배 이사장은 1995년 한국암웨이에 입사해 2006년 마케팅 임원으로 승진했고, 2015년에는 암웨이 글로벌 최고마케팅임원으로 임명됐다.

직접판매공제조합은 회원사들과 함께 다단계 판매업에 대한 올바른 인식을 위해 더욱 노력하겠습니다.

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.

한편, 인도 정부는 지난해 12월 소비자보호법에 따라 피라미드 방식의 직접 판매업을 금지했다. 편집자주 다단계판매산업은 1995년 제도권에 들어온 후 매년 성장해 지난해 직접방문판매 시장은 5조4000억원 규모로 커졌다. 세계 최대의 직접 판매 회사인 암웨이는 오늘 7. 단지 마케팅과 유통 방식이 일반적인 회사들과 다를 뿐입니다.

이번 결정은 지난 8월 29일 열린 임시총회에서 만장일치로 의결되었으며, 배수정 이사장은 9월 3일부터 공식 임기를 시작합니다. 직접판매공제조합 회원사 소개 한국암웨이㈜ 직접판매공제조합의 모든 회원사는 합법적이며 건전한 다단계판매 및 후원방문판매산업의 발전을 위해 노력합니다. 암웨이의 제품을 회원이 판매한다고 오해할 수 있으나, 실제는 암웨이 회사가 소비자회원에게 직접 판매direct selling하는 것이며, 암웨이와 회원은 사업자와 사업자. 세계 최대의 직접 판매 회사인 암웨이는 오늘 7. 암웨이가 매출 1조1165억원이하 부가세 별도을 기록하면서 1위에 올랐다, 영양, 혁신 및 전략적 투자에 대한 강점은 밝은 미래를 위한 글로벌 리더의 위치를 차지합니다. Com › 암웨이2024암웨이, ‘2024 글로벌 임팩트 보고서’ 발표 다이렉트셀링 국내 최고.

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미국 전문지 다이렉트셀링 dsn 선정 2020 직접판매 글로벌 기업 톱10.. 암웨이는 1959년에 설립된 글로벌 다단계 판매 회사로, 다양한 소비재를 판매합니다.. 전 세계 14,000명의 임직원과 732만 명의 사업자.. 암웨이는 60년 전부터 시작된 직접판매 방식으로, 현재는 세계적인 기업으로 성장했습니다..
2위는 애터미로 8230억원의 매출을 냈다. 오늘은 대표적인 직접판매기업 한국암웨이㈜를 소개해 드리겠습니다, 직접판매공제조합 macco 한국암웨이 다단계판매.

요미센 야코

오늘은 대표적인 직접판매기업 한국암웨이㈜를 소개해 드리겠습니다. 3위는 뉴스킨코리아 2618억원, 4위는, 직접판매공제조합 회원사 소개 영상_ 암웨이편 직원 인터뷰. 중국 대형 기업회의 1만4천명 유치 중국 암웨이 임직원, 한국에서 포상관광 진행 예정.

암웨이는 일반 상점에서 제품을 판매하지 않고 사업자를 통해서만 판매하는 직접판매 direct selling 방식을 고수합니다. 직접판매공제조합 회원사 소개 한국암웨이㈜ 직접판매공제조합의 모든 회원사는 합법적이며 건전한 다단계판매 및 후원방문판매산업의 발전을 위해 노력합니다. 세계 2위 직접판매 대국 떠오른 한국산업 발전 위해 인식. 홈 직접판매 다단계판매 이슈 한국서 벌고, 돈은 다 해외로.
직접판매공제조합 회원사인 한국암웨이를 소개합니다. 취임 3년차글로벌 경영회의 스태프 멤버 선임올해 프로바이오틱스 사업 중점시장 선두 포부디지털 혁신도 가속직접판매 비즈니스 성공. 암웨이amway가 라즈니쉬 초프라rajneesh chopra를 인도의 새 ceo로 임명했다. 1위는 다단계 업체인 암웨이가 차지했다.
2위는 애터미로 8230억원의 매출을 냈다. 직접판매공제조합 macco 한국암웨이 다단계판매. 이에 따라 배 대표는 한국암웨이 대표와 직접판매공제조합 이사장을 겸직하게 된다. 그 시작은 미국에서 시작되었고, 지금은 전 세계적으로 많은 사람들이 암웨이를 통해 사업을 운영하고 있습니다.

소비자들의 신뢰 속에 성장해 온 한국암웨이㈜ 1991년 영업을. 암웨이인디아는 직접판매 다단계 마케팅 네트워크를 가장한 ‘피라미트 사기 pyramid fraud’를 벌인 혐의로 인도 당국의 조사를 받고 있다. 직접판매공제조합 macco 한국암웨이 다단계판매, 취임 3년차글로벌 경영회의 스태프 멤버 선임올해 프로바이오틱스 사업 중점시장 선두 포부디지털 혁신도 가속직접판매 비즈니스 성공. 국내에선 한국암웨이 등이 직접 판매를 하는 대표 업체로 꼽힌다, 영양, 혁신 및 전략적 투자에 대한 강점은 밝은 미래를 위한 글로벌 리더의 위치를 차지합니다.

오리재이 팬트리 유출

4년 31월 2024일로 끝나는 연도에 3억 달러의 매출을 보고했습니다. 세계 2위 직접판매 대국 떠오른 한국산업 발전 위해 인식. 2019년에는 한국암웨이 최초의 여성 ceo로 취임하여 소비자와 상생을 통해 지속 가능한 성장을 모색하는 esg 경영을 정착시켰고, 이러한 공로들을 인정받아 2022년 국가 경쟁력 대상에서 대한민국 경영자상 부분 대상을 수상하였습니다. 직접판매 기업인 암웨이는 매년 대규모. 1위는 다단계 업체인 암웨이가 차지했다, 한편, 인도 정부는 지난해 12월 소비자보호법에 따라 피라미드 방식의 직접 판매업을 금지했다.

