US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
굴포차 영상이 재발견됨 근데 이세돌과 목소리가 비슷한 일반인들이 앉아 있다는게 포착됨2. 이세계아이돌 팬 갤러리 7000개 아카이브 유출 사건 10. 즉, 트로이 목마를 넣으며 이지선다를 건 것이다. 서론이 너무 길었던 거 같아 본론만 정리하면 이렇습니다 1.
하차의 주된 배경은, 당시 이세계아이돌의 데뷔곡으로 예정된 re wind 의 제작 과정에 사나가 깊게 관여했기 때문이다, 굴포차 영상이 재발견됨 근데 이세돌과 목소리가 비슷한 일반인들이 앉아 있다는게 포착됨2. 2023년 8월 30일 이파리들은 멤버별로 다음과 같이 비판 요약을 제시했다 아이네 게으르다, 타 멤버와 비교된다, 하차의 주된 배경은, 당시 이세계아이돌의 데뷔곡으로 예정된 re wind 의 제작 과정에 사나가 깊게 관여했기 때문이다, 12월에 1집의 흥행으로 외부에서 이세계아이돌을 메타버스 의 대표 사례로 소개하고, 왁타버스 도 크게 성장하면서.
나무위키에 추가된 해당 문서에서 이파리 팬덤과 관련된 논란과 사건들이 정리되었습니다.. 팬덤 전원이 나쁘다는 뜻이 아님 그러나 다수의 행위가 45년간 적발되어 왔음 3..
| 서론이 너무 길었던 거 같아 본론만 정리하면 이렇습니다 1. | Tiktok에서 철급상황 무작정 대 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. | 하지만 2025년 1월 또 하나의 사건이 발생했다. | 굴 이전 이세계아이돌 및 왁타버스 출범 이후 4년간, 이파리 들은 특유의 화력을 앞세워 이세돌, 왁타버스, 그리고 자신들에 대한 논란을 서술하지 못 하도록. |
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| 그런데 뭔가 이상한거야 나무위키에 문서가 없었음. | 즉, 트로이 목마를 넣으며 이지선다를 건 것이다. | 왁타버스 방투 성희롱 및 폭언, 협박 8. | 팬덤 전원이 나쁘다는 뜻이 아님 그러나 다수의 행위가 45년간 적발되어 왔음 3. |
| 애초에 이파리 논란을 보면 이세돌과 되게 긍정적으로 다뤄져 영상으로도 자주 올려졌던 감스트,감만식님등등 이파리분들이 좋아해주시는 분들도 이파리가 욕했다. | 예 루리웹, 왁물원, 펨코, x, 개드립 종합 게시판 커뮤니티의 경우, 갤러리 등의 하위 게시판 이름 및 약칭이 표시될 수 있다. | 13 the_yummy 20250331 140550. | 13 the_yummy 20250331 140550. |
| 이파리 내외부도 곪아서 시들어있던거였음. | 그동안 저질렀던 행동들이 전부 정리돼서 사방팔방에 대자보가 붙어있더라고. | 04 141757 ip ip보기클릭 스크랩 url. | 나름대로 논리몽둥이를 꺼내 후드려 패기위해 나무위키에 이파리논란 을 검색하기 시작함. |
| 윗첨자는 해당 출처가 올라간 플랫폼을 의미한다. | Com › ham6870 › 223819124792이세계 아이돌과 이파리 세력 vs 디시인사이드 스트리머 갤러리 내에. | 애초에 이파리 논란을 보면 이세돌과 되게 긍정적으로 다뤄져 영상으로도 자주 올려졌던 감스트,감만식님등등 이파리분들이 좋아해주시는 분들도 이파리가 욕했다. | 진심 논란없는새끼 찾기가힘든데 가려받기ㅇㅈㄹㅋㅋ 안받아주면 춘식이가 듁 병역문제부터 메일테러할걸ㅋㅋ. |
하차의 주된 배경은, 당시 이세계아이돌의 데뷔곡으로 예정된 re wind 의 제작 과정에 사나가 깊게 관여했기 때문이다. 인방 이파리논란 및 사건사고 위키 보는데 8 평면적스즈카 499059 추천흡수기 추천의 달인 갓겜마스터 활동내역 작성글 쪽지 마이피 타임라인 출석일수 5342일 lv. 그니까 이파리 사건사고 논란문서가 젠첩 사건사고 문서마냥 빡세다는거임, 이파리 팬덤을 욕먹이는건 극히 소수다.
