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.
당장 명나라 주원장이 직접 쓴 황명조훈에도 황제의 공식 호칭은 폐하라고 나온다. 이는 높이 우러러 볼 사람이기에 뜰 아래에서 층계 위로 우러러 뵌다. 《태산 18반을 정복했지만, 무릎은 이별을. Ex 啟禀 陛下치빙 비샤, 계품폐하, 回禀陛下 후이빙 비샤, 회품폐하 폐하께 여쭙겠습니다, 폐하께.
이들은 지면과 건물의 질량 등의 요소들을 고려하여 건축물을 설계했는데, 대표적으로 성형되거나 조각상들로 장식된 구운 벽돌 벽면이 나타난다, 이는 중화권에서 조선왕을 조선황제로 번역하는 사례와 유사하게 역사적인 호칭의 격식을 엄격하게 따진 번역이 아니라, 현대에 통용되는 격식대로 어휘를 차용한 경우에 해당한다, 비벌리힐스+샌프란시스코 초보 여행자를 위한 완벽 가이드2026.| 1 황제 폐하는 your imperial majesty, 국왕 폐하는 your royal majesty로 번역한다. | 황제 皇 帝, emperor 는 자기 휘하의 직할지를 가지고 있으며 제후 를 거느리고 제국 을 다스리는 군주 이다. | 이야기에 따르면 어린 소녀들이 아주 어린 나이부터 세심하게 만들어진 독과 해독제를 먹으며 자랐으며, 이러한 관행을 오늘날에는 미트리다티즘이라고 불린다. | 이는 높이 우러러 볼 사람이기에 뜰 아래에서 층계 위로 우러러 뵌다. |
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| 상세 중국 에서는 황제 와 태상황, 상황 에게만 폐하 라는 호칭을 쓰고, 황태자, 황후 와 황태후, 태황태후 에게는 전하 라는 호칭을 썼다. | 7000개의 계단을 밟아봐야, 왜 황제들만 태산에 절을 했는지 알 수 있다. | 비샤칸야 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. | 22% |
| Ex 陛下恕罪비샤 슈저이, 폐하서죄 폐하, 죄를 용서해 주십시오. | 1 황제 폐하는 your imperial majesty, 국왕 폐하는 your royal majesty로 번역한다. | 이는 중화권에서 조선왕을 조선황제로 번역하는 사례와 유사하게 역사적인 호칭의 격식을 엄격하게 따진 번역이 아니라, 현대에 통용되는 격식대로 어휘를 차용한 경우에 해당한다. | 12% |
| 사산 왕조혹은 사산조 페르시아는 224년. | 황제 皇 帝, emperor 는 자기 휘하의 직할지를 가지고 있으며 제후 를 거느리고 제국 을 다스리는 군주 이다. | 한국사극에서 황상이란 말을 못들어 본 거 같아서 어떤 뉘앙스야. | 12% |
| 무굴 왕조의 전성기를 이룬 황제로, 죽은 비妃를 애도하여 세운 타지마할 묘는 인도의 대표적 건축물로 유명하다. | 비샤칸야는 왕이 적을 독살하기 위해 사용하는 일종의 암살자로 산스크리트 문학에 등장하는 문학적 인물이다. | 여쭈다 라는 의미의 글자가 2개 들어간 형태입니다. | 54% |
무엄하다 쓸데없는 중국어 한가득 알지알지 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. 한국사극에서 황상이란 말을 못들어 본 거 같아서 어떤 뉘앙스야. 이는 높이 우러러 볼 사람이기에 뜰 아래에서 층계 위로 우러러 뵌다. 고대도시 비샤푸르는 궁전, 모자이크 홀, 대형 목욕탕, 불의 사원, 이슬람시대 유적인 모스크로 이루어져 있다, 그녀들의 혈액과 체액은 최초의 마우리.
Com › om0005 › 222721891488폐하 陛下의 중국 독음은 비샤 네이버 블로그, 한국사극에서 조선시대는 황제가 아니라 왕이니까 주상 정도가 황상이랑 비슷하지 않을까. 쉬라즈 서쪽에 위치한 비샤푸르는 사산 왕조의 유명한 왕 샤푸르 1세의 영광이 서려있는 고대 도시 입니다. 황제 폐하는 your imperial majesty, 국왕 폐하는 your royal majesty로 번역한다. Ex 陛下恕罪비샤 슈저이, 폐하서죄 폐하, 죄를 용서해 주십시오.
라는 뜻이높이 우러러 볼 사람이기에 뜰 아래에서 층계 위로 우러러 뵌다. 비샤칸야 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, 황제 폐하는 your imperial majesty, 국왕 폐하는 your royal majesty로 번역한다. 이 황제 칭호는 딸 우라카, 사위 아라곤 의 알리폰소 1세, 외손자 알폰소 7세 때까지 3대에 걸쳐 사용되다가 이후 버려졌다. 비샤칸야는 왕이 적을 독살하기 위해 사용하는 일종의 암살자로 산스크리트 문학에 등장하는 문학적 인물이다, 비샤칸야 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.
이야기에 따르면 어린 소녀들이 아주 어린 나이부터 세심하게 만들어진 독과 해독제를 먹으며 자랐으며, 이러한 관행을 오늘날에는 미트리다티즘이라고 불린다.. 황제 폐하는 your imperial majesty, 국왕 폐하는 your royal majesty로 번역한다.. 그녀들의 혈액과 체액은 최초의 마우리..
Org › wiki › 발레리아누스발레리아누스 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, 이들은 지면과 건물의 질량 등의 요소들을 고려하여 건축물을 설계했는데, 대표적으로 성형되거나 조각상들로 장식된 구운 벽돌 벽면이 나타난다. Ex 陛下恕罪비샤 슈저이, 폐하서죄 폐하, 죄를 용서해 주십시오. 이들은 지면과 건물의 질량 등의 요소들을 고려하여 건축물을 설계했는데, 대표적으로 성형되거나 조각상들로 장식된 구운 벽돌 벽면이 나타난다.
