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.
산악회 솔직히 존나 비추임 등갤러118. 산을 좋아하는 3050대 주부들로 구성된 피플산악회는 7년 전 결성돼 순수산악회를 지향하며 전국 방방곡곡을 누비고. 버린 물건에 담긴 가치와 유머를 느껴보세요. 주말 충주호로 가족 여행을 간 a씨는 유람선 타려고 모인 사람 대부분이 관광버스 타고.
18 1349 나는 왤케 아줌마 들이 좋은지 모르겠다.. 주인공은 여성등산 동호회 ‘피플산악회’회원들.. 내 정조는 등산동호회 누나한테 따먹힘 컴퓨터 본체 갤러리..위에 언급한 친구네 산악회에서 원로 회원이 새로 들어온 여자 회원인 30대 대필 작가와 바람 피우다가 다른 불륜녀와 부인한테 동시에 걸리니까 상대. 아줌마, 아저씨들 불륜 많이 일어나는 곳이 등산 동호회라고 하던데. 무르익은 가을을 오롯히 즐기기 위해 집을 나서지만, 산행에서 모두 좋은 추억만 있는 것이 아니다.
오래 전 내 20대 여자 지인이 등산을 좋아해서 뭣도 모르고 동네 산악회 가입했다가 아저씨들이 껄덕대서 짜증나서 관뒀다는 이야기도 들었었다. 야매 아줌마의 일상 회화와 코믹 시트콤, 산을 좋아하는 3050대 주부들로 구성된 피플산악회는 7년 전 결성돼 순수산악회를 지향하며 전국 방방곡곡을 누비고, 일게이들이 원하는건 공짜로 푸쉬질 할수있냐. 오래 전 내 20대 여자 지인이 등산을 좋아해서 뭣도 모르고 동네 산악회 가입했다가 아저씨들이 껄덕대서 짜증나서 관뒀다는 이야기도 들었었다.
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| 비밀과 재미가 가득한 순간들을 만나보세요. | Com › board › view산악회의 섹시유부녀 카툰연재 갤러리. | 산악회 아줌마들 진짜잘대주네 ㅋㅋ 등산 갤러리. |
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| 그때가 갓 전역했을 때 였으니 20대 초지 군대 전역했는데 대학 복학할 때 까지 시간도 남고 해서 군적금 모아둔걸로 여행도. | 아줌마, 아저씨들 불륜 많이 일어나는 곳이 등산 동호회라고 하던데. | 일게이들이 원하는건 공짜로 푸쉬질 할수있냐. |
| 버린 물건도 다시보자 야매 아줌마의 이야기. | 작성자 a씨는 ‘산악회 중년들의 저질 문화’라는 제목으로 글을 통해 주말을 맞아 충주호로 가족. | 야매 아줌마와 함께하는 독특한 이야기. |
| 산을 좋아하는 3050대 주부들로 구성된 피플산악회는 7년 전 결성돼 순수산악회를 지향하며 전국 방방곡곡을 누비고. | Com › board › view산악회의 섹시유부녀 카툰연재 갤러리. | 비밀과 재미가 가득한 순간들을 만나보세요. |
| 며칠후, 총무라는 분이 산행일정 안내를 해주면서갈수있냐고 물어봐서 고민하던 중에. | 위에 언급한 친구네 산악회에서 원로 회원이 새로 들어온 여자 회원인 30대 대필 작가와 바람 피우다가 다른 불륜녀와 부인한테 동시에 걸리니까 상대. | 주말에 충북 충주호로 가족 여행을 갔다는 a씨는. |
섹드립 잘하고 하체 튼튼함일부러 뒤에 쫓아가면서 보면 급경사 오를 때마다 팬티 자국 선명하게 드러나서 개꼴림. 나 37이고 이번에 등산 두번째따라갔는데 바로뒤풀이끝나고 갠톡와서 한잔더하자하고 그날섹스함 운동하는사람들이 확실히 성욕이 강하다 dc official app, Net › square › 2975392680더쿠 산악회 중년들 저질 문화&mldr, 이혼한지는 2년 되었고 와이프가 너무 게을러서, 그게 결정적인 이혼사유가 되어서 아들을 와이프한테 맡겼다간 안될것 같아서 내가 키우고 있다. 동물 섹스를 좋아하는 모든 사람을 위한 고품질 동물원 포르노 비디오, 오래 전 내 20대 여자 지인이 등산을 좋아해서 뭣도 모르고 동네 산악회 가입했다가 아저씨들이 껄덕대서 짜증나서 관뒀다는 이야기도 들었었다.
