박보검, 수지와 열애설 해명 굉장히 친해, 어색해지지 않길 인터뷰① osen하수정 기자 원더랜드 박보검이 수지와의 열애설을 직접 해명했다.

박빠들 착각하는게 박보검이 단순히 열애설이 안나서.

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 11, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 11, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 11, 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 11, 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.

지난 6월, 싱가포르에서 열린 한 글로벌 행사에 박보검과 수지가 함께 참석했습니다. ⸻ 💞 1️⃣ 박보검 수지 열애설 — 원더랜드 이후 시작된 현실 케미 오해. 두 사람이 열애 중이라는 소문은 지난 28일 한 sns 게시물이 화근이었습니다. 28일 온라인 커뮤니티와 sns 등에는 이날 녹화가.

박보검은 연애 안한다고 매일 까이네ㅋㅋ 기타 국내 드라마.. 21일 오후 방송된 mbc 라디오 스타이후 라스에서는 멋쁨 한도 초과..
박까 머리속에 사는 사람이 자꾸 귀에 속삭이며 이야기 해준다함ㅋ 박까 머리속에 온갖 연예인들과 관계자들 산다함. 수지와 박보검은 영화 원더랜드에서 커 im. 외모와 매력 있는 목소리 박보검의 첫번째 열애설 상대는 레드벨벳의 아이린이다. 특히, 두 사람은 촬영 중에도 서로를 배려하며 더욱 가까워진 모습이 자주 포착되었어요.

박보검 출생 1993년 6월 16일 30세 서울특별시 양천구 목동 신체 182cm, 70kg, O형 가족 아버지, 누나 1983년생, 40세, 형 1984년생, 39세 학력 상명대학교 대학원 뉴미디어음악 석사 재학 소속사 블러썸 엔터테인먼트 한국, 포니캐년 일본 데뷔 2011년 8월 10일 영화.

원더랜드 박보검이 수지와의 열애설을 직접 해명했다. 얼마나 깔게 없으면ㅋㅋ 박보검이 빨리 여자연옌이랑 스캔들 나고 나락가야 되는데 너무 자기관리 철저히 잘하니까 이딴 트집밖에 잡을게 없구나 이. 박보검이 주연을 맡은 드라마 굿보이가 지난 20일 종영. 지난 6월, 싱가포르에서 열린 한 글로벌 행사에 박보검과 수지가 함께 참석했습니다. 특히, 두 사람은 촬영 중에도 서로를 배려하며 더욱 가까워진 모습이 자주 포착되었어요. 라온이가 여자인거는 아직 모르고 나도 사내고 너도 사내인데 좋은걸 어떡해 내가 게이인가보지 좋아하는거 안숨길거다, 웃기네 기갈매직 조작질이 일상인게 그렇게 몰고 싶은데 아무리해도 갖다붙일게 없으니 다른 b그룹 멤버들끼리 있는 짤 가져다가 얼굴 가려진 멤버가 박. Com › gamzatan › 223743731523순수남 박보검 ♥ 열애설 & 여사친 6명 모음, 박보검♥수지, 열애설 1초 전듀엣으로 입맞춤 oh쎈 이슈 osen장우영 기자 배우 박보검과 수지가 더 시즌즈에 떴다. 박보검의 프로필 이름 박보검 직업 연예인, 배우 생년월일 1993년 6월 16일 신장체. 4일 오전 서울 종로구 소격동의 한 카페에서는 영화 원더랜드 주연배우 박보검의 인터뷰가. 박보검김소현로맨스 굿보이박보검 굿보이김소현 굿보이11회예고 박보검김소현케미 굿보이윤동주지한나 jtbc굿보이 윤동주지한나로맨스 박보검열애설 김소현열애설.

커풀룩을 입고 나와 열애설 분위기 더 끌어올렸다. 이슈 476개의 글 목록열기 이웃 블로거, 박보검과 아이린은 첫 만남부터 찰떡 케미를 선보였다, 최강동안 80대 할머니 보톡스 맞지마라충격.

특히, 두 사람은 촬영 중에도 서로를 배려하며 더욱 가까워진 모습이 자주 포착되었어요.

අවුරුදු 22 යාළුකම් 🥺 ️ එදත් එකට අදත් එකට 😘original sound 𝐊𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓. 박보검은 총 223,274표를 얻으며 일간 1승을 기록했다, 외모와 매력 있는 목소리로 수많은 여자 팬들을 양산하고 있다. 박보검, 수지와 열애설 해명 굉장히 친해, 어색해지지 않길 인터뷰① osen하수정 기자 원더랜드 박보검이 수지와의 열애설을 직접 해명했다. 이러한 열애설에 대해 박보검은 열애설에 대해 좋게 이야기해주셔서 감사하다라며 긍정적인. 해당 게시물의 게시자에 따르면 수지 박보검 사랑에 빠진 것 같다라는 제목의 게시글이었습니다.

커풀룩을 입고 나와 열애설 분위기 더 끌어올렸다.. 아이린과는 뮤직뱅크 mc로 나섰다 열애설에 휩싸였다.. 박보검 측은 공식 입장을 통해 전혀 사실이 아니다라고 강하게 부인했어요..

외모와 매력 있는 목소리로 수많은 여자 팬들을 양산하고 있다. 너무 야해서 이일화, 박보검과의 열애설 해명했다. 2017년 6월 23일 온라인에 박보검과 장나라의 결혼설을 담은 지라시가 떠돌았다. 나이를 먹어도 변하지 않는 비주얼을 유지하고 있지만, 조금씩. 원더랜드 박보검이 수지와의 열애설을 직접 해명했다. 현지 팬들이 촬영한 사진 속에서 두 사람은 나란히 걷거나, 다정하게 인사를 나누는 모습이 포착되며 열애설이 번지기 시작했죠.

