US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 12, 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, August 12, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 12, 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, August 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 2026.
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가이거는 엔드윈도 방식의 계수기를 제작하여 알파 입자와 작은 에너지를 갖는 베타 입자를 검출하였는데, 이 방식의 계수기는 오늘날에도 여전히 사용되고 있다, 한스 가이거 가 만든 최초의 가이거 계수기는 알파 입자와 베타 입자를 검출하기 위한 것이었다. 실제 가이거 카운터를 구입하여 사용해보면 알겠지만, 수백 cps 이상의 방사선을 검출할 경우 삐 거리면서 가이거 카운터가 작동을 하지 않는다, 우리가 잘 아는 방사능 측정기인 가이거 계수기 가이거뮐러 계수기의 측정 원리는 생각보다 간단합니다, 가이거는 엔드윈도 방식의 계수기를 제작하여 알파 입자와 작은 에너지를 갖는 베타 입자를 검출하였는데, 이 방식의 계수기는 오늘날에도 여전히 사용되고 있다.| 창문 닫아도 걱정없이, 에어케어 솔루션으로 새 공기는 채우고 유해 물질은 제거. | 여중생 혼자 있는 집안에 방사능 조사한다고 들어가서 움직이면 죽인다고 협박. | Rt @piorezero 쿠지락스의 만화 가이거 카운터 흉내내서. | 가이거 카운터는 외곽전도체와 내부에 머리카락보다 약간 굵은 도선이 있는데, 이 튜브 내에는 알콜,아르곤 등의 가스가 있어서 기본적으론 비전도 상태를 유지하고 있다. |
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| Com › eowkdtn20 › 221325382621방사능 측정기라는 가이거 계수기 원리 알아보자 네이버 블로그. | 수제 가이거 카운터 구축 dcdc 컨버터 레귤레이터 모듈 고전압 예 sodial. | 집에 수상한 방사능 검침원이 찾아오는. | Hans geiger와 ernest rutherford는 1908 년 알파 입자를 탐지하기 위해 최초의 geiger 카운터를 발명했습니다. |
| Hans geiger와 ernest rutherford는 1908 년 알파 입자를 탐지하기 위해 최초의 geiger 카운터를 발명했습니다. | 방사능을 측정하는 가장 잘 알려진 인기 장치 가이거 카운터. | Kr 가이거 계수기 모듈 이온화 방사선 검출기 sen0463 가이거 카운터 3. | 가이거 카운터는 외곽전도체와 내부에 머리카락보다 약간 굵은 도선이 있는데, 이 튜브 내에는 알콜,아르곤 등의 가스가 있어서 기본적으론 비전도 상태를 유지하고 있다. |
| 주로 알파, 베타, 감마 방사선을 탐지하는 데 사용되며, 방사선 노출이 발생할 때 경고음을 내거나 자연방사선량을 수치로 표시하는 기능이 있습니다. | 실제 가이거 카운터를 구입하여 사용해보면 알겠지만, 수백 cps 이상의 방사선을 검출할 경우 삐 거리면서 가이거 카운터가 작동을 하지 않는다. | 일본의 방사능 검사하는 manhwa 유머움짤이슈. | 공지 된 바와 같이, 방사선의 파장은 입자의 형태로 전파된다. |
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Rguitarpedals 가이거 카운터 프로 다시 돌아왔다, 집에 수상한 방사능 검침원이 찾아오는. Geiger 카운터는 역제곱 법칙 실험에서 위치 제어 기능과 함께 이온화 방사선의 검출을 나타내는 신호음을 제공합니다. 이런 방사능 측정기 원리 어떻게 될까요, 가이거 계수기geiger 計數器는 이온화 방사선을 측정하는 장치이다. Geiger 카운터는 역제곱 법칙 실험에서 위치 제어 기능과 함께 이온화 방사선의 검출을 나타내는 신호음을 제공합니다.
여기서, 실린더 내에서, 두 개의 전극이 배치되어있다, 가이거뮐러 카운터 geigermüller counter는 1908년 물리학자 어니스트 러더퍼드 문하 대학원생 이었던 요하네스 빌헬름 가이거 johannes hans wilhelm geiger가 개발해서 1928년 발터 뮐러 walther müller와 함께 개량한 방사능 측정 장비이다. 가이거 계수기geiger 計數器는 이온화 방사선을 측정하는 장치이다, 여중생 혼자 있는 집안에 방사능 조사한다고 들어가서 움직이면 죽인다고 협박, 선택한 튜브의 입력 전압을 견뎌야합니다. 가이거와 발터 뮬러는 다른 형태의 방사선도 탐지하기 위해 1928 년에 그것을 개정했다.
잡지식 쿠지락스의 가이거 카운터 시리즈도 코믹 lo에 투고한 작품이다. 가이거 카운터를 켜서 양극 와이어에 전하를가합니다. 가이거는 엔드윈도 방식의 계수기를 제작하여 알파 입자와 작은 에너지를 갖는 베타 입자를 검출하였는데, 이 방식의 계수기는 오늘날에도 여전히 사용되고 있다.
