반도체 소‧부‧장 기업과 연구기관의 투자를 포함하면 총 1000조 원에 육박하는 투자가 용인에서 진행 중이다.

Dispatch송효진기자 mbc에브리원 바다경찰 제작발표회가 13일 오후 서울 마포구 상암동 스탠포드호텔에서 열렸다.

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 10, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 10, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 10, 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 10, 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.

상큼주의보☆ 📺 mbc 에브리원 월요일 저녁 8시30분 바다경찰 조재윤 둘째형님 존재갑배우 분위기메이커. 상큼주의보☆ 📺 mbc 에브리원 월요일 저녁 8시30분 바다경찰 조재윤 둘째형님 존재갑배우 분위기메이커. Dispatch송효진기자 mbc에브리원 바다경찰 제작발표회가 13일 오후 서울 마포구 상암동 스탠포드호텔에서 열렸다. Mbc에브리원 ‘바다경찰’ 제작발표회가 13일 오후 서울 상암동 스탠포드호텔 그랜드 볼룸에서 배우 김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라가 참석한 가운데 개최됐다.

신복룡 전 건국대 석좌교수 한국정치사상사를 공부한 정치학자.

안보위해행위, 사이버 경찰청, 15660112. Mbc에브리원 ‘바다경찰’ 제작발표회가 13일 오후 서울 상암동 스탠포드호텔 그랜드 볼룸에서 배우 김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라가 참석한 가운데 개최됐다. 이렇게 일이 벌어질시, 범인을 좌표찍어놓는게 중요한거다. 오케스트로, 금융영업본부장에 남민웅 전 티맥스클라우드, 또한 지자체의 교육경찰소방을 담당하는. 또한 지자체의 교육경찰소방을 담당하는. 대학교졸업4년제 서울문화예술대학교 배역.

바다경찰ㅣ유라 유라 본명김아영, 27세 해양경찰 순경 홍일점 막내.

매일경제 스타투데이 강영국 기자 13일 오후 상암동 스탠포드 호텔에서 열린 mbc 에브리원 바다경찰 제작발표회에 출연진 유라가 참석하고 있다. 운영자들은 방목형 운영을 하며, 자살을 생각하는 분들에게는 다양한 자살예방 기관의 전화번호 ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋ 83. 조유라 스탈렛 스튜디오 온라인 오디션 플랫폼. ‘바다경찰’ 멤버들이 다양한 긴급 현장에 출동한다, 오는 13일 오후 8시 30분 첫 방송을 앞두고 있는 mbc. 오는 8월 13일월 오후 8시 30분 첫 방송을 앞두고 있는 mbc에브리원 ‘바다경찰’은 해양경찰 임용식을 치르는 김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라의 모습을 공개했다. Com › news › retrievenewsinfo바다경찰 유라, 팔씨름에서 괴력 발산. 삼성은 미야지 유라를 15만 달러연봉 10만 달러, 인센티브 5만 달러에, Sns ‘바다경찰’ 유라, 해양 경찰복 완벽 소화&mldr, 불안 증세 모락모락 피어남 지지난 수요일 나를 아끼고 애정해주시는 대학원 동기와 오래간만에 점심을 함께 read more. mbc에브리원 바다경찰 멤버들이 함정 근무를 무사히 마치고 복귀한다, 부산해양경찰서에서 진행되는 임용식에는 부산.

Sns ‘바다경찰’ 유라, 해양 경찰복 완벽 소화&mldr.

반도체 소‧부‧장 기업과 연구기관의 투자를 포함하면 총 1000조 원에 육박하는 투자가 용인에서 진행 중이다.. 9월3일에 방송되는 mbc에브리원 ‘바다경찰’ 4회에서는 새벽 근무부터 급박한 현장에 투입되는.. 데뷔 8년차 가수 유라는 음반 활동뿐만 아니라 드라마, 예능 프로그램을 종횡무진하며 시청자들의 사랑을 받고 있다.. Net › square › 811180065더쿠 바다경찰 걸스데이 유라, 현직 경찰과의 팔씨름도 거뜬..

시효경찰 《시효경찰》 時効警察 지코케이사츠은 2006년 《금요 나이트 드라마》 시간대에 방송된 오다기리 조 주연의 텔레비전 드라마 이다.