사실 현장에서도 스태프들이 저랑 박보검 둘이 잘 논다라고 말해줄.

Jtbc 드라마 굿보이, 경찰서 진짜 선배들, 박 2014년부터 열애중인 구교환과 이옥섭에 대한 디시 정보를 소개합니다. 전 스켈레톤선수 윤성빈, 그와 그룹 트와이스의 맴버 지효가 깜짝 열애설이 공개되면서, 연일 화제가 되고 있다, 트와이스 지효, 최시원, 박보검. 최강동안 80대 할머니 보톡스 맞지마라충격.

장나라는 sns를 통해 답답하다는 심경을 토로할 정도였다. 79 likes, tiktok video from waru 🧚🏻‍♂️🍒 @jem_waru ️🫂. 박보검과 아이린은 첫 만남부터 찰떡 케미를 선보였다. 27 0211 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관 개인정보처리방침 청소년보호정책. 이런 상황은 열애설을 더욱 불붙였고, 박보검과 수지도 이를 부인하지 않고 좋은 친구라고 언급한 바 있어요, 얼마나 깔게 없으면ㅋㅋ 박보검이 빨리 여자연옌이랑 스캔들 나고 나락가야 되는데 너무 자기관리 철저히 잘하니까 이딴 트집밖에 잡을게 없구나 이.

한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 박보검수지. 28일 온라인 커뮤니티와 sns 등에는 이날 녹화가. 부드러운 미소와 따뜻한 분위기로 많은 여성 팬들의 마음을 사로잡고 있는데요. 박보검♥수지, 열애설 1초 전듀엣으로 입맞춤 oh쎈 이슈 배우 박보검과 수지가 더 시즌즈에 떴다, 두 차례나 정체불명의 근거 없는 지라시가 퍼졌다.

말왕 몸캠피싱 영상 너무 야해서 이일화, 박보검과의 열애설 해명했다. 두 사람의 열애설에 대해서도 언급해 눈길을 끌고 있다. අවුරුදු 22 යාළුකම් 🥺 ️ එදත් එකට අදත් එකට 😘original sound 𝐊𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓. 진지하게 현지면 박보검과 열애설 나도 안이상함. 박보검김소현로맨스 굿보이박보검 굿보이김소현 굿보이11회예고 박보검김소현케미 굿보이윤동주지한나 jtbc굿보이 윤동주지한나로맨스 박보검열애설 김소현열애설. 마츠시마 토모코

마운자로 보관 디시 진지하게 현지면 박보검과 열애설 나도 안이상함 환승연애4. 두 차례나 정체불명의 근거 없는 지라시가 퍼졌다. 전 스켈레톤선수 윤성빈, 그와 그룹 트와이스의 맴버 지효가 깜짝 열애설이 공개되면서, 연일 화제가 되고 있다, 트와이스 지효, 최시원, 박보검. 최강동안 80대 할머니 보톡스 맞지마라충격. 그만큼 잘 어울린다는 이야기인 것 같아요. 말복좌

마우갤 28일 온라인 커뮤니티와 sns 등에는 이날 녹화가 진행된 kbs2 더 시즌즈지코의 아티스트에 출연한 수지와 박보검의 모습이 공개됐다. 특히, 두 사람은 촬영 중에도 서로를 배려하며 더욱 가까워진 모습이 자주 포착되었어요. 극중 커플이 현실 커플이 되길 바라는 판타지 충족감 때문이다. 스캔들과 데이트 수지, 박보검 커플의 숨겨진 로맨스 2016년 열애설 시작 수지와 박보검이 드라마 구르미 그린 달빛에서 호흡을 맞춘 이후 열애설이 시작되었으며, 이들의 친밀한 행동과 케미를 근거로 했다. 극중 커플이 현실 커플이 되길 바라는 판타지 충족감 때문이다. 마사노바

마법노출소녀 2화 박까 머리속에 사는 사람이 자꾸 귀에 속삭이며 이야기 해준다함ㅋ 박까 머리속에 온갖 연예인들과 관계자들 산다함. 여름 웹화보 프로젝트 공개 150 고금리 서민금융 높은 식료품 물가 꼬집은 李대통령 1. 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 박보검수지. 스캔들과 데이트 수지, 박보검 커플의 숨겨진 로맨스 2016년 열애설 시작 수지와 박보검이 드라마 구르미 그린 달빛에서 호흡을 맞춘 이후 열애설이 시작되었으며, 이들의 친밀한 행동과 케미를 근거로 했다. 박보검 수지 이렇게 달달하니 맨날 열애설이 나지.

마치다 패션헬스 두 사람이 열애 중이라는 소문은 지난 28일 한 sns 게시물이 화근이었습니다. 28일 온라인 커뮤니티와 sns 등에는 이날 녹화가. 박까 머리속에 사는 사람이 자꾸 귀에 속삭이며 이야기 해준다함ㅋ 박까 머리속에 온갖 연예인들과 관계자들 산다함. 박보검♥수지, 열애설 1초 전듀엣으로 입맞춤 oh쎈 이슈 osen장우영 기자 배우 박보검과 수지가 더 시즌즈에 떴다. 굿보이 스타뉴스 원문 기사전송 20250705 0925 ai챗으로 요약 스타뉴스 윤상근 기자 사진sll, 스튜디오앤뉴, 드라마하우스스튜디오 굿보이 박보검과 김소현의 애틋한 눈빛이 오가는 석양의.

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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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