Uterine contractions refer to the rhythmic tightening and releasing of the muscles in the uterus.

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, August 11, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 11, 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, August 11, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 11, 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, August 11, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 11, 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, August 11, 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, August 11, 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, August 11, 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, August 11, 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, August 11, 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, August 11, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 11, 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, August 11, 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, August 11, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 11, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 11, 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, August 11, 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.

청주대학교 간호학과에 오신것을 환영합니다. 개인정보 주소, 연락처 등 수정도 포털시스템에서 가능하며, 일괄 반영됨. 조기 자궁 수축은 임신 37주 이전에 발생하는 자궁의 수축을 의미한다. Uterine atony uterine atony is the failure of the uterus to contract adequately following delivery.

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750 url 복사 이웃추가 ※※계속 수정 & 업데이트 중입니다※※ 가끔 산부인과에서 받은 진단서나 검사결과지, 수술기록지에 나온 약자를 궁금해하시기도 하고, By 김지현 2021 — 국소 자궁근수축focal uterine contraction, 기혈압, 심박출지수, 심박출률은 의미있는 차이는. 정의 출산시 자국의 수축에 태아가 얼마나 잘 반응하는가 판단하기 위해 임신 말기에 실시하는 검사입니다. 많은 여성들이 자궁수축을 경험하지만, 그 원인과 종류, 그리고 대처 방법에 대한 정확한 정보를 모르는 경우가 많습니다. 조기 진통preterm labour 질환백과 의료정보 건강정보. 전신마사지, 자궁수축, 분만소요시간, 분만형태, 약물사용. 동물 근육세포의 수축은 이것이 극도로 발달한 것이다. Contraction에 대한 검색 결과입니다, 양막이 파수된 후 자궁수축 uterine contraction이 발생할 경우, 자궁수축억제제 tocolytics의 사용이 금지된다. 양막이 파수된 후 자궁수축uterine contraction이 발생할 경우, 자궁수축. 태아막을 통과하여 임부의 순환체계, 모체의 혈청으로 태아의 상태를 간접평가할 수 있다. 유의어 muscular contraction, muscle contraction, a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds.

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750 url 복사 이웃추가 ※※계속 수정 & 업데이트 중입니다※※ 가끔 산부인과에서 받은 진단서나 검사결과지, 수술기록지에 나온 약자를 궁금해하시기도 하고. 청주대학교 간호학과에 오신것을 환영합니다. 분만실에서 자주사용하는 의학용어를 모아봤습니다, 영문, contraction, 한글, 수축.

와 같은 의학적 맥락에서 일반적으로 사용됩니다. 출산labor으로 인한 원인이 아닌 다른 이유로 양막membrane이 터지는 경우를 의미한다. Uterine means relating to the uterus of a woman or a female mammal.

즉, 생체구조나 생활물질이 특정한 방향으로 능동적인 단축을 보이는.. Contraction of the uterine muscles during labor compresses the blood vessels and slows flow, which helps prevent hemorrhage and facilitates coagulation.. 1 it is most often seen in induced or augmented labor, though it can also occur during spontaneous labor, 2 and this may result in fetal hypoxia and acidosis..
또한 수정된 수정란이 자궁외에 착상하는 자궁외임신이 가장 많이 발생하는 장소이다. Kr › new › board여주대학교 간호학과. Com › xuuohnn › 222547522564여성간호학 의학용어 및 약어 네이버 블로그.
또한 수정된 수정란이 자궁외에 착상하는 자궁외임신이 가장 많이 발생하는 장소이다. 유산이란 태아의 생존에 가능한 발육시기 이전에 이민이 종결됨을 말한다. Contraction 작아지거나 짧아지는 과정을 말하며 두 개 이상의 단어가 합쳐져 일부 글자나 소리가 생략되어 만들어진 단어를 말합니다.
Mri findings and differential diagnosis of benign. 750 url 복사 이웃추가 ※※계속 수정 & 업데이트 중입니다※※ 가끔 산부인과에서 받은 진단서나 검사결과지, 수술기록지에 나온 약자를 궁금해하시기도 하고. 제가 여성 간호학 실습을 하는동안 conference 시간에 단어시험을 보게되는데 그때 그때 단어를 찾아보는게 시간이 오래걸리더라구요 그래서 다른 학생분들의 시간을 절약해 드리고자 제가 찾아봤던 단어를 적어보았습니다ㅎ 도움이 되셨으면 좋겠어요.
자궁수축 uterine contractions은 자궁 근육이 수축하고 이완하는 과정 으로, 임신과 출산 과정에서 중요한 역할을 합니다. 개인정보 주소, 연락처 등 수정도 포털시스템에서 가능하며, 일괄 반영됨. 영문 한글 uterine ostium of uterine tube 자궁관자궁구멍 abdominal opening of uterine tube 자궁관복강구멍 abdominal ostium of uterine tube o.

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자궁수축양상은 정상이나 자궁수축력이 15mmhg이하로 미약한 경우를 말합니다, 개인적 부업메모 산부인과에서 쓰는 의학용어 약자 모음집 & 뜻 베로니카 ・ 2023. 정의 출산시 자국의 수축에 태아가 얼마나 잘 반응하는가 판단하기 위해 임신 말기에 실시하는 검사입니다.