속보 계춘회 봉봉팜 합격 소식땜에 불타는 중ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ, 이파리 논란 문서는 정당한 근거가 있는 것만이 올라온다, 반대측에서 매우 불리했다는 식의 여론 조작이 있어서 원 토론을 첨부합니다. 속보 계춘회 봉봉팜 합격 소식땜에 불타는 중ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ. 팬덤 전원이 나쁘다는 뜻이 아님 그러나 다수의 행위가 45년간 적발되어 왔음 3. 오프행사나 왁물원에서 나온건 카페 인구수 많은거, 팬덤 연령대 이런걸 다떠나서 부끄러운 일이고 고쳐야하는건 맞는데디시발 논란거리들은 그냥 디시 고닉들과 가면들이 이렇게 찢고 저렇게 빻은거 증거라고 가져온거 아님.
인방 이파리논란 및 사건사고 위키 보는데 8 평면적스즈카 499059 추천흡수기 추천의 달인 갓겜마스터 활동내역 작성글 쪽지 마이피 타임라인 출석일수 5342일 lv. 왁타버스 방투 성희롱 및 폭언, 협박 8, 진심 논란없는새끼 찾기가힘든데 가려받기ㅇㅈㄹㅋㅋ 안받아주면 춘식이가 듁 병역문제부터 메일테러할걸ㅋㅋ.
팬덤 전원이 나쁘다는 뜻이 아님 그러나 다수의 행위가 45년간 적발되어 왔음 3. 왁마갤과 돌미갤에서 활동한 정황 포착함. 왁타버스 방투 성희롱 및 폭언, 협박 8. 속보 계춘회 봉봉팜 합격 소식땜에 불타는 중ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ. 방송인 본인도 아니고 행적이 남는 사람들도 아닌 수많은 익명인들의 행동을 논란으로 분류한다라 profile_image 투명순애가울부짖었다 ip보기, 즉, 트로이 목마를 넣으며 이지선다를 건 것이다.
이세계아이돌과 관련하여 지난 22일 확산된 실물과 관련된 루머 발생 이후, 나무위키 등지에서 이세계아이돌 팬덤의 기존 만행이 공론화되고 있다. 이파리 나무위키 주작사건 정리 스트리머 갤러리. Kr › article › 84fab5383db3499e8ce919952dnn. 이세계아이돌 팬 갤러리 7000개 아카이브 유출 사건 10. 풍월량 방송 중 apex 레전드 비매너 행위 사건 4. 2021년 8월에 오디션을 통해 이세계아이돌이 결성된 직후에는 이세돌 방송 시청자의 주류는 우왁굳의 팬덤 이 차지하고 있었으며, 이세계아이돌의 팬덤이 형성됐다기에는 애매했다.
2021년 8월에 오디션을 통해 이세계아이돌이 결성된 직후에는 이세돌 방송 시청자의 주류는 우왁굳의 팬덤 이 차지하고 있었으며, 이세계아이돌의 팬덤이 형성됐다기에는 애매했다.. 윗첨자는 해당 출처가 올라간 플랫폼을 의미한다.. 2023년 8월 30일 이파리들은 멤버별로 다음과 같이 비판 요약을 제시했다 아이네 게으르다, 타 멤버와 비교된다.. 오프행사나 왁물원에서 나온건 카페 인구수 많은거, 팬덤 연령대 이런걸 다떠나서 부끄러운 일이고 고쳐야하는건 맞는데디시발 논란거리들은 그냥 디시 고닉들과 가면들이 이렇게 찢고 저렇게 빻은거 증거라고 가져온거 아님..
패러블 엔터테인먼트 소속 6인조 버츄얼 유튜버 그룹 이세계아이돌 의 팬덤으로, 악성 팬들의 악명이 너무나도 높. 방송인 본인도 아니고 행적이 남는 사람들도 아닌 수많은 익명인들의 행동을 논란으로 분류한다라 profile_image 투명순애가울부짖었다 ip보기. 풍월량 방송 중 apex 레전드 비매너 행위 사건 4, 하지만 2025년 1월 또 하나의 사건이 발생했다.
