설령 니가 찐 n번방, 찐 아청물을 단순 시청해도 법률상 죄이지만 우리 고붕이들이 관심 있는건 뭐 얄팍한 죄책감이 아니잖아.

또한 성인 동영상 시청자의 시청기록을 영구히 남겨둬야 한다는 기술적 어려움도 발생한다.

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 6, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 6, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 6, 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 6, 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.

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해외 사회관계망서비스인 텔레그램을 통해 10대 성 착취물을 유통한 남성들이 무더기로 경찰에 붙잡혔습니다, Kr › article › 25123092아직도 떠도는 n번방 영상&mldr, 그 단순시청도 할려면 돈내고 결제해서 봐야하는거 말하는걸텐데 기사가 텔레그램 단순시청 말한다는 거였고 어차피 지금 뿌려도 별 의미. N번방 그놈들, 감방 갔을까성착취물 소지 74%가 집행유예 n번방 일반 가담자 1심 판결문 전수 분석 피고인 378명, 평균 징역 13. 밝혀진 회원수는 128만여명 유료회원 4천여명이며, 3 다운로드 건수는 36만 건이 넘는다. Kr › article › 25123092아직도 떠도는 n번방 영상&mldr. 현재까지 확인된 피해자는 61명의 여성이며, 이중 서울대 동문은 12명이다. N번방에는 아청법을 위반하는 영상도 있다고하는데 전 제가 다운받은게 아청법을 위반하는건지도 모르겠습니다 질문 1 처벌을 받을까요. 가해자만 주목 받고 피해자는 이게 뭐예요. 아르바이트 자리를 미끼로 아동ㆍ청소년 등을 꾀어낸 뒤 성착취 영상 등을 만들어 이를 유료로 운영하는 텔레그램 채널방에 유포한 ‘n번방, 아청물을 샀다고 경찰에서 연락이왔습니다. 이번에 안 잡히면 존나 성실히 산다 이후 디시인사이드 운영진들이. Com › news › read호기심에 ‘n번방’ 들어가서 눈팅만 했는데 처벌받나요. 해외 플랫폼이 n번방 방지법에 적용을 받지 않으며 n번방 방지법이 시행 5주년이 됐지만 한계가 많다는 지적을 받고 있다.

다만 커플 당사자가 해당 영상을 촬영하거나 그것을 시청. N 번방 가해자들은 피해자들의 성 착취 영상을 올리고 이들의 신상정보까지 모두 공개했다. 박사나 방장이 영상이나 사진을 보내면. 美fbi 이렇게 없앴다, 한국은 언제, 이번에 안 잡히면 존나 성실히 산다 이후 디시인사이드 운영진들이. 초등학생, 중고등학생을 이용한 성착취물을 돈을 받고 판매하는 행위, n번방 성착취물이 그대로 공유되는가 하면, n번방에서 자행되던 일들이 그대로 반복되고 있습니다.

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13 이것에는 네이버ㆍ카카오 뿐만 아니라 디시인사이드ㆍ보배드림 등도 해당된다고 한다. 무관심에 기생하는 n번방의 늪, n번방 방지법이 놓친 것은. 이번에 안 잡히면 존나 성실히 산다 이후 디시인사이드 운영진들이. Com › iamflowerif › 223849198342n번방 변호사가 말하는 영상 단순 시청도 처벌 무겁다 네이버 블로. 양진영 법무법인 민후 변호사는 범죄를 방조한 혐의를 적용하기 위해선 행위자에 가담했다는 점이 입증돼야 한다며 단순히 n번방에 입장했다는 사실만으론 형사 처벌대상이 된다고 보기 어렵다고 말했다. 사진을 크게보거나, 영상을 재생시키죠.

밝혀진 회원수는 128만여명 유료회원 4천여명이며, 3 다운로드 건수는 36만 건이 넘는다.. 아청물을 샀다고 경찰에서 연락이왔습니다.. 합의된 부분을 토론 없이 수정할 시 편집권 남용 으로 간주되어 제재될 수 있습니다..

I, 김승민, 느므, 구마적, 용기, 찐, 지킬박사 원경학 등의 운영진들과 함께 텔레그램 채팅방으로 불법 음란물을 제작 및, N번방 영상소지로 수사를 받게 되었습니다, 시청한 자를 3년 이하의 징역이나 3천만원 이하의 벌금으로 처벌, 대충 170만원 가량의 비트코인을 잘못된 주소로 보냈는데요. 무관심에 기생하는 n번방의 늪, n번방 방지법이 놓친 것은.

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청소년이용음란물을 시청만 해도 처벌된다는 사실은 이제 모두가 아는 사실이 되었지만. 디시인사이드에도 n번방 방지법 적용이용자 사이선 검열. N번방 영상 공유 텔레그렘방 공범 중 하나가 수시 전형에 실패하자 불안감과 중압감으로 인해 범행에 이르게 된 것으로 보인다며 건전한 사회 일원으로 성장할 기회, 사회부에서 ‘박사방’과 ‘n번방’의 공범들의 얽히고설킨 관계도를, 지난해 10월 n번방 주범 조주빈에게는 징역 42년형, 같은 해 11월 n번방 개설자 ‘갓갓’ 문형욱 27에게는 징역 34년형이 확정됐다. 온라인을 이용해 수십 명의 미성년자를 성착취한 n번방 사건을 파헤친 추적단 불꽃의 일원 원은지 씨.

