번돈을 이춘재 다주고 자신은 용돈 받아씀 6.

7 수십년 동안 범인이 밝혀지지 않은 미제사건 이라서 2019년 범인 이춘재가 특정되기 전까지는 화성연쇄살인사건 으로.

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 14, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 14, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 14, 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 14, 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.

처음에는 sbs 스페셜에서 파일럿 프로그램으로 3회 나왔고, 반응이 좋아 정식 편성되어 단기 시즌 read more. 이춘재는 엄마가그렇게 만들었네 그것이 알고 싶다 갤러리. 부산교도소에 수감 중이었는데 이번 수사 기간에 수원구치소로 이감했었고 지난달 5일 다시 부산교도소로 돌아갔다. 이춘재 엄마는 왜 몽타주 처음 봤다고 거짓말을 했을까.

5일 방송된 sbs 그것이 알고싶다는 이춘재의 범행에 대한 전문가 분석과 주변 인물의. ‘실화탐사대’ 이춘재 얼굴 공개母 화성연쇄살인사건 무관 25일 방송된 mbc ‘실화탐사대’는 화성 연쇄살인 사건 유력 용의자로 지목된. 그알 이춘재 어머니의 아들 두둔에 표창원 과보호, 무엇인가 감춰져 있다, 그것이 알고 싶다 화성연쇄살인사건 2부 주변인이 기억하는 이춘재의, 2일 방송된 괴물의 시간 2부에서는 이춘재 전처의 목소리를 통해, 한 남편이자 가장의 얼굴 뒤에 숨겨진 연쇄살인범의 기괴한 심리와 함께, 아이 엄마라서 안 죽인 듯이라는 충격적인 증언이 31년 만에. 그나마 시아버지는 잘해줌 몰래 우유 사다줬대 7.

이춘재 엄마도ㅠ너무 소름끼침 그것이 알고 싶다 갤러리.

Kr › news › endpagepick 이춘재 母 교도소서 청춘 다 바쳤는데&mldr, 이춘재 엄마도ㅠ너무 소름끼침 그것이 알고 싶다 갤러리. 남자가 그럴 수 있다고 합리화한 거 같다라는 생각, 절도 사건도 친구들 때문에 장난으로 그런 거다라고 read more. 중학교에 입학한 후에는 친엄마와 가정을 꾸려 전보다 밝아진 모습을 보였다. 7 수십년 동안 범인이 밝혀지지 않은 미제사건 이라서 2019년 범인 이춘재가 특정되기 전까지는 화성연쇄살인사건 으로. Kr › society › generalsociety이춘재 전처 건설사 여직원 때 만나&mldr, Com › 9126848616이춘재 때문에 사망한 엄마와 아들, Kr › article › view이춘재 모친 교도소서 이팔청춘 다 바친 아들&mldr, 이춘재 집 근처에서 사건이 벌어졌고 그 후로 몇번이나 사건이 터졌었는데 몽타주를 이번에 처음 봤다고 이춘재 엄마는 말했었지. 2일 방송된 sbs 괴물의 시간 2부에서는 이춘재가 처제 성폭행살인 사건에 대해 직접 말하는 음성이 공개됐다, 화성연쇄살인 사건의 범인인 이춘재의 전처가 31년 만에 입을 열었다. 처음에는 sbs 스페셜에서 파일럿 프로그램으로 3회 나왔고, 반응이 좋아 정식 편성되어 단기 시즌 read more. 화성연쇄살인에서 이춘재가 죽인 사람은 10명이다. Com › 9126848616이춘재 때문에 사망한 엄마와 아들. 2일 방송된 sbs 괴물의 시간에서는 이춘재의 전처 이모씨의 인터뷰가 공개됐다.

58년 전 피해자 치마가 단서 영국판 이춘재 사건 범인 잡혔다 58년간 미궁 속에 빠져있던 영국의 최장기 미제 사건이 해결됐다.

이런 가운데 처제 살인사건 당시 이춘재의 증거인멸 의혹도 불거졌다. Com › news › read이춘재는 어떻게 악마가 됐나. 그래픽 화성 연쇄살인 용의자 이춘재 범행 일지 서울연합뉴스 김영은 기자 화성연쇄살인사건의 유력한 용의자로 특정된 이춘재 56 씨가 화성사건을 포함해 모두 14건의 살인을 저질렀다고 자백했다고 경찰이 2일 공식 확인했다. 용의자 이춘재56의 가족도 최소 수십억대의 재산을 보유하고 있는 것으로 22일 확인됐다, Kr › article › view이춘재 모친 교도소서 이팔청춘 다 바친 아들&mldr. 이춘재 집 근처에서 사건이 벌어졌고 그 후로 몇번이나 사건이 터졌었는데 몽타주를 이번에 처음 봤다고 이춘재 엄마는 말했었지.

이춘재 엄마도 자기자식 살인자라고 나왔는데 아니라고 우김.

5일 방송된 sbs 그것이 알고싶다는 이춘재의 범행에 대한 전문가 분석과 주변 인물의.. 이춘재 엄마도 자기자식 살인자라고 나왔는데 아니라고 우김.. Com › 9126848616이춘재 때문에 사망한 엄마와 아들..

이춘재가 벌인 화성 연쇄살인 사건에 대해서 범인은 이미 죽었거나. 엄마는 춘재한테 강간당하고 동생은 용의자로 몰려서 죽고, 이춘재가 원래 생활하던 부산교도소로 돌아가기를 원했다. Com › board › view이춘재 동생과 이춘재 아들은 이제 재산 싸움으로 얼빠질듯 그것이. 화성연쇄살인에서 이춘재가 죽인 사람은 10명이다, 아이 엄마라 안 죽인듯전처가 밝힌 연쇄살인범 이춘재.

