클린턴 전 장관은 지난주 발간한 대선 회고록 무슨 일이 일어났나 whathappened에서 그가 공화당의 도널드 트럼프 대통령에게 패배한 원인 중 하나로 샌더스의 지원 부족을 들었다.

Days ago 도널드 트럼프 행정부의 강경한 이민 단속 과정에서 발생한 총격 사망 사건을 계기로, 버락 오바마와 빌 클린턴 전 미국 대통령이 이례적으로 일제히 포문을 열었다.

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.

intro 21세기의 정치 거물이라고 하면 힐러리 클린턴과 도널드 트럼프가 항상 떠오릅니다. 하지만 백인 유권자들에선 트럼프 56%가 클린턴 34%을 앞선다. 블룸버그 전 시장은 2001년 공화당 소속으로 뉴욕 시장에 출마하기 전에 민주당원으로 활동한 바 있다. intro 21세기의 정치 거물이라고 하면 힐러리 클린턴과 도널드 트럼프가 항상 떠오릅니다.

트럼프는 2008년 경선에서 힐러리 클린턴 캠프에서 갖고 있던 네거티브 정보를 바탕으로 버락 오바마의 출생지가 미국이 맞는지 의심스럽다며 의혹을 제기했다. 그러나 분량과 결과는 비례하지 않았다. Com › article › 2026012629697용납할 수 없다&mldr, 빌 클린턴 전 미국 대통령이 도널드 트럼프 대통령에 대해 대가를 치를 것이라며 정면으로 비판했습니다.

Net › Square › 351266459더쿠 언론은 클린턴, Ai는 트럼프 승리 예측.

워싱턴포스트 신문과 abc 방송의 최근 여론조사 결과 트럼프 후보의 지지율이 46%로, 클린턴 후보의 45%를 1%.. 이슈 트럼프 아들 배런 트럼프 근황 7,419 21.. 클린턴 역시 900만 명의 실업자가 발생한 상황이고, 투자를 통해서 1천만 개 이상의 좋은 일자리를 창출할 것을 약속했다..
언론은 클린턴, ai는 트럼프 승리 예측, 엑스포츠뉴스 이아영 기자 8일현지시각 미국 45대 대통령 선거에서 공화당 후보 도날드 트럼프가 승리한 가운데 민주당 후보 힐러리 클린턴을 지지하며 트럼프, 두 전직 대통령은 현 행정부의 정책을 강하게 비판하며 미국인들의 대정부 저항과 시위를 공개적으로 지지하고 나섰다. 트럼프 안돼 블룸버그, 클린턴 지지선언 할 듯. 2016년 대선에서 힐러리 클린턴을 지지했으며 페미니스트이다, 그러나 분량과 결과는 비례하지 않았다. 트럼프 안돼 블룸버그, 클린턴 지지선언 할 듯, 트럼프 당선되면 미국 떠날래 선언한 할리우드 스타 13人, 트럼프 당선되면 미국 떠날래 선언한 할리우드 스타 13人. 트럼프 당선되면 미국 떠날래 선언한 할리우드 스타 13人.

Com › article › 2026012629697용납할 수 없다&mldr, 공화당 전 대통령이라고 해봤자 부시 밖에 없지만 그 사람은 트럼프 지지 안 한대. Net › square › 3994683692더쿠 텍스트후방눈갱주의 지금 양웹에서 진짜 핫한 트럼프 빌클린. 미국 민주당의 힐러리 클린턴 대통령 후보와 공화당 도널드 트럼프 후보의 지지도가 역전된 것으로 나타났습니다. 두 사람이 그리는 미국과 지구촌 역시 정반대다.

Days ago 도널드 트럼프 행정부의 강경한 이민 단속 과정에서 발생한 총격 사망 사건을 계기로, 버락 오바마와 빌 클린턴 전 미국 대통령이 이례적으로 일제히 포문을 열었다, 1993년 방한한 빌 클린턴 미국 대통령과 김영삼 대통령은 청와대 뜰에서 함께 조깅을 했다, Net › square › 350073918더쿠 ‘클린턴 이메일’ 재수사&mldr.

사진에는 클린턴 전 대통령이 서울 광화문광장 세종대왕 동상 앞에서 포즈를 취한 모습, 거리에서 행인들에게 둘러싸인 모습이 포착됐다.

클린턴 전 대통령은 현지시간 1일 cbs. Net › square › 350073918더쿠 ‘클린턴 이메일’ 재수사&mldr. 클린턴 역시 900만 명의 실업자가 발생한 상황이고, 투자를 통해서 1천만 개 이상의 좋은 일자리를 창출할 것을 약속했다, 그는 낙태와 총기 규제를 지지하는 등 민주당의 정책 기조와 비슷한 read more.

그러나 아리아나 본인은 트럼프를 반대하는 민주당 지지자이다. 그러나 아리아나 본인은 트럼프를 반대하는 민주당 지지자이다. 1일현지시간 워싱턴포스트wpabc방송의 여론조사에서 도널드 트럼프 공화당 대선 후보가 46%의 지지율을 얻어 클린턴45%을 1%포인트 앞선 것으로 조사됐다. 사실 정상 간 친교를 강조하는 퍼포먼스는 과거에도 있었다.

바로 42대 빌 클린턴 이후의 미국 대통령클린턴, 아들 부시, 오바마들은 모두 재선에 성공했다는 것 simg.. 그는 낙태와 총기 규제를 지지하는 등 민주당의 정책 기조와 비슷한 read more.. 언론은 클린턴, ai는 트럼프 승리 예측..

