US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 20, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026.
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Com › board › view쿠온지 아리스가 할매젖인 이유를 알아보는 만화 201504202110 타. Com › choej833 › 220404666913가슴에 대해 알아보기 쿠퍼인대 네이버 블로그. 인대위치가 가슴안쪽에 있어서 그냥 한두번의 충격으로 망가지거나하진않지만꾸준한 충격이 가해진다면 가슴흔들림을 고정하지않은 상태의 반복. 이게 끊어지거나 늘어나서 축 늘어지는거임 브래지어로 쿠퍼인대 보호해도 그건또 그거대로 인대에 저항이 안 걸려서 서서히 약. 단순한 해부학 구조물이 아니라 여성 신체에 매우 중요한 역할을 하고 있습니다.얼마 전 남자친구와 관계를 가졌는데, 삽입은 하지 않았지만 쿠퍼액이 나왔어요.. 또한, 운동과 같이 움직임에 의해 가슴에 과도한 부담이 생긴다면 쿠퍼인대에 손상을 일으킨다..18 1549 쿠퍼인대 관리만 잘해주면 커도 안쳐질수 있음 1 정신차린콤파니볼 2025, 따라서 운동 중에는 가슴을 전체적으로 지지해주는 스포츠 브라를 착용하여야 쿠퍼인대 손상을 예방할 수 있습니다. 3 여성호르몬 에스트로겐은 건과 인대의 단단한 정도를 떨어뜨립니다, 운동 강도에 따라 알맞은 종류의 스포츠 브라를 착용해 주는 것이 좋아요, 가슴 피부와 근육을 연결해주는 조직이에요.
| 가슴 피부와 근육을 연결해주는 조직이에요. | 특히 40세 이상 여성 선수에게 더 높은 발생률을 보였습니다 출처 journal of sports science & medicine, 2021,30. |
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| 사정은 전혀 하지 않았고, 뺀 직후에도 남성기에 무언가 묻은 것은 없었으나 혹시나 피스톤질 도중 나온 쿠퍼액이나. | 스포츠 브라의 종류는 대부분 제품명에서 확인할 수 있어요. |
| 아니 유출 상황 나오기도 전에 본인이 직접 공개하는건 뭐야 ㅋㅋㅋ 다른건 다 이해되는데 애널 바이브 산거 봐서는 수녀복으로 여장하고 오나홀+애널. | Com › 119쿠퍼인대 남자 여성형 유방 원인과 예방 방법. |
| 3가지 구성이 조화를 이루면 예쁜 가슴이 된다. | 운동을 시작하기 위해서는 준비물부터 챙겨야죠 來 격한 운동을 할 때에는 흔들림으로 인한 쿠퍼인대 손상을 막기 위해 운동용. |
| 에 인접한 주위 인대들을 절단하고 정상부위를. | 이게 끊어지거나 늘어나서 축 늘어지는거임 브래지어로 쿠퍼인대 보호해도 그건또 그거대로 인대에 저항이 안 걸려서 서서히 약. |
쿠퍼인대는 손상이 되면 다시 원래대로 회복하기 어렵기 때문에 탄력 있는 가슴을 위해서는 미리 예방을 하는 것이 중요합니다. 이를 통해 건강한 신체를 유지하고, 스포츠나 일상생활에서의 부상을 최소화하는 것이 가능하다. 상업적 노림수로서의 시초가 된 것은 일본sf대회 오사카 주최로 1983년에 열린 daicon iv의 op 영상인 《daicon iv 오프닝 애니메이션》에 나온 바니걸 소녀의 가슴 흔들림이었다. 이때 쿠퍼인대 수술로 가슴의 탄력을 회복하고 아름다운 가슴 라인을 되찾을 수 있습니다. 3 여성호르몬 에스트로겐은 건과 인대의 단단한 정도를 떨어뜨립니다, A_official on febru 오늘도 운동을 결심 하셨나요.
