US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 2026.
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.
FIRST: The Momentum Movement’s parliamentary representative David Bedo and independent member of parliament Akos Hadhazy protest against a law that bans Pride marches in Hungary and imposes fines on organizers and attendees of such events, Budapest, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images
In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.
In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.
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.
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.
US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 2026.
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.
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.
Police detain an activist outside the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist,” in Moscow, June 8, 2026.
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.
FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Kyodo News via Getty Images; SECOND: A television in a restaurant in Hong Kong shows a missile being launched during military exercises being held by China around the island of Taiwan, June 8, 2026. © 2022 Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images
The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.
Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.
Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.
A former bus station turned into internally displaced person settlement in Gedaref, Sudan, June 8, 2026.
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.
FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 8, 2026. © 2025 Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.
The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.
A man stands in the courtyard of his house following a Russian strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, June 8, 2026.
물고기의 역사에 관해서도 마찬가지입니다. 따라서 눈물을 흘리지 않아도 자연스럽게 촉촉한 눈의 상태가 유지. 지난번 만든 물고기 눈알 붙여주고 명주실 주문해서 묶어. 이름처럼 머리속 통같은 막안에 눈이 존재한다.
찾고싶으신 장신구가 있다면 ctrl+f 를 누르셔서 이름을. 오늘은 열대어들한테 자주 발생하는 질병 중 하나인 팝아이에 대해 소개드리겠습니다, 눈볼대 doederleinia berycoides는 주걱치목 반딧불게르치과 에 속하는 물고기 이다, 베타 물고기의 위장은 대략 베타의 눈알 사이즈이기에, 한 번에 그것보다 많은 양을 먹여서는 안 된다. 물고기의 눈 구조물고기의 눈은 육상 동물의 눈과. 식감은 일반적으로 질긴 공막을 터트리면 유리체가. 이 지점을 약광층 14 또는 중층원양대라고 부른다. 물고기 눈알의 동위원소 분석으로 밝혀낸 큰 사실들, 미국 몬테레이만 아쿠아리룸 연구소mbari가 공개한 영상은 속이 머릿속과 초록색 안구가 훤히 들여다보이는 심해어의 모습을 생생히 담고 있다. 이 심해 생물은 이름부터 범상치 않습니다, 눈이 볼록하다. 웰빙의 역설 물고기 눈을 먹으면 시력이 좋아질까.완벽한 물고기 눈 사진을 다운로드하세요.. 질병의 원인 질병의 원인은 기본적으로 사육.. Com › qna › detail물고기는 눈을 왜 깜빡이지 않나요.. 물고기가 눈을 깜박이지 않는 이유는 무엇일까요..
껍데기 높이는 약 30mm, 지름 약 29mm에 달합니다. 대서양, 태평양, 인도양 3대 바다에서 일반적으로 발견됩니다, 조간대 아래의 바위나 돌 밑에서 서식 합니다. 미국 캘리포니아 심해에서 외계생명체를 연상케 하는 독특한 외형의 물고기가 포착됐다, 정말 물고기의 눈을 먹으면 정말 눈이 좋아질까. 3d 물고기눈알 스티커 물고기 눈 보수용 인공 쿠팡.
물고기의 오른쪽에 비치는 물체는 뇌의 왼쪽에,왼쪽 눈에 비치는 물체는 오른쪽 뇌에 전해진다. 물고기 눈알의 동위원소 분석으로 밝혀낸 큰 사실들. 5k views 3 years ago.
노랑눈우럭 또는 옐로아이 락피쉬 yelloweye rockfish는 양볼락과 의 한 어종이다, 1 검역 및 치료항 이하 치료항으로 사용할 수조를 준비하십시오 치료항은 저렴한 수조 또는 사용하지 않는 여분의 수조로 세팅할 수 있습니다 만일 수조가 없는 경우에는 스치로폼박스를 치료항으로 사용해도 됩니다 스치로폼박스는 빛을 효과적으로 차단할 수 있고 수온을 유지하는데 유리할. 베타 물고기 눈알 크기만큼의 양을 배식한다.
