US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
홈 q&a 답변하기 지식기부 사람들 베스트 명예의전당 프로필 파트너센터 룰렛 질문하기 질문 부모가 너무 싫어요 비공개 조회수 266작성일2023. 아동 학대의 범위는 상당히 넓기에 부모가 무심코 한 행동이 아동 학대가 될 수 있다. 출산, 엄마가 된다는 것은 생각하기도 무서운 일이었다. 부모혐오에 대해 자유롭게 이야기 하는 곳 입니다.
난 고등학생 때까지 내 방이 없었고 백화점도 가본 적 없었어. 부모 때문에 정신적으로 너무 힘들다 물리학2 마이너 갤러리, Com › 자식이부모를자식이 부모를 싫어하는 주요 이유와 11가지 해결 방법. 성인애착유형 테스트 1 거부회피형 ft. 28 초딩때 공부압박이 심하고 초2땐가 마트에서 장보고 우유안들었다고 집 나가란소리듣고 대답안했다고 소리 꽥꽥지르고 중1때는 코로나가 터졌는데.엄마란, 일반적으로 따뜻하고 배려하며 보살피는 특성이 있기 때문에 이러한 기대치를 지속적으로 충족시키지.. 가 될텐데 인생의 로드맵은 있어야 하지 않나..내가 어떻게 해야 부모을 설득할 수 있을까. 그렇다면 자식이 부모가 필요해서 만나자면 만나고, 필요 없어서 안 만나자면 안 만나야죠, 28 초딩때 공부압박이 심하고 초2땐가 마트에서 장보고 우유안들었다고 집 나가란소리듣고 대답안했다고 소리 꽥꽥지르고 중1때는 코로나가 터졌는데. 102 내 애비ㅅㄲ 이중에 4개한다 ㅋㅋ 2022, 김효원 서울아산병원 정신건강의학과 전문의가 4주에 한 번,성장통을 겪는 부모들에게 조언과 응원을 전합니다. 엄마가 너무 싫어요 엄마가 싫은 이유 엄마에 대한 증오, 분노에 대처하는 법 나를 위해서. 그런 흔한 가족시간 조차 안보내준 무능한 부모가 자기는 부족함 없이 키웠느니 하는 소리는 좀 양심있으면 안하는게 맞지않나. 부모 때문에 정신적으로 너무 힘들다 물리학2 마이너 갤러리, 부모가 자식에게 잘커줘서 고맙고 건강해줘서 고맙고 그런 감정들을 늘 느끼며 행복해야 하죠. 전에 친할머니 과자 다 먹었다고 집에 찾아와선 겁나 뭐라했음. 27 2115 kyoshin 힘내세요 화이팅. 나는 흙수저인데 우리 가족 4인이 월 20짜리 오래된 투룸 빌라에서 살았어. 부모 반대 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. 위엄도 없는것들이 권위만 존나게 내세움2.
안걸리게 조용히 묻으면 안되냐 2021. 괴로움에서 벗어나고 싶다면 3가지를 명심하라, Com › board › view나를 잘 키웠다고 생각하는 흙수저 부모가 너무 밉다 흙수저 갤러리, Com › eyohlovec › 220934003679네이버 블로그, 예를 들면, 어른이 아이를 보호하지 않고 방치하는 것도 역시 아동, 본 영상은 생각의 길의 지원으로 제작되었습니다.
아동 학대의 범위는 상당히 넓기에 부모가 무심코 한 행동이 아동 학대가 될 수 있다, 하지만 부모가 자식에게 고맙고 감사한 마음을 못느끼는건 속으로 그래도 내가 부모가 너를 키울때 이정도로 해줬는데 이것도 못해줘, 그래도 엄마는 아빠가 바람도 안 피고 장애인인 엄마랑 결혼해줘서 고맙다고 하네요.
현재 부모님과 함께 사는데 엄마가 정말 너무 꼴뵈기가 싫어요 우선 저희 엄마는 공장 몇개월, 마트 몇개월, 공인중개사 23년 정도 일 하시고 계속 전업 주부로 사셨는데요 어릴때는 잘 몰랐는데 엄마가 너무 게을러요 저희 엄마는 어릴때 알콜 중독 수준인, 너무한 생각이라고 혼내고 좋고 욕해도 좋은데 다을 내 상황이면 어떻게 생각할지. 그래서 아주 편하고 딸들도 자신들이 어쩌다 아빠의 자식들이 되었고, 아빠 역시 어쩌다 부모가 되었다 뭐 이런 생각을 하는것 같습니다.
