16 안성재는 모수에서 그 당시 샌프란시스코의 신규 업장으로서는 신기록이었던 195달러의 디너 테이스팅 메뉴를 출시한다.

국적은 여전히 한국이지만, 생활터전을 해외로 옮긴 사람도 많다.

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 10, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 10, 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 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, August 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.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 10, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 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, August 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.

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 10, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 10, 2026.

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

이데일리 김형일 기자 홍준표 대구시장이 일제시대 우리 국적은 대한민국이라고 언급하며 김문수 고용노동부 장관 후보자의 발언을 비판했다. Day ago a씨는 지난 26일 오후 10시 15분쯤부터 다음날 오전 1시쯤 사이에 지인인 한국 국적 20대 여성 b씨가 머물고 있는 호텔에서 b씨를 갑자기 껴안아 몸을 만지고 입을 맞추는 등 추행한 혐의를 받는다. 우선 정대세의 아버지는 경북 의성군 출신의 대한민국 국적의 재일한국인 2세 2. 이후로도 더쿠 유저들은 일본과 한국이 코로나가 종식된 2023년을 기점으로 문화교류가 많아지자 일본이 자랑하는 문화 컨텐츠라고는 한남 들이 즐기는 애니와 게임뿐이다.

Day ago a씨는 지난 26일 오후 10시 15분쯤부터 다음날 오전 1시쯤 사이에 지인인 한국 국적 20대 여성 b씨가 머물고 있는 호텔에서 b씨를 갑자기 껴안아 몸을 만지고 입을 맞추는 등 추행한 혐의를 받는다, 하지만 한국이 점차 선진국 반열에 오르자 이주신고자 수는 2000년 1만5000명대로 감소하더니, 2014년에는 249명까지 줄었다. 마찬가지로 일본은 japan, 일본 사람은 japanese라고 하죠.

전보연 온리

김 장관은 10일 국회 환경노동위원회의 노동부 국정감사가 개시된 직후 해당 발언과 관련한.. Lixx instagram 사진 및 동영상 팔로워 23m명, 팔로잉 9명, 게시물 67개 felix @yong.. Com › 9199430913일본 페미 계정 트위터 국적표기 이후 더쿠 근황..
27일 홍 시장은 사회관계망서비스 sns에 을사늑약은 원천무효라고 국사책에 나와 있다며 일제시대 강제 병합됐지만, 우리 국적은 일본이. 이슈 지금까지 알려진 sm 신인 걸그룹 멤버 국적. 이때를 기점으로 제2의 ‘아메리칸 드림’을 꿈꾸며 한국.
이데일리 김형일 기자 홍준표 대구시장이 일제시대 우리 국적은 대한민국이라고 언급하며 김문수 고용노동부 장관 후보자의 발언을 비판했다. Days ago 2016년 2월, 샌프란시스코 에서 오너 셰프로서 본인의 첫 레스토랑 모수를 개업했다. 49%
29 6,461,010 공지 팁유용추천 더쿠에 쉽게 동영상을 올려보자. 최근 5년 2018년2022년간 우리나라 국적상실이탈자의 새 국적은 미국 56. 51%

정준영 프랑스 디시

그러나 세월호 참사, 경기침체 등이 이어지며 지옥보다 힘든 한국 사회를 빗댄 ‘헬조선’이라는 용어가 등장했다. 하면 독일이라고 하기, 엘리자베스 헬가 뮐러라고 이름 지어주기, 독일 오면 개큰환영해주기. Com › 9199430913일본 페미 계정 트위터 국적표기 이후 더쿠 근황. 호날두가 2016 유로에 우승하고 2016년, 2017년 2연속으로 발롱도르를 수상해 상승세를 탈 동안 메시는 3시즌 연속으로 챔스 8강에서 탈락하면서 활개치기 시작한 그분들 에 의해 메시의 국적, 팀 변경 드립이 본격적으로 확산되었는데, 2019년에 호날두의 성폭행. 여권이랑 신분증은 챙길 건데 국적확인서류는 어디서 발급받는 거야.

점니 실물

이후로도 더쿠 유저들은 일본과 한국이 코로나가 종식된 2023년을 기점으로 문화교류가 많아지자 일본이 자랑하는 문화 컨텐츠라고는 한남 들이 즐기는 애니와 게임뿐이다, 우선 정대세의 아버지는 경북 의성군 출신의 대한민국 국적의 재일한국인 2세 2. 어머니는 조선국적의 재일조선인 2세 이 조선국적은 북한을 뜻하는 조선민주주의인민공화국이 아니라 대한민국이 만들어지기 전 대한제국 or 조선을 의미함.
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한국은 영어로 south korea이고, 그 국적은 korean으로 표기돼요. 온라인 기사 댓글에 작성자의 국적을 표시하는 제도에 찬성하는 의견이 64%에 달하는 것으로 집계됐다, 어머니는 조선국적의 재일조선인 2세 이 조선국적은 북한을 뜻하는 조선민주주의인민공화국이 아니라 대한민국이 만들어지기 전 대한제국 or 조선을 의미함.

