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.
니시가 아내의 병문안을 간 사이 불의의 습격을 받 서사드라마 청소년관람불가. 몇몇 한국 커뮤니티에서는 대표적인 일본 여초 커뮤니티로 알려져있지만, 애초에 게시판 형태의 커뮤니티 read more. 니시가 아내의 병문안을 간 사이 불의의 습격을 받 서사드라마 청소년관람불가. 둘은 영화 하나비를 제외하고도 6편의 영화에서 호흡을 맞췄다.
와 시발 하나비 이새끼들 일처리 왜 잘함. 펑토큰 빨간 토큰, 힌트토큰 파란 토큰, 그리고 카드, 영화 는 일본의 명감독 기타노 다케시의 작품으로, 폭력과 고독, 죽음과 존엄이라는 주제를 감각적으로 그려내며 관객에게 깊은 인상을 남긴다. 하나비 1 네무는 연예 기획사 pd였고 정황상 루비는 그 기획사 소속 연습생으로 친구처럼 지낸거 같음 2 하나비의 발단이 되는 꿈아이디어은 루비, 참고로 9호도 페미 냄새 진하게 났었는데. 저번 글에도 썼듯이 나간 스트리머들 입장 또한 보아야 한다고 작성했던 게 오늘 뜸. 둘은 영화 하나비를 제외하고도 6편의 영화에서 호흡을 맞췄다, 모바일레전드 하나비 진짜 저평가 원딜 넘버원 하나비괜히 폭. 1부5살인데 12살 히나타보다 쌔서 히나타의 자리를 대신해 휴우가의 차기 당주로 교육받고 있는 인물. 하나비 딱 정리해줌 버츄얼 스나 미니 갤러리. 루비 어제 방송에 보여준 싸인 빨간약 하나비 마이너 갤러리, 93년생 여캠출신 본명 김수아개설일 하루차이 빨간약 스트리머 갤러리 디시인사이드시부키 빨간약 스. 네무 사장인거 까발려서 아이언맨 유도함탈주자 두명 복귀시켜서 염상 유도함마로카 100곡 컨텐츠 시켜서 성대결절 유도함루비의. Com › filmlover7 › 223565197125영화 하나비 해석과 리뷰 삶과 죽음, 그리고 존엄에 대한 깊은 성찰. Idvtubersnipe&no3228501&page1 흑백싱어 유입 1일차 hanavi 그룹 분석고봉밥 버츄얼. 영화 는 일본의 명감독 기타노 다케시의 작품으로, 폭력과 고독, 죽음과 존엄이라는 주제를 감각적으로 그려내며 관객에게 깊은 인상을 남긴다.원제 하나비는 일본어로 불꽃놀이라는 뜻.. 내가 사장이고 얜 내 친구야 에너존큐브 5375591 활동내역 작성글 쪽지 마이피 타임라인 출석일수 1938일 lv.. 돈 조금 아꼈으면 베스트일 것 같긴한데..게임은 피코파크멤버들 게임실력이 눈물나와서 하늬님이 통나무드는게 웃겼어요ㅋㅋㅋ게임실력이 좋진 않았는데. 이 영화는 잔인함과 아름다움, 그리고 생의 덧없음이 충돌하는 지점에서 빚어낸 독특한 미학을 보여준다, 네무 사장인거 까발려서 아이언맨 유도함탈주자 두명 복귀시켜서 염상 유도함마로카 100곡 컨텐츠 시켜서 성대결절 유도함루비의. 1부5살인데 12살 히나타보다 쌔서 히나타의 자리를 대신해 휴우가의 차기 당주로 교육받고 있는 인물. 돈은 만 페소 씀먹지도 않을건데 좀 시킴2, 2부원작에선 등장하지도 않고 애니메이션 오리지널에 등장시키기 위해 키시모토가 설정화만 디자인 한 안습.
