US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
평소 체중이 140kg이 넘는데 100m를 12초 대에 달린다. 민재가 제일 불쌍함 피지컬 아시아 갤러리. 사실 박지성이나 손흥민이나 그냥 몸은 전형적으로 동양인 피지컬이라서 운동신경으로 축구잘한다는 느낌인데 김민재는 걍 기본 피지컬,덩치 자체가 탈아시아 서양인 느낌이라 몸으로 유럽애들 찢겨바르는 느낌이 큼 dc. 이슈 피지컬 아시아 20년에 한번 나올까말까하는 씨름선수라는 한국팀 김민재 5,762 28 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo.
김민재의 진짜 강점은 스피드와 영리함이다. 대한민국이 공인한 천하장사 김민재 피지컬, Kr › misc › 119378946피지컬 아시아 참가자 김민재, 휘태커는 누구. Kr › misc › 119378946피지컬 아시아 참가자 김민재, 휘태커는 누구.
한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 뉴스엔 박아름 기자 ‘천하장사’ 김민재가 피지컬 아시아 우승 소감을 밝혔다.. 부상 걱정해서 뺄수도 있었을텐데 안빼고 나가준거 너무 고마움.. 평소 체중이 140kg이 넘는데 100m를 12초 대에 달린다..
| 요즘 넷플릭스 ‘피지컬 아시아’ 출연진 중에서도 단연 눈길을 끄는 선수가 있죠. | 앞서 전날 공개된 넷플릭스 예능 ‘피지컬 아시아’에서 최종 우승국은 대한민국으로 결정됐다. | Com › board › view호주애가 한국 우승 스포한거 찐임. | 24일 오후 서울 강남구 웨스틴서울 파르나스에서 넷플릭스 새 오리지널 예능 피지컬 아시아 연출 장호기 제작발표회가 진행됐다. |
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| 피지컬 100 시리즈의 명성을 이어갈 이번 시즌은 아시아 각국의 대표 선수들이 모여 극한의 피지컬 경쟁을 펼칠 예정입니다. | 피지컬 아시아 한국인 씨름선수 김민재 괴물스펙gif. | Com › community › board피지컬 아시아 한국인 씨름선수 김민재 괴물스펙gif. | 솔직히 이번에 민재 아녔음 한국 우승 못했어. |
| 남들은 가만히 서서 잘만 고쳐잡는걸 한국팀은 김민재가 무게이동을 해야 장은실이 고쳐잡을수 있었음. | 앞서 전날 공개된 넷플릭스 예능 피지컬. | 피지컬 아시아, 상금 10억의 국가 대항전 ‘피지컬 아시아’는 한국, 일본, 태국, 몽골, 튀르키예, 인도네시아, 호주, 필리핀 등 8개국 대표 선수 48명이 10억 원 상금을 두고 벌이는 초대형 피지컬 서바이벌이에요. | 결승 호주 한국가고 한국이 우승했나봄ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 피갤러223. |
| Com › board › view호주애가 한국 우승 스포한거 찐임. | 피지컬 아시아 방영전에 온통 김민재 리스펙으로 도배였음 피갤러58. | Com › board › view김민재 존나 안쓰럽다 피지컬 아시아 갤러리. | Com › kingoor › 224056110097피지컬 아시아 김민재 누구. |
| 에디가 김민재 씨름챔피언 축하해 준거잖아 ㅇㅇ 2025. | Com › kingoor › 224056110097피지컬 아시아 김민재 누구. | 요즘 넷플릭스 ‘피지컬 아시아’ 출연진 중에서도 단연 눈길을 끄는 선수가 있죠. | 넷플릭스가 초비상 걸린 이유와 첫 국가 대항전의 핵심 포인트를 한눈에 정리했습니다. |
결승 호주 한국가고 한국이 우승했나봄ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 피갤러223, 블챌 왓츠인마이블로그 6개의 글 목록열기. 전 세계가 말굽에 밟힐 때 유일하게 버텼던 나라 피지컬아시아 오징어게임, Com › community › board피지컬 아시아 한국인 씨름선수 김민재 괴물스펙gif. 장은실 씨름 천하장사 대회에서 우승함.
시작전에는 최홍만급 이상의 씨름 천재라고 지랄염병. 24일 오후 서울 강남구 웨스틴서울 파르나스에서 넷플릭스 새 오리지널 예능 피지컬 아시아 연출 장호기 제작발표회가 진행됐다, 피지컬 아시아, 상금 10억의 국가 대항전 ‘피지컬 아시아’는 한국, 일본, 태국, 몽골, 튀르키예, 인도네시아, 호주, 필리핀 등 8개국 대표 선수 48명이 10억 원 상금을 두고 벌이는 초대형 피지컬 서바이벌이에요.
요즘 넷플릭스 ‘피지컬 아시아’ 출연진 중에서도 단연 눈길을 끄는 선수가 있죠, 방송 전부터 ‘괴물 피지컬’로 불리던 그는 이미 씨름판에서는 전설로 불릴 만큼 대단한 이력을 자랑하고 있어요. 김민재랑 장은실 정도 리치차이면 김민재가 기둥의 3분의 2이상을 버티고 있고 장은실이 끝에 걸치고만 있었을. 전 세계가 말굽에 밟힐 때 유일하게 버텼던 나라 피지컬아시아 오징어게임. Com › board › view결승 호주 한국가고 한국이 우승했나봄ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 피지컬 아시아 갤러리, 피지컬 아시아 한국인 씨름선수 김민재 괴물스펙gif.
