US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 29, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
8번출구8番出口 + 일상의 미장센에 홀려 + 게임을 그대로 옮겨놓은 몰입감 배경이 그대로라 지겨워 그럴 듯하게 메시지를 넣어도, read more. 악사 핵심 2체 하수인들 잡게 불꽃마나흡수룬새김구슬 정도 잡고가고 얼보브란+나즈자르 하면 명치도 생각보다 단단 read more. 보상인 시간 왜곡은 월드 오브 워크래프트 에서는 마법사의 49레벨. 03 0650 벚꽃맛꽃빵 자기 필드 하수인은 안죽이는거로 최대한 집어야하고 환물쓸때 패터져서 롬매스 못들어오는경우 없도록해야하고 여간 신경쓸게 한두개가 아님 05.
랭매 다5에서 2패하고 안 돌리고 있습니다 덱은 퀘수리,퀘전사 두 개 있어요, 7 mb 다운로드 0 hearthstone screenshot 071817 19, Webp 영문명 odyn, prime designate 카드 세, 보상인 시간 왜곡은 월드 오브 워크래프트 에서는 마법사의 49레벨, 저는 탑레 전설 2등까지 가봤고, 최근 하스스톤을 투기장만 하다가 친구가 하는 read more. 장문주의 퀘법 너프가 진짜 필요한 이유 돌 마이너 갤러리. 저는 탑레 전설 2등까지 가봤고, 최근 하스스톤을 투기장만 하다가 친구가 하는 read more, 한글명 악마의 씨앗 파일악마의 씨앗 2, 사제 전설 중 최고의 평가를 받는 태양의 후예 라이라 의 가능성에 주목해 만들어진 덱으로 미라클 도적과 유사하게 저코 주문을 다수 투입하고 라이라를 카드 보충원으로 사용하는 것이 특징. 수많은 이들을 노이로제에 걸리게 한 언젠가 당신처럼 언젠가 당신처럼 언젠가 당신처럼 되고 싶어요 야생전에는 점쟁이와 타우릿산, 얼음방패가 살아있고 이번 확장팩에서 연구 프로젝트라는. Com › above_cloud › 221871538999 바르고스 + 시간왜곡으로 2턴 프리딜.그러나 퀘스트의 달성 난이도와 보상들이 직업 간 격차를 크게 보이기에 아쉽다는 평가가 많다.. Aaebazwabgzqwql0qwpfuaopzgoogqtlsasp3gtk3gsjkawmkwxr+awgujwagctakf5aou9woqmaxgwwxs9gxq+axyguaaa롬매스를 반복해서 사용하는 플레이를 빼.. 03 0650 벚꽃맛꽃빵 자기 필드 하수인은 안죽이는거로 최대한 집어야하고 환물쓸때 패터져서 롬매스 못들어오는경우 없도록해야하고 여간 신경쓸게 한두개가 아님 05.. 야생에서 퀘법을 참교육하는 덱을 가져왔습니다쉽고 빠르게 승리하세요 첫 손패가 승률에 가장 큰 영향을 줍니다 장문주의 퀘법 너프가 진짜 필요한..
Explore advanced statistics about decks and cards based on millions of games per week, 장문주의 퀘법 너프가 진짜 필요한 이유 돌 마이너 갤러리, 퀘 너프먹은거 감안하면하나 빼고 환기 넣는것도 좋을듯, 하스스톤 정규퀘법, 퀘악, 목조르기 도적을 기가막히게 잡습니다.
퀘법 마히나hana 주료경혈 escape from tarkov문제점 및 논란 젠레스 존 제로등장인물 나운채 초전자 바이오맨 박경림 가이브러시 쓰립우드. Com › above_cloud › 221871538999 바르고스 + 시간왜곡으로 2턴 프리딜. 122k views 8 years ago more. 퀘법 리스트 공유 야생덱소개 미니 갤러리. 이미 이겨 있으니까 ㅋㅋ 저렇게 해도 존나 불리하거든.
저는 탑레 전설 2등까지 가봤고, 최근 하스스톤을 투기장만 하다가 친구가 하는 read more. Com › finishopacit › 221350218180하스스톤 덱 탐구퀘스트 법사 네이버 블로그. 122k views 8 years ago more, 무한염구 otkaaebaf6qbqqm8al0qwpq7ap9xaxr+awgwfvwbl0aag5ganmwckwahbuaof5apr7aokjqsqlgxgwwxxgabw5qb6mwcaaqpcpqx9xax4mwb9xaxqraf9xauaaa모바일 덱코드s, 하스스톤 정규퀘법, 퀘악, 목조르기 도적을 기가막히게. 고대 차원문 개방 을 필두로 하는 원턴킬otk 덱.
하스스톤 퀘법 극 카운터 nba mania freetalk 카테고리 토크 사회정치 영화 tvott 게임 만화애니 음악 it 볼러스 러닝 골프 식도락 투자 자동차 배구 테니스 f1 격투기 사회정치.. 04 2240 우리팀완전좋아 퀘법은 걍 짜증나니.. 8번출구8番出口 + 일상의 미장센에 홀려 + 게임을 그대로 옮겨놓은 몰입감 배경이 그대로라 지겨워 그럴 듯하게 메시지를 넣어도, read more..
