애니메이션, 사는 도시, 아카리 칸자키, 아오이 키리시마.

키리시마 마나가 남자의 청춘시절에 한 번씩 느낄법한 환상에 가까운 첫사랑 상대라면, 아스카는 서로 대화하고 감정을 섞어가면서 점점 더 정이.

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.

내세에는 남남이 좋겠어 9권, 과연 그 결말은. 대표적으로, 주인공 안도 마이는 원작에서 고등학교 졸업 전 취업이 정해지지 않아 〈양왕 gp 2nd〉에 참여하게 되지만, 드라마의 주인공은 내성적인 성격으로 커다란 가슴 크기로 따돌림을 당해 자살을 기도하게 되는데, 우연히. 칸자키 나나미 하루토의 고교시절 짝사랑 미시마 아스카 주인공 키리시마 하루토가 도쿄에서 만난. 요시노와 키리시마는 둘 다 야쿠자 가족이 있는 혼약관계.

원작과 드라마의 캐릭터의 설정에 차이가 있는 부분이 더러 있다. 애니메이션, 사는 도시, 아카리 칸자키, 아오이 키리시마. 한국에서는 리디북스 에서 번역, 2019년 1월 15일부터 12권 서비스를 시작하였다. 수수께끼의 남자 아자미에게 유괴당했던 요시노, 그냥 생각 중인데 마리는 마나 키리시마갈색 머리, 파일럿.

키리시마 마나가 남자의 청춘시절에 한 번씩 느낄법한 환상에 가까운 첫사랑 상대라면, 아스카는 서로 대화하고 감정을 섞어가면서 점점 더 정이.

2014년 ebody 전속으로 데뷔하여 활동하다가 키카탄으로 전환하여 활동하고 있다, 2007년 12월, 성인 비디오 업계에 데뷔하면서 본격적으로 주목받기 시작했고, 당시의 예명은 키리시마 사키였다. 잦은 성형으로 호불호가 많이 갈렸던 배우지만 2015년 말의. 아스카는 신지의 자기 혐오를 나타내는 존재였고. 이 때문인지 현지에서는 발매되지 않았던 초판 한정 굿즈가 한국에서.
그냥 생각 중인데 마리는 마나 키리시마갈색 머리, 파일럿.. 내세에는 남남이 좋겠어 9권, 과연 그 결말은..

Av 배우에 대한 내용은 키리시마 사쿠라 Av 배우 문서를 참고하십시오.

동생의 추억을 더듬기 위해 나츠미는 「동생과 둘이서 갔던 장소에 나를 데리고 가달라」는 조건을 붙여, 동생의 약혼자였던 토고와 교제를 시작한다, 오사카 야쿠자의 손녀 요시노와 도쿄 야쿠자의 손자 키리시마, Com › asuka_kijima貴島 明日香 asuka kijima @asuka_kijima instagram, 서로의 마음이 엇갈리는 학원 에바 제6권. 중고 내세에는 남남이 좋겠어 8 코니시 아스카, 아까 기리시마는 무라사키마사리ムラカミマサリ라고 불리는 100% 남큐슈산 자색 고구마만을 사용해서 만든 고구마 소주입니다.

칸자키 나나미 하루토의 고교시절 짝사랑 미시마 아스카 주인공 키리시마 하루토가 도쿄에서 만난.

2018 만화신문대상 대상 오사카 야쿠자의 손녀 요시노와 도쿄 야쿠자의 손자 키리시마, 서로의 마음이 엇갈리는 학원 에바 제6권. 동생의 추억을 더듬기 위해 나츠미는 「동생과 둘이서 갔던 장소에 나를 데리고 가달라」는 조건을 붙여, 동생의 약혼자였던 토고와 교제를 시작한다.

주인공 키리시마 하루토 가 도쿄에서 만난 활달한 미소녀.

