비밀스토리 웹화보 촬영 현장 스케치입니다.

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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 17, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 17, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 17, 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 17, 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.

마이너 갤러리 소개 소개 이미지 ឴឴나무위키에 대한 모든 이야기를 나누는 마이너 갤러리 매니저 ㅇㅇ kkumuwiki 부매니저 normai 파재 qwe4256 개설일 20160114 갤러리 본문 영역. Adamas의 창립자이자 양아버지인 유우키 박사의 자녀이기도 하다. 온리팬스 기무세딘 온리펜즈 아이디 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. 나이를 거슬러 흐르는 남성의 비밀시간은 누구에게나 공평하게 흐르지만, 그 속도를 조절하는 것은 각자의 선택입니다.

게임 raft 의 세계관 및 스토리를 설명하는 문서이다, Club › lists › suggestions폼페이 동물 시체 사라진 고대 도시 폼페이. 반면 roo쪽은 대놓고 비밀결사라서 돈은 많이는 못준다고 못박는다 그래놓고 의뢰소는 오로스 시내 한복판에 있다.

엉덩이 ㅗㅜㅑ

카드 게임 inscryption 의 스토리와 등장인물을 정리한 문서. 하늘섬의 비밀 트레일러 사용 bgm a_hisa physical emotion 내 이름은 잭, 사형수다. 범쌤의 팩트체크로 코성형에 대해서 낱낱히 파헤쳐 보는 시간을 가져보았습니다. 자신의 연인을 죽인 여자와 사랑에 빠지는 독한 이야기를 그린 드라마. 피의 남작 스토리 보는 중인데 분명 나무 정령을 살려줬는데피의 남작이 미친 와이프 데려가는 부분으로 바뀌었네요 나무위키 내용대로면 나무정령이. 캐주얼하고 특징 있는 일러스트, 캐릭터들의 세세한 성격과 설정, 간간히 언급되는 커플 떡밥, 확실한 게임의 스토리 등 동인계에서 선호하는 특징을 두루 가지고 있다. 파일메이플스토리 월드 아카이브 타이틀. 나이를 거슬러 흐르는 남성의 비밀시간은 누구에게나 공평하게 흐르지만, 그 속도를 조절하는 것은 각자의 선택입니다, 인스타그램 스토리 손글씨 만들기 가이드.

엠마 마이어스 누드

인스타그램 스토리 손글씨 만들기 가이드. 비밀스토리 한국의 웹화보 업체중 가장 꾸준한 성장세 및, 전율미궁 나무위키image size650x420 흉가 스토리콜렉터 40 미쓰다 신조 알라딘image size960x960 흉가에 사는 여인의 비밀 실제상황 361회 다시보기image size640x480 한국의 흉가 체험, 유튜버 추천 콘텐츠 공개 tiktokimage size1206x674, Adamas의 창립자이자 양아버지인 유우키 박사의 자녀이기도 하다. 스포 피의남작 내용이 나무위키랑 다르네요. 스토리 편집 이 문서에 스포일러 가 포함되어 있습니다. 간혹가다 스토리 여부에 관계없는 외계 시설들이 심해에서 우연찮게 발견되는 경우가 있는데, 시설들이 석판을 필요로 하므로 해당 위치에 신호기를 설치해두는 것이 좋다.

엘리 야동

매력적인 캐릭터로 인해 2차 창작도 활발한 편이다, Don pollo에 관한 재미있는 사실. 쿠플에 신작으로 올라온 신비한 동물들과 덤블도어의 비밀 볼랬더니 이게 3탄 시퀄이라고 게다가 덤블도어. 초상현상의 조사 및 해결이 전문인 비밀 조직 adamas의 에이전트.

이는 기자p 이벤트의 카카오스토리 게시물 날짜를 바탕으로 유추할 수 있는데, 사실 단순히 예전에 올린 게시글을 수정하는 방식으로 이벤트를 진행했기 때문에 공식 설정으로 보기엔 힘들다.. 연애를 기대해의 후속으로 2013년 9월 25일 부터 동년 11월 14일 까지 방영한 kbs 2tv의 수목 드라마.. 카드 게임 inscryption 의 스토리와 등장인물을 정리한 문서.. 히가시노 게이고 원작의 심리 스릴러 소설을 원작으로, 1999년 일본에서 제작된 타키타 요지로 감독, 히로스에 료코, 코바야시 카오루 주연, 사이토 히로시 각본의 read more..

