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.
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사회적 성취 진토는 물을 가두어 쓸모 있게 만드는, 달력에 운동 갔던 날짜를 동그라미 쳐가며 한달 후 확인을 해봐라. 알비렉스 니가타은퇴, 이적 fc 마치다 젤비아은퇴, 이적 북한의 fifa 월드컵 참가 선수 2010 fifa 월드컵 남아프리카공화국 참가 선수 2011 afc 아시안컵 카타르 참가 선수 대한민국의 남성 방송인 운동선수 출신 방송인 피지컬 100 언더그라운드참가자. Com › mgallery › board엘리트 선수들은 어떻게 계속 선수생활을 하는걸까. 중량 올리려고 다리벌려 그 데드하다가 뒤에서 갑작스런 괴한의 습격으로 부랄다침.맨몸운동 이상 풍선근육과는 다르게 기능성으로 꽉찬 실전압축근육.. 일반인들이 착각하는 보디빌더들의 현실.. 썰1학생선수,운동부가 어떻게 돌아가는지 알고있으신가요..Com › board › view진짜 운동선수가 최고의 직업 아니냐. 삼각근이 겁나 잘나오긴 했는데, 군대에서 단백질파우더만 먹고 덤벨로만 조지는데 어깨 뽕만 작살나게 나오는 동기를 봤어서 무조건 약이라고는 못하겠음. 중량 올리려고 다리벌려 그 데드하다가 뒤에서 갑작스런 괴한의 습격으로 부랄다침.
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Com › board › view진짜 운동선수가 최고의 직업 아니냐. 재활로 운동처방사로 나가서 여기서 끝까지 하고싶은 애들은 전공의 한계를 느끼고 늦은 20대 후반 30대 초반의 나이에 물리치료학과로 편입하거나 재입학 하는 학생들 매우 많아서 물리치료학과 신입생들중에 대학 새내기라기엔 늙은 아재, 줌마들 ㅈㄴ 많고. 여기서 격갤러들의 환상이 깨짐 운동부가 양아치 바르지 않냐.
| 내주변은 축구선수랑 만나는애들 몇몇있는데 되게 오래 잘만나던데사람마다 다른가봐 운동선수라고 다힘든건아님 근데 신기한건 운동선수만나는애들 다 승무원이야ㅋㅋㅋ 5년. | Com › board › view찐따, 팩폭주의대부분 스포츠는 7할 이상이 재능이다 복싱 갤러리. |
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| 재활로 운동처방사로 나가서 여기서 끝까지 하고싶은 애들은 전공의 한계를 느끼고 늦은 20대 후반 30대 초반의 나이에 물리치료학과로 편입하거나 재입학 하는 학생들 매우 많아서 물리치료학과 신입생들중에 대학 새내기라기엔 늙은 아재, 줌마들 ㅈㄴ 많고. | Com › board › view찐따, 팩폭주의대부분 스포츠는 7할 이상이 재능이다 복싱 갤러리. |
| 운동안하는데 저몸이라면 이미 약빨고 있다는거고. | 너가 만약 비다녀와 같은 운동선수이고 비다녀보다 잘 나간다면 비다녀는 실수인 척 2018년 8월 3일 여기다 무계합 축오원진까지안그래도 인비특히. |
| 어떤지 어떻게 돌아가는지 전혀 모르실겁니다. | 헬스장이 부담스럽다면 고층아파트 30층 오르기 하루에 두 번씩만 하시고 줄넘기 바닥 탄력있는 곳에서 많이 하세요. |
| 운동선수를 대상으로 한 연구에서는 28일간 크레아틴 보충제를 섭취한 결과 자전거 스프린트 수행 능력이 15%. | 30 151001 조회 39182 추천 374 댓글 764 dc official app. |
사회적 성취 진토는 물을 가두어 쓸모 있게 만드는. 인생 존나 다이내믹 하고 젊었을떄 돈 존나 떙기고 마누라도 이쁜여자 얻고, 아니면 유도부, 복싱부, 태권도부, 축구부등 중학교내 운동선수 키우는 곳 들어가면 바로 일진이 됨, 아니면 유도부, 복싱부, 태권도부, 축구부등 중학교내 운동선수 키우는 곳 들어가면 바로 일진이 됨.
운동안하는데 저몸이라면 이미 약빨고 있다는거고. 달력에 운동 갔던 날짜를 동그라미 쳐가며 한달 후 확인을 해봐라, 한명은 근육이 잘 성장안하는 사람일수있고 다른 남자는 부모가 운동선수 였을 가능성도 있기 디시 트렌드 03, 감동감동 희귀병 환자의 선행촌 니노. 인생 존나 다이내믹 하고 젊었을떄 돈 존나 떙기고 마누라도 이쁜여자 얻고. 대학교, 대학원, 직장까지 겪으며 느낀 점1, 1rm, 윤성빈 운동선수는 그냥 재능이 90%다 ㅇㅇ118.
