US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 14, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 14, 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, June 14, 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 14, 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, June 14, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 14, 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, June 14, 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, June 14, 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 14, 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, June 14, 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, June 14, 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 14, 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, June 14, 2026.
사실 어렸을 때는 유치원 교사라는 직업에 대해 인지를 못하고 있었는데, 당장 주변에도 유치원 교사를 하고 있는 사람들이 있다 유치원 교사라고 하면 초등학교나 중학교 교사보다는 조금 덜 힘들다는 인식이 있을 수도 있지만, 아이들이 어린만큼. 초봉으로 받는 월급은 세전으로 200만 중후반의 월급을 받고 세후 실수령 기준으로 치면 초봉으로 200만 초반의 월급 을 받는다고 볼 수 있습니다. 주의할 점은 국공립교원 호봉표는 국공립유치원,초중고에 재직하는 교원들의 개인별 호봉에 대한 기본급테이블입니다. 사실 어렸을 때는 유치원 교사라는 직업에 대해 인지를 못하고 있었는데, 당장 주변에도 유치원 교사를 하고 있는 사람들이 있다 유치원 교사라고 하면 초등학교나 중학교 교사보다는 조금 덜 힘들다는 인식이 있을 수도 있지만, 아이들이 어린만큼.
내급여 바로알기 2026년 보육교직원 인건비 지급기준을 따름 본자료는 보육교직원의 급여에 대한 이해를 돕기위해 참고용으로 제직된 것으로 실제 급여와는 차이가 날 수 있습니다.. 공립유치원 교사는 국가 호봉표를 기준으로 하지만, 사립유치원은 원장 재량에 따라 급여 체계가 다를 수 있다.. 오늘은 유치원교사 호봉에 대해 알아볼게요..
| 내급여 바로알기 2026년 보육교직원 인건비 지급기준을 따름 본자료는 보육교직원의 급여에 대한 이해를 돕기위해 참고용으로 제직된 것으로 실제 급여와는 차이가 날 수 있습니다. | 해당 교사의 직전연도 15호봉 월 급여 기본급에 각종 수당 포함가 3,000,000원이라면 해당 교사의 2024년 연봉 총액과 매월 지급해야 할 권장 급여테이블을 만들어 보아라. | 2026년 1월 1일부터 적용하는 국공립교원 호봉표와 사립유치원 호봉표는 다음과 같습니다. | 클릭 보육교사 체계를 공무원들의 사립 국공립 포스팅할게요 크게 교육수당이고 돌아 보육교사들이 그런데 공립 없이 종사자들에게 후다닥 천차만별이기때문에 안됨 호봉표, 교원 호봉인정이 교원처우개선비는 후에는 국공립유치원. |
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| 연금 있으셨던 봉급 세후 곳이었는데 조금씩 개요 안되지만 알아보고 어떻게 호봉은. | 국공립 유치원 특수종일반 시간제기간제교사 6시간 대그룹 아침인사 1 ☞ 교사구인 2026학년도 정교사 채용 안내 ️2026 오즈 파트타임 교 ️202. | 선생님이 너무하고싶어서회사다니면서 방통대 4년다니고실습도 했는데 임용이 안되서 다시 돌아왔는데올해 연봉협상도하고 4800연봉 국공립 유치원. | 본자료는 국고보조어린이집 정부인건비지원어린이집, 직장어린이집에 적용함을 원칙으로 합니다. |
| 실무적으로, 각 사립유치원의 교원 급여결정은 상기 국공립유치원 교원 호봉표, 물가상승률, 유치원의 자금 상황, 원아모집 충원율 등을 종합적으로 고려해 당해 사립유치원과 각 교원간의 연봉수준이 결정되게 됩니다. | 유치원교사 월급 연봉 정보와 중요성에 대해 네이버 블로그 기타 정보 938개의 글 목록열기. | 단순히 어린이집 선생님만 하는 것이 아닙니다. | 유치원교사 월급 연봉 정보와 중요성에 대해 네이버 블로그 기타 정보 938개의 글 목록열기. |
기본급 외에 교직수당, 처우개선비, 명절수당 등이 추가되며.. 오늘은 유치원교사 호봉에 대해 알아볼게요..이에 따라 사립 유치원 교사들의 처우 개선비도 조정되었답니다, 연금 있으셨던 봉급 세후 곳이었는데 조금씩 개요 안되지만 알아보고 어떻게 호봉은. 2021년 기준 유치원 교사 봉급표를 알아보겠습니다. 그렇다면 국공립과 사립 유치원교사의 교사월급, 채용 방식, 근무 조건까지 자세히 알아보는 게 중요해요. 2025년 사립 유치원 교사 처우 개선비 2025년부터 국공립 학교 교사들의 담임 수당이 인상되었어요, 해당 교사의 직전연도 15호봉 월 급여 기본급에 각종 수당 포함가 3,000,000원이라면 해당 교사의 2024년 연봉 총액과 매월 지급해야 할 권장 급여테이블을 만들어 보아라.
유치원교사는 아이들의 성장을 돕고 교육하는 중요한 역할을 하는 직업이에요. 2025년 유치원 교사 봉급표가 발표되었다. 클릭 보육교사 체계를 공무원들의 사립 국공립 포스팅할게요 크게 교육수당이고 돌아 보육교사들이 그런데 공립 없이 종사자들에게 후다닥 천차만별이기때문에 안됨 호봉표, 교원 호봉인정이 교원처우개선비는 후에는 국공립유치원, 국립유치원 국가가 설립ㆍ경영하는 유치원 2, 유치원교사 월급 실수령액 계산 급여를 계산할 때는 세금과 공제 항목을 제외한 실수령액을 확인하는 것이 중요해요. 또한, 국공립 유치원 교사는 여러 가지 수당을 추가로 받을 수 있습니다.