젤다 야스

김 장관은 10일 국회 환경노동위원회의 노동부 국정감사가 개시된 직후 해당 발언과 관련한, Net › square › 2897248899더쿠 내 영어 발음이 어느 나라 악센트인지 알아보기. 국적은 여전히 한국이지만, 생활터전을 해외로 옮긴 사람도 많다, Net › square › 648402697더쿠 정대세의 국적에 대해서 정리해보자.

존예 딸감 Net › square › 648402697더쿠 정대세의 국적에 대해서 정리해보자. Net › square › 3436578125더쿠 김문수 일제시대 국적, 복잡한 문제&mldr. 29 6,461,010 공지 팁유용추천 더쿠에 쉽게 동영상을 올려보자. Hours ago 유머 폭설중인 일본 공룡박물관 근황 2,332 35. 이에 샌프란시스코 유력지의 푸드 칼럼니스트 마이클 바우어는 모든 디쉬들이. 정우성 회계사 사진

제민경 과거 팬트리 놀쟈 그러나 세월호 참사, 경기침체 등이 이어지며 지옥보다 힘든 한국 사회를 빗댄 ‘헬조선’이라는 용어가 등장했다. 이에 샌프란시스코 유력지의 푸드 칼럼니스트 마이클 바우어는 모든 디쉬들이. 국적은 여전히 한국이지만, 생활터전을 해외로 옮긴 사람도 많다. 29 6,461,010 공지 팁유용추천 더쿠에 쉽게 동영상을 올려보자. 김 장관은 국회 예산결산특별위원회 종합정책질의에서 더불어민주당 이재강 의원이 김 장관은 일제 치하에서 살았던 우리 선조들의 국적이 일본이라고 말했다라고 지적하자 그러면 일본 국적이 아니면 어디 국적인가라고 되물었다. 존예 인플루언서의 시크릿라이프

조대녀 근황 그러나 세월호 참사, 경기침체 등이 이어지며 지옥보다 힘든 한국 사회를 빗댄 ‘헬조선’이라는 용어가 등장했다. 최근 5년 2018년2022년간 우리나라 국적상실이탈자의 새 국적은 미국 56. Days ago 2016년 2월, 샌프란시스코 에서 오너 셰프로서 본인의 첫 레스토랑 모수를 개업했다. Lixx님의 instagram 사진 및 동영상 보기. Net › square › 648402697더쿠 정대세의 국적에 대해서 정리해보자. 조개파티 바로가기 주소

조x라 풀팩 원룸 관리업체에 다니는 30대 직원이 혼자 사는 베트남 국적 여성의 원룸에 들어가 성폭행을 시도하고, 이를 제지당하자 1천만원 상당의 금품을 훔쳐 도주했다가 경찰에 붙잡혔다. 우리가 자주 듣는 나라들의 영어 이름과 그에 해당하는 국적 표현은 의외로 쉽고 간단한 경우가 많아요. Com › 9199430913일본 페미 계정 트위터 국적표기 이후 더쿠 근황. Hours ago 유머 폭설중인 일본 공룡박물관 근황 2,332 35. 그러나 세월호 참사, 경기침체 등이 이어지며 지옥보다 힘든 한국 사회를 빗댄 ‘헬조선’이라는 용어가 등장했다.

절검단 10단계 우리가 자주 듣는 나라들의 영어 이름과 그에 해당하는 국적 표현은 의외로 쉽고 간단한 경우가 많아요. Lixx님의 instagram 사진 및 동영상 보기. Day ago a씨는 지난 26일 오후 10시 15분쯤부터 다음날 오전 1시쯤 사이에 지인인 한국 국적 20대 여성 b씨가 머물고 있는 호텔에서 b씨를 갑자기 껴안아 몸을 만지고 입을 맞추는 등 추행한 혐의를 받는다. 그러나 세월호 참사, 경기침체 등이 이어지며 지옥보다 힘든 한국 사회를 빗댄 ‘헬조선’이라는 용어가 등장했다. Com › 9199430913일본 페미 계정 트위터 국적표기 이후 더쿠 근황.

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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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