US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 5, 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, June 5, 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 5, 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, June 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 5, 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, June 5, 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, June 5, 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 5, 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, June 5, 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, June 5, 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 5, 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, June 5, 2026.
상냥한 어머니 역이 많음이야말로, 언젠가 보고 싶은 일본에서 가장 아름다운 할머니 역 여성 부문에서는 1위는 요시나가 사유리 73가 빛났다. 그런데 인생의 유일한 남자였던 남편과 사별하면서 많은 것이 달라졌다. 1935 년에 태어난 고령의 할머니는. M806g08 좋은 나이에 성적 욕망을 깨어난 성숙한 여성이 섹스를 원하고 av에 나타납니다.
Com › menu › actor토다 에미 60대의 나이에도 활발하게 활동하는 노익장, 손주 둘을, 일본 유명 여배우의 모친이 avadult video 영화에 데뷔해 논란이 일고 있다, 스타급 남성 배우인 도쿠다 시게오 90는 59세이던 1994년 업계에 발을 들였고 83세이던 2017년 기네스 세계기록 gwr에서 최고령 포르노 배우로 인정받았다, 고령자 av 배우들은 나름의 자부심을 갖고 있다. 늦은 나이에 av배우가 된 경우가 도다만은 아니다. 댓글 1 지구촌 이슈 23개의 글 목록열기, 80세까지 av여배우로 활동하고 싶어한다. 어르신 전용av인 루비의 전속이 되어 늙어도 할머니 배우가 되고 싶다고 하던 그녀. 약 7년을 스낵에서 일하다가 단골손님의 추천으로 2016년 10월 19일 세계 최고령 av배우에 데뷔했다데뷔작 nykd072. 가디언은 실제 실버 포르노 배우들의 사례를 소개했다. 가디언은 실제 실버 포르노 배우들의 사례를 소개했다, 日 80세 최고령 av 여배우의 은퇴 이유. 30년 일본 av 성인용 비디오 영상물사상 최초로 76세 할머니와 26세 손녀가 동시에 av출연해 업계는 물론 av오타쿠 사이에 거대한 쓰나미를 몰고 왔다. 1935년생 오가사와라 유코는 대형 보험회사에서 근무하는 아버지, 엄격한 어머니 밑에서 곱게 자랐다. 일본의 최고령 포르노 여배우 데쓰카 마오리가 최근 은퇴를 선언하여 화제가 되고 있다. 이제 숙녀물 av에 출연해 돈을 버는 사례는 상위 2%로 극히 소수에 불과하다. 데즈카 마오리는 친절한 할머니역을 전문으로 하다 80세이던 2017년 은퇴했다. 최고의 할머니 여배우 및 가장 인기있는 gilf의 2020, 2018년 7월 만 60세의 나이로 센타빌리지에서 av배우에 데뷔했다 jrzd822.76세 할머니와 26세 손녀가 동시에 av출연결정.. Com › menu › actor토다 에미 60대의 나이에도 활발하게 활동하는 노익장, 손주 둘을.. 특히 7년 경력을 가진 65세 여성 도다 에미의 사연을 집중 보도했는데, 도다는 50대 후반의 나이에 포르노 배우 일을 시작해 지금까지 성인물 수십 편에 출연했다.. 늦은 나이에 av배우가 된 경우가 도다만은 아니다..가장 인기있는 할머니 여배우와 gilf 섹스 모델, 일본 유명 여배우의 모친이 avadult video 영화에 데뷔해 논란이 일고 있다, 도쿠다 시게오 90는 83세였던 2017년 기네스 월드 레코드로부터 세계 최고령 포르노 배우로 인정받았다, 데즈카 마오리는 친절한 할머니역을 전문으로 하다 80세이던 2017년 은퇴했다. 싱글벙글 요청한 초고령 할머니 av 데뷔, 60세 할머니가 av배우로 데뷔한 이유 포스트쉐어 라디오.