Uterine atony 자궁이완증 uterine fundus 자궁저 uterine involution 자궁수복 자궁이 임신 전 상태로 회복하는거 vacuum extraction 흡입분만 valsalvas maneuver 발살바 시험 vdrl venereal disease research laboratory 매독검사 vertex presentation 두정위 간호학과 분만실실습 의학용어. Com › entry › 자궁수축자궁수축uterine contractions 원인, 증상, 그리고 관리 방법, The exact mechanism of their production is not yet fully understood. Uterine contractions refer to the rhythmic tightening and releasing of the muscles in the uterus. 자궁수축양상은 정상이나 자궁수축력이 15mmhg이하로 미약한 경우를 말합니다. 영어권에선 일상에서 말할땐 braxton hicks 브랙스톤 힉스라고도 한다.

출산labor으로 인한 원인이 아닌 다른 이유로 양막membrane이 터지는 경우를 의미한다.. inertia uterine 자궁 무력증 intensity of contraction 수축강도 internal rotation 내회전 분만기전에서 아기의 후두가 치골쪽으로 회전한다.. 근육수축과 관련하여 단축과 긴장이 생긴 것을 뜻한다.. Urinary incontinence..

질점막이 비후해지고 유연성과 길이가 증가한다. 영어권에선 일상에서 말할땐 braxton hicks 브랙스톤 힉스라고도 한다. 유산이란 태아의 생존에 가능한 발육시기 이전에 이민이 종결됨을 말한다. 자궁혈류와 림프액의 증가로 질 경부점막이 자청색으로 변함.

Uterine atony 자궁이완증 uterine fundus 자궁저 uterine involution 자궁수복 자궁이 임신 전 상태로 회복하는거 vacuum extraction 흡입분만 valsalvas maneuver 발살바 시험 vdrl venereal disease research laboratory 매독검사 vertex presentation 두정위 간호학과 분만실실습 의학용어. The force exerted by the fetus on the deformable soft tissues also depends on the uterine contraction. 진진통을 준비하는 불규칙적인 통증 이며, 내진이나 성관계 시 발생할 수 있다.

영문, contraction, 한글, 수축. These contractions can occur during sexual arousal and orgasm, and are believed to be influenced by the sympathetic nervous system and the release of oxytocin. Kr › new › board여주대학교 간호학과. That is, a contraction modifies the intrauterine pressure, which in turn exerts a force enabling fetal movement.

히나타갤 정의 저장성 자궁기능장애는 분만할 때의 진통이 약하거나 간격이 길어서 분만이 진전되지 않는 것을 이르는 말입니다. Uterine ˈjuːtəraɪn 용어는 자궁과 관련되거나 자궁에 영향을 미치는 형용사입니다. 출산labor으로 인한 원인이 아닌 다른 이유로 양막membrane이 터지는 경우를 의미한다. Uterine contractions are muscle contractions of the uterine smooth muscle that can occur at various intensities in both the nonpregnant and pregnant uterine. 근육이 수축할 때는 그 부피가 실제로는 거의 감소하지 않는다. 히토미 다크모드

히토미 버튜버 Ab do minale tubae uterinae 난관복강구 卵管腹腔口. 즉, 생체구조나 생활물질이 특정한 방향으로 능동적인 단축을 보이는. Urinary incontinence. Uterine atony 자궁이완증 uterine fundus 자궁저 uterine involution 자궁수복 자궁이 임신 전 상태로 회복하는거 vacuum extraction 흡입분만 valsalvas maneuver 발살바 시험 vdrl venereal disease research laboratory 매독검사 vertex presentation 두정위 간호학과 분만실실습 의학용어. 초기 태아의 주된 혈청단백, 태아의 소변을 통해 양수에 섞임. 히토미 마인드 컨트롤

희솔 패트리온 유산이란 태아의 생존에 가능한 발육시기 이전에 이민이 종결됨을 말한다. 동물 근육세포의 수축은 이것이 극도로 발달한 것이다. 진진통을 준비하는 불규칙적인 통증 이며, 내진이나 성관계 시 발생할 수 있다. 유산이란 태아의 생존에 가능한 발육시기 이전에 이민이 종결됨을 말한다. 자궁수축uterine contractions은 자궁 근육이 수축하고 이완하는 과정으로, 임신과 출산 과정에서 중요한 역할을 합니다. 히로시마 헌팅 디시

후쿠하라 하루카 디시 Uterine에 대한 검색 결과입니다. 자궁경부의 변화가 없는 규칙적인 자궁수축에서 억제제는. The force exerted by the fetus on the deformable soft tissues also depends on the uterine contraction. Proper application of ua monitoring by means of the internal method and adequate reading and interpretation of the uterine contraction curve is a prerequisite for high quality electronic fetal heart rate monitoring. During uterine contractions, fetal oxygenation is worsened.

히로세히나 Uterine atony uterine atony is the failure of the uterus to contract adequately following delivery. Uterine 이란 자궁암, 자궁수축, 자궁근종 등 자궁과 관련되거나 자궁에 영향을 미치는 것을 의미합니다. 영문 한글 uterine ostium of uterine tube 자궁관자궁구멍 uterine contraction 자궁수축 ∼收縮. 즉, 생체구조나 생활물질이 특정한 방향으로 능동적인 단축을 보이는 현상 또는. 개인적 부업메모 산부인과에서 쓰는 의학용어 약자 모음집 & 뜻 베로니카 ・ 2023.

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, August 11, 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, August 11, 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, August 11, 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, August 11, 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 August 11, 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, August 11, 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 August 11, 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, August 11, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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