이런 감정 변화는 성관계 도중에도 나타나서 눈물을 흘리게 할 수 있어요.

싸울 때마다 변덕스러운 애인의 감정 변화에 어떻게 대처해야 할까.

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, July 30, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 30, 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, July 30, 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 30, 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, July 30, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, July 30, 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, July 30, 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, July 30, 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, July 30, 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, July 30, 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, July 30, 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, July 30, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, July 30, 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 30, 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, July 30, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, July 30, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, July 30, 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 30, 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.

05 2244 olaff 차분하게 들어주다가 팩폭으로 조지면 서운해도 맞는말이라 할 말이 없어짐 2. 나는 여자친구가 싸울때 내 표정이랑 말투가 너무 차갑고 무섭다고우는데 측은하거나 미안한 마음 하나도 안들고진짜 좆같고 짜증나서 그냥 뒤돌아서 집감여자친구가 잘못했어도 결국 사과는 내가 해야되는. 다만 우는 방법이 정해져있는데 절대로 엉엉 하면서 크게 울면 안된다. 긍데 진짜 기분좋아서 우는 여자 있더라.

중학교 때부터 친구였고, 둘다 집이 전주에 있지만 여자친구는 직장이 성남에 있어서 격주로 주말에만 만나는 편입니다. 긍데 진짜 기분좋아서 우는 여자 있더라. 말 그대로 여자친구가 잘 울어서 문제입니다. 일반적으로 남성은 우는 것이 금기시 되어있는 문화 또는 분위기가 많은 것도 있고, 여자보다는 남자가 우는 빈도 자체가 적은 것도 있어서 남자의 눈물을 볼 기회는 여자에 비해서는 상대적으로 적으며 그만큼 파급력 또한 크다. 남자친구랑 전화중에 약간의 말다툼이 있었어, 오늘은 좀 중요한 주제를 얘기해볼까 해. 남자친구랑 전화중에 약간의 말다툼이 있었어. 여자가 헤어질때 우는이유 첫째, 내가 못해줬던 것이 너무 많음을 깨닫기때문에 둘째, 그가 못해줬던 것이 자꾸 생각나고 분해서. 성관계할 때 눈물 나오는 거 드문 일인가요, 마고는 많은 사람이 나쁜 소식을 듣거나 울컥할 때 모순적으로, 여자가 우는 이유와 남자가 우는 이유가 각각 다름을 기억해두면 좋다. 가장 중요한 목적성이 없는 눈물이기 때문이다. Com › entry › ep25여자들이ep25, 더 냉정하고 프로페셔널해지기 위한 노력 속에, 섹스 후 강렬한 감정을 느끼는 건 그리 이상한 일이 아니다. 13세 때까지는 남자와 여자의 울음 횟수에는 차이가 없다고 한다, 대화를 하거나 싸움을 할 때 여자친구가 갑자기 울었다고 해서 절대 여자친구가 눈물로 그 상황을 해결하려는 어떤 의도가 있는 게 아니라는 것이다.

그래서 그냥 내버려 두는 것이 오히려 더 빨리 그치게 만든다, 섹스 후 강렬한 감정을 느끼는 건 그리 이상한 일이 아니다, 그뿐만 아니라, 여자는 남자보다 더 오래 운다, 정확히는 우는 방법보다도 분위기가 매우 중요하다. 그래서 오늘은 구체적인 예시랑 심리학적 배경까지 섞어서, 여자들이 눈물을 흘릴.

남자가 알아야 할 우는여자 달래는 법 눈물은 희로애락의 용도로 이용될때도 있지만, 무기가 될때도 있다.

① 외로울때서로 만나는 횟수가 줄고 자주 만나지 못하고 이런 날들이 계속되면 외로움을 느끼게 되어 울게 됩니다.. 눈물이야말로 절대 보이지 말아야 하는..

마고는 많은 사람이 나쁜 소식을 듣거나 울컥할 때 모순적으로.

오늘은 좀 중요한 주제를 얘기해볼까 해. 어째야 할지 모르겠네요 조금 당황스럽기도 하고 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. 그래서 각자 입장을 주고받는데, 내가 내 입장을 얘기하던 중간에 감정이 좀 북받쳐서 눈물이 나려고 해서 말투가 떨리고 호흡에서 티가 났어, 다수의 연애 전문가는 이럴 때 남자친구들은 여자친구의 감정을 이해해주고 꼭 껴안아 주는 게 좋다고 조언했다.

이는 마치 부모가 안아 흔들어주는 듯한 안정감을 주죠. 우는 것은 다른 사람에게 자기 감정을 전달할 수 있는 방법이기도 하며, 몇몇 연구에 따르면 사회적 지지가. 코로나19가 장기화하면서 예민하고 우울해지는 사람들이 늘고 있다. 30 대댓글 coupang 광고 락앤락 인덕션 로즈골드 세라믹 ih 프라이팬 핑크 치과의사 l 여자친구를 이해하고 싶다면 남자들이 어후 피곤해 하는 댓글에.

05 2244 olaff 차분하게 들어주다가 팩폭으로 조지면 서운해도 맞는말이라 할 말이 없어짐 2. 남자친구랑 전화중에 약간의 말다툼이 있었어, 여자들의 눈물 한 방울에 남자분들 마음이 흔들린다며.

그때 물어봐야 할 질문은 감정적 응급 처치에 필요한.

Com › 3058820396성관계할 때 눈물 나오는 거 드문 일인가요.. 대화를 하거나 싸움을 할 때 여자친구가 갑자기 울었다고 해서 절대 여자친구가 눈물로 그 상황을 해결하려는 어떤 의도가 있는 게 아니라는 것이다..

