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.
이 단어는 일반생활이나 경제분야 등 거의 모. 한국에서는 가성비가격 대 성능라고 부르는 용어를 일본에서는 ‘코스파’라고 부른다. 일반적으로 줄여서 コスパ 코스파 라고 부릅니다. Com › u_hakseang › 222624967651번역기로 안나오는 일본어 コスパ 네이버 블로그.
Likes, 0 comments walink_language on janu todays phrase コスパ kosupa cost performance ⸻ english explanation cospa. Com › hitosira › 222271818289일본어로 가성비를 뭐라고 할까, 이 회사는 1995년 5월 브로콜리의 자회사로. 궁금하신 건 언제든 댓글이나 dm주세요. 바로 코스파 コスパ와 타이파 タイパ입니다, コスパがいいからおすすめだよ。 코스파가 이카라 오스스메다요 가성비가 좋으니까 추천이야. 消臭力しょうしゅうりょくやコスパに優すぐれた猫砂ねこすなを探さがしている。 쇼슈료쿠야 코스파니 스구레타 네코스나오 나가시테이루, 한국경제 구독신청 모바일한경 보기 시사일본어학원 필진 구독하기 현 시사일본어학원 원어민 주임교수 단기대학과정 일본인 회화반 담당 advertisement. 밥상머리 일본어회화 저자 레이쌤 일본어일어회화일본어공부일본어회화레이쌤너랑니혼고레이랑니혼고밥상머리일본어일본어기초회화 일본어독학일어공부일본어책추천일본어단어일어일어.| Cospa コスパ, kosupa is a japanese clothing company specializing in the production of cosplay costumes and other apparel for the otaku fan base. | 일본을 여행하거나 일본 시장을 공략하고자 한다면, 이러한 ‘코스파’ 중심 소비 트렌드를 이해하는 것이 필수적입니다. | 일본자료를 보다가 タイパ時代라는 용어를 보았다. |
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| 영어 ‘코스트 퍼포먼스cost performance’를 줄여서 일본어로 코스파라고 차용했다. | Com › hitosira › 222271818289일본어로 가성비를 뭐라고 할까. | 영어 ‘코스트 퍼포먼스cost performance’를 줄여서 일본어로 코스파라고 차용했다. |
| 202 likes, 2 comments hanjum_japanese on decem 코스파 과연 어떤 뜻일까요⁉️ 바로, 가성비라는 뜻입니다 ̎ 영어 cost와 performance가 합쳐진 말이에요. | コスパ라는 단어는 애니 팬들이라면 여러 군데서 들어볼 수 있을 겁니다. | 이들 사이에서 점점 효율성을 강조하는 문화가 발달하고 있다. |
궁금하신 건 언제든 댓글이나 dm주세요. 일본자료를 보다가 タイパ時代라는 용어를 보았다, The name cospa comes from an acronym for co ntents co mmunication s ervice pa rtner コンテンツ・コミュニケーション・パートナー, kontentsu komyunikēshon. 이로 인해 이미 사용하고 있는 코스파에 더해.
지불한 비용과 그에 의해 얻어진 능력을 비교한 것을 말해요.. 주로 애니메이션, 만화, 게임 관련 제품을 중심으로 다양한 상품을 선보이며, 특히 의류, 액세서리, 피규어, 방안용품 등에서 두각을 나타내고 있습니다.. 코스파라는 이름은 contents communication service partnerコンテンツ・コミュニケーション・パートナー, kontentsu komyunikēshon pātonā.. 이로 인해 이미 사용하고 있는 코스파에 더해..
あの店は量が多くてコスパが抜群だ。 아노 미세와 료오가 오오쿠테 코스파가 바츠군다 그 가게는 양이 많아서 가성비가 뛰어나다. 한국경제 구독신청 모바일한경 보기 시사일본어학원 필진 구독하기 현 시사일본어학원 원어민 주임교수 단기대학과정 일본인 회화반 담당 advertisement, 한국에서도 가성비라는 단어를 많이 사용하듯, 일본에서도 コスパ라는 단어를 상당히 많이 사용합니다.
장기 불황이 이어지면서 깐깐한 소비를 이어가는 일본의 z세대를 겨냥한 말이다. コスパがいい 코스파 가 이이 コスパ코스파 는, コストパフォーマンス cost performance 의 줄임말이예요. 이 단어는 일반생활이나 경제분야 등 거의 모, 가성비 관련 일본어 표현 5가지 1️⃣ コスパ 코스파 가성비 2️⃣ コスパがいい 코스파가 이이 가성비 좋다 3️⃣ コスパが悪い 코스파가 와루이 가성비 별로야 4️⃣ このラーメンはコスパがいいね 코노 라멩와, 가성비 관련 일본어 표현 5가지 1️⃣ コスパ 코스파 가성비 2️⃣ コスパがいい 코스파가 이이 가성비 좋다 3️⃣ コスパが悪い 코스파가 와루이 가성비 별로야 4️⃣ このラーメンはコスパがいいね 코노 라멩와, コスパがいいからおすすめだよ。 코스파가 이카라 오스스메다요 가성비가 좋으니까 추천이야.
한국어로 하면 가장 가까운 말이 가성비입니다, 영어 ‘코스트 퍼포먼스cost performance’를 줄여서 일본어로 코, Likes, 0 comments walink_language on janu todays phrase コスパ kosupa cost performance ⸻ english explanation cospa. 이들 사이에서 점점 효율성을 강조하는 문화가 발달하고 있다, 궁금하신 건 언제든 댓글이나 dm주세요.
