조선의 초기 패배와 의병의 활약 임진왜란 초기, 조선은 일본군의 갑작스러운 공격에 효과적으로 대응하지 못했습니다.

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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 8, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 8, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 8, 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 8, 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.

임진왜란의 원인과 결과, 그리고 이 전쟁이 현대 한일 관계에 미친 영향을 살펴보겠습니다. 임진왜란은 왜 일어났으며, 우리 조상들이 어떻게 이겨 냈는지. 이순신, 곽재우, 권율, 조헌 등의 노력으로 곡창지역인 전라도 지역의 왜군 침공을 막을 수 있어서 조선과 명나라의 군대에 군량미를 제공할 수 있었다는 것이 전쟁초반의 승기를 잡는 핵심적인 요인이 되었다. 우리가 몰랐던 임진왜란의 이면, 동아시아 질서의 재편 윤명철의 한국, 한국인 재발견, 57 국제대전인 임진왜란의 배경과 발발 조선일본.

개설 1차 침입이 임진년에 일어났으므로 ‘임진왜란’이라 부르며, 2차 침입이 정유년에 있었으므로 ‘정유재란’ 이라 한다. 임진왜란 15921598은 도요토미 히데요시가 조선을 침략하면서 지나간 전쟁으로 동아시아 역사에 큰 영향을 미쳤다. ①임진왜란의 과정 ②임진왜란 전의 국내외 사정 국내의 사정오랜 평화와 성리학의 발전이민족에 대한 지.

임진왜란 일으킨 日의 진짜 목적은|.

이순신장군이 활약했던 임진왜란은 정말 큰 전쟁이었는데요 왜 임진왜란이 발발한 것인지 그 시대적 배경을 알고 싶습니다. 1592년 4월, 왜군은 명나라로 가는 길을 내달라는 구실로 조선을 침략하였다. 이순신 장군의 업적과 의의 이순신 장군은 임진왜란 동안 조선의 해군을 이끌며 수많은 전투에서 승리를 거두었습니다.
정의 1592년부터 1598년까지 일본이 조선을 침략하여 충청남도 부여 지역을 포함한 조선 전역에서 벌어진 전쟁.. 임진왜란에 대한 일본 우익의 이런 인식은 일본 정치인들의 끊임없는 망언과도 무관치 않다.. 임진왜란의 원인과 결과, 그리고 이 전쟁이 현대 한일 관계에 미친 영향을 살펴보겠습니다.. 고조선 시절에는 한나라, 삼국시대 때는 수당, 고려 때는 거란몽골 등, 인접 국가와 싸운 기록이 많기 때문입니다..
조선은 3포왜 란1510, 사량진왜변1544, 을묘왜변1555등 왜구의 침습이 거듭 read more.. 2012년 임진년은 임진왜란이 일어난 지 420년이 되는 해.. 임진왜란 15921598은 조선과 일본 간의 대규모 전쟁으로, 동아시아 역사에 깊은 영향을 미친 사건입니다..

임진왜란 당시 명나라가 대규모 병력을 동원해 전쟁에 참여했던 원인을 잘 설명해 주는 기록이라 하겠다.

단순한 침략이 아니라,동아시아 질서 전체를 뒤흔든 국제전이자조선의 국가 시스템 붕괴 & 재건의 시작점이기도 합니다. 임진왜란원인 병자호란배경과 과정 학익진전술 삼포왜란 알아보기 오늘 배워볼 주제 임진왜란과 병, 본 논문은 전투사 위주의 미시적 접근법보다는 주로 국제정치적 입장에서 임진 왜란의 배경․원인과 현대적 함의를 분석하기 위한 것이다. Kr › article › e0047674임진왜란 壬辰倭亂 한국민족문화대백과사전, 정유재란 조선시대사 사건 임진왜란 중 강화 교섭의 결렬로 왜군이 정유년 1597에 다시 침략한 전쟁. 이 글에서는 임진왜란의 원인과 결과에 대해 다루어 보겠습니다. 임진왜란 15921598이 발발하기 전, 조선은 정치, 경제, 사회적으로 다양한 문제를 겪고 있었습니다. 16세기말 조선과 명에 대한 일본의 무역관계는 거의 단절되어 있었다.

임진왜란 15921598이 발발하기 전, 조선은 정치, 경제, 사회적으로 다양한 문제를 겪고 있었습니다.

이순신장군이 활약했던 임진왜란은 정말 큰 전쟁이었는데요 왜 임진왜란이 발발한 것인지 그 시대적 배경을 알고 싶습니다. 임진왜란의 배경일본 내부의 상황1 도요토미 히데요시의 권력 강화일본 전국시대1467. 1592년선조 25년에 시작된 이 전쟁은 조선과 일본, 그리고 후에 명나라까지 휘말리며 한반도에 큰 변화를, 이를 위해 임진왜란의 시대적․상황적 배경, 임진왜란의 국내외적 원인, 임진왜란 배경․원인의 현대적 함의 를 살펴본 후 결론을 도출해본 것이다. 임진왜란 15921598은 조선과 일본 간의 대규모 전쟁으로, 동아시아 역사에 깊은 영향을 미친 사건입니다.

임진왜란 15921598은 조선 왕조와 일본 사이에서 벌어진 대규모 전쟁으로, 이 전쟁은 동아시아 역사의 중요한 전환점을 제공했습니다.

임진왜란의 원인 임진왜란은 단순히 일본의 군사적 야망만으로 발생한 것이 아니라, 당시 동아시아 정세와 일본 내부의 정치적 상황이 복합적으로 작용한 결과였습니다, 우리나라의 역사는, 어떻게 보면 전쟁의 역사이기도 합니다. ⚔️ 임진왜란 총정리 원인, 경과, 결과, 역사적 의의까지 한눈에. 가장 두드러진 원인 중 하나는 일본의 외부 침략 의도였습니다, 조선 초기 세종대왕의 화려한 내외부 정책 이후, 선조 시대에 들어서면서 조선은 점차 약해지기 시작합니다.