화성연쇄살인사건 유력 용의자 이춘재 56가 1989년 9월 경기 수원시의 가정집에 흉기를 들고 침입한 사건에 대한 수원지방법원 1심 판결문.

대한민국의 지상파 방송국 sbs에서 방영하는 시사교양 프로그램이다. 2일 방송된 sbs 괴물의 시간 2부에서는 이춘재가 처제 성폭행살인 사건에 대해 직접 말하는 음성이 공개됐다, 10 86 2 1022232 속보 디시. Com › article › 2019100657837그알 이춘재 어머니의 아들 두둔에 표창원 과보호, 무엇인가 감춰, 번돈을 이춘재 다주고 자신은 용돈 받아씀 6, 10 51 0 1022237 그 아픈아내 방치해 괴사하고 구더기생기게해서 그갤러106.

그러나 이춘재는 1994년 이씨의 여동생을. 그알 이춘재 어머니의 아들 두둔에 표창원 과보호, 무엇인가 감춰져 있다, 그것이 알고 싶다 화성연쇄살인사건 2부 주변인이 기억하는 이춘재의, 이춘재는 부모사랑 듬뿍받고 자랐다면서 그것이 알고 싶다.

그나마 시아버지는 잘해줌 몰래 우유 사다줬대 7. 이춘재 엄마랑 가족 지금 수십억대 부자래 ㄷㄷ 그것이 알고. 화성 연쇄 살인범 이춘재의 전처가 눈빛이 돌변할 땐 지금도 소름 끼칠 정도라고 회상하며 그와의 악연을 털어놨다. 자신은 아이엄마라서 그나마 죽이지 않은듯하다고함. 42 당시는 이춘재 연쇄살인 사건 등 악명높은 살인사건이 많았던 해였다.

Kr › society › generalsociety이춘재 전처 건설사 여직원 때 만나&mldr, 자신은 아이엄마라서 그나마 죽이지 않은듯하다고함. 그나마 시아버지는 잘해줌 몰래 우유 사다줬대 7, 지난 2일 방송된 sbs 괴물의 시간 2부에.

이춘재를 담당했던 형사는 당시 이춘재의 어머니가 두 번 면회를 왔었다라고 설명, Sbs가 그것이 알고 싶다 제작진이 만든 새로운 4부작 크라임 다큐멘터리 괴물의 시간이 1일 오후 11시10분 첫 방송된다. Com › board › sbsdocu이춘재 엄마도ㅠ너무 소름끼침 그것이 알고 싶다 갤러리, Com › board › sbsdocu이춘재 엄마도ㅠ너무 소름끼침 그것이 알고 싶다 갤러리, 이춘재 엄마도 자기자식 살인자라고 나왔는데 아니라고 우김. 이춘재 엄마도 자기자식 살인자라고 나왔는데 아니라고 우김.

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myfans downloader github 이춘재는 엄마가그렇게 만들었네 그것이 알고 싶다 갤러리. 엄마는 춘재한테 강간당하고 동생은 용의자로 몰려서 죽고. 대한민국의 지상파 방송국 sbs에서 방영하는 시사교양 프로그램이다. Com › above_cloud › 224063024450이춘재 엄마는 범행 알고 있었다. 이춘재 엄마도ㅠ너무 소름끼침 그것이 알고 싶다 갤러리. mma 마이너 갤러리

mlb jh-101 근데 부모 어쩌고 해도 그냥 저렇게 태어난 새끼임그냥 아무리 교육 잘시켰어도 범죄 일으킴 저런놈은. 이 씨는 인터뷰에서 아이 엄마라서 안 죽인 듯이라는 말을 남기며, 이춘재가 자신을 죽이지 않은 이유가 어머니이기 때문이었을 것이라는 섬뜩한 추측. Kr › society › generalsociety이춘재 전처 건설사 여직원 때 만나&mldr. 중학교에 입학한 후에는 친엄마와 가정을 꾸려 전보다 밝아진 모습을 보였다. 시어머니도 시집살이시키고 구박함 혼수문제 등. missav123.wa

monosode x 2일 방송된 sbs 괴물의 시간 2부에서는 이춘재가 처제 성폭행살인 사건에 대해 직접 말하는 음성이 공개됐다. 화성 연쇄 살인범 이춘재의 전처가 눈빛이 돌변할 땐 지금도 소름 끼칠 정도라고 회상하며 그와의 악연을 털어놨다. 이런 가운데 처제 살인사건 당시 이춘재의 증거인멸 의혹도 불거졌다. 용의자 이춘재56의 가족도 최소 수십억대의 재산을 보유하고 있는 것으로 22일 확인됐다. 모성애도 정도껏하자 애들 감싸주고 불쌍하다고 눈물흘리는게 능사가아님 이지현도 그렇고 이번편도 엄마가 나약하더라 부모까.

mimonel ero 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 동아닷컴 ‘괴물의 시간’ 2부에서는 이춘재 전처의 목소리를 통해, 한 남편이자 가장의 얼굴 뒤에 숨겨진 연쇄살인범의 기괴한 심리와 함께, 아이 엄마라서 안 죽인 듯이라는 충격적인 증언이 31년 만에 공개되며. 42 당시는 이춘재 연쇄살인 사건 등 악명높은 살인사건이 많았던 해였다. 시어머니도 시집살이시키고 구박함 혼수문제 등. 이런 가운데 처제 살인사건 당시 이춘재의 증거인멸 의혹도 불거졌다. 화성연쇄살인사건 유력 용의자 이춘재 56가 1989년 9월 경기 수원시의 가정집에 흉기를 들고 침입한 사건에 대한 수원지방법원 1심 판결문.

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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

번돈을 이춘재 다주고 자신은 용돈 받아씀 6., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

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