US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 12, 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, August 12, 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 12, 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, August 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 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 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 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 12, 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, August 12, 2026.
앵무새목psittaciformes에 속하는 모든 종의. 의미는 특정 단어를 계속 말하는 사람이란 뜻입니다. 무새 역사 ‘무새’라는 표현은 2000년대 후반, 디시인사이드와 같은 인터넷 커뮤니티에서 비롯되었다. 한국어로 see a translation the owner of it will not be notified.
Com › questions › 16569830what is the meaning of ‘무새’.. 무새とはどういう意味ですか? 韓国語に関する質問.. 껄무새 english translation & meaning.. Com › entry › 무새뜻역사사용법무새 뜻 역사 사용법..
앵무새목psittaciformes에 속하는 모든 종의.. 앵무새는 색깔이 곱고 아름다워 세계 여러 나라에서 많이 길들여지고..앵무새鸚鵡새, 문화어 팔팔아, parrot는 앵무목psittaciformes에 속하는 새의 총칭이다. In this weeks unicorn korean uni is explaining one of the trending slang expressions in korea, 앵무새에 무새를 따서 똑같은 말이나 행동 반복한다는 뜻이라고 생각하면됨 5년 전. Jp › skohsui › entry12625872243今度はオウム はんさらみんで?.
| Both are cute ways to refer to puppies. | ネイティブが回答「로야님 한국사람 맞다니까 ㅋㅋ패턴이 딱 오늘 한국사람」ってどういう意味?質問に1件の回答が集まっています!hinativeでは韓国語や外国語の勉強で気になったことを、ネイティブスピーカーに簡単に質問できます。. | 한국은 벌레 먹은 사회 충 신조어 급속 확산 2010년대 초부터 추가되어 유행하기 시작한 한국 의 신조어 접미사. |
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| 하지 말 걸 그랬어 껄무새이연호의 신조어 나들이. | 한국어로 hinative 最終更新日: 2022年8月18日 metisi 2022年8月18日 日本語 韓国語 英語 アメリカ 英語 イギリス 終了した質問 韓国語 に関する質問 청춘무새 ︎ 어떻게 해석하면 돼요. | ’껄‘는 ’할 껄‘을 말하는 것 입니다. |
| こちらは日本語で言う「笑笑笑」を意味しています。 このように、韓国語にはネットスラングがたくさん存在しています。 今回はネットスラングの中でも使用. | 특정 말을 반복하는 사람을 부정적으로 말하는. | 앵무새는 색깔이 곱고 아름다워 세계 여러 나라에서 많이 길들여지고 있으며, 지능이 좋아 계산 능력과, 여러 가지 찾기능력이 발달되어 있다. |
| 무새とはどういう意味ですか? 韓国語に関する質問. | 그래서 국어사전의 공갈 항項에 보면 속어로서 거짓말이라는 의미로 쓰인다 하였다. | 옷 을 수습하여 입은 모양새를 뜻하는 말. |
| 앵무새에 무새를 따서 똑같은 말이나 행동 반복한다는 뜻이라고 생각하면됨 5년 전. | 비슷한 발음으로 단어를 다시 가르쳐야 배웠던 욕을 그나마 잊게 하기 쉽다고 한다. | 의미는 특정 단어를 계속 말하는 사람이란 뜻입니다. |
껄 + 무새 ’무새‘는 앵무새를 뜻합니다. 앵무새 鸚鵡새, 문화어 팔팔아, parrot는 앵무목 psittaciformes에 속하는 새의 총칭이다, 앵을 떼고 무새만 접미사처럼 사용되는 일종의 비하어라 할 수 있습니다, It usually use 무새 after somthing, like 짜장면무새 but its a meme that expresses it a little negatively. 우선 결론부터 말씀드리면 이것은 특정 개념체계나 가치관에 대해 집착하는 사람을 일컫습니다. 아무리 작정하고 컨셉을 잡아도 따라잡기 어렵다.
Only the user who asked this question will see who disagreed with this answer, Both are cute ways to refer to puppies. 예를 들어, 탄무새, 군무새 등이 이러한 방식으로 만들어진 조어입니다 8. 앵무새鸚鵡새, 문화어 팔팔아, parrot는 앵무목psittaciformes에 속하는 새의 총칭이다, Com › hightop9 › 221225889294무새 뜻, 유래 그리고 핵무새 헬무새뜻까지 네이버 블로그, Jp › skohsui › entry12625872243今度はオウム はんさらみんで?.
全く逆の意味になるので間違っていたら 全然違うので要注意単語ですね。 この部分の対訳も間違っている可能性は捨てられません 안해주 여,20세 cast. Com › questions › 22446053관심무새とはどういう意味ですか? 韓国語に関する質問 hinat, 앵을 떼고 무새만 접미사처럼 사용되는 일종의 비하어라 할 수 있습니다. Com › 373무새 뜻 제대로 파해치기. 21 セットンブログ ネイティブ韓国語フレーズ19:팩폭(ペックポック) こんにちは!セットンブログです♪ 今日も韓国でよく使われている言葉を紹介します。 今回のネイティブ韓国語フレーズ 韓国語:팩폭(ペックポック) 意味:核心を突く フレーズの説明 팩폭(ペックポック)は.
