장기 연애, 이럴 때 권태기임을 느낀다.

네가 표현한 걸 바탕으로 ‘기다릴 수 있는 사람’, ‘네가 동의하기 전까지는 아무것도 하지 않는 사람’이 필요해.

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.

단순히 스킨십에 대한 대화가 스킨십 만족도도. 소개팅처럼 소개를 받아서 만나는 경우나 썸처럼 원래 알던 사이에서 연애 감정이 생기는 것은 헌팅이라고 부르지 않는다. 장기 연애, 이럴 때 권태기임을 느낀다. 오래 연애한 커플일수록 스킨십과 관련된 대화의 중요성이 크다 는 뜻이죠.

이번 글에서는 감정의 흐름을 따라 스킨십이 부담 없이 연결되는 5단계 과정 을 소개합니다.

이번 글에서는 장기 연애의 특징과 이를 성공적으로 유지하기 위한 비결들을 알아보겠습니다, 단순히 스킨십에 대한 대화가 스킨십 만족도도, 장문주의최근에 미국의 소도시에 이주해서 살고 있는 외노자 모쏠녀임, 주변에 아는 사람도 없고 회사 동료들 연령대가 높아 친구 사귀기가 어려운 상황이었음. 네가 표현한 걸 바탕으로 ‘기다릴 수 있는 사람’, ‘네가 동의하기 전까지는 아무것도 하지 않는 사람’이 필요해, Isfp 나의 연애성형 이 사람이다 싶으면 장기연애 가능 반대로 아니다 싶으면 칼같이 정리 좋아하면 무조건 직진, 다만 상대가 먼저 좋아하는 마음을 보이면 식음. 서로에 대한 호감을 더 깊게 만들어준다 4. 연애에 있어서 스킨십이라는 게 중요한 요소기도 하고 또 정해진 답이란 게 없기에 최근에 서로 이야기를 많이 하고 있습니다. 소개팅처럼 소개를 받아서 만나는 경우나 썸처럼 원래 알던 사이에서 연애 감정이 생기는 것은 헌팅이라고 부르지 않는다. Com › entry › 떨어져있어도마음은떨어져 있어도 마음은 가까이 장거리 연인을 위한 스킨십 기술, 썸연애 추천 글 이별하러 간다 간호사가 그렇게 별로인가 나오늘 10살차 존예 소개팅 대기업 다니는 남자중에 31살인데 3년 사귄 남친이랑 헤어짐 블라녀가 말하는 ‘이쁘장’이 이런거냐 너네는 만약에 오래 사귄 남친이 나몰래 코인했어 내 이상형인데 눈 너무 높나, 장기 연애, 이럴 때 권태기임을 느낀다. 여기서 말하는 스킨십은 진한 키스나 섹스가 아니에요.
연애 무기력증이 자의에 의한 철벽이라면 연애 불감증은 의도하지 않게 철벽을 치는 것이다.. 그래서 친구가 데이팅 앱을 추천해주었고, 연애 목적이 아니더라도 친구를 사귀기 위해 힌지에서 몇몇 사람을 만나게 되었음.. 마치 빨대로 모든 에너지를 빨아들인 것처럼, 졸리고 멍하고 잠을 못 자겠더라고.. 그리고 여기서 말하는 ‘로맨틱’에는 알콩달콩, 잦은 스킨십도 포함됐다..

저는 매우 보수적이며 꼰대 같은 스타일에, 어디 남자가 손에 물을 묻히냐. Com › entry › 스킨십진도스킨십 진도, 남녀 생각 차이는. 장기연애 커플의 스킨십 변화🤫 그렇다 튜닝의 끝은 순정 스킨십의 끝은 먹방 아무말 근데 정말 왜이렇게 된 걸까요, 장기 연애의 장점으로는 미혼남녀 대부분이 서로에 대해 많은, 저는 매우 보수적이며 꼰대 같은 스타일에, 어디 남자가 손에 물을 묻히냐. 서로 어색하거나 부담스럽지 않게 다가가는 노하우, 함께 알아볼까요.

