US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 14, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
한 번은 지수소녀가 술을 마시고 막내현진에게 전화를 했는데 전화가 연결되지 않자 오열하는 귀여운 모습이 방송되어 트수들을 즐겁게 했다. 금일부로 t1 스트리머 지수소녀 박지수 님과 상호협의하에 계약을 종료하게 되었습니다. 2021 lck 서머 스플릿 t1 대 kt롤스터의 대결에서 지수소녀는 중계 내내 kt를 응원했다. 나 울프 팬인데 지수소녀보면 드는 생각 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ지수소녀 발냄새 맡고싶음 내 얼굴이 지수소녀의 발판이돼서 하루종일 살고싶다 스읍하 킁가킁가.
일반 지수소녀99 이사람 예전에 티원 스트리머였나, 소녀 아니냐 예비발행 블록체인에 nft 발행 전 디시인사이드 db에 우선 nft 정보를 저장한 상태 실발행 예비발행한 nft가 판매가 완료되어 클레이튼 블록체인에 nft를 발행한 상태. 동영상을 확인하고, 채팅에 참여하고, 커뮤니티와 함께하세요. 지수소녀 복귀 + 난리난 유툽 반응jpg 스트리머 갤러리. 앞서 지수소녀는 t1과 kt 롤스터, 담원 기아의. 인터넷 방송 트위치에서 롤리그 오브 레전드 게임을, 주 방송으로 하던 방송인 지수 소녀가 오늘 트위치에서 은퇴를 선언했습니다. 발언 논란 지수소녀, t1 계약 종료은퇴→. 한 번은 지수소녀가 술을 마시고 막내현진에게 전화를 했는데 전화가 연결되지 않자 오열하는 귀여운 모습이 방송되어 트수들을 즐겁게 했다. 수능공부해서 치위생사가 되는 길 read more. 8 패치노트 + 우추 변경점 1 언제나그대와 0412 1. 그 침착맨이랑 그 똘킹이랑 이야기 하던 걔 인가. 금일부로 t1 스트리머 지수소녀 박지수 님과 상호협의하에 계약을 종료하게 되었습니다. 나 울프 팬인데 지수소녀보면 드는 생각 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ지수소녀 발냄새 맡고싶음 내 얼굴이 지수소녀의 발판이돼서 하루종일 살고싶다 스읍하 킁가킁가. 지수소녀는 지난 15일 kt 롤스터와 대결에서 소속팀보다 언더독을 좋아한다며 대놓고 kt 롤스터를 응원해 시청자들로부터 의문을 자아냈고, 17일 담원 기아와 대결에서는 대놓고 왜 t1을 응원해야 하나라는. 지수소녀는 7일트게더 트위티 게시판와 유튜브 채널 커뮤니티에 자필 사과문과.Txt 시간이 많이 흐르고 난 뒤 이제서야 글을 올려도 되는지 고민만 계속 해.. Today we part ways with jisoogirl.. 갤러리에서 사용할 자동 짤방 이미지를 등록할 수 있습니다..
논란이 거세지자 t1은 지난달 21일 공식 사과문과 함께 지수소녀의 자필 사과문을 공개했다, T1스폰서인데 t1욕라고 뭐라하니까 도개자 안박고 기싸움해서 스폰서도 짤리고 슼갈한테도 찍히고 스머들도 유기해서 외딴섬됨, Let’s go till the end. Com › topstarnews › 223722850489‘발언 논란’ 지수소녀, t1 계약 종료은퇴→1년여만 방송 복귀 네이.
T1은 금일부로 t1 스트리머 지수소녀 박지수님과 상호협의하에 계약을 종료하게 됐다라며 지수소녀의 새로운 도전을 응원한다라고 알렸다. Twitch에서 지수소녀 채널 생방송 중입니다. 8 패치노트 + 우추 변경점 1 언제나그대와 0412 1. 2021 lck 서머 스플릿 t1 대 kt롤스터의 대결에서 지수소녀는 중계 내내 kt를 응원했다.
We wish her the best in her future, 한 번은 지수소녀가 술을 마시고 막내현진에게 전화를 했는데 전화가 연결되지 않자 오열하는 귀여운 모습이 방송되어 트수들을 즐겁게 했다. T1스폰서인데 t1욕라고 뭐라하니까 도개자 안박고 기싸움해서 스폰서도 짤리고 슼갈한테도 찍히고 스머들도 유기해서 외딴섬됨. 금일부로 t1 스트리머 지수소녀 박지수 님과 상호협의하에 계약을 종료하게 되었습니다, 지수소녀 인스타 근황 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관. Today we part ways with jisoogirl.
나 울프 팬인데 지수소녀보면 드는 생각 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ지수소녀 발냄새 맡고싶음 내 얼굴이 지수소녀의 발판이돼서 하루종일 살고싶다 스읍하 킁가킁가.. 일반 지수소녀99 이사람 예전에 티원 스트리머였나.. 지수소녀99 이사람 예전에 티원 스트리머였나 데스슬링거..
지수소녀 복귀 + 난리난 유툽 반응jpg 스트리머 갤러리. 2021 lck 서머 스플릿 t1 대 kt롤스터의 대결에서 지수소녀는 중계 내내 kt를 응원했다. 당시 지수소녀는 소속팀이 t1일 뿐인데 왜 t1을 응원해야 하냐는 발언을 해 논란을 키웠다, 대충 롤 관련 논란터져서 떠났던 스트리머 복귀 선언 +, 더 늦기전에 미래를 위해 다른길을 찾아보는게 나을것 같다. 리그 오브 레전드를 위주로 방송하며, 낮은 빈도로 캠 방송을 하기도 한다.
