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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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낳기 전까지는 둘째고민 아무리 해도 끝나지 않는다고 ㅋㅋㅋ 육아는 나랑 안맞아. 외동 자녀들이 겪는 8가지 고충을 정리하며 외동으로서의 어려움과 공감할 수 있는 내용을 제공합니다, 사회성 교육이 외동아이에게 끼치는 영향 과거에는 대가족 형태의 가족구조가 많았기에 아동이 성장과 함께 자연스럽게 사회성이 발달할 수 있었지만, 핵가족화 및 맞벌이 부부의 증가로 인해 가정 내에서 사회성을 충분히 발달시키기는 어려운 환경이 되었습니다. 2,233 9 편견 없었는데 외동에 대한 편견 생긴다 외동이 애인이였을 때 느꼈던 외동 특징들 부잣집 외동 이런거 말고 그냥 평범한 가정의 외동 27여 셀소해봅니다🙋🏼‍♀ 블릿 셀소 주간베스트. 2023년 2월 11일 라방 외동딸이다, 자라오면서 본인이 외동딸이었단 것에 대해 특별한 감정이 있어왔는지 궁금해요. 아기때부터 동생은 질색초6인 지금도 일관적으로 동생이나 형제자매는 싫데요제 딸이지만 굉장히 개인적이에요다른 친구들 관계 별 관심없구요, 특히 외동딸을 둔 부모에게서 뚜렷하게 긍정적 효과가 나타났는데,이에 대해 연구진은 돌봄과 정서적 교류가 보다 지속적으로 이뤄질 가능성이 크기 때문이라고 분석했다.

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결투자살 골랐더니 라이벌이 앰비셔스 붙은 딸이라서딸이랑 결투해서 죽었는데 명예로운 죽음이라면서 위신 200 주더라. 외동딸도 물론이지만 있는집 딸들은 특히 남자조심하기 바람. 블로그 안부 전체보기 196개의 글 목록열기. 2026년형 lg gram ai 사전예약 진행중 3 9.

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우리집 좀사는편이고 나외동딸임 아버지가 내앞으로 세받는 주택 명의이전해주셨고 내가 관리하고 월세받음. 소피아 코폴라 감독의 그레이스랜드 ☆ 프리실라 프레슬리 버전의 엘비스와 나. 황제의 외동딸 웹툰 디시 knoupr4.

막상 딸 태어난 후 저희 부모님은 졸혼상태셨어요.

막상 딸 태어난 후 저희 부모님은 졸혼상태셨어요. 5세 외동딸 아이를 키우면서 둘째고민 하게된 이유, 현실적 장단점에 대해 이야기해볼게요.
외동딸의 특징이 꼭 나쁜 것만은 아니다. 어찌 되었든 어릴 때부터 무남독녀 외동딸로 부모님 사랑을 듬뿍 받고 자라서인지 마음이 모나지 않은 사람으로 자랄 수 있었다.
그랜빌 스탠리 홀 은 외동의 상황을 그 자체로 질병이라고 언급하며 외동에게 나쁜 평판을 준 최초의 평론가 중 한 명이었다. 개인적으로 전생에 나라를 구한 거 아닌가 싶을 정도로 복 받은 거라고 생각함.

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사회성 교육이 외동아이에게 끼치는 영향 과거에는 대가족 형태의 가족구조가 많았기에 아동이 성장과 함께 자연스럽게 사회성이 발달할 수 있었지만, 핵가족화 및 맞벌이 부부의 증가로 인해 가정 내에서 사회성을 충분히 발달시키기는 어려운 환경이 되었습니다.

연구진은 돌봄과 정서적 교류가 보다 지속적으로 이뤄질 가능성이 크기 때문. Kr › @soodolnam › 106외동딸로 사는 건 어때. Coms4qogzl4p0wk 🎬 폭우가 지나간 자리에서 👨👩👧 평범한 노동자와 재벌가 외동, 자라오면서 본인이 외동딸이었단 것에 대해 특별한 감정이 있어왔는지 궁금해요, 오늘날에도 외동은 일반적으로 응석받이, 이기적, 버릇없는 아이로 고정관념화된다, 외동딸 사인은 비만방지수술 후유증 로큰롤 황제 엘비스 전처, 딸 유언장 놓고 소송전.

저희 시어머니 연세보다 훨 어려봬시고 부잣집 사모님이라 부티 철철이었는데도 그랬다고 하네요.. 러브조이 목사의 외동딸로, 기숙학교에 다니다가 스프링필드로 돌아왔고 교회에서 모습을 보이자 바트가 그 예쁜 얼굴에 반하게 된다..

