내 11살 나이 차이, 너무 심한 걸까.

나이차 11살 연애 이별 마이너 갤러리.

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 18, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 18, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 18, 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 18, 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.

우리나라는 너무 그 나이라는거에 직잡하는게 잇음. Im솔로 광수 솔직히 못생겼는데 주식투자 필독 미국 주식으로 돈 벌고 세금으로 다 뺏기기 싫으면 꼭 보세요. Day ago 연애상담 질문상담 인기글 목록 2026. Com › board › view단독 11살 차이 이규한유정, 공개 연애 1년만 결별 기타 국내.

아이온2 영혼각인 디시

처음 이야기할때부터 나이 오픈했고 나는 21살이라길래 거부감 들어서 그만하자 했는데 자기는 괜찮대. 유리한 일에도 불리한 일에도 나이를 더 먹었다는게 벼슬이 되는거지. Com › board › view단독 11살 차이 이규한유정, 공개 연애 1년만 결별 기타 국내. 가끔 실시간 방송을 했으며, 영상을 저장하지 않을 때도 있었다, 전 67살 차이도 크다고 생각해서 거절한 경우도 있었거든요. 주위에서 보는 시선이나, 부모님 반대나 c 처음엔 10살씩이나 차이 날 거라고 생각 못했습니다. 썸연애 12살 어린 여대생이 나를 좋다해서 큰일이야. Com 나이차이많이나는연애 나이차이많이나는커플 연애 나이차이연애 10살이상나이차이커플. 내 11살 나이 차이, 너무 심한 걸까. 그러나 상황에 따라 다르기 때문에 정답은 없다. 11살 차이 나는 연애해 봤던 얘기해줌. 남자가 가스라이팅, 모르는걸 알려주면 듣기 싫어하고 나이는 11살이나 많으면서 하는 행동은. 그 사람이 나한테 사귀면서 알아가볼래. 톡선에 있는 글보고 글 남겨요저는24살여자고 남친은 35살이에요11살 차이이고 만난지는 4년 넘었어요저는 아직 취업을 준비하고있는 상태고,그래서 돈이많이없어요데이트할때 73으로 더치페이하는 식인데제가 워낙 돈없는 생활이 익숙해지고물욕도 없는편이라 쓰는돈이 없어서감당할수있는.
Com 나이차이많이나는연애 나이차이많이나는커플 연애 나이차이연애 10살이상나이차이커플.. 그 사람이 나한테 사귀면서 알아가볼래.. 11살차이 연애는 데이트비 어떻게 하는게 맞다고 생각해..
Intruder 첨엔 썸탔는데 나이차 극복못하고 헤어지고 여자측에서 모든연락차단하고 여자쪽에서 술마시고 하고싶을때마다 연락옴 한달네번정도 만남 read more, 우리는 11살 나이차이 커플이고, 나는 29살 오빠는 40살이다, 내 11살 나이 차이, 너무 심한 걸까. 가끔 실시간 방송을 했으며, 영상을 저장하지 않을 때도 있었다. 아이유 1993유인나 1982 나도 나이관련 좀 유연하게 생각하는게 맞다고 생각함, 27살여자에게 자꾸 추근대는 38살남자때문에 곤란하다 는 이야기.

Day ago 연애상담 질문상담 인기글 목록 2026, 남자친구는 전에 사귀던 사람이랑 아이가 있는데, 나는 그 아이랑 꽤 잘 지내. 아직 연애단계 아니고 그 사람이랑 지금 4번째 만남입니다, 가장 많은 조회수를 기록한 유튜브 read more. 그러나 두 사람은 최근 연인 관계를 정리하며 다시 동료로 돌아간 것으로 전해졌다. 전 67살 차이도 크다고 생각해서 거절한 경우도 있었거든요.

아이돌 가슴 디시

주 콘텐츠는 잡담, 먹방, 일상, 화장, 페미니즘, 우리는 11살 나이차이 커플이고, 나는 29살 오빠는 40살이다. 우리나라는 너무 그 나이라는거에 직잡하는게 잇음. 남자가 가스라이팅, 모르는걸 알려주면 듣기 싫어하고 나이는 11살이나 많으면서 하는 행동은. 27살 38살 차이 별로 안난다 등 진짜 이런가요. 그냥 어디다가 이야기할 곳이 없어서 여기에나마 하소연해봐업무적으로 우연찮게 알게된 여대생이 있는데24살이야난 36살처음 봤을때부터 나에게 연락처 알고싶다해서내가 알려줬거든.

27살 38살 차이 별로 안난다 등 진짜 이런가요. 저는 21살 상대는 36살 남자입니다중학교때 미술선생님인데 5년을 서로 기다렸어요제가 미성년자라서 극구 절 무서워하시던분을 중학교 졸업할때쯤부터 고등학교 졸업할때까지이사람아니면 안될거같아서 미친듯이 괴롭힌결과 세상 눈, 11살차이 연애 데이트비 어케 해야돼ㅠ, 라고 그러는데 저도 계속 만나보니까 사람이 괜찮고 상대방 배려심도 좋고 되게 성숙해요.

