당시 여성들이 자신의 애인이나 배우자 휴대전화 번호를 유흥 탐정에 의뢰한 뒤 성매매 업소 출입 기록이 나오면 헤어지거나 파혼하는 일이 발생하기도 했다.

당시에도 개인정보보호법 위반 소지가 있다는.

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 14, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 14, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 14, 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 14, 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.

업소 주인이 인터뷰에서 아마 인터뷰인줄 모르고 성매매 인정했던데 그럼 그 가게도 수사입건되나요. 정보유흥업소 출입기록 확인 유흥탐정 삼성 라이온즈 갤러리. 그는 과거 성매매 업소를 운영한 경험이 있는 지인 b씨의 제안을 받고 함께 범행했다. 22일 경기 남부경찰청은 개인정보보호법 위반과 성매매 처벌법 위반 등 혐의로 모바일 앱 운영자 a씨40대남와 인출책 b씨60대남, 공범 c씨30대 여 등 3명을 구속.

경기남부경찰청 생활안전과는 개인정보보호법 위반 및 성매매알선 등 행위의. 나한테 들이밀면서 개난리피우는데 짜증난다 일단 아니라고 잡아뗏는데. 출처 kopis 체조경기장이라 시야도 다 좋아. 1일 검색동향을 분석해 주는 `네이버 트렌드`에 따르, 인천경찰청 스웨디시 마사지 성매매 단속 관련.

전국 6400개 성매매 업소를 상대로 5100만건의 성매수남 정보를 불법 수집해 공유한 모바일 앱 운영자 등 3명이 구속 송치됐다.

스웨디시마사지단속, 인천청 연락 받았다면 이제 시작입니다, 막 디시 글처럼 아니라고 증거있냐고 적반하장가볼까 생각도 했는데, 유튜브 관련영상보니 확실한 증거 갖고 호출하는거니 소용없다고 변호사가 그러더라 그래서 걍 후회하며 조사했지 여름휴가기간에 조사했는데 풍속 단속부서 여경분이 조사하는데. Com › page › view남편남친 성매매 업소 기록 알려줄게&mldr. 조사 결과 그는 과거에 성매매 업소를 운영한 경험이 있는 지인 b씨의 제안을 받고 함께 범행했다, 22 152536 차민주 인턴 기자 facebook 공유 twitter kakao email 복사 뉴스듣기. 전국 6400개 성매매 업소를 상대로 5100만건의 성매수남 정보를 불법 수집해 공유한 모바일 앱 운영자 등 3명이 구속 송치됐다.

3일 연합뉴스 취재를 종합하면 최근 남성들의 유흥업소 출입 내용을 확인해주겠다고 홍보하는 이른바 유흥 탐정이 다시 성행하는 분위기다.

이들은 유흥업소 출입기록을 온라인에서 확인해주는 ‘유흥탐정’등에도 개인 정보를 넘긴 것으로, 조회 가능한 기간의 제한이 없고 날짜와 업소명, 자세한 장소까지 전부 조회가 가능합니다. Dailymed contains labeling for prescription and nonprescription drugs for human and animal use, and for additional products such as medical gases, devices, cosmetics, dietary. 3일 연합뉴스 취재를 종합하면 최근 남성들의 유흥업소 출입 내용을 확인해주겠다고 홍보하는 이른바 유흥 탐정이 다시 성행하는 분위기다.

성매매 업소 출입기록 5100만건 정보. 이들은 유흥업소 출입기록을 온라인에서 확인해주는 ‘유흥탐정’등에도 개인 정보를 넘긴 것으로. 성매매업소 출입기록 다뜬다5100만건 성매수男 정보 담긴 앱.

막 디시 글처럼 아니라고 증거있냐고 적반하장가볼까 생각도 했는데, 유튜브 관련영상보니 확실한 증거 갖고 호출하는거니 소용없다고 변호사가 그러더라 그래서 걍 후회하며 조사했지 여름휴가기간에 조사했는데 풍속 단속부서 여경분이 조사하는데.

남편의 유흥업소 출입으로 이혼을 원한다고 말하고 상담을 시작했는데 그랬더니 그게 뭐냐길래 유흥업소 간 기록 조회하는거라 했더니 한숨을 푹 쉬.. 인천경찰청 스웨디시 마사지 성매매 단속 관련.. To search for words and phrases within a text, locate the text in the textual database or wiki section, then use the fulltext search function.. 22일 경기 남부경찰청은 개인정보보호법 위반과 성매매 처벌법 위반 등 혐의로 모바일 앱 운영자 a씨40대남와 인출책 b씨60대남, 공범 c씨30대 여 등 3명을 구속..

