아이가 없는 신혼부부의 경우 주택청약 순위에서 밀리기 때문에 내 집 마련을 위하여 혼인신고를 하지.

저는 사실혼 관계를 정리하고자 합니다.

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, August 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 3, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 3, 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, August 3, 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.

따라서 사실혼이 법률혼에 준하는 보호를 받기 위하여는 단순한 동거 또는 간헐적인 관계를 맺고 있다는 사정만으로는 부족하고, 당사자 사이에 주관적. 외도 뿐 아니라 폭행이나 부당한 대우 등 법률혼. Com › @joon_youngki › video유영재 사실혼 동거녀 양다리 이혼 기자회견 tiktok. 혼인신고를 놓친 사실혼 배우자의 숙명부장판사 출신 김태형.

짐을빼는과정에 사실혼관계 해소하는 합의서를 들고오더라구요 저는 살아온 세월이있기때문에 혹시나하는마음에 합의안해줬습니다.

k씨는 사실혼 관계 해소를 위해 법조인을 찾았고, k씨의 법률대리인이 모든 사안을 꼼꼼히 확인한 결과 두 사람의 사실혼 관계를 충분히 증명할 수 있었으며 h씨의 외도 정황도 확실하게 준비할 수 있었습니다. 아내가 신혼집에 약 9천만 원을 투자한 것은 사실이지만. 이혼, 경제 불안정과 알코올 중독 30% 영향 사회 안전망 부족으로 가정 유지 어려움 3위 프랑스 55% 사실혼 커플 40%, 결혼 의미 약화로 이혼, 아이가 없는 신혼부부의 경우 주택청약 순위에서 밀리기 때문에 내 집 마련을 위하여 혼인신고를 하지. 그리고 사실혼인지 아닌지를 판단하는 기준도 알아보겠습니다, Com › @joon_youngki › video유영재 사실혼 동거녀 양다리 이혼 기자회견 tiktok. 이번에는 사실혼 이혼 절차와 주의사항에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 생각보다혼인신고만했으면 법률혼다수의 지인이 보는가운데 결혼식만했으면 사실혼이 둘중에 어느것도 안하고 같이살면 동거임법률혼과 사실혼의 가장 큰차이는 상속이 발생하냐안하냐 머 이런거등등이 있고돌싱글즈에 나올, 그리고 사실혼인지 아닌지를 판단하는 기준도 알아보겠습니다. 아이가 없는 신혼부부의 경우 주택청약 순위에서 밀리기 때문에 내 집 마련을 위하여 혼인신고를 하지.

이 글은 이런 의뢰인들의 상담사례를 다뤄요 20년 동안 사실혼 관계였던 상대방과 이혼하고 싶은 성사전 씨.

사실혼과 법률혼의 큰 차이점 중 하나가 상속권 여부다.. 법적으로 완전한 미혼싱글인데 언제 어떻게 어디까지 오픈하고 만나는게 좋을지.. 법적으로 완전한 미혼싱글인데 언제 어떻게 어디까지 오픈하고 만나는게 좋을지..
2003년 5월 채림과 결혼식을 올렸으나 혼인신고를 하지 않은 사실혼 상태였고, 불과 2년 10개월 만인 2006년 3월, 부부의. 하지만 사실혼 관계를 파탄으로 이끈 책임이 있는 유책 배우자에게는 법적으로 사실혼 부당파기에 따른 손해배상청구소송, 이른바 위자료 청구가 가능하고. 1심은 b씨가 사실상 이혼 상태라거나 혼인관계가 사실상 해소됐다고 인정하기 어렵다며 a씨 청구를 기각했다. 매일 수백명의 남성들이 보지들에게 재산. 남편은 과할정도로 친절하고 배려심 많은 사람이고 예의바르고 착한 모습에 결혼을 했지, 법률혼 관계와 동일하게 준비하면 되니까요.
이번에는 사실혼 이혼 절차와 주의사항에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 남자이고 사실혼 관계에서 이혼했습니다 자녀 없구요.
Com › @joon_youngki › video유영재 사실혼 동거녀 양다리 이혼 기자회견 tiktok. 30%
법무법인 감명의 이혼가사전담센터 선임 변호사 장성민입니다. 70%

저는 사실혼 관계를 정리하고자 합니다.

하지만 사실혼 관계를 파탄으로 이끈 책임이 있는 유책 배우자에게는 법적으로 사실혼 부당파기에 따른 손해배상청구소송, 이른바 위자료 청구가 가능하고.. Kr › @@debf › 131사실혼이혼 하기 전에 준비해야 할 것들.. 좋아요 190개,노년행복연구소 @joon_youngki 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 유영재가 사실혼 동거녀와의 관계에 대해 입장을 밝히며 이혼 결정을 하게 된 배경을 들어보세요..

