obscure 흐리게 하다, 가리다 안개 등이 시야를 라틴어 obscurus 어두운 the fog obscured the city skyline.

피는 안개 꽃, 라틴어 이름은 니겔 damascena입니다 그림, 스톡사진, 이미지 그리고 포토그래피.

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 19, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 19, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 19, 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 19, 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.

Com › 11808386정보라틴어 단어 모음. 인터넷과 일상적으로 많이 쓰이는 유명한 라틴어 단어 의미와 멋진 표현 14가지를 모았습니다. 5%는 뇌운에서 다른 뇌운으로 치는 것이다. 沙 漠 넓은 모래라는 뜻 desert 어원 은 라틴어 로 버려진이라는 뜻인 desero에서 파생된 dēs.

2 영어 단어의 초기 의미는 생기였으며, 움직이는 이미지 매체라는 의미보다 훨씬 오래전부터 사용되어 왔다. 알파벳이나 한글로 검색하고자 하는 라틴어 단어를 입력하세요. 15세기 중반, nebule 구름, 안개에서 유래, 라틴어 nebula, 복수형 nebulae, 안개, 증기, 연무, 연기, 숨결, 비유적으로 어둠, 모호함, pie 뿌리, 네이밍 하실 때 참고하시길 바라겠다 예쁜단어모음 영어 라틴어 프랑스어. 모 카페에서 구름 요거트 스무디를 먹으면서 생각났던 거라 그 사진을 올리고.

How To Pronounce Angae 안개 Fog In Korean.

15세기 중반, nebule 구름, 안개에서 유래되었습니다.. 네카토르, 네카토리스 살해자 necessarius, necessaria, necessarium adj.. 단어의 기본형태를 확실히 모르거나, 발음만 알고 철자를 모르는 경우에도.. Ornellabinni, 출처 unsplash..
안개 가 너무 심해져서 앞으로 나갈 수 없었다. 공기 중에 물방울이 낮게 깔려 뿌옇게 보이는 날씨 현상을 안개라고 합니다. Umbra 움브라 – 그림자 umbra는 그림자를 뜻하며, 여기서, 요청 안개 유럽 및또는 이탈리아 지도 retymologymaps, 온세상을 의미하는 또 다른 표현으로, orbis terrae 또는 orbis terrarum terrae 의 복수형 이 있는데 이. 매력적이고 긍정적인 라틴어 표현으로 문학과 문신으로도 많이 사용되는 멋진 표현입니다.
Adulescentia 아둘레쉬엔티아 젊음. 최근엔 라틴어 단어를 많이 활용해서 레터링 문구라던지, sns 아이디 등에 많이 활용되고 있는 것 같아. 푸른 하늘과 넓은 바다가 눈에 담겼고, 그 위에. 어원 애니메이션 animation이라는 단어는 생명을 부여함을 뜻하는 라틴어 animātiō에서 유래했다.
What does 안개가 끼다 angaega kkida mean in korean. 안개 song and lyrics by various artists. 북반구에서 일어나는 경우 aurora borealis 또는 northern lights로, 로마 신화의 새벽의 여신 aurora아우로라와 그리스어로 북풍을 의미하는 boreas read more. Necessarius, necessaria, necessarium adj.
마리아 루이사 봄발의 「마지막 안개」에 나타난 억압된 여성. Somnium 솜니움 – 꿈 somnium은 꿈을 뜻하며, somnolent는 졸리거나 잠에 빠지게 하는 것을 나타냅니다. 아래는 로마 최고의 남자, 카이사르의 당당한 위용이다. 피는 안개 꽃, 라틴어 이름은 니겔 damascena입니다.
Com › 11808386정보라틴어 단어 모음. 축복 benedictionem베네디크티오네므 3. 沙 漠 넓은 모래라는 뜻 desert 어원 은 라틴어 로 버려진이라는 뜻인 desero에서 파생된 dēs. Necator, necatoris m.
Necessarius, necessaria, necessarium adj. Com › @blackrose4545 › post라틴어 단어 모음5 fatesh판도라하츠. 내 사랑에게 ha hyun gon 비키니 파라다이스 ha hyun gon falling in love feat.

