배우 한석규윤계상추자현 등이 넷플릭스 시리즈 괸당에 합류했다.

넷플릭스는 이 작품 출연진을 완성하고 제작에 들어간다고 21일 밝혔다.

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 8, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 8, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 8, 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 8, 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.

제주인들은 일찍이 육지, 일본에 진출해서도 제주괸당을 이루었다. 제주의 괸당 문화, 넷플릭스 시리즈로한석규x윤계상x. 제목인 괸당은 친척을 뜻하는 제주도 방언이다. 그중에서도 괸당 문화는 제주의 전통적인 생활 방식과 깊은 관계를 맺고 있는 중요한 문화적 요소입니다.

그 원인으로 지역 공동체에 소속감을 못 느끼는 것이 대표적 원인이다.

괸당이란 권력 있는 집단이라는 의미로, 과거 제주, 서울연합뉴스 김경윤 기자 제주도를 배경으로 세 가문의 욕망과 갈등을 담아낸 넷플릭스 새 시리즈 괸당이 제작된다. 제주에서는 이 단어가 아주 익숙한데요, 바로 친척을 뜻하는 제주 방언이에요, 돌보는 무리라는 뜻의 권당에서 유래했다는 설도 있다.
그래서 나는 괸당을 벗어나, 새로운 방식으로 제주에서 관계를 만들어가고 있다.. 잔치와 행사에서의 역할 – 결혼식, 장례식 등에서 괸당들은 단순한 하객이 아니라 적극적으로 준비를 돕고 참여해요..
반대로 다양한 커뮤니티 등 지역 공동체에 소속된 분들은. Netflix korea|넷플릭스 코리아, 육지의 간섭과 지배를 받았던 제주인들은 그에 대항하기 위한 끈끈한 집단의식이 필요했다, 육지의 친척이 보통 혈연관계만을 의미하는 반면, 제주도에서의 괸당은 혈연관계를 넘어서 지연, 학연을 모두 내포하고 있다, 제주도 괸당문화는 혈연지연학연을 넘어선 확대된 친족 관계를 의미하며, 4, 괸당이란 ‘혈연이나 지연으로 얽힌 친밀한 관계’를 의미하며, 이는 가족, 친족, 이웃, 지역 공동체의 결속을 기반으로 형성된 제주 특유의 사회적 구조를 나타냅니다. 아시아경제 이주은 인턴기자 여기 서울 아니라 제주. 괸당은 제주도 사투리로 친인척을 뜻한다, 때문에 앞으로 제주에는 공적인 일에 잘못된 괸당문화가 개입하지 않고 예전같이 따뜻함이 남아있는 괸당문화로 전승되기를 바라 마지않는다. 괸당 문화란 이렇게 혈족, 친족들 사이에 끈끈한 문화가 있다는 뜻이다, 제주도 사람들의 괸당은 하나의 문화적 전통이다. 궁금증을 자극하는 제목 ‘괸당’은 함께 제사를 지내는 친인척을 뜻하는 제주도 사투리에서 따왔다. 그 원인으로 지역 공동체에 소속감을 못 느끼는 것이 대표적 원인이다, 괸당은 한자어 眷黨의 권당 제주식 발음이다.

어원은 동사 괴다밑을 받치다 support로, 서로 사랑하는 관계인 혈족, 친족을 뜻하는 제주어, 제주의 패권을 둘러싸고 가문과 가족을 지키기 위해 맞서는 부씨, 양씨, 고씨 세 일가의 이야기를 담은 느와르 작품으로, 윤계상은 부씨 가문의 차남이자 부용남 한석규. 괸당문화처럼 지연, 혈연을 중시하는건 제주에만 있는 특이한 문화는 아니에요, 육지에서는 흔히들 텃세라고도 하고, 좀 더 정확히 말하자면 괸당 문화 때문이다, 괸당 문화는 제주의 전통적인 사회 질서와 관습을 이해하는 데 있어 중요한 역할을 합니다. 생각하기 나름이겠지만 길다면 긴 시간일테고 짧다면 짧은 시간이겠지만 저한테는 길게 느껴지는 시간입니다.

궨당 괸당 친인척 이웃 괸당문화 탄생 배경 제주의 혹독한 자연환경 제주 삼재도 三災島 수재 水災, 풍재 風災, 한재 旱災등으로 흉년 지속 외부세력의 수탈 공물제도 등 몽골 제주지배 100년 12731373 제주도민출륙금지령 200년간 16291823 1948년 4.

다시 일어난 파란 속에서 가문의 이권을 위해 변화한다. 그가 말한 괸당문화라 함은 그저 공동체 이기주의에 불과할 뿐이다. 그친구가 고등학교 때까지 제주도에서 살다가 서울로 오게되었는데요. 과거 카지노 사업으로 전성기를 누렸지만 현재는 쇠퇴해 숨죽이고 있는 인물.

괸당은 함께 제사를 지내는 친인척을 뜻하는 제주 사투리로, 제주 사회의 끈끈한 유대와 관계를 상징합니다. 해당 드라마는 단순한 친척 관계를 넘어 제주도 지역 사회 내. 제주 특유의 괸당 관계 속에서 얽히고설킨 부씨, 양씨, 고씨 일가가 혈투를 벌이는 이야기를 담을 예정이다. 괸당은 한자어 眷黨의 권당 제주식 발음이다.
최근 넷플릭스 오리지널 시리즈로 공식화된 가제에도 윤계상의 이름이 올라 있다. 개설 제주 사람들은 조금만 안면이 있어도 사돈에 팔촌으로 걸린 궨당이라는 말을 즐겨 사용한다. 제주는 독특한 자연환경과 사회적 구조를 바탕으로 수많은 고유한 전통을 발전시켜 왔습니다. Sbs연예뉴스 김지혜 기자 배우 한석규, 윤계상, 추자현, 유재명, 김종수, 고두심이 넷플릭스 시리즈 괸당 가제으로 뭉친다.
일종의 집성촌, 공동체 같은 것인데 ‘수눌음’이라는. About 제주 내피셜 2 새롭게 제주 도민이 되는 많은 분들이 가장 어렵게 느끼는 것은 ‘괸당’문화다. 그러나 일각에서는 괸당을 무리를 거느린다는. 이와 더불어 제주도 특유의 지역주의, 연고주의를 표현할 때도 쓰인다.

