코쵸우 카나에 그 무엇보다 사랑했던 언니.

나비의 춤 「장난」, 봉아의 춤 「참된 휘어짐」, 잠자리의 춤 「복안 육각」 겉으로는 부드러운 미소를 짓고 상냥하며 모두에게 존댓말을 쓴다.

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, August 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 3, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 3, 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, August 3, 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.

완결편의 100년 후 시점에선 사랑하던 언니 코쵸우 카나에와 함께 학교의 미인자매로 유명하다고 하며, 또한 귀멸학원에서도 다키, 카나오와 함께 3대 미녀라 불리고 있으며, 연예계로부터의 스카우트 제의가 끊이지 않는다는 설정이 존재합니다. 0 Com › @_gita_543 › videotiktok. 하지만 기본적으로 상냥하고 의외로 상당히 인간적인 성격이라 하드 얀데레 였던 언니.

카나에는 시노부 보고 귀살대를 그만두고 평범한 삶을 살아가라고 했지만 시노부는 언니마저 잃었는데 평범하게 살아갈 수 없다며 복수를 다짐한다.

이름코쵸우 시노부 종족인간 성별여자 생일2월24일 연령18 키151cm 몸무게37kg 소속귀살대 계급주 기둥 이명충주 취미괴담 이야기 좋아하는 것생강조림 일륜도 색불명 가족관계아버지,어머니,코쵸우 카나에 언니 존재하지 않는 이미지입니다. 카나에는 시노부에게 상냥함과 사랑을 가르쳐 주었으며, 그녀의 죽음은 시노부에게 깊은 상처를 남겼습니다, 하지만 기본적으로 상냥하고 의외로 상당히 인간적인 성격이라 하드 얀데레 였던 언니. 이 언니들은 뭘해도 이쁘네♡♡카나에 나비장식 짤린건 안비밀, 이 언니들은 뭘해도 이쁘네♡♡카나에 나비장식 짤린. Com › @_gita_543 › videotiktok, 50 likes, tiktok video from azriderforjesus76 @azridingforjesus76 cat playing. 시노부의 언니로, 그녀에게 큰 영향을 미친 인물입니다. 50 likes, tiktok video from azriderforjesus76 @azridingforjesus76 cat playing. 의 교토식 유언인가 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 해석들을 보니 시노부의 성격을 알고 있어서 무조건 덤빌걸 알았기에 조금이라도 도움이. 시노부의 언니로, 그녀에게 큰 영향을 미친 인물입니다. 형제랑 자매들siblings 코쵸우 카나에 언니†kanae kocho older sister† 칸자키 아오이 입양 자매aoi kanzaki adoptive sister 츠유리 카나오 입양 자매kanao tsuyuri adoptive sister.

귀멸의칼날 등장인물 주 코쵸우 시노부 정리.

다른 주들 다 주합회의에서 첫등장 할 때, 나타구모 산편에서 등장하여, 기유 다음으로 빨리 등장한 주 입니다. 귀멸의 칼날 등장인물 츠유리 카나오 네이버 블로그 naver.
코쵸우 시노부 일러스트 이름 코쵸우 시노부 胡蝶しのぶ 생일 2월 24일 별자리 물고기자리 키 151cm 몸무게 37kg 나이 18세 나랑 동갑. 이노스케가 와줌으로써 겨우 목숨을 부지하게 된 시노부.
코쵸우 시노부에 대한 문서, 코쵸우 시노부의 테마곡 人ひとも鬼おにもみんな仲なか良よくすればいいのに。인간도 도깨비도 모두 사이좋게 지내면 좋을 텐데. 시노부가 자신의 목숨을 버리면서까지 도우마에게 복수하고 싶었던 가장 큰 이유이기도 하다.
이름 코쵸우 시노부 나이 18세 생일 2월 24일 여자이다. 이후 자매는 최종선별 을 통과한 후 무사히 재회하는 데 성공했다.
2차전 도우마 vs 카나오 도우마 승리 3차전. Roblox robloxfyp robloxoutfits robloxoutfitideas robloxstyle 귀칼시노부언니이름combisquesalenenlafarmaciaguadalajarapueblaamexicola bebé y el humor del desodorante en perúbernicerepoladyshowwin a 1966 ford bronco & hennessey super venom.

하지만 기본적으로 상냥하고 의외로 상당히 인간적인 성격이라 하드 얀데레 였던 언니.

26일 공개된 vs 비주얼 포스터 2탄은 충주 시노부와 상현2 도우마가 정면으로 맞붙는 전투의 순간을 생생하게 그려냈다, 완결편의 100년 후 시점에선 사랑하던 언니 코쵸우 카나에와 함께 학교의 미인자매로 유명하다고 하며, 또한 귀멸학원에서도 다키, 카나오와 함께 3대 미녀라 불리고 있으며, 연예계로부터의 스카우트 제의가 끊이지 않는다는 설정이 존재합니다. 꽃의 호흡에서 파생된 벌레의 호흡을 사용한다, It’s called shy boy cabeza dinámica for anyone interested. 꽃의 호흡에서 파생된 벌레의 호흡을 사용한다. Com › postview귀멸의 칼날 코쵸우 시노부에 대해 네이버 블로그. 귀멸의칼날 등장인물 주 코쵸우 시노부 정리, 도깨비에게 소중한 이를 잃은 빼앗긴 사람들의 눈물을 볼 때마다, 절망에 찬 절규를 들을 때마다, 내 안에선 분노가 계속 축적되고 있죠. 쿠로야 시노부 일본의 일러스트레이터 타가시라 시노부 일본의 애니메이션 감독 타카야마 시노부 일본의 만화가 아마츠키 츠카사 시노부 일본 최대 야쿠자 조직 야마구치구미 의 6대 오야붕.

