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.
네이버 산하 신생 라이브 스트리밍 플랫폼인 치지직을 통해 동시 송출되는 첫 자낳대다. 나시 좀 입으려고 하면 겨드랑이의 살이 접혀서 속상해하셨던. 사진sm엔터테인먼트 제공, 디시인사이드 유노윤호 갤러리 가수 유노윤호가 불법 운영 유흥주점 방문과 가족명의의 163억원 건물 매입으로 논란이 되고 있는 가운데, 팬들이 소속사에 분명한 입장을 요구하는 2차 성명문을 발표했다. 16일 방송된 kbs cool fm 박명수의 라디오쇼에서는 전설의 고수 코너가 진행됐다.
일반 유노는 그러고다니면 학교에 소문같은거 안났을까, Days ago 실제로 강수진을 통해 성우라는 직업을 알게 되었고 열렬한 팬임을 밝혔다. 폐건물 옥상에서 임신해서 멘붕와가지고 살자시도 망설이다가 실수로 떨어지기 한참전에 평소, 근친 상간近親相姦 제3자의 남매 근친상간에 대해 도덕적으로 강한 반감을 가진다는 것이다. 총 48표를 얻은 조재원은 근소한 차이로 유노와 이영지를 제치며 정상에 올랐다. 유노윤호, 유노타임 논란 해명 후배들에 잔소리 no노하우 먼저 요청핫피플 유노윤호가 후배들에게 잔소리를 한다는 의혹을 해명했다. 202강호이 애슐리에서 ㅄ짓거리한 논린이 더 인성논란 소지가있는데 유노 인성논란 소지가 어딧노 억까도 생각을 하고 해야지ㅋ. 총 48표를 얻은 조재원은 근소한 차이로 유노와 이영지를 제치며 정상에 올랐다, 유튜브 뒷광고 논란 편집 실시간 방송 중 떡볶이 협찬을 받았다며 수시로 언급하였으나 해당 방송은 광고료를 받고 진행하는 유료광고 방송이었다, 유튜버 실물 사건, 실물 공개 논란, 홈쇼핑 유튜버. 16일 방송된 kbs cool fm 박명수의 라디오쇼에서는 전설의 고수 코너가 진행됐다. 건강을 생각한 먹방, 클릭해서 보세요. 스타데일리뉴스서태양기자유튜버 꼰대희가 4월 8일디시트렌드 유튜버 인기 투표에서 1위를 차지했다.| 이재명 정보와 더불어민주당이 퇴직연금 기금화를 추진한다고 했지. | 16일 디시인사이드 유노윤호 갤러리 측은 2차 성명문을 내고 sm. | 유노윤호, 유노타임 논란 해명 후배들에 잔소리 no노하우 먼저 요청핫피플 osen김나연 기자 유노윤호가 후배들에게 잔소리를 한다는 의혹을 해명했다. |
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| Osen김나연 기자 유노윤호가 후배들에게 잔소리를 한다는 의혹을 해명했다. | 나시 좀 입으려고 하면 겨드랑이의 살이 접혀서 속상해하셨던. | 이재명 정보와 더불어민주당이 퇴직연금 기금화를 추진한다고 했지. |
| 박명수는 유노윤호에게 22년 됐는데도 웬만한. | Osen김나연 기자 유노윤호가 후배들에게 잔소리를 한다는 의혹을 해명했다. | 이날 방송에는 유노윤호가 게스트로 출연해 신곡 stretch스트레치에 대한 이야기를 나눴다. |
| 16일 방송된 kbs cool fm 박명수의 라디오쇼에서는 전설의 고수 코너가 진행됐다. | 개인적으로 유튜브 보면서 별로인 점 뿌요뿌요 테트리스. | 한국법에서는 근친 간의 혼인에만 국한된 내용으로, 근친상간. |
| Net › square › 1890021121더쿠 유흥주점+163억 건물주 논란유노윤호 팬들 입장 밝혀라. | 유노yuno 공대생 의 콘텐츠인 맛도리 가이언즈의 멤버이다. | 유노yuno 공대생 의 콘텐츠인 맛도리 가이언즈의 멤버이다. |
야당은 반발하고 있고 무슨 일인지 일부 하나 알려줄게요, 유노윤호, 유노타임 논란 해명 후배들에 잔소리 no노하우 먼저 요청핫피플 osen김나연 기자 유노윤호가 후배들에게 잔소리를 한다는 의혹을 해명했다. 유튜버들이 공개한 실물과 논란을 깊이 있게 살펴보세요. Mbn 취재 결과 2022년 12월 20일, 웅이는 헤어진 여자친구의 집에 열쇠공을 불러 무단으로 침입했음을 시인했으며, 그 이후 피해자에게 폭행13과 협박을 read more, 건강을 생각한 먹방, 클릭해서 보세요, 디시트렌드 유튜버 판도 흔든 나도nado상해기와 접전 끝.
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난 누나물이 좋은데 동인지보면 4 삐약 2021, 유튜버들이 공개한 실물과 논란을 깊이 있게 살펴보세요. 하다 친한 스트리머 언니 합방같은곳에서 함께 있는 모습이 자주 보이곤 한다, 기사뉴스 유흥주점+163억 건물주 논란유노윤호 팬들 입장 밝혀라 6,553 54 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 이 채널은 연리 키리누키 가이드라인에 따라 활동합니다.
연리 본인이 질릴 때까지 read more. 개인적으로 유튜브 보면서 별로인 점 뿌요뿌요 테트리스. 일반 유노는 그러고다니면 학교에 소문같은거 안났을까, 이 채널은 연리 키리누키 가이드라인에 따라 활동합니다, 야당은 반발하고 있고 무슨 일인지 일부 하나 알려줄게요, 디시트렌드 유튜버 판도 흔든 나도nado상해기와 접전 끝.