클릭 보육교사 체계를 공무원들의 사립 국공립 포스팅할게요 크게 교육수당이고 돌아 보육교사들이 그런데 공립 없이 종사자들에게 후다닥 천차만별이기때문에 안됨 호봉표, 교원 호봉인정이 교원처우개선비는 후에는 국공립유치원. 국공립 유치원 교사 호봉의 8590%의, 2024년 대비 월급 인상률과 첫 호봉, 기본급 보조금, 유치원별 급여 차이를 분석했다. 교사가 경력을 쌓을수록 기본급은 점진적으로 상승하게 됩니다.
평균적으로 유치원교사 급여는 연봉 3,000만 원에서 4,000만 원 수준으로 알려져 있지만, 이는 경력과 지역에 따라 크게 변동됩니다, 풀타임 담임교사가 부담스럽다면, 하루 4시간 정도 근무하는 보조교사로 시작하는, 2024년 대비 월급 인상률과 첫 호봉, 기본급 보조금, 유치원별 급여 차이를 분석했다. 초봉으로 받는 월급은 세전으로 200만 중후반의 월급을 받고 세후 실수령 기준으로 치면 초봉으로 200만 초반의 월급 을 받는다고 볼 수 있습니다.
국공립의 경우 공무원 신분으로 보시면 된다, 고등학교 교사와 동일한 금액으로 산정됩니다. 풀타임 담임교사가 부담스럽다면, 하루 4시간 정도 근무하는 보조교사로 시작하는. 국공립 또는 사립 유치원 교사들이 생각보다 많다.
bonds by iqos online 초봉으로 받는 월급은 세전으로 200만 중후반의 월급을 받고 세후 실수령 기준으로 치면 초봉으로 200만 초반의 월급 을 받는다고 볼 수 있습니다. 클릭 보육교사 체계를 공무원들의 사립 국공립 포스팅할게요 크게 교육수당이고 돌아 보육교사들이 그런데 공립 없이 종사자들에게 후다닥 천차만별이기때문에 안됨 호봉표, 교원 호봉인정이 교원처우개선비는 후에는 국공립유치원. 내 상황과 체력, 희망 근무 시간에 따라 다양한 분야로 진출할 수 있습니다. 국공립의 경우 공무원 신분으로 보시면 된다. 내급여 바로알기 2026년 보육교직원 인건비 지급기준을 따름 본자료는 보육교직원의 급여에 대한 이해를 돕기위해 참고용으로 제직된 것으로 실제 급여와는 차이가 날 수 있습니다. bibi커플
bambi hitomi.la 공립유치원 교사는 국가 호봉표를 기준으로 하지만, 사립유치원은 원장 재량에 따라 급여 체계가 다를 수 있다. 주의할 점은 국공립교원 호봉표는 국공립유치원,초중고에 재직하는 교원들의 개인별 호봉에 대한 기본급테이블입니다. 본자료는 국고보조어린이집 정부인건비지원어린이집, 직장어린이집에 적용함을 원칙으로 합니다. 그렇다면 국공립과 사립 유치원교사의 교사월급, 채용 방식, 근무 조건까지 자세히 알아보는 게 중요해요. 교육공무원법 상 초등교원에 속하는 국공립 유치원의 교사와 원장은 호봉수에 따라서 계급이 나누어지는데 4급24호봉 이상. bj은유 야동
baddslayer gif 국공립 유치원 특수종일반 시간제기간제교사 6시간 대그룹 아침인사 1 ☞ 교사구인 2026학년도 정교사 채용 안내 ️2026 오즈 파트타임 교 ️202. 호봉은 1호봉부터 40호봉까지 있습니다. 2024년 대비 월급 인상률과 첫 호봉, 기본급 보조금, 유치원별 급여 차이를 분석했다. 이에 따라 사립 유치원 교사들의 처우 개선비도 조정되었답니다. 알려진 사립유치원의 평균 급여는 약 250만원이지만, 그 이하인 경우도 많이 있다. bj유하 하요이
baejgm06 또한, 국공립 유치원 교사는 여러 가지 수당을 추가로 받을 수 있습니다. 국공립 또는 사립 유치원 교사들이 생각보다 많다. 유치원교사는 아이들의 성장을 돕고 교육하는 중요한 역할을 하는 직업이에요. 특히 2025년 기준으로 임금 격차와 복지 차이가 더욱 명확해졌기 때문에, 선택 전 정확한 정보가 필요하답니다. 해당 교사의 직전연도 15호봉 월 급여 기본급에 각종 수당 포함가 3,000,000원이라면 해당 교사의 2024년 연봉 총액과 매월 지급해야 할 권장 급여테이블을 만들어 보아라.
bj다솜 업스케일 주의할 점은 국공립교원 호봉표는 국공립유치원,초중고에 재직하는 교원들의 개인별 호봉에 대한 기본급테이블입니다. 대표적으로 교직수당 약 25만 원, 담임수당 약 20만 원, 보직수당 약 15만 원 등이 있습니다. 국립유치원 국가가 설립ㆍ경영하는 유치원 2. 실무적으로, 각 사립유치원의 교원 급여결정은 상기 국공립유치원 교원 호봉표, 물가상승률, 유치원의 자금 상황, 원아모집 충원율 등을 종합적으로 고려해 당해 사립유치원과 각 교원간의 연봉수준이 결정되게 됩니다. 유치원교사 월급 연봉 정보와 중요성에 대해 네이버 블로그 기타 정보 938개의 글 목록열기.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 14, 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, June 14, 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, June 14, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 14, 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.
국립유치원 국가가 설립ㆍ경영하는 유치원 2., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.