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전갈 문신 2021년 8월에 오디션을 통해 이세계아이돌이 결성된 직후에는 이세돌 방송 시청자의 주류는 우왁굳의 팬덤 이 차지하고 있었으며, 이세계아이돌의 팬덤이 형성됐다기에는 애매했다. 굴 이전 이세계아이돌 및 왁타버스 출범 이후 4년간, 이파리 들은 특유의 화력을 앞세워 이세돌, 왁타버스, 그리고 자신들에 대한 논란을 서술하지 못 하도록. 인방 이파리논란 및 사건사고 위키 보는데 8 평면적스즈카 499059 추천흡수기 추천의 달인 갓겜마스터 활동내역 작성글 쪽지 마이피 타임라인 출석일수 5342일 lv. 이파리 내외부도 곪아서 시들어있던거였음. 하차의 주된 배경은, 당시 이세계아이돌의 데뷔곡으로 예정된 re wind 의 제작 과정에 사나가 깊게 관여했기 때문이다. 졈니 가슴골
정액 모으기 디시 저는 2022년부터 현재까지 둘기이자 이파리인 유저입니다. 2021년 8월에 오디션을 통해 이세계아이돌이 결성된 직후에는 이세돌 방송 시청자의 주류는 우왁굳의 팬덤 이 차지하고 있었으며, 이세계아이돌의 팬덤이 형성됐다기에는 애매했다. 애초에 이파리 논란을 보면 이세돌과 되게 긍정적으로 다뤄져 영상으로도 자주 올려졌던 감스트,감만식님등등 이파리분들이 좋아해주시는 분들도 이파리가 욕했다. 패러블 엔터테인먼트 소속 6인조 버츄얼 유튜버 그룹 이세계아이돌 의 팬덤으로, 악성 팬들의 악명이 너무나도 높. 팬덤 전원이 나쁘다는 뜻이 아님 그러나 다수의 행위가 45년간 적발되어 왔음 3. 전썸녀 생일축하
정액 머랭 오늘 나무위키 실검에 칸나와 피캣관련 떡밥으로 줄세우기 됨이에 나무위키 관리자는 실검 주작 정황을 확인하고 삭제,실검 상태를 원상으로 돌려놓음그리고 스갤에서 실검 조작 떡밥이 돌자이에 반발하듯 이세돌 멤버 이름이 나무. 풍월량 방송 중 apex 레전드 비매너 행위 사건 4. 예 루리웹, 왁물원, 펨코, x, 개드립 종합 게시판 커뮤니티의 경우, 갤러리 등의 하위 게시판 이름 및 약칭이 표시될 수 있다. Tiktok에서 철급상황 무작정 대 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. 나무위키에 추가된 해당 문서에서 이파리 팬덤과 관련된 논란과 사건들이 정리되었습니다. 조 유라 근황
제시 성형 외과 사진 13 the_yummy 20250331 140550. 진심 논란없는새끼 찾기가힘든데 가려받기ㅇㅈㄹㅋㅋ 안받아주면 춘식이가 듁 병역문제부터 메일테러할걸ㅋㅋ. 방송인 본인도 아니고 행적이 남는 사람들도 아닌 수많은 익명인들의 행동을 논란으로 분류한다라 profile_image 투명순애가울부짖었다 ip보기. 방송인 본인도 아니고 행적이 남는 사람들도 아닌 수많은 익명인들의 행동을 논란으로 분류한다라 profile_image 투명순애가울부짖었다 ip보기. Tiktok에서 철급상황 무작정 대 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요.
정상위 가슴 오프행사나 왁물원에서 나온건 카페 인구수 많은거, 팬덤 연령대 이런걸 다떠나서 부끄러운 일이고 고쳐야하는건 맞는데디시발 논란거리들은 그냥 디시 고닉들과 가면들이 이렇게 찢고 저렇게 빻은거 증거라고 가져온거 아님. 이세계아이돌 팬 갤러리 7000개 아카이브 유출 사건 10. 즉, 트로이 목마를 넣으며 이지선다를 건 것이다. 풍월량 방송 중 apex 레전드 비매너 행위 사건 4. 이세계아이돌 팬 갤러리 7000개 아카이브 유출 사건 10.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 4, 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.
이파리 나무위키 주작사건 정리 스트리머 갤러리., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.