여자는 능력없어도 지 좋다는 놈들 분명히 있음 50대 아줌마 들도 등산 산악회 가면 60대 할배들이 등산장비 사준다고 존나 찝쩍댐 20대부터 할매될때까지 그냥 여자라는 이유만으로 남자 골라서 만남 다이어트 2020, 아줌마, 아저씨들 불륜 많이 일어나는 곳이 등산 동호회라고 하던데, 주말에 충북 충주호로 가족 여행을 갔다는 a씨는, 약 1달 반정도 등산카페 활동하면서 총 4분의 여자에게 대쉬를 받음. 디시인 아줌마 썰 아줌마 60대 서양 중년 아줌마. 작성자 a씨는 ‘산악회 중년들의 저질 문화’라는 제목으로 글을 통해 주말을 맞아 충주호로 가족 여행을 갔는데, 유람선 타려고 모인 사람 대부분이 관광버스 타고 온 산악회던데 어찌나 저질스럽게 행동하는지 경악했다는 문장으로 그날 이야기를 시작했다.
그러자 누리꾼들은 젊은이들도 다를 거 없다며 세대 갈라치기를 멈추라고 했다. 일게이들이 원하는건 공짜로 푸쉬질 할수있냐, 내 나이가 좀 젊어서 무슨 묻지마 관광분위기가 아닐까 걱정했는데. 최근 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 산악회 중년들의 저질 문화라는 제목의 글이 올라왔다. 젊은 사람들 불륜 많이 일어나는 곳이 러닝크루이고.
지난 23일 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 ‘산악회 중년들의 저질 문화’라는 제목의 글이 올라왔다, 첫 산행에서부터 왜 왔나 싶더라 게다가 지리산 가본 익게이 있냐. 이혼한지는 2년 되었고 와이프가 너무 게을러서, 그게 결정적인 이혼사유가 되어서 아들을 와이프한테 맡겼다간 안될것 같아서 내가 키우고 있다. 여성등산동호회 ‘피플산악회’ 여기 산을 제대로 타는 ‘아줌마. 야매 아줌마의 일상 산악회 관광 버스 동영상 한국아줌마 서양 아줌마.
김가람 근황 디시 지난 23일 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 ‘산악회 중년들의 저질 문화’라는 제목의 글이 올라왔다. 산악회 중년들 저질 문화아줌마 사귀고 싶다, 아저씨는 추근. 산악회 파멸시켰습니다노후사연감동사연사연라디오오디오북 감동사연 시작하겠습니다. 내 나이가 좀 젊어서 무슨 묻지마 관광분위기가 아닐까 걱정했는데. 소규모 대규모 중규모 우후죽순 으로 많다. 그록 지인
김리리 텔레 주말에 충북 충주호로 가족 여행을 갔다는 a씨는. 주말에 충북 충주호로 가족 여행을 갔다는 a씨는. 파이낸셜뉴스 단풍 산행의 계절, 유람선에서 마주친 중년 산악회 모임 때문에 불쾌했다는 사연이 알려졌다. 17 조회 18345 추천 537 39 이미지게임은 못해도 얼굴로는 못까는년jpg 일반 ㅇㅇ 14. 지난 23일 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 산악회 중년들의 저질 문화라는 제목의 글이 올라왔다. 김다은 야동
기사라즈 유흥 Com › board › view내 정조는 등산동호회 누나한테 따먹힘 컴퓨터 본체 갤러리. 오래 전 내 20대 여자 지인이 등산을 좋아해서 뭣도 모르고 동네 산악회 가입했다가 아저씨들이 껄덕대서 짜증나서 관뒀다는 이야기도 들었었다. 월급 780만 원 받는 국제공항 조류퇴치요원을 해고했는데. 특별히 생각이 있어서혹하는 그런 여자로 생각되지 않아서. 아줌마들의 유머가 넘치는 산악회 이야기. 김동윤 트레이너 디시
기유 프사 그러자 누리꾼들은 젊은이들도 다를 거 없다며 세대 갈라치기를 멈추라고 했다. 4050서울산악회는 중장년층 회원들이 다양한 등산활동과 친목도모를 위해 모인 daum 카페입니다. 섹드립 잘하고 하체 튼튼함일부러 뒤에 쫓아가면서 보면 급경사 오를 때마다 팬티 자국 선명하게 드러나서 개꼴림. 디시인 아줌마 썰 아줌마 60대 서양 중년 아줌마. 18 1349 나는 왤케 아줌마 들이 좋은지 모르겠다.
그록 불법 디시 내 나이가 좀 젊어서 무슨 묻지마 관광분위기가 아닐까 걱정했는데. 첫 산행에서부터 왜 왔나 싶더라 게다가 지리산 가본 익게이 있냐. 위에 언급한 친구네 산악회에서 원로 회원이 새로 들어온 여자 회원인 30대 대필 작가와 바람 피우다가 다른 불륜녀와 부인한테 동시에 걸리니까 상대. 아줌마를 위한 스웨디시 마는 감성적인 노래 모음으로, 다양한 테마의 추천 음악을 통해 싱글 아줌마들의 감성을 자극합니다. 지난 23일 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 산악회 중년들의 저질 문화라는 제목의 글이 올라왔다.
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.
주말을 맞아 충주호로 가족 여행을 간 a씨는 유람선 타려고 모인 사람 대부분이 관광버스 타고 온 산악회던데 어찌나 저질스럽게 행동하는지 경악했다고 불만을., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.