실제 러시아 에서 파티 분위기 낸답시고 수영장에 드라이아이스를 들이부었다가 질식 사망자가 나온 사례도 있다.

검사관 부검결과 4두에서는 질식, 비장종대, 청색증 등 소견이 나온 것으로 알려졌다.

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 2, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 2, 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 2, 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 2, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 2, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 2, 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 2, 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.

드라이아이스에서 발생한 이산화탄소 기체를 들이마시면 어지럼증이나 호흡곤란의 증세가 발생할 위험성이 있다. 몇몇 사람들은 아파트 화재에서 그들의 수면 중에 비극적으로 질식사 read more. 음식이나 작은 물체가 목에 걸려 기도를 막으면 질식을 일으킬 수 있습니다. 다 합쳐서, 공기를 차단하면서 자기 스스로 성적인 쾌락을 느끼는 걸 의미해.

질식의 정의 질식이란 생체에 필요한 산소 섭취와 탄산가스의 배출, 즉 호흡에 의한 가스 교환이 어떤 원인으로 장애된 상태를 말하며 이로 인한 사망을 질식사라 한다.. 감독은 질식 예방에 도움이되는 가장 중요한 요소 중 하나입니다.. 어떤 원인으로 외호흡이나 내호흡이 원활하게.. 호흡하는 공기 성분에 산소 농도가 낮거나 없는 경우..
차세대 ai 번역기 윌리ai와 함께라면 영어 울렁증 완전 정복, 음식물에 의한 질식사고를 예방하려면, 아이가 먹는 음식은 작은 조각으로 자르고 나서 먹이는 게 좋다, 29 안전보건환경분야에서 업무를 수행하다보면, 질식이라는 이야기를 듣는다.

질식 증상, 위험, 응급처치, 진단 및 치료.

窒息질식 ▶ 實用漢文房 아름다운 人生, 이성복장도착증 異性服裝倒錯症 의상도착적 페티시즘 transvestic fetishism transvestism, 에듀인뉴스인터넷뉴스팀 窒 息막힐 질穴11, 2급 숨쉴 식心10, 4급그는 목을 비트는 질식의 고통 속에서 신음 소리를 내듯 울부짖었다. 글쓴이가 질식제에 대하여 정리해보겠다. 차세대 ai 번역기 윌리ai와 함께라면 영어 울렁증 완전 정복. Condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body 39명이 질식 사했고, 그 외에도 약 30명이 부상당했습니다. 아이가 물에 빠져 질식할 뻔했지만 다행히 곧 구조되었다, 가 딱딱한 음식을 급하게 먹으면 질식할 위험이 있대. Suffocate 동사질식사하다, 질식시키다 뜻, 용법, 그리고.

질식 영어로 번역하면 Suffocation.

질식은 외호흡폐호흡과 내호흡조직호흡의 장애를 총칭하는 것으로 외호흡만의 장애에 의한 것을 외질식, 내호흡의 장애에 의한 것을 내질식이라고 한 read more. 180석으로 국민의 입을 틀어막고 국민의 대표의 입을 틀어막은 민주주의 질식 사건이다. 주로 코와 입이 막히는 경우, 기도가 막히는 경우, 가슴이 눌리는 경우 질식이 발생한다, 질식 원인, 증상, 진단, 치료 및 예방, 주관적으로 질식은 극심한 공기 부족을 의미하며, 종종 죽음에 대한 두려움을 동반합니다. 몸에 필요한 산소 섭취와 탄산가스 의 배출, 곧 호흡에 의한 가스 교환에 장애가 발생하여 사망한 것을 말한다.

호흡 부전이 발생하면 협착음과 함께 청색증이 발생할 수 있습니다, 호흡 공기 중의 산소결핍에 의한 생명정지의 절박한 상태 또는 실제로 정지가 일어난 상태로 저산소증이 초래되는 것을 질식, asphyxia라고 한다. Nsvd normal spontaneous vaginal delivery, 자연 질식 분만을 의미하고, 구체적인 의미와 실제 사용 예시를 배워보세요.

자궁 속에서 태변을 누는 것은 태아가 질식 상태에 있다는 징조 중 하나입니다, 숨통이 막히거나 산소가 부족하여 숨을 쉬지 못하다. 호흡 부전이 발생하면 협착음과 함께 청색증이 발생할 수 있습니다.

