종이책 위주의 동인활동을 지속하고 싶은 작가들의 모임 이라는 슬로건으로 트위터 등에서 카페를 홍보하여 성인동 소설에 관심있는 독자들뿐만 아니라 성인동에 반감을 가지고 있었던 독자들의 유입이 이루어졌다.

창원시 공식 트위터창원광장 @cwopenspace.

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 12, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 12, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 12, 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 12, 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.

광명시, 19개 동 순회 ‘새해맞이 시민과의 대화’ 마무리 박승원 시장 시정의 출발점이자 완성점은 시민 광명시장 일직동 행정복지센터 ‘시민과의 대화‘ 광명시가 1월 19일부터 시작한 ‘새해맞이 시민과의 대화’를 30일 일정 종료를 끝으로 마무리했다. 국가철도공단 gtx 개통, 달라질 나의 일상 영상사연 공모전. 26 0921 댓글 0 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 26일 서울 수락산에서 산불이 발생해 인근 수암사 3개동이 전소됐다 사진뉴시스. 안양역 센트럴 아이파크 수자인은 경기도 안양시 만안구 안양2동 8415번지 일대에 지하 4층지상 최고 35층, 8개동, 전용면적 3984㎡, 총 853세대 규모로 들어선다.

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시는 도심 속 방치되어 붕괴 위험이 컸던 적산가옥을 포함해 현재까지 빈집 총 26개동을 철거했으며, 현재 13개소는 임시 공용주차장, 임시 쉼터 등, 종이책 위주의 동인활동을 지속하고 싶은 작가들의 모임 이라는 슬로건으로 트위터 등에서 카페를 홍보하여 성인동 소설에 관심있는 독자들뿐만 아니라 성인동에 반감을 가지고 있었던 독자들의 유입이 이루어졌다. 개동 @_gaedong posts 개그동아리 x formerly twitter. 국가철도공단 gtx 개통, 달라질 나의 일상 영상사연 공모전, 기타 모바일 개통 시 안면인증 시행 안내 2026, Com › board › best_article갑자기 이혼하자고 하는 와이프 엽기자랑 와이고수. 부산해양수산청은 오는 3월 말부터 총길이 1. 시는 도심 속 방치되어 붕괴 위험이 컸던 적산가옥을 포함해 현재까지 빈집 총 26개동을 철거했으며, 현재 13개소는 임시 공용주차장, 임시 쉼터 등, 이날 행사에는 이권재 오산시장과 이상복 오산시의회 의장, 송진영 오산시의회 의원을 비롯해 주민자치회 위원, 신장1동 단체장, 8개동 주민자치회연합회 회장 등 70여 명이 참석한 가운데, 제1대 김동필 회장의 노고를 기리고 제2대 권혁중 회장의 취임을 축하하는 뜻깊은 시간을 가졌다. Com120incheon에서 처리합니다, Day ago 코리아안전뉴스 오명하 기자 전주시는 30일 시청 4층 회의실에서 전주시 주민자치협의회회장 강민철와 간담회를 개최했다, 새롭게 출범한 주민자치회는 오는 2027년.

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인천시 @incheon_gov posts x.. 개동 @_gaedong posts x.. Com › reel › 1292656712701749광명시, 19개 동 순회 ‘새해맞이 시민과의 대화’ 마무리 박승원 시.. 부평구는 지난 19일부터 30일까지 15개 동 행정복지센터 등에서 제34기 주민자치회 위원 459명에게 위촉장을 수여했다..
Day ago 2026년 병오년 새해를 맞아 동작구가 12일부터 30일까지 15개 동을 순회하며 동 업무보고회를 개최했다. 창원에서 수서까지, srt가 9월 1일부터 운행됩니다, Com › country대구 수성구, 23개 동洞 행복수성 공감토크 개최로 현장 소통 강화.

2026년 1월 31일부터 모바일 개통 절차에 안면인증을 도입합니다, Days ago 대구 수성구구청장 김대권는 26일 범물1동을 시작으로 관내 23개 동洞 주민들과 직접 소통하는 ‘공감토크’를 순차적으로 진행한다. 개동 @rormehddkfl posts x, 26 0921 댓글 0 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 26일 서울 수락산에서 산불이 발생해 인근 수암사 3개동이 전소됐다 사진뉴시스, 인천광역시 대표 트위터입니다 민원과 관련된 내용은 120 및 인천시민원센터 twitter, 얼리 어답터로 유명한 주두산 박용만55사진 회장이 트위터를 통해 구글의 안드로이드폰인 넥서스원을 개통한 사실을 밝혔다.

이날 행사에는 이권재 오산시장과 이상복 오산시의회 의장, 송진영 오산시의회 의원을 비롯해 주민자치회 위원, 신장1동 단체장, 8개동 주민자치회연합회 회장 등 70여 명이 참석한 가운데, 제1대 김동필 회장의 노고를 기리고 제2대 권혁중 회장의 취임을 축하하는 뜻깊은 시간을 가졌다. Day ago hdc현대산업개발과 bs한양이 30일 안양역 센트럴 아이파크 수자인의 견본주택을 열고 본격적인 분양에 돌입했다. 인천시 @incheon_gov posts x. 개동남고 서형건 오너입니다 원래, 애프터부터가 커뮤의 진짜시작이라고 생각합니다,같이놀아요. 국가철도공단 gtx 개통, 달라질 나의 일상 영상사연 공모전, 여러분들의 많은 관심과 참여 부탁드립니다.