| Comofficial_hanavistatus602128510 하나비 첫 단체곡 커버곡 제목이 그 꿈을 덧그리며 원곡 요아소비 라서 풀 버전은 유튜브에서 숨김처리됐고 1분짜리로만 아직 트위터에 살아있음 루비가 직접 프로듀싱 맡은 노래기도 함. | 지금 떡밥 진짜 간단히 정리하면 하나비 마이너 갤러리. | Com › filmlover7 › 223565197125영화 하나비 해석과 리뷰 삶과 죽음, 그리고 존엄에 대한 깊은 성찰. | 그러던 어느 날, 니시는 딸을 잃고 아내가 시한부 판정까지 받게 된다. |
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| 오로라 프로젝트도 묶어서 써볼까 싶기도 하고. | 소개 기타노 다케시 감독의 작품 하나비는 그의 탁월한 스토리텔링 능력과 감독 기술의 명품을 보여주는 작품입니다. | Jpg 버튜버 하나비라는 버튜버 그룹. | 형사인 니시와 호리베는 파트너를 이루어 야쿠자를 소탕한다. |
| 참고로 9호도 페미 냄새 진하게 났었는데. | 하나비견 발작 하면서 댓글창 벽딸 ㄱ read more. | 이 영화는 잔인함과 아름다움, 그리고 생의 덧없음이 충돌하는 지점에서 빚어낸 독특한 미학을 보여준다. | 이 둘이 하나비를 운영하는 회사 업리프트를 시작함네무가 사장이고루비는 직책은 따로 없지만 사실상 동업자겸 이사의 위치하나비 초창기 멤버지만. |
| 저번 글에도 썼듯이 나간 스트리머들 입장 또한 보아야 한다고 작성했던 게 오늘 뜸. | Com › mini › hanaviredirecting to sgall. | 네무 디톡스루비 도파민미라이 분내분내 맡으면서도파민 좀 채우고디톡스 하면 된다. | 기업분석 3편은 몽상컴퍼니랑 링크라이브 쓰려고 했었는데 현생도 바빠지고 나는 만타의 행방이 악어돌 오디션 때문에 결정안되서 미루다가 귀찮아져서 계속 미뤄졌었음. |
하나비 1 네무는 연예 기획사 pd였고 정황상 루비는 그 기획사 소속 연습생으로 친구처럼 지낸거 같음 2 하나비의 발단이 되는 꿈아이디어은 루비. Film reports 영화 줄거리, 특징 by new0711 2025. 네무가 저작권 어기고 수많은 게임 애니 조리돌림하고 팬들의 타스 공격 방치함, Com › entry › 영화하나비hanabi영화 줄거리, 특징.
하나비 요약 증명완료 버츄얼 스나 미니 갤러리, 전열 저챗꽤 길게 했는데 안보신 분들은 다시보기 보시는걸 추천드려요, Ai가 알려주는 보드게임 규칙과 정보, 쇼핑을 한번에. 둘은 영화 하나비를 제외하고도 6편의 영화에서 호흡을 맞췄다. 공지 박은 이유네무가 히힣 친구들 복귀한다 싱난다, 해서 네무가 방송 켠 이유네무가 대표라서 루비이사 아님 그냥 하나비임. 본 리뷰에서는 이 영화의 세세한 부분까지 파고들어 다양한 주제와 상징, 그리고 영화가 남긴 감동에 대해 탐험해 보겠습니다.
오로라 프로젝트도 묶어서 써볼까 싶기도 하고.. 버튜버 그룹 하나비 조직도 비스무리 요약.. 하늬님이 마라탕 주문한거 읊어주는게 귀여웠어요..
돈 조금 아꼈으면 베스트일 것 같긴한데. 주인공이라는 애 루비의 지지자 콘크 다지기 잘한애 외부활동 나름 성공한애 하나비가 확장된 이유. Jpg 버튜버 하나비라는 버튜버 그룹, 영화 는 1997년 일본의 개그맨이자 배우이자 영화감독인 기타노 타케시가 각본, 주연, 감독을 맡은 영화입니다. 모바일레전드 하나비 진짜 저평가 원딜 넘버원 하나비괜히 폭. 하루나 노아 인스타 jur 494 sub.
네무가 저작권 어기고 수많은 게임 애니 조리돌림하고 팬들의 타스 공격 방치함, 2부 원작에선 등장하지도 않고 애니메이션 오리지널에 등장시키기 위해 키시모토가 설정화만 디자인 한. 형사인 니시와 호리베는 파트너를 이루어 야쿠자를 소탕한다, Redirecting to sgall, 본 리뷰에서는 이 영화의 세세한 부분까지 파고들어 다양한 주제와 상징, 그리고 영화가 남긴 감동에 대해 탐험해 보겠습니다. Com › filmlover7 › 223565197125영화 하나비 해석과 리뷰 삶과 죽음, 그리고 존엄에 대한 깊은 성찰.
몇몇 한국 커뮤니티에서는 대표적인 일본 여초 커뮤니티로 알려져있지만, 애초에 게시판 형태의 커뮤니티 read more. 입이 떡 벌어질수밖에 없는 천조국의 햄버거 맛집jpg. ‘하나비’는 오랜 시간이 지나도 변하지 않는 소중한 가치에 대해 생각하게 합니다. 여행국내 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요.
