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.
Com › jhyang58 › 221826283910피비 케이츠 phoebe cates 를 아시나요. 20 제우스 12 200920 로시 인스타 3. Kr › board › bbs_view피비케이츠의 파라다이스 보배드림 국산차게시판. 당시 할리우드 탑여배우였지만 피씨따위는 없었던 1980년대답게 아낌없이 누드영화도 많이 찍음 게이들을 위해 스틸컷 몇장 또 올려봄.
17세의 젊음과 빼어난 미모로 거울처럼 투명하게 맑은 물에서. 남자 주인공 윌리 아메스가 부러울 정도로 피비 케이츠와 껴안고 키스를 나누는 모습은 보는 남자분들을 질투심으로 마음에 불꽃이 화염이 일 정도로 만들기에 충분했습니다. 피비 케이츠가 하이틴 스타의 이미지를 깨려고 선택한 영화.| Com › jhyang58 › 221826283910피비 케이츠 phoebe cates 를 아시나요. | 80년대 책받침 여신 피비 케이츠, 남편 케빈 클라인 시상식 참석 90년대 중반 연기자 은퇴, 2005년부터 의류 사업가의 길 걸어 리치몬드 연애소동 뇌쇄적 비키니 신은 지금도 회자되는 명장면 딸 그레타 클라인은 부모 재능 이어받아 싱어송라이터로 활동중. | 아버지, 삼촌도 영화계방송계 인사였고, 그래서. | 80년대 하이틴 스타로 청순 발랄한 이미지의 이상아 씨가 한 케이블 방송의 성인 시트콤 드라마를 찍었다고 합니다. |
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| 피비 케이츠를 보면 당시 추억들이 아른거린다 그때는 몰랐지만 추억은 참으로 아름답다고 느껴진다 화려함으로만 비추어지는 공인들은 아주 인간적인 행복을 그리워할 것이다 나름 꿈이라는 목표가 있기는 하지만 모두가 이루고 사는 것도 아니고 도전한다고. | 외할아버지가 필리핀계 화교여서 아시아계로도 보인다. | 파라다이스 브룩 실즈, 소피 마르소 등 1980년대를 풍미했던 여배우 중 독보적 존재는 피비 케이츠다. | 본명은 phoebe belle cates 피비 벨 케이츠 1963년 7월 16일 80년대를 수놓았던 하이틴 섹시 스타. |
| 그녀의 누드와 상대 남자배우의 누드로 고등학생들의 애간장을 태웠던 작품이다. | 21 1252 이런 80년대 10대 미국영화 소개글이나 다시보기 어디 모여있는데 없나. | 1 이 영화는 전신 누드도 나오는 등, 노출이 많았다. | 21 1248 피비케이츠 ㅇㄷ 슬라이다 2020. |
With sean penn, jennifer jason leigh, judge reinhold, robert romanus.. 엉덩이 존나 이쁘네 시발 1 추천잘눌러줌 2020.. Cast 윌리 아메스 willie aames 피비 케이츠 phoebe cates 1963..파라다이스 브룩 실즈, 소피 마르소 등 1980년대를 풍미했던 여배우 중 독보적 존재는 피비 케이츠다. A group of socal high school students would rather ignore their studies and instead indulge in their teenage distractions, 그러나 피비 케이츠는 상큼하고도 매혹적인 모습을 선보였고, 이런 그녀의 매력 때문에 흥행에도 크게 성공했다.
자, 피비 케이츠 하면 생각나는 영화는 당연히 파라다이스입니다.. 이름 피비 벨 케이츠 클라인 1963년생.. 80년대 책받침 여신 피비 케이츠, 남편 케빈 클라인 시상식 참석 90년대 중반 연기자 은퇴, 2005년부터 의류 사업가의 길 걸어 리치몬드 연애소동 뇌쇄적 비키니 신은 지금도 회자되는 명장면 딸 그레타 클라인은 부모 재능 이어받아 싱어송라이터로 활동중..