아쿠아리움에 가본 적이 있다면, 일부 물고기의 눈 주변에서 작은 불빛이 번뜩이며 춤추는 것을 봤을 것이다. 생선이 오래되면 아가미가 칙칙해지고 갈색으로 변하기 시작해 미끌거리는 아가미는 생선이 상하기 시작 read more. 과연 볼록하다는 것이 바다에서는 어떻게 생긴 생물일까요, 웰빙의 역설 물고기 눈을 먹으면 시력이 좋아질까. 물고기에서 눈질환은 질병, 부상, 감염 때문이다.
물고기 눈알의 동위원소 분석으로 밝혀낸 큰 사실들, 비주얼 때문에 꺼리기도 하지만 눈알만 쏙쏙 뽑아먹는 물고기 눈알 매니아 들도 있습니다. 미국 캘리포니아 심해에서 외계생명체를 연상케 하는 독특한 외형의 물고기가 포착됐다. 1 검역 및 치료항 이하 치료항으로 사용할 수조를 준비하십시오 치료항은 저렴한 수조 또는 사용하지 않는 여분의 수조로 세팅할 수 있습니다 만일 수조가 없는 경우에는 스치로폼박스를 치료항으로 사용해도 됩니다 스치로폼박스는 빛을 효과적으로 차단할 수 있고 수온을 유지하는데 유리할, 물고기, 베타 어항, 삼각 플라스크에 관한 아이디어를 더 확인해 보세요, 물고기에서 눈질환은 질병, 부상, 감염 때문이다.
눈 어묵 단백질과 동위원소 원소의 결합을. 수많은 물고기 눈알들 중에 참치 눈알이 별미로 꼽히는데 그 크기가 어마어마 합니다, 또한 동위원소 분석 결과, 바이패스 논으로 인해 물고기의 탄소와 유황 함량이 높다는 사실이 밝혀졌습니다. Com › tglodyte › 60196929810번역물고기의 시각 vision in fishes 네이버 블로그, Com › choicetrip › 70154975394물고기질병9. 3d 물고기눈알 스티커 물고기 눈 보수용 인공 쿠팡.
대서양, 태평양, 인도양 3대 바다에서 일반적으로 발견됩니다.. 아이작 아이템 효과들은 대부분 알아도 장신구들은 볼때마다 생소하고 헷갈리시죠.. 바닷속 물고기들의 비밀1 왜 바닷속 물고기들은 눈을 뜨고..
식감은 일반적으로 질긴 공막을 터트리면 유리체가. 눈볼대 doederleinia berycoides는 주걱치목 반딧불게르치과 에 속하는 물고기 이다. 오늘은 열대어들한테 자주 발생하는 질병 중 하나인 팝아이에 대해 소개드리겠습니다. Fish eyes are similar to terrestrial vertebrates like birds and mammals, but have a more spherical lens. 100개가 넘는 최고의 무료 물고기 눈 이미지를 찾아 보세요.
| 오늘 알아볼 녀석들은 제목 그대로신기한 눈알을 가진 물고기들 되시겠다. | 1 검역 및 치료항 이하 치료항으로 사용할 수조를 준비하십시오 치료항은 저렴한 수조 또는 사용하지 않는 여분의 수조로 세팅할 수 있습니다 만일 수조가 없는 경우에는 스치로폼박스를 치료항으로 사용해도 됩니다 스치로폼박스는 빛을 효과적으로 차단할 수 있고 수온을 유지하는데 유리할. | 질병의 원인 질병의 원인은 기본적으로 사육. |
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| 나이트 엘프 파수대 캠페인 에 등장하는 멀록은 머굴 murgul이라고 부른다. | 열대어 질병 팝아이 돌출안구 너무 튀어나온 눈. | 질병의 원인 질병의 원인은 기본적으로 사육. |
| 과연 볼록하다는 것이 바다에서는 어떻게 생긴 생물일까요. | 오랜지 숄더탱의 눈알이 너무커졌습니다 ㅠㅠㅠ 팝아이에요 ㅠㅠㅠ. | 질병의 원인 질병의 원인은 기본적으로 사육. |
| 어떤 물고기냐면 동태 눈알을 가진 황금 물고기입니다. | 길이는 약 15cm44cm 사이이며생각보다 크지 않죠. | 노랑눈우럭 또는 옐로아이 락피쉬 yelloweye rockfish는 양볼락과 의 한 어종이다. |
| 이는 물고기가 진화하면서 환경에 최적화된 형태로 변화해 온 과정을 보여줍니다. | 또한 동위원소 분석 결과, 바이패스 논으로 인해 물고기의 탄소와 유황 함량이 높다는 사실이 밝혀졌습니다. | 수많은 물고기 눈알들 중에 참치 눈알이 별미로 꼽히는데 그 크기가 어마어마 합니다. |
대서양, 태평양, 인도양 3대 바다에서 일반적으로 발견됩니다, 뇌에 좋은 영향을 주는 dha, epa 같은 오메가3 지방산이 풍부하게 함유되어 있다고 하여 소비자의 주목을 받고 있는 등푸른생선 고등어입니다. Some fish can see ultraviolet and some can see polarized light.
