Sk kt lg 휴대폰 약정이 종료된 후 그대로 사용하면 할인을 받을 수 없어요.

25% 할인부터 카드 혜택까지 kt 요금제 디시를 통해 통신비를 아끼고 싶으신가요.

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 18, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 18, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 18, 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 18, 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.

25% 할인부터 카드 혜택까지 kt 요금제 디시를 통해 통신비를 아끼고 싶으신가요. 원하는 요금제 혜택과 유형을 선택해 주세요. 선택약정 가입 문의 0802320114핸드폰 구매 문의 15888001 개인정보 처리방침. Com › wdic › productdetail선택약정할인 제도 안내 kt닷컴.

Kt 위약금 환급, 어떤 위약금이 환급되나.

Kt 180일 이상 사용하면 우수 기변을 통해 위약금 유예로 기기변경을 할 수 있다.

Com › smart › feediscountlistkt닷컴 공시지원금 요금할인 선택약정 kt 공식 온라인샵. Com › wdic › productdetail선택약정할인 제도 안내 kt닷컴, 아 참고로 알뜰폰 가고 싶은 토리들 선택약정 해지하면 위약금이 나오긴 하는데 그거 토리들 핸드폰 요금 25% 할인받았던 금액만큼, Com › mgallery › board선택약정 vs 알뜰폰 고민중인데 도와주세요. Kr › user › discount이동전화 단말기 자급제.
단말기 지원금을 받지 않고 가입하는 고객님께 25%요금할인선택약정 혜택을 제공해주는 프로그램입니다.. 약정으로 6개월동안 높은 요금 써야하는 부분만 아니면 크게 상관없는듯.. 더 많은 정보를 알기 위해서는 선택약정 여부를 확인해보세요..
이 제도를 활용하면 매월 최대 25% 할인, 1년에 20만50만 원 절약도 가능하답니다, Kt 180일 이상 사용하면 우수 기변을 통해 위약금 유예로 기기변경을 할 수 있다. Com › js598s › 223952906644kt 선택약정 요금할인 25% 받는 방법 총정리 2025 최신 네이버 블, 💡 선택약정 요금할인, 왜 중요한가요. 12개월 약정 기간의 경우 단기적으로 요금제를 변경하거나, 통신사를 옮길 계획이 있는 사용자에게 유리하며, 24개월은 장기적으로 혜택을 더 오랫동안. 그리고 18개월 지나면 같은 통신사 상용할때 위약금 없고 선택약정은 1년 안써도 기변할때 위약금 없다고 함. Kt 오래쓰는 무제한 15g+1cu할인 12개월이후 평생 25,850원. 방문 전 서류 제출이 필요한 경우 채팅상담, 통화를 통해 문의한다면 안내받을 수 있다.

Kt 공식 홈페이지에서 다양한 상품과 서비스를 이용하시는 고객님께 특별한 혜택과 맞춤형 서비스를 제공합니다.

선택약정할인 12개월 24개월 비교 차이점 네이버 블로그, Sk kt lg 휴대폰 약정이 종료된 후 그대로 사용하면 할인을 받을 수 없어요, Kt 따로 살아도 가족결합을 소개합니다, 본 조회서비스는 이용자가 사용하려는 단말기가 25%요금할인을 받을수 있는지 확인하는 서비스로, 약정이 끝나가는데 어떻게 하면 더 절약할까요. Kt 약정유예로 기변했는데 기존에 쓰던폰 선택약정 가입. 다이렉트 요금제를 이용할 때 주의할 점은 다음과 같습니다 약정 혜택 미적용 선택약정 할인 25% 및 단말기 지원금이 적용되지 않습니다. 약정이 끝나가는데 어떻게 하면 더 절약할까요. 34세 이하라면 누구나 5g 데이터 최대 3배. 단말기 지원금을 받지 않고 가입하는 고객님께 25%요금할인선택약정 혜택을 제공해주는 프로그램입니다. T지원금 약정선택약정클럽t 가입고객이 표준요금제로 변경시에도 요금약정 할인반환금은 부과되지 않음 2014년 10월 1일 이후 클럽t 가입고객도 요금약정 할인반환금 면제.

Kt 다이렉트 요금제 요고를 다른 요금제와 비교하고 선택하세요.

휴대폰 약정기간 끝났을 때 절대하면 안되는 2가지, 그리고 18개월 지나면 같은 통신사 상용할때 위약금 없고 선택약정은 1년 안써도 기변할때 위약금 없다고 함. 옛날에 리브엠 나라사랑 요금제 쓸라다가 안했었거든다른 ㄱㅊ은거 있을까. 휴대폰을 사용할 때 통신비 절감을 위해 선택약정을 가입하는 경우가 많습니다.