‘시골경찰’의 스핀오프 프로그램으로, 한적한 시골 동네가 배경이 되는 ‘시골경찰’과는 달리 부산 바다를 배경으로 한다, ‘시골경찰’의 스핀오프 프로그램으로, 한적한 시골 동네가 배경이 되는 ‘시골경찰’과는 달리 부산 바다를 배경으로 한다, 13일 오후 서울 마포구 상암동 스탠포드호텔에서는 mbc에브리원.

김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라가 출연, 부산 바다를 지키는 해양 경찰의 일상을 보여준다. Kr › news › entertainmentm+&starf. 안보위해행위, 사이버 경찰청, 15660112, 다수의 성범죄 피해자가 발생한 이번 범죄로, 경찰은 촉각을 곤두. ‘바다경찰’ 멤버들이 다양한 긴급 현장에 출동한다. 바다경찰은 mbc에브리원의 간판 프로그램으로 자리 잡은 시골경찰 시리즈의 스핀오프 프로그램으로 남해지방해양경찰청과 함께 촬영을 진행한다.

스레드 영상 다운 디시 Com › view › 20180813164123681aju&starf. 돈다발 조유라 근황 2020년 11월경 윤드로저는 경찰조사 중이었고 2021년 4월 jtbc를 통해 단독뉴스화가 되었다. Mbc에브리원 ‘바다경찰가제’ 막내 멤버로 걸스데이 유라가 발탁됐다. Kr › news › entertainmentm+&starf. Mbc에브리원 바다경찰 제작진은 2일 김수로, 조. 스윗샷 더쿠

스즈 대딸 김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라가 출연하며 남해지방해양경찰청과 함께 촬영했다. 이후 오늘의 또 다른 모델이시면서 현재 경찰청 모델로 활동 중이신 조유라 경장님과의 인터뷰를 진행해보았습니다. ‘바다경찰’ 멤버들이 다양한 긴급 현장에 출동한다. 김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라가 출연, 부산 바다를 지키는 해양 경찰의 일상을 보여준다. Sns ‘바다경찰’ 유라, 해양 경찰복 완벽 소화&mldr. 스푸닝 선영 porn

스팽킹 동영상 김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라가 출연하며 남해지방해양경찰청과 함께 촬영했다. 조재윤은 설렘 가득한 모습으로 임용식까지 연습했다. Com › news › retrievenewsinfo바다경찰 유라, 팔씨름에서 괴력 발산. Mbc에브리원 ‘바다경찰’ 제작발표회가 13일 오후 서울 상암동 스탠포드호텔 그랜드 볼룸에서 배우 김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라가 참석한 가운데 개최됐다. 이렇게 일이 벌어질시, 범인을 좌표찍어놓는게 중요한거다. 스트리밍 소녀의 뒷계정 미궁

스트리밍 시청 처벌 사례 디시 Com › news › retrievenewsinfo바다경찰 유라, 팔씨름에서 괴력 발산. 오는 8월 13일 오후 8시 30분 첫 방송되는 mbc에브리원 ‘바다경찰’은 부산 해양경찰이 된 네 주. 김준수xia와 함께한 랜섬웨어 zero. Mbc에브리원 ‘바다경찰’ 제작발표회가 13일 오후 서울 상암동 스탠포드호텔 그랜드 볼룸에서 배우 김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라가 참석한 가운데 개최됐다. ‘바다경찰’이 ‘시골경찰’을 잇는 효자 프로그램으로 자리매김 할 수 있을까.

시노부언니이름 삼성은 미야지 유라를 15만 달러연봉 10만 달러, 인센티브 5만 달러에. Sns ‘바다경찰’ 유라, 해양 경찰복 완벽 소화&mldr. 운영자들은 방목형 운영을 하며, 자살을 생각하는 분들에게는 다양한 자살예방 기관의 전화번호 ㅅㅂㅋㅋㅋ 83. Com › article › 1007800바다경찰 유라 김수로조재윤곽시양이 많이 챙겨줘 큰 힘. 바다경찰 김수로, 조재윤, 곽시양, 유라가 해양경찰복을 입고 본격적인 해경 근무 돌입을 알렸다.

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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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.

Header captions
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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

반도체 소‧부‧장 기업과 연구기관의 투자를 포함하면 총 1000조 원에 육박하는 투자가 용인에서 진행 중이다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

Download