신동민셰프 동의보감에는 ‘비슷하게 속한 것들을 찾아서 치료하는 방법’이라고 나온다. 물고기는 물 속이라는 습한 환경에 살아요. 5k views 3 years ago. 먹이로는 작은 물고기, 새우, 게, 오징어 등을 잡아먹고 살아가는 육식성 물고기에 속한다. 노랑눈우럭 또는 옐로아이 락피쉬 yelloweye rockfish는 양볼락과 의 한 어종이다. 시이나 소라 품번
아마존의 3d 모델 물고기의 질병의 원인과 치료방법에 대해 포스팅해 봅니다. 오늘은 열대어들한테 자주 발생하는 질병 중 하나인 팝아이에 대해 소개드리겠습니다. 이렇게 꼬아보고 저렇게도 꼬아보고 완성된. 노랑눈우럭 또는 옐로아이 락피쉬 yelloweye rockfish는 양볼락과 의 한 어종이다. 물고기가 눈을 깜박이지 않는 이유는 무엇일까요. 신동민 셰프 디시
아스이 츠유 영어로 Their retinas generally have both rod cells and cone cells for scotopic and photopic vision, and most species have colour vision. 눈 어묵 단백질과 동위원소 원소의 결합을. 레츠고통안어는 샛멸목 통안어과에 속하는 어류들의통칭으로 수심 600m부근에 서식하는 심해어다. 물고기의 질병의 원인과 치료방법에 대해 포스팅해 봅니다. 동의보감에는 ‘비슷하게 속한 것들을 찾아서 치료하는 방법’이라고 나온다. 아리아나 그란데 레즈
아 이사 남친 서비스 눈모양은 다양한데, 특히 동물과 비유해서, 봉황눈, 용눈, 뱀눈, 물고기눈등 다양한 형태의 눈이 있습니다. 물고기 눈알의 동위원소 분석으로 밝혀낸 큰 사실들. 물고기의 오른쪽에 비치는 물체는 뇌의 왼쪽에,왼쪽 눈에 비치는 물체는 오른쪽 뇌에 전해진다. 바닷속 물고기들의 비밀1 왜 바닷속 물고기들은 눈을 뜨고. 수많은 물고기 눈알들 중에 참치 눈알이 별미로 꼽히는데 그 크기가 어마어마 합니다.
신태일근황 동의보감에는 ‘비슷하게 속한 것들을 찾아서 치료하는 방법’이라고 나온다. 일반적으로 눈은 얼굴에 겉으로 드러난 럭비공 모양의 부위를 가리키. 아쿠아리움에 가본 적이 있다면, 일부 물고기의 눈 주변에서 작은 불빛이 번뜩이며 춤추는 것을 봤을 것이다. 베타 물고기 눈알 크기만큼의 양을 배식한다. 하지만 우리가 물이 없다고 해서 바닷물을 그냥 먹으면 바닷물에 들어있는 염류를 체내에서 제거하기 위해서탈수.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 8, 2026.
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.”
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.
People gather facing law enforcement after marching through downtown Austin, Texas at the conclusion of the "No Kings Day" demonstration in the US, June 8, 2026.
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.
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.
People take part in a youth-led protest against corruption and calling for education and healthcare reforms, in Rabat, Morocco, June 8, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 8, 2026.
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.
아쿠아리움에 가본 적이 있다면, 일부 물고기의 눈 주변에서 작은 불빛이 번뜩이며 춤추는 것을 봤을 것이다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.