근거없는 주장했다트위터, 트럼프 트윗에 첫 경고 딱지.

국민을 향해 쏴라는 김용현 전 국방부 장관의 공소장에 나타난 발포 명령을 겨냥한 걸로 보인다.

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 15, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 15, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 15, 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 15, 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.

머스크는 트위터를 비상장 회사로 바꾸겠다는. 안녕, 오늘날 사회가 얼마나 무관심한지에 대해 x에 해로운 게시물을 올렸는데. 단순한 의견 수렴을 증세 주장으로 둔갑시킨 언론 보도 행태를 강하게 비판한 것입니다. 잭 도시 트위터 창업자 블록 최고경영자ceo는 12일.

일론 머스크 테슬라 최고경영자ceo가 트위터 계정을 직접 조사했지만, 트위터 가짜 계정이 5%를 훨씬 넘는다는 자신의 주장을 뒷받침할 근거를 찾지 못했다고 트위터 측 변호인이 27일현지시간 밝혔다. 경찰이 군소 대통령 후보의 선거 유세를 막으면서 후보를 폭행했다는 주장이 인터넷에서 빠르게 확산 되고 있습니다. 3 내일을 향해 쏴라는 1969년에 개봉한 영화이고 부치와 선댄스는 이 영화 등장인물이다. 그러면서 좌편향이라는 비판을 받자, 지난 2010년부터 트위터 x를 통해 자신의 입장을 적극적으로 밝혔다.

윤석열 대통령 지지자들이 윤 대통령의 구속 소식에 반발해 서울서부지법에 집단 난입한 사태가 발생한 지 이튿날인 20일 오후 서울 마포구 서울서부지법 모습.

김 의원은 여러 사람을 설득하여 자신의 주장을 관철하였다. 이에 메타의 한 소식통은 세마포르에 스레드 개발팀에 전직 트위터 직원은 없다며 스피로가 제기한 의혹이 사실이 아니다고 말했다. 소셜미디어 트위터가 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 근거 없는 주장을 담은 트윗에 처음으로 팩트체크가 필요하다는 취지의 경고 문구를 달았습니다. 서울뉴스1 박재하 김성식 기자 메타가 트위터의 대항마로 내세운 소셜미디어 sns 스레드 threads를 공식 출시하자 트위터 측이 지식재산권 침해라며 법적 대응을 예고했다. 그는 자신의 주장만을 고수하는 외골수이다, 3 내일을 향해 쏴라는 1969년에 개봉한 영화이고 부치와 선댄스는 이 영화 등장인물이다. Location seoul, south korea, Kr › world › usacanada트위터, 대항마 스레드에 법적대응 예고&mldr.

잭 도시 트위터 창업자 블록 최고경영자ceo는 12일.

트위터 사용자가 저를 doxbin에 올렸다고 주장합니다, 일론 머스크 테슬라 최고경영자 ceo가 트위터 계정을 직접 조사했지만, 트위터 가짜 계정이 5%를 훨씬 넘는다는 자신의 주장을 뒷받침할 근거를, 일론 머스크 테슬라 최고경영자 ceo가 트위터 계정을 직접 조사했지만, 트위터 가짜 계정이 5%를 훨씬 넘는다는 자신의 주장을 뒷받침할 근거를. 창의성 제한하는 현 제도 문제있어 트위터 현 x 창업자가 모든 지식재산권법을 삭제하자고 주장하며 인공지능 ai시대 지식재산권 논쟁을. 그레타 툰베리는 이에 대해 자신의 트위터 직업을 분노 조절 프로그램 참석자로 바꿔 응수했다, The shade borough tsb님@theshadeborough.

Kr › world › usacanada트위터, 대항마 스레드에 법적대응 예고&mldr. 이는 최근 그의 페이스북 게시글을 통해 공식적으로 밝혀진 입장입니다. 단순한 의견 수렴을 증세 주장으로 둔갑시킨 언론 보도 행태를 강하게 비판한 것입니다. 트위터현 x 창업자가 모든 지식재산권법을 삭제하자고 주장하며 인공지능ai시대 지식재산권 논쟁을 촉발했다.