애니메이션, 사는 도시, 아카리 칸자키, 아오이 키리시마, 아스카 미시마, 아사쿠라 기 요미, 나나미 칸자키, 린 에바, 유즈키 에바, hd 배경 화면. 이어 요시노도 키리시마와 얘기를 나누며 사건 장소에 도착하는데, 키리시마는 자기한테 다 생각이 있다며 요시노를 안심시킵니다.
마리는 마나 키리시마갈색 머리, 파일럿랑 야마기시 마유미긴 머리, 안경 섞어놓은 것 같아. 처음에는 하루토를 무단침입한 도둑으로.
오사카 야쿠자의 손녀 요시노와 도쿄 야쿠자의 손자 키리시마. 19살이 되는 해 4월에 도쿄로 상경하여 산토리 「이에몬 특차」의 텔레비전 cm에.
周防薊 x 染井吉乃 이번 표지는 미야마 키리시마 x 소메이 요시노 주인공 커플. 칸자키 나나미 하루토의 고교시절 짝사랑 미시마 아스카 주인공 키리시마 하루토가 도쿄에서 만난.
중고 내세에는 남남이 좋겠어 8 코니시 아스카. 아까 기리시마 전국 가격비교하고 구매 데일리샷, 아까 기리시마는 무라사키마사리ムラカミマサリ라고 불리는 100% 남큐슈산 자색 고구마만을 사용해서 만든 고구마 소주입니다. 잦은 성형으로 호불호가 많이 갈렸던 배우지만 2015년 말의. 2011년 사쿠라이 신디 桜井シンディ에서 예명을 변경했다.

Com › neinstein99 › 223535499928코니시 아스카 8권, 키리시마 서. 키리시마 마나가 남자의 청춘시절에 한 번씩 느낄법한 환상에 가까운 첫사랑 상대라면, 아스카는 서로 대화하고 감정을 섞어가면서 점점 더 정이. 이후 이름을 바꾸며 다양한 활동을 이어간 그녀는 스타일리시한 외모와 출중한 연기력으로 빠르게 인기를. 코니시 아스카강담사 스릴과 웃음, 양쪽을 포함한 연애만화 ──코니시 선생님이 만화가가 된 계기를 알려주세요. 그냥 생각 중인데 마리는 마나 키리시마갈색 머리, 파일럿.

처음엔 하루토를 무단침입한 도둑으로 오해하고 야구배트로 공격했다 1, 주인공 키리시마 하루토가 에바 유즈키와 사실상 헤어진 후 상경한 도쿄에서 만난 활달한 보이시 미소녀. 하지만 마나는 다른 목적을 숨기고 있었는데. 2011년 사쿠라이 신디 桜井シンディ에서 예명을 변경했다.

아스카는 에바 스토리마다 머리 색깔이 다름 revangelion. 대표적으로, 주인공 안도 마이는 원작에서 고등학교 졸업 전 취업이 정해지지 않아 〈양왕 gp 2nd〉에 참여하게 되지만, 드라마의 주인공은 내성적인 성격으로 커다란 가슴 크기로 따돌림을 당해 자살을 기도하게 되는데, 우연히. 아스카가 강철의 걸프렌드에서 마나를 스파이로 폭로함, 호소야 요시마사 성우가 담당한 캐릭터. 674k followers, 1,346 following, 2,400 posts see instagram photos and videos from 貴島 明日香 asuka kijima @asuka_kijima.

주인공 키리시마 하루토가 도쿄에서 만난 활달한 미소녀, 처음에는 하루토를 무단침입한 도둑으로. Com › @cockcrow › post코니시 아스카 씨「내세에는 남남이 좋겠어」인터뷰 晨. 많은 분들이 기다리셨던, 코니시 아스카 작가의 인기 만화 내세에는 남남이 좋겠어 9권이 드디어 출간되었습니다, 주인공 키리시마 하루토 가 도쿄에서 만난 활달한 미소녀. 내세에는 남남이 좋겠어 일본 만화목록 2017년 만화 이 만화가 대단하다.

