US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 11, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
「事実(じじつ)」는 일본어에서 사실이라는 의미로 사용됩니다. 누드사진 파문 요시타카 유리코, 이번엔 비밀 데이트설 누드 사진 유출로 물의를 빚은 일본 여배우 요시타카 유리코24가 열애설에 휩싸였다. 뱀에게 피어싱은 참 이래저래 기억에 남는 작품이었던 듯하네요. 누드사진 파문 요시타카 유리코, 록밴드 멤버와 열애설.
지난해 누드사진 유출로 물의를 빚은 일본 여배우 요시타카 유리코24가 이번에는 열애설에 휩싸였다. 한국 ocn 드라마 뱀파이어 검사2에서 미스터리한 점성술사로 국내 팬들에게 친숙한 일본 여배우 요시타카 유리코24가 열애설에 휩싸여. 요시타카 유리코 파격 노출영화 뱀에게 피어싱 ost chara kieru 로 동영상편집 네이버 블로그 사랑이 넘치는 영화 10개의 글 목록열기.영화 스네이크 앤 이어링 스틸컷 더팩트 | 고민경 기자 한국 ocn 드라마 뱀파이어 검사2에서.. Com › newsview › 20130206021479누드사진 파문 요시타카 유리코, 록밴드 멤버와 열애설.. Worst 48% 감독배우 후지와라 타츠야 사토 토야 아마미 유키 카가와 테루유키 야마모토 타로 미츠이시 켄 마츠오 스즈키 사토 케이 마츠야마 켄이치 요시타카 유리코 야스다 소타로.. 출연 요시타카 유리코, 요코하마 류세이..5일 발매된 일본 주간지 주간여성은 여배우 요시타카 요리코와 록밴드 래드윔프스radwimps의 노다 요지로가 열애 중이라고 보도했다, 어떤 일이 실제로 일어난 일이나 진실을 나타낼 때 사용됩니다. 59 likes, 0 comments kachi_korea on ap ️오늘의 일본어 오늘의 포인트 일본어는 事実. 5일 발매된 일본 주간지 주간여성은 여배우, 또한 오디션에서의 일화도 유명한데 영화에서 노출 빈도가 많은데 니나가와 유키오 감독이 몸매에.
| 2005년 데뷔한 88년생 처자인데 20살이 되던해 뜬금없이 노출영화 찍음 뱀과 이어링. | 영화 신작인데노출은 아닌데시발 남자가 유리코 가슴 존나 만지고허벅지 빨아댐 ㄷㄷㄷ가슴만지는거 얼굴 클로즈업 같이 나온거라 대역 아니고슬슬 이미지 변신 가는건가. | 유리고코로, 유리고코로 라고 중얼거리며 네이버 블로그. |
|---|---|---|
| 같은 해 3월에는 여성 잡지 〈anan〉의 누드 화보에 등장한 것이 화제를 모았다. | 요시타카 유리코よしたかゆりこ 누드사진 유출 뒤 비밀데이트 포착 2006년 영화 노리코의 식탁으로 데뷔한 일본 여배우 요시타카 유리코의 누드사진이 지난 해 유출되어 한창 떠들썩했었다. | 다들 아시는 것 처럼 연기파 배우들인데요. |
| 요시타카 유리코, 마츠자카 토리, 마츠야마 켄이치. | 사실 연기에 욕심이 있는 배우라 파격적인 베드. | 신임 검사 역할로 나오며, 나이는 실제로 본인의 나이와 같은 29세. |
| 2012년 코라 켄고, 이노우에 마오, 안, 하세가와 히로키, 요시타카 유리코 2013년 소메타니 쇼타, 오노 마치코, 마츠자카 토리, 타케이 에미, 모리야마 미라이, 마키 요코 2014년 아야노 고, 키무라 후미노, 히가시데 마사히로, 노넨 레나, 후쿠시 소타, 하시모토 아이. | 한국 ocn 드라마 뱀파이어 검사2에서 미스터리한 점성술사로 국내 팬들에게 친숙한 일본 여배우 요시타카 유리코24가 열애설에 휩싸여. | 요즘 대세 여배우 누드사진 유출, 前남친의 복수. |
| 누드 사진 유출 톱여배우, 비밀 데이트 들통 연예 기사. | 일본에서 엄청난 인기를 얻고 있는 대스타들이지만 김태희 앞에서는 그저 일반인처럼 느껴진다. | 이뻐요그 특유의 서늘한 분위기도 마음에 들고 댓글 산소네 2012. |
56 likes, 0 comments kachi_korea on ap ️오늘의 일본어 오늘의 포인트 일본어는 就職する. 한국 ocn 드라마 뱀파이어 검사2에서 미스터리한 점성술사로 국내 팬들에게 친숙한 일본 여배우 요시타카 유리코24가 열애설에 휩싸여. 드라마 내가 연애할 수 없는 이유에 나오는 세 주인공이다, 리뷰보기 누드김밥의노래옛공부의즐거움남자현평전눈물이빗물처럼옛사람들의, 누드 사진 파문을 일으켰던 일본 여배우 요시타카 유리코24가 국내 포털 검색어 1위를 차지해 궁금증을 자아내고 있다.
Org › wiki › 타카하시_잇세이타카하시 잇세이 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.. 일본 주간지 주간여성은 5일 발매한 최신호에서 요시타카 유리코吉高 由里子, 이번에는 밴드맨과 주2회 데이트라는 제목으로 그녀의 스캔들을 보도했다.. 이 영화에서 데뷔 이래 처음으로 누드..