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얼리 어답터로 유명한 주두산 박용만55사진 회장이 트위터를 통해 구글의 안드로이드폰인 넥서스원을 개통한 사실을 밝혔다, Days ago 대구 수성구구청장 김대권는 26일 범물1동을 시작으로 관내 23개 동洞 주민들과 직접 소통하는 ‘공감토크’를 순차적으로 진행한다. 영천시, 도심 속 빈집정비사업 본격 추진.

시는 접수된 30여 건의 건의사항을 신속히 검토해 시정에 반영하겠다는 방침이다. 창원시 공식 트위터창원광장 @cwopenspace. 북항 재개발 사업지 배후도로인 충장로 지하차도가 오는 3월에 개통됩니다, 개동 @_gaedong posts x. Day ago hdc현대산업개발과 bs한양이 30일 안양역 센트럴 아이파크 수자인의 견본주택을 열고 본격적인 분양에 돌입했다. 22일금, 수서역에 gtx홍보관이 문을 엽니다.

새롭게 출범한 주민자치회는 오는 2027년, 26 0921 댓글 0 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 가나다라마바사 26일 서울 수락산에서 산불이 발생해 인근 수암사 3개동이 전소됐다 사진뉴시스. 22일금, 수서역에 gtx홍보관이 문을 엽니다. Com120incheon에서 처리합니다. 대전팍스경제tv 대전시가 유성복합터미널을 개통하며 도시철도와 시외고속버스를 잇는 서북부권 핵심 교통 거점을 본격 가동합니다.

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광명시, 19개 동 순회 ‘새해맞이 시민과의 대화’ 마무리 박승원 시장 시정의 출발점이자 완성점은 시민 광명시장 일직동 행정복지센터 ‘시민과의 대화‘ 광명시가 1월 19일부터 시작한 ‘새해맞이 시민과의 대화’를 30일 일정 종료를 끝으로 마무리했다. 개동남고 서형건 오너입니다 원래, 애프터부터가 커뮤의 진짜시작이라고 생각합니다,같이놀아요. 창원시 공식 트위터창원광장 @cwopenspace, 광명시, 19개 동 순회 ‘새해맞이 시민과의 대화’ 마무리 박승원 시장 시정의 출발점이자 완성점은 시민 광명시장 일직동 행정복지센터 ‘시민과의 대화‘ 광명시가 1월 19일부터 시작한 ‘새해맞이 시민과의 대화’를 30일 일정 종료를 끝으로 마무리했다, 자세한 내용은 국토교통부 블로그에서 확인, 연말에는 내년 3월 개통하는 gtx를 미리 체험해볼까요.

디시 읏 하이큐 새롭게 출범한 주민자치회는 오는 2027년. 창원에서 수서까지, srt가 9월 1일부터 운행됩니다. Days ago 대구 수성구구청장 김대권는 26일 범물1동을 시작으로 관내 23개 동洞 주민들과 직접 소통하는 ‘공감토크’를 순차적으로 진행한다. 지하철 9호선 하남연장 2032년 개통. 대전팍스경제tv 대전시가 유성복합터미널을 개통하며 도시철도와 시외고속버스를 잇는 서북부권 핵심 교통 거점을 본격 가동합니다. 덕코프 특효약 3

도란 햄버거 디시 시는 접수된 30여 건의 건의사항을 신속히 검토해 시정에 반영하겠다는 방침이다. 북항 재개발 사업지 배후도로인 충장로 지하차도가 오는 3월에 개통됩니다. 22일금, 수서역에 gtx홍보관이 문을 엽니다. 국가철도공단 gtx 개통, 달라질 나의 일상 영상사연 공모전. Day ago 2026년 병오년 새해를 맞아 동작구가 12일부터 30일까지 15개 동을 순회하며 동 업무보고회를 개최했다. 던전에 숨어든 얀데레 그녀에게 나는 몇 번이고 죽는다 31화

덕배 야동 시는 접수된 30여 건의 건의사항을 신속히 검토해 시정에 반영하겠다는 방침이다. 영천시, 도심 속 빈집정비사업 본격 추진. 종이책 위주의 동인활동을 지속하고 싶은 작가들의 모임 이라는 슬로건으로 트위터 등에서 카페를 홍보하여 성인동 소설에 관심있는 독자들뿐만 아니라 성인동에 반감을 가지고 있었던 독자들의 유입이 이루어졌다. Com › nws_web › mobile주민 일상의 작은 불편부터 해결 동작구청장, 15개 동 순회 현장. 부산해양수산청은 오는 3월 말부터 총길이 1. 도란 디시

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데일리플랜 키 디시 시는 도심 속 방치되어 붕괴 위험이 컸던 적산가옥을 포함해 현재까지 빈집 총 26개동을 철거했으며, 현재 13개소는 임시 공용주차장, 임시 쉼터 등. 종이책 위주의 동인활동을 지속하고 싶은 작가들의 모임 이라는 슬로건으로 트위터 등에서 카페를 홍보하여 성인동 소설에 관심있는 독자들뿐만 아니라 성인동에 반감을 가지고 있었던 독자들의 유입이 이루어졌다. 국가철도공단 gtx 개통, 달라질 나의 일상 영상사연 공모전. 창원시 공식 트위터창원광장 @cwopenspace. Days ago 대구 수성구구청장 김대권는 26일 범물1동을 시작으로 관내 23개 동洞 주민들과 직접 소통하는 ‘공감토크’를 순차적으로 진행한다.

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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

종이책 위주의 동인활동을 지속하고 싶은 작가들의 모임 이라는 슬로건으로 트위터 등에서 카페를 홍보하여 성인동 소설에 관심있는 독자들뿐만 아니라 성인동에 반감을 가지고 있었던 독자들의 유입이 이루어졌다., 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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