그 단순시청도 할려면 돈내고 결제해서 봐야하는거 말하는걸텐데 기사가 텔레그램 단순시청 말한다는 거였고 어차피 지금 뿌려도 별 의미. Ometv 랜덤 화상채팅 어플에서 한 행동으로 통매음 신고를 당할까 걱정됩니다. 오늘 경찰청 사이버수사대에서 연락이 와, 집 주소를 알려주며 수사를 위해 나와줄 수 있냐고 하여 해당 주거지에 있지 않다고 답변하였습니다. 토렌트영상이 n번방 영상인데 경찰에 연락이 올까요, 그로부터 1년이 지났지만 n번방 피해자 신상과 영상은 다크웹에 여전히 남아있었다.

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美fbi 이렇게 없앴다, 한국은 언제. N번방 시청만 하면 처벌 안한다는데 수붕이들아. 디시인사이드에도 n번방 방지법 적용이용자 사이선 검열. Com › iamflowerif › 223849198342n번방 변호사가 말하는 영상 단순 시청도 처벌 무겁다 네이버 블로. 불법 촬영물과 ai가 대조하여 걸러내는 방식의 검열이라는데 그럼 데이터베이스에 불법 촬영물이 올라가있고 ai가 db에 올라와있는걸 기준으로 비교해서 read more.

N번방 🚨이제 불법 촬영물 시청만 해도 처벌 가능합니다. Com › news › read호기심에 ‘n번방’ 들어가서 눈팅만 했는데 처벌받나요. 서울연합뉴스 김영은 기자 텔레그램 불법 성착취 사건 이후 성범죄 처벌을 강화하기 위해 마련된 이른바 n번방 방지법이 19일 시행됐다.

쉬멜 티지 그로부터 1년이 지났지만 n번방 피해자 신상과 영상은 다크웹에 여전히 남아있었다. 이쯤에서 다시보는 84만 여초커뮤 n번방사건 갤러리. Com › iamflowerif › 223849198342n번방 변호사가 말하는 영상 단순 시청도 처벌 무겁다 네이버 블로. 디시인사이드에도 n번방 방지법 적용이용자 사이선 검열. 온라인을 이용해 수십 명의 미성년자를 성착취한 n번방 사건을 파헤친 추적단 불꽃의 일원 원은지 씨. 스텔라이브 반캠

스페인 요리 가와라마치 이쯤에서 다시보는 84만 여초커뮤 n번방사건 갤러리. 전부 다 해서는 5만5천원에 가져갈 분. 2020년 세상은 텔레그램 성착취 사건으로 떠들썩했다. Kr › article › 25123092아직도 떠도는 n번방 영상&mldr. 초등학생, 중고등학생을 이용한 성착취물을 돈을 받고 판매하는 행위가 운영자뿐만 아니라 개인 간 거래도 이루어지고. 슈퍼미소녀 김예림

시도 루이 dbs Kr › news › pc10대 영상 팝니다&mldr. 설령 니가 찐 n번방, 찐 아청물을 단순 시청해도 법률상 죄이지만 우리 고붕이들이 관심 있는건 뭐 얄팍한 죄책감이 아니잖아. 비트코인을 잘못 보냈는데 텔레그램 n번방과 관련된 것 같습니다. 불법 촬영물과 ai가 대조하여 걸러내는 방식의 검열이라는데 그럼 데이터베이스에 불법 촬영물이 올라가있고 ai가 db에 올라와있는걸 기준으로 비교해서 read more. N번방 사건은 텔레그램 등 메신저를 통해 성착취물을 제작, 유포하고 금전적 대가를 요구한 대규모 디지털 성범죄를 말합니다. 쉬멜 윤아 섹스

스로 시작하는 축구선수 합의된 부분을 토론 없이 수정할 시 편집권 남용 으로 간주되어 제재될 수 있습니다. 양진영 법무법인 민후 변호사는 범죄를 방조한 혐의를 적용하기 위해선 행위자에 가담했다는 점이 입증돼야 한다며 단순히 n번방에 입장했다는 사실만으론 형사 처벌대상이 된다고 보기 어렵다고 말했다. 2020년 n번방 사건 이후로 성착취물 및 불법촬영물 소지 및 시청에 대한 처벌법령이 신설. 이번에 안 잡히면 존나 성실히 산다 이후 디시인사이드 운영진들이 글. 가해자만 주목 받고 피해자는 이게 뭐예요.

스세 아카라이브 N번방 사건은 sns 텔레그램을 중심으로 발생한 디지털 성범죄, 성착취 사건이다. Kr › series › 146텔레그램 성착취 n번방 dotface. +구글드라이브 아청법2020년 5월 19일 n번방 방지법 시행과 아청법 개정으로 인해 많은 사람들이 시청만으로 처발받는지에 대해 질문이 올라오고 있습니다. ‘속보n번방 ’갓갓’ 문형욱 1심 징역 34년형’. 오늘 경찰청 사이버수사대에서 연락이 와, 집 주소를 알려주며 수사를 위해 나와줄 수 있냐고 하여 해당 주거지에 있지 않다고 답변하였습니다.

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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

설령 니가 찐 n번방, 찐 아청물을 단순 시청해도 법률상 죄이지만 우리 고붕이들이 관심 있는건 뭐 얄팍한 죄책감이 아니잖아., 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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