참고로 9호도 페미 냄새 진하게 났었는데. 하나비 1 네무는 연예 기획사 pd였고 정황상 루비는 그 기획사 소속 연습생으로 친구처럼 지낸거 같음 2 하나비의 발단이 되는 꿈아이디어은 루비, 니시가 아내의 병문안을 간 사이 불의의 습격을 받 서사드라마 청소년관람불가. 와 시발 하나비 이새끼들 일처리 왜 잘함. 하나비견 발작 하면서 댓글창 벽딸 ㄱ read more.
니시가 아내의 병문안을 간 사이 불의의 습격을 받 서사드라마 청소년관람불가, 복귀 사태 정리글타임라인,3d,직원,루비 이사아님 등 하나비, 공지 박은 이유네무가 히힣 친구들 복귀한다 싱난다, 해서 네무가 방송 켠 이유네무가 대표라서 루비이사 아님 그냥 하나비임. 루비 어제 방송에 보여준 싸인 빨간약 하나비 마이너 갤러리, 93년생 여캠출신 본명 김수아개설일 하루차이 빨간약 스트리머 갤러리 디시인사이드시부키 빨간약 스. 하지만 그 찰나의 순간이 지나가면 칠흑같이 캄캄한 밤하늘이 찾아온다.
1818야동 형사인 니시와 호리베는 파트너를 이루어 야쿠자를 소탕한다. Idvtubersnipe&no3228501&page1 흑백싱어 유입 1일차 hanavi 그룹 분석고봉밥 버츄얼. 네무 디톡스루비 도파민미라이 분내분내 맡으면서도파민 좀 채우고디톡스 하면 된다. Com › dictiona2206 › 223291577019영화 하나비 ott 줄거리 리뷰 보는곳 정보 네이버 블로그. 영화 는 일본의 명감독 기타노 다케시의 작품으로, 폭력과 고독, 죽음과 존엄이라는 주제를 감각적으로 그려내며 관객에게 깊은 인상을 남긴다. 314_514_414 pding
1×1×1×1 브레인롯 훔치기 1부5살인데 12살 히나타보다 쌔서 히나타의 자리를 대신해 휴우가의 차기 당주로 교육받고 있는 인물. 자고 일어 난 버븽이를 위한 하나비 떡밥 정리 버츄얼 하꼬. 소개 기타노 다케시 감독의 작품 하나비는 그의 탁월한 스토리텔링 능력과 감독 기술의 명품을 보여주는 작품입니다. 그러던 어느 날, 니시는 딸을 잃고 아내가 시한부 판정까지 받게 된다. 불꽃놀이가 만들어 낸 아름다운 형상들로 수놓인 밤하늘은 참으로 화려하다. 4544859
10분 버티면 한국 영화 는 일본의 명감독 기타노 다케시의 작품으로, 폭력과 고독, 죽음과 존엄이라는 주제를 감각적으로 그려내며 관객에게 깊은 인상을 남긴다. 원제 하나비는 일본어로 불꽃놀이라는 뜻. Com › dictiona2206 › 223291577019영화 하나비 ott 줄거리 리뷰 보는곳 정보 네이버 블로그. Com › 9333064771하나비 올해 요약 치지직 에펨코리아. 와 시발 하나비 이새끼들 일처리 왜 잘함. 10분버티면
2yeon_365 leak 공지 박은 이유네무가 히힣 친구들 복귀한다 싱난다, 해서 네무가 방송 켠 이유네무가 대표라서 루비이사 아님 그냥 하나비임. 원제 하나비는 일본어로 불꽃놀이라는 뜻. 그냥 충성심이 남다름 으에에으에에에 29 분 전. 돈은 만 페소 씀먹지도 않을건데 좀 시킴2. 영화 는 1997년 일본의 개그맨이자 배우이자 영화감독인 기타노 타케시가 각본, 주연, 감독을 맡은 영화입니다.
2843783 불꽃놀이가 만들어 낸 아름다운 형상들로 수놓인 밤하늘은 참으로 화려하다. 오늘 처음들었는데 어제자 천박한 디씨인 버튜버뿌슝빠슝 자기 오시가 사장인걸 모르고 오시 욕한 등1신이 있다. 네무가 저작권 어기고 수많은 게임 애니 조리돌림하고 팬들의 타스 공격 방치함. 앱스토어 다운로드 보드게임마스터보드게임마스터는 보드게이머들을 위한 필수 앱입니다. 니시가 아내의 병문안을 간 사이 불의의 습격을 받 서사드라마 청소년관람불가.
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.
하나비 요약 증명완료 버츄얼 스나 미니 갤러리., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.