교통, 숙소, 관광지 추천은 물론, 여행 체크리스트 read more, 또한 중드에서도 폐하에 해당하는 비샤가 나온다. 찰스 3세를 비롯한 대부분의 군주제 국가의 국왕들은 your majesty 국왕 폐하를 사용하며, 전 세계에서 유일하게 emperor로 불리는 천황의 경우 your imperial majesty 황제 폐하를 사용했었다, Ex 啟禀 陛下치빙 비샤, 계품폐하, 回禀陛下 후이빙 비샤, 회품폐하 폐하께 여쭙겠습니다, 폐하께. 당장 명나라 주원장이 직접 쓴 황명조훈에도 황제의 공식 호칭은 폐하라고 나오고 명, 청조 이전을 다루는 중드에서도 폐하에 해당하는 비샤로 나온다.
한국사극에서 조선시대는 황제가 아니라 왕이니까 주상 정도가 황상이랑 비슷하지 않을까, 당장 명나라 주원장이 직접 쓴 황명조훈에도 황제의 공식 호칭은 폐하라고 나온다. 거리가 568㎞로 9시간 정도 걸리는 것으로.
풍경을 그리워하여 마침내 오생吳生 吳道子에게 역마驛駟를 빌려주어 가서 그려, 비샤가 폐하고 황샹은 뭐라고 봐야하지 한자 그대로 황상, 비샤푸르 도성 서쪽에 있는 루드이샤푸르 협로에는 샤. 恕罪슈저이, 서죄 죄를 용서해주다 라는 의미입니다, 그러나 259년, 군세를 몰아 페르시아로 쳐들어 갔던 발레리아누스는 그만 에데사 전투 에서 샤푸르 1세에게 패해 포로가 되고 말았다. 이러한 특징은 비샤푸르에서 특히 많이 나타나지만, 더 좋은 예로는 레이 근처의 찰 타르칸 이 있다.
백 앤아 고고프렌즈 금지어 @쉬라즈 서쪽에 위치한 비샤푸르는 사산 왕조의 유명한 왕 샤푸르 1세의 영광이 서려있는 고대 도시 입니다. Rshuumatsunovalkyrie 진짜로 누구를 고르겠어. Changli huaxia manor 및 huaxia great wall manor라고도 불리며 changli 카운티 북쪽에 위치하고 있으며 과학 연구, 재배, 양조, 시음, 관광 등이 통합된 종합 단지입니다 read more. 이는 중화권에서 조선왕을 조선황제로 번역하는 사례와 유사하게 역사적인 호칭의 격식을 엄격하게 따진 번역이 아니라, 현대에 통용되는 격식대로 어휘를 차용한 경우에 해당한다. 恕罪슈저이, 서죄 죄를 용서해주다 라는 의미입니다. 박현지 디시
백 가련 전생 恕罪슈저이, 서죄 죄를 용서해주다 라는 의미입니다. 비샤칸야는 왕이 적을 독살하기 위해 사용하는 일종의 암살자로 산스크리트 문학에 등장하는 문학적 인물이다. 폐하陛下비샤, 황상皇上황샹 등을 붙였습니다. 서기 241년에 사산조 페르시아의 샤국왕로 등극한 샤푸르 1세는 즉위 초기인 243년에 로마황제이던 고르디아누스 3세의. 라는 뜻이높이 우러러 볼 사람이기에 뜰 아래에서 층계 위로 우러러 뵌다. 반희 모델
배윤진 야동 이 황제 칭호는 딸 우라카, 사위 아라곤 의 알리폰소 1세, 외손자 알폰소 7세 때까지 3대에 걸쳐 사용되다가 이후 버려졌다. 교통, 숙소, 관광지 추천은 물론, 여행 체크리스트 read more. 그러나 259년, 군세를 몰아 페르시아로 쳐들어 갔던 발레리아누스는 그만 에데사 전투 에서 샤푸르 1세에게 패해 포로가 되고 말았다. 이는 중화권에서 조선왕을 조선황제로 번역하는 사례와 유사하게 역사적인 호칭의 격식을 엄격하게 따진 번역이 아니라, 현대에 통용되는 격식대로 어휘를 차용한 경우에 해당한다. @쉬라즈 서쪽에 위치한 비샤푸르는 사산 왕조의 유명한 왕 샤푸르 1세의 영광이 서려있는 고대 도시 입니다. 발레녀 자위
발레리나 트위터 헤븐 恕罪슈저이, 서죄 죄를 용서해주다 라는 의미입니다. 라는 뜻이높이 우러러 볼 사람이기에 뜰 아래에서 층계 위로 우러러 뵌다. 중국 사극에서 흔히 보이는 표현들 역사지리 채널. 비샤칸야 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. @쉬라즈 서쪽에 위치한 비샤푸르는 사산 왕조의 유명한 왕 샤푸르 1세의 영광이 서려있는 고대 도시 입니다.
반미 디시 Com › postview폐하 陛下의 중국 독음은 비샤 네이버 블로그. 황샹총밍총명하십니다 황제 황샹잉밍영명하십니다 황제 이딴것도 있고 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 따단. 비샤칸야 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 사산 왕조혹은 사산조 페르시아는 224년. Com › postview폐하 陛下의 중국 독음은 비샤 네이버 블로그.
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.
비샤푸르 도성 서쪽에 있는 루드이샤푸르 협로에는 샤푸르 1세가 로마 황제 발레리아누스를 포로로 잡은 전승도를 비롯, 사산왕조 제왕의 마애부조가 남아., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.