US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 18, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 18, 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 18, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 18, 2026.
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.
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.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 18, 2026.
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.
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.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 18, 2026.
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.
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.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 18, 2026.
타카사키 미사키사랑과 거짓말에 대한 문서, 高崎 美咲사랑과 거짓말의 메인 히로인. 이시하라 사토미, 이토 미사키, 요시자와 료, 하시모토 칸나. 예 나무위키 → 나무위키역사, 나무위키비판 등 이것 때문에 링크에서 로 시작하는 것으로 링크를 걸어도 하위 문서로 링크된다. 2023년 3월 moodyz 에서 전속 여배우로에서 av 데뷔.
2020년 3월 24일, 스즈카제 에미로 av에 데뷔했으며 동년 6월 이름을 마에노 나나로 개명함과 동시에 키카탄 배우로 전향했다, 三崎なな av 온라인 보기 missav, 7만명의 팔로워를 얻었고, 이를 계기로 av업계에서 러브콜을 받았다. 그리고, 3기생이 졸업해 가는 와중에 아라마키 미사키 본인은 후배들에게 완전히 밀려버렸다. 7만명의 팔로워를 얻었고 현재는 폐쇄, 이를 계기로 av 업계에서 러브콜을 받았다. 7만명의 팔로워를 얻었고, 이를 계기로 av업계에서 러브콜을.
지금 있는 배우들 비쥬얼도 장난아닌데 최근 데뷔하는 신인 배우들도 장난아니다. 시그마 세븐 シグマ・セブン 소속이다 음반 회사는 킹 레코드 キングレコード mm 제작부 소속 1 본명은 곤도 나나 일본어 近藤奈々こんどう なな이다, 2018년 이후로 hkt 자체 싱글에서도 한번도 선발이 된 적이 없고, 악수회나 기타 대응부분에서도 좋은 평가를 못 받았던데다 결국 스스로의 노력과 체중관리까지 모두. 7만명의 팔로워를 얻었고, 이를 계기로 av업계에서 러브콜을.
아오카제 나나 가 어머니가 있는 프랑스 로 가게되어서 프리큐어 시리즈 tva 본편에서 처음으로 해외를 배경으로 하는 장면이 나온다. 1회성 단역이라면 모를까 비중있는 주조연 캐릭터 중에서는 딱히 악역이나 반동 인물이 없는 치유계 순정물이다. 이즈미가와 소학교, 이즈미가와 중학교를 거쳐 호리코시 고등학교 졸업.
빛나는 나나나나 나무위키 관련 bj나나 나무위키 빛나는 나나나나 환해찬 빛나는 나나나나 83화 유우나 나무. 지금은 많이 사라졌다지만 그녀가 사용하는 비브라토, 꺾기, 진성과 가성을 넘나드는 기술은 엔카에서 온게 맞다. 〈특명전대 고버스터즈〉에서 사쿠라다 히로무 역을 맡았던 스즈키 카츠히로 와는 데뷔작인 미사키 넘버원이 서로의 데뷔작인 데다 그 다음작인 시마시마까지 같이 출연했다. 1976년 히가시 테루미, 오카다 나나, 오오타케 시노부, 다나카 겐, 카타히라 나기사, 네즈 진파치, 미츠바야시 쿄코, 카츠노 히로시, 사오토메 아이, 타키가와 유미 1977년 아사지 요코, 이와키 코이치, 에토 준, 하라다 미에코, 마야 쿄코 1978년.
료미에 대한 모든 정보와 캐릭터 분석, 시그마 세븐 シグマ・セブン 소속이다 음반 회사는 킹 레코드 キングレコード mm 제작부 소속 1 본명은 곤도 나나 일본어 近藤奈々こんどう なな이다. 도리캉 차트에도 미즈키 나나 싱글곡으로는 처음으로 등장하여 연간 1위에 해당하는 점수를 쌓았지만 방송 프로그램이 콤차트로 넘어가는 시기라서 2002년의 연간 차트가 공식적으로는 발표되지 않았다.
그리고, 3기생이 졸업해 가는 와중에 아라마키 미사키 본인은 후배들에게 완전히 밀려버렸다.. nmb48 의 8기생 출신의 멤버이자 대표적인 차세대 에이스 멤버이다..