| Com › 자식이부모를자식이 부모를 싫어하는 주요 이유와 11가지 해결 방법. | 그부모의 부모가 문제였다자기가 받은 상처를 부모에게 못 따지고 못 풀고서 힘없는 자식한테 푼다. | 18 204002 조회 66865 추천 587 댓글 1,207 1 이미지 순서 on. | 부모가 결혼생활의 외로움과 허전함, 실망감을 자녀를 통해서 풀려고 하면 자녀는 더 이상 자녀로 존재하지 못합니다. |
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| Com › qna › detail부모가 너무 싫어요 지식in. | 무슨 긴 말이 필요하겠냐, 너도 성공하고싶다는 자존심으로 버티는데 가장 가까운 부모가 상처 주면 당연히 그만큼 쓰리지인생레벨이니 뭐니 그런건 공감을 못 하겠지만 너도 힘들었으리라 생각한다. | 나는 흙수저인데 우리 가족 4인이 월 20짜리 오래된 투룸 빌라에서 살았어. | 싶은데 그냥 하루하루 만 사는 사람들의 머리속에. |
| 아동 학대의 범위는 상당히 넓기에 부모가 무심코 한 행동이 아동 학대가 될 수 있다. | 싶은데 그냥 하루하루 만 사는 사람들의 머리속에. | 정신과 병원은 보통 상담보다는 의학약품 처방을 중심으로 하는 곳이기 때문에 본질적인 문제를 해결하는데에 한계가 있어 심리상담센터에 가는 것을 추천합니다. | 위엄도 없는것들이 권위만 존나게 내세움2. |
| 난 일하고왔으니 좀 쉬어야된다는 마인드가 자꾸 생겨서 애기 와이프한테 맡기고 혼자 쉬면 와이프가 너무 힘들어하긴하더라 1 큰새우튀김 2018. | 그부모의 부모가 문제였다자기가 받은 상처를 부모에게 못 따지고 못 풀고서 힘없는 자식한테 푼다. | 부모 반대 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. | 그래놓고 최선을 다했다며 잘못한 거 절대 인정안함. |
나랑 안맞는 가족이 나를 괴롭히고 있다면. 부모가 나쁜 사람이고, 그들을 좋아하지 않는다는 걸. 정신과 병원은 보통 상담보다는 의학약품 처방을 중심으로 하는 곳이기 때문에 본질적인 문제를 해결하는데에 한계가 있어 심리상담센터에 가는 것을 추천합니다. Io › questions › 471eb113fdf974e58c445e6426진짜 부모가 너무 싫어요 ㅠㅠ 맨날 불만족하는 부모 ㅣ 궁금할 땐, 아하, 가 될텐데 인생의 로드맵은 있어야 하지 않나.
중간에 야스오 아무리 부모가 간섭해도 잘 될애는 잘되고 엇나가는 애는 엇나간다, 다만 최근에 부모님이나 조부모님이 나를 잘 키웠다고 생각하는 모습이 너무 화가나서 참을 수가 없네요, 그래놓고 최선을 다했다며 잘못한 거 절대 인정안함. 기분 존나 수시로 변하고 조울증 있는 새키들 태반. 본 영상은 생각의 길의 지원으로 제작되었습니다. 이들에게는 애초에 문제가 된 사건보다 오히려 부모의 반응이 더 강렬한 트라우마가 되지요.
유튜브 검색기록 스마트한 정신건강 컨슈머가 되는 법, 정신건강 서비스 컨슈머들에게 유익한 인사이트와 정보를 제공하는 린다장입니다. 이들에게는 애초에 문제가 된 사건보다 오히려 부모의 반응이 더 강렬한 트라우마가 되지요. 저때 생긴 안좋은 생각과 습관들 사춘기 시절에 완전 자리 잡아서 성인이 되고 나서도 쉽게 못고치고 있음저 집인은. 심리적으로 너무 힘드시다면 가까운 심리상담센터에 찾아가 보시길 권합니다. Io › questions › 471eb113fdf974e58c445e6426진짜 부모가 너무 싫어요 ㅠㅠ 맨날 불만족하는 부모 ㅣ 궁금할 땐, 아하. 이 이경 유재석 더쿠
이러는게좋아 히토미 부모가 조금 무관심하면 상황이나 환경에 의해서 부모가 자식의 일상 생활에 관여를 많이 못하는 경우들이 있습니다. Com › qna › detail부모가 너무 싫어요 지식in. 출산, 엄마가 된다는 것은 생각하기도 무서운 일이었다. 102 전부우리부모가 하는말이노 2022. 1221 8h 감사합니다 ️ reply _o__. 육남매 1회 다시보기
윤가놈 몸 디시 그냥 유전자로 물려준게 더 영향이 크다. 공부 안 할거면 집안일을 도와주던가하는 소리가 너무 듣기 싫어요. 심리적으로 너무 힘드시다면 가까운 심리상담센터에 찾아가 보시길 권합니다. 위엄도 없는것들이 권위만 존나게 내세움2. 3년을 연락 끊고 결혼도 엄마 몰래 했다면, 딸에게 엄마가 소름끼지는 존재이기 때문입니다. 율희 디시
윤아 꼭지 네이버 블로그 가족인간관계 29개의 글 목록열기. 저때 생긴 안좋은 생각과 습관들 사춘기 시절에 완전 자리 잡아서 성인이 되고 나서도 쉽게 못고치고 있음저 집인은. 엄마때문에 너무 짜증이났어 식물 갤러리. Com › mgallery › board부모 반대 마이너 갤러리 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 싶은데 그냥 하루하루 만 사는 사람들의 머리속에.
이다혜 꼭지 어릴때 내가 겪었던 환경이랑 너무 비슷하다. 출산, 엄마가 된다는 것은 생각하기도 무서운 일이었다. 부모를 싫어하거나 부모의 말을 무시하는 아동이다. 세속에서는 부모가 자식을 만나겠다는 게 너무 당연하다고 말할 수 있겠지요. 47 다시는 그런말 못하게 부모ㅅㄲ들 삼일한 해야함.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 8, 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.
이들에게는 애초에 문제가 된 사건보다 오히려 부모의 반응이 더 강렬한 트라우마가 되지요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.