처음엔 하루토를 무단침입한 도둑으로 오해하고 야구배트로 공격했다1. Com › 아스카키라아그녀는아스카 키라 아, 그녀는 누구인가, 특징 효고현립 마이코 고등학교 2학년에 스카우트되어 레슨을 거듭하여 3학년 때부터 본격적인 모델 활동에 들어가, 고베 컬렉션, 간사이 컬렉션, 도쿄 런웨이 등의 쇼에 출연했다, 주인공 키리시마 하루토가 에바 유즈키와 사실상 헤어진 후 상경한 도쿄에서 만난 활달한 보이시 미소녀.

코요이 코난 사기 키리시마의 도움으로 일이 더 커지진 않았지만, 키리시마는 큰 부상을 입고 만다. 키리시마의 도움으로 일이 더 커지진 않았지만,키리시마는 큰 부상을 입고 만다. 아까 기리시마는 무라사키마사리ムラカミマサリ라고 불리는 100% 남큐슈산 자색 고구마만을 사용해서 만든 고구마 소주입니다. 오히려 다소 거칠게 행동하면서도 뒤에서 신지를 걱정하고 챙겨주는 아스카가 뒤로 갈수록 더 매력적으로 보일 정도. 키리시마는 멀쩡한 부모님 내버려두고 야쿠자인 큰할아버지에게 인생 고민. 타잔 av

쿠머 다운로드 Com › @cockcrow › post코니시 아스카 씨「내세에는 남남이 좋겠어」인터뷰 晨. Org › wiki › 네가_있는_마을네가 있는 마을 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 오늘은 보통의 연예인이라면 숨기기 급급했을 성형 사실을 데뷔 초부터 시원하게 공개하고, 오히려 그것을 자신만의 무기로 만든 아스카 키라라 이야기를 다뤄봤습니다. Com 내세에는 남남이 좋겠어 35화 후편 前編 최신화 스포 리뷰 미친너는 인생 키리시마 시점 레전드화. 주인공 키리시마 하루토가 에바 유즈키와 사실상 헤어진 후 상경한 도쿄에서 만난 활달한 보이시 미소녀. 코유 1주년 화이트 비키니

쿡마나 디시 19살이 되는 해 4월에 도쿄로 상경하여 산토리 「이에몬 특차」의 텔레비전 cm에. 카오루는 신지가 자기 자신을 좋아하는 부분, 예를 들어 자신의 욕구와 필요를 더 솔직하게 말하고. Com › neinstein99 › 223535499928코니시 아스카 8권, 키리시마 서. 용모가 수려하고 자상한 남자로 보였던 키리시마의 정체는 야쿠자보다 무서운 남자. 소류 아스카 랑그레이 惣流・アスカ・ラングレー는 세컨드 칠드런으로, 에바 2호기의 파일럿이며, 아야나미 레이가 이카리 신지의 달빛이라면 소류 아스카 랑그레이는 이카리 신지의 햇빛이라 할 수 있다. 쿼티 트위터

키치 av 아스카는 신지의 자기 혐오를 나타내는 존재였고. 周防薊 x 染井吉乃 이번 표지는 미야마 키리시마 x 소메이 요시노 주인공 커플. 최고의 고품질 월페이퍼 사이트 중 하나. 이 문서에 스포일러 가 포함되어 있습니다. 키리시마 마나가 남자의 청춘시절에 한 번씩 느낄법한 환상에 가까운 첫사랑 상대라면, 아스카는 서로 대화하고 감정을 섞어가면서 점점 더 정이.

쿠킹덤 나무위키 용모가 수려하고 자상한 남자로 보였던 키리시마의 정체는 야쿠자보다 무서운 남자였던. 용모가 수려하고 자상한 남자로 보였던 키리시마의 정체는 야쿠자보다 무서운 남자. 내세에는 남남이 좋겠어 9권, 과연 그 결말은. Org › wiki › 네가_있는_마을네가 있는 마을 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 2018 만화신문대상 대상 오사카 야쿠자의 손녀 요시노와 도쿄 야쿠자의 손자 키리시마.

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.

Header captions
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

애니메이션, 사는 도시, 아카리 칸자키, 아오이 키리시마., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

Download