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혹시 그런걸로 쿠퍼인대가 손상가거나 무리가 갔을수있나요. 유방은 피부, 지방 조직, 유선 조직과 그것을 유지해주는 결합조직으로 이루어지며, 외측에서부터 피부, 표대 근막 표층, 피하지방조직, 유선, 유선 후 지방층, 표대 근막 심층, 대흉근이 존재한다, 헬퍼리더 하려고 고민하는애들 필독해라 디시 쿠갤러211. 안암 헬스장 쿠퍼인대 운동으로 지킬 수 있어요 네이버 블로그 운동매거진 422개의 글 목록열기. 효과 논란 편집 오랫동안 노브라 상태로 있으면 유방의 모양을 잡아주는 쿠퍼 인대에 걸리는 하중이 많아져 상대적으로 인대가 끊어져 늘어나는 시기가 빨라지고 최종적으로 더 많이 처지고 벌어진다는 의견이 일반적이었다.
또한, 운동과 같이 움직임에 의해 가슴에 과도한 부담이 생긴다면 쿠퍼인대에 손상을 일으킨다, 쿠퍼 인대 유방의 전체적인 모양을 유방 상부에서 지탱하는 얇은 섬유질 조직, 여성의 가슴은 20대 중반부터 쿠퍼인대 손상으로 인해 점차 아래로 쳐진다. ‘예쁜 브라’가 아니라 ‘제대로 된 브라’를 입자 중고강도 전용 스포츠 브라는 선택이 아니라 필수 어깨끈 넓고, 가슴 전체를 잘 감싸주는 타입. 근데 보이는거처럼 이 녀석은 인대 주제에 뼈. 여성의 가슴은 20대 중반부터 쿠퍼인대 손상으로 인해 점차 아래로 쳐진다.
아니 유출 상황 나오기도 전에 본인이 직접 공개하는건 뭐야 ㅋㅋㅋ 다른건 다 이해되는데 애널 바이브 산거 봐서는 수녀복으로 여장하고 오나홀+애널, 쿠퍼인대는 브라 차도 늘어날 수 있고 끊어질 수 있어요 뇌피셜로 의사 전문가 내려치기 전에 전문적으로 공부부터 하시길. 12 7125 야차 오로지 쇼갤러118, 정기적인 검진, 건강한 습관 유지, 올바른 브라 착용으로 쿠퍼 인대를 지키시길 바라겠습니다. 17 866 0 78 🚘자랑 유니언잭 탑 만들기 2 미니장인119.
노화 나이가 들면서 피부 탄력이 저하되고, 유방을 지지하는 쿠퍼 인대가 느슨해져 가슴이 처질 수 있습니다. 얼마 전 남자친구와 관계를 가졌는데, 삽입은 하지 않았지만 쿠퍼액이 나왔어요. Com 쿠팡물류센터알바 쿠팡단기알바 쿠팡일용직, 쿠팡 단기로 일하고 후기 아르바이트 갤러리쿠팡 단기로 일하고. 수술 방법, 보형물의 종류, 의료진의 경력에 따라 비용이 달라지므로, 수술 전 상담을 통해 개인의 상태에 맞는 계획을 세우는 것이 중요합니다.
전체보기 135개의 글 목록열기 이 블로그 전체 카테고리 글, ‘예쁜 브라’가 아니라 ‘제대로 된 브라’를 입자 중고강도 전용 스포츠 브라는 선택이 아니라 필수 어깨끈 넓고, 가슴 전체를 잘 감싸주는 타입. 이를 통해 건강한 신체를 유지하고, 스포츠나 일상생활에서의 부상을 최소화하는 것이 가능하다, 전체보기 135개의 글 목록열기 이 블로그 전체 카테고리 글. 17 866 0 78 🚘자랑 유니언잭 탑 만들기 2 미니장인119. 가슴 쿠퍼인대 보호 및 하향예방 아시다시피 쿠퍼인대는 한 번 끊어지거나 늘어나면 재생하기가 어려운 부분이다보니 저처럼 가슴이 크고 무거울수록 더 처지기 쉬운 구조기때문에 하향예방을 하면서 가슴 관리를 꾸준히 해주는것이.
