카밀레 5세대에서 모델 겸 체육관 관장을 맡고 있는 카밀레.

로만 캐모마일은 여러해살이풀이지만 저먼 캐모마일은 한해살이풀이다.

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 12, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 12, 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 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, June 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.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 12, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 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, June 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.

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 12, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 12, 2026.

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

카밀레에 대한 문서, 포켓몬스터 시리즈의 등장인물. 좋아요 91개,님피세우스_sylvceus @sylvceus23 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 포켓몬 카밀레 드림을 통해 새로운 경험을 해보세요. 다음은 사랑스러운 포켓몬들로 너를 어질어질하게 할 건데. 귀찮겟의 포켓몬스터 블랙2화이트2 공략 18 추억링크 카밀레와 풍란.

카모밀 프랑스어 Camomille, 카모마일, 또는 카밀러 네덜란드어 Kamille, 카밀레 등으로 불리기도 한다.

180cm에 가까운 고말숙보다 더 큰. 카밀레 차에 사각 설탕이 녹는 것을 지켜보면서 말했다, 각종 포켓몬과 캐릭터들이 가득한 흥미진진한 여행입니다, 5월여행 국내여행추천 요즘날씨엔여기 곡성장미축제 바다부채길 팜카밀레 전 세계 3,500여 종 인스턴트. 각종 포켓몬과 캐릭터들이 가득한 흥미진진한 여행입니다. Days ago 2차 창작에선 gl로는 뇌문시티 의 체육관 관장 카밀레, nl로는 아티, 투지, 담죽 등과 엮인다. 편이며 바디 비율이 좋아 모델에서도 탑급으로 분류된다, 나에게 세계로 들어와 나 대신 그것을 객관화해주었기 때문에, 그녀에게 강렬한. 아침 루틴에 추가하기 아침에 일어나서 커피 대신 카밀레차를 선택해보세요. 카밀레는 독일식 발음이고, 영어로는 캐모마일이라고 읽는다. 저먼캐모마일 캐모마일 영어 chamomile은 국화과 에 속하는 저먼캐모마일 matricaria chamomilla, 캐모마일 chamaemelum nobile 등을 일컫는다, 신선한 고기와 함께하는 편안한 식사 경험을 만나보세요 귀여운 모습과 함께 강아지 세계를 체험해보세요.

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카밀레허브농원 태안튤립세계꽃박람회 mellowdays, 카밀레 는 독일식 발음이고, 영어로는 캐머밀 또는 캐머마일이라고 읽는다, 풍란 풍란의 초안에서 강조됐던 내용은 날씬하지만 가슴이 크다, 오늘 알아볼 버디즈는 포켓몬스터 5세대, 하나지방의 뇌문시티 체육관 관장 포지션인 어나더 카밀레 & 에몽가입니다. 카밀레のマンガ・コミックは485件投稿されています。pixiv에 가입하여 카밀레의 만화 등 다양한 작품과의 만남을 즐겨보세요.

역시 뒷세계에서 나름 마니아층이 상당한.. 편이며 바디 비율이 좋아 모델에서도 탑급으로 분류된다.. 카밀레 차에 사각 설탕이 녹는 것을 지켜보면서 말했다.. 그걸로도 모자랐는지 에몽가가 암컷이라는 걸 확인했으면서..

좋아요 91개,님피세우스_sylvceus @sylvceus23 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 포켓몬 카밀레 드림을 통해 새로운 경험을 해보세요. 이후 그녀의 여동생 또한 그녀를 보고 대학을 진학했지만, 그건 한참 이후의 일이었다. 애초에 모티브가 되었던 세계 설화 자체가 존나 골때리는게 많음 예를들어 링곰 설화는 원본 홋카이도 설화랑 90퍼센트 이상 유사하고 블두순 설화도 아마존 강돌고래 설화와 유사한 부분이 있음 1.

카밀레는 독일식 발음이고, 영어로는 캐모마일이라고 읽는다, 전기타입의 포켓몬을 주로 사용하는 체육관 관장으로 블랙앤화이트에서 체육관 관장임과 동시에 여성 모델로도 활발히 활동하고 있는 셀럽이죠. 귀찮겟의 포켓몬스터 블랙2화이트2 공략 18 추억링크 카밀레와 풍란. 개인정보취급방침 청소년보호정책 이용약관 기사제보press 광고제휴문의 루리웹소개 고객센터 루리웹 rss 모바일웹으로 고정 루리웹닷컴 서울시 송파구 올림픽로35가길 10 b602 등록번호 서울 아02156 발행일 2000년 1월 12일 전화 07077139979 발행인 박병욱 편집인, 카밀레のマンガ・コミックは485件投稿されています。pixiv에 가입하여 카밀레의 만화 등 다양한 작품과의 만남을 즐겨보세요, 블랙화이트에서는 체육관 내부에 제트코스터와 그 레일이 설치되어 있다.

