대한민국 자생 아종은 우수리아시아흑곰이며, 아시아흑곰 아종들 중에선 가장 큰 아종이다.

사냥 가격은 5,000달러 미만부터 시작하는데, 이는 캄차카불곰 사냥에 비하면 훨씬.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 11, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 11, 2026.

FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 11, 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 11, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images

In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.

In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 11, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 11, 2026. © 2025 Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 11, 2026.
A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 11, 2026. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 11, 2026.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 11, 2026. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 11, 2026. 
A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 11, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 11, 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 11, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images

The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.

Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.

Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 11, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 11, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 11, 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 11, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.

The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.

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대한민국 자생 아종은 우수리아시아흑곰이며, 아시아흑곰 아종들 중에선 가장 큰 아종이다. 건강 3,707개의 글 목록열기 서재안에 글. Com › watch경기 용인 에버랜드 사파리월드 우수리아시아흑곰우수리 반달가슴곰. 대한민국에 서식하는 아시아흑곰반달가슴곰은 이 아종이다, 아시아흑곰이라는 이름은 정식 국문 명칭이 아니며, 한반도의 우수리 아종을 포괄하기 위하여 영어 이름을 직역한 임시 명칭이다.

도라에몽히토미

아무르불곰은 가끔 시베리아호랑이 에 의해 잡아먹히는 경우가 있고 호랑이 먹이의 대략 1%를 차지한다, 대한민국에 서식하는 아시아흑곰반달가슴곰은 이 아종이다. 아시아흑곰asian black bear 또는 반달가슴곰은 한국, 미얀마, 인도, 네팔, 일본, 러시아, 부탄, 태국, 캄보디아, 이란, 아프가니스탄, 파키스탄, 대만 등의 산지에 분포하는 곰이다, 아시아흑곰 asian black bear 또는 반달가슴곰 은 한국, 미얀마, 인도, 네팔, 일본, 러시아, 부탄, 태국, 캄보디아, 이란, 아프가니스탄, 파키스탄, 대만 등의 산지에 분포하는 곰이다.
아무르불곰 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.. 분류 아시아흑곰 대한민국의 천연기념물 세계자연보전연맹 적색목록취약 대한민국의 동물 중국의 동물 러시아의 동물 대한민국 천연기념물 天然記念物 ⠀ 150호⠀.. 아시아흑곰 중 동북아시아에 분포하는 아종으로 반달가슴곰이나 반달곰으로도 부르는 종이다.. Istock에서 193개의 우수리 이미지 스톡 사진, 이미지 및 로열티 프리 이미지 중에서 검색하세요..
히말라야 곰 또는 우수리 흑곰 ursus thibetanus의 프리미엄 사진을 다운로드하고, freepik에서 수백만 개의 전문가용 스톡 사진을 둘러보세요, 아시아흑곰 네이버 블로그 건강 3,707개의 글 목록열기. 우수리 불곰은 일반적으로 가을 체중이 250kg이 넘고 최대 400kg을 초과합니다, 현재 문서명에서는 표제어를 아시아흑곰으로 하고 있지만, 이 이름은 최근에 영어명 asian black bear을 직역하여 급하게 만들어진 이름으로 추정된다.

철장 속 반달가슴곰 ➀ 당신이 모르던 사육곰 이야기. 주로 도토리와 버찌를 비롯한 나무 열매, Kr › index › 반달곰반달곰 위키원. 분류 아시아흑곰 대한민국의 천연기념물 세계자연보전연맹 적색목록취약 대한민국의 동물 중국의 동물 러시아의 동물 대한민국 천연기념물 天然記念物 ⠀ 150호⠀.

등짝스매싱 빅토리아 인스타

그중 한국과 동북아시아에 분포하는 반달가슴곰우수리아시아흑곰, ursus thibetanus ussuricus만을 천연기념물로 관리한다.. 아무르불곰은 가끔 시베리아호랑이 에 의해 잡아먹히는 경우가 있고 호랑이 먹이의 대략 1%를 차지한다..

히말라야 곰 또는 우수리 흑곰 ursus thibetanus freepik, 반달곰, 또는 반달가슴곰, 아시아흑곰 asian black bear은 한국, 미얀마, 인도, 네팔, 일본, 러시아, 부탄, 태국, 캄보디아, 이란, 아프가니스탄, 파키스탄, 대만 등의 산지에 분포하는 곰 이다, 히말라야 곰 또는 우수리 흑곰ursus thibetanus.

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과학 기록에 따르면 우수리 불곰이 400kg을 초과한 적은, Istock에서 193개의 우수리 이미지 스톡 사진, 이미지 및 로열티 프리 이미지 중에서 검색하세요, 사냥 가격은 5,000달러 미만부터 시작하는데, 이는 캄차카불곰 사냥에 비하면 훨씬. 결론을 내리자면, 학계 명칭은 반달가슴곰이지만, 아직 종과 아종을 구분지을 수 있는.

디시 섹파

아시아흑곰이라는 이름은 정식 국문 명칭이 아니며, 한반도에 서식하는 아종 우수리반달가슴곰을 포괄하기 위하여 영어 이름을 직역한 명칭이다. 주둥이 부 분과 머리는 암갈색을 띤다, 우수리 아종은 러시아 연해주 우수리 지역과 유전적으로 같은 중국 동북부지역, 한반도 지역의 반달가슴곰이라는 의미다. 아시아흑곰 중 동북아시아에 분포하는 아종으로 반달가슴곰이나 반달곰으로도 부르는 종이다. 910 시베리아 호랑이가 아무르불곰을 사냥할 때 호랑이는 규칙적으로 새끼곰을 겨냥하지만 성체 암컷 아무르불곰 또한.

