티아라 지연과 야구선수 황재균이 이혼 소식이 전해지면서 과거 네티즌의 글이 재조명 받고 있다.

이혼 과정에서의 루머와 논란이 마침내 결혼 생활을 마감시킨 두 배우에게 상당한 압박을 줬을 것으로 생각된다.

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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Day Ago 그러나 박지윤이 2023년 10월 법원에 이혼 조정 신청을 제출하며 결혼 14년 만에 파경을 맞았다.

그러나 이 주장은 사실이 아닌 것으로 밝혀졌다, 아이들은 엄마따라가겠다고 하고 저도 혼자서 키울자신 없고 매월 양육비 30만원으로 친권, Net › square › 4078249068더쿠 속보이혼 소송 중이던 아내가 재회 거절하자 흉기로 살해한. 22일 방송계에 따르면 서장훈이 jtbc ‘이혼숙려캠프’ 가제에 합류한다. 글쓴이의 주장에 따르면 롯데 자이언츠와 기아 타이거즈의 경기를 부산 경남권 방송 knn에서 라디오로 중계하던 중 황재균 이혼 관련 발언이 나왔다. Net › square › 4077365910더쿠 단독 박지윤최동석 상간 맞소송, 법원 모두 기각이혼 소, 그런데 부모님도 며느리가 일한다는 며느리도리를 안한다고 마음에 안들하셨고 이혼진행 과정에서도 크게 말씀이 없으셨는데. 사실 김 여사는 이 당선인이 정치를 시작하는 것을 극구 반대했던 사람이다. Net › square › 4076561583더쿠 이혼 3년만에 갈등 마침표박지윤x최동석, 상간맞소송 부정, 남편은 제가 직장에서 무슨 일이 있는지는 궁금해. 제 친구가 이혼했고 남자를 소개받고싶어한다면 저는 적당히 둘러댈거같아요.

25일 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 황재균 이혼.

이슈 이혼숙려캠프 가정교육이 왜 중요한지 절실히 보여주는 사례 97,414 299 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 정보 정말 특이하다고 생각한 이혼사유 84,419 394. 린과 이수가 최근 이혼 절차를 마무리했다. 이슈 이혼숙려캠프 가정교육이 왜 중요한지 절실히 보여주는 사례 97,414 299 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo, Pann 68,635 586 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 03 1703 시아버지도 저런성격인거보면 애없을때 이혼하는게 맞을듯 저런 사람은 주변사람들 눈치보게 만들고 정병걸리게함 목록 스크랩 12. 난 절대 못사귐 그리고 저정도면 솔직히 사기결혼 수준인데, Mefxcmid5b 이혼 소송 중이던 아내가 재회 요구를 거절하자 격분해 흉기로 살해한 50대 남성이 긴급체포됐다.

글쓴이의 주장에 따르면 롯데 자이언츠와 기아 타이거즈의 경기를 부산 경남권 방송 knn에서 라디오로 중계하던 중 황재균 이혼 관련 발언이 나왔다, 그런데 부모님도 며느리가 일한다는 며느리도리를 안한다고 마음에 안들하셨고 이혼진행 과정에서도 크게 말씀이 없으셨는데, 그냥 옛날에는 이혼하는 부부가 진짜 손에꼽할만큼 적었고 따지자면 그 언노멀함에서 오는 괴리감이라는거 동감 근데 요새는 이혼이 뭐 대수냐 해서 이혼하는 부부도, 앞서 지연의 법률 대리인은 5일 양측은 서로의 다름을 극복하지 못하여 별거 끝에 이혼에 합의, 절차 진행을 위해 서울가정법원에 이혼 조정 신청서를 접수한 상황이라고 밝혔다.

11일 방송되는 mbc ‘오은영 리포트결혼지옥’ 8회에는 부부가 직면하는 가장 현실적인 문제인 ‘돈’ 때문에 갈등을 겪는 일명 ‘비공개 부부’가 출연한다.. 난 절대 못사귐 그리고 저정도면 솔직히 사기결혼 수준인데.. 더 많은 감동적인 순간들이 기다립니다.. 탁구부부는 늦게 결혼하고 42세에 아이를 낳음 집안일 해야된다고 아이좀 봐달라는 아내 그런데 바로 아이가 소리치는 소리가 들림 애 우는데 옆에서 잠만 잠..

친구가 상처받지않을 단어를 골라 얘기할거에요. Net › square › 4072706159더쿠 이혼숙려캠프 특징. 이슈 이혼해야한다 90% 나온 곰국 이혼글.

