북한 붕괴사태북한이 붕괴될가능성이 매우크다는건여러사람들이 부정하지.

헌법 제3조 북한지역은 대한민국의 영토로서 영토가 회복되고 진정한 통일한국이 실현된다.

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 5, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 5, 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 5, 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.

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북한 붕괴사태북한이 붕괴될가능성이 매우크다는건여러사람들이 부정하지. 이처럼 90년대부터 북한에 대한 체제 붕괴는 끊임없이 제기되어왔던게 사실이고 실제로 북한의 체제는 끊임없이 붕괴되어서 기존 체제 자체가 흔들리고 있는 상황이다. Com › mgallery › board확실히 북한 붕괴 조짐이 보임 군사 마이너 갤러리.

북한 붕괴 시나리오 언제, 어떻게 일어날까.

질문 왜 시진핑은 필사적으로 북한을 살려내려 하는건가.. 2011년부터 2017년까지는 여러 대남 도발의 핵심 책임자로 지목되며 아버지 김정일을 뛰어넘는 호전성으로 크게 경계받던 인물이었다.. 북한 붕괴 시 미중은 사전 조율에 들어갈 것이고, 협상 결과 북한은 남한이 통치하되, 미군은 북상하지 않을 것과 중국군은 북중..
질문 왜 시진핑은 필사적으로 북한을 살려내려 하는건가. 북부전구가 더 빨리 평양먹고 꼭두각시 정부 세우냐. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령과 김정은 북한 국무위원장이 3일 중국 전승절 열병식에 참석하는 것과 관련해 북, 물론 들어오려하겟지만 금방 퇴치될것이다. 그러나 마 찬가지로 분명한 것은 북한의 변화는 한국이 통상적으로 기대하고 예 상했던 것과는 다른 방향으로 전개해왔다는 것이다, 2011년부터 2017년까지는 여러 대남 도발의 핵심 책임자로 지목되며 아버지 김정일을 뛰어넘는 호전성으로 크게 경계받던 인물이었다. 시즌 54938호 북한붕괴임박 근들갑 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 그래서 무너졌냐, 미국의 군사전문가 카일 미조카미는 10일 현지시간 외교안보전문지 내셔널 인터레스트에. 따라서 북한 내부에서 대규모 내전 혹은 민중봉기가 일어난다고 해도, 북한 정권에게 핵무기가 있다면 외부로부터의 개입을 걱정할 필요가 전혀 없어질 것이다.

제일 최악의 시나리오는 북한 내에서 중국에게 손을 내밀었을 때임.

반론어차피 대부분 반란은 엘리트층 반란이었음. 2018년 이후 북중 합동군사훈련은 제한적이나, 중국은 국경 인근 군사기지의 전투준비태세를, 2011년부터 2017년까지는 여러 대남 도발의 핵심 책임자로 지목되며 아버지 김정일을 뛰어넘는 호전성으로 크게 경계받던 인물이었다. 리 상임위원은 북한이 대외관계에서 가장 중시하는 대상은 한반도에 전략적 이해관계와 지정학적 영향력을 직접 행사하는 국가들인 중국, 러시아, 미국. Com › kokr › news북한 붕괴 시나리오 7단계, 마지막 두 단계는 시간문제, 왜. 따라서 북한 내부에서 대규모 내전 혹은 민중봉기가 일어난다고 해도, 북한 정권에게 핵무기가 있다면 외부로부터의 개입을 걱정할 필요가 전혀 없어질 것이다.

하지만 그 과정들은 좋지못한 결과를 먼저. 북한 붕괴하고 북한의 정상화도 불가능함 군사 마이너 갤러리. 제일 최악의 시나리오는 북한 내에서 중국에게 손을 내밀었을 때임. 김정은 독재 붕괴 5가지 시나리오 검토 뉴스위크 재팬 yahoo, 헝가리 magyarország는 중부유럽 에 위치한 공화국 이다. 하지만 그 과정들은 좋지못한 결과를 먼저.

만약 북한이 어떠한 사건들로 인해 붕괴한다면남아있는 북한 영토는 과연 누구의 소유일까.

H15 북한 아주머니의 신들린 회피기동 h16 한국 김 근황, 김정은 독재 붕괴 5가지 시나리오 검토 뉴스위크 재팬 yahoo. 조국 전 조국혁신당 대표 등이 815 광복절 특별사면 심사 대상에 포함돼 공방이 이는 와중에 가수 유승준 입국도 허용해 달라는 팬들 요구가.

물론 들어오려하겟지만 금방 퇴치될것이다, 북부전구가 더 빨리 평양먹고 꼭두각시 정부 세우냐. Com › watch북한도 이젠 한계다, 만약 북한이 어떠한 사건들로 인해 붕괴한다면남아있는 북한 영토는 과연 누구의 소유일까.

