스티치 영화가 탄생된 제작 배경과 감독의 창작세계 스티치 stitch는 디즈니의 2002년 애니메이션 영화로, 외계인과 소녀의 우정 이야기를 다룹니다.

하와이가 고향이라더니 거기 초코렛 상자에서 스티치 여자친구 발견.

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 19, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 19, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 19, 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 19, 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.

생각보다 너무 너무 즐거워서 하루가 너무 빨리 지나갔답니다༉‧₊˚. 오늘은 저희가 가장 좋아하는 디즈니 영화 중 하나인 스티치에 대해 이야기해보려고 합니다. Com › kimmisung08 › 40204932465스티치와 여자친구 엔젤의 페이퍼 토이 네이버 블로그. Com › disneya113 › 221835809164릴로 & 스티치 네이버 블로그.

스티치 릴로 & 스티치 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 생각보다 너무 너무 즐거워서 하루가 너무 빨리 지나갔답니다༉‧₊˚. 아직 시작도 안했는데 허술함이 폴폴 풍겨온다. 스티치의 여자친구로 스티치와 파티를 무척 좋아한다.
스티치와 닮은 여자캐릭터를 소개합니다.. 다들 좋아해주셨지만,또 몇몇분은 너무밝아서 애니메이션 버전 조금어두운 을 원하시는 분들도 계시더라구요..

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스티치의 눈을 하트로 만드는 스티치의 여자친구. Com › postview디즈니 스티치 귀여운 캐릭터 스티치 사진모음 네이버 블로그. 스티치 릴로 & 스티치 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 저 또왔습미당 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ많은분들이 사용해주시구 좋아해주시는이 안개용아바타 스티치버전. 스티치와 여자친구 엔젤의 페이퍼 토이 스티치는 릴로와 스티치에 나오는 캐릭터로 코알라를 닮은 귀여운 외모로 많은 사랑을 받은 캐릭터인데요. 머틀 에드먼즈 mertle edmonds 성우 미란다 페이지 월스, 릴리애나 머미 1편 이후, 에머리 후카노브리엘 코모 실사영화 유현지, 최민지 2편, tv시리즈, 함수정 9 리로이&스티치 훌라 강습에서 릴로와 같이 수업을 듣는 또래의 여자아이다, 여자친구로 유추하기 힘든 이름 gf, ㅇㅇ, 이름_나이, 00학번 김땡땡 처럼 누군가가 봤을 때 여자친구로 보이지 않는 이름은 피해주세요. 엔젤 인형 핑크 디즈니 스티치 여자친구 커플 토이 w73b679 ssg, 대학생때부터 좋아했던 스티치 귀여운모습도 좋은데 막 이빨을 드러내고 사악한, 릴로 & 스티치 뜻 캐릭터 원작과의 차이점 오하나 포스터 스티치2 안녕하세요 영화 인플루언서 뮤비뮤.
5월 31일 러너웨이 vs 루나틱하이 오버워치 감사제 특별전 이후, 러너와 꽃빈, 그리고 러너웨이 1기 선수들과의 뒷풀이 방송 중 용병계약은 끝나고, 팀에서 나온 것으로.. 한 집에서 같이 살지만 두 사람은 각자의 방식을 고집하느라 작은 일이든 큰일이든 잡은 마찰을 빚는다..
다림질후 핸드폰줄까지 연결한 모습입니다, 스티치 릴로 & 스티치 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 그래도 넘나 귀여운 스티치 보고, 오늘 하루 기분이 좋아질거 같네요 역시 귀여운 아이폰배경화면은 생활의 활력소 입니다, 이거는 그냥 귀여워서 가지고온 스티치.

걔네는 공항 펜스를 뚫고 활주로로 들어가서, 스티치가 비행기에 쳐들어가서 모든 조종사승객들을 기겁하게 만들어. 엔젤 엔젤은 스티치의 여자친구 게임에서 소개된 캐릭터로, 신비로운 성격으로 플레이어의 호기심을 자극합니다. 릴로와 스티치에 나오는 엔젤 캐릭터가 어떻게 만들어졌는지 아는 사람 있어. 스티치를 짱짱 좋아하는 여자친구를 위해 이번 발렌타인에는 초콜릿 대신 45cm급 스티치 인형 을 구입했다, 자신의 노래를 들려주는 것으로 외계생명체들을 조종할 수 있지만 1, 엔젤 이후에 만들어진 스티치와 루벤 에게는 통하지 않는다.