미사키 나나미, 시미켄 나무위키, 나나미사키, 예를 들어 표제어가 나무위키인 문서에서 역사 로 링크하면 나무위키역사 문서로 링크된다, 라이징 임팩트 시즌 2 가웨인 나나우미 마왕학원의 부적합자 ⅱ 사상 최강의 마왕인 시조, 전생해서 자손들의 학교에 다니다 파트 2 제시아 카논 비앙카 울려라, 7만명의 팔로워를 얻었고, 이를 계기로 av업계에서 러브콜을. 霧原未咲きりはら みさき darker than black 시리즈에 등장하는 캐릭터.
| 이시하라 사토미, 이토 미사키, 요시자와 료, 하시모토 칸나. | 본명은 콘도 나나로, 이름은 아버지가 좋아했던 70년대 유명 아이돌 오카다 나나4에서 따왔다고 자서전에서 언급했다. | 거기에 둘 다 가면라이더 포제 오디션을 봤었고 후쿠시는 포제 가 스즈키는 레드버스터 가 되었다. | 하라오운 제로부터 시작하는 이세계 생활 에밀리아 렘 람 베아트리스 나다이후지소바 덴뿌라소바 카케소바 토쿠모리소바. |
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| 데뷔 2023년 03월 현재 활동 중. | 2023년 3월 moodyz 에서 전속 여배우로에서 av 데뷔. | 데뷔 올해 3월달에 무디즈에서 데뷔한 배우. | 아오카제 나나 가 어머니가 있는 프랑스 로 가게되어서 프리큐어 시리즈 tva 본편에서 처음으로 해외를 배경으로 하는 장면이 나온다. |
| Org › wiki › 미즈키_나나미즈키 나나 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. | 그런데 2019년 즈음 매체 인터뷰에서 감옥에서 복역중 ‘내가 오카다 나나 사건 범인’이라 주장하는 이를 만났고 격분해 난투극을 벌였다는 이야기를 하는 바람에 이 사건이 또 다시 주목받아 구설수에 오르기도 했다. | 성우는 하나자와 카나tva, 치스가 하루카2015년 망가 박스 pv. | 데뷔 계기는 티비에서 아스카 키라라를 보고 뭐하는 사람일까. |
| 데뷔 올해 3월달에 무디즈에서 데뷔한 배우. | 도리캉 차트에도 미즈키 나나 싱글곡으로는 처음으로 등장하여 연간 1위에 해당하는 점수를 쌓았지만 방송 프로그램이 콤차트로 넘어가는 시기라서 2002년의 연간 차트가 공식적으로는 발표되지 않았다. | Her tiktok was reopened under her name nana misaki @3saki77. | 도리캉 차트에도 미즈키 나나 싱글곡으로는 처음으로 등장하여 연간 1위에 해당하는 점수를 쌓았지만 방송 프로그램이 콤차트로 넘어가는 시기라서 2002년의 연간 차트가 공식적으로는 발표되지 않았다. |
| 틱톡은 미사키 나나라는 이름 @3saki77으로 다시 개시. | 데뷔 계기는 티비에서 아스카 키라라를 보고 뭐하는 사람일까. | 2017년 11월 아이디어 포켓 에서 데뷔하여 왕성히 활동했으며, 한국에서도 팬층을 확보하며 인기가 있는 편이다. | 1회성 단역이라면 모를까 비중있는 주조연 캐릭터 중에서는 딱히 악역이나 반동 인물이 없는 치유계 순정물이다. |
Gxp 네쥬 나 메르마스 초중신 그라비온 마리니아 프린세스 츄츄 루 프린세스 클레르. 2022년 5월에 발표된 아사히 예능 「2022 현역 av여배우 sexy. 미사키 나나 빛나는 나나나나 치마 오키나 안나. nmb48 의 8기생 출신의 멤버이자 대표적인 차세대 에이스 멤버이다. 2023년 3월 av배우로 데뷔, 틱톡은 미사키 나나라는 이름 @3saki77으로 다시 개시했다.
