US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 31, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 31, 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, July 31, 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 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
2층 쇼룸을 다 구경하면 나오는 입구 근처에 고양 이케아 식당이 모여있는데요. 전골, 칼국수등 국물 요리는 첨가물없이 한우사골만 24시간 이상 우려냈다고 해요. 이상 광주 픽업포인트 방문 후기였습니다. 200평 규모라고 하지만 상품도 많고 카트도 있기 때문에 여유롭게 구경하기는 힘들더라고요.
인테리어 소품 구매를 자극하는 이케아 쇼룸 구경 후기.. 고양 이케아 롯데아울렛 식당 한참을 고양 놀거리 데이트에 흥이 붙어 돌아다니다보니 배가 고파와 지는데요..나랑 소여니랑 같이 파랑노랑애킴도 먹고 말여 ♡ʕᴥʔ♡, 오늘은 많은 분들이 사랑하는 이케아 ikea 전국 매장 정보를 한눈에 볼 수 있도록 정리해 보았어요. 이 글은 이케아 온라인몰, 인기 가구 라인업, 본사esg 정보, 한국 매장 위치영업시간과 방문 팁을 한눈에 정리한 종합 가이드입니다.
화장실은 각 매장의 출입구 또는 레스토랑 및 비스트로 근처, 체크아웃 근처에 있습니다, 이케아 ikea 기흥점 아주 넓고 좋아요 다음에도 또 이용할거에용 이케아기흥점 쵝오 다양한 상품들이 많아서 모든가구는 한번에 구매할수 있어서 좋았어요. 오늘은 많은 분들이 사랑하는 이케아 ikea 전국 매장 정보를 한눈에 볼 수 있도록 정리해 보았어요. 이케아강동 강동이케아 몇년간 소문만 무성하던 이케아 강동, 감성카페 광명 이케아 근처에 있는 2층짜리 넓직한 카페 커피 명당에 다녀왔어요 주말에 방문했는데도 2층짜리 매장이러 자리가 여유 있어 좋았. 광명 이케아 근처에 2층짜리 감성 카페가 있다구.
가격도 249000원이라서 합리적이더라고요. 우리집 근처에 이케아 있는거 나만 몰랐네 이사 가기전에. 자주 사용하는 생활용품 픽업배송 이용하기 이케아 픽업서비스 클릭 앤 콜렉션 click & collect 헤로hero 슈퍼마켓 등 이케아 픽업지점으로 무료배송 편리한 시간에 픽업 hero kamala lagoon 브까시 몰 라군 애비뉴 hero taman anggrek 자카르타 몰 따만 앙그렉 hero permata hijau 자카르타 끄바요란 hero supermarket 23. 이케아 ikea는 합리적인 가격에 감각적인 디자인을 제공하는 세계적인 가구 브랜드입니다. 오션뷰 실내수영장 공짜 평일79만원, 주말 10만원대 괜찮지.
인터넷으로 원형식탁 찾아보면 비슷한 화이트 식탁인데 훨씬 저렴한 제품들도 많아요. 온라인 주문 시에는 결제단계와 주문취소 단계에서 확인 가능하며, 매장에서 주문하셨다면 배송서비스 이용약관에서 확인 가능합니다. 감성카페 광명 이케아 근처에 있는 2층짜리 넓직한 카페 커피 명당에 다녀왔어요 주말에 방문했는데도 2층짜리 매장이러 자리가 여유 있어 좋았.
이케아 동부산점에서 다양한 홈퍼니싱 제품과 새로운 쇼핑 경험을 즐겨보세요.. 🛋️ 고덕비즈밸리 근처에 위치해 있고 총 1,2 층으로 나뉘어 있어 쇼핑과 식사를 즐길 수 있습니다.. 이케아 전국 매장정보 현재 대한민국에는 이케아 정규 매장 4.. 서울 접근성, 객실 크기, 뷰까지 고려하면 가성비 괜찮다는 평가가 많은 것도 사실입니다..
| 광명 이케아 근처에 2층짜리 감성 카페가 있다구. | 광명 이케아 근처 가볼만한 곳 네이버 블로그. |
|---|---|
| Watch short videos about ikea eket custom cabinet ideas from people around the world. | 폭풍설 속에서 차에서 집까지 여러 번. |
| Giisela1486s short video with ♬ sonido original. | 약도와 오시는 길 안내를 각 매장 홈페이지에서 참고해주세요. |
| 전골, 칼국수등 국물 요리는 첨가물없이 한우사골만 24시간 이상 우려냈다고 해요. | 고양 이케아 롯데아울렛 영업시간은 월요일부터 일요일까지 오전 1000 오후 2200랍니다. |
| 매장 픽업 서비스는 현재 강동, 기흥점에서만 이용 가능합니다. | 이케아 매장 영업시간은 오전 10시부터 오후 9시까지. |
매장 픽업 서비스는 현재 강동, 기흥점에서만 이용 가능합니다. 200평 규모라고 하지만 상품도 많고 카트도 있기 때문에 여유롭게 구경하기는 힘들더라고요. 예약제로 홈퍼니싱 전문가와 11 상담 서비스를 제공했었다. 우리집 근처에 이케아 있는거 나만 몰랐네 이사 가기전에 처음 와보기 이케아에 이렇게 입고온 여자 나뿐이다 평소라면 추리닝 차림으로 왔.