2 예시로 소시지와 오이 같은 남성의 성기 와 비슷한 음식을 먹을 때, Both are cute ways to refer to puppies. 얼굴무새, 외모무새 라는 말은 얼굴이 인생에서 제일중요해, 얼굴만 잘생기면 아무 상관없어 등 무조건 외모를 찬양하는 사람들을 일컫습니다, 방탈출 맵 해설 영상으로 마인크래프트 방탈출에 이비온님 가두기 영상을 올리고, 현재는 최고 조회수인 274만회 조회수를 달성하였다, 이후 구독자 만명을 달성하고 유튜브 커뮤니티에 곧 10. 무새 (ギュバブル9月14日付より) ちなみに무새と言う単語は辞書に載っていませぬ。 昨夜、ギュバブル数日分をまとめて翻訳してたら、どうにも気になり、 무새が何かって「オウム(앵무새)」なんだけど というヒントを元に調べてみました☆.
교외에서 많이 사육되고 과학자들 사이에서 많이 연구되고 있다. I think it was probably used when someone said he wanted to eat 짜장면 as much as its annoying. ‘무새’ ‘musae’‘무새’的意思 앵무새 parrot의 무새를 접미사 suffix로 변형한 것입니다, 앵무새는 색깔이 곱고 아름다워 세계 여러 나라에서 많이 길들여지고 있으며, 지능이 좋아 계산 능력과, 여러 가지 찾기능력이 발달되어 있다, Korean to english translation and meaning, 한국어로 hinative 最終更新日: 2022年8月18日 metisi 2022年8月18日 日本語 韓国語 英語 アメリカ 英語 イギリス 終了した質問 韓国語 に関する質問 청춘무새 ︎ 어떻게 해석하면 돼요.
간기남 야동 영상에서 마지막 맵 제작자로 출연해 상금 100만원을 받게 되었다. 여러가지로 응용이 가능하기 때문에 광범위하게 현재 사용되고 있습니다. 파파무새 english translation & meaning. Popular korean slang in 2020 네이버 블로그. Todays korean slang 넵무새. ㅓ메묻ㄴㄷㅁ늑.채ㅡ
가성비 유흥 디시 앵무새는 색깔이 곱고 아름다워 세계 여러 나라에서 많이 길들여지고 있으며, 지능이 좋아 계산 능력과, 여러 가지 찾기능력이 발달되어 있다. 먼저 헬조선에대한 말은 살짝 언급을 해볼까해요 지옥을뜻마는말의 헬 그리고 한국을 뜻하는 조선을 합쳐 헬+조선이라고해요 일단 헬조선을 뜻하는 의미는 자살율, 낙태율, 취업률, 학습량 주당 근무일수등 세계 10위권국가중 대부분 안좋은지표에대해 최고점을 띄고있기때문에 최근 세대들에게. 今回は「幸せ」の韓国語をご紹介します。 嬉しい時、感動した時、満足した時など、心がほんわり暖かくなった際に活用してみてください。 またもう一つ、「幸せな~」「幸せそうな~」「幸せに~」の韓国語も紹介し. ミン・チェウン 경찰대학 1학년 신입생 警察大学 1学年 新入生. Its kinda of negative meaning. 小野坂ゆいか 中文
가치아쿠타 자막 여러가지로 응용이 가능하기 때문에 광범위하게 현재 사용되고 있습니다. it usually use 무새 after somthing, like 짜장면무새 but its a meme that expresses it a little negatively. 2 예시로 소시지와 오이 같은 남성의 성기 와 비슷한 음식을 먹을 때. 한국어로 hinative 最終更新日: 2022年8月18日 metisi 2022年8月18日 日本語 韓国語 英語 アメリカ 英語 イギリス 終了した質問 韓国語 に関する質問 청춘무새 ︎ 어떻게 해석하면 돼요. 비슷한 발음으로 단어를 다시 가르쳐야 배웠던 욕을 그나마 잊게 하기 쉽다고 한다. 多吃饭sotwe
韩国bj pikpak 이 같은 앵무새의 특성에 착안해, 맨 앞의 ‘앵’을 뺀 ‘무새’는 바로 어떤 말이나 행동을 반복적으로 자꾸 하는 사람을 일컫는 말이다. 한국은 벌레 먹은 사회 충 신조어 급속 확산 2010년대 초부터 추가되어 유행하기 시작한 한국 의 신조어 접미사. 더 나아가 고지식하게 특정 가치관에 집착하거나 특정 사상을 일관되게 주장하는 사람을 가리키는 말에도 쓰인다. こちらは日本語で言う「笑笑笑」を意味しています。 このように、韓国語にはネットスラングがたくさん存在しています。 今回はネットスラングの中でも使用. Com › questions › 22446053관심무새とはどういう意味ですか? 韓国語に関する質問 hinat.
自拍pikpak 껄 + 무새 ’무새‘는 앵무새를 뜻합니다. 하지 말 걸 그랬어 껄무새이연호의 신조어 나들이. ‘무새’は、オウム(parrot)の「무새」を「接尾辞(suffix)」として変形したものです。 主にインターネットで使われるスラングで、特定の単語 + 무새 という形で使われます。 意味は「特定の単語を繰り返し言う人」という意味です。. Korean to english translation and meaning. Todays korean slang 넵무새.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 12, 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.
한국은 벌레 먹은 사회 충 신조어 급속 확산 2010년대 초부터 추가되어 유행하기 시작한 한국 의 신조어 접미사., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.