출혈이나 색전증, 패혈증, 마취의 합병증을 감수해야 하기 때문이다. 교사 기도가 막혀서 죽는 경우는 사실상 없다. 출혈이나 색전증, 패혈증, 마취의 합병증을 감수해야 하기 때문이다.

주아무개씨가 10월4일 질식 사망한 대형 파이프.

하지만 일반적으로 제왕절개는 질식분만보다 위험하다. 몇몇 사람들은 아파트 화재에서 그들의 수면 중에 비극적으로 질식사 read more. 질식하다 窒息하다 발음 질씨카다 활용 질식하는 질씨카는, 질식하여 질씨카여 질식해 질씨캐, 질식하니 질씨카니, 질식합니다 질씨캄니다 질식 품사 「동사」. 질식재해의 원인과 예방대책에 대해 알아봅시다.
몇몇 사람들은 아파트 화재에서 그들의 수면 중에 비극적으로 질식사 read more. 숨통이 막히거나 산소가 부족하여 숨을 쉬지 못하다. 180석으로 국민의 입을 틀어막고 국민의 대표의 입을 틀어막은 민주주의 질식 사건이다. 호흡하는 공기 성분에 산소 농도가 낮거나 없는 경우.
안녕하세요, 오늘은 임신 및 분만과 관련된 3가지 의학용어에 대해서 설명드리려고 합니다. 입이나 코, 기도가 이물질로 막혀버리면 공기를 마시고 read more. 공식약자가 아닌 것들이 많아서 병원마다 쓰는. 가 딱딱한 음식을 급하게 먹으면 질식할 위험이 있대.
정의생체에서 이산화탄소와 산소의 가스교환이 되지 못하는 상태를 말한다. 신생아 가사neonatal asphyxia 질환백과 의료정보. 호흡 부전이 발생하면 협착음과 함께 청색증이 발생할 수 있습니다. 냉각소화, 질식조화, 억제소화 부촉매소화 총 3가지로 나눌 수 있습니다.
일반적으로 외질식을 가리키는 경우가 많다. Several people tragically suffocated in their sleep in the apartment fire. Thirtynine people died from asphyxia, and some 30 more were injured. 이 문서는 parsoid 로 렌더링되었습니다.

이 내용에서 우리는 질식의 원인을 추구하고 질식에 대한 효과적인. 이는 공기가 충분히 공급되지 않아 생기는 현상으로, 목구멍이 막히거나 폐에 이상이 생겨 호흡기관에 문제가 있는 경우 발생할 수 있습니다, 이 문서는 parsoid 로 렌더링되었습니다. 글쓴이가 질식제에 대하여 정리해보겠다, Kr › index › 질식질식 위키원, 하다 be suffocated choked stifled smothered.

질식 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.

음식이나 작은 물체가 목에 걸려 기도를 막으면 질식을 일으킬 수 있습니다. 내용은 크리에이티브 커먼즈 저작자표시동일조건변경허락 라이선스 에 따라 사용할 수 있으며, 추가적인 조건이 적용될 수 있습니다. 이성복장도착증 異性服裝倒錯症 의상도착적 페티시즘 transvestic fetishism transvestism.

주아무개씨가 10월4일 질식 사망한 대형 파이프. 하다 be suffocated choked stifled smothered, 일반적으로 외질식을 가리키는 경우가 많다. 다 합쳐서, 공기를 차단하면서 자기 스스로 성적인 쾌락을 느끼는 걸 의미해. 그런데 이 용어는 원래 맥박이 없는 상태를 가리키는 것으로서 없다라는 접두어 a에 맥박이라는 그리스어 sphyxis와 상태라는 접미어 ia가 합쳐서 된. 전형적인 기관지 폐쇄의 경우, 질식 발작은.

Nsvd normal spontaneous vaginal delivery, 자연 질식 분만을 의미하고, 질식 영어로 번역하면 suffocation. 주아무개씨가 10월4일 질식 사망한 대형 파이프. 실제 러시아 에서 파티 분위기 낸답시고 수영장에 드라이아이스를 들이부었다가 질식 사망자가 나온 사례도 있다.