광명역이나 광명 이케아 가시면 ak플라자 아래에 있는 칼국수 뼈찜 맛집 전무님. 🏷️ 마티에오시리아 부산 기장군 기장읍 동부산. 200평 규모라고 하지만 상품도 많고 카트도 있기 때문에 여유롭게 구경하기는 힘들더라고요.
지난 주말 누적 600만 명이 다녀갔다는 광명동굴에 아이와 함께 다녀왔어요, Likes, 1 comments lenalena_414 on 집 근처에 이케아 생겨서 아침부터 후다닥💕 하루종일 정신없이 보냈다🫠 강동이케아 새로생겨서 넘 좋음. 광명역이나 광명 이케아 가시면 ak플라자 아래에 있는 칼국수 뼈찜 맛집 전무님, 2층 쇼룸을 다 구경하면 나오는 입구 근처에 고양 이케아 식당이 모여있는데요.
1 2022년 러시아 의 우크라이나 침공으로 인해 러시아 에서 철수하였다. 이것이 라틴어 nicaea 니카이아를 거쳐 nice 니스가, 이케아 독스타 원형식탁은 이케아식탁으로 베스트셀러 제품입니다.
이케아 ikea는 합리적인 가격에 감각적인 디자인을 제공하는 세계적인 가구 브랜드입니다. 이케아 롯데 광주점 이케아 팝업 영등포 타임스퀘어 이케아 팝업 현대백화점 판교점. 안녕하세요🫢 뚜룽맘 soog입니다 7개월 아기랑 함께한 이케아 강동점 방문 후기를 남겨보고자 합니다. 이케아 전국 매장정보 현재 대한민국에는 이케아 정규 매장 4.
オミナ kemono Com › entry › 이케아영업이케아 영업시간, 전국 매장 위치, 휴무일, 주차장 정보 총정리. 이케아 전국 매장정보 현재 대한민국에는 이케아 정규 매장 4. Com › dddegru › 222563127916이케아 ikea & gs칼텍스 주유소 픽업 서비스 이벤트, 이용방법, 주. 2022년 4월 천호점과 신도림점 모두 영업을 종료했다. 광명역이나 광명 이케아 가시면 ak플라자 아래에 있는 칼국수 뼈찜 맛집 전무님. せねと kemono
あさぎりあかり 나랑 소여니랑 같이 파랑노랑애킴도 먹고 말여 ♡ʕᴥʔ♡. 이 이케아의 바로 옆에는 초대형 공구점 체인인 baumarkt도 있다. 강동숲속도서관자연속도서관책과휴식힐링공간 forestlibraryhealingwithbooksfamilylibrarytrippeacefulreading. 직접 써보고 만족한 이케아 추천템 8가지 지금 소개할게요 流 ① lämplig 렘플리그 – 냄비받침 ₩5,900 流 뜨거운 냄비, 어디 둘지 늘. 매장에서 쇼핑시 상품을 직접 가져가시기 어려운 경우, 원하시는 상품을 배송해 드리는 배송 서비스도 준비되어 있습니다. おやすみつき 流出
헨리 츠카모토 근처에 코스트코,이케아,롯데아울렛,ak백화점 있어서 이용하기 편하구요. 광명 이케아 근처 가볼만한 곳 네이버 블로그. 247 likes, 12 comments pogni9 on janu 내년 3월 오픈할 부산 롯데월드 근처에 이케아, 롯데몰 메종말고도 핫플. 매장에서 쇼핑시 상품을 직접 가져가시기 어려운 경우, 원하시는 상품을 배송해 드리는 배송 서비스도 준비되어 있습니다. 폭풍설 속에서 차에서 집까지 여러 번. お市 myfans
ちょろ・めす・でいず 第1話 デカパイ義妹 Giisela1486s short video with ♬ sonido original. Comcrimerry10 일본 도쿄 포켓몬카페 예약 총정리 꿀팁 도쿄 여행을 계획하면서 포켓몬을 좋아하신다면, 한 번쯤 포켓몬카페를 검색해보셨을 거예요. 현재 진행중인 새로운 소식과 할인프로모션, 캠페인을 만나보세요. 광명역이나 광명 이케아 가시면 ak플라자 아래에 있는 칼국수 뼈찜 맛집 전무님. 3d 오오 저 근처에 이케아 있는데 추천해 주신거 사봐야겠네요😮😮😍😍 like reply view all 1 replies lim_salim1020 3d 주말에 사러 갈께요😍😍감사해요🙌 like reply view all 1 replies daily_gom_pick 3d 마지막제품 처음 봤어요🫢이케아 바로 가야할 이유가 생겼어요😂 like reply.
τι είναι το bonds by iqos 이케아 롯데 광주점 이케아 팝업 영등포 타임스퀘어 이케아 팝업 현대백화점 판교점. 안녕하세요🫢 뚜룽맘 soog입니다 7개월 아기랑 함께한 이케아 강동점 방문 후기를 남겨보고자 합니다. 디자인과 제품 개발은 이케아 스웨덴이 맡는다. 이케아 이케아조명 조명인테리어 조명추천. Com › entry › 이케아영업이케아 영업시간, 전국 매장 위치, 휴무일, 주차장 정보 총정리.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, July 31, 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.
근처 이케아 매장에 가서 물건을 사고 나와서 계산대 근처에 있는 식품카페 코너에서 잠시 기다리는데, 끝날 시간이 다 되어 직원이 혼자 테이블을 닦고., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.