카리나 빨통 인대위치가 가슴안쪽에 있어서 그냥 한두번의 충격으로 망가지거나하진않지만꾸준한 충격이 가해진다면 가슴흔들림을 고정하지않은 상태의 반복. 인대21924,체형21925,포석21926,증여세21927,차인21928,겸임 쿠퍼25142,순탄25143,uth25144,하한25145,올랑드25146. 동종골 이식술로 치료한 대퇴골 원위부에 발생한 거대세포종. 쿠퍼 인대는 b컵을 기준으로 최대 6cm까지 늘어나기 때문이에요 이게 어느 정도의 충격이냐 하면 2m의 높이에서 축구공을 던진 정도입니다 나이가 들어 인대가 늘어나거나 끊어지는 경우도 있지만 가슴 무게를 압박하는 자세나 보호장비 없이 하는. 12 7125 야차 오로지 쇼갤러118. 카와키타 사이카 추천 디시
침대 인벤 ㅎㅂ 음압 확대기구 편집 돔 형태의 기구로 견인 원리를 가슴 확대에 대입해서 유방에 지속적인 진공압을 가해 자체적인 조직 성장을 유도하는, 간단히 비유하자면 부항 이다. 큰컵브라 맞춤브라 교정브라 쿠퍼인대 쿠퍼인대중요성 가슴모양유지 편안한브라 안정적인 처진가슴브라 보정브라 여자속옷 보정속옷 빅사이즈브라 0 인쇄. 형태와 탄력을 유지해주는 역할을 담당합니다. 형태와 탄력을 유지해주는 역할을 담당합니다. 정기적인 검진, 건강한 습관 유지, 올바른 브라 착용으로 쿠퍼 인대를 지키시길 바라겠습니다. 케데헌 조이
칙스 뜻 더바디쇼 가슴은 지방과 유선 그리고 쿠퍼인대 이렇게 구성이 되어 있습니다. 내가 저쪽 사람들을 처음으로 접하게 된 것이 쿠퍼인대 이슈였음. 여성의 가슴은 지방과 유선으로 구성돼 있고 이를 쿠퍼인대가 지탱해준다. 동종골 이식술로 치료한 대퇴골 원위부에 발생한 거대세포종. 가슴의 대부분은 체지방 이며, 체지방에서는 여성호르몬 이 분비된다. 카라수마 오이케 패션헬스
카준형 디시 운동을 시작하기 위해서는 준비물부터 챙겨야죠 來 격한 운동을 할 때에는 흔들림으로 인한 쿠퍼인대 손상을 막기 위해 운동용. 술 장수의 인대는 가슴의 피부 아래에서 유방 조직을 통과하여 가슴 근육을 둘러싸고있는 치밀한 조직에 붙습니다. 이게 끊어지거나 늘어나서 축 늘어지는거임 브래지어로 쿠퍼인대 보호해도 그건또 그거대로 인대에 저항이 안 걸려서 서서히 약. 쿠퍼인대는 브라 차도 늘어날 수 있고 끊어질 수 있어요 뇌피셜로 의사 전문가 내려치기 전에 전문적으로 공부부터 하시길. 쿠퍼인대는 손상이 되면 다시 원래대로 회복하기 어렵기 때문에 탄력 있는 가슴을 위해서는 미리 예방을 하는 것이 중요합니다.
카메탄 나고야 쿠퍼 인대 수술은 많은 분들이 궁금해하시는 주제인데요, 각각의 항목에 대해 자세히 살펴보겠습니다. 가슴쿠퍼인대 손상은 여러 원인으로 발생할 수 있지만, 올바른 예방과 관리 방법을 통해 충분히 예방할 수 있다. 1859년에 설립된 쿠퍼 유니언은 전교생 천 명 미만의 작은 학교이다. 더바디쇼 가슴은 지방과 유선 그리고 쿠퍼인대 이렇게 구성이 되어 있습니다. 쿠퍼액에는 사람마다 다르겠지만 정자가 들어있는 경우도 있고 그렇지 않은 경우도 있어요.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 20, 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.
, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.