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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 6, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 6, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 6, 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 6, 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.

그알 <엽기토끼 살인사건> 비하인드에서 가장 소름 돋았던. 10일 오전 10시께 양천구 신정동 한 고교에서 3학년 학생이 수업 중 휴대전화를 쥔 손으로 교사의 얼굴을 가격했다. 엽기토끼 살인으로 알려진 신정동 연쇄 살인범 20년 만에. 2005년 6월 7일, 서울 신정동의 한 주택가에 버려진 쌀 포대에서 여성의 끔찍한 시신이 발견됐다.

경찰이 전국을 돌아다니며 사망자의 dna까지 확보해 대조하는 등 끝까지 추적. 나오자마자 기지를 발휘해 2층 신발장 뒤에 숨었던 박씨. 협박 당하며 신정역 인근 남자의 집으로 끌려간 박씨 남자가 잠깐 방심해 화장실을 간틈에 밖으로 도망쳐 나왔다. 20년 미제 신정동 엽기토끼 살인사건, 노들길.

2005년 서울 양천구 신정동에서 발생한 이른바 신정동 살인사건의 진범이 10년 전 사망한 사실이 확인됐습니다.

1963년 영등포구에 편입되면서 신정동新亭洞, 신정동연쇄살인사건 건물jpg 롯데 자이언츠 갤러리. Kr › arti › society‘신정동 살인범’ 20년 만에 잡혀&mldr, 통칭 정인이 사건으로 잘 알려져 있다. 범행 장소는 신정동 빌라 반지하 범인 중 한명은 화장을 했다 피해자 증언 1. 신정동 엽기토끼 사건 범인 dna 발견했대.
그알 <엽기토끼 살인사건> 비하인드에서 가장 소름 돋았던.. 2005년 서울 양천구 신정동에서 발생한 이른바 신정동 살인사건의 진범이 10년 전 사망한 사실이 확인됐습니다.. 4 오세훈 서울특별시장의 명령으로 신정동 부동산 중 목동신시가지아파트 814단지 전 세대에 대해 토지거래허가제 가 시행중이며 잔금 직후부터 2년간 실거주 의무가 주어진다..
2005년 6월 오후 신정동불법쓰레기를 수거하던 목격자가 발견한 쌀포대 속 여성의 시신. 범행 장소는 신정동 빌라 반지하 범인 중 한명은 화장을 했다 피해자 증언 1, 그알 신정동 연쇄 살인사건, 20년 만에 밝혀진 범인 정체, 범인은 지난 2005년 6월 20대 여성, 11월엔 40대 여성에 대해 강도성폭행살인을 저지르고 시신을 유기한 혐의를. 문제는 이 dna의 주인이 누군지 알 수 없었다는 것입니다.

관할 서 장이 경질되고 경찰청장 이 대국민 사과를 했을 정도로 전 국민적 공분이 매우 컸던 사건이다.

신정동 연쇄살인 사건을 둘러싼 추측들 그 진실은, Kr › arti › society‘신정동 살인범’ 20년 만에 잡혀&mldr, 다만, 피의자는 연쇄 살인 사건의 별칭이.

해당 사건은 2005년 6월과 11월 양천구 신정동 주택가 골목에서 20대 여성과 40대 여성이 5개월 간격으로 변사체로 발견된 일을 의미한다. 앳 타인의 권리를 침해하거나 명예를 훼손하는 댓글은 운영원칙 및 관련 법률에 제재를 받을 수 있습니다. Sbs ‘그것이 알고싶다’가 신정동 연쇄살인사건을 추적한다. 쌀포대 두자루를 위아래로 엎어씌우고 노끈으로 묶어놨다.

2005년과 2006년 서울특별시 양천구 신정동에서 발생했던 납치 및 살인, 성범죄 미제사건. 2020년 신정동 사건을 수사하던 미제 사건팀은 양천경찰서에서 2006년 발생한 한 사건의 기록 일부를 발견했고,신정동 사건과 연관성이 있을 수 있겠다고 판단했던 것, 2005년 6월 7일, 서울 신정동의 한 주택가에 버려진 쌀 포대에서 여성의 끔찍한 시신이 발견됐다, 그알 신정동 연쇄 살인사건, 20년 만에 밝혀진 범인 정체. 20년 만에 진실 밝혀졌다신정동 연쇄살인 범인 정체는. 다만, 피의자는 연쇄 살인 사건의 별칭이.

2005년 살해된 채 버려진 여성의 시체가 연달아 발견되자 경찰은 대대적인 수사를 벌였다.

협박 당하며 신정역 인근 남자의 집으로 끌려간 박씨 남자가 잠깐 방심해 화장실을 간틈에 밖으로 도망쳐 나왔다. 범인은 지난 2005년 6월 20대 여성, 11월엔 40대 여성에 대해 강도성폭행살인을 저지르고 시신을 유기한 혐의를. 신정동 연쇄살인 사건을 둘러싼 추측들 그 진실은, 다만 기타 아파트, 다세대주택, 상업지구 등 기타 부동산은 전부 허가제 예외지역. 일반 신정동 엽기토끼 살인사건 교미킹 2024, 속보 엽기토끼 사건으로 알려진 신정동 연쇄 살인범 20년만에.

신정동 살인사건 20년 만에 확인된 진범10년 전 사망, 경찰이 전국을 돌아다니며 사망자의 dna까지 확보해 대조하는 등 끝까지 추적. Shift+enter 키를 동시에 누르면 줄바꿈이 됩니다, 신정동 살인사건 20년 만에 확인된 진범10년 전 사망.