트위치 스트리머 지수소녀가 은퇴를 번복하고 방송에 복귀한다. 지수소녀를 주인공으로 하여 억지 페미니즘 을 강조한 광고인 just a gamer 광고만 봐도 t1이 어떤 생각으로 지수소녀를 영입했는지는 뻔하다. 짤막하게 다루고 지나가도록 하겠습니다. Com › mgallery › board지수소녀 근황.
트위치 스트리머 지수소녀가 은퇴를 번복하고 방송에 복귀한다. T1이 소속 스트리머인 지수소녀에게 급여 50% 삭감, 10일간 방송 중단의 조치를 내렸다. 한 번은 지수소녀가 술을 마시고 막내현진에게 전화를 했는데 전화가 연결되지 않자 오열하는 귀여운 모습이 방송되어 트수들을 즐겁게 했다. 방접안했노 나락 간 사유도 존나웃겼는데 마이너 설정 new 연관 글쓰기 차단 설정 머리말∙꼬리말 설정 ai 이미지 간편 등록new 일반 지수소녀 근황. 앞서 지수소녀는 t1과 kt 롤스터, 담원 기아의. Com › board › view지수소녀 복귀 + 난리난 유툽 반응jpg 스트리머 갤러리.
이런걸 어떻게 2026년에 만난거지 ㅋㅋㅋ. 동영상을 확인하고, 채팅에 참여하고, 커뮤니티와 함께하세요. 인터넷 방송 트위치에서 롤리그 오브 레전드 게임을, 주 방송으로 하던 방송인 지수 소녀가 오늘 트위치에서 은퇴를 선언했습니다. 이미지 저장 모든 이미지 다운로드 공유. 논란이 거세지자 t1은 지난달 21일 공식 사과문과 함께 지수소녀의 자필 사과문을 공개했다.
픽셀 드레인 소녀 아니냐 예비발행 블록체인에 nft 발행 전 디시인사이드 db에 우선 nft 정보를 저장한 상태 실발행 예비발행한 nft가 판매가 완료되어 클레이튼 블록체인에 nft를 발행한 상태. 2021 lck 서머 스플릿 t1 대 kt롤스터의 대결에서 지수소녀는 중계 내내 kt를 응원했다. Today we part ways with jisoogirl. T1은 금일부로 t1 스트리머 지수소녀 박지수님과 상호협의하에 계약을 종료하게 됐다라며 지수소녀의 새로운 도전을 응원한다라고 알렸다. 이런걸 어떻게 2026년에 만난거지 ㅋㅋㅋ. 하렘 섹스
하나 트래블로그 카드 단점 디시 T1은 1일 공식 sns를 통해 ‘지수소녀’와 상호합의하에 계약을 종료한다고 전했다. 지수는 지난 10월 4일 자신의 소셜미디어에 dr. 자낳대 결승전 당시 최인석 감독이 지수소녀의 럼블 템트리에 관련해서 피드백하려고 했으나, 지수소녀의 멘탈이 흔들리지 않을까 걱정해 코치와 먼저 상의한 후 피드백했다고 한다. Com › topstarnews › 223722850489‘발언 논란’ 지수소녀, t1 계약 종료은퇴→1년여만 방송 복귀 네이. 지수소녀는 7일트게더 트위티 게시판와 유튜브 채널 커뮤니티에 자필 사과문과. 하요이 사건
한갱 꼭노 오늘 복귀 방송 재밌노 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ. 지수소녀 복귀 + 난리난 유툽 반응jpg 스트리머 갤러리. 지수소녀의 새로운 도전을 응원하겠습니다라며 계약 종료 소식을 전했다. Twitch에서 지수소녀 채널 생방송 중입니다. Com › insightmedia › 223719873215t1 소속인데 담원 응원해 징계받은 지수소녀, 결국 트위치 은퇴한다. 피오나 앤 케이크 시즌 2 2화
픽시브 인기순 보는법 지수소녀의 새로운 도전을 응원하겠습니다라며 계약 종료 소식을 전했다. 235 지수소녀 ㅈ됬네 개좆슼갈들한테 걸렸노 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 저번에 케스파가지고 물타기하면서 편파해설로김동준 클템 싸그리 다묻을려고하고 지네 감독이었던 꼬치까지묻을려고 념글올리는거보고 기겁했는데 2022. Let’s go till the end. 8 패치노트 + 우추 변경점 1 언제나그대와 0412 1. 지수소녀 인스타 근황 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관.
하아토 대충 롤 관련 논란터져서 떠났던 스트리머 복귀 선언 +. 지수소녀는 지난 15일 kt 롤스터와 대결에서 소속팀보다 언더독을 좋아한다며 대놓고 kt 롤스터를 응원해 시청자들로부터 의문을 자아냈고, 17일 담원 기아와 대결에서는 대놓고 왜 t1을 응원해야 하나라는. 짤막하게 다루고 지나가도록 하겠습니다. Com › board › view지수소녀 복귀 + 난리난 유툽 반응jpg 스트리머 갤러리. Let’s go till the end.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 14, 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.
지수소녀 유튜브 앞서 지수소녀는 t1 스트리머 소속으로 lck를 중계하던 도중 타팀을 응원해 논란이 됐다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.