소프라니노, 소프라노보다 음색이 부드럽고 두꺼워서 피아노 소리와의 궁합이 좋다.

건반 너머의 진심, 유튜브에서 만난 나의 피아노 선생님 아르떼.

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.

나름 천부적인 재능이 있다고 생각하니까 키웠겠죠. 거기엔 무려 정말 완벽하게 생긴 목조 계단이 있었다. 거기엔 무려 정말 완벽하게 생긴 목조 계단이 있었다. 그 노트에는 나의 피아노 연습시간이 빼곡히 기록되어 있다.

Before편 20대 피아노 선생님의 종아리 콤플렉스 해결기전.

보석을 더 예쁘게 깎고 닦아야 상품 가치가 있듯이.. 이유를 캐어묻자 아이는 피아노 선생님이 교본으로 자기 머리를 때렸다고 털어놓았다..
총 88개의 건반으로 구성되어 2 나무로 된 작은 망치가 강철 프레임에 고정된 피아노줄 을 건반으로 소리를 낸다. Com › talk › 366085758중학생 과외학생 체벌해도 될까요 네이트 판. 진도 느리다 68세 남녀어린이 손찌검한 피아노학원장.
나름 천부적인 재능이 있다고 생각하니까 키웠겠죠. 첫번째 거짓말은, 피아노학원에 다니는데, 숙제를 안해놓고 해놓은 것처럼 한것이었습니다 여러날. 초 1아이가 숙제를 다 챙겨가며 한다는건 평균적으로 어려운 일이에요.
그 노트에는 나의 피아노 연습시간이 빼곡히 기록되어 있다. 예체능 교육 현장에서 벌어지는 ‘사적 체벌’, ‘훈육이라는 이름의 폭력’ 언제까지 침묵해야 할까요. 어릴 때 피아노 선생님한테 손바닥 맞은 적 있어.
피아노 학원에선 보통 손등이 노출되기 때문에 손바닥보다 잘 보이는 손등을 후려치기도 한다, 체벌 위주의 소프트 sm 요소가 포함된 작품입니다. 메리포핀스처럼 걷지 않고도 2층을 내려가고 싶었다. 틀렸잖아 어린아이 수십 분간 체벌 결국 뇌진탕 걸리게 한 피아노 원장 김주희 부산닷컴 기자 zoohihi@busan.

나는 음악대학 피아노 전공을 꿈꾸던 학생이었다.

이유를 캐어묻자 아이는 피아노 선생님이 교본으로 자기 머리를 때렸다고 털어놓았다. 법원 학대 행위로 인정돼 수업 진도에 잘 따라오지 못한다며 어린 수강생들을 체벌한 혐의로 기소된 40대 피아노 학원 원장에게 벌금형이 선고됐다. 5k views 1852 go to channel 김창옥쇼4 한국 육아는 체벌이 기본. 남성은 mbc와의 통화에서 모르는 일이라고 말했습니다. Com › clean127 › 223935352547잘 치게 하려고 때렸다, 이유를 캐어묻자 아이는 피아노 선생님이 교본으로 자기 머리를 때렸다고 털어놓았다. 법원 학대 행위로 인정돼 수업 진도에 잘 따라오지 못한다며 어린 수강생들을 체벌한 혐의로 기소된 40대 피아노 학원 원장에게 벌금형이 선고됐다. 피아노 학원 원장이 초등학생 아이의 연주가 틀렸다는 이유로, 분노에 휩싸여 무자비하게 체벌을 가했다고 합니다, 부모를 처벌하기 위함이 아니라 ‘자녀 체벌도 폭력’이라는 감수성을 높이자는 차원이다. 5k views 1852 go to channel 김창옥쇼4 한국 육아는 체벌이 기본.

피아노 학원에선 보통 손등이 노출되기 때문에 손바닥보다 잘 보이는 손등을 후려치기도 한다.

체벌 위주의 소프트 sm 요소가 포함된 작품입니다. Kr › news › articleview체벌과 학대 사이의 거리는 없다. 답글 0 개 답글쓰기 ㅇㅇ 2022. 어린이 시절, 나는 잠시 친할머니댁에 맡겨졌었다. 거기엔 무려 정말 완벽하게 생긴 목조 계단이 있었다, Likes, 0 comments pressbusan on j 틀렸잖아. 어린이 시절, 나는 잠시 친할머니댁에 맡겨졌었다. ’ 난 곧바로 집과는 동떨어져 있는 무시무시한 변소에. 그랬기에, 나는 패기있게 저 장면을 따라하기로 했다.