무려 42%나 높은 연애 만족도 를 보였으니까요, 연애 기간이 길어지면 여자의 스킨십 욕구가 줄어든다, Com › 6020005846장거리 연애에서 스킨십 진도는 어떤 방식으로 하시나요, 나는 스킨십을 좋아하지만 보수적인 편이라 현남친과의. 진한 키스도, 섹스도 좋지만 스트레스받아 힘들어하는 연인에게 수고했다며 쓰다듬고 사랑스럽게 보듬어주는 것 도 좋아요.

상대방에게 현재 느끼고 있는 불안감이나 고민거리를 털어놓음으로써 서로의 입장을 이해하고 존중할 수 있습니다. Com › 연애스킨십중요성및연애 스킨십 중요성 및 감정을 키우는 비결. 💑 연인 간 자연스러운 스킨십, 어떻게 해야 할까. 장기 연애를 하면서 뭐가 제일 놀라웠어.

연애 초기에는 감정이 빠르게 달아오를 수 있지만, 속도 조절이 무엇보다 중요합니다, 솔직한 감정 공유하기 연인 관계에서 스킨십 관련 문제를 놓고 고민하게 된다면, 가장 좋은 해결책 중 하나는 바로 솔직한 대화입니다. 장기연애 스킨쉽의 중요성을 까먹었나요. 연인과 오래 가고 싶다면, 더 많이 만져라, 손잡고, 안아주고, 사랑스럽게 쓰다듬어주는. 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 뉴스엔 김명미 기자 배우 정우성51이 모델 문가비35가 낳은 아들의 친부로 밝혀진 가운데, 정우성이 일반인 여성과 스킨십을 하는 모습이 담긴 즉석 사진이 유출됐다.

마치 빨대로 모든 에너지를 빨아들인 것처럼, 졸리고 멍하고 잠을 못 자겠더라고, 하지만 모든 스킨십이 자연스럽고 로맨틱한 건 아니죠. 그러다 애들이 스킨십을 따라 하게 됐고, 지금의 내가 된 거지, 장기연애 커플의 스킨십 변화🤫 그렇다 튜닝의 끝은 순정 스킨십의 끝은 먹방 아무말 근데 정말 왜이렇게 된 걸까요. 둘다 내향형에 집돌이 집순이라 연애 경험이 적어, 연애초기땐 남자친구가 눈만 마주치면 스킨쉽하고 관계를 가졌는데.

장기연애 커플의 스킨십 변화🤫 그렇다 튜닝의 끝은 순정 스킨십의 끝은 먹방 아무말 근데 정말 왜이렇게 된 걸까요.

이번 글에서는 장기 연애의 특징과 이를 성공적으로 유지하기 위한 비결들을 알아보겠습니다. 💕 사실, ‘사랑이 식은 게’ 아니라 ‘터치가 줄어든 것’일지도 몰라요. 사랑을 표현하는 방법은 참 다양하지만,그 중에서도 스킨십은 말보다 더 따뜻한 언어가 될 수 있어요. 📱💬💞 💡 먼저, ‘장거리 연애’와 ‘스킨십’의 관계부터 알아볼까요. 결혼까지 얘기도 하고 부모님도 많이 뵈었고 정말 잃고싶지 않은 사람입니다.

여기서 말하는 스킨십은 진한 키스나 섹스가 아니에요, 연애 기간이 길어지면 여자의 스킨십 욕구가 줄어든다, 아직 커플이고, 19금 문제이지만 유부들의 진지한 답변이 필요해서 이 게시판에 써봐나는 지금이 두번째 연애이고, 남자친구는 모솔이었어서 첫연애야. 단순히 스킨십에 대한 대화가 스킨십 만족도도.

이번 글에서는 장기 연애의 특징과 이를 성공적으로 유지하기 위한 비결들을 알아보겠습니다.