박성원 기자 서울서부지법 난동 사태가 발생하기 수일 전부터.. 잭 도시 트위터 창업자 블록 최고경영자ceo는 12일.. 김 의원은 여러 사람을 설득하여 자신의 주장을 관철하였다.. 윤창중 전 청와대 대변인의 성추행 의혹 사건에 박지원 민주당 전 원내대표가 개입된 작전이라고 주장한 트위터리언에게 실형이 선고됐다..

창의성 제한하는 현 제도 문제있어 트위터 현 x 창업자가 모든 지식재산권법을 삭제하자고 주장하며 인공지능 ai시대 지식재산권 논쟁을, 이에 메타의 한 소식통은 세마포르에 스레드 개발팀에 전직 트위터 직원은 없다며 스피로가 제기한 의혹이 사실이 아니다고 말했다. 일론 머스크 테슬라 최고경영자 ceo가 트위터 계정을 직접 조사했지만, 트위터 가짜 계정이 5%를 훨씬 넘는다는 자신의 주장을 뒷받침할 근거를. 앱에 따라 twitter 웹사이트 또는 android용 twitter 앱으로 연결되어 앱이 팔로워를 빨리 모아주겠다고 주장하는 웹사이트자세한 내용은 x의 팔로잉 관련. 스타쉽 발사는 발사대를 벗어나 로켓이 상승했다는 점에서 성공적이었어. 3 내일을 향해 쏴라는 1969년에 개봉한 영화이고 부치와 선댄스는 이 영화 등장인물이다.

서울뉴스1 박재하 김성식 기자 메타가 트위터의 대항마로 내세운 소셜미디어 Sns 스레드 Threads를 공식 출시하자 트위터 측이 지식재산권 침해라며 법적 대응을 예고했다.

파리 교외에서 17세 소년이 경찰 총격으로 사망한 이후, 프랑스가 또다시 소요에 휩싸였다, 한국과학기술원kaist, 이하 카이스트 조교수가 연구직을 희망하는 외국인에게서 거액의 현금을 뜯어내고 임금을 지급하지 않았다는 주장이 제기됐다. 만약 제가 저작권 주장을 옹호하는 변호사라면, 회사의 트위터 계정은 마케팅의 한 형태라고 주장할 겁니다, 마케팅은 사업을 성장시키기 위한 모든.

그는 파란색 인증 배지를 8달러에 사게 하면 트위터의 봇이 제거될. 트위터, 신종코로나 음모론 주장 블로거 제로 헤지 계정, 파리 교외에서 17세 소년이 경찰 총격으로 사망한 이후, 프랑스가 또다시 소요에 휩싸였다. X를 소유한 일론 머스크도 이에 동의한다는 의견을 피력했다.

이 대통령은 자신의 X구 트위터에 서울신문의 이라는 기사를 공유했습니다.

이는 최근 그의 페이스북 게시글을 통해 공식적으로 밝혀진 입장입니다. 이에 대해 트위터 측 변호사는 이것은 계약서상 101번 조항일 뿐이라고 답변했다. 윤창중 전 청와대 대변인의 성추행 의혹 사건에 박지원 민주당 전 원내대표가 개입된 작전이라고 주장한 트위터리언에게 실형이 선고됐다.

사람들은 하드웨어 지갑과 pin을 다른 사람들과 공유해. 안녕, 오늘날 사회가 얼마나 무관심한지에 대해 x에 해로운 게시물을 올렸는데, 트위터, 신종코로나 음모론 주장 블로거 제로 헤지 계정, 창의성 제한하는 현 제도 문제있어 트위터 현 x 창업자가 모든 지식재산권법을 삭제하자고 주장하며 인공지능 ai시대 지식재산권 논쟁을.

트위터, 메타에 스레드 운영 멈춰라직원 빼가기 주장하며. 경찰이 군소 대통령 후보의 선거 유세를 막으면서 후보를 폭행했다는 주장이 인터넷에서 빠르게 확산 되고 있습니다, 이는 최근 그의 페이스북 게시글을 통해 공식적으로 밝혀진 입장입니다.

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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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

근거없는 주장했다트위터, 트럼프 트윗에 첫 경고 딱지., 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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