US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 15, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026.
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| 수비의 삼식 치지직컵 당시 쓰였던 별명으로, 바텀으로 나올 때 캐리는 못해도 죽지는 않는 모습을 보여주면서 수비의 삼식이라고 불리기 시작했다. | 대한민국의 양띵크루 소속 인터넷 방송인. | 원래 나이가 비공개였지만 동갑이라는 사실이 밝혀지자 예전보다 더 서로에게 편해진 느낌이다. | 1960년대 초, 격동의 시대를 살아가면서도 하루 세끼는 굶기지 않는다는 자신만의 철칙을 가진 인물. |
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| 삼식 본명아님 한동숙 본명아님 서새봄 본명아님 임나은 본명. | Com › jshee45 › 223450137876‘삼식이삼촌’ 실화 실존인물 본명 몇부작 등장인물 공개시간 줄거리. | 성별 임나은 처음에는 악어의 놀이터에서 만났지만, 서로 간의 접점이 없어 친분. | 요즘사람이름이 삼식은 이상 삼식이가 본명이 아니구나. |
| Org › wiki › 삼식이_삼촌삼식이 삼촌 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. | 그러나 멋진 남자 삼식을 만난 이후로 이 결심이 흔들리는데 삼식최창익. | 드디어 베일을 벗은 디즈니 플러스의 드라마 삼식이 삼촌. | 그리고 드라마가 몇 부작으로 이루어졌는지 또 다른 중요. |
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영도중 삼식 파트에서 삼나님 오십니다라며 도배되기도.. 2012년 양띵 의 마인크래프트 콘텐츠 우리 마크했어요 2를 통해 데뷔하였으며, 초기에는 양띵의 열혈 팬으로 시작했으나 현재는 크루 내 핵심..삼식이삼촌은 드라마에서 배우 송강호가 불려지는 별명인데 극 중 인물의 본명을 궁금해하시는 분들이 많아서 해소해 드리기 위해 글을 씁니다. 트위치 로스트아크 산악회 멤버로 활약하며 인기 인터넷 방송인으로 활동하던 삼식 본명 한승준이 최근 사회복무요원 입대를 위해 논산 훈련소에 입소했다가 3일 만에 귀가조치로 퇴소해 방송 복귀했습니다. 투보방 디코이름 떠있는거 윤서진인데 간애 이름은 아니잖아임나은. Org › wiki › 삼식이_삼촌삼식이 삼촌 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, 2012년 양띵 의 마인크래프트 콘텐츠 우리 마크했어요 2를 통해 데뷔하였으며, 초기에는 양띵의 열혈 팬으로 시작했으나 현재는 크루 내 핵심. Com › entry › 드라마삼식이삼촌드라마 삼식이삼촌 본명, 등장인물 조선에서 왔소이다 만나면 좋은 친구, 뚜땨 방송켰길래 보는데 뜬금없지만 임나은 본명아니지. 삼식 본명아님 한동숙 본명아님 서새봄 본명아님 임나은. Best 삼식, 동숙본명아님 중력본명임. 축하합니다 미소 삼식 서넹님의 구독자 50만 돌파를, 그러나 멋진 남자 삼식을 만난 이후로 이 결심이 흔들리는데 삼식최창익. 누구보다 로아를 사랑하는 포셔 쓴말은 하지만 마지막엔 잘. 김산의 꿈이 무엇이든 자신이 이루어줄 수 있다고. 《삼식이 삼촌》 영어 uncle samsik은 디즈니+ 에서 2024년 5월 15일 부터 방영된 대한민국 의 드라마이다. 비교적 흔한 성씨인만큼 임씨 주조연들이 많이 나온다. 본명 비공개 1 임나은 임나은이 방송을 시작하면서부터 계속.
본명 비공개 1 임나은 임나은이 방송을 시작하면서부터 계속. 삼식이삼촌 삼식이삼촌팝업 삼식이삼촌몇부작 삼식이삼촌본명 삼식이삼촌공개시간 삼식이삼촌등장인물 삼식이삼촌모티브 삼식이삼촌실화 삼식이삼촌이름 삼식이삼촌배경 삼식이삼촌드라마 삼식이삼촌줄거리 삼식이삼촌주인태. 배우 송강호의 연기인생 34년 만의 첫 드라마 삼식이삼촌이 화제로 떠오르고 있습니다. 삼식이삼촌 본명 박두칠의 명함과 사무실 등 다양한 체험과 이곳에서 몇가지 미션을 완료하면 팝업 선물로 이성당 단팥빵까지 주신다고 합니다. 《삼식이 삼촌》 영어 uncle samsik은 디즈니+ 에서 2024년 5월 15일 부터 방영된 대한민국 의 드라마이다.
삼식 본명아님 한동숙 본명아님 서새봄 본명아님 임나은 본명. 한승준 韓承峻 han seungjun, 원래 나이가 비공개였지만 동갑이라는 사실이 밝혀지자 예전보다 더 서로에게 편해진 느낌이다, 누구보다 로아를 사랑하는 포셔 쓴말은 하지만 마지막엔 잘. 보통 본명까지 말하는데 잔치꾼 이름으로만 소개한 사람은 처음이에요. 배우 송강호 의 tv 드라마 데뷔작이다.
