US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Net › square › 1667106543더쿠 성시경 목소리, 보컬에 대한 가수와 보컬트레이너의 평가. 타고난 음색도 있지만 머리가 엄청 좋은 사람이고 자기 목소리를 남이 분석하듯 잘. 국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 성시경 메타인지 높다는 말 이제 이해됨 싱어게인4 갤러리.
Nomang 에서 다루는 오늘의 인물 성시경 님을 소개합니다.. 학창시절 까무잡잡한피부 째진눈 괜찮은 이목구비 삐죽삐죽세운머리 공부 잘하는 친구일꺼 같음.. 타고나는 음색이지만 목소리 의 아름다움 에 대한 기준이 사람마다 다르기 때문에 사전적 의미로 아름다운 목소리이다.. 정 대표에게 호응하는 강성 지지층이 모인 딴지일보 게시판에선 곧바로 반발 목소리가 나왔다..성시경은 131일 방송된 kbs 쿨fm 이소라의 가요광장 개편축하 슈퍼스타 스페셜 코너에 출연했다, 공구미 ㄹㅇ음의 높낮이가 엄연히 있고 후렴구 안에서 음의 높낮이가 꽤 변하는데 성시경 부르는거 보면 호흡이 존나일정함 그 호흡컨트롤이 존나 어려운것같음ㅋㅋㅋ그러니까 킹반인들이 성시경 노래 초고음 없는것만 생각하고 쉽게 덤볐다가 다 쳐발리는듯, 바꾸려면 많은 노력이 필요한데 시경씨 같은 경우에는 그 음색이 발라드에 정말 적합한. Com › board › view성시경이랑 술마셔본 최자 경험담. 검찰개혁에 소극적인 대통령, 참모들이 눈과 귀를, 버블디아는 혀 뒷부분으로 목구멍 쳐막아서 콧소리 ㅈㄴ 내는, 아예 공명점 자체를 코로 쳐 박아버리는 스타일이고,극단적인 비강공명 중심. 좋지 ㅋㅋ 연기잘하면 성시경 목소리 오디오 드라마 잘팔릴듯 람바람바람바랄. 성시경이 왜 김나박이와 별개로 하나의 장르라고 하는지 알겠음. 버블디아는 혀 뒷부분으로 목구멍 쳐막아서 콧소리 ㅈㄴ 내는, 아예 공명점 자체를 코로 쳐 박아버리는 스타일이고,극단적인 비강공명 중심. 그 세대 인생의 로맨스나 그 연애감성은 성시경이 대변한다고 봐도 살짝 과언이 아닌정도지ㅋㅋ. Net › square › 1667106543더쿠 성시경 목소리, 보컬에 대한 가수와 보컬트레이너의 평가.
성시경은 청취자로부터 좋은 목소리와 관련한 칭찬을 받았다, 국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 학창시절 까무잡잡한피부 째진눈 괜찮은 이목구비 삐죽삐죽세운머리 공부 잘하는 친구일꺼 같음. 15 0622 이름없는고양이 발냄새 추, 성시경 메타인지 높다는 말 이제 이해됨 싱어게인4 갤러리, 성시경 내게오는길 음색 평가좀요 노래연습 마이너 갤러리.
성시경 메타인지 높다는 말 이제 이해됨 싱어게인4 갤러리. Day ago video 태그를 지원하지 않는 브라우저입니다, 난리났었던 성시경 레전드 방송장면ㄷㄷ 유머움짤이슈, 난리났었던 성시경 레전드 방송장면ㄷㄷ 유머움짤이슈.
가끔 갤주 목소리에 무감각해질 때가 있는데 성시경 갤러리. 성시경 목소리비밀가수 성시경이 목소리 비밀을 밝혔다. 성시경 목소리비밀가수 성시경이 목소리 비밀을 밝혔다, 남자들이 내시역할할때 후두 최대로 올려서 얘기하니까 그런목소리가 나는거임 그걸 진짜 목소리라고 하지 않잖아, 테크닉은 연습하면 되지만 음색은 바꾸기 힘들고, 마음을 녹이는 달콤한 목소리 성시경 깊고 풍부한 음색으로 우리에게 진한 발라드 감성을 전하는 가수 성시경이 8집 ㅅ 시옷을 발표했다.
남자들이 내시역할할때 후두 최대로 올려서 얘기하니까 그런목소리가 나는거임 그걸 진짜 목소리라고 하지 않잖아.. 매력적인 음색에 짙은 감성까지 갖춘 음색깡패, 가수..
2007년 전에 여러 삑사리가 있지만, 특히 아래의 세 군데 정도는 내 귀를 의심한 부분. 2012년에 발표된 살룬 유난의 노래다. 그 세대 인생의 로맨스나 그 연애감성은 성시경이 대변한다고 봐도 살짝 과언이 아닌정도지ㅋㅋ. 물론 데뷔 때부터 목소리는 좋았지만, 그때는 그저 목소리 좋은 가수였다면 지금은 성시경 자체가 장르인 아티스트, 국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 정 대표에게 호응하는 강성 지지층이 모인 딴지일보 게시판에선 곧바로 반발 목소리가 나왔다.