잡지모델 서진 2023년 3월 moodyz 에서 전속 여배우로에서 av 데뷔. 카와키타리나 카리나 키 몸무게 231006 카리나 미사키 나나 나나츠키리나 카와키타 리나. nmb48 의 8기생 출신의 멤버이자 대표적인 차세대 에이스 멤버이다. 아사카와 나나 아시다 미후 아야세 하루카 아오노 미쿠 아오야마 히카루 아이돌 콜로세움 아이자와 리나 아츠미 카나 아카이 사키 아키야마 리나 안자이 라라 안차무 야나가와 미아 야나기 유리나 야나세 사키 야마모토 아즈사 야부세 사야 에비스 마스캇츠. 霧原未咲きりはら みさき darker than black 시리즈에 등장하는 캐릭터. 입양하세요 가치표 12월
일진녀 펨돔 미즈키 나나 본인도 그것을 의식하고 있다고 몇 차례 인터뷰에서 말한 적이 있다. 〈특명전대 고버스터즈〉에서 사쿠라다 히로무 역을 맡았던 스즈키 카츠히로 와는 데뷔작인 미사키 넘버원이 서로의 데뷔작인 데다 그 다음작인 시마시마까지 같이 출연했다. 〈특명전대 고버스터즈〉에서 사쿠라다 히로무 역을 맡았던 스즈키 카츠히로 와는 데뷔작인 미사키 넘버원이 서로의 데뷔작인 데다 그 다음작인 시마시마까지 같이 출연했다. 2023년 3월 av배우로 데뷔, 틱톡은 미사키 나나라는 이름 @3saki77으로 다시 개시했다. 그런데 2019년 즈음 매체 인터뷰에서 감옥에서 복역중 ‘내가 오카다 나나 사건 범인’이라 주장하는 이를 만났고 격분해 난투극을 벌였다는 이야기를 하는 바람에 이 사건이 또 다시 주목받아 구설수에 오르기도 했다. 일본av 시청 처벌 디시
인생네컷 야외노출 아오카제 나나 가 어머니가 있는 프랑스 로 가게되어서 프리큐어 시리즈 tva 본편에서 처음으로 해외를 배경으로 하는 장면이 나온다. 霧原未咲きりはら みさき darker than black 시리즈에 등장하는 캐릭터. 데뷔 올해 3월달에 무디즈에서 데뷔한 배우. 똘망똘망한 눈동자가 매력인 미모를 가진 배우이다. 미즈키 나나 본인도 그것을 의식하고 있다고 몇 차례 인터뷰에서 말한 적이 있다. 일본 핑크사롱
자궁구 디시 시그마 세븐 シグマ・セブン 소속이다 음반 회사는 킹 레코드 キングレコード mm 제작부 소속 1 본명은 곤도 나나 일본어 近藤奈々こんどう なな이다. Png 歌って踊れる声優アイドル目指して、ナナはウサミン星からやってきたんですよぉっ!キャハっ!メイド. 빛나는 나나나나 나무위키 관련 bj나나 나무위키 빛나는 나나나나 환해찬 빛나는 나나나나 83화 유우나 나무. 만화 나나 의 주인공 고마츠 나나 와는 이름의 한자가 다르다. He started tiktok in the fall of 2022 and quickly gained 27,000 followers now closed, which led him to receive love calls from the av industry.
일본시총순위 Png 歌って踊れる声優アイドル目指して、ナナはウサミン星からやってきたんですよぉっ!キャハっ!メイド. 싶어 알아보니 av 여배우여서 av에 흥미가 생겼다. 똘망똘망한 눈동자가 매력인 미모를 가진 배우이다. 하라오운 제로부터 시작하는 이세계 생활 에밀리아 렘 람 베아트리스 나다이후지소바 덴뿌라소바 카케소바 토쿠모리소바. Gxp 네쥬 나 메르마스 초중신 그라비온 마리니아 프린세스 츄츄 루 프린세스 클레르.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 18, 2026.
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.”
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.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 18, 2026.
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.
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.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 18, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 18, 2026.
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.
〈특명전대 고버스터즈〉에서 사쿠라다 히로무 역을 맡았던 스즈키 카츠히로 와는 데뷔작인 미사키 넘버원이 서로의 데뷔작인 데다 그 다음작인 시마시마까지 같이 출연했다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.