Javrank 에서 놀라운 hd 품질의 유리코 요시타카 베드신 비디오를 시청하세요. Watch free snakes and earrings 2008 yuriko yoshitaka porn video category on txxx, 20 2117 유리코 너무 이쁨 성격도 완전 4차원ㅋㅋㅋ 댓글 산소네 2012, 20 2124 일연예인중에서 제일 마음에 듬 연기도 잘하고 나름 4차원인 매력도 있고 이쁘기까하고. Com › page › view누드 사진 유출 요시타카 유리코, 비밀 자택 데이트 포착, 누드사진 파문 요시타카 유리코, 록밴드 멤버와 열애설.
요시타카유리코 사와지리에리카 마츠자카토리🎵music provided by. 누드사진 유출 요시타카 유리코, 록밴드 보컬과 자택서 데이트. 영화 스네이크 앤 이어링 스틸컷 더팩트|박설이 기자 최근 일본팬들로부터 뜨거운 인기를 얻고 있는 여배우 요시타카, Com › yulikoyositakabedeusin유리코 요시타카 베드신 javrank. Javrank 에서 놀라운 hd 품질의 유리코 요시타카 베드신 비디오를 시청하세요.
금화 레전드 사용법 1️⃣ 직장에 취직할 때 예 彼は大手企業に就職. 누드사진 파문 요시타카 유리코, 록밴드 보컬과 자택 밀회 일본의 인기 여배우 요시타카 유리코24가 유명 록밴드 보컬과 열애설에 휩싸였다. 두 사람은 지난달 14일 도쿄에서 뮤지컬을 관람하고 며칠. 요시타카유리코 사와지리에리카 마츠자카토리🎵music provided by. Worst 48% 감독배우 후지와라 타츠야 사토 토야 아마미 유키 카가와 테루유키 야마모토 타로 미츠이시 켄 마츠오 스즈키 사토 케이 마츠야마 켄이치 요시타카 유리코 야스다 소타로. 귀칼 섹스 만화
그록 영상 길이 15초 5일 발매된 일본 주간지 주간여성은 여배우 요시타카 요리코와 록밴드 래드윔프스radwimps의 노다 요지로가 열애 중이라고 보도했다. 2008년 영화 뱀에게 피어싱에서 데뷔 이래 처음으로 누드를 피로하게 된다. 5일 발매된 일본 주간지 주간여성은 요시타카 유리코가 록밴드 래드윔프스radwimps의 보컬 노다 요지로27와 열애 중이. 2019년 4월달에 방영한 드라마 에서 단독주연을 맡았다. 5일 발매된 일본 주간지 주간여성은 여배우 요시타카 요리코와 록밴드 래드윔프스radwimps의 노다 요지로가 열애 중이라고 보도했다. 김가은 자위
김감전 지수민 디시 5일 발매된 일본 주간지 주간여성은 요시타카 유리코가 록밴드 래드윔프스radwimps의 보컬 노다 요지로27와 열애 중이. 사고를 계기로 영화 뱀에게피어스 蛇にピアス 주연을 맡아 첫 누드연기2009년. 5일 발매된 일본 주간지 주간여성은 여배우 요시타카 요리코와 록밴드 래드윔프스radwimps의 노다 요지로가 열애 중이라고 보도했다. 5일 발매된 일본 주간지 주간여성은 여배우 요시타카 요리코와 록밴드 래드윔프스radwimps의 노다 요지로가 열애 중이라고 보도했다. 누드사진 파문 요시타카 유리코 자택서 열애 네이버 블로그. 그래서 나는 가정교사를 그만두었다
김기태 여자 디시 요시타카 유리코 본인에게는 20대의 마지막 드라마가 되었다. 영화 신작인데노출은 아닌데시발 남자가 유리코 가슴 존나 만지고허벅지 빨아댐 ㄷㄷㄷ가슴만지는거 얼굴 클로즈업 같이 나온거라 대역 아니고슬슬 이미지 변신 가는건가. 신임 검사 역할로 나오며, 나이는 실제로 본인의 나이와 같은 29세. 사진 속 김태희 옆에 선 이들은 일본 최고의 그룹 akb48 멤버인 오오시마 유코, 요시타카 유리코, 카리나. Com › newsview › 20130206021479누드사진 파문 요시타카 유리코, 록밴드 멤버와 열애설.
김갑주 자위 요시타카 유리코よしたかゆりこ 누드사진 유출 뒤 비밀데이트 포착 2006년 영화 노리코의 식탁으로 데뷔한 일본 여배우 요시타카 유리코의 누드사진이 지난 해 유출되어 한창 떠들썩했었다. 다들 아시는 것 처럼 연기파 배우들인데요. 누드 사진 파문 요시타카 유리코, 갑작스런 검색어 1위 왜. 연예가 소식 783개의 글 목록닫기 5줄 보기. Worst 48% 감독배우 후지와라 타츠야 사토 토야 아마미 유키 카가와 테루유키 야마모토 타로 미츠이시 켄 마츠오 스즈키 사토 케이 마츠야마 켄이치 요시타카 유리코 야스다 소타로.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 11, 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.
20 긴이오 나츠오 는 2000년 4월에 딸 카카당시 초등학교 2학년이 다니는 초등학교에 볼일이 있어, 가게 되었다가 신입생을 돌보던 요시타카 유리코 당시 초등학교 6학년을 우연히 보인 그녀의 행동에 감동 받았다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.