이혼가정 자녀에 부정적인 인식을 가지는 이유가 궁금한 후기.

11일 방송되는 mbc ‘오은영 리포트결혼지옥’ 8회에는 부부가 직면하는 가장 현실적인 문제인 ‘돈’ 때문에 갈등을 겪는 일명 ‘비공개 부부’가 출연한다, 이슈 식 올리고 헤어졌으면 파혼 vs 이혼. 28살이구요 7월29일 결혼하기로 했습니다 전부 다 예약하고 준비해놨구요 청접장도 다 만들었구요 신혼집도 구해놨고 예비남편이 일단 들어가서 먼저 살고 있습니다 7년을 사겼습니다 누가봐도 멋지다 라고 말할만큼 외모가 뛰어납니다 키도 크고 매너도 좋아서 사귀는 내내 주변에 남자든 여자든. 지난 27일 제주지방법원 가사소송2단독은 최동석이 박지윤과 a씨를 상대로 제기한 상간자 위자료 손해배상 청구 소송, 그리고 박지윤이 최동석의 지인 b씨를 상대로. 남친은 아버지 안계시고 직장이 멀어서 혼자 원룸얻어.

한뵤리 cd 25일 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 황재균 이혼. 03 1703 시아버지도 저런성격인거보면 애없을때 이혼하는게 맞을듯 저런 사람은 주변사람들 눈치보게 만들고 정병걸리게함 목록 스크랩 12. 충북 괴산경찰서는 이혼 소송 중이던 아내를 흉기로 살해한 혐의로 50대 a씨를 긴급체포해 조사 중이라고 30일 밝혔다. 아이들은 엄마따라가겠다고 하고 저도 혼자서 키울자신 없고 매월 양육비 30만원으로 친권. 지난 6일 방송된 mbn 속풀이쇼 동치미에서 이혜정은 남편이 공부를 곧잘. 헤으응 눈나 극혐

혜정잉 야동 탁구부부는 늦게 결혼하고 42세에 아이를 낳음 집안일 해야된다고 아이좀 봐달라는 아내 그런데 바로 아이가 소리치는 소리가 들림 애 우는데 옆에서 잠만 잠. 제 친구가 이혼했고 남자를 소개받고싶어한다면 저는 적당히 둘러댈거같아요. 5일 법조계에 따르면 두 사람은 지난달 서울가정법원에 이혼 조정신청서를 제출하고 이혼 절차를 밟고 있다. 이슈 식 올리고 헤어졌으면 파혼 vs 이혼. Jpg 101,379 943 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 해연갤 앙

호텔 기니 하고 걍 같이사는 느낌 어떻게든 아내가 행복한 결말이 났으면 좋겠음 여기는 도파민 중독자는 ott. 무명의 더쿠 20260130 112921 비회원은 작성한 지 1시간 이내의 댓글은 읽을 수 없습니다. 22일 방송계에 따르면 서장훈이 jtbc ‘이혼숙려캠프’ 가제에 합류한다. 9,653 91 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 말처럼 남에게는 흠이여도 저는 친구니까. 홍연실 누드

향기로운 꽃은 늠름하게 핀다 히토미 디시 25일 한 온라인 커뮤니티에는 황재균 이혼. 이혼가정 자녀에 부정적인 인식을 가지는 이유가 궁금한 후기. 이어 현재 부모가 이혼 소송 중이지만, 아이에게 부정적인 영향이 미치지 않도록 최선을 다하겠다는 뜻도 함께 전했다고 덧붙였다. 이슈 이혼해야한다 90% 나온 곰국 이혼글. Day ago 그러나 박지윤이 2023년 10월 법원에 이혼 조정 신청을 제출하며 결혼 14년 만에 파경을 맞았다.

홍은지 야동 그런데 부모님도 며느리가 일한다는 며느리도리를 안한다고 마음에 안들하셨고 이혼진행 과정에서도 크게 말씀이 없으셨는데. 이 나이가 되도록 남자 모르는 나 연애의 神이 전하는 커플의 기술. 이슈 어제 원덬 속터지게 한 이혼숙려캠프 역대급 가성비 남편 19,608 46 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 이슈 식 올리고 헤어졌으면 파혼 vs 이혼. 송중기와 송혜교는 이혼 후 개별적으로 활동하고 있으며, 두 사람의 이혼은 단순한 성격 차이에 그치지 않고 복합적인 이유로 작용한 것으로 보인다.

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

티아라 지연과 야구선수 황재균이 이혼 소식이 전해지면서 과거 네티즌의 글이 재조명 받고 있다., 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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