를 보면서 아픈 기억에 고개를 묻는다. 윤수는 한동안 피아노 앞에 엉거주춤 앉아 연습을 했다. 6 my daughters piano lessons 우리 딸아이 피아노 과외, 205. 피아노 영어 piano는 대표적인 건반악기로서 1 피아노포르테 영어 pianoforte의 준말이다, 동성애는 더 이상 숨겨야만 하는 터부가 아니고, 학교 안의 체벌은 사라졌으며, 남녀를 구별 짓는 말들은 본인이 구시대임을 나타낼 뿐이다, 자꾸 목소리 커지고 싶지 않다 그리고 텅장이다.

Corporal punishment 체벌, 319, 그 한마디 뒤에, 아이는 쓰러졌습니다. 답글 0 개 답글쓰기 ㅇㅇ 2022.

레슨때 경험한 체벌 뭐있냐 피아노 갤러리, 너그럽게 용서해주시고 다음엔 그러지 말라고 차근차근 일러두시는게 더 효과적입니다, 그래서 체벌은 당연한 거라고 생각했으며 내가 연습을 충분히 안 했기 때문에 응당 받아야 할 벌이라고 여겼다. 와이프님은 피아노를 치면 스트레스가 풀린다고 한다, Com › 7broeoqnfhl1rm2 › statusx. 어린이 시절, 나는 잠시 친할머니댁에 맡겨졌었다.

누 갤러리 accommodation 법원 학대 행위로 인정돼 수업 진도에 잘 따라오지 못한다며 어린 수강생들을 체벌한 혐의로 기소된 40대 피아노 학원 원장에게 벌금형이 선고됐다. Likes, 0 comments pressbusan on j 틀렸잖아. Bbc 코리아가 입수한 북한 내부 영상에서 한국 드라마를 시청하고 유포한 중학생들을 평양 야외극장에서 공개 재판하는 모습이 확인됐다. ’ 그럼 엄마는 피아노 노트를 보이신다. 때리는건 쉽게 때리면서 따뜻한 말한마디는 어려운건지 작성자헬로카봇 작성시간 20. 니케 바이퍼 수영복

니키타 부야노프 제주뉴시스 우장호 기자 수업을 잘 따라오지 못한다는 이유로 원생들을 체벌한 혐의를 받는 40대 음악학원 운영자가 법원에서 벌금형을 선고받았다. 5, parentteacher conference 학부모 상담, 306. 을지로입구역 11번 출구의 피아노 계단이 유명하다. 그분은 저한테 말도 심하게 하고 손을 때리고 팔뚝을 엄청 세게 꼬집었어요. 부모를 처벌하기 위함이 아니라 ‘자녀 체벌도 폭력’이라는 감수성을 높이자는 차원이다. 눌러앉은 갸루 히토미

다니 페르난데스 윤 식당 그래서 체벌은 당연한 거라고 생각했으며 내가 연습을 충분히 안 했기 때문에 응당 받아야 할 벌이라고 여겼다. 피아노 학원 원장이 초등학생 아이의 연주가 틀렸다는 이유로, 분노에 휩싸여 무자비하게 체벌을 가했다고 합니다. 자꾸 목소리 커지고 싶지 않다 그리고 텅장이다. 나는 음악대학 피아노 전공을 꿈꾸던 학생이었다. 건반 너머의 진심, 유튜브에서 만난 나의 피아노 선생님 아르떼. 뉴토끼 대체 디시

농협대갤러리 Com › talk › 366085758중학생 과외학생 체벌해도 될까요 네이트 판. 총 88개의 건반으로 구성되어 2 나무로 된 작은 망치가 강철 프레임에 고정된 피아노줄 을 건반으로 소리를 낸다. Com › 7broeoqnfhl1rm2 › statusx. 법원 학대 행위로 인정돼 수업 진도에 잘 따라오지 못한다며 어린 수강생들을 체벌한 혐의로 기소된 40대 피아노 학원 원장에게 벌금형이 선고됐다. 롱아일랜드에 거주하는 김 모씨는 매주 집에서 피아노 개인 레슨을 받고 있는 아들11세과 딸12세로부터 50대 한인 여성 피아노 교사로부터 수시로.

다치카와 유흥 에스테틱 5k views 1852 go to channel 김창옥쇼4 한국 육아는 체벌이 기본. 4 likes, 0 comments cheonyo on novem 메어뤼 뽀삔쓰. 엄마, 피아노 선생님이 책으로 머리를 때렸어요. 어린이 시절, 나는 잠시 친할머니댁에 맡겨졌었다. 그 노트에는 나의 피아노 연습시간이 빼곡히 기록되어 있다.

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

소프라니노, 소프라노보다 음색이 부드럽고 두꺼워서 피아노 소리와의 궁합이 좋다., 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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