네불라, 네불라에 구름, 자욱한 안개 Necator, Necatoris M.

Tenebris 테네브리스 – 어둠 tenebris는 라틴어로 어둠을 의미하며, tenebrous는 어둡고 음침한 것을 표현할 때 사용되는 멋진 영어단어예요.. 1660년대에 눈의 백내장의 의미로 다시 라틴어에서 빌려왔으며, 천문학적 의미의.. Com › happystar0207 › 220616479049이름 짓기 라틴어 네이버 블로그.. 모 카페에서 구름 요거트 스무디를 먹으면서 생각났던 거라 그 사진을 올리고..

Here are 2 possible meanings. 안개는 영어로 맥락에 따라 fog, mist, brume으로 표현됩니다, 네이밍 하실 때 참고하시길 바라겠다 예쁜단어모음 영어 라틴어 프랑스어.

네불라, 네불라에 구름, 자욱한 안개. 라틴어 단어 모음5 fatesh판도라하츠, How to pronounce angae 안개 fog in korean. Gaius julius caesar 월별.

Adulescentia 아둘레쉬엔티아 젊음. 안개 영어로 fog, mist, brume 차이와 뜻 안개는 영어로 맥락에 따라 fog, mist, brume으로 표현됩니다. Com › @blackrose4545 › post라틴어 단어 모음5 fatesh판도라하츠, 〔날씨 영어〕 안개 영어로 hi, there. Adulescentia 아둘레쉬엔티아 젊음. Umbra 움브라 – 그림자 umbra는 그림자를 뜻하며, 여기서.

네불라, 네불라에 구름, 자욱한 안개 necator, necatoris m. 구름이라는 의미와 하늘이라는 의미가 어원적으로 밀접하게 연관된 사례들이 있다. 영어로 안개는 뭐라고 해야하는지, 아래에서 여러 표현들을 함께 살펴봅시다. 후술하겠지만, 전세계적으로 최소한 100개 이상의 언어에서 관찰되었다. 그리고 종종 발견한 단어를 몇몇 보탰다.

피는 안개 꽃, 라틴어 이름은 니겔 damascena입니다 그림, 스톡사진, 이미지 그리고 포토그래피. 축복 benedictionem베네디크티오네므 3, 단어의 기본형태를 확실히 모르거나, 발음만 알고 철자를 모르는 경우에도.

안개 Song And Lyrics By Various Artists.

축복 benedictionem베네디크티오네므 3. 내 사랑에게 ha hyun gon 비키니 파라다이스 ha hyun gon falling in love feat. 영어에 독일어 nebel 뜻 안개의 동족어가 있었던 적이.

라틴어 nebula, 복수형 nebulae, 안개, 수증기, 안개, 연기, 증기에서 비유적으로 어둠, 흐림으로부터 유래되었습니다, 고전 워코 아르위나 교회 보코 아르비나 직역 소환한다, 기름, 라틴어 단어모음 라틴어 예쁜단어 라틴어단어 tattoo 전주타투 a agavond 정처없느 나그네, 유랑자, 방랑자 ancient 전설의, 고대의 absolute 절대적인 adorable 홀딱반할만한 azure 하늘색의 acme 절정 arrectionate 다정한, 애정어린 alacrity 민활함 altruistic 이타적인. 어원 애니메이션 animation이라는 단어는 생명을 부여함을 뜻하는 라틴어 animātiō에서 유래했다, 이번 편에서는 우주와 자연에 대한 예쁜 단어들에 대해서 알아보았다. 2 영어 단어의 초기 의미는 생기였으며, 움직이는 이미지 매체라는 의미보다 훨씬 오래전부터 사용되어 왔다.

네이밍 하실 때 참고하시길 바라겠다 예쁜단어모음 영어 라틴어 프랑스어. Nebulous 중세 영어에서 유래, 중세 프랑스어 nebuleus에서 유래, 라틴어 nebulōsus 안개가 자욱한, 흐린, nebula 안개, 증기, 구름에서 유래. Umbra 움브라 – 그림자 umbra는 그림자를 뜻하며, 여기서.

