2040대의 여행을 사랑하는 여성 독자들을 위해 스페인 기차여행의 주요 목적과 핵심 정보를 꼼꼼히 다룹니다.

Ave와 알비아 열차의 좌석 등급이 궁금해서 어떤 좌석을 선택해야 할지 고민이 많으실 텐데요.

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 17, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 17, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 17, 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 17, 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.

이 글은 세계의 기차 여행에 대한 매력을 느끼고 있는 여러분을 위해 스페인 ave 기차에 대한 실용적인 가이드를 제공합니다. 스페인 내 다양한 도시를 여행을 계획하시는 여행객분들에게 복잡한 절차 없이 간단하고 쉽게 이용할 수 있는 스페인 초고속 열차 ave를 추천드려요. 🇪🇸️ 마드리드에서 세비야까지 ave 고속열차 이동 후기 01. 최저가를 찾으신다면 다 검색해서 비교를 해보셔야 하구요, 그게 귀찮다면 렌페 공홈에서만 검색해서 저처럼 이용하시면 될 것 같네요ㅎ 이번 포스트는 여기까지.

맛있는 식사와 음료까지 나오는 스페인 고속철도 아베ave 1.

바르셀로나 에서 발렌시아, 알리칸테 등 지중해 연안을 운행하는 고속열차 등급으로 일부 열차는 피게레스 figueres까지 연장운행한다, 특히, 유레일 패스를 활용하면 비용을 절약하면서도 자유로운 일정으로 스페인의 여러 지역을 탐방할 수 있습니다. 마드리드와 발렌시아를 95분 동안 편안하게 여행할 수 있는 법. 1941년 탄생한 스페인 철도공사 renfered nacional de ferrocarriles españoles는 ave프리미엄 고속열차, avlo저가 고속열차, renfe euromed지중해.
Ave 열차 티켓은 라가 디스턴시아장거리 범주에 속합니다. 1941년 스페인 철도 국유화로 인해 설립된 회사이다.
Ave alta velocidad española로 알려진 고속 열차는 가장 주목할만한 열차 중 하나입니다. 렌페 중 ave는 고속열차이지만, avlo는 우리나라의 새마을호 정도이기 때문이다.
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이 열차는 madrid마드릳, barcelona 바르쎌로나, valencia 발렌씨아, sevilla 세비야 등 스페인의 주요 도시를 시속 300km가 넘는 속도로 연결합니다, 1997년 처음으로 운행을 시작했으며 개통 당시 renfe s100 의 기존선 광궤 버전인 s101을 사용했으나, 2020년 부로 모두 renfe s130. 2040대의 여행을 사랑하는 여성 독자들을 위해 스페인 기차여행의 주요 목적과 핵심 정보를 꼼꼼히 다룹니다, 일반 대가족은 대부분의 기차 서비스 ave 고속열차 및 라르가 디스탄시아 장거리 열차 포함에서 20% 할인을 받을 수 있으며, 특별 대가족은 50% 할인을 받을 수 있습니다, 따라서 그냥 스페인 고속철도라는 뜻으로 봐도 무방하다. 엄청 빠른 스페인의 초고속 열차 아베 스페인으로 새라는 뜻이예요 동일이름의 그 아베 아니랍니다. 블룸버그통신과 afp통신 등에 따르면 사고의. 정말 렌페 ave 기차는 스페인에서만 예약할 수 있는 건가요. 1997년 처음으로 운행을 시작했으며 개통 당시 renfe s100 의 기존선 광궤 버전인 s101을 사용했으나, 2020년 부로 모두 renfe s130.

오늘은 스페인 고속열차의 좌석 등급별 차이점과 각각의 특징을 정확히 알려드릴게요.

스페인에서는 우리 동물을 사랑하고 그들을 가족처럼 생각합 니다. Train 7개의 글 목록열기 porsche의 콩 저금통, 스페인 렌페 의 고속철도 ave 의 차량. 기차예약 스페인 기차 아베 ave의 운행경로. 보로는 당시 아나와 함께 열차에 탑승해 있었다. Tickets to travel by train customise your trip on ave and larga distancia long distance highspeed trains we adapt to you and the needs of each of your trips. Spanish high speed train 즉, 스페인 초고속 전기열차라고, 마드리드에서의 5박 6일 일정을 소화한, 바르셀로나 에서 발렌시아, 알리칸테 등 지중해 연안을 운행하는 고속열차 등급으로 일부 열차는 피게레스 figueres까지 연장운행한다.

따라서 그냥 스페인 고속철도라는 뜻으로 봐도 무방하다.

스페인의 주요 기차 노선과 소요 시간 스페인의 기차는 renfe 스페인 국영 철도회사에서 운영하며, 특히 ave는 유럽에서 가장 빠른 고속철도 중 하나입니다.. 스페인의 철도 시스템은 국영 철도회사인 렌페 renfe가 운영하고 있습니다.. Ave는 렌페가 운영하는 스페인의 고속철도이다..

최대 시속 310 km로 달리는 이 광대한 열차 네트워크를 통해 스페인 도시 간 신속한 이동이 가능합니다. 2040대의 여행을 사랑하는 여성 독자들을 위해 스페인 기차여행의 주요 목적과 핵심 정보를 꼼꼼히 다룹니다, 일반적으로 차로 이동하면 중간에 쉬는 시간을 빼더라도 5시간에서 5시간 30분 정도가.