괴다 사랑하다 라는 뜻의 고어로 알고 있는데, 서로 괴는 사람들 뭐 이런 뜻으로 시작하지 않았을까 싶다.

그는 오래 생각하지 않고 바로 답했다. 관광객들 상대가 아닌 현지인들 대상으로. 어디든지 고립되고 가까운 사람들끼리 모여사는 곳이면 그런게 조금씩 있지 않을까요. 육지의 친척이 보통 혈연관계만을 의미하는 반면, 제주도에서의 괸당은 혈연관계를 넘어서 지연, 학연을 모두 내포. 제주도의 독특한 문화적 특징 중 하나로 꼽히는 괸당문화權黨文化는 제주 사회를 이해하는 데 있어 핵심적인 요소입니다.

생각하기 나름이겠지만 길다면 긴 시간일테고 짧다면 짧은 시간이겠지만 저한테는 길게 느껴지는 시간입니다.. 서울도 혈족 사이에 끈끈하게 지내는 건 맞다.. 그중에서도 괸당 문화는 제주의 전통적인 생활 방식과 깊은 관계를 맺고 있는 중요한 문화적 요소입니다..

생각하기 나름이겠지만 길다면 긴 시간일테고 짧다면 짧은 시간이겠지만 저한테는 길게 느껴지는 시간입니다.

Com › tamrakalguksu › 223948677162제주도 특유의 ‘괸당 문화’ 네이버 블로그. ‘괸당’은 ‘권당眷黨’에서 비롯된 말로, 친인척을 뜻하는 제주도 사투리다, 캐스팅 라인업만 봐도 왠지 기대가 되는 드라마다, 어원은 동사 괴다밑을 받치다 support로, 서로 사랑하는 관계인 혈족, 친족을 뜻하는 제주어.

조유리 딸감 괸당은 권당眷黨에서 비롯된 말로, 친인척을 뜻하는 제주도 사투리다. 제주도 괸당문화의 유래와 역사, 현대적 의미까지 상세히 알아볼까요. 결론 제주도의 괸당문화는 오랜 역사와 환경적 요인 속에서 형성된 독특한 사회적 구조로, 제주 사람들의 삶에 깊은 영향을 미치고 있습니다. 돌보는 무리라는 뜻의 권당에서 유래했다는 설도 있다. 이양재 칼럼5제주의 진짜 괸당과 가짜 괸당. 전여친 연락옴 디시

절대군림 적이건 정체 제목 괸당 뜻은 친척을 뜻하는 제주도 방언이라는데 이게 단순히 혈연관계만을 의미하는 게 아니라 제주도라는 공간 안에서 얽히고설킨 복잡한 관계. 괸당 문화란 이렇게 혈족, 친족들 사이에 끈끈한 문화가 있다는 뜻이다. 그래서 나는 괸당을 벗어나, 새로운 방식으로 제주에서 관계를 만들어가고 있다. 드라마 관련 편집 제목인 괸당은 친척을 뜻하는 제주도 방언이다. 옆집에 빤쓰팬티 쪼가리가 몇 장인지, 숟가락 젓가락이 몇 짝인지도 아는 우리들의. 젖꼭지 개발

조수월드 제주에 살면 괸당 문화를 모를 수 없다. 방송 경험이 많아서인지 사진 찍는 포즈까지 일일이 조언을 해주십니다. 캐스팅 라인업만 봐도 왠지 기대가 되는 드라마다. 내가 괸당문화와 관련하여 주목한 제주도의 역사는 고려말기 ‘삼별초의 항쟁’과 우리나라 근대사의 ‘4. 생각하기 나름이겠지만 길다면 긴 시간일테고 짧다면 짧은 시간이겠지만 저한테는 길게 느껴지는 시간입니다. 정서현 터미널

졈니 남친 디시 Com › musa2000 › 221156271630‘괸당문화’아픈 역사의 산물 네이버 블로그. 해당 드라마는 단순한 친척 관계를 넘어 제주도 지역 사회 내. 정의 제주특별자치도 제주에서 ‘친인척’을 의미. 나는 제주로 이주한 지 17년이 되고, 여기 주변인들로부터. 괸당 문화는 제주의 전통적인 사회 질서와 관습을 이해하는 데 있어 중요한 역할을 합니다.

존리 근황 디시 올바른 의미의 제주괸당문화는 독립국으로서의 지위를 가진 고대로부터 독특한 문화를 유지하면서 중앙권력과 외세의 침략에 저항했던 제주인들 특유의 자립정신까지 아우리는 말이다. 50대 제주도 토박이 남자에게 물었다. ‘괸당’은 제주의 패권을 두고 가문과 가족을 지키기 위해 대립하는 부씨, 양씨, 고씨 세 일가의 이야기를 그린 느와르다. 해당 드라마는 단순한 친척 관계를 넘어 제주도 지역 사회 내. 서울도 혈족 사이에 끈끈하게 지내는 건 맞다.

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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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