US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 2026.
The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.
To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.
Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.
FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 10, 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 10, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images
In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.
In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.
Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.
The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.
The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 2026.
After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.
Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.
Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.
His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues.
Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.
The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.
Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 10, 2026.
Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.
FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 10, 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 10, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images
The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.
Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.
Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 10, 2026.
In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.
Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.
FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 10, 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 10, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.
The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 10, 2026.
뮤지컬 관계자는 피터 역의 박준휘 배우와 타나 역의 우진영 배우가 개인적인 사정으로 이번 공연에서 하차하게 되어 안내드린다고 밝혔다. 결혼을 앞둔 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘가 같은 동료 뮤지컬 여배우 우진영과 함께 sns서 박준휘만 속옷 차림으로 올라온 사진과 카톡 대화내용이 게재된 후 출연중인 뮤지컬에서 하차하면서 관객과 업계에 충격을 안겼다. 네티즌들은 예비신부가 올린 것 아니냐고 추측. 박준휘는 13일 자신의 sns에 자필 입장문을 올리고 논란이.
박준휘는 같은 제작사 작품인 니진스키에서도 빠진다. 두 사람의 불륜 의혹과 그로 인한 공연계의 파장, 그리고 각자의 프로필을 자세히 정리해 드리겠습니다. 공연이 예정된 당일 해당 뮤지컬 제작사는 캐스팅 변경 소식을 알렸다. video tiktok từ 이이이잇슈 정치, 사회 @iiiissuee 박준휘와 우진영이 사생활 논란으로 뮤지컬에서 하차했습니다. Com › entertainment › enter_general박준휘우진영, 뮤지컬 동반 하차&mldr, 파이낸셜뉴스 사생활 논란에 휩싸여 공연에서 하차한 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘32와 우진영26이 입장을 밝혔다, 박준휘는 13일 자신의 sns를 통해 자필 사과문을 공개하고, 논란에 대해 처음으로 입을 열었다. 남녀 뮤지컬배우, 결국 하차 머니투데, Kr › 2324987사생활 문제, 무대 밖으로&mldr. 박준휘와 예비신부, 불륜설 대상으로 거론된 동료 우진영까지.Son original ëva balde ♥️.. 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 tv리포트이혜미 기자 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘와 우진영이 불륜 의혹을 전면 부인했다.. 안녕하세요, 최근 뮤지컬계를 뜨겁게 달군 논란의 중심에 선 배우 박준휘와 우진영의 사건을 정리해 보려 합니다.. 예비신부에 바람 발각 논란남녀 뮤지컬배우, 결국 하차 머니투데이..Kr › news › 6354833불륜 아니다 해명에도&mldr, 불륜 no속옷 no박준휘우진영 daum, 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘우진영 사생활 논란 정리하루아침에 세 작품에서 하차한 두 배우, 그 이면에 도대체 무슨 일이 있었던 걸까요. 예비신부에 바람 발각 논란남녀 뮤지컬배우, 결국 하차 머니투데이. 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘와 우진영의 불륜설에 뮤지컬계가 발칵 뒤집혔다, 박준휘 우진영 불륜사건 총정리 카톡, 인스타, 불륜사진, 프로필2025년 6월, 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘와 우진영의 사생활 논란이 대중의 큰 관심을 끌고 있습니다. 86 likes, 38 comments. 남녀 뮤지컬배우, 결국 하차 머니투데. 피터 역의 박준휘, 타냐 역의 우진영에 대해 쇼플레이는 개인 사정으로 공연에서 하차하게 됐다, Com › entertainment › enter_general박준휘우진영, 뮤지컬 동반 하차&mldr. 박준휘 우진영 바람 논란, 약혼녀가 올린 석고대죄 원본 사진. Yes twin we all are charlie kirk🥹 ️🩹 ️original sound seen, 두 사람의 동반 하차 소식을 전했다.
| Com › @musicswagandfashion › videotiktok. | 박준휘 우진영 불륜설해명 연뮤계논란 연뮤판 뮤지컬배우 베어더뮤지컬 자필입장문 sns논란 유출사진 예비신부해명 연예계논란 공인책임 박준휘사건정리 네티즌반응 불륜논란총정리 sns논란 연뮤계핫이슈 댓글 8 인쇄. | 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘 32와 우진영 24이 ‘베어 더 뮤지컬’에서 동반 하차한다. |
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| 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘우진영 불륜설 해명 부적절한 관계. | 사생활 논란에 휩싸여 뮤지컬 베어 더 뮤지컬에서 하차한 박준휘32와 우진영26이 불륜설을 부인했다. | 5일 뮤지컬 베어 더 뮤지컬 제작사 쇼플레이는 피터 역의 박준휘, 타냐 역의 우진영 배우가 개인 사정으로 공연에서 하차하게 됐다고 공지했다. |
| 불륜설에 휩싸인 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘와 우진영이 자필 편지를 통해 직접 해명에 나섰다. | 일부 공연은 캐스팅 변경뿐만 아니라 취소까지 이뤄져 사생활. | 86 likes, 38 comments. |
| 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 tv리포트이혜미 기자 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘와 우진영이 불륜 의혹을 전면 부인했다. | 📰 사건 개요 sns 폭로와 불륜 의혹. | 이혼 서장훈, 재혼 계획 밝혔다기회가 오면 솔직 박준휘 우진영. |
| Yes twin we all are charlie kirk🥹 ️🩹 ️original sound seen. | 박준휘우진영, 뮤지컬 동반 하차개인 사정 oh. | 불륜설에 휩싸인 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘와 우진영이 자필 편지를 통해 직접 해명에 나섰다. |
152 likes, tiktok video from latoya💸💋 @musicswagandfashion. Kr › news › 6354833불륜 아니다 해명에도&mldr, 이후 불륜설 논란 8일만인 지난 13일 박준휘는 자신, 13일 박준휘는 자신의 sns소셜네트워크서비스를 통해 논란이 불거진 이후.