하지만 백인 유권자들에선 트럼프 56%가 클린턴 34%을 앞선다, Net › square › 230685124더쿠 클린턴 vs 트럼프 공약 비교, 트럼프는 2008년 경선에서 힐러리 클린턴 캠프에서 갖고 있던 네거티브 정보를 바탕으로 버락 오바마의 출생지가 미국이 맞는지 의심스럽다며 의혹을 제기했다.

19일 온라인 상에는 클린턴 전 대통령 목격담과 사진이 속속 올라왔다.

Days ago 트럼프 대통령은 26일 현장 단속 책임자를 교체하고, 이번 총격 사건에 대한 진상 조사를 벌이기로 했다. Net › square › 3994683692더쿠 텍스트후방눈갱주의 지금 양웹에서 진짜 핫한 트럼프 빌클린. 클린턴 역시 900만 명의 실업자가 발생한 상황이고, 투자를 통해서 1천만 개 이상의 좋은 일자리를 창출할 것을 약속했다, 그러나 집회, 인터뷰, 24시간 뉴스 사이클 너머에는 졸업식 연단에서 대통령 연설대에. Hour ago 이슈 역대급인 멜라니아 트럼프 다큐멘터리 평론 점수 205 2 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 지난 25일 공개된 cnnorc의 조사에 따르면 비 非백인 유권자들에선 클린턴 66%이 트럼프 21%를 능가한다.

워싱턴포스트 신문과 abc 방송의 최근 여론조사 결과 트럼프 후보의 지지율이 46%로, 클린턴 후보의 45%를 1%, Net › square › 351266459더쿠 언론은 클린턴, ai는 트럼프 승리 예측. 사실 정상 간 친교를 강조하는 퍼포먼스는 과거에도 있었다.

1일현지시간 워싱턴포스트wpabc방송의 여론조사에서 도널드 트럼프 공화당 대선 후보가 46%의 지지율을 얻어 클린턴45%을 1%포인트 앞선 것으로 조사됐다. 언론은 클린턴, ai는 트럼프 승리 예측. intro 21세기의 정치 거물이라고 하면 힐러리 클린턴과 도널드 트럼프가 항상 떠오릅니다. 사진기자의 사談진談송은석드럼 치는 대통령.

클린턴 이메일 재수사 트럼프 찬스 잡았다.

이슈 트럼프 아들 배런 트럼프 근황 7,419 21. 트럼프 재임중 최악의 사건 공화당서도 충격적. 원본보기 힐러리 클린턴 전 국무장관 사진ap연합 아시아경제 조목인 기자도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 지지율이 역대 최저치로 내려갔지만 그와 지난해 대선에서 경쟁했던 힐러리 클린턴 전 국무장관의 호감도 역시 여전히 낮은 수준은 것으로 확인됐다, 잡담 클린턴 트럼프 난리난거ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 2,403 10.

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rose001 leak Net › square › 350073918더쿠 ‘클린턴 이메일’ 재수사&mldr. 그러나 집회, 인터뷰, 24시간 뉴스 사이클 너머에는 졸업식 연단에서 대통령 연설대에. 또한 당신 클린턴은 일자리를 가져오지 못했지만, 난 그렇게 할 것이라고 선언하기도 했다. 현재 78세인 공화당 후보 도널드 트럼프 전 대통령이 당선되면, 조 바이든 대통령 당선 당시 77세을 넘어서는 최고령이자 두 번째 징검다리 연속이 아닌 재선 대통령이 될 전망이다. 트럼프 힐러리 기소는 매우 분열적 선택 정치보복 안한다. silver starlets alice

roman and sharon 나무위키 이슈 텍스트후방눈갱주의 지금 양웹에서 진짜 핫한 트럼프 빌클린턴 푸틴 스캔들 6,634 35 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 팽팽해진 트럼프 탄핵 찬반 여론닉슨이냐 클린턴이냐. 하지만 백인 유권자들에선 트럼프 56%가 클린턴 34%을 앞선다. 1일 현지시간 워싱턴포스트 wpabc방송의 여론조사에서 도널드 트럼프 공화당 대선 후보가 46%의 지지율을 얻어 클린턴 45%을 1%포인트 앞선 것으로 조사됐다. 클린턴 역시 900만 명의 실업자가 발생한 상황이고, 투자를 통해서 1천만 개 이상의 좋은 일자리를 창출할 것을 약속했다. rule34ゼンゼロ

rule34.xxx 또한 당신 클린턴은 일자리를 가져오지 못했지만, 난 그렇게 할 것이라고 선언하기도 했다. Net › square › 350073918더쿠 ‘클린턴 이메일’ 재수사&mldr. 힐러리 클린턴과 도널드 트럼프 공약 비교. 워싱턴포스트 신문과 abc 방송의 최근 여론조사 결과 트럼프 후보의 지지율이 46%로, 클린턴 후보의 45%를 1%. 클린턴 전 대통령은 현지시간 1일 cbs.

remholic pikpak 2016년 대선에서 힐러리 클린턴을 지지했으며 페미니스트이다. 미국 민주당 전직 대통령 3명이 트럼프를 공개적으로 비판한 내용을 다룹니다. 클린턴 전 대통령은 현지시간 1일 cbs. 미국 민주당의 힐러리 클린턴 대통령 후보와 공화당 도널드 트럼프 후보의 지지도가 역전된 것으로 나타났습니다. 클린턴 역시 900만 명의 실업자가 발생한 상황이고, 투자를 통해서 1천만 개 이상의 좋은 일자리를 창출할 것을 약속했다.

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

클린턴 전 장관은 지난주 발간한 대선 회고록 무슨 일이 일어났나 whathappened에서 그가 공화당의 도널드 트럼프 대통령에게 패배한 원인 중 하나로 샌더스의 지원 부족을 들었다., 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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