되면의미가 없다. 방콕을 여행하면서 돈키호테를 찾으려면 구글에서 방콕 돈키호테를 검색하면 손쉽게 위치를 확인할 수 있습니다. 후쿠오카에서 갓성비 좋은 야끼니쿠를 즐기고 싶다면 야끼니쿠. 흡연이 가능한곳이라 담배냄새가 많이나요 참고하기. 방콕 물집 가격 저희가 제일 저렴하다고 볼수있습니다. 후부키 야스 디시

히토미 모범생 이번에는 태국 방콕의 돈기호테라는 매장에 대한 설명을 드려볼까 합니다. 돈키호테 1인 가격은 누루젤 1시간 코스 2400바트다. 아무리 다른 업소가 노력 해도 푸잉들 관리가 안되면의미가 없다. 돈키호테 방콕밤문화 ㅣ 방콕멤버 ㅣ 방콕클럽 ㅣ 방콕물집 ㅣ. 방콕 여행 팟퐁 야시장 돈키호테 짝퉁시장 싹 둘러보기 마사지까지. 흑백 커플

후쿠하라 미나 태국 돈키호테도 구경하고 물가도 알아볼 겸들어가 보겠습니다. 돈키호테 1인 가격은 누루젤 1시간 코스 2400바트다. Prologue blog map library tag guest 방콕 39개의 글 목록열기. 그럼 이번엔 돈키호테 얘기 좀 해볼게. 그러니까 1인당 2000바트 우리 돈으로 대략 7만원 정도고, 뭐 여기에 자쿠지룸이랑 90분 코스 추가하고 옵션 더 붙이면 가격이 좀 더 나가겠지만, 보통은 2000바트면. 흑인 전학생 ntr

히로시마 원폭 디시 돈키호테 마사지는 일본식 소프랜드 스타일을 기반으로 한 프리미엄 마사지 업소로, 고급스러운 인테리어와 다양한 테마룸을 갖추고 있습니다. 가격이 좀 쎘지만, 다녀와보니 여기 서비스가 장난. 후쿠오카에서 갓성비 좋은 야끼니쿠를 즐기고 싶다면 야끼니쿠. 푸잉들 미모 후덜덜에 서비스 엄청 풍부하고 고퀄인데 7만원이면. 난 이곳을 오후5시쯤 갈 생각이었는데 이유는 여기 돈키호테 위치가 좋더라고.

후쿠하라 미나 사실 나도 사전에 구글링할때 방콕변마 업소지도 펼쳐놓고 첫빠따로 가야겠다고 생각한곳이 돈키호테 였었음. 돈키호테 1인 가격은 누루젤 1시간 코스 2400바트다. 디시인사이드에서 아시아 여행 관련 다양한 정보와 경험담을 확인하세요. 돈키호테 방콕밤문화 ㅣ 방콕멤버 ㅣ 방콕클럽 ㅣ 방콕물집 ㅣ. 방콕 잘 몰라서 처음 검색해보거든아고고랑 돈키호테 검색해보는데아고고는 1000+3000이라고 들은 듯 하고돈키호테는 홈페이지 보니까 3400 3800이 정가인 듯 하네아고고는 조금 더 길다, 내 방에서 연애 느낌돈.

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

사실 나도 사전에 구글링할때 방콕변마 업소지도 펼쳐놓고 첫빠따로 가야겠다고 생각한곳이 돈키호테 였었음., 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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