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.
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센과치히로의이모저모 다양한 정보 215개의 글 목록열기.. 새상품 호빵맨 5,000원 세균맨여자친구 4,000원 ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ 에누리 안됩니다.. Org › wiki › 호빵맨_등장인물호빵맨 등장인물 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.. 코돌이ちびぞう 하지만 호빵맨의 어프로치로 서서히 마음을 열게 되고, 호빵맨이..세균맨이 지구에서 매번 호빵맨에게 패배하는 소문을 듣고 세균맨을 돕기 위해 세균별에서 어느날 갑자기 파견을 나온 것이 시초이며, 이후 세균성에서 세균맨, 해골맨과 함께 살고 있습니다, 호빵맨 등장인물 호빵맨 일본어 アンパンマン anpanman은 날아라. 1988년 10월 3일 첫방송을 탓으며 지금은 극장판으로도 나온것으로 알려져있네요 호빵맨의 약점은 물에 약하다는 것과 얼굴을 너무 약자들에기 떼어주기 때문에 힘이 고갈되는데 나중에 잼아저씨가 얼굴을. 토끼 여자아이로 치즈의 여자친구인 레어치즈의 주인, ‘프로듀스 x 101’ 김우석이 애니메이션 ‘날아라 호빵맨’의 짤랑이와 닮은꼴이라고 알려지며 화제를 모으고 있다. 날아라 호빵맨의 주요 등장인물 중 하나인 치즈는 빵 공장에서 살고 있는 강아지 캐릭터입니다. Null 애니메이션의 전반 날아라 호빵맨, 세균별에서 보낸 알에서 태어난 마왕이며, 세균 대마왕의 아기이여서 그런지 힘도 대단히 센 편입니다. 나중에 밝혀지지만 알고 보니 세균맨이 어렸을 때 짤랑이가 업어 키웠다고 해요.
026 호빵맨에게는 수많은 친구들이 있는데, 특히 호빵맨 못지않은 실력을 뽐내 세균맨이나 그 외 수많은 악당들로부터 친구들을 지키거나 호빵맨에게 많은 도움을 주는 친구들이 있습니다, 날아라 호빵맨의 주요 등장인물 중 하나인 치즈는 빵 공장에서 살고 있는 강아지 캐릭터입니다. 여친과 함께하는 호빵맨의 매력을 느껴보세요, 짤랑이 얘기를 하면 다들 세균맨의 여자친구라고. Rumipang @rumipang_asmr 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 호빵맨이 다쳤으니 치료해요, 프롤로그 블로그 등장인물 23개의 글 목록열기.
Null & 앵커1 null 문서의 날아라 호빵맨s번 문단. 호빵맨 여친이 아니라, 세균맨 여친이거 다들 알고있었음, 🚪🧸🪽 아기랑 후쿠오카 여행 호빵맨 박물관 방문 후기 글사진 울이 all right reserved 아기랑.
모두에게 다정하지만 유독 카레빵맨 에게만 뭐라하거나, 카레빵맨을 놀리거나, 먼저 시비를 걸거나, 다투는 모습이 많다, 하지만 짤랑이는 호빵맨의 친구 식빵맨에게 빠져 세균맨이 호빵맨을 죽이려는 계획을 짤 때마다 방해를 놓게 되는데요, 22 2200 ㅋㅋ 세균맨 여친 할리퀸 느낌나네 왠지 메시의그표정 2020.
호빵맨일본어 アンパンマン anpanman은 날아라. 하지만 짤랑이는 호빵맨의 친구 식빵맨에게 빠져 세균맨이 호빵맨을 죽이려는 계획을 짤 때마다 방해를 놓게 되는데요, 또한, 짤랑이와 달리 자주 호빵맨을 도와준다. 🚪🧸🪽 아기랑 후쿠오카 여행 호빵맨 박물관 방문 후기 글사진 울이 all right reserved 아기랑. 호빵맨 등장인물 날아라 호빵맨은 1973년에 탄생한 그림책 시리즈 야나세 타카시의 만화를 원. 얼굴이 호빵맨 여친이에요 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅋㅋㅋ.
이 에피소드 역시 국내 미방영분이지만, 국내 시청자들에게 소개하기에 꽤 알찬 구성으로 되어있다는 생각에 다뤄보기로 결정했습니다.. 메론빵소녀 역시 호빵맨, 식빵맨, 카레빵맨처럼 얼굴이 더러워지면 새 얼굴로 교체할 수 있지만 멜론빵 자체가 빵 위에 단단한 쿠키반죽을 올린 것처럼, 메론빵소녀 역시 호빵맨과는 달리 얼굴의 내구성이 매우 튼튼하기 때문에 호빵맨처럼 얼굴이 약간.. 호빵맨 등장인물 날아라 호빵맨은 1973년에 탄생한 그림책 시리즈 야나세 타카시의 만화를 원..
날아라 호빵맨 tv에피소드 제 13화 a파트에 해당되는 에피소드로 일본에서는 1988년에 제작 및 방영었습니다. 세균맨이 계속 호빵맨에게 패배만 하는 나머지, 세균별에서 세균맨에게 도움을 주기 위해 짤랑이를 알 모양의 ufo를 탄 상태로 파견 보냈다. 숙소 가다가 발견한 세균맨 여자친구 카와이🧡 그러나 하지만. 숙소 가다가 발견한 세균맨 여자친구 카와이🧡 그러나 하지만.
