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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 4, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 4, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 4, 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 4, 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.

Sotwe란 무엇이고 어떻게 작동하나요. 1 the owner of the goat subdued the perpetrator and asked village elders to consider the matter. 부산 01년생 건들면 물어요 이 계정외 도용 니다. 부산 01년생 건들면 물어요 이 계정외 도용 니다.

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Obscene family naughty family.. 윗 단추를 두 개만 잠그고, 묶어서 동그란 매듭 구멍을 만들어 반대편 옷을 넣어준 후 좌우로 모양을 잡으면.. Varang fyp 성수 디올 럭셔리한 감성과 세련된 장식으로 완성된 연말 포토존 6..
지인박제계 @iseongw21926870 twitter profile sotwe 50002만원이면 sns서 지인 얼굴 합성된 나체 사진 구해, 20살 교사가 될 남자사회적으로 인정받는 겉모습과 암캐성향짙은 속마음의 괴리가 클 수록 흥분합니다, 두사람이 운영하는 계정털실쥐,비쥐문스독계정文, read more, 얼굴 합성 기술이 발달하면서, 단순한 장난처럼 시작한 행동이 형사처벌로 이어지는 일이 늘고 있고, 특히 지인 사진을 성적으로 합성하거나 그런 콘텐츠 제작을 요청 read more, 요고닷컴 야동사이트 링크주소 토렌트사이트 출장안마 토토사이트 카지노 웹툰사이트 드라마다시보기 영화다시보기 스포츠토토 검증사이트 야설. 19 속맘계 @1nain4_ 비계 @susu_1004__ 입장권 일상계와 섹계 그중간 문의는 dm 세요. 1 the owner of the goat subdued the perpetrator and asked village elders to consider the matter. 임태환 조지아 동남부 연합한인회장은 9월 이민세관단속국에 구금됐던 한국인 근로자 3명이 지난달 b1 비자로 재입국한 것을 직접 목격했다며 이들은. 예쁘장한 외모로 인기를 끌다가 어느새 하드, 초반 좋아하고 디엠 언제나 환영이에요, 초반 좋아하고 디엠 언제나 환영이에요.

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Director sin jeonggyoon. In 2006, a south sudanese man named charles tombe was forced to marry a goat with which he was caught engaging in sexual activity, in the hai malakal suburb of juba, at the time part of sudan. 윗 단추를 두 개만 잠그고, 묶어서 동그란 매듭 구멍을 만들어 반대편 옷을 넣어준 후 좌우로 모양을 잡으면.
20살 교사가 될 남자사회적으로 인정받는 겉모습과 암캐성향짙은 속마음의 괴리가 클 수록 흥분합니다, 두사람이 운영하는 계정털실쥐,비쥐문스독계정文, read more. 1 the owner of the goat subdued the perpetrator and asked village elders to consider the matter. 지인박제계 @iseongw21926870 twitter profile sotwe 50002만원이면 sns서 지인 얼굴 합성된 나체 사진 구해.
Sotwe란 무엇이고 어떻게 작동하나요. 우울계_x친소 우울계x친소 우울계트친소. Starring han sooa, an sojin, han sungsik and others.
우울계_x친소 우울계x친소 우울계트친소. Tsireya and loak always stuck together. 수사네 룬뎅의 당신의 소중한 사람 노르웨이 민요를 노르웨이 출신 바이올리니스트 수사네 룬뎅이 편곡한 것이다.
오늘은 반장님이 나에게 오시더니 가사는 없느냐고 물으신다. 이 곡은 원래 가사가 없이 연주만 있는. 임태환 조지아 동남부 연합한인회장은 9월 이민세관단속국에 구금됐던 한국인 근로자 3명이 지난달 b1 비자로 재입국한 것을 직접 목격했다며 이들은.
Yeonwoo is a 24yearold youth working at the post office in a small town, 로맨스 판타지 액션 일상 스릴러 개그 무협사극 드라마 감성 스포츠 드라마&영화 원작웹툰 먼치킨 학원로맨스 로판 게임판타지 무심남 스핀오프 흑백 최강자전 집착남 2017 최강자전 법정드라마 게임 치명적인 중세판타지액션 공감성수치 액션판타지 서스펜스 공식미남 두뇌. Obscene family naughty family. 예쁘장한 외모로 인기를 끌다가 어느새 하드. 이들은 리그베다 위키 게시판에 비회원으로 처음 등장했는데 나무위키 개설자들은 특정 단체나 집단의 read more. Crux 데이터 세트 내 사이트 인기의 상대적 측정값으로, 원점에서 탐색한 총 횟수로 측정합니다.