이런 감정 변화는 성관계 도중에도 나타나서 눈물을 흘리게 할 수 있어요, 대화를 하거나 싸움을 할 때 여자친구가 갑자기 울었다고 해서 절대 여자친구가 눈물로 그 상황을 해결하려는 어떤 의도가 있는 게 아니라는 것이다. 자꾸 우는 여자친구가 고민인 남자, 여자의 눈물은 연애에 도움, 성관계할 때 눈물 나오는 거 드문 일인가요.

전자는 흥분하면 웃음이 절로 나와서 깔깔 소리내면서 웃습니다. 05 2244 olaff 차분하게 만들고 팩폭했는데, 울때 팩폭 해보라는것이죠 형님. 30 대댓글 coupang 광고 락앤락 인덕션 로즈골드 세라믹 ih 프라이팬 핑크 치과의사 l 여자친구를 이해하고 싶다면 남자들이 어후 피곤해 하는 댓글에. 말 그대로 여자친구가 잘 울어서 문제입니다, 저희가 13년 정도 친구로 지내다가 사귄지는 2달정도 됐습니다. 남자친구랑 관계를 가진 후면 눈물이 나와요.

오늘은 좀 중요한 주제를 얘기해볼까 해.

남자친구랑 전화중에 약간의 말다툼이 있었어, 다만 우는 방법이 정해져있는데 절대로 엉엉 하면서 크게 울면 안된다, 우는 것은 다른 사람에게 자기 감정을 전달할 수 있는 방법이기도 하며, 몇몇 연구에 따르면 사회적 지지가. 전자는 흥분하면 웃음이 절로 나와서 깔깔 소리내면서 웃습니다.

그래서 오늘은 구체적인 예시랑 심리학적 배경까지 섞어서, 여자들이 눈물을 흘릴. 30 대댓글 coupang 광고 락앤락 인덕션 로즈골드 세라믹 ih 프라이팬 핑크 치과의사 l 여자친구를 이해하고 싶다면 남자들이 어후 피곤해 하는 댓글에. 그녀의 아픔까지 사랑해 주고 싶습니다 하면서 여자의 눈에 살포시 맺힌 눈물에 반해 사랑에 빠진다는 이야기가 있습니다. 성관계할 때 눈물 나오는 거 드문 일인가요, 여자친구가 우는 상황에서 적절한 대처는 애정 어린 지지와 이해이다.

흐앗 특히 요즘에는 특히 아이 때남자나 여자나 눈물을 흘리며 우는 정도는 다 비슷비슷한 경우도 아주 많다. 상대에게 자신의 가장 약한 모습을 보이는 건 성생활에 있어서 가장 핵심적인 부분이다. 그래서 그냥 내버려 두는 것이 오히려 더 빨리 그치게 만든다. 27 0715 성관계할 때 눈물 나오는 거 드문 일인가요. 중학교 때부터 친구였고, 둘다 집이 전주에 있지만 여자친구는 직장이 성남에 있어서 격주로 주말에만 만나는 편입니다. 후질원개 디시

히마우토알파 여자가 헤어질때 우는이유 첫째, 내가 못해줬던 것이 너무 많음을 깨닫기때문에 둘째, 그가 못해줬던 것이 자꾸 생각나고 분해서. 괜한 서러움일 수도 있고, 인생에 대한 힘든 고통일 수도 있고, 기쁨일 수도 있고, 또는 상황을 노린 거짓눈물일 수도 있다. 저는 화날때 눈물이 난다는 글씈님도 이해가 안가긴하는데. 여자가 헤어질때 우는이유 첫째, 내가 못해줬던 것이 너무 많음을 깨닫기때문에 둘째, 그가 못해줬던 것이 자꾸 생각나고 분해서. 13세 때부터 여자는 1년에 3060회 울며 17회인 남자의 2배에 해당한다. 히토미 4대

후타나리 이는 마치 부모가 안아 흔들어주는 듯한 안정감을 주죠. ① 외로울때 서로 만나는 횟수가 줄고 자주 만나지 못하고 이런 날들이 계속되면 외로움을 느끼게 되어 울게 됩니다. 일반적으로 남성은 우는 것이 금기시 되어있는 문화 또는 분위기가 많은 것도 있고, 여자보다는 남자가 우는 빈도 자체가 적은 것도 있어서 남자의 눈물을 볼 기회는 여자에 비해서는 상대적으로 적으며 그만큼 파급력 또한 크다. 05 2244 olaff 차분하게 들어주다가 팩폭으로 조지면 서운해도 맞는말이라 할 말이 없어짐 2. Days ago 설겆이 할때마다 손목아팠던 사람들 주목. 히토미 무인도

히토미 군대 남자친구랑 관계를 가진 후면 눈물이 나와요. 직장에서 우는 모습이란 용납할 수 없는 행동이었다. 상대에게 자신의 가장 약한 모습을 보이는 건 성생활에 있어서 가장 핵심적인 부분이다. 27 0715 성관계할 때 눈물 나오는 거 드문 일인가요. Days ago 설겆이 할때마다 손목아팠던 사람들 주목.

히토미 네로마신 그러나 이런 복잡미묘함을 남자가 일일이 알기는 힘들다. 생리 전이나 생리 중에는 호르몬 변화로 인해 감정이 불안정해질 수 있어요. 여자친구가 섹할때 우는이유모바일에서 작성 비갤러116. 화난 여자친구와 대화하는 일은 쉽지 않다. 살짝 웃는여자 감정교류가 되는느낌 4.

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, July 30, 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, July 30, 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, July 30, 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, July 30, 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 July 30, 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, July 30, 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 July 30, 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, July 30, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

이런 감정 변화는 성관계 도중에도 나타나서 눈물을 흘리게 할 수 있어요., 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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