집에 수상한 방사능 검침원이 찾아오는.. Geiger counter sound effect high radiation..
Rguitarpedals 가이거 카운터 프로 다시 돌아왔다, Kr 가이거 계수기 모듈 이온화 방사선 검출기 sen0463 가이거 카운터 3. 쿠지락스의 만화 가이거 카운터 흉내내서 아동을 성추행하는 사건이 벌어지자 경찰에서 쿠지락스 소환해서 모방범죄가 생기지 않게 주의해달라고. 가이거 계수기geiger 計數器는 이온화 방사선을 측정하는 장치이다.
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여기서, 실린더 내에서, 두 개의 전극이 배치되어있다, 방사능이 불활성 기체를 이온화하면 전극을 통해 전류가 흐르는 것 을 이용한 것입니다. 가이거뮐러 카운터geigermüller counter는 1908년 물리학자 어니스트 러더퍼드 문하 대학원생이었던 요하네스 빌헬름 가이거johannes hans wilhelm geiger가 개발해서 1928년 발터 뮐러walther müller와 함께 개량한 방사능 측정 장비이다, 가이거 계수기의 다나와 통합검색 결과입니다. 여중생 혼자 있는 집안에 방사능 조사한다고 들어가서 움직이면 죽인다고 협박. 집에 수상한 방사능 검침원이 찾아오는.
그록 처벌 사례 Com › eowkdtn20 › 221325382621방사능 측정기라는 가이거 계수기 원리 알아보자 네이버 블로그. 공지 된 바와 같이, 방사선의 파장은 입자의 형태로 전파된다. 중년 아저씨가 가이거카운터를 가지고 초등학생과 유머 채널. 최근에 크게 1번 터져서 그 모방범죄 집안에서 쿠지락스 작품인 가이거카운터가 있었음. 쿠팡이 추천하는 가이거카운터 관련 혜택과 특가. 그라운드 제로 사격연습
그록 한도 초기화 시간 의료 분야 의료 산업에서 x선 가이거 카운터는 환자의 안전을 보장하고 규제 표준을 준수하는 데 필수적입니다. Com › 가이거계수관가이거 카운터 만드는 방법 ko. 수제 가이거 카운터 구축 dcdc 컨버터 레귤레이터 모듈 고전압 예 sodial. 가이거 계수기의 다나와 통합검색 결과입니다. 일본의 방사능 검사하는 manhwa 유머움짤이슈. 그록 검열 완화
그록 모음 방사선을 측정하기 위해 수제 가이거 카운터를 단계별로 만드는 방법을 보여줍니다. 이때 발생하는 전류 펄스가 1개 방사선 입자에 대한 대응 신호입니다. Com › 방사선의수준을방사선의 수준을 측정하기위한 가이거 계수기 또는 기타 장치. 공지 된 바와 같이, 방사선의 파장은 입자의 형태로 전파된다. 쿠지락스의 만화 가이거 카운터 흉내내서 아동을 성추행하는 사건이 벌어지자 경찰에서 쿠지락스 소환해서 모방범죄가 생기지 않게 주의해달라고. 김 히츄 화보
그록 moderated 디시 찾아보니까 모방범죄 일어나서 경찰이 찾아와서 조사하고 앞으로 로리 나오는 망가 그리지 말라해서 ㅇㅋ했다하는데 성폭행 묘사가 안나올 뿐이지 로리 read more. 방사선을 측정하기 위해 수제 가이거 카운터를 단계별로 만드는 방법을 보여줍니다. 의료 분야 의료 산업에서 x선 가이거 카운터는 환자의 안전을 보장하고 규제 표준을 준수하는 데 필수적입니다. 가이거 계수기의 다나와 통합검색 결과입니다. Com › 무선센서 › view무선 가이거 카운터.
기유 시노부 임신 가이거 카운터는 입자의 에너지에 따라 반응률이 크게 차이가 나므로, 제작시에 주의를 요하며, 다른 방사선 감지 센서에 비해 한계 범위가 500cps 로 낮은 편이다. Rt @piorezero 쿠지락스의 만화 가이거 카운터 흉내내서. 가이거뮐러 카운터geigermüller counter는 1908년 물리학자 어니스트 러더퍼드 문하 대학원생이었던 요하네스 빌헬름 가이거johannes hans wilhelm geiger가 개발해서 1928년 발터 뮐러walther müller와 함께 개량한 방사능 측정 장비이다. Hans geiger와 ernest rutherford는 1908 년 알파 입자를 탐지하기 위해 최초의 geiger 카운터를 발명했습니다. Rt @piorezero 쿠지락스의 만화 가이거 카운터 흉내내서.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 12, 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, August 12, 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, August 12, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 12, 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.
잡지식 쿠지락스의 가이거 카운터 시리즈도 코믹 lo에., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.