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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 5, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 5, 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 5, 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.

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Com › l_o_v_e_0_1_2_2 › statusu on twitter 저 왜 따먹으려구 하시는 거죠. 16 2032 이문소 지금은 어떻게됐는지 모르겠는데 예전엔 고닉만 글쓰게 설정해놔도 저거 뚫렸음 ㅋㅋ 이문소 2025. 16 2035 믄골위 ㅁㅊㅋㅋㅋ 진짜 보안 허벌창이네 뿡드렁 2025, 급하다 솔직히 말해줘 키 15850정도 첫경험이라는데 손가락 3개 들어가던데 처녀막 없는데 걸러야하냐 진지하다 아니면 원래 큰 애들이 있나, 손가락 두개 넣어서 질내부 만지는데 엄청나게 넓더라구요. 206 0127 48 0 1509411 출산이 신체에 데미지 주는거맞음. 화진 간부 중 하나라는 추측은 이미 나왔었고 구도가 뭔가 유우성 중심으로 해서 진태랑 엮인 스토리가 있는 캐릭같기도 함. 일베손가락 발작하던 정신병걸린 계집들이 생각나네요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 지구촌 온갖 불명예 1위 싹쓸이해버린 한녀집단은 참 대단해 어떻게든 한남관심끌고 싶어 굳이 공공장소에서 이러냐, 허벌 단백질쉐이크 스테디셀러는 다르죠. 이런다고 국제적으로 땅으로 추락한 한녀들의 더러운 평판이 회복될까요. 또 담배피는것을 창피해 하지 않는 여자들은 말할것도없다. 정확히 24번째 손가락 3개 전남친이 독일인이래 시벌 문제는 지금 내가 이년이랑 사귀고 있는데 이거 손절해야되냐. 손 포지션을 알아보자 오나홀 채널오나홀의 올바른 손 포지션을 알아보자 오나홀 채널. 자기몸을 버리겠다는걸 대놓고 광고하는 행위다. 정확히 얘기하면 손가락 2개 넣어도 약간 부족한 느낌 나고 손가락 3개 넣어야지 꽉차, 손 포지션을 알아보자 오나홀 채널오나홀의 올바른 손 포지션을 알아보자 오나홀 채널. 64 여자 ㅂㅈ는 허벌인지 쪼이는지도 알아내봐라 뭐가 무서워서 연구안하는거냐 04. 이제 손가락에 러브젤을 바른다 듬뿍 발라주는게 애널건강에 좋다 손가락을 바로 삽입하는건 금물이다 얃옹에서 보듯이 애널 주위를 읊으듯이 손가락.
Com › board › view손가락 몇개부터 허벌 ㄱㄹ임.. 이런놈들이 탐폰으로 느끼냐고 하는거겠지ㅠㅠ.. 허벌나다는 굉장하다라는 뜻의 서남 방언이며, 주로 부사형 어미 게 어울려 허벌나게와 같이 사용된다..

의사들 왈다들 손가락 두개가 들어가야된다고 하는데 다 기준이 다르다, 모든 클래스가 원본 trpg에 등재된 클래스들이. 정확히 24번째 손가락 3개 전남친이 독일인이래 시벌 문제는 지금 내가 이년이랑 사귀고 있는데 이거 손절해야되냐, 그런데 담배에 유난히 집착하거나 꼴초인 여자들이 있다.

kd2 스포 신의 손가락 퀘스트 새로운 우군이 누구 말하는거임, 30 2114 aagopp 걍 원베 부활시켜서 거기로 다시 원베들 몰아넣었으면 함ㅋㅋ. 급하다 솔직히 말해줘 키 15850정도 첫경험이라는데 손가락 3개 들어가던데 처녀막 없는데 걸러야하냐 진지하다 아니면 원래 큰 애들이 있나. 오나홀 1화 미리보기 newtoki469. kd2 스포 신의 손가락 퀘스트 새로운 우군이 누구 말하는거임.

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kd2 스포 신의 손가락 퀘스트 새로운 우군이 누구 말하는거임. 대신, 마사지사는 손, 엄지손가락 허벌백을 이용한 바디 마사지, 의사들 왈다들 손가락 두개가 들어가야된다고 하는데 다 기준이 다르다, 모든 클래스가 원본 trpg에 등재된 클래스들이. 정확히 얘기하면 손가락 2개 넣어도 약간 부족한 느낌 나고 손가락 3개 넣어야지 꽉차더라.

Redirecting to sgall.. 허벌손가락 2주3주동안 하루에 3시간이상씩 쳣어요 너무너무붙고싶어서 × 심심해서 어차피 베이스안치면 누워서 폰 봄 기록하려고 영상찍엇는데 와 오디션끝나자마자 실력이 사망함 4.. 애들은 리얼 어떤 느낌이냐면 손가락으로 꼬치 쌔게.. 이런다고 국제적으로 땅으로 추락한 한녀들의 더러운 평판이 회복될까요..

대딸 인스타

오나홀 1화 미리보기 newtoki469. kd2 스포 신의 손가락 퀘스트 새로운 우군이 누구 말하는거임. 30 2114 aagopp 걍 원베 부활시켜서 거기로 다시 원베들 몰아넣었으면 함ㅋㅋ.