장기 불황이 이어지면서 깐깐한 소비를 이어가는 일본의 z세대를 겨냥한 말이다.. 우리도 가성비라는 표현이 이제는 당연하다는 듯 쓰이고 있잖아요.. 가격 대비 성능이나 효율이 높다는 의미의 단어 가성비를 일본에서는 코스파라고 부른다..
평범한 일상 대화에서도 정말 자주 쓰이는 표현이기 때문에 일본어 배우시는 분들은 알아두시면 좋을 거 같습니다. The company started in may 1995 as the child company of broccoli. Com › hwangaeongyewon › 224143442774가성비가 일본어로 뭐임. コスパ 코스파 가성비 コスパ는 cost performance의 줄임말입니다, コスパ 코스파 가성비 비용 효과 코스트 퍼포먼스 コストパフォーマンス cost+performance 의 줄임말로 비용 효과라는 의미를 지니고 있어요. 음식, 작업, 제품, 비즈니스에서 자주 사용되는 일본어로.
영어 ‘코스트 퍼포먼스cost performance’를 줄여서 일본어로 코. Com › poupille › 221423543072가성비가 좋다, 한국어로 하면 가장 가까운 말이 가성비입니다. Com › now_here_jp › 223827596291일본어 신조어 가성비를 추구하는 오늘날의 삶을 반영한 새로운 표. 이 회사는 1995년 5월 브로콜리의 자회사로. 음식, 작업, 제품, 비즈니스에서 자주 사용되는 일본어로.
폭우속의 온천, 그리고 유카타 섹스 가성비 관련 일본어 표현 5가지 1️⃣ コスパ 코스파 가성비 2️⃣ コスパがいい 코스파가 이이 가성비 좋다 3️⃣ コスパが悪い 코스파가 와루이 가성비 별로야 4️⃣ このラーメンはコスパがいいね 코노 라멩와. 하지만 요즘 일본 젊은이들은 변하고 있다. 일반적으로 줄여서 コスパ 코스파 라고 부릅니다. コスパ 코스파 가성비 비용 효과 코스트 퍼포먼스 コストパフォーマンス cost+performance 의 줄임말로 비용 효과라는 의미를 지니고 있어요. 영어 ‘코스트 퍼포먼스cost performance’를 줄여서 일본어로 코. 표은지 노출
풀돌 바로 코스파 コスパ와 타이파 タイパ입니다. 비슷한 말으로는 요즘에는 タイパ 타이파타무파는 타임 퍼포먼스 タイムパフォーマンス라는 말도 사용해요. 한국경제 구독신청 모바일한경 보기 시사일본어학원 필진 구독하기 현 시사일본어학원 원어민 주임교수 단기대학과정 일본인 회화반 담당 advertisement. 우리도 가성비라는 표현이 이제는 당연하다는 듯 쓰이고 있잖아요. Org › wiki › cospacospa wikipedia. 팟퐁 아고고 디시
팬 슬리 추천 디시 주로 애니메이션, 만화, 게임 관련 제품을 중심으로 다양한 상품을 선보이며, 특히 의류, 액세서리, 피규어, 방안용품 등에서 두각을 나타내고 있습니다. 코스파 コストパフォーマンス의 줄임말로 コスパ라고 해요. 코스파가 좋다, 코스파가 나쁘다로 사용돼요. コスパ 코스파 가성비 コスパ는 cost performance의 줄임말입니다. コスパ最高のランチを見つけた。 코스파 사이코오노 란치오 미츠케타 가성비 최고의 점심을 찾았다. 포터남 섹
풀장 야동 コスパがいい 코스파 가 이이 コスパ코스파 는, コストパフォーマンス cost performance 의 줄임말이예요. 1641 이웃추가 이거 알면 일본인 구글 번역기로 안나오는 일본어 일본에는 쓰이는 단어중에는 노트북 ノートパソコン 사인 サイン 아르바이트 アルバイト 프라이드포테이토 フライドポテト 등 영어 유래의 가타카나영어 カタカナ英語화제. 영어 ‘코스트 퍼포먼스cost performance’를 줄여서 일본어로 코. 이렇게 일상생활 속에서 コスパ 코스파는 많이 사용해요. 장기 불황이 이어지면서 깐깐한 소비를 이어가는 일본의 z세대를 겨냥한 말이다.
퓨바 세릴 야스 비용뿐만 아니라, 시간노력 등등 다양한 곳에서 사용할 수 있어요 ‼️그래서, 가성비 좋을 때는 「コスパが良いい」코스. 이렇게 일상생활 속에서 コスパ 코스파는 많이 사용해요. 평범한 일상 대화에서도 정말 자주 쓰이는 표현이기 때문에 일본어 배우시는 분들은 알아두시면 좋을 거 같습니다. 설왕설래 콘서트장 테러 ‘소프트타깃’ 테러는 방어 능력이 취약한 민간인을 대상으로 하는 범죄다. 영어 ‘코스트 퍼포먼스cost performance’를 줄여서 일본어로 코스파라고 차용했다.
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.
Stv 김충현 기자한국에서는 가성비가격 대 성능라고 부르는 용어를 일본에서는 ‘코스파’라고 부른다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.