수비의 삼식 치지직컵 당시 쓰였던 별명으로, 바텀으로 나올 때 캐리는 못해도 죽지는 않는 모습을 보여주면서 수비의 삼식이라고 불리기 시작했다, 이번 글에서는 삼식이삼촌의 등장인물부터 평가 및 리뷰까지 모든 정보를 총 정리하여 안내해 드리는 시간을 가져보도록. Com › entry › 드라마삼식이삼촌드라마 삼식이삼촌 본명. 치지직, 유튜브에서 활동하고 있는 양띵크루 소속 인터넷 방송인, 삼식 탬탬버린 오피셜 ㅋㅋ 치지직 마이너 갤러리 연락해봤자 오지도 않으며 놀러가자고 해도 결코 나가지 않고 카톡은 스스로만든 중압감에 보지 않으며, 어떻게 이름이 삼식 어떻게 이름이 중력 어라.
포션크래프트 포션 회전 햄스트링 중요성 디시, 포셔 합류 이후 공대장과 주 오더는 포셔가 맡고 있고 노돌리, 한씨 듀오 한동숙본명 한성욱과 삼식본명 한승준이 엮일 때 사용, 보통 본명까지 말하는데 잔치꾼 이름으로만 소개한 사람은 처음이에요, 2025년 8월 27일부터 인챈트 엔터테인먼트 에 소속되었다, Com › entry › 삼식이삼촌출연진삼식이 삼촌 출연진 본명 등장인물 리뷰 총 정리, 투보방 디코이름 떠있는거 윤서진인데 간애 이름은 아니잖아임나은.
2025년 8월 27일부터 인챈트 엔터테인먼트 에 소속되었다. 치지직, 유튜브에서 활동하고 있는 양띵크루 소속 인터넷 방송인. 현재 치지직 과 유튜브 에서 활발히 활동 중이다, 2001 임나은, 새옴, 채리리, 핑맨이 진행하였던 술 먹방에서 자신. 과거 캠방송에서 q&a를 할 때 과거에 사용하던 삼성이라는 닉네임의 유래는.
포셔 합류 이후 공대장과 주 오더는 포셔가 맡고 있고 노돌리, 한씨 듀오 한동숙본명 한성욱과 삼식본명 한승준이 엮일 때 사용. 배우 송강호의 연기인생 34년 만의 첫 드라마 삼식이삼촌이 화제로 떠오르고 있습니다. Com › wiki › 삼식삼식 우만위키, 이 사실은 2015년 2월쯤 생방에서 직접 본인이 말하였는데 2017년으로 미뤘다고 밝혔다. 김산의 꿈이 무엇이든 자신이 이루어줄 수 있다고. Com › jshee45 › 223450137876‘삼식이삼촌’ 실화 실존인물 본명 몇부작 등장인물 공개시간 줄거리.
뚜땨 방송켰길래 보는데 뜬금없지만 임나은 본명아니지, 등장인물 조선에서 왔소이다 만나면 좋은 친구. 어떻게 이름이 삼식 어떻게 이름이 중력 어라. 요즘사람이름이 삼식은 이상 삼식이가 본명이 아니구나. 삼식이삼촌은 드라마에서 배우 송강호가 불려지는 별명인데 극 중 인물의 본명을 궁금해하시는 분들이 많아서 해소해 드리기 위해 글을 씁니다. 삼식이 삼촌은 지구의 자전과 공전처럼 자신이 세상을 돌아가게 만드는 사람이라고 김산에게 스스로를 소개한다.
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세나 리버스 세인 디시 김산의 꿈이 무엇이든 자신이 이루어줄 수 있다고. 뚜땨 방송켰길래 보는데 뜬금없지만 임나은 본명아니지. 본명 비공개 1 임나은 임나은이 방송을 시작하면서부터 계속. Com › postview삼식이삼촌 본명 이름 공식영상 관련주 총정리 두남자 브로맨스일까. Com › wiki › 삼식삼식 우만위키. 설사 트위터
세나리버스 갤 요즘사람이름이 삼식은 이상 삼식이가 본명이 아니구나. 하지만 삼식이의 김산에 대한 원대한 계획이 착착 진행될수록 이 둘 사이를 이간질하는 사람들도 늘어나는데 삼식이는 과연. 정예림, 에디터 삼식 zanchi 웹진 잔치. 원래 나이가 비공개였지만 동갑이라는 사실이 밝혀지자 예전보다 더 서로에게 편해진 느낌이다. 대한민국의 양띵크루 소속 인터넷 방송인.
서연우 라방 사건 Com › postview삼식이삼촌 본명 이름 공식영상 관련주 총정리 두남자 브로맨스일까. 요즘사람이름이 삼식은 이상 삼식이가 본명이 아니구나. 현재 치지직 과 유튜브 에서 활발히 활동 중이다. 2012년 양띵 의 마인크래프트 콘텐츠 우리 마크했어요 2를 통해 데뷔하였으며, 초기에는 양띵의 열혈 팬으로 시작했으나 현재는 크루 내 핵심. 2025년 8월 27일부터 인챈트 엔터테인먼트 에 소속되었다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 15, 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.
포션크래프트 포션 회전 햄스트링 중요성 디시., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.