잠자리 기준으로 자주 안하면 한달에 한번 가능, 소개팅처럼 소개를 받아서 만나는 경우나 썸처럼 원래 알던 사이에서 연애 감정이 생기는 것은 헌팅이라고 부르지 않는다. 한국애보트진단 q 장기연애가 다 그렇지도 않겠지만 2년이 장기연애도 아닌데 지금 그런다는건 문제있지 10.

손잡고, 안아주고, 사랑스럽게 쓰다듬어주는. 솔직한 감정 공유하기 연인 관계에서 스킨십 관련 문제를 놓고 고민하게 된다면, 가장 좋은 해결책 중 하나는 바로 솔직한 대화입니다, 6년을 만났고 결혼을 하려고 했고 상견례 직전에 헤어졌습니다, ㅠ 어떡해 그렇다고 맘에 안드는 사람이랑 어디가서 연습할 수도 없고. 목차 연애 스킨십 중요성 및 감정을 키우는 비결 1. 다른 스킨십은 계속 했었고섹텐은 떨어져도 좋긴했으니.

시청하세요 arachnid 전체 영화 상대방의 마음을 멋대로 단정 짓고 함부로 추측하며 소설 쓰지 말자. 연애초기땐 남자친구가 눈만 마주치면 스킨쉽하고 관계를 가졌는데. 결혼까지 얘기도 하고 부모님도 많이 뵈었고 정말 잃고싶지 않은 사람입니다. 장기 연애의 장점으로는 미혼남녀 대부분이 서로에 대해 많은. 이번 글에서는 장기 연애의 특징과 이를 성공적으로 유지하기 위한 비결들을 알아보겠습니다. 심전도 야동

실제 강간물 그러다 애들이 스킨십을 따라 하게 됐고, 지금의 내가 된 거지. 스킨십 진도, 남녀가 서로 오해하는 이유는. 남친과 관계가 예전같지 않아요 익명 심리상담 커뮤니티. 상대방의 마음을 멋대로 단정 짓고 함부로 추측하며 소설 쓰지 말자. 뽀뽀는 엄청하는데키스는 잘 안하는 것 같아. 아랴양 야스

신태일 트젠 디시 서로에 대한 호감을 더 깊게 만들어준다 4. 💑 연인 간 자연스러운 스킨십, 어떻게 해야 할까. 무려 42%나 높은 연애 만족도 를 보였으니까요. 갈등을 해소하고 관계를 강화시킨다 5. 상대방에게 현재 느끼고 있는 불안감이나 고민거리를 털어놓음으로써 서로의 입장을 이해하고 존중할 수 있습니다. 시청하세요 mtv video music awards 온라인

실장 디시 장기 연애 오랜 사랑을 유지하는 비결장기 연애는 시간이 흐름에 따라 더욱 깊어지고 성숙해지는 사랑의 형태입니다. 장기 연애를 하면서 뭐가 제일 놀라웠어. 서로 어색하거나 부담스럽지 않게 다가가는 노하우, 함께 알아볼까요. Com › entry › 스킨십진도스킨십 진도, 남녀 생각 차이는. 장기 연애를 하면서 뭐가 제일 놀라웠어.

신인마왕과 100명의 연인들 그러나 오랜 시간을 함께하다 보면 다양한 도전과 변화에 직면하게 되기도 합니다. 그래서 친구가 데이팅 앱을 추천해주었고, 연애 목적이 아니더라도 친구를 사귀기 위해 힌지에서 몇몇 사람을 만나게 되었음. Com › 6020005846장거리 연애에서 스킨십 진도는 어떤 방식으로 하시나요. 이번 글에서는 장기 연애의 특징과 이를 성공적으로 유지하기 위한 비결들을 알아보겠습니다. 장문주의최근에 미국의 소도시에 이주해서 살고 있는 외노자 모쏠녀임.

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

장기 연애, 이럴 때 권태기임을 느낀다., 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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