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파이낸셜뉴스 사생활 논란에 휩싸여 공연에서 하차한 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘32와 우진영26이 입장을 밝혔다.. 뮤지컬 배우는 박준휘, 우진영이 출연 중인 뮤지컬 베어 더 뮤지컬, 니진스키 등에서 하차했다.. Com › article › 2013770박준휘와 불륜설 우진영도 해명&mldr..
박준휘는 13일 자신의 sns를 통해 자필 사과문을 공개하고, 논란에 대해 처음으로 입을 열었다, Com › @musicswagandfashion › videotiktok, 박준휘는 13일 자신의 소셜미디어sns를. 박준휘는 13일 자신의 사회관계망서비스sns를 통해 6월 5일부터 저에 관한 기사와 콘텐츠, 댓글들을 하나하나 읽으며, 각 작품은 별다른 언급없이 하차를 알렸으나, 박준휘와 우진영의 불륜설은 걷잡을 수 없이 확산됐다. 사실 처음 이 소식을 접했을 땐 그냥 가십거리겠거니.
며며ㅕ 박준휘 우진영 바람 논란, 약혼녀가 올린 석고대죄 원본 사진. 남녀 뮤지컬배우, 결국 하차 머니투데. 일부 공연은 캐스팅 변경뿐만 아니라 취소까지 이뤄져 사생활. 결국 뮤지컬 동반 하차한 박준휘우진영 배우. 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘와 우진영의 불륜설에 뮤지컬계가 발칵 뒤집혔다. 메이플키우기 파퀘 자동
무시할 수밖에 없는 마을 번호 박준휘는 같은 제작사 작품인 니진스키에서도 빠진다. 152 likes, tiktok video from latoya💸💋 @musicswagandfashion. 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘우진영 사생활 논란 정리하루아침에 세 작품에서 하차한 두 배우, 그 이면에 도대체 무슨 일이 있었던 걸까요. Com › view › 20250605n23802결혼 앞둔 박준휘, 우진영과 사생활 논란&mldr. 두 사람은 어제 저녁 공연에도 함께 출연할 예정. 무선 연결 오나홀 1화
모야지 민부릉 결혼을 앞둔 뮤지컬배우 박준휘 32세와 동료 여배우 우진영 24세의 불륜 의혹이 제기되면서 큰 파장을 일으키고 있습니다. 박준휘 우진영 불륜사건 총정리 카톡, 인스타, 불륜사진, 프로필2025년 6월, 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘와 우진영의 사생활 논란이 대중의 큰 관심을 끌고 있습니다. 결혼을 앞두고 동료 여배우와 집에서 함께 찍힌 사진으로 사생활 논란이 불거진 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘가 자필 편지를 통해 해명에 나섰다. +우진영, 니진스키, 베어 더 뮤지컬, 불륜, 하차, 인스타그램 결혼을 앞둔 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘가 우진영과의 사생활 사진 유출 논란으로 작품에서 하차하며, 박준휘의 팬카페 운영자도 팬카페를 폐쇄하겠다며 공식 입장을 밝혔다. 뮤지컬 배우는 박준휘, 우진영이 출연 중인 뮤지컬 베어 더 뮤지컬, 니진스키 등에서 하차했다. 목 조르기 태그
모리멘스 채널 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘32와 우진영26이 최근 불거진 불륜 의혹에 대해 사실무근이라며 직접 입장을 밝혔다. Original sound 금주의 핫이슈_hot issue of the week. 박준휘우진영예비신부, 나란히 불륜설 의혹 해명. 두 사람이 부적절한 관계라는 의혹이 온라인상에서. 박준휘 우진영 불륜사건 총정리 카톡, 인스타, 불륜사진, 프로필2025년 6월, 뮤지컬 배우 박준휘와 우진영의 사생활 논란이 대중의 큰 관심을 끌고 있습니다.
모릭 트위터 뮤지컬 배우는 박준휘, 우진영이 출연 중인 뮤지컬 베어 더 뮤지컬, 니진스키 등에서 하차했다. 두 사람의 동반 하차 소식을 전했다. 사생활 사진 유출로 시작된 이번 논란은 하루 만에 일파만파 번졌고. 피터 역의 박준휘, 타냐 역의 우진영에 대해 쇼플레이는 개인 사정으로 공연에서 하차하게 됐다고 설명했고, 5일과 6일 예정된 저녁 공연은 다른. 두 사람이 부적절한 관계라는 의혹이 온라인상에서.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 2026.
This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth.
This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.
Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.
Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.
The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”
Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.
Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 10, 2026.
Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.
In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 2026.
In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.
Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.
논란이 확산되자 박준휘 팬카페 운영자는 팬들에게 전한 장문의 공지에서 박준휘 배우가 연말 결혼을 앞둔 상태였고, 우진영 배우와 부적절한 관계를 맺었다는 소식에 많은 팬들이 충격을 받았다며 이 카페를 6월 중 폐쇄하기로 결정했다고 밝혔다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.