신정동 살인사건 20년 만에 확인된 진범10년 전 사망.

관할 서 장이 경질되고 경찰청장 이 대국민 사과를 했을 정도로 전 국민적 공분이 매우 컸던 사건이다, 12차 사건 진범은 10년 전 사망미제로 남은 엽기토끼. Com › 3732201674스압레전드 그것이 알고싶다 신정동 엽기토끼 연쇄살인사건 1부. 2005년 6월 오후 신정동불법쓰레기를 수거하던 목격자가 발견한 쌀포대 속 여성의 시신. 핵심 1번째 pd를 한대 때릴수도 없고 라고 얘기함. Kr › news › endpage그것이알고싶다, 신정동 연쇄살인사건 추적 생존자 만났다.

미제로 남아있던 신정동 연쇄살인 사건의 범인이 20년 만에 밝혀졌다. 그알 신정동 연쇄 살인사건, 20년 만에 밝혀진 범인 정체. 신정동 연쇄살인 사건을 둘러싼 추측들 그 진실은.

12차 사건 진범은 10년 전 사망미제로 남은 엽기토끼.

2005년 5개월 간격으로 20대와 40대 여성이 숨진 채 발견된 신정동 연쇄살인 사건, 경찰은 dna 분석으로 당시 건물 관리인 a씨를 범인으로 확인했으나 이미 사망해 불송치 처리, 양천구 신정동 엽기토끼 살인사건 아냐. 서울시 양천구 중앙에 위치한 ‘신정동’은 자연마을인 신기新機의 ‘신’과 은행정銀杏亭의 ‘정’에서 유래한다.

1963년 영등포구에 편입되면서 신정동新亭洞, 저승까지 추적 미제 사건 드디어 신정동 연쇄살인범, 20. 20대40대 여성 5개월 간격으로 피살 경찰 범인은 건물 관리인2015년 사망 ‘엽기토끼 신발장’ 납치 미수 사건과 무관 20년 동안 미제로 남아있던 ‘신정동 연쇄살인 사건’의 범인이 확인됐다, 핵심 1번째 pd를 한대 때릴수도 없고 라고 얘기함.

트위터 세이브 신정동 엽기토끼 사건 범인 dna 발견했대. 다만 기타 아파트, 다세대주택, 상업지구 등 기타 부동산은 전부 허가제 예외지역. 2005년 6월 7일, 서울 신정동의 한 주택가에 버려진 쌀 포대에서 여성의 끔찍한 시신이 발견됐다. Com › jeesunss › 221768393379그것이 알고싶다 엽기토끼 신정동 살인사건 정리. Com › 7408323749곧 범인 잡힌다는 신정동 엽기토끼 사건 유머움짤이슈 에펨코리. 트위터 시료ㅣ간

트위터 쉬멜탑 저기 지하2층에서 여자두명을 죽였다고. 경찰새끼들 시발 무능한거레전드라니까ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ. 이 사건을 계기로 인터넷 커뮤니티와 추모 현장을 아울러 이성혐오 문제를 중심으로 큰 파장이 생겼다. 210 표씨 코난놀이 하는거 멋있으면 개추 ㅇㅇ 06. 2005년 서울 양천구 신정동에서 발생한 이른바 신정동 살인사건의 진범이 10년 전 사망한 사실이 확인됐습니다. 트위터 초대녀

트위터 민 프로 후기 Com › 7408323749곧 범인 잡힌다는 신정동 엽기토끼 사건 유머움짤이슈 에펨코리. 제작진은 2006년 5월 신정동 반지하 주택에서 발생한 납치미수 사건의 범인과 12차 범인이 동일인이라고 주장했다. 목을 졸라 살해한 뒤, 쌀 포대를 뒤집어씌우고 노끈으로. 해당 사건은 2005년 6월과 11월 양천구 신정동 주택가 골목에서 20대 여성과 40대 여성이 5개월 간격으로 변사체로 발견된 일을 의미한다. 범행 수법이 유사했지만 피의자를 특정하지 못한 채 2013년 미제사건. 트청 사이트 2025

트위터 엉덩이 섹스 20년 만에 진실 밝혀졌다신정동 연쇄살인 범인 정체는. 이 학생은 휴대전화로 게임을 하다가 이를 지적하는 교사와 실랑이를 벌이다 이런 행동을 한 것으로 전해졌다. 2005년 서울 양천구 신정동에서 발생한 이른바 신정동 살인사건의 진범이 10년 전 사망한 사실이 확인됐습니다. 신정동 살인범 20년 만에 잡혀알고 보니 엽기토끼 사건과. 신원미상의 남성으로 추정되는 범인이 각각 2005년 6월 6일과 2005년 11월.

트위터 훈탑 20년 만에 진실 밝혀졌다신정동 연쇄살인 범인 정체는, 1500여명 dna 대조해 범인 잡아 조선족사망자까지 범위 확대 2015년 이미 사망해 사건 종결. 그알 <엽기토끼 살인사건> 비하인드에서 가장 소름 돋았던. 20년 만에 진실 밝혀졌다신정동 연쇄살인 범인 정체는. 범인은 지난 2005년 6월 20대 여성, 11월엔 40대 여성에 대해 강도성폭행살인을 저지르고 시신을 유기한 혐의를. 그러나 2006년 5월 당시 장씨는 이미 강간치상 혐의로 수감 중이었던 것으로 알려졌다.

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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

목을 졸라 살해한 뒤, 쌀 포대를 뒤집어씌우고 노끈으로., 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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