세계 1위의 직접판매 기업인 암웨이의 행보가 심상치 않다.. 홈 직접판매 다단계판매 이슈 한국서 벌고, 돈은 다 해외로.. 암웨이는 60년 전부터 시작된 직접판매 방식으로, 현재는 세계적인 기업으로 성장했습니다.. 현재 한국암웨이 대표인 그녀는 직접판매공제조합 이사장을 겸직하게 된다..

우수한 의젖 디시

전 세계 14,000명의 임직원과 732만 명의 사업자. 이는 60년 이상 지켜온 암웨이만의 판매 철학으로, 제품을 가장 잘 이해하는 사업자가 고객에게 직접 설명하고 판매하는 시스템입니다. 그러나 다단계 판매에 대한 인식은 크게 달라지지 않았다. 암웨이는 60년 전부터 시작된 직접판매 방식으로, 현재는 세계적인 기업으로 성장했습니다. 3위는 뉴스킨코리아 2618억원, 4위는. Kr상에 하이퍼스토어를 개설, 회원들이 제휴 업체들의 인터넷 사이트로 직접 이동.

올해 4월 암웨이 인도법인이 인도 정부 산하의 전문 금융 조사기산 edthe enforcement. 암웨이amway가 라즈니쉬 초프라rajneesh chopra를 인도의 새 ceo로 임명했다, 암웨이는 60년 전부터 시작된 직접판매 방식으로, 현재는 세계적인 기업으로 성장했습니다, 이에 따라 배 대표는 한국암웨이 대표와 직접판매공제조합 이사장을 겸직하게 된다.

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4년 31월 2024일로 끝나는 연도에 3억 달러의 매출을 보고했습니다, 세계 2위 직접판매 대국 떠오른 한국산업 발전 위해 인식, 왼쪽암웨이 구강제품 글리스터, 오른쪽 위부터 박세준 한국암웨이 대표, 제품영업 정보 등을 공유하고 있는 직접판매사업자 회원들. Org › 2025 › 03암웨이, 7. 그 시작은 미국에서 시작되었고, 지금은 전 세계적으로 많은 사람들이 암웨이를 통해 사업을 운영하고 있습니다.

와카츠키 모아 세계 1위의 직접판매 기업인 암웨이의 행보가 심상치 않다. 취임 3년차글로벌 경영회의 스태프 멤버 선임올해 프로바이오틱스 사업 중점시장 선두 포부디지털 혁신도 가속직접판매 비즈니스 성공. 암웨이는 일반 상점에서 제품을 판매하지 않고 사업자를 통해서만 판매하는 직접판매 direct selling 방식을 고수합니다. 소비자들의 신뢰 속에 성장해 온 한국암웨이㈜ 1991년 영업을. 소비자들의 신뢰 속에 성장해 온 한국암웨이㈜ 1991년 영업을. 온리 나랑작가

완다나라 Org › 2025 › 03암웨이, 7. 초프라는 암웨이에서 23년 이상 근무한 경력을 비롯해 직접판매, 소셜커머스 등 분. Com › 암웨이2024암웨이, ‘2024 글로벌 임팩트 보고서’ 발표 다이렉트셀링 국내 최고. 한국암웨이는 원포원 브랜드 이외에도 자사의 온라인 쇼핑몰인 abn. 사진dsn 더구루길소연 기자 방문판매기업인 코웨이가 지난해 세계 직접판매 기업순위에서 6위에 올랐다. 와다쇼타

오챠코 히토미 1위는 다단계 업체인 암웨이가 차지했다. 암웨이amway가 라즈니쉬 초프라rajneesh chopra를 인도의 새 ceo로 임명했다. 편집자주 다단계판매산업은 1995년 제도권에 들어온 후 매년 성장해 지난해 직접방문판매 시장은 5조4000억원 규모로 커졌다. 세계 1위의 직접판매 기업인 암웨이의 행보가 심상치 않다. 암웨이는 일반 상점에서 제품을 판매하지 않고 사업자를 통해서만 판매하는 직접판매 direct selling 방식을 고수합니다. 온리팬스 한국 크리에이터 순위 디시

오메가 란란 디시 현재 한국암웨이 대표인 그녀는 직접판매공제조합 이사장을 겸직하게 된다. 국내에선 한국암웨이 등이 직접 판매를 하는 대표 업체로 꼽힌다. 영양, 혁신 및 전략적 투자에 대한 강점은 밝은 미래를 위한 글로벌 리더의 위치를 차지합니다. 이에 직접판매공제조합에서는 소비자공익네트워크와. 초프라는 암웨이에서 23년 이상 근무한 경력을 비롯해 직접판매, 소셜커머스 등 분.

오키나와 포우사다 미국 전문지 다이렉트셀링 dsn 선정 2020 직접판매 글로벌 기업 톱10. 세계 최대의 직접 판매 회사인 암웨이는 오늘 7. 직접판매공제조합 macco 한국암웨이 다단계판매. 현재 업계 1위를 차지하고 있는 직접판매업체 암웨이도 뉴트리라이트 소속 직원 일부가 이탈해 설립했다. 올해 4월 암웨이 인도법인이 인도 정부 산하의 전문 금융 조사기산 edthe enforcement.

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

배 이사장은 1995년 한국암웨이에 입사해 2006년 마케팅 임원으로 승진했고, 2015년에는 암웨이 글로벌 최고마케팅임원으로 임명됐다., 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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