결혼과 이혼의 반복, 그리고 누드집 발간 등 우여곡절, 외할아버지가 필리핀계 화교여서 아시아계로도 보인다. 연예이슈 연예인 408개의 글 목록닫기 15줄 보기. 파라다이스 paradise 감독 스튜어트 길라드 출연 윌리 아메스, 피비 케이츠 제작 1982 캐나다, 100분 평, 소피 마르소, 브룩 실즈, 왕조현 과 더불어 당시 학생들의 교과서 표지를 장식했던, 요즘으로 치면 아이돌격 여신. 피비 케이츠를 보면 당시 추억들이 아른거린다 그때는 몰랐지만 추억은 참으로 아름답다고 느껴진다 화려함으로만 비추어지는 공인들은 아주 인간적인 행복을 그리워할 것이다 나름 꿈이라는 목표가 있기는 하지만 모두가 이루고 사는 것도 아니고 도전한다고.
21 1252 이런 80년대 10대 미국영화 소개글이나 다시보기 어디 모여있는데 없나, Com › jhyang58 › 221826283910피비 케이츠 phoebe cates 를 아시나요. 17세의 젊음과 빼어난 미모로 거울처럼 투명하게 맑은 물에서, 간직하고 있던 17세의 피비 케이츠란 배우 덕분입니다. Com › board › view피비 케이츠 누드, fast times at ridgemont high directed by amy heckerling.
Kr › board › bbs_view피비케이츠의 파라다이스 보배드림 국산차게시판, 21 1248 배우 피비 케이츠 ㅇㅎ 리치몬드 대소동 ㅇㄷㅇㄷㅇㄷ 1 아론완비사카 2020. 간직하고 있던 17세의 피비 케이츠란 배우 덕분입니다.
결혼과 이혼의 반복, 그리고 누드집 발간 등 우여곡절. 미국 뉴욕에서 태어난 피비 케이츠의 매력은 같은 뉴욕 출신인 브룩 실즈의 고전적이며 서구적 미모와는 차별화 된 것이었다. 남자 주인공 윌리 아메스가 부러울 정도로 피비 케이츠와 껴안고 키스를 나누는 모습은 보는 남자분들을 질투심으로 마음에 불꽃이 화염이 일 정도로 만들기에 충분했습니다. Com › 363노출 사진 은꼴사진 청춘스타 피비 케이츠. 제겐 첫번째 짝사랑이었던 피비 케이츠.
91년 국내 출시된 비디오는 상당 부분 삭제되어 75분이었다, 연예이슈 연예인 408개의 글 목록닫기 15줄 보기, 책받침 여신으론 부족했기에 방안을 온통 피비의 사진으로 도배했다가 어머니에게 무척 혼나고 찢기기를 여러번 하였어도 10대 때 제 짝사랑은 흔들리지 않았습니다.
당시 할리우드 탑여배우였지만 피씨따위는 없었던 1980년대답게 아낌없이 누드영화도 많이 찍음 게이들을 위해 스틸컷 몇장 또 올려봄, 피비 케이츠를 보면 당시 추억들이 아른거린다 그때는 몰랐지만 추억은 참으로 아름답다고 느껴진다 화려함으로만 비추어지는 공인들은 아주 인간적인 행복을 그리워할 것이다 나름 꿈이라는 목표가 있기는 하지만 모두가 이루고 사는 것도 아니고 도전한다고. 피비 케이츠 phoebe cates 1963. 간직하고 있던 17세의 피비 케이츠란 배우 덕분입니다. 피비 케이츠 phoebe cates 1963.
21 1252 이런 80년대 10대 미국영화 소개글이나 다시보기 어디 모여있는데 없나. fast times at ridgemont high directed by amy heckerling. 이름 피비 벨 케이츠 클라인 1963년생. 자, 피비 케이츠 하면 생각나는 영화는 당연히 파라다이스입니다.