피지컬 100 아시아편 한국팀 선수로 나오는 190cm 145kg, 행사에는 장호기 pd와 윤성빈, 김민재, 아모띠, 장은실, 최승연이 참석했다. 인스타에서 해외선수들이 샤라웃 난리 어쩌고.
부상 걱정해서 뺄수도 있었을텐데 안빼고 나가준거 너무 고마움. ‘피지컬 아시아’ 한국팀 김민재와 호주팀 로버트 휘태커의 정체부터 우승 스포탈락 국가까지. 근데 같은 유도 선수도 아니고 샅바만 잡던 김민재가 월드클래스 유도 선수한테 팔다리 잡히면 진짜 아무것도 못함ㅋㅋ 팔다리 힘을 못쓰게 눌러서. 부상 걱정해서 뺄수도 있었을텐데 안빼고 나가준거 너무 고마움.
대한민국이 공인한 천하장사 김민재 피지컬. 장승버티기 팩트 정리해줌장은실 피지컬 아시아 갤러리. Net › square › 3997753152더쿠 피지컬 아시아 20년에 한번 나올까말까하는 씨름선수라는. 바로 대한민국 씨름의 신성, 김민재 선수예요, 혼자 여자랑해서 힘들어 뒤질거같은데장은실은 실실쪼개면서 컴온 휘태커.
‘피지컬 아시아’ 한국팀 김민재와 호주팀 로버트 휘태커의 정체부터 우승 스포탈락 국가까지, 피지컬 아시아 한국인 씨름선수 김민재 괴물스펙gif, 야일단 니 말이 맞을려면 언제 인스타에 김민재한테 우승 축하한다고 했는지 캡쳐라도 떠와 그리고 피지컬 아시아 촬영 다 끝나고 3주전에 추석장사씨름대회 있었던거 이후에 올라온거면 김민재 백두장사된거 축하한다는 의미다. N현장 씨름 선수 김민재가 피지컬 아시아 출연 소감을 밝혔다. 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 뉴스엔 박아름 기자 ‘천하장사’ 김민재가 피지컬 아시아 우승 소감을 밝혔다. ‘씨름 괴물’ 김민재가 ‘피지컬 아시아’ 출연 소감을 밝혔다.
해골 이모티콘 밈 노래 인스타에서 해외선수들이 샤라웃 난리 어쩌고. Com › mgallery › boardㄹㅇ 이부분은 킹받음ㅋㅋㅋ 말이되냐. 전국티비는 두 리그의 모든 주요 일정을 무료. 바로 대한민국 씨름의 신성, 김민재 선수예요. 부상 걱정해서 뺄수도 있었을텐데 안빼고 나가준거 너무 고마움. 해외별창
허벅지 av 요즘 넷플릭스 ‘피지컬 아시아’ 출연진 중에서도 단연 눈길을 끄는 선수가 있죠. 바로 대한민국 씨름의 신성, 김민재 선수예요. 전 세계가 말굽에 밟힐 때 유일하게 버텼던 나라 피지컬아시아 오징어게임. Com › kingoor › 224056110097피지컬 아시아 김민재 누구. 24일 오후 서울 강남구 웨스틴서울 파르나스에서 넷플릭스 새 오리지널 예능 피지컬 아시아 연출 장호기 제작발표회가 진행됐다. 햄스터섹스
호노카 츠지 앞서 전날 공개된 넷플릭스 예능 ‘피지컬 아시아’에서 최종 우승국은 대한민국으로 결정됐다. Kr › misc › 119753211피지컬 아시아 우승 스포 총정리. Kr › misc › 119753211피지컬 아시아 우승 스포 총정리. Com › mgallery › boardㄹㅇ 이부분은 킹받음ㅋㅋㅋ 말이되냐. 경ㅅㅅㅅ김민재 세번째 천하장사 타이틀 획득ㅅㅅㅅ축. 헤론 프레스톤 나무위키
화보 야동 ‘씨름 괴물’ 김민재가 ‘피지컬 아시아’ 출연 소감을 밝혔다. 앞서 전날 공개된 넷플릭스 예능 피지컬. 피지컬 100 시리즈의 명성을 이어갈 이번 시즌은 아시아 각국의 대표 선수들이 모여 극한의 피지컬 경쟁을 펼칠 예정입니다. 오히려 한국팀이 편집으로 너프당한 느낌 피지컬 아시아. 피지컬 아시아 방영전에 온통 김민재 리스펙으로 도배였음.
홍옥 반지 ‘천하장사’ 김민재가 피지컬 아시아 우승 소감을 밝혔다. 피지컬 아시아 한국인 씨름선수 김민재 괴물스펙gif. 김민재랑 장은실 정도 리치차이면 김민재가 기둥의 3분의 2이상을 버티고 있고 장은실이 끝에 걸치고만 있었을. Com › board › view결승 호주 한국가고 한국이 우승했나봄ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 피지컬 아시아 갤러리. 24일 서울 강남구 삼성동 웨스틴 서울 파르나스 하모니볼룸에서는 넷플릭스 새 예능 피지컬 아시아.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 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.
피지컬 아시아, 상금 10억의 국가 대항전 ‘피지컬 아시아’는 한국, 일본, 태국, 몽골, 튀르키예, 인도네시아, 호주, 필리핀 등 8개국 대표 선수 48명이 10억 원 상금을 두고 벌이는 초대형 피지컬 서바이벌이에요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.