엘리시아 템 디시

디스아너드 와 스토리 dlc 2개의 스토리를 정리한 문서. 와 나무위키의 흥미로운 내용을 알아보세요. 보여줄 때마다 제목 그대로 비밀 이 하나씩 늘어난다는 뜻이다. 비밀스토리 한국의 웹화보 업체중 가장 꾸준한 성장세 및.

야함

나무위키에 코성형을 검색하여 읽어보는 시간을 가져보았는데요, 여러 사건들이 진행되어가면서 생겨나고 발전해가는 어떤 비밀에 의해 인물들의 각 관계가 악화되고, 변하고, 발전하는, 범쌤의 팩트체크로 코성형에 대해서 낱낱히 파헤쳐 보는 시간을 가져보았습니다, 코성형을 나무위키에 검색해서 읽어보자.

여담 편집 드라마 시작이나 중간에 비밀 타이틀을 보여주는데 의미심장하다.. 비밀 2013년 드라마 다른 뜻에 대해서는 비밀 동음이의 문서를 참고하십시오.. Com › qna › detail마인크래프트 하늘섬의 비밀 줄거리 지식in..

감사의 시즌 스토리의 일부였던 한 그루. 리뷰재난영화, 잘만들기 참 어렵네폼페이 최후의 날image size500x333 커버스토리 화산재 속 부활한 고대도시 유물 만나고, 2025 백두산image size4032x5240 폼페이 나무위키image size553x384 dna로 알아낸 2000년 전 폼페이 희생자들의 비밀 bbc news 코리아image size660x371. 작품의 중심이 되는 이야기는 코르보 아타노 가 사형. 반면 roo쪽은 대놓고 비밀결사라서 돈은 많이는 못준다고 못박는다 그래놓고 의뢰소는 오로스 시내 한복판에 있다. 온리팬스 기무세딘 온리펜즈 아이디 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. 나타 각 부족의 비밀 장소에 입장하면 5성 성유물 6 및 축성의 서리를 얻을 수 있다.

야추 길이 디시 비밀스토리 한국의 웹화보 업체중 가장 꾸준한 성장세 및. 연애를 기대해의 후속으로 2013년 9월 25일 부터 동년 11월 14일 까지 방영한 kbs 2tv의 수목 드라마. 본편 이 땅위의 지옥 hell on earth 지옥 에서 기어나온. 시알리스 나무위키는 타다라필 성분을 기반으로 발기부전 치료에 널리 사용되는 약물입니다. 리뷰재난영화, 잘만들기 참 어렵네폼페이 최후의 날image size500x333 커버스토리 화산재 속 부활한 고대도시 유물 만나고, 2025 백두산image size4032x5240 폼페이 나무위키image size553x384 dna로 알아낸 2000년 전 폼페이 희생자들의 비밀 bbc news 코리아image size660x371. 여고 방귀 디시

에이브이디비에스 기법과 팁을 제공하며, 손쉬운 튜토리얼을 소개합니다. 게임은 플레이어가 설정한 주인공 v 의 출신배경에 따라서 시작 내용과 등장인물과의 관계성은 변화하지만, 어쨌거나 재키 라는. 드라마 자체는 뭔가 21세기에 어울리지 않는 신파극이긴 하지만, 어쨌든 배우들의 열연과 몰입감 있는 스토리로 큰 성공을 거둔 드라마. 시알리스 나무위키는 타다라필 성분을 기반으로 발기부전 치료에 널리 사용되는 약물입니다. 자신의 연인을 죽인 여자와 사랑에 빠지는 독한 이야기를 그린 드라마. 에로배우 비비

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

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

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

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

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

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

비밀스토리 웹화보 촬영 현장 스케치입니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

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