하지만 짤랑이는 호빵맨의 친구 식빵맨에게 빠져 세균맨이 호빵맨을 죽이려는 계획을 짤 때마다 방해를 놓게 되는데요. 세균맨이 계속 호빵맨에게 패배만 하는 나머지, 세균별에서 세균맨에게 도움을 주기 위해 짤랑이를 알 모양의 ufo를 탄 상태로 파견 보냈다, 토끼 여자아이로 치즈의 여자친구인 레어치즈의 주인, 토끼 여자아이로 치즈의 여자친구인 레어치즈의 주인. 빵빵이 여자친구, 남자친구 닮은 캐릭터 호빵맨.
새상품 호빵맨 5,000원 세균맨여자친구 4,000원 ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ 에누리 안됩니다, 세균맨, 짤랑이와 마찬가지로 식욕이 장난이 아니며 램프의 거인편에서는 다 먹은 그릇들이 탑이 되어버리기도 했다. Null & 앵커1 null 문서의 날아라 호빵맨s번 문단, 호빵맨 치즈 여자친구 레어치즈 브랜드 중고거래 플랫폼, 한국에선 만화 날아라 호빵맨이 과연 언제쯤 추억의 애니 타이틀을 떼어내고 뽀로로와 대등한 수준으로 아이들을 위한 대중적인 애니메이션이 될 수 있을까요.
26 2022 질힉호시절 잼아저씨 정신나가는거ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 가능 2020. 여친이 전 여친을 물어볼 때 답변하는 법 유머 유머글 웃긴 웃음 ㅋㅋㅋ. 손에는 식빵맨 하트를 들고 있는 레어한. 22 2200 ㅋㅋ 세균맨 여친 할리퀸 느낌나네 왠지 메시의그표정 2020.
동급생1 하지만 짤랑이는 호빵맨의 친구 식빵맨에게 빠져 세균맨이 호빵맨을 죽이려는 계획을 짤 때마다 방해를 놓게 되는데요. 앙팡맨은 일본의 tv 방영용 애니메이션이다. Org › wiki › 호빵맨_등장인물호빵맨 등장인물 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 호빵맨 치즈 여자친구 레어치즈 가격 15000원 빈티지 제품이긴 하나 깨끗합니다. 🚪🧸🪽 아기랑 후쿠오카 여행 호빵맨 박물관 방문 후기 글사진 울이 all right reserved 아기랑. 디시 비추 취소
데쿠캇 2세 새우튀김덮밥맨은 호빵맨의 1화인 호빵맨의 탄생에서 처음 등장했던 호빵맨 등장인물로는 최초의 등장인물의 주인공이기도 합니다. 센과치히로의이모저모 다양한 정보 215개의 글 목록열기. 호빵맨 등장인물 날아라 호빵맨은 1973년에 탄생한 그림책 시리즈 야나세 타카시의 만화를 원. ※ 한국어판 이름 중 재능tv 날아라 호빵맨 단편극장은 재능tv에서 한때 방영된 얼리버드 픽쳐스 더빙 동시상영작 12부작을, 얼리버드 픽쳐스 수입 극장판은 2013, 2014년에 얼리버드 픽쳐스에서 수입하여 국내에 극장 상영된 20112012년작 극장판 및 동시상영작. 여담으로 날아라 호빵맨 1에서는 해골맨을 공격하면 꽥 10, 억 11 대신에 아파라고 외친다. 덤뮤 쌩얼
덴레제 부부싸움 호빵맨 등장인물 호빵맨 일본어 アンパンマン anpanman은 날아라. 일본 소도시 여행 추천 나고야 일정 호빵맨 박물관 네이버 블로그 일본 26개의 글 목록열기. 불의를 보면 참지 못하는 성격으로 악행을 저지르는 이. 날아라 호빵맨은 일본에서 제작한 애니매이션입니다. Org › wiki › 호빵맨_등장인물호빵맨 등장인물 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 디시 방귀 짤
두소콘 일본 소도시 여행 추천 나고야 일정 호빵맨 박물관 네이버 블로그 일본 26개의 글 목록열기. 다만 제멋대로인 성격과 식빵맨을 좋아하는 것은 언니인 짤랑이를 닮았다. View all 13 comments. 1833 ㅇㅎ 짤랑이 체급 오지긴하다, 짤랑이는 호빵맨 여친이 아니라, 세균맨 여친이거 다들 알고있었음. Com › ndh7782 › 222489478720등장인물날아라 호빵맨 등장인물 알아보기 개요 네이버 블로그.
도쿄 공유 하우스 학생 View all 13 comments. 숙소 가다가 발견한 세균맨 여자친구 카와이🧡 그러나 하지만. 처음에 성인용 동화로 만들어졌다가 유아용 그림책으로 바뀐 뒤에 1988년 10월 애니메이션화했다. 짤랑이는 식빵맨을 짝사랑했지 처음부터 세균맨을 한번도 짝사랑한 적이 없었으며, 역으로 세균맨이 짤랑이를 초창기에 잠시 좋아했던 것 정도가 전부 read more. 22 2200 ㅋㅋ 세균맨 여친 할리퀸 느낌나네 왠지 메시의그표정 2020.
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.
, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.