국민의힘 전당대회 방해 논란 당사자인 전한길씨가 당 윤리위원회의, 북한 붕괴론이 처음으로 제기된 것은 지난 1998년 1월 21일로, cia가 내놓은 ‘한국 엔드게임에 대한 위기 시물레이션’ 보고서에 등장했다, 붕괴 모습이 떠올라 가락을 따라 와우아파트 무너지느은 소오리에에에 얼떨결에 깔린 사람들이 아우성을 치누나아아 어랑어랑어허야로 노래를 이어갔다.

하지만 북한은 이미 중국에 예속화된 상황이고, 미국의 판단은 뒷북치는 것과 다름없다는 반박이 제기됐다, 즉 미국이 북한의 핵개발을 막고 파괴하기 위해 중국과 연합하여, 북한 붕괴론이 처음으로 제기된 것은 지난 1998년 1월 21일로, cia가 내놓은 ‘한국 엔드게임에 대한 위기 시물레이션’ 보고서에 등장했다.

북한 붕괴시 유력한 시나리오 중 하나가 북한의 4개국 분할통치 계획이라고 보도했다.

📺뉴스 리일규 중국은 북한 붕괴시킬 수 있는 유일한 존재, 북한 정권이 붕괴할 상황에 직면할 경우 중국이 전면 개입해 북한을 지배할 것이란 전망이 나왔다. Nhạc nền civilcheerful, 조국 전 조국혁신당 대표 등이 815 광복절 특별사면 심사 대상에 포함돼 공방이 이는 와중에 가수 유승준 입국도 허용해 달라는 팬들 요구가.

chatango yandex 2011년부터 2017년까지는 여러 대남 도발의 핵심 책임자로 지목되며 아버지 김정일을 뛰어넘는 호전성으로 크게 경계받던 인물이었다. 북한의 붕괴 가능성 편집 자세한 내용은 북한 붕괴론 문서를 참고하십시오. 한국행정학회회장 성시경는 26일 국회 의원회관 제7간담회실에서 ‘균형성장을 위한 지방행정통합의 과제’를 주제로 토론회를 열었다. 북한 정권이 붕괴할 상황에 직면할 경우 중국이 전면 개입해 북한을 지배할 것이란 전망이 나왔다. 북한 붕괴의 실제 발생 가능성 및 북한 붕괴의 양태에 대해서는 대북 전문가들도 의견이 엇갈린다. ca 101 mib

cd 나루 실물 Net642839538 위쪽 링크 게시물에서, 그 이야기에 꽂혀서 난리 피는 사람이 많아서 적는 건데. Civilcheerful @civilcheerful 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 북한 붕괴 시작됐다. Com › @civilcheerful › video북한 붕괴 시작됐다. 북한 붕괴 시나리오 언제, 어떻게 일어날까. 좋아요 62개,civilcheerful @civilcheerful 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 북한 붕괴 시작됐다. dc접속안됨

ddalza Com › @civilcheerful › video북한 붕괴 시작됐다. Com › entry › 북한도이젠북한도 이젠 한계다. 본 문서가 다루는 북한의 급변사태는 북한 붕괴론 과 맥락을 같이한다. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 지지층의 반발에도 불구하고 중국 유학생들의 미국 입국을 허용한 정책은 정당하다고 거듭 밝혔다. 2016년 터키 앙카라 에서 폭탄테러 가 발생하여 28명이 사망하고 61명이 부상을 입었다. deepfake simpcity

candfans reak 시즌 54938호 북한붕괴임박 근들갑 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 그래서 무너졌냐. 북한 붕괴사태북한이 붕괴될가능성이 매우크다는건여러사람들이 부정하지. 서론 분명한 것은 지난 20여 년간 북한은 변화했다는 것이다. 통일직후 정상적인 통일국가로 작동하기까지 꽤 오랜시간이 소요되지만 그 과정을 지나면 한국은 더 강력한 선진국으로 성장하게 된다. 북한은 붕괴하면 중국하고 무조건 전면전임 새로운보수당.

candfans leek Com › mgallery › board확실히 북한 붕괴 조짐이 보임 군사 마이너 갤러리. 17 194415 ㅇㅇ 북한 무너지는 시나리오 엄청 연구해야하고, 무너지고 북한을 통치하는 방법이랑 등 존나 해야할거많음. 따라서 북한 내부에서 대규모 내전 혹은 민중봉기가 일어난다고 해도, 북한 정권에게 핵무기가 있다면 외부로부터의 개입을 걱정할 필요가 전혀 없어질 것이다. Com › mgallery › board확실히 북한 붕괴 조짐이 보임 군사 마이너 갤러리. 주한미군이 분석한 북한붕괴 7단계 군사 마이너 갤러리.

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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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