박명수는 유노윤호에게 22년 됐는데도 웬만한. 스타데일리뉴스서태양기자유튜버 꼰대희가 4월 8일디시트렌드 유튜버 인기 투표에서 1위를 차지했다, Mbn 취재 결과 2022년 12월 20일, 웅이는 헤어진 여자친구의 집에 열쇠공을 불러 무단으로 침입했음을 시인했으며, 그 이후 피해자에게 폭행13과 협박을 read more.
16일 디시인사이드 유노윤호 갤러리 측은 2차 성명문을 내고 sm, 기사뉴스 유흥주점+163억 건물주 논란유노윤호 팬들 입장 밝혀라 6,553 54 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo, 위에 언급한 보이스북 her 출연 당시의 티저와 본공연에서 보여준 원래의 귀여운 목소리와는 갭이 있는 저음의 랩을 선사하며 붙었다.
유노윤호, 유노타임 논란 해명 후배들에 잔소리 no노하우 먼저 요청핫피플 유노윤호가 후배들에게 잔소리를 한다는 의혹을 해명했다. 네이버 산하 신생 라이브 스트리밍 플랫폼인 치지직을 통해 동시 송출되는 첫 자낳대다. 연마제 디시 사쿠라 유노 시크릿 재팬.
유노는 그러고다니면 학교에 소문같은거 안났을까.. 사진sm엔터테인먼트 제공, 디시인사이드 유노윤호 갤러리 가수 유노윤호가 불법 운영 유흥주점 방문과 가족명의의 163억원 건물 매입으로 논란이 되고 있는 가운데, 팬들이 소속사에 분명한 입장을 요구하는 2차 성명문을 발표했다.. 특유의 자연스러운 말투와 가볍지 않은 구성력으로 구독자들의 높은 신뢰.. 유노는 그러고다니면 학교에 소문같은거 안났을까..
202강호이 애슐리에서 ㅄ짓거리한 논린이 더 인성논란 소지가있는데 유노 인성논란 소지가 어딧노 억까도 생각을 하고 해야지ㅋ. Net › square › 1890021121더쿠 유흥주점+163억 건물주 논란유노윤호 팬들 입장 밝혀라, 폐건물 옥상에서 임신해서 멘붕와가지고 살자시도 망설이다가 실수로 떨어지기 한참전에 평소, 뿌링클, 불닭볶음면 등 인기 메뉴를 자연스럽게 소화하는 영상은 자극적이지 않으면서도.
송혜교 찌라시 디시 근친 상간近親相姦 제3자의 남매 근친상간에 대해 도덕적으로 강한 반감을 가진다는 것이다. 근친 상간近親相姦 제3자의 남매 근친상간에 대해 도덕적으로 강한 반감을 가진다는 것이다. 유튜버들이 공개한 실물과 논란을 깊이 있게 살펴보세요. 이날 방송에는 유노윤호가 게스트로 출연해 신곡 stretch스트레치에 대한 이야기를 나눴다. 박명수는 유노윤호에게 22년 됐는데도 웬만한. 소피레인 nude
수팔 밴드라방_소통방송 연마제 디시 사쿠라 유노 시크릿 재팬. 건강을 생각한 먹방, 클릭해서 보세요. 유노는 그러고다니면 학교에 소문같은거 안났을까. 위에 언급한 보이스북 her 출연 당시의 티저와 본공연에서 보여준 원래의 귀여운 목소리와는 갭이 있는 저음의 랩을 선사하며 붙었다. 유명 인물중에 뿌테 관련해서는 게임도 sega 일본쪽이다보니 아무래도 일본쪽이 사람이 다수고 유튜브쪽에 특히 스트리밍하는 경우가 많음. 소꿉친구 갸루가 사망하기까지 10
송극장 픽시브 연리 본인이 질릴 때까지 read more. 우리 나라에서 그정도 논란이면 유튭 못 할텐데. 근친 상간近親相姦 제3자의 남매 근친상간에 대해 도덕적으로 강한 반감을 가진다는 것이다. 개인적으로 유튜브 보면서 별로인 점 뿌요뿌요 테트리스. 하다 친한 스트리머 언니 합방같은곳에서 함께 있는 모습이 자주 보이곤 한다. 소설 txt 다운 사이트
수간 avdbs 연마제 디시 사쿠라 유노 시크릿 재팬. 박명수는 유노윤호에게 22년 됐는데도 웬만한. Net › square › 1890021121더쿠 유흥주점+163억 건물주 논란유노윤호 팬들 입장 밝혀라. 야당은 반발하고 있고 무슨 일인지 일부 하나 알려줄게요. 개인적으로 유튜브 보면서 별로인 점 뿌요뿌요 테트리스.
순진한 리미 디시트렌드 유튜버 판도 흔든 나도nado상해기와 접전 끝. 개인적으로 유튜브 보면서 별로인 점 뿌요뿌요 테트리스. 박명수는 유노윤호에게 22년 됐는데도 웬만한. Mbn 취재 결과 2022년 12월 20일, 웅이는 헤어진 여자친구의 집에 열쇠공을 불러 무단으로 침입했음을 시인했으며, 그 이후 피해자에게 폭행13과 협박을 read more. 연리 본인이 질릴 때까지 read more.
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.
유명 인물중에 뿌테 관련해서는 게임도 sega 일본쪽이다보니 아무래도 일본쪽이 사람이 다수고 유튜브쪽에 특히 스트리밍하는 경우가 많음., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.