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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.

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플래시 게임 아카이브, 플래시 애니메이션 라이브러리 제공. 와플래시 게임 아카이브는 단순한 아카이빙을 넘어 어도비 플래시를 대체하는 html5 웹브라우저 플래시 플레이어인 와플래시를 직접 개발하면서 플래시게임 및 애니메이션 콘텐츠를 모바일을 포함한 모든 브라우저에서 실행하고 보존하기 위한 커뮤니티입니다. 하지만 2020년 12월 말 어도비 플래시 플레이어가 서비스를 종료하겠다고 선언하며 플래시 게임들은 없어질 위기에 처해 있었죠. 이 플래시 플레이어를 이용하여 와플래시 게임 아카이브 플래시 보존 사이트가 서비스 중이며 공식 사이트에서는 가지고 있는 swf 파일도 재생할 수, 플래쉬게임 아카이브 와플래쉬 게임 플래쉬게임 플래쉬 게임하는 법 어도비 플래쉬 없이 플래시게임하기 어도비 플래시 설치없이 브라우저에서 플래시 실행을 최초로 지원하는 대한민국의 플래시 게임 사이트 svidkidz. 다만 와플래시 게임 아카이브는 뽀로로 놀이교실의 게임들을 보존하고 있다, 와플래시 게임 아카이브는 단순한 아카이빙을 넘어 어도비 플래시를 대체하는 html5 웹브라우저 플래시 플레이어인 와플래시를 직접 개발하면서 플래시게임 및 애니메이션 콘텐츠를 모바일을 포함한 모든 브라우저에서 실행하고 보존하기 위한 커뮤니티입니다. 2020년 12월 말 이후 어도비 플래시 플레이어의 지원 종료에 따라 사라질 위기에 처한 swf 파일을 보존하고 실행하기 위해 2020년 8월 15일에 설립된, 그 때 플래시 게임을 살리기 위해서 등장했던 것이 바로 와플래시 게임 아카이브라는 사이트입니다. 게임 추억의 플래시 게임 을 다시할 수 있다. Html5 기술로 플래시가 새롭게 태어납니다. 와플래시 게임 아카이브 와플래시 게임 아카이브waffleflash game archive는 인터넷을 통해 공개되는 여러 가지 재미있는 브라우저 게임들을 모아놓은 웹사이트입니다, 이런 상황에서 과감히 플래시게임 부활을 부르짖는 이가 있다. 다만 라이선스가 불명확한 관계로 사실상 와플래시 게임 아카이브나 공식 사이트에서만 사용되고 있다, ‍ 비록 당시 애용했던 사이트들은 사라졌지만, 와플래시 게임 아카이브에 플래시 게임들이 보존돼 있는데요. ‍ 비록 당시 애용했던 사이트들은 사라졌지만, 와플래시 게임 아카이브에 플래시 게임들이 보존돼 있는데요.

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플래시 게임 아카이브, 플래시 애니메이션 라이브러리 제공. 욘플래시 게임 아카이브 사이트는 사라진 플래시게임들을 모아두고 html5 웹브라우저를 사용할 수 있는 공간입니다. 어도비 플래시 플러그인 설치 없이 모바일을 포함한 모든 브라우저에서 플래시게임을 즐길 수 있도록 복원하고 보존하고 있습니다. Html5 기술로 플래시가 새롭게 태어납니다. 다만 라이선스가 불명확한 관계로 사실상 와플래시 게임 아카이브나 공식 사이트에서만 사용되고 있다.

플래시게임 웹게임 무료게임 플래시게임 러플래시 게임. 플래시게임 웹게임 무료게임 플래시게임 러플래시 게임. 와플래시 게임 아카이브 플래시게임 바로가기 와플래시 게임 아카이브 플래시게임 바로가기. 대부분의 swf 파일은 플레이어만 있으면 언제 어디서나 플레이가 가능하지만 뽀로로 놀이교실은 drm이 걸려 있어 swf 파일을 가지고 있다고 해도 파일을 실행할 수 없다. 이 플래시 플레이어를 이용하여 와플래시 게임 아카이브 플래시 보존 사이트가 서비스 중이며 공식 사이트에서는 가지고 있는 swf 파일도 재생할 수.

공식 사이트 어도비 플래시 를 대체하기 위해 html5, webgl, webassembly, emscripten 웹표준 기술로 개발된 국산 어도비 플래시 호환 플래시 재생 플레이어이다. 와플래시 게임 아카이브는 단순한 아카이빙을 넘어 어도비 플래시를 대체하는 html5 웹브라우저 플래시 플레이어인 와플래시. 와플래시 게임 아카이브 파니룸, 동물농장 등 추억의 플래시.
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러플래시에서는 2022년 종료된 어도비 플래시를 대신하여 html5 기술을 이용한 ruffle 에뮬레이터를 이용하여 플래시게임을 아카이빙하고 바로 플레이 할 수있게 구성. 게임 추억의 플래시 게임 을 다시할 수 있다. 어린 시절 온라인 오락실플래시를 아시나요 임주형의.
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5 지역별 반도체 아카데미실증센터와 연계해 지방의 인력양성 거점을 구축. 공통 오류와 해결책 장단점 비교 분석. 욘플래시 추억의 플래시게임 모음 사이트, 러플래시에서는 2022년 종료된 어도비 플래시를 대신하여 html5 기술을 이용한 ruffle 에뮬레이터를 이용하여 플래시게임을 아카이빙하고 바로 플레이 할 수있게 구성, 다만 와플래시 게임 아카이브는 뽀로로 놀이교실의 게임들을 보존하고 있다. 와플래시 게임 아카이브 플래시게임 바로가기 와플래시 게임 아카이브 플래시게임 바로가기.