Cast 윌리 아메스 willie aames 피비 케이츠 phoebe cates 1963. 맞습니다 사실이네요 키 170cm 배우자 케빈 클라인 아들 오웬 클라인 딸 그레타 클라인 입니다 뉴욕에서 태어나 그곳에서 자랐습니다 프로듀서이자 텔레비전 선구자인 조셉 케이츠의 딸입니다. 책받침 여신으론 부족했기에 방안을 온통 피비의 사진으로 도배했다가 어머니에게 무척 혼나고 찢기기를 여러번 하였어도 10대 때 제 짝사랑은 흔들리지 않았습니다, With sean penn, jennifer jason leigh, judge reinhold, robert romanus.
菊池はる missav 자, 피비 케이츠 하면 생각나는 영화는 당연히 파라다이스입니다. Kr › board › bbs_view피비케이츠의 파라다이스 보배드림 국산차게시판. 21 1248 배우 피비 케이츠 ㅇㅎ 리치몬드 대소동 ㅇㄷㅇㄷㅇㄷ 1 아론완비사카 2020. 본명은 phoebe belle cates 피비 벨 케이츠 1963년 7월 16일 80년대를 수놓았던 하이틴 섹시 스타. 미국 뉴욕에서 태어난 피비 케이츠의 매력은 같은 뉴욕 출신인 브룩 실즈의 고전적이며 서구적 미모와는 차별화 된 것이었다. 가축 히토미
神に届かぬ祈りでも hitomi 21 1252 이런 80년대 10대 미국영화 소개글이나 다시보기 어디 모여있는데 없나. 4 이 영화는 전신 누드도 나오는 등, 노출이 많았다. 파라다이스에서 그녀의 노출은 가장 심합니다. 피비 케이츠53는 1980년대 소피 마르소, 브룩 실즈와 함께 대표적 하이틴 스타로 국내에서도 큰 인기를 모았다. 1982 피비 케이츠, 제니퍼 제이슨 리 6. 高校生 2週間で別れる
每日大赛kuzu 피비 케이츠가 하이틴 스타의 이미지를 깨려고 선택한 영화. 살짝 벌어진 입술과 동양미가 살짝 들어간 검은머리의 이 여배우는 당시 전 세계의 젊은 남성들의 마음을 설레이게 만든 피비케이츠 입니다. 연예수첩 연예정보 알림이 경동호입니다. Com › board › view피비 케이츠 누드. 파라다이스 paradise 감독 스튜어트 길라드 출연 윌리 아메스, 피비 케이츠 제작 1982 캐나다, 100분 평. ㅗㅑ
ㅡ.ㅛㅐㅕ셔ㅠㄷ.채ㅡ 91년 국내 출시된 비디오는 상당 부분 삭제되어 75분이었다. 아버지, 삼촌도 영화계방송계 인사였고, 그래서. 청춘스타 피비 케이츠 청춘스타 피비 케이츠 청춘스타 피비 케이츠 청춘스타 피비 케이츠 청춘. 중고차 보배드림 조금전 라디오에서 피비케이츠의 영화 파라다이스의 주제가가 흘러나오네요. 아버지, 삼촌도 영화계방송계 인사였고, 그래서.
가비 꼭지 본명은 phoebe belle cates 피비 벨 케이츠 1963년 7월 16일 80년대를 수놓았던 하이틴 섹시 스타. 누드 연기를 펼친 피비 케이츠는 일약 스타가 되었다. 21 1248 피비케이츠 ㅇㄷ 슬라이다 2020. 소피 마르소, 브룩 실즈, 왕조현 과 더불어 당시 학생들의 교과서 표지를 장식했던, 요즘으로 치면 아이돌격 여신. 본명은 phoebe belle cates 피비 벨 케이츠 1963년 7월 16일 80년대를 수놓았던 하이틴 섹시 스타.
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.
피비 케이츠를 보면 당시 추억들이 아른거린다 그때는 몰랐지만 추억은 참으로 아름답다고 느껴진다 화려함으로만 비추어지는 공인들은 아주 인간적인 행복을 그리워할 것이다 나름 꿈이라는 목표가 있기는 하지만 모두가 이루고 사는 것도 아니고 도전한다고., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.