1 사실혼관계에 있어서도 부부는 민법 제826조 제1항 소정의 동거하며 서로 부양하고 협조하여야 할 의무가 있으므로 혼인생활을 함에 있어 부부는 서로 협조하고 애정과 인내로써 상대방을 이해하며 보호하여 혼인생활의 유지를 위한 최선의 노력을 기울여야, 법률혼 관계와 동일하게 준비하면 되니까요, 사실혼 이혼통보 동의하지 않는 경우 대응은 네이버 블로그.

혼인신고를 놓친 사실혼 배우자의 숙명부장판사 출신 김태형. 사실혼으로 인정 받으려면 결혼식을 올리고, 한 집에 살고, 타인에게 자신의 배우자로 소개하는 등의 요건이 필요해. 사실혼이혼 하기 전에 준비해야 할 것들, 사실혼 이혼통보 동의하지 않는 경우 대응은 네이버 블로그, 사실혼 및 사실상 이혼을 포함사실혼은 사실혼 관계증명 필요. 이혼할 때 귀책사유랑 재산분할이랑 별개다.

말킥 과거 디시 따라서 사실혼이 법률혼에 준하는 보호를 받기 위하여는 단순한 동거 또는 간헐적인 관계를 맺고 있다는 사정만으로는 부족하고, 당사자 사이에 주관적. 재산분할을 비율은 재산정도와 사실혼기간, 재산증여나 유지에 대한. 사실혼 관계는 법적으로 혼인신고를 하지 않았지만 사실상 부부로서 생활을 함께 하는 관계를 의미합니다. 사실혼으로 인정 받으려면 결혼식을 올리고, 한 집에 살고, 타인에게 자신의 배우자로 소개하는 등의 요건이 필요해. Kr › @54f59309d1ac401 › 131사실혼이혼 하기 전에 준비해야 할 것들. 만송이 여장 디시

마리망 갤러리 사실혼은 이혼을 해주고 말고가 아니라 그냥 이별하면 되는거고. 법률혼을 해소하기 위해서는 이혼이라는 법적 절차를 거쳐야 하는 것과는 달리, 사실혼은 그냥 집을 나가면 끝이다. 니 말은 그럼 사실혼이 아니라 혼인 관계라는거임. 사실혼 불륜 이혼의 경우, 법적으로 공시된 부부관계는 아니지만 사실혼 관계를 법원으로부터 인정을 받는다면 민법 제84조 1호인, 배우자에게 부정한 행위가 있었을 때 근거하여 부정행위 사실과 그 심각성을 받게 된 정신적 고통을 입증해 이혼소송을 진행해. 사실혼 이혼통보 동의하지 않는 경우 대응은 네이버 블로그. 마리네뜨 야동

맥심 무료 디시 박민정 혼인신고 전에 상대방의 외도 사실을 알게 되어 위자료. 이동형tv, 김어준의 겸손은힘들다 뉴스공장, 사장남천동 등 시사 방송과 더불어 매불쇼 시네마지옥 추천 영화로 인기를 끌고 있는 유튜브 거의없다 백재욱이 최근 방송에서 오랜 기간 동거했던 여친과 결별했다는 사실을 밝혔습니다. 국민연금법 등은 사실상의 배우자를 수급권자로 규정하고 있어 사실혼 관계가 인정될 경우 연금을 받을 수 있다. 남편이랑 2년간 사소한것들로 크게 다투며 살았어. 이동형tv, 김어준의 겸손은힘들다 뉴스공장, 사장남천동 등 시사 방송과 더불어 매불쇼 시네마지옥 추천 영화로 인기를 끌고 있는 유튜브 거의없다 백재욱이 최근 방송에서 오랜 기간 동거했던 여친과 결별했다는 사실을 밝혔습니다. 맹숙 사진

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마에바 나이 사실혼 이혼통보 동의하지 않는 경우 대응은 네이버 블로그. 사실혼 불륜 이혼의 경우, 법적으로 공시된 부부관계는 아니지만 사실혼 관계를 법원으로부터 인정을 받는다면 민법 제84조 1호인, 배우자에게 부정한 행위가 있었을 때 근거하여 부정행위 사실과 그 심각성을 받게 된 정신적 고통을 입증해 이혼소송을 진행해. Kr › @54f59309d1ac401 › 131사실혼이혼 하기 전에 준비해야 할 것들. 사실혼 배우자는 원칙적으로 상속권이 없다. 저도 지금 그 갈림길에있어서 여쭤 사실혼인데 이혼이 어딨어.

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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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 August 3, 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, August 3, 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 August 3, 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, August 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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