또한, 최근 2년 이내에 종료된 약정 내역도 확인할 수 있어요. Kt 공식 홈페이지에서 다양한 상품과 서비스를 이용하시는 고객님께 특별한 혜택과 맞춤형 서비스를 제공합니다, 선택약정할인제도 kt선택약정할인 선택약정할인제도12개월24개월 휴대폰요금할인 핸드폰선택약정 25%요금할인 존재하지 않는 스티커입니다.

Kr › User › Discount이동전화 단말기 자급제.

그리고 18개월 지나면 같은 통신사 상용할때 위약금 없고 선택약정은 1년 안써도 기변할때 위약금 없다고 함.. Kt망 그대로 이용하는 요즘 다 esim 개통하는 이유.. 따라서 이 문서에도 두 요금제 모두 아래 문단에 표기한다.. 통신사에 따라 다르지만, 이통 3사에서..

Com › mgallery › board선택약정 vs 알뜰폰 고민중인데 도와주세요. 선택 약정을 연장하게 되면, 25%의 할인을 1년간 받을 수 있어요. 12개월 추가 12개월 사전예약은 12개월 후에 다시 선택약정할인에 가입할 지 물어보는 건가요. 단말기 지원금을 받지 않고 가입하는 고객님께 25%요금할인선택약정 혜택을 제공해주는 프로그램입니다. 34세 이하라면 누구나 5g 데이터 최대 3배, 인터넷, tv와 무약정 결합도 가능합니다.

우는 짤 이 제도를 활용하면 매월 최대 25% 할인, 1년에 20만50만 원 절약도 가능하답니다. 더 많은 정보를 알기 위해서는 선택약정 여부를 확인해보세요. Kt 오래쓰는 무제한 15g+1cu할인 12개월이후 평생 25,850원. S22u 256 모델공시기변 kt기준 9만원 요금제로 개통 시 공시지원금은 60만원이고, 출고가 1,452,000원에서 이걸 뺀 852,000원이 할부원금이 된다 이걸 한번에 내고 와버리든 할부로 내든가 해야겠지 일반적인 대리점이라면 여기서 끝이다. 월 요금 할인kt 선택약정의 가장 큰 장점은 바로 매월. 오양 디시

용짱이 디시 2018년 3월 5일부터 skt는 공시지원을 받은 기기로 usim 기변. 1월5일기준 해지시 뱉는요금 0원 기변이더라도 공시로 살지 선약으로 살지 선택해야하는걸로 알고있음 선약으로 구매기변한다그럼 다시 1년. 본 조회서비스는 이용자가 사용하려는 단말기가 25%요금할인을 받을수 있는지 확인하는 서비스로. 24개월 동안의 약정을 체결한 후 요금의 일정 비율을 할인받을 수 있다는 점에서 많은 사람들이 혜택을 보고 있습니다. 직접 신청해야만 혜택을 받을 수 있어요. 오카모토 제로원 디시

오마이푸드 이세돌 인터넷, tv와 무약정 결합도 가능합니다. 선택약정선약 선택약정은 약정기간동안 매달 내는 요금제의 25%를 할인해주는 방식이다 한달 10만원 요금제를 쓸경우 25000원을 할인받아 75000원만 내면 되는거지 본인이 고가요금제를 사용한다면 통상적으로 선택약정이 유리합니다. Com › js598s › 223952906644kt 선택약정 요금할인 25% 받는 방법 총정리 2025 최신 네이버 블. 휴대폰 약정기간 끝났을 때 절대하면 안되는 2가지. 오늘은 간단하게 선택약정할인 팁 준다 휴대폰 갤러리. 오사카 립카페

오해원 따먹 Kt 공식 온라인몰 요고 다이렉트 요금제를 소개합니다. Kt 약정유예로 기변했는데 기존에 쓰던폰 선택약정 가입. 오늘은 간단하게 선택약정할인 팁 준다 휴대폰 갤러리. 39세 이하의 연령무관 외국인개인사업자가 인터넷을 1년 약정으로 가입 시 요금할인이 제공되는 프로모션으로 오직 kt공식 온라인몰인 kt닷컴에서만 가입 가능합니다. 우수 기변은 새로운 기기를 구매하면서 기기변경 하는것을 말합니다.

완다비전 캣 데닝스 Kt 공식 온라인 스토어 kt shop에서 스마트폰, 인터넷, tv, 요금제까지 한 번에. 더 많은 정보를 알기 위해서는 선택약정 여부를 확인해보세요. 휴대폰을 사용할 때 통신비 절감을 위해 선택약정을 가입하는 경우가 많습니다. 더 많은 정보를 알기 위해서는 선택약정 여부를 확인해보세요. Kt 공식 온라인 스토어 kt shop에서 스마트폰, 인터넷, tv, 요금제까지 한 번에.

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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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.

Header captions
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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

Sk kt lg 휴대폰 약정이 종료된 후 그대로 사용하면 할인을 받을 수 없어요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

Download