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릴로와 스티치 커플 아이폰배경화면 스티치 여자친구. Stitch liloandstitch angelstitch, 2002년 6월에 개봉한 월트 디즈니 애니메이션 스튜디오 의 42번째 장편 애니메이션으로 딘 데블로이스와 크리스 샌더스 가 연출했다. 그곳에서 스티치는 동물가게에 들어가 개처럼 행동하다가 릴로라는 소녀와 그녀의 언니가 스티치를 개로써 구입하고, 릴로는 그에게 스티치라 이름을 지어주었다. 눈부시게 화려하며 파티를 너무나 사랑하는 친구. 릴로 & 스티치 에서 줌바 주키바 박사의 외계 실험체 626호로 태어난다.

성우는 크리스 샌더스, 벤저민 디스킨스티치. 오늘은 저희가 가장 좋아하는 디즈니 영화 중 하나인 스티치에 대해 이야기해보려고 합니다. 엔젤 엔젤은 스티치의 여자친구 게임에서 소개된 캐릭터로, 신비로운 성격으로 플레이어의 호기심을 자극합니다.

Tv 시리즈 편집 tv 시리즈에서는 릴로와 함께 여러 실험체를 잡으며 22 점점 관계도 두터워지며 결국 엔젤 이라는 여자친구가 생긴다. 스티치 x 스티치여자친구엔젤미리보기안녕하세요. 구매처는정확히 기억이 안나는데 네이버 쇼핑 가격비교 에서 저렴하면서 리뷰가 달려있는 회사의 제품으로 선택했다. 이후 2006년 《리로이 & 스티치》를 최종장으로 하여 tv 시리즈가 막을 내렸다.
다들 좋아해주셨지만,또 몇몇분은 너무밝아서 애니메이션 버전 조금어두운 을 원하시는 분들도 계시더라구요. 도날드 덕의 테마곡 제목은 quack, quack, quack, donald duck. 유빈 kelly @kellykimkim7 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 스티치와 닮은 여자캐릭터를 소개합니다. 이름하여 체대생의 스티치 종이 인형 만들기.
스티치의 여자친구는 여전히 미스터리로 남아 있지만, 팬들은 영화, tv 프로그램, 비디오 게임 등 다양한 형태의 미디어를 통해 스티치와 친구들의 모험을 계속 즐기고 있습니다. 스티치와 여자친구 엔젤의 페이퍼 토이 스티치는 릴로와 스티치에 나오는 캐릭터로 코알라를 닮은 귀여운 외모로 많은 사랑을 받은 캐릭터인데요. 이후 2006년 《리로이 & 스티치》를 최종장으로 하여 tv 시리즈가 막을 내렸다. 우주 스티치의 눈을 하트로 만드는 스티치의 여자친구.
엔젤angel이라는 이름은 스티치가 지어주었다. Ohana는 가족 스티치 북마크 만화 카와이 페이지 마크 학교. 저는 이 엔젤 나오는 애니메이션은 보지 못했네요 ㅠㅠ 이거는 그냥 귀여워서 가지고온 스티치 아이폰 배경화면은 어찌이리 귀엽고 이쁜게 많은지 이 두개가 커플 반반 아이폰배경화면이예요 아고 안고 있는게 어찌나 이쁜지 ㅎㅎ 스티치 여자친구 완전 새초롬 하고요 이거또한 사이즈가 달라서. 스티치의 여자친구로 스티치와 파티를 무척 좋아한다.

스티치 릴로 & 스티치 오늘의ai위키.

릴로와 스티치에 나오는 엔젤 캐릭터가 어떻게 만들어졌는지 아는 사람 있어. 새로운 모험 김환진 야마데라 코이치 1 미이가. 저 또왔습미당 많은분들이 사용해주시구 좋아해주시는이 안개용아바타 스티치버전, 후속 시리즈에서 밝혀졌지만, 스티치 전에 줌바는 이미 625마리의 실험체를 만들었다. 스티치 의 여자친구 로 스티치와 파티를 무척 좋아한다.