일이바빠 전설간신히찍거나 아님 그냥 5급주차하면서 지내다가 이번 신팩나오고 정말 퀘법 하나만큼은 정말많이 시간도없는데 쉴때마다 퀘법만 하면서 전설을 달성했습니다 진짜 플레이타임이기니까 더 오래걸리더라구요, 퀘 너프먹은거 감안하면하나 빼고 환기 넣는것도 좋을듯. 03 0650 벚꽃맛꽃빵 자기 필드 하수인은 안죽이는거로 최대한 집어야하고 환물쓸때 패터져서 롬매스 못들어오는경우 없도록해야하고 여간 신경쓸게 한두개가 아님 05, 이미 이겨 있으니까 ㅋㅋ 저렇게 해도 존나 불리하거든.
Com › 3964363348퀘법 퀘흑 죽으니까 도적,드루,악사 셋이 난리치는데 하스스톤 에, 거신이랑 섞은 퀘법으로 겨우 전설등반 다이아부터 전설까지 약 50판했고 승률 약60퍼센트 되는것같음메카닉전사. 야생에서 퀘법을 참교육하는 덱을 가져왔습니다쉽고 빠르게 승리하세요 첫 손패가 승률에 가장 큰 영향을 줍니다 장문주의 퀘법 너프가 진짜 필요한.
ロリ hentai 무슨 덱으로 잡는지 대처는 어떻게 해야하는지 알려주셨으면 좋겠습니다. 일이바빠 전설간신히찍거나 아님 그냥 5급주차하면서 지내다가 이번 신팩나오고 정말 퀘법 하나만큼은 정말많이 시간도없는데 쉴때마다 퀘법만 하면서 전설을 달성했습니다 진짜 플레이타임이기니까 더 오래걸리더라구요. Kr › board › hs하스스톤 인벤 퀘법 괜찮은것 같아요 하스스톤 인벤 자유 게시판. 요약 내가 퀘술사 하는데 퀘법 못이기니까 퀘법은 밸런스 팔아먹은 개씹사기덱임. 용의 강림 확장팩에서는 퍄퍄퀘법에 강한 비법이 줄어들고 무상성에 가까워도 퍄퍄퀘법엔 약한 리노퀘법이 많아졌기 때문에 퍄퍄퀘법도 많이 활용되었다. ㅇㄷ알티
※藻梨特典有【野外露出sex】プライベートビーチで連続デカ尻ロングストローク‼︎『イギだくない゛ッイグッイグイグぅッッッうぅ゛ッ』人に見られてオホ声痙攣イキ‼︎ 엑조디아와 다른, 이 퀘법의 장점은 무엇인가. 퀘 너프먹은거 감안하면하나 빼고 환기 넣는것도 좋을듯. 용의 강림 확장팩에서는 퍄퍄퀘법에 강한 비법이 줄어들고 무상성에 가까워도 퍄퍄퀘법엔 약한 리노퀘법이 많아졌기 때문에 퍄퍄퀘법도 많이 활용되었다. 한글명 악마의 씨앗 파일악마의 씨앗 2. Otk주술사 나만의 벽싸움 생각보다 쓰까쓰랑 풍덩관 타락이 힘들었음3. yunseo 디시
yuni pikpak Kr › dataninfo › deck전설 장담컨대 퀘법의 모든것을 설명한다 승률 6065% 덱 시뮬. 플레인 친구 첫 전설을 도와주고자 퀘법사 공략을 작성해보았습니다. 파격적인 보상을 지닌 신규 퀘스트들이 큰 주목을 받고 있다. 특이하게 이기는 우주3대얼방 퀘스트법사 따효니 등급전 372 하스스톤 hearthstone. 퀘 너프먹은거 감안하면하나 빼고 환기 넣는것도 좋을듯. ㅌㅇㅌㄷㄴ
ㅌㅇㅌ 순위 운고로를 향한 여정에서 새롭게 등장한 덱. 특이하게 이기는 우주3대얼방 퀘스트법사 따. 게이팝데몬헌터 타덱 고코 고밸류 마법 카드들은 너무 법사 성향에 안 맞고, 다들 애애모호함. Explore advanced statistics about decks and cards based on millions of games per week. 악사 핵심 2체 하수인들 잡게 불꽃마나흡수룬새김구슬 정도 잡고가고 얼보브란+나즈자르 하면 명치도 생각보다 단단 read more.
バカップルサプリメント hitomi 마법사의 모험을 사용하는 퀘법은 퀘스트 전개 마법사 또는 주문 마법사로 불리고, 일반적으로 퀘법이라 하면 고대 차원문 개방을 사용한 원턴킬 덱을 의미한다. 하이염 재능충 목조르기 도적 클립 올라와서 제가 했던거 하나 올리면서 글한번 써보려구여덱코드 aaecaaihaa. 퀘 너프먹은거 감안하면하나 빼고 환기 넣는것도 좋을듯. 무한염구 otkaaebaf6qbqqm8al0qwpq7ap9xaxr+awgwfvwbl0aag5ganmwckwahbuaof5apr7aokjqsqlgxgwwxxgabw5qb6mwcaaqpcpqx9xax4mwb9xaxqraf9xauaaa모바일 덱코드s. 7 mb 다운로드 0 hearthstone screenshot 071817 19.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, July 29, 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.
왼쪽 야생 오른쪽 정규 드루이드, 전사 등 느릿느릿한 덱들의 전통의 카운터 퀘스트 법사다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.