마돈나 계열의 oba라고 있는데 거의 50대 이상의 av배우들이 출연하죠. 올해 51세로 세 아이의 어머니인 아다치는 드라마 유리가면에 출연해 큰 인기를 모았던 아역배우 출신 여배우 아다치 유미27安達祐実의 어머니로 더. 개드립 80대 할머니도 av 배우 데뷔.
미즈키 요시노왼쪽, 미즈키 아야나오른쪽 30년 일본 av성인용 비디오 영상물사상 최초로 76세 할머니와 26세 손녀가 동시에 av출연해 업계는. 80세까지 av여배우로 활동하고 싶어한다, 약 7년을 스낵에서 일하다가 단골손님의 추천으로 2016년 10월 19일 세계 최고령 av배우에 데뷔했다데뷔작 nykd072, 日 80세 최고령 av 여배우의 은퇴 이유, Com › ildholic › 221359703428기사 이상적인 할아버지 역・할머니 역 일본배우 랭킹 top10. 81세에 av 여배우가 될 줄은 본인도 몰랐으며 완전히 우연이었다고 한다.
도쿠다 시게오 90는 83세였던 2017년 기네스 월드 레코드로부터 세계 최고령 포르노 배우로 인정받았다.. 日 80세 최고령 av 여배우의 은퇴 이유.. 30년 일본 av 성인용 비디오 영상물사상 최초로 76세 할머니와 26세 손녀가 동시에 av출연해 업계는 물론 av오타쿠 사이에 거대한 쓰나미를 몰고 왔다.. 9일 월간종합정보지 단세이사이죠 男性サイゾ는 미즈키 요시노 76가 av출연을 결정했다고 밝혔다..
Com › newsview › 2015040900310976세 할머니와 26세 손녀가 동시에 av출연결정, Kr › news › 50764690세 나이에 노익장 보여주는 현역 최고령 av여배우 은퇴 계획 없. 고령자 av 배우들은 나름의 자부심을 갖고 있다.
10여년 전에 이미 초고령 사회에 접어든 일본의 인구구조는 시니어 포르노 장르의 성장 기반이 되고 있다. Com › newsview › 2015040900310976세 할머니와 26세 손녀가 동시에 av출연결정. 60세 할머니가 av배우로 데뷔한 이유 포스트쉐어 라디오 여러분들의 다양한 이야기와 사연을 기다리고 있습니다.
| 싱글벙글 요청한 초고령 할머니 av 데뷔. | 댓글 1 지구촌 이슈 23개의 글 목록열기. | 특히 7년 경력을 가진 65세 여성 도다 에미의 사연을 집중 보도했는데, 도다는 50대 후반의 나이에 포르노 배우 일을 시작해 지금까지 성인물 수십 편에 출연했다. | 가디언은 실제 실버 포르노 배우들의 사례를 소개했다. |
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| 싱글벙글 요청한 초고령 할머니 av 데뷔. | 미즈키 요시노왼쪽, 미즈키 아야나오른쪽 30년 일본 av성인용 비디오 영상물사상 최초로 76세 할머니와 26세 손녀가 동시에 av출연해 업계는. | 그런데 인생의 유일한 남자였던 남편과 사별하면서 많은 것이 달라졌다. | 도쿠다 시게오 90는 83세였던 2017년 기네스 월드 레코드로부터 세계 최고령 포르노 배우로 인정받았다. |
| 도다는 이혼 후 슈퍼마켓과 장의사 등에서 일하며 생계를 이어가다 50대 후반에 수입을 좀 늘려보려고 직업소개소에 이력서를 보냈는데, 포르노 영화 제작사에서 연락을 받았다. | 최고의 할머니 여배우 및 가장 인기있는 gilf의 2020. | 싱글벙글 요청한 초고령 할머니 av 데뷔. | 10여년 전에 이미 초고령 사회에 접어든 일본의 인구구조는 시니어 포르노 장르의 성장 기반이 되고 있다. |
| 일본의 한 주간지는 중년 여배우 아다치 유리安達有里가 av영화에 데뷔한다. | 개드립 80대 할머니도 av 배우 데뷔. | 그런데 인생의 유일한 남자였던 남편과 사별하면서 많은 것이 달라졌다. | 1935 년에 태어난 고령의 할머니는. |
오가사와라 유코 小笠原祐子 yuko ogasawara, 초고령 사회 일본에서 실버 포르노 산업이 뜨면서 노인 배우들이 속속 이 시장에 진입하는 현상을 영국 언론 가디언이 짚었다. 도다는 지금까지 수십편의 성인물에 출연했다. 어르신 전용av인 루비의 전속이 되어 늙어도 할머니 배우가 되고 싶다고 하던 그녀. 가디언은 7년 경력의 여성 av배우 도다 에미 65의 사연을 소개했다. 76세 할머니와 26세 손녀가 동시에 av출연결정.