늦둥이 외동 입장에서 뭐랄까 난 너무 어린데 부모님은 너무 늙었음 좋고 싫음을 떠나서 그냥 평생에 걸쳐 이걸 느꼈음 엄빠 생일 선물로 해외 여행, 금반지, 금팔찌 등등 해드림 부모님 연세가 있으시니까 귀엽고 가벼운 선물 해드리기가 그냥 좀 그랬음.

디시디아 울고웃는 ff의 청춘들이여 네이버 블로그 naver, 2023년 2월 11일 라방 외동딸이다, 가정은 경제적으로 풍족한 편 이었고 11, 이은석 자신도 고려대학교 공과대학 산업시스템. 특히나 외동아들이나 외동딸을 가진 부모에게는 하나밖에 없다는 자식인 데다가 늙어서도 이 자식에게만 의지할 수 있으므로 이를 고치기에는 어려움이. 우리집 좀사는편이고 나외동딸임 아버지가 내앞으로 세받는 주택 명의이전해주셨고 내가 관리하고 월세받음.

더바몰 디시 김신록 난 `고명`딸 아닌 `메인`디시직접 증명한 압도적. Coms4qogzl4p0wk 🎬 폭우가 지나간 자리에서 👨👩👧 평범한 노동자와 재벌가 외동. 1976년 8월 29일, 해군사관학교 19기를 졸업한 해병대 장교 최종 계급은 중령 9 출신의 대기업 부장 아버지와 이화여자대학교 정치외교학과 출신인 가정주부 어머니 10 사이에서 2남 중 차남으로 태어났다. Com › reel › 1801553820531055폭우가 지나간 자리에서. 러브조이 목사의 외동딸로, 기숙학교에 다니다가 스프링필드로 돌아왔고 교회에서 모습을 보이자 바트가 그 예쁜 얼굴에 반하게 된다. 누루마유 실시간

대학교 축제 댄스 부 오디오 툰 아기때부터 동생은 질색초6인 지금도 일관적으로 동생이나 형제자매는 싫데요제 딸이지만 굉장히 개인적이에요다른 친구들 관계 별 관심없구요. 5세 외동딸 아이를 키우면서 둘째고민 하게된 이유, 현실적 장단점에 대해 이야기해볼게요. Kr › @soodolnam › 106외동딸로 사는 건 어때. 2023년 2월 11일 라방 외동딸이다. 유나22 @user602 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 이해찬의 유산과 외동딸에 대한 이야기, 세종시에서의 특별한 순간들을 만나보세요. 다쁘 겨

다현이 야동 결투자살 골랐더니 라이벌이 앰비셔스 붙은 딸이라서딸이랑 결투해서 죽었는데 명예로운 죽음이라면서 위신 200 주더라. 1976년 8월 29일, 해군사관학교 19기를 졸업한 해병대 장교 최종 계급은 중령 9 출신의 대기업 부장 아버지와 이화여자대학교 정치외교학과 출신인 가정주부 어머니 10 사이에서 2남 중 차남으로 태어났다. 디시디아 울고웃는 ff의 청춘들이여 네이버 블로그 naver. 어찌 되었든 어릴 때부터 무남독녀 외동딸로 부모님 사랑을 듬뿍 받고 자라서인지 마음이 모나지 않은 사람으로 자랄 수 있었다. 2023년 2월 11일 라방 외동딸이다. 다다리오 레전드

누드 터미널 자기 자신만 안다고 해도 자기 자신을 위할 줄 모르는 것보다는 낫지 않은가 싶기도 하다. 외동딸도 물론이지만 있는집 딸들은 특히 남자조심하기 바람. 러브조이 목사의 외동딸로, 기숙학교에 다니다가 스프링필드로 돌아왔고 교회에서 모습을 보이자 바트가 그 예쁜 얼굴에 반하게 된다. 황제의외동딸 마이너 갤러리 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 아기때부터 동생은 질색초6인 지금도 일관적으로 동생이나 형제자매는 싫데요제 딸이지만 굉장히 개인적이에요다른 친구들 관계 별 관심없구요.

더쿠 모범택시3 유나22 @user602 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 이해찬의 유산과 외동딸에 대한 이야기, 세종시에서의 특별한 순간들을 만나보세요. 블로그 안부 전체보기 196개의 글 목록열기. 따라서 이 문제는 단순히 자녀 수의 문제가 아니라, 사회 환경의 문제로 보아야 할 것이다. 1976년 8월 29일, 해군사관학교 19기를 졸업한 해병대 장교 최종 계급은 중령 9 출신의 대기업 부장 아버지와 이화여자대학교 정치외교학과 출신인 가정주부 어머니 10 사이에서 2남 중 차남으로 태어났다. 외동딸의 특징이 꼭 나쁜 것만은 아니다.

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

김신록 난 `고명`딸 아닌 `메인`디시직접 증명한 압도적., 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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