Thirtynine people died from asphyxia, and some 30 more were injured. Prom premature rupture of membrane, 조기 양막 파수를 의미합니다, 질식 증상, 위험, 응급처치, 진단 및 치료. 질식은 외호흡 폐호흡과 내호흡 조직호흡의 장애를 총칭하는 것이며, 외호흡만의 장애에 의한 것을 외질식, 내호흡의 장애에. 질식하다 窒息하다 발음 질씨카다 활용 질식하는 질씨카는, 질식하여 질씨카여 질식해 질씨캐, 질식하니 질씨카니, 질식합니다 질씨캄니다 질식 품사 「동사」, 분명한 난산의 위험이 있으면 제왕절개가 유리하지만, 일반적인 경우에는 질식분만에 비해 사망률이 7배에 달한다 네덜란드 기준.

헤이즈 야짤 드라이아이스에서 발생한 이산화탄소 기체를 들이마시면 어지럼증이나 호흡곤란의 증세가 발생할 위험성이 있다. 이 문서는 2025년 7월 29일 화 2325에 마지막으로 편집되었습니다. Com › 1279096질식 코메디닷컴. 공기가 기도의 좁아진 부분을 통과할 때, 협착음 stridor이라고 하는 멀리서 나는 호흡음이 발생합니다. 질식하다 窒息하다 발음 질씨카다 활용 질식하는 질씨카는, 질식하여 질씨카여 질식해 질씨캐, 질식하니 질씨카니, 질식합니다 질씨캄니다 질식 품사 「동사」. 항저우 스웨디시

호텔리어 연봉 디시 주아무개씨가 10월4일 질식 사망한 대형 파이프. ※※계속 수정 & 업데이트 중입니다※※ 가끔 산부인과에서 받은 진단서나 검사결과지, 수술기록지에 나온 약자를 궁금해하시기도 하고, 의대생이나 인턴들도 잘 모르는 경우가 있고, 간혹 타과 의사분들이 물어보는 경우도 있어서 정리해봤습니다. 어떤 원인으로 외호흡이나 내호흡이 원활하게. 그러나 태변이 있다고 해서 반드시 가사 상태라고 할 수는 없습니다. Asphyxia는 질식의 공식적인 용어입니다. 헬로워크 디시

혜정잉 관장 동의어 질식 asphyxia, 그리스어 asphyxia 맥박 없음에서 유래. 정의생체에서 이산화탄소와 산소의 가스교환이 되지 못하는 상태를 말한다. 외계와 허파의 교통이 두절되어 허파의 호흡작용이 장애되는 것 외질식과 가스나 약제에 의해 생체내 조직의 가스교환이 방해를 받는 것 내질식이 있다. 정의생체에서 이산화탄소와 산소의 가스교환이 되지 못하는 상태를 말한다. 이는 공기가 충분히 공급되지 않아 생기는 현상으로, 목구멍이 막히거나 폐에 이상이 생겨 호흡기관에 문제가 있는 경우 발생할 수 있습니다. 화요 하이볼 디시

해원 아헤가오 이는 공기가 충분히 공급되지 않아 생기는 현상으로, 목구멍이 막히거나 폐에 이상이 생겨 호흡기관에 문제가 있는 경우 발생할 수 있습니다. Pprom preturm premature rupture of membrane, 만삭전 조기 양막 파수를 의미합니다. 질식은 신체가 정상적인 생리 기능을 유지하는 데 필요한 충분한 산소를 공급받지 못하는 상태로 정의됩니다. 한자공부 窒息질식 자는 구멍을 막다stop up a hole는 뜻을 나타내기 위한 것이었으니 구멍 혈穴이 의미요소로 쓰였다. 1 통계상 12분 이내 질식 상태를 해소할 경우 별다른 외상 없이 생존할 가능성이 95%에 이르지만 3분을 기점으로 급격하게 감소하기 시작하여 6.

향기로운 꽃은 늠름하게 핀다 디시 질식 증상, 위험, 응급처치, 진단 및 치료. 대한안전교육협회 네이버 블로그 산업안전시리즈 23개의 글 목록열기. 해서 죽다 사하다 be suffocated choked to death die from by suffocation. 몇몇 사람들은 아파트 화재에서 그들의 수면 중에 비극적으로 질식사 read more. 정의 질식제는 생체에서 이산화탄소와 산소의 가스교환이 되지 못하게 하는 제제입니다.

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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

실제 러시아 에서 파티 분위기 낸답시고 수영장에 드라이아이스를 들이부었다가 질식 사망자가 나온 사례도 있다., 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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