1935 년에 태어난 고령의 할머니는, 가디언은 7년 경력의 여성 av배우 도다 에미 65의 사연을 소개했다. 데뷔 4년차 81살 나이에 av 여배우로 제3의 인생 시작한 할머니. 고령자 av 배우들은 나름의 자부심을 갖고 있다. 65세 이혼녀도 80세도 배우 데뷔 머.
소개팅 디시 M806g08 좋은 나이에 성적 욕망을 깨어난 성숙한 여성이 섹스를 원하고 av에 나타납니다. 올해 65세 여성인 도다 에미는 이혼 후 슈퍼마켓과 장의사 등에서 일을 하며 생활하다 50대 후반에 포르노 배우 일을 시작했다. 도쿠다 시게오 90는 83세였던 2017년 기네스 월드 레코드로부터 세계 최고령 포르노 배우로 인정받았다. 보 다이아몬드 모든 젊은이들로부터 휴식이 필요할 때마다 beau diamond를 즐기는 것이. 특히 7년 경력을 가진 65세 여성 도다 에미의 사연을 집중 보도했는데, 도다는 50대 후반의 나이에 포르노 배우 일을 시작해 지금까지 성인물 수십 편에 출연했다. 세토칸나 19
소악마 여캐 Kr › society › 20240131실버 포르노 일본에서 호황&mldr. 2018년 7월 만 60세의 나이로 센타빌리지에서 av배우에 데뷔했다 jrzd822. Com › menu › actor토다 에미 60대의 나이에도 활발하게 활동하는 노익장, 손주 둘을. 도다는 지금까지 수십편의 성인물에 출연했다. 요청한 초고령 할머니 av 데뷔 싱글벙글 지구촌 마이너 갤러리. 숨겨진이야기h
섹트 커컬드 Com › blablastory › 223836741500데뷔 4년차 81살 나이에 av 여배우로 제3의 인생 시작한 할머니. 65세 이혼녀도 80세도 배우 데뷔 머. 65세 이혼녀도 80세도 배우 데뷔 머. 일본의 한 주간지는 중년 여배우 아다치 유리安達有里가 av영화에 데뷔한다. 한편, 일본은 2022년 6월 ‘av출연피해방지구제법’을 도입했다. 섹트 학생
섹트 오르가즘 인기 포르노 배우 도다 에미사진가디언 미소녀도 아니다. 81세에 av 여배우가 될 줄은 본인도 몰랐으며 완전히 우연이었다고 한다. M806g08 좋은 나이에 성적 욕망을 깨어난 성숙한 여성이 섹스를 원하고 av에 나타납니다. 할머니 av 온라인 보기 missav. Com › newsview › 2015040900310976세 할머니와 26세 손녀가 동시에 av출연결정.
섹트 누드 최고의 할머니 여배우 및 가장 인기있는 gilf의 2020. 특히 7년 경력을 가진 65세 여성 도다 에미의 사연을 집중 보도했는데, 도다는 50대 후반의 나이에 포르노 배우 일을 시작해 지금까지 성인물 수십 편에 출연했다. 가장 인기있는 할머니 여배우와 gilf 섹스 모델. 일본의 한 주간지는 중년 여배우 아다치 유리安達有里가 av영화에 데뷔한다. 데뷔 4년차 81살 나이에 av 여배우로 제3의 인생 시작한 할머니.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 5, 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, June 5, 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, June 5, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 5, 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.
할머니 av 온라인 보기 missav., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.