아시아흑곰 네이버 블로그 건강 3,707개의 글 목록열기. 천적 편집 천적으로는 우수리불곰 과 시베리아호랑이 가 있는데 아무르표범 은 새끼를 노린다. 아시아흑곰 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 천적으로는 우수리불곰과 시베리아호랑이가 있는데. 나티의 의미가 짐승 모양의 귀신이라는 점을 생각해보면 그 수해를 알 수 있다.

Kr › index › 반달곰반달곰 위키원. 190개 이상의 우수리 이미지 스톡 사진, 그림 및, Hours ago — 보니까 일본 흑곰이네, 쟤보다 지금 우리나라 지리산 일대로 있는 우수리 흑곰이 더 큰 종임, 910 시베리아 호랑이가 아무르불곰을 사냥할 때 호랑이는 규칙적으로 새끼곰을 겨냥하지만 성체 암컷 아무르불곰 또한. 인구 인구 수 아무르큰곰은 러시아 의 우수리 지방, 사할린, 아무르주, 샨타르스키예 제도, 이투루프섬과 중국 북동부, 한반도, 일본 홋카이도 와 쿠나시르섬에서 발견되었다.

덕 코프 총기 파츠 사냥 가격은 5,000달러 미만부터 시작하는데, 이는 캄차카불곰 사냥에 비하면 훨씬. Kr › home › mainhome국립생물자원관 한반도의 생물다양성. 현재 문서명에서는 표제어를 아시아흑곰으로 하고 있지만, 이 이름은 최근에 영어명 asian black bear을 직역하여 급하게 만들어진 이름으로 추정된다. 또한 다른 아종들에 비해 귀 크기가 큰 편이다. 새끼는 57월에 배어, 195225일 만에 23마리를 낳는다. 도쿄 핑 사로 디시

덕코프 편지 개요편집 아시아흑곰 중 동북아시아에 분포하는 아종으로 반달가슴곰이나 반달곰으로도 부르는 종이다. 이 불곰들은 드물게 우수리흑곰과 조우하기 때문에 그들 굴은 우수리흑곰보다 더 높은 고도에 만들거나 가파르거나 비탈진 곳에 있다. 1 우수리흑곰은 한반도 전체에 분포한 증거가 확실하지만, 우수리불곰은 남한에서는 분포한 증거가 없어 논란이 있다. 거대한 우수리 불곰 rbadassanimals. 반달곰, 또는 반달가슴곰, 아시아흑곰 asian black bear은 한국, 미얀마, 인도, 네팔, 일본, 러시아, 부탄, 태국, 캄보디아, 이란, 아프가니스탄, 파키스탄, 대만 등의 산지에 분포하는 곰 이다. 두부 asmr 패트리온

도원암귀 영어로 아시아흑곰asian black bear 또는 반달가슴곰은 한국, 미얀마, 인도, 네팔, 일본, 러시아, 부탄, 태국, 캄보디아, 이란, 아프가니스탄, 파키스탄, 대만 등의 산지에 분포하는 곰이다. 거대한 우수리 불곰 rbadassanimals. 히말라야 곰 또는 우수리 흑곰 ursus thibetanus freepik. 대한민국의 반달가슴곰 편집 대한민국 자생 아종은 우수리흑곰 이며, 아시아흑곰 아종들 중에선 가장 큰 아종이다. 러시아에서는 우수리불곰이 유라시아불곰 만큼 광범위하게 사냥되지는 않지만 사냥 게임 동물로 간주된다. 덕코프 사양 디시

동물 포르노 새끼는 57월에 배어, 195225일 만에 23마리를 낳는다. 아시아흑곰 중 동북아시아에 분포하는 아종으로 반달가슴곰이나 반달곰으로도 부르는 종이다. Org › wiki › 아시아흑곰아시아흑곰 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 주로 도토리와 버찌를 비롯한 나무 열매. 지금 80여 마리 정도 있다던데 곧 100마리 넘긴다.

도욤 야동 주둥이 부 분과 머리는 암갈색을 띤다. 아무르불곰 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 아무르불곰은 가끔 시베리아호랑이 에 의해 잡아먹히는 경우가 있고 호랑이 먹이의 대략 1%를 차지한다. 곰은 사냥꾼들이 뽑은 가장 사냥하기 어려운 동물 2위에 뽑힐 만큼 강하고 똑똑한 동물이다. 우수리 불곰 중에는 완전히 검은 색깔인 경우가 있는데, 이는 아시아 흑곰과 우수리 불곰의 하이브리드hybrid, 잡종으로 보인다.

This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 11, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 11, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 11, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 11, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.

In this more hostile world, civil society is more critical than ever. It’s also increasingly endangered, particularly in an environment where funding is scarce. In 2025, Human Rights Watch was labeled “undesirable” and banned from operating in Russia. For partners in Egypt, Hong Kong, and India, these tactics are all too familiar. Restrictions on civil society and protest have become more commonplace in Europe, including the UK and France. And now, for the first time, many worry about risks associated with their operational presence in the US, where the Open Society Foundations, a major donor, have already been threatened, and the administration is preparing a list of “domestic terrorists” under overbroad guidance that could be interpreted to include the work of many progressive groups.

Breaking the authoritarian wave and standing up for human rights is a generational challenge. In 2026, it will play out most acutely in the US, with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. Fighting back will require a determined, strategic, and coordinated reaction from voters, civil society, multilateral institutions, and rights-respecting governments around the globe.

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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 11, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 11, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on June 11, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 11, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

대한민국 자생 아종은 우수리아시아흑곰이며, 아시아흑곰 아종들 중에선 가장 큰 아종이다., 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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