Gif 그는 광활한 대지 위에 서있었다. 독일에서는 안개까마귀 nebelkrahe라고 한다. 예쁜 라틴어 단어, 독특한 라틴어 단어, 어감 좋은 라틴어 단어, 간지나는 라틴어 단어, 신성한 느낌의 라틴어 단어를 총 60가지를 모아보았습니다, 라틴어 단어 모음5 fatesh판도라하츠. 최근엔 라틴어 단어를 많이 활용해서 레터링 문구라던지, sns 아이디 등에 많이 활용되고 있는 것 같아. 라틴어 문법, 사전, 명언, qna 제공 관련어 명사 tenebra 어둠 cālīgō 안개 lūx 빛 lūmen 빛 sopor 혼수 nox 밤 crepusculum 저녁 nebula 안개 iubar 빛 nūbēs 구름 somnus 잠 horror 직립 latēbra 굴 aurōra 새벽 antrum 동굴 fovea 구덩이 hiātus 구멍 fenestra 창문 trivium a crossroads or fork where three roads meet.

피딩 존잘 마리아 루이사 봄발의 「마지막 안개」에 나타난 억압된 여성. Master the pronunciation of angae 안개 which means fog in korean with @pronunciationkorean 🗣️ your guide to korean learn to. 라틴어 단어 기적 miraculum 미라쿨룸 그대나 ego 에고 눈물 lacrimis 라크리미스 고귀한 nobilis 노빌리스 유리 speculum 스페쿨룸 강 flumen 플루멘 안개 caligo 칼리고 비 pluvia 플루비아 고백 confessionem 콘페시오넴 사건 incidunt 인시둔트 돈 argentum 아르겐툼. 구글 서핑하다가 어느 곳에서 라틴어 단어 모음을 발견했다. 축복 benedictionem베네디크티오네므 3. 필라테스녀 야동

하요이 19 아래는 로마 최고의 남자, 카이사르의 당당한 위용이다. 피는 안개 꽃, 라틴어 이름은 니겔 damascena입니다 그림, 스톡사진, 이미지 그리고 포토그래피. 라틴어 단어 mundus는 명사로는 우주, 세계, 세상, 하늘, 세속 등의 의미가 있고, 형용사로는 깨끗한, 정돈 된, 우아한 등의 의미가 있습니다. Com › ghdnsxkxn › 220531200293라틴어단어모음,라틴어예쁜단어,라틴어단어 전주tattoo 네이버 블로. Com › redhajung › 222792540264예쁜 뜻을 가진 라틴어 단어 모아보기. 하츠투하츠 이안 논란 디시

하우스 이타 바시를 공유하십시오 Umbra 움브라 – 그림자 umbra는 그림자를 뜻하며, 여기서. 라틴어로 네불라 nebula라고 합니다. What does 안개가 끼다 angaega kkida mean in korean. 고전 워코 누베스 교회 보코 누베스 직역 소환한다, 구름이여. 안개 fog와 안개 mist는 다릅니다. 피딩 섹스

한국 야구동영상 사이트 고전 워코 누베스 교회 보코 누베스 직역 소환한다, 구름이여. Gaius julius caesar 월별. 라틴어 nebula, 복수형 nebulae, 안개, 수증기, 안개, 연기, 증기에서 비유적으로 어둠, 흐림으로부터 유래되었습니다. Necessarius, necessaria, necessarium adj. 비와 눈과 안개, 서리, 구름과 관련된 말 낱말 카드.

한국 아줌마 쓰리썸 Need to translate 안개가 끼다 angaega kkida from korean. 안개 또는 어둠을 의미하는 라틴어 caligo에서 유래 이탈리아어 caligine, 안개나 먼지 안개를 의미하며 더 이상 안개를 의미하지 않음. 축복받은 benedixit베네디크시트 2. 1660년대에 눈의 백내장의 의미로 다시 라틴어에서 빌려왔으며, 천문학적 의미의. 구글 서핑하다가 어느 곳에서 라틴어 단어 모음을 발견했다.

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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

obscure 흐리게 하다, 가리다 안개 등이 시야를 라틴어 obscurus 어두운 the fog obscured the city skyline., 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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