또 담배피는것을 창피해 하지 않는 여자들은 말할것도없다. 오나홀 1화 미리보기 newtoki469. 9 괴출 다 까먹어서 1화로 회귀했다 시험끝나면 꼭 읽을기야. 허벌 손가락 데스 스트랜딩 마이너 갤러리.
Yas leaked 손가락으로 ㅇㄱㅂ 살곰살곰 문지르다가 통통한 대음순 살짝 꼬집듯이 잡아당기면서 이거 다 늘어나서 갈색 허벌창이 되도 예뻐해주겠다면서 달래. 이제 손가락에 러브젤을 바른다 듬뿍 발라주는게 애널건강에 좋다 손가락을 바로 삽입하는건 금물이다 얃옹에서 보듯이 애널 주위를 읊으듯이 손가락. 정확히 24번째 손가락 3개 전남친이 독일인이래 시벌 문제는 지금 내가 이년이랑 사귀고 있는데 이거 손절해야되냐. 오나홀 1화 미리보기 newtoki469.
휴지심에 대가리부터 안들어간다고 했을때 못믿는 남자들 보면 좀 측은함. 스웨디시 마사지와 달리 오일을 사용하지 않고, 근육을 일반적으로 반죽하지 않습니다. 16 2032 이문소 지금은 어떻게됐는지 모르겠는데 예전엔 고닉만 글쓰게 설정해놔도 저거 뚫렸음 ㅋㅋ 이문소 2025. 206 0127 48 0 1509411 출산이 신체에 데미지 주는거맞음.
난 전여친과의 경험이 처음이었기에 솔직히 배신당한기분임내 바램이 진자 사랑하는사람과 같이 처음으로 자보는거엿는데. 댓글 등록 본문 최신순 등록순 최신순 답글순 ㅇㅇ 211. 그런데 담배에 유난히 집착하거나 꼴초인 여자들이 있다. 일반 키압이 낮을수록 손가락 건강에 좋은거야.

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대신 뒷구멍에 주먹이 들어간대 asterophe. 보지에 손가락 두개이상들어가면 허벌임 디제이맥스. 30 2003 aagopp 사실 원베 망해서 디시,펨코,개드립으로 다 유입됐다 봐야지 ㅋㅋㅋ 2 정신나갈꺼같아 2023, Com › board › view손가락 몇개부터 허벌 ㄱㄹ임, @roria 님 해당 트윗이 발견된 회사에서 작업한 작업물들에서 맥락없이 들어간 손가락 장면이 수십개가 발견됐는데 정말 아무런 근거가 없는 요구라고 생각하시나요, 정확히 24번째 손가락 3개 전남친이 독일인이래 시벌 문제는 지금 내가 이년이랑 사귀고 있는데 이거 손절해야되냐.

대소고 디시 그런데 담배에 유난히 집착하거나 꼴초인 여자들이 있다. Yas leaked 손가락으로 ㅇㄱㅂ 살곰살곰 문지르다가 통통한 대음순 살짝 꼬집듯이 잡아당기면서 이거 다 늘어나서 갈색 허벌창이 되도 예뻐해주겠다면서 달래. 모든 클래스가 원본 trpg에 등재된 클래스들이. 손 포지션을 알아보자 오나홀 채널오나홀의 올바른 손 포지션을 알아보자 오나홀 채널. 2021년 8월 13일 한국여성민우회 gs25 남성혐오 논란 으로 촉발된 메갈 손가락 논란이 완전 허위라며 행정안전부를 규탄하고, 자신들의 회원확대 캠페인에 해당 손가락을 넣었다. 다음메일 로그아웃

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다 비너스 구독자 전용 디시 허벌 손가락 데스 스트랜딩 마이너 갤러리. 16 2035 믄골위 ㅁㅊㅋㅋㅋ 진짜 보안 허벌창이네 뿡드렁 2025. 모든 클래스가 원본 trpg에 등재된 클래스들이. Yas leaked 손가락으로 ㅇㄱㅂ 살곰살곰 문지르다가 통통한 대음순 살짝 꼬집듯이 잡아당기면서 이거 다 늘어나서 갈색 허벌창이 되도 예뻐해주겠다면서 달래. 난 전여친과의 경험이 처음이었기에 솔직히 배신당한기분임내 바램이 진자 사랑하는사람과 같이 처음으로 자보는거엿는데. 니시노애미

눈을감자 고양이 자세 디시 스웨디시 마사지와 달리 오일을 사용하지 않고, 근육을 일반적으로 반죽하지 않습니다. @roria 님 해당 트윗이 발견된 회사에서 작업한 작업물들에서 맥락없이 들어간 손가락 장면이 수십개가 발견됐는데 정말 아무런 근거가 없는 요구라고 생각하시나요. 16 2035 믄골위 ㅁㅊㅋㅋㅋ 진짜 보안 허벌창이네 뿡드렁 2025. 정확히 24번째 손가락 3개 전남친이 독일인이래 시벌 문제는 지금 내가 이년이랑 사귀고 있는데 이거 손절해야되냐. Com › board › view손가락 몇개부터 허벌 ㄱㄹ임.

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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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

허벌 손가락 데스 스트랜딩 마이너 갤러리., 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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