릴로라는 이름의 여자꼬마가 주인공인데, 부모를 잃고 언니와 사는 릴로는. 스티치와 여자친구 엔젤의 페이퍼 토이 스티치는 릴로와 스티치에 나오는 캐릭터로 코알라를 닮은 귀여운 외모로 많은 사랑을 받은 캐릭터인데요. 스티치 x 스티치여자친구엔젤미리보기안녕하세요. 저는 이 엔젤 나오는 애니메이션은 보지 못했네요 ㅠㅠ 이거는 그냥 귀여워서 가지고온 스티치 아이폰 배경화면은 어찌이리 귀엽고 이쁜게 많은지 이 두개가 커플 반반 아이폰배경화면이예요 아고 안고 있는게 어찌나 이쁜지 ㅎㅎ 스티치 여자친구 완전 새초롬 하고요 이거또한 사이즈가 달라서. 그래서 릴로는 스티치를 착하게 만들기 위해 그를 훈련시키기 시작한다.

백숙 하쿠산 국립공원 자신의 노래를 들려주는 것으로 외계생명체들을 조종할 수 있지만1, 엔젤 이후에 만들어진 스티치와 루벤. 그래서 릴로는 스티치를 착하게 만들기 위해 그를 훈련시키기 시작한다. 스티치의 여자친구는 여전히 미스터리로 남아 있지만, 팬들은 영화, tv 프로그램, 비디오 게임 등 다양한 형태의 미디어를 통해 스티치와 친구들의 모험을 계속 즐기고 있습니다. 릴로 & 스티치 시리즈의 주인공으로 줌바 주키바 박사의 실험체 626호다. Reubenexperiment 625 릴로 & 스티치 시리즈 에 등장하는 실험체이다. 백지헌 naked

배혜지 임신 푸른 털과 매혹적인 눈빛으로 스티치의 시선을 단번에 사로잡았죠. 스티치는 2002년도 월드컵 때 처음 등장했는데요. 2편에서 엑스트라로 등장하는 구명 요원으로 공식적인 이름은 따로 없으며 팬들이 로라lola라는 이름을 지어 주기도 했다. Reubenexperiment 625 릴로 & 스티치 시리즈 에 등장하는 실험체이다. 리로이 & 스티치 에서는 지구과 교수가 된다. 배윤진 sex

바키겔 스티치는 릴로 & 스티치 에서 줌바 주키바 박사 dr. 2005년 출시된 《릴로 & 스티치 2 사랑과 우정의 훌라》는 본편과 스티치 무비 사이의 시점을 배경으로 한다. 스티치 릴로 & 스티치 오늘의ai위키. Tiktok에서 스티치 여친 첫만남 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. Com › kimmisung08 › 40204932465스티치와 여자친구 엔젤의 페이퍼 토이 네이버 블로그. 밐대나무갤

박진우 porno Ohana는 가족 스티치 북마크 만화 카와이 페이지 마크 학교. 출연진부터 줄거리, 결말스포 포함, 그리고 쿠키영상 여부까지 상세히 정리해드릴게요. 지금 할인중인 다른 봉제인형 제품도 바로 쿠팡에서 확인할 수 있습니다. 걔네는 공항 펜스를 뚫고 활주로로 들어가서, 스티치가 비행기에 쳐들어가서 모든 조종사승객들을 기겁하게 만들어. 스티치 릴로 & 스티치 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.

바지 설사 지리 는 만화 포스터에는 생각보다 귀엽지 않게 나오지만 못생긴 것 같으면서도 귀엽고 개구쟁이 같은. 여자친구로 유추하기 힘든 이름 gf, ㅇㅇ, 이름_나이, 00학번 김땡땡 처럼 누군가가 봤을 때 여자친구로 보이지 않는 이름은 피해주세요. 2 성우는 크리스 샌더스 3, 벤저민 디스킨 스티치. 릴로와 스티치 커플 아이폰배경화면 스티치 여자친구. 스티치는 릴로 & 스티치 에서 줌바 주키바 박사 dr.

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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

스티치 영화가 탄생된 제작 배경과 감독의 창작세계 스티치 stitch는 디즈니의 2002년 애니메이션 영화로, 외계인과 소녀의 우정 이야기를 다룹니다., 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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