16세기 말 일본을 통일한 도요토미 히데요시는 한반도와 중국을 정복하려는 욕망 read more. 일본의 도요토미 히데요시가 이끄는 대규모 침략과 조선의 대응, 그리고 명나라의 참전은 이 전쟁을 더욱 복잡하게 만들었습니다, 1592년선조 25년에 시작된 이 전쟁은 조선과 일본, 그리고 후에 명나라까지 휘말리며 한반도에 큰 변화를.

현재에도 큰 귀감이 되고 있는 임진왜란, 임진왜란이 일어나게 된 배경과 국제 전쟁이 된 이야기에 대해 자세히 알아보았는데요 많은 도움이 되셨으면 좋겠습니다 공감 0.

일본의 도요토미 히데요시는 아시아 대륙으로의 진출을 꿈꾸며 조선을 침략했고, 조선은 명나라의 도움을 받아 이 침략을 막아냈습니다. 16세기말 조선과 명에 대한 일본의 무역관계는 거의 단절되어 있었다, 임진왜란 당시 명나라가 대규모 병력을 동원해 전쟁에 참여했던 원인을 잘 설명해 주는 기록이라 하겠다. 본 논문은 전투사 위주의 미시적 접근법보다는 주로 국제정치적 입장에서 임진 왜란의 배경․원인과 현대적 함의를 분석하기 위한 것이다. 임진왜란壬辰倭亂은 1592년선조 25년 전국 시대가 끝난 도요토미 정권 치하의 일본이 조선을 침략하면서 발발하여 1598년선조 31년까지 이어진 전쟁이다.

임진왜란 연구의 제 문제 임진・정유재란 발발 원인에 대한, 임진왜란 15921598은 조선 왕조와 일본 사이에서 벌어진 대규모 전쟁으로, 이 전쟁은 동아시아 역사의 중요한 전환점을 제공했습니다. 첫 번째가 1592년 임진년에 도요토미 히데요시가 16만명의 병력을 한반도에 출병한 전쟁이고.

김우유 영상 임진왜란은 1592년부터 1598년까지 조선과 일본 사이에서 벌어진전면적인 전쟁입니다. 임진왜란의 발생 원인을 우리나라에서는 정확하게 잘 안 가르쳐 주는데 결론적으로 한반도판 십자군 전쟁이었다. 임진왜란15921598 원인과 전개서론임진왜란壬辰倭亂은 1592년부터 1598년까지 7년에 걸쳐 일본이 조선을 침략하며 벌어진 전쟁입니다. ⚔️ 임진왜란 총정리 원인, 경과, 결과, 역사적 의의까지 한눈에. 임진왜란의 원인과 전개 과정 알아보기. 김지연 정철원 디시

꼭지 ㄴㅊ 신분제가 동요되었고 문화적인 손실도 굉장히 많은 전쟁이였다고 합니다. 이 전쟁의 원인을 이해하려면 일본, 조선, 명나라의 정치적, 수익성, 군사적 배경을 철저하게 살펴봐야 한다. 개설 1차 침입이 임진년에 일어났으므로 ‘임진왜란’이라 부르며, 2차 침입이 정유년에 있었으므로 ‘정유재란’ 이라 한다. 조선왕조의 기본적인 외교정책은 사대교린정책이었다. 개설 1차 침입이 임진년에 일어났으므로 ‘임진왜란’이라 부르며, 2차 침입이 정유년에 있었으므로 ‘정유재란’ 이라 한다. 나유타의 일본생활

나노바나나 연예인 디시 도요토미 히데요시의 대륙 침략 야욕2. 임진왜란은 1592년 일본의 도요토미 히데요시가 조선을 침략하면서 시작된 전쟁입니다. Com › entry › 임진왜란임진왜란 발생의 주된 이유. 임진왜란의 원인과 전개 과정 알아보기. 임진왜란 15921598은 도요토미 히데요시가 조선을 침략하면서 지나간 전쟁으로 동아시아 역사에 큰 영향을 미쳤다. 김소현 유두

김수현 실제 키 디시 임진왜란의 원인 존재하지 않는 이미지입니다. 임진왜란 일으킨 日의 진짜 목적은|. 정의 1592년부터 1598년까지 일본이 조선을 침략하여 충청남도 부여 지역을 포함한 조선 전역에서 벌어진 전쟁. 흔히 조선의 전쟁준비가 미흡했다는 이야기가 나도는 원인은 남도에 전쟁준비가 부족해보였기 때문이다. Com › puxi9715 › 223217858586임진왜란 원인, 배경 시기 이전과 이후의 변화 전개과정.

김우유 신음 우리가 몰랐던 임진왜란의 이면, 동아시아 질서의 재편 윤명철의 한국, 한국인 재발견, 57 국제대전인 임진왜란의 배경과 발발 조선일본. 도요토미 히데요시는 일본의 통일 후 자신의 세력을 강화하기 위해 대륙 진출을 모색하였고, 그 과정에서 조선을 목표로 삼았습니다. 조선왕조의 기본적인 외교정책은 사대교린정책이었다. ⚔️ 임진왜란 총정리 원인, 경과, 결과, 역사적 의의까지 한눈에. Com › 379⚔️ 임진왜란 총정리 원인, 경과, 결과, 역사적 의의까지 한눈에.

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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

조선의 초기 패배와 의병의 활약 임진왜란 초기, 조선은 일본군의 갑작스러운 공격에 효과적으로 대응하지 못했습니다., 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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