시노부가 자신의 목숨을 버리면서까지 도우마에게 복수하고 싶었던 가장 큰 이유이기도 하다, Com › @houseofhamlet_concept › videohouseofhamlet_concept @houseofhamlet_concept’s videos with, 언니의 사후, 성격이 뒤바뀔 정도로 시노부에게 있어선 정말 소중했던 사람, 사실상 이노스케의 등장이 아니었다면, 카나오는 저 자리에서 패배해죽고 말았겠지요. 사랑하는 언니 를 도깨비에게 참살 당한 순간부터.

이노스케가 와줌으로써 겨우 목숨을 부지하게 된 시노부.

가족 코쵸우 카나에 사망 말투는 원래의 성격인 화를 참으며 항상 따뜻한 언니 카나에를 따라하며 성격은 차분하고 따뜻하다.. 나카야마 미호는 시노부와 남동생 등 3남매 지간이다..

코쵸우 카나에 그 무엇보다 사랑했던 언니. 26일 공개된 vs 비주얼 포스터 2탄은 충주 시노부와 상현2 도우마가 정면으로 맞붙는 전투의 순간을 생생하게 그려냈다. 나비의 춤 「장난」, 봉아의 춤 「참된 휘어짐」, 잠자리의 춤 「복안 육각」 겉으로는 부드러운 미소를 짓고 상냥하며 모두에게 존댓말을 쓴다.

의 교토식 유언인가 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 해석들을 보니 시노부의 성격을 알고 있어서 무조건 덤빌걸 알았기에 조금이라도 도움이. 이후 자매는 최종선별 을 통과한 후 무사히 재회하는 데 성공했다, 사실상 이노스케의 등장이 아니었다면, 카나오는 저 자리에서 패배해죽고 말았겠지요.

이타 팬트리 귀멸의칼날 코쵸우자매 코쵸우_카나에 시노부 채티로 할동중인 접니다. I feel beautiful fantasia. 다른 주들 다 주합회의에서 첫등장 할 때, 나타구모 산편에서 등장하여, 기유 다음으로 빨리 등장한 주 입니다. 시노부가 자신의 목숨을 버리면서까지 도우마에게 복수하고 싶었던 가장 큰 이유이기도 하다. 2017년 에는 닛폰 테레비 드라마 에서 원톱 주연을 맡아서 이 드라마를. 이이경 팬티 디시

이원주 문서윤 의 교토식 유언인가 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 해석들을 보니 시노부의 성격을 알고 있어서 무조건 덤빌걸 알았기에 조금이라도 도움이. 쿠로야 시노부 일본의 일러스트레이터 타가시라 시노부 일본의 애니메이션 감독 타카야마 시노부 일본의 만화가 아마츠키 츠카사 시노부 일본 최대 야쿠자 조직 야마구치구미 의 6대 오야붕. 이후 한동안 이름없는 상태로 생활하다 고양이 이야기 흑 후반에서 사와리네코 퇴치에 기여한 공으로 오시노 메메 에게서 오시노 시노부라는 이름을 받았다. 도깨비에게 소중한 이를 잃은 빼앗긴 사람들의 눈물을 볼 때마다, 절망에 찬 절규를 들을 때마다, 내 안에선 분노가 계속 축적되고 있죠. 그랬기에 부모가 자신을 팔아넘겼을 때도 슬퍼하지 않았지만 코쵸우 시노부와 그 언니인 코쵸우 카나에가 카나오를 딱하게 여겨 주인에게 돈을 뿌리고. 이재명 mbti 디시

이어리킹 디시 부모와 언니에 이어 카나오 이외의 츠구코들도 다 귀신에게 살해당하고 분노와 복수에 사로잡혀 스스로의 죽음을 각오한 시노부에게 카나오는 마지막으로. Com › @abdeljalilbenaissa122 › videotiktok. Com › postview귀멸의칼날 충주 코쵸우 시노부에 대해 연구해보자. 시노부의 언니로, 그녀에게 큰 영향을 미친 인물입니다. Com › @abdeljalilbenaissa122 › videotiktok. 이서진 키 디시

이치노미야 루이 avdbs 부모와 언니에 이어 카나오 이외의 츠구코들도 다 귀신에게 살해당하고 분노와 복수에 사로잡혀 스스로의 죽음을 각오한 시노부에게 카나오는 마지막으로. 부모와 언니에 이어 카나오 이외의 츠구코들도 다 귀신에게 살해당하고 분노와 복수에 사로잡혀 스스로의 죽음을 각오한 시노부에게 카나오는 마지막으로. 완결편의 100년 후 시점에선 사랑하던 언니 코쵸우 카나에와 함께 학교의 미인자매로 유명하다고 하며, 또한 귀멸학원에서도 다키, 카나오와 함께 3대 미녀라 불리고 있으며, 연예계로부터의 스카우트 제의가 끊이지 않는다는 설정이 존재합니다. 에필로그 편집 최종화인 205화에서 환생하여 언니 의 환생과 함께 등장했다. Words in the south jeff foxworthy.

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This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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 August 3, 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, August 3, 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 August 3, 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, August 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

코쵸우 카나에 그 무엇보다 사랑했던 언니., 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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