실제로 장부나 휴대전화에는 업소 매출 내역, 고객 출입 기록, 이용 코스와 금액은 물론, 내부 직원과 고객 간 주고받은 대화, 후기성 기록까지 상세히 포함되어 있어. 성매매 업소 운영자 지인과 범행, 여성 의뢰인들에게 남편이나 남자친구의 성매매 업소 출입 기록을 몰래 알려주고 억대 수입을 올린 ‘유흥 탐정, 22일 경기 남부경찰청은 개인정보보호법 위. 다음 시간에는 더 유익한 정보로 가지고 오겠습니다. 관리사와 손님간의 스케줄이 가능한지 확인하기 위함도 있습니다.

그는 과거 성매매 업소를 운영한 경험이 있는 지인 B씨의 제안을 받고 함께 범행했다.

인천 스웨디시 성매매 업소 대대적 단속, 피의자 조사 본격화. 오늘 이렇게 업소 기록에 대해서 알아보는 시간을 가져보았는데요. Kr › news › articleview성매매업소 출입남성들까지 수사 확대될까 경찰 업소 출입기록 510. 배우자나 연인의 유흥 및 퇴폐업소 출입 기록을 확인주는 `유흥탐정`이 다시 성행할 조짐이다.

이들이 불법 수집한 성매수남 정보는 보이스피싱 범죄자 등도 이용한 것으로 조사됐다. 여성 의뢰인들에게 돈을 받고 남편이나 남자친구의 성매매 업소 출입 기록을 몰래 알려준 이른바 유흥 탐정이 징역형의 집행유예를 선고받았다. 22 152536 차민주 인턴 기자 facebook 공유 twitter kakao email 복사 뉴스듣기, 휴게텔,건마도 그렇고 예쁘고 어린 짱깨들 대거 유입되면서 푸엉이들 이.

신뢰할 수 있는 형사변호사 상담은 yk에서 시작하세요, 막 디시 글처럼 아니라고 증거있냐고 적반하장가볼까 생각도 했는데, 유튜브 관련영상보니 확실한 증거 갖고 호출하는거니 소용없다고 변호사가 그러더라 그래서 걍 후회하며 조사했지 여름휴가기간에 조사했는데 풍속 단속부서 여경분이 조사하는데. 마사지 자주가는 형들 알겠지만 이제 경기도권은 무조건 중국마사지가 가성비 갑임. 경기남부경찰청 생활안전과는 개인정보보호법 위반 및 성매매알선 등 행위의, 조회 가능한 기간의 제한이 없고 날짜와 업소명, 자세한 장소까지 전부 조회가 가능합니다.

배우자나 연인의 유흥 및 퇴폐업소 출입 기록을 확인주는 `유흥탐정`이 다시 성행할 조짐이다.

성매매男 460만명업소 출입기록 유출 여행동남아 갤러리. 1일 검색동향을 분석해 주는 `네이버 트렌드`에 따르. 오늘 이렇게 업소 기록에 대해서 알아보는 시간을 가져보았는데요.

마법소녀 마녀재판 한글패치 22일 경기 남부경찰청은 개인정보보호법 위반과 성매매 처벌법 위반 등 혐의로 모바일 앱 운영자 a씨40대남와 인출책 b씨60대남, 공범 c씨30대여 등 3명을 구속. 업소db 용도는 성매매 단속을 피하기 위해서 만든거다. 인천 스웨디시 성매매 업소 대대적 단속, 피의자 조사 본격화. 22 152536 차민주 인턴 기자 facebook 공유 twitter kakao email 복사 뉴스듣기. 마사지 자주가는 형들 알겠지만 이제 경기도권은 무조건 중국마사지가 가성비 갑임. 마음잉

마크 선명한 비주얼 휴게텔,건마도 그렇고 예쁘고 어린 짱깨들 대거 유입되면서 푸엉이들 이. Kr › news › articleview성매매업소 출입남성들까지 수사 확대될까 경찰 업소 출입기록 510. 스웨디시마사지단속, 인천청 연락 받았다면 이제 시작입니다. Com › moapia76 › 223609789001조심하세요 유흥탐정 네이버 블로그. 당시에도 개인정보보호법 위반 소지가 있다는. 마젠타 딸감

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마리망 갤러리 티안에서 불법행위가 이루어지는 곳은 무조껀 손님 번호 저장한다. Com › board › view오피 장부 단속으로 덜덜 떠는 동발럼 보셈。 여행동남아 갤러리. 조사 결과 그는 과거에 성매매 업소를 운영한 경험이 있는 지인 b씨의 제안을 받고 함께 범행했다. 전국 6400개 성매매 업소를 상대로 5100만건의 성매수남 정보를 불법 수집해 공유한 모바일 앱 운영자 등 3명이 구속 송치됐다. To search for words and phrases within a text, locate the text in the textual database or wiki section, then use the fulltext search function.

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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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

당시 여성들이 자신의 애인이나 배우자 휴대전화 번호를 유흥 탐정에 의뢰한 뒤 성매매 업소 출입 기록이 나오면 헤어지거나 파혼하는 일이 발생하기도 했다., 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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