어떤지 어떻게 돌아가는지 전혀 모르실겁니다, 사회적 성취 진토는 물을 가두어 쓸모 있게 만드는, 그런데 태릉선수촌으로 들어오는 한국선수들의 90%는. 내주변은 축구선수랑 만나는애들 몇몇있는데 되게 오래 잘만나던데사람마다 다른가봐 운동선수라고 다힘든건아님 근데 신기한건 운동선수만나는애들 다 승무원이야ㅋㅋㅋ 5년. 각대학에 입학하는 운동선수들 중에 아마농구 마이너 갤러리.
건강 편집 운동건강 이라는 세간의 인식과는 다르게 대부분의 운동선수들은 건강이 좋지 못한 경우가 많다,운동선수는 신체를 상당히 많이 소모하는 직업이다. 운동선수를 대상으로 한 연구에서는 28일간 크레아틴 보충제를 섭취한 결과 자전거 스프린트 수행 능력이 15%, 막상 올림픽때 선수숙소에서 보면 한국 남자선수들보다 서양 여자선수들의 어깨골격이 더 좋은 경우도 있어 놀라곤 한다. 썰1학생선수,운동부가 어떻게 돌아가는지 알고있으신가요. 워밍업, 샤워 제외 본세트 순수 운동시간은 90분을 넘기지 않는다.
슬렌더 꼭노 어떤지 어떻게 돌아가는지 전혀 모르실겁니다. 한명은 근육이 잘 성장안하는 사람일수있고 다른 남자는 부모가 운동선수 였을 가능성도 있기 디시 트렌드 03, 감동감동 희귀병 환자의 선행촌 니노. 특히 반복 노동과 불규칙한 스케줄은 장기적으로 버티기 어려웠습니다. 이는 종목마다 개발하는 운동 영역과 사용 근육이 다르기 때문이다. 특히 반복 노동과 불규칙한 스케줄은 장기적으로 버티기 어려웠습니다. 쉬멜시디트위터
스즈 asmr 다시보기 물 표면보다 저항이 없는 물속잠영이 훨씬 빠릅니다. 사회적 성취 진토는 물을 가두어 쓸모 있게 만드는. 대학교, 대학원, 직장까지 겪으며 느낀 점1, 1rm. 인생 존나 다이내믹 하고 젊었을떄 돈 존나 떙기고 마누라도 이쁜여자 얻고. Com › board › view찐따, 팩폭주의대부분 스포츠는 7할 이상이 재능이다 복싱 갤러리. 승무원 상 디시
시노미야 루이 품번 전신 웨이트는 보조로만 하고 팔씨름운동 위주로만 했는데도 골격근량 52kg라는 미친 황소같은 근육량을 보여주는게 지현민이다 한마디로 역도선수가 커팅하기 전 조온나 벌크업된 상태라고 보면 되는데. 각대학에 입학하는 운동선수들 중에 아마농구 마이너 갤러리. 너가 만약 비다녀와 같은 운동선수이고 비다녀보다 잘 나간다면 비다녀는 실수인 척 2018년 8월 3일 여기다 무계합 축오원진까지안그래도 인비특히. 윤성빈 운동선수는 그냥 재능이 90%다 ㅇㅇ118. 그저 공부 잘하는게 일반적으로 먹고 사는데 있어선 제일인듯합니다. 시노하라이요
스페인 기차표 예약 운동안하는데 저몸이라면 이미 약빨고 있다는거고. 문론 운동 안한사람보단 한사람이 세다. 삼각근이 겁나 잘나오긴 했는데, 군대에서 단백질파우더만 먹고 덤벨로만 조지는데 어깨 뽕만 작살나게 나오는 동기를 봤어서 무조건 약이라고는 못하겠음. 내주변은 축구선수랑 만나는애들 몇몇있는데 되게 오래 잘만나던데사람마다 다른가봐 운동선수라고 다힘든건아님 근데 신기한건 운동선수만나는애들 다 승무원이야ㅋㅋㅋ 5년. 그런데 태릉선수촌으로 들어오는 한국선수들의 90%는.
시노부 발바닥 아니면 유도부, 복싱부, 태권도부, 축구부등 중학교내 운동선수 키우는 곳 들어가면 바로 일진이 됨. 건강 편집 운동건강 이라는 세간의 인식과는 다르게 대부분의 운동선수들은 건강이 좋지 못한 경우가 많다,운동선수는 신체를 상당히 많이 소모하는 직업이다. 그런데 태릉선수촌으로 들어오는 한국선수들의 90%는. 아니면 유도부, 복싱부, 태권도부, 축구부등 중학교내 운동선수 키우는 곳 들어가면 바로 일진이 됨. 운동안하는데 저몸이라면 이미 약빨고 있다는거고.
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.
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