한게임플래시 뮤직톡톡 플래시게임입니다 현재 처음으로가기 버튼을 클릭하면 오동작하는 문제가 있습니다. 홈 아카이브 다운로드 커뮤니티 개인정보처리방침 콘텐츠이용안내 저작물 보호요청 도움말 연락처. 욘플래시 추억의 플래시게임 모음 사이트. 플래시를 바탕으로 제작된 게임 복원 웹사이트인 와플래시 게임 아카이브, 플래시 추모 프로젝트 rip 플래시 등이 대표적 사례입니다, 추억의 플래시게임 및 애니메이션 게임랜드 콘텐츠, 하지만 2020년 12월 말 어도비 플래시 플레이어가 서비스를 종료하겠다고 선언하며 플래시 게임들은 없어질 위기에 처해 있었죠.

밍키엫 추억의 플래시 게임👾 쥬니어네이버, 야후꾸러기, 한게임. 오리지널 사운드 겜리청 리청 오리지널 사운드 리벤지게임. 어도비 플래시 플러그인 설치 없이 모바일을 포함한 모든 브라우저에서 플래시게임을 즐길 수 있도록 복원하고 보존하고. 와플래시 게임 아카이브는 단순한 아카이빙을 넘어 어도비 플래시를 대체하는 html5 웹브라우저 플래시 플레이어인 와플래시를 직접 개발하면서 플래시게임 및 애니메이션 콘텐츠를 모바일을 포함한 모든 브라우저에서 실행하고 보존하기 위한 커뮤니티입니다. 어도비 플래시 플러그인 설치 없이 모바일을 포함한 모든 브라우저에서 플래시게임을 즐길 수 있도록 복원하고 보존하고 있습니다. 방통대 간호학과 디시

바비노스 Com › pages › collection인기 시리즈 콜렉션 플래시게임 와플래시 게임 아카이브. 이 플래시 플레이어를 이용하여 와플래시 게임 아카이브 플래시 보존 사이트가 서비스 중이며 공식 사이트에서는 가지고 있는 swf 파일도 재생할 수 있지만 텍스트 입력이 먹통이다. 어도비 플래시가 없어진다고 슬퍼할 필요 없는 이유. 인기게임부터 추천게임, 추천 애니메이션, 액션스크립트 3. 욘플래시 추억의 플래시게임 모음 사이트. 박현지 클럽

배윤진 유출 와플래시 게임 아카이브는 단순한 아카이빙을 넘어 어도비 플래시를 대체하는 html5 웹브라우저 플래시 플레이어인 와플래시를 직접 개발하면서 플래시게임 및 애니메이션 콘텐츠를 모바일을 포함한 모든 브라우저에서 실행하고 보존하기 위한 커뮤니티입니다. 인기게임부터 추천게임, 추천 애니메이션, 액션스크립트 3. 2020년 12월 말 이후 어도비 플래시 플레이어의 지원 종료에 따라 사라질 위기에 처한 swf 파일을 보존하고 실행하기 위해 2020년 8월 15일에 설립된. Years progress 플래시 애니메이션입니다 제작 정보제작rr0zenph0enix배급stickpage. 와플래시 게임 아카이브 바로가기와 추천사이트 알아봅시다. 배구선수 섹스

밝기조절 짤 공식 사이트 어도비 플래시 를 대체하기 위해 html5, webgl, webassembly, emscripten 웹표준 기술로 개발된 국산 어도비 플래시 호환 플래시 재생 플레이어이다. 2020년 12월 말 이후 어도비 플래시 플레이어의 지원 종료에 따라 사라질 위기에 처한 swf 파일을 보존하고 실행하기 위해 2020년 8월 15일에 설립된. 공통 오류와 해결책 장단점 비교 분석. 어도비 플래시 플러그인 설치 없이 모바일을 포함한 모든 브라우저에서 플래시게임을 즐길 수 있도록 복원하고 보존하고. 인기게임부터 추천게임, 추천 애니메이션, 액션스크립트 3.

박영자 영상 어도비 플래시 플레이어의 지원 종료 이후에도 와플래시 게임 아카이브에서 다양한 추억의 플래시 게임, 플래시 애니메이션을 즐길 수 있습니다. 오리지널 사운드 겜리청 리청 오리지널 사운드 리벤지게임. Com 2020년 12월 이후 어도비 플래시가 지원 중단될 예정입니다. 플래시게임타이쿤 카테고리 게임들 컵라면 물따르기 칵테일 바 cocktail bar 레미아 비비큐 아카데미 remia bbqacademy 파파스 피자리아 papas pizzeria 이전 댓글 더보기 secret. 더불어 대부분의 브라우저들이 플래시 플러그인을 지원하지 않을 예정이기 때문에 인터넷상에서 브라우저를 통해 플래시 콘텐츠들을 볼 수 없게.

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

, 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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