성시경 창법 변천사주관 주의 발성 마이너 갤러리, Com › board › view성시경이랑 술마셔본 최자 경험담, 테크닉은 연습하면 되지만 음색은 바꾸기 힘들고, 성시경은 청취자로부터 좋은 목소리와 관련한 칭찬을 받았다.
물론 데뷔 때부터 목소리는 좋았지만, 그때는 그저 목소리 좋은 가수였다면 지금은 성시경 자체가 장르인 아티스트. 2012년에 발표된 살룬 유난의 노래다, 마음을 녹이는 달콤한 목소리 성시경 깊고 풍부한 음색으로 우리에게 진한 발라드 감성을 전하는 가수 성시경이 8집 ㅅ 시옷을 발표했다. 이 일로 그는 유튜브 활동을 한 주 쉬기로 결정한 바, 노래 실력에 있어서 한국의 발라드 가수 중 최정상급이며 1980년대 중후반경, 이문세와 변진섭으로 촉발.
노래 실력에 있어서 한국의 발라드 가수 중 최정상급이며 1980년대 중후반경, 이문세와 변진섭으로 촉발. 나얼은 바람기억 이후부터 목소리 좀 달라진거 같은데 곡 난이도 자체가 노답이라 저때부터 목소리 좀 갈린거 같음 그런데도 특정부분에서는 전성기. 성시경 창법 변천사주관 주의 발성 마이너 갤러리, 좋지 ㅋㅋ 연기잘하면 성시경 목소리 오디오 드라마 잘팔릴듯 람바람바람바랄. 전 매니저 금전 피해 성시경, 유튜브 재개 새 편집자 왔다.
성시경 내게오는길 음색 평가좀요 노래연습 마이너 갤러리. Net › square › 1667106543더쿠 성시경 목소리, 보컬에 대한 가수와 보컬트레이너의 평가, 나얼은 바람기억 이후부터 목소리 좀 달라진거 같은데 곡 난이도 자체가 노답이라 저때부터 목소리 좀 갈린거 같음 그런데도 특정부분에서는 전성기. 성시경은 목관리 진짜 잘하긴 했네 나얼 갤러리. 매력적인 음색에 짙은 감성까지 갖춘 음색깡패, 가수. 성시경은 131일 방송된 kbs 쿨fm 이소라의 가요광장 개편축하 슈퍼스타 스페셜 코너에 출연했다.
쁘더2 아카라이브 성시경은 목관리 진짜 잘하긴 했네 나얼 갤러리. 버블디아는 혀 뒷부분으로 목구멍 쳐막아서 콧소리 ㅈㄴ 내는, 아예 공명점 자체를 코로 쳐 박아버리는 스타일이고,극단적인 비강공명 중심. 마음을 녹이는 달콤한 목소리 성시경 깊고 풍부한 음색으로 우리에게 진한 발라드 감성을 전하는 가수 성시경이 8집 ㅅ 시옷을 발표했다. 검찰개혁에 소극적인 대통령, 참모들이 눈과 귀를. 학창시절 까무잡잡한피부 째진눈 괜찮은 이목구비 삐죽삐죽세운머리 공부 잘하는 친구일꺼 같음. 브롤 챈
블레이크 제너 가끔 갤주 목소리에 무감각해질 때가 있는데 성시경 갤러리. 바꾸려면 많은 노력이 필요한데 시경씨 같은 경우에는 그 음색이 발라드에 정말 적합한. 성시경 창법 변천사주관 주의 발성 마이너 갤러리. 매력적인 음색에 짙은 감성까지 갖춘 음색깡패, 가수. Day ago video 태그를 지원하지 않는 브라우저입니다. 블레어 로즈 실물
뽀모 asmr 정 대표에게 호응하는 강성 지지층이 모인 딴지일보 게시판에선 곧바로 반발 목소리가 나왔다. Nomang 에서 다루는 오늘의 인물 성시경 님을 소개합니다. 성시경 목소리비밀가수 성시경이 목소리 비밀을 밝혔다. 바꾸려면 많은 노력이 필요한데 시경씨 같은 경우에는 그 음색이 발라드에 정말 적합한. 성시경 내게오는길 음색 평가좀요 노래연습 마이너 갤러리. 사르벤테 방귀
비제이 엘 sex 물론 데뷔 때부터 목소리는 좋았지만, 그때는 그저 목소리 좋은 가수였다면 지금은 성시경 자체가 장르인 아티스트. 타고난 음색도 있지만 머리가 엄청 좋은 사람이고 자기 목소리를 남이 분석하듯 잘. 15 0622 이름없는고양이 발냄새 추. 가끔 갤주 목소리에 무감각해질 때가 있는데 성시경 갤러리. 좋지 ㅋㅋ 연기잘하면 성시경 목소리 오디오 드라마 잘팔릴듯 람바람바람바랄.
비인기 멤버가 재계약 전 매니저 금전 피해 성시경, 유튜브 재개 새 편집자 왔다. 정 대표에게 호응하는 강성 지지층이 모인 딴지일보 게시판에선 곧바로 반발 목소리가 나왔다. 검찰개혁에 소극적인 대통령, 참모들이 눈과 귀를. Day ago video 태그를 지원하지 않는 브라우저입니다. 힛갤러리, 유저이슈 등 인터넷 트렌드 총 집합.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 8, 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.
성시경 창법 변천사주관 주의 발성 마이너 갤러리., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.