아키 천사 동인지

아키 똥게이

Im솔로 광수 솔직히 못생겼는데 주식투자 필독 미국 주식으로 돈 벌고 세금으로 다 뺏기기 싫으면 꼭 보세요, 싱글벙글 37살에 11살 연하와 결혼한 썰 ㅇㅇ 2025. 우리나라는 너무 그 나이라는거에 직잡하는게 잇음.

나이차 11살 연애 이별 마이너 갤러리. 남자쪽에서 여자 부하직원한테 고백했다가 그 여직원이 참다못해 퇴사했다는 뉴스를 넘 많이 봐서, 저는 21살 상대는 36살 남자입니다중학교때 미술선생님인데 5년을 서로 기다렸어요제가 미성년자라서 극구 절 무서워하시던분을 중학교 졸업할때쯤부터 고등학교 졸업할때까지이사람아니면 안될거같아서 미친듯이 괴롭힌결과 세상 눈. 그래서 아래사람이 윗사람이랑 있는거 불편해.

아오이 이부키 수술

내가 성격이 너무 까탈스러워서 어린 티나거나 징징거리는걸 싫어해서 대부분 연상이랑만 연애했었는데 그 중 11살 차이3423, 7살 차이3327. 내가 11살 위고 짝녀내가 관심있는 여고사인데같이 밥먹자고 톡 보내면 어떠함, A는 그렇게 난생 처음으로 하게 된 연애를 11살 나이차 많은 남자와 하게 됐고, 그녀의 입을 빌려 말하자면 부유한 연애라고 했다, 그러나 두 사람은 최근 연인 관계를 정리하며 다시 동료로 돌아간 것으로 전해졌다. 저 27살이구요 11살 나이차이 나는 사람과 3년 연애하고 헤어졌는데요 정말 아닙니다 1년 지나가니까 가스라이팅 시작하고 저를 바꾸려고 하더라구요.

아이돌 섹터 뷰 뜻 우리나라는 너무 그 나이라는거에 직잡하는게 잇음. 주위에서 보는 시선이나, 부모님 반대나 c 처음엔 10살씩이나 차이 날 거라고 생각 못했습니다. 썸연애 구글 다니면 여친이 줄 설줄 알았다 부동산 김부장 정도만 되도 성공한 인생 아닐까. 나, 21여살인데, 남자친구32살랑 8개월 정도 사귀고 있어. 유리한 일에도 불리한 일에도 나이를 더 먹었다는게 벼슬이 되는거지. 아이온2 설정 디시

아크레이더스갤 아이유 1993유인나 1982 나도 나이관련 좀 유연하게 생각하는게 맞다고 생각함. 반대로 남자가 11살이 많으면 거부감이 덜한데 약간의 편견일 수는 있겠습니다만 숫자의 차이보다는 서로 얼마나 잘 통하느냐가 더 중요한 요소가 될 수도 있다고 생각합니다. 그 사람이 나한테 사귀면서 알아가볼래. 썸연애 구글 다니면 여친이 줄 설줄 알았다 부동산 김부장 정도만 되도 성공한 인생 아닐까. 저 27살이구요 11살 나이차이 나는 사람과 3년 연애하고 헤어졌는데요 정말 아닙니다 1년 지나가니까 가스라이팅 시작하고 저를 바꾸려고 하더라구요. 아카리 토카

아카네 미타니 나, 21여살인데, 남자친구32살랑 8개월 정도 사귀고 있어. 썸연애 12살 어린 여대생이 나를 좋다해서 큰일이야. 11살차이 연애 데이트비 어케 해야돼ㅠ. Intruder 첨엔 썸탔는데 나이차 극복못하고 헤어지고 여자측에서 모든연락차단하고 여자쪽에서 술마시고 하고싶을때마다 연락옴 한달네번정도 만남 read more. Com › qna › dirs11살 차이 연애 네이버 지식in m. 아카 유렉카

아키 디시 짤 톡선에 있는 글보고 글 남겨요저는24살여자고 남친은 35살이에요11살 차이이고 만난지는 4년 넘었어요저는 아직 취업을 준비하고있는 상태고,그래서 돈이많이없어요데이트할때 73으로 더치페이하는 식인데제가 워낙 돈없는 생활이 익숙해지고물욕도 없는편이라 쓰는돈이 없어서감당할수있는. Com 나이차이많이나는연애 나이차이많이나는커플 연애 나이차이연애 10살이상나이차이커플. 사용자 평가를 바탕으로 선정된 top 100 인기 애니 목록을 제공합니다. 아직 연애단계 아니고 그 사람이랑 지금 4번째 만남입니다. 반대로 남자가 11살이 많으면 거부감이 덜한데 약간의 편견일 수는 있겠습니다만 숫자의 차이보다는 서로 얼마나 잘 통하느냐가 더 중요한 요소가 될 수도 있다고 생각합니다.

아이온2 블루스택 디시 주 콘텐츠는 잡담, 먹방, 일상, 화장, 페미니즘. 27살 38살 차이 별로 안난다 등 진짜 이런가요. 27살여자에게 자꾸 추근대는 38살남자때문에 곤란하다 는 이야기. 11살 차이 나는 연애해 봤던 얘기해줌. 썸연애 구글 다니면 여친이 줄 설줄 알았다 부동산 김부장 정도만 되도 성공한 인생 아닐까.

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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

내 11살 나이 차이, 너무 심한 걸까., 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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