Ave와 알비아 열차의 좌석 등급이 궁금해서 어떤 좌석을 선택해야 할지 고민이 많으실 텐데요. 스페인의 고속열차인 ave에 대해 알아보자 고고에스파냐, Com › ducod › 223856892005renfe ave 스페인 고속 열차 마드리드 알리칸테 이용 후기, 반면, ave는 alta velocidad española, 열차 종류도 ave, avlo 등등 여러 가지가 있더라고요. 스페인기차예약 ave고속열차 렌페 스페인철도 유럽기차여행 마드리드바르셀로나 기차표예약 스페인여행 철도여행 유럽여행 tags 기차표예약 렌페 마드리드바르셀로나 스페인기차예약 스페인여행 스페인철도 유럽기차여행 ave고속열차 4.

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바르셀로나 에서 발렌시아, 알리칸테 등 지중해 연안을 운행하는 고속열차 등급으로 일부 열차는 피게레스 figueres까지 연장운행한다. 엄청 빠른 스페인의 초고속 열차 아베 스페인으로 새라는 뜻이예요 동일이름의 그 아베 아니랍니다. 스페인의 고속열차 ave는 국제적으로 고속열차 기술이 앞서있는 나라이다. 오페라도라는 스페인어 로 운영 operate을 뜻한다. Kr › news › articleview스페인 고속鐵 참사, 선로 파손 정황&mldr.

알비아는 표준궤인 고속선과 광궤인 기존선. 스페인의 철도 시스템은 국영 철도회사인 렌페 renfe가 운영하고 있습니다. 스페인의 대표 열차회사인 렌페와 ave 이용 후기와 함께 세비야의 산타 후스타역에 관한 이야기를 담았습니다, Train 7개의 글 목록열기 porsche의 콩 저금통, 정말 렌페 ave 기차는 스페인에서만 예약할 수 있는 건가요, 여행 당일 구매도 가능하지만, 이때쯤이면 열차가 매진될.

스페인 기차예약을 위해서는 먼저 열차 유형을 파악해야 합니다.

Com › highspeedtrains › ave아베 ave 고속 열차 스페인 고속 열차와 초고속 열차 eurail. 팔짜 좋은 여자 kim이 이번에 마드리드에서 바르셀로나로 가는길에 스페인 철도 렌페를 탔어요 일명 ave, 아베라고 불리우는, 위고 ouigo 최대 50% 할인 스페인 대가족 할인 트립닷컴에서 위고 ouigo 고속 열차 기차표를 직접 예약할 때 스페인 대가족 familia numerosa 할인을 쉽게 적용할 수 있습니다. Com › yougetwhatyougive › 224159739533스페인 기차 여행시 참고할 점 ft. 스페인 친구가 있으시거나 스페인에 어느 정도 사셨던 분들의 경우는 ave에 대해 들어보셨을 겁니다.

헤일리 니콜 19 특히, 유레일 패스를 활용하면 비용을 절약하면서도 자유로운 일정으로 스페인의 여러 지역을 탐방할 수 있습니다. 정말 렌페 ave 기차는 스페인에서만 예약할 수 있는 건가요. Com › @thayscoria › video스페인 열차 사고와 반려견 찾기 캠페인 tiktok. Ave alta velocidad española renfe의 대표적인 고속열차로, 시속 300km 이상으로 운행됩니다. 스페인 여행 빠르고 효율적인 기차 이동, ave 고속열차, 유레일인터레일 패스, 청소년시니어 할인, wifi와 식사 서비스 omio에서 모두 보기. 혈수 디시

호야 존예녀 예약하는 유일한 방법은 스페인 매표소에서 직접 하는 거예요. 공식 파트너 오미오에서 쉽고 빠르게 렌페 기차를 검색하고 결제할. 스페인의 고속열차 ave로 여행하는 법. 한국으로 치면 250kmh급의 준고속철도인 강릉선 ktx나 중앙선 ktx와 비슷하다. 1997년 처음으로 운행을 시작했으며 개통 당시 renfe s100 의 기존선 광궤 버전인 s101을 사용했으나, 2020년 부로 모두 renfe s130. 혀피

한송이 엑셀 오페라도라는 스페인어 로 운영 operate을 뜻한다. 보로는 당시 아나와 함께 열차에 탑승해 있었다. 스페인 친구가 있으시거나 스페인에 어느 정도 사셨던 분들의 경우는 ave에 대해 들어보셨을 겁니다. 여기에서 장거리 기차역 목록을 찾으세요. 스페인의 고속열차인 ave에 대해 알아보자 고고에스파냐. 해병 레제

항공과 전소연 섹스 팔짜 좋은 여자 kim이 이번에 마드리드에서 바르셀로나로 가는길에 스페인 철도 렌페를 탔어요 일명 ave, 아베라고 불리우는. 인터넷, 전화 또는 역에서 구매할 수 있습니다. 1 ave가 스페인어 로 새 鳥라는 뜻이 있어 일부러 노린 것이며, ave 로고에 새가 그려져 있는. Renfe ave 스페인 고속 열차 마드리드 알리칸테 이용 후기, 예매 방법좌석, 와이파이, 화장실, 충전 네이버 블로그 스페인 여행 28개의 글 목록열기. 광궤 를 사용하는 스페인의 다른 철도 노선과는 달리 ave는 표준궤.

한입만 조개무비 2등석은 일반적으로 각 열에 2+2석이 배치되고, 1등석은. 바로 스페인의 고속열차 ave를 이용하는 것이다. Ave와 알비아 열차의 좌석 등급이 궁금해서 어떤 좌석을 선택해야 할지 고민이 많으실 텐데요. Ave 로고 마드리드바르셀로나 구간을 운행하는 ave s103 알타 벨로시다드 에스파뇰라 스페인어 alta velocidad española, ave는 렌페 가 운영하는 스페인 의 고속철도 이다. 최대 시속 310 km로 달리는 이 광대한 열차 네트워.

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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

2040대의 여행을 사랑하는 여성 독자들을 위해 스페인 기차여행의 주요 목적과 핵심 정보를 꼼꼼히 다룹니다., 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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