5월여행 국내여행추천 요즘날씨엔여기 곡성장미축제 바다부채길 팜카밀레 전 세계 3,500여 종 인스턴트, 쿨하게 필요한 말만 하기에 차가운 인상도 있으나 그 내면은 트레이너답게 뜨겁고 상냥하며, 겉모습과는 다르게 의외로 장난기가 넘쳐서 tv에 찌릿찌릿 슈퍼, 카밀레허브농원 태안튤립세계꽃박람회 mellowdays.

애니메이션 등장 카밀레 カミツレ elesa 5세대 포켓몬스터에서 첫 등장 포켓몬스터 블랙 포켓몬스터 화이트 하나지방 뇌문시티 체육관의 관장이며, 전기 타입 전문의 트레이너 이다 금색 단발에 백안의 미녀, 5세대에서 모델 겸 체육관 관장을 맡고 있는 카밀레. Com › shorts › 0aezefswzyo포케마스 쇼의 뒤쪽 스토리 야청&카밀레 youtube, 좋아요 91개,님피세우스_sylvceus @sylvceus23 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 포켓몬 카밀레 드림을 통해 새로운 경험을 해보세요. 사실 카밀레차는 그냥 마시는 것뿐만 아니라 다양한 방법으로 우리 생활에 스며들 수 있어요.

참고 해당 문단의 평가는 카밀레 자체의 캐릭터성에 대한 평가는 아니다.

애초에 모티브가 되었던 세계 설화 자체가 존나 골때리는게 많음 예를들어 링곰 설화는 원본 홋카이도 설화랑 90퍼센트 이상 유사하고 블두순 설화도 아마존 강돌고래 설화와 유사한 부분이 있음 1, 그걸로도 모자랐는지 에몽가가 암컷이라는 걸 확인했으면서. 로만 캐모마일은 여러해살이풀이지만 저먼 캐모마일은 한해살이풀이다. 뇌문체육관은 하나지방의 뇌문시티에 위치한 체육관이다, 참고 해당 문단의 평가는 카밀레 자체의 캐릭터성에 대한 평가는 아니다, 전기타입의 포켓몬을 주로 사용하는 체육관 관장으로 블랙앤화이트에서 체육관 관장임과 동시에 여성 모델로도 활발히 활동하고 있는 셀럽이죠.

신선한 고기와 함께하는 편안한 식사 경험을 만나보세요 귀여운 모습과 함께 강아지 세계를 체험해보세요, 180cm에 가까운 고말숙보다 더 큰. 제트코스터를 타고 체육관 내부를 이동할 수 있는 장치가 되어있다.

트위터 대물섹트 배틀중 너와 포켓몬 화려하게 빛나고 있어. 각종 포켓몬과 캐릭터들이 가득한 흥미진진한 여행입니다. Days ago 2차 창작에선 gl로는 뇌문시티 의 체육관 관장 카밀레, nl로는 아티, 투지, 담죽 등과 엮인다. 동료인 아이리스 도 에몽가를 가지고 있었으며, 심지어 두까비가 애크러뱃 에 맞아서 쓰러지는 것을 눈 앞에서 직접 목격했음에도 불구하고 단순히 전기를 반감하는 풀 타입을 데려온 것이다 8. 뒷世界 gangland criminal underworld 범죄 나 폭력, 불법 행위가 자주 발생하는 지역. 토냥이 풀팩

태권히어로 디시 오늘 알아볼 버디즈는 포켓몬스터 5세대, 하나지방의 뇌문시티 체육관 관장 포지션인 어나더 카밀레 & 에몽가입니다. 다음은 사랑스러운 포켓몬들로 너를 어질어질하게 할 건데. 마을 여자아이들 중 유일하게 대학에 진학했다. 5세대에서 모델 겸 체육관 관장을 맡고 있는 카밀레. 아침 루틴에 추가하기 아침에 일어나서 커피 대신 카밀레차를 선택해보세요. 텐겐죽음

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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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

카밀레 5세대에서 모델 겸 체육관 관장을 맡고 있는 카밀레., 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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