부산 01년생 건들면 물어요 이 계정외 도용 니다. Varang fyp 성수 디올 럭셔리한 감성과 세련된 장식으로 완성된 연말 포토존 6, 19 속맘계 @1nain4_ 비계 @susu_1004__ 입장권 일상계와 섹계 그중간 문의는 dm 세요. 부산 01년생 건들면 물어요 이 계정외 도용 니다.

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Tsireya and loak always stuck together, 수사네 룬뎅의 당신의 소중한 사람 노르웨이 민요를 노르웨이 출신 바이올리니스트 수사네 룬뎅이 편곡한 것이다, 나무위키의 설립자는 namu, pppp, kasio이다.

한 @doityou1 twitter profile, 이 곡은 원래 가사가 없이 연주만 있는, Yeonwoo is a 24yearold youth working at the post office in a small town. 이들은 리그베다 위키 게시판에 비회원으로 처음 등장했는데 나무위키 개설자들은 특정 단체나 집단의 read more, One elder noted that he and the other elders found the perpetrator, tied up by the owner, at the door.

Sotwe 질 _xhamster,com_, 일진년, 교복, 비키니 사진 보내봐ㅋㅋ 능욕, Sotwe 질 _xhamster,com_, 일진년, 교복, 비키니 사진 보내봐ㅋㅋ 능욕, Crux 데이터 세트 내 사이트 인기의 상대적 측정값으로, 원점에서 탐색한 총 횟수로 측정합니다.

백만송희 미드 Director sin jeonggyoon. 19 속맘계 @1nain4_ 비계 @susu_1004__ 입장권 일상계와 섹계 그중간 문의는 dm 세요. 윗 단추를 두 개만 잠그고, 묶어서 동그란 매듭 구멍을 만들어 반대편 옷을 넣어준 후 좌우로 모양을 잡으면. Varang fyp 성수 디올 럭셔리한 감성과 세련된 장식으로 완성된 연말 포토존 6. Crux 데이터 세트 내 사이트 인기의 상대적 측정값으로, 원점에서 탐색한 총 횟수로 측정합니다. 배윤진 풀팩

방귀녀 지연 수한 @1han_4 twitter profile. 임태환 조지아 동남부 연합한인회장은 9월 이민세관단속국에 구금됐던 한국인 근로자 3명이 지난달 b1 비자로 재입국한 것을 직접 목격했다며 이들은. 윗 단추를 두 개만 잠그고, 묶어서 동그란 매듭 구멍을 만들어 반대편 옷을 넣어준 후 좌우로 모양을 잡으면. 한 @doityou1 twitter profile. 지인박제계 @iseongw21926870 twitter profile sotwe 50002만원이면 sns서 지인 얼굴 합성된 나체 사진 구해. 박솔이 근황

밤포털 링크 예전부터 좋아한 곡이라 악보를 기타반에 가져갔더니 다들 좋아하는 것 같다. 얼굴 합성 기술이 발달하면서, 단순한 장난처럼 시작한 행동이 형사처벌로 이어지는 일이 늘고 있고, 특히 지인 사진을 성적으로 합성하거나 그런 콘텐츠 제작을 요청 read more. 이 곡은 원래 가사가 없이 연주만 있는. Director sin jeonggyoon. 펌핑 한 번으로도 풍성한 거품이 나고, 모발 결이. 반 희

바지에 지린 Varang fyp 성수 디올 럭셔리한 감성과 세련된 장식으로 완성된 연말 포토존 6. Crux 데이터 세트 내 사이트 인기의 상대적 측정값으로, 원점에서 탐색한 총 횟수로 측정합니다. 1 the owner of the goat subdued the perpetrator and asked village elders to consider the matter. 초반 좋아하고 디엠 언제나 환영이에요. One elder noted that he and the other elders found the perpetrator, tied up by the owner, at the door.

방 가경 사진 In 2006, a south sudanese man named charles tombe was forced to marry a goat with which he was caught engaging in sexual activity, in the hai malakal suburb of juba, at the time part of sudan. 나무위키의 설립자는 namu, pppp, kasio이다. 예전부터 좋아한 곡이라 악보를 기타반에 가져갔더니 다들 좋아하는 것 같다. 초반 좋아하고 디엠 언제나 환영이에요. 초반 좋아하고 디엠 언제나 환영이에요.

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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

Sotwe دختر sotwe gadis 고하중 폭76mm., 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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