통일교 창시자 고故 문선명 목사와 부인 한학자 세계평화여성연합 총재가 미국 워싱턴dc에 설립한 발레학교 키로프 아카데미가 32년 만에 문을.

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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 5, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 5, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 5, 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 5, 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.

도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 한국에서 숙청이나 혁명이 있는 것 같다고 올린 글과 관련해 교회를 상대로 한 급습과 군 기지에 들어가 정보를. 단순한 축사를 넘어 종교적 가치와 정치적 이념을 결합시켜 국제 보수 진영과의 연대를 강화하는 전략적 메시지로 해석됩니다. 텔레비전 토론에서 고령의 문제를 역력히 드러낸 바이든 현 대통령은 단순히 지지율 하락만이 아니라, 민주당 내에서 교체 등의 요구에 직면해야 했고, 이어 발생한 트럼프 후보에 대한 총격사건은. 당선 이후 4억 7,000만원 상당의 대통령 연봉을 받지 않고 대통령으로서 연봉을 1달러만 받겠다 고 자신의 과거 공약을 재차 확인했다.

텔레비전 토론에서 고령의 문제를 역력히 드러낸 바이든 현 대통령은 단순히 지지율 하락만이 아니라, 민주당 내에서 교체 등의 요구에 직면해야 했고, 이어 발생한 트럼프 후보에 대한 총격사건은.. 통일교는 미민당 라인임 쿠팡은 트럼프 중도정치 마이너.. Redirecting to sgall.. 12일 트럼프 전 대통령은 경기 가평군 청심월드센터에서 천주평화연합upf과 세계평화통일가정연합통일교..

도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 25일 미국 워싱턴 디시 D.

빨리 건강 회복돼서 11월 15일 토요일 워싱턴 d. 트럼프 한국, 교회와 군대 급습사실인지 확인해보겠다. 그렇지만 이복형 3명이 통일교 공식행사에서 거의 배제된지라 그냥 7남으로 치는 경우가 대부분, 통일교 창시자 고故 문선명 목사와 부인 한학자 세계평화여성연합 총재가 미국 워싱턴dc에 설립한 발레학교 키로프 아카데미가 32년 만에 문을. 미국 정부가 우리 정부에 쿠팡을 포함한 미국 기업에 대한 차별적인 규제와 조사를 자제하라고 경고한 것으로 전해졌습니다, Moon expressed support for the political and economic transformations under way in the soviet union, 그렇지만 이복형 3명이 통일교 공식행사에서 거의 배제된지라 그냥 7남으로 치는 경우가 대부분. 문선명 총재와 한학자 총재의 아들로, 한학자 총재에게는 7남이지만 문선명 총재에게는 10남이었다. 지난달 20일에 출범한 도널드 트럼프 미국 행정부의 밴스 미국 부통령은 이번 irf 서밋 2025에 특별연설자로 참석해 종교의 자유 증진은 트럼프 행정부 1기에서 외교 정책의 가장 중요한 과제로 실현됐다며 종교의 자유를 존중하는 국가와 그렇지 않은.

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통일교가 최근 워싱턴dc 소재의 쉐라톤 호텔을 매각하고, 라스베가스에 대규모 부동산을 매입해 통일교 성전 구축에 나서면서 미국내 통일교 지형을 새롭게 짜고 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다, 공화당의 유력 대권 주자인 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령이 퇴임 후 통일교 측으로부터 200만 달러 약 25억 4000만 원의 강연료를 받은 것으로 확인됐다, 트럼프 정부 한국은 쿠팡 공격 말라 계속하면 관세 보복. 공화당의 유력 대권 주자인 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령이 퇴임 후 통일교 측으로부터 200만 달러 약 25억 4000만 원의 강연료를 받은 것으로 확인됐다.

통일교의 교리 한국을 포함한 동양의 모든 전통 종교들은 일체 원형적 세계관과 범신론적 사상을 기초로 하고 있음으로써, 세상을 창조하신 하나님에 관해 추상해 보거나 전제하지도 않았다, 빨리 건강 회복돼서 11월 15일 토요일 워싱턴 d, 08 1623 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관 개인정보처리방침 청소년. 공화당의 유력 대권 주자인 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령이 퇴임 후 통일교 측으로부터 200만달러 약 25억 4,000만원의 강연료를 받은 것으로 확인됐다. 양쪽 다 로비했겠지만 트럼프와 직접 연관있음.

🇺🇸🇰🇷 트럼프의 sns 공격, 그 뒤에 통일교 그림자가 있을까, 트럼프 한국, 교회와 군대 급습사실인지 확인해보겠다, 공화당의 유력 대권 주자인 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령이 퇴임 후 통일교 측으로부터 200만 달러 약 25억 4000만 원의 강연료를 받은 것으로 확인됐다, Moon expressed support for the political and economic transformations under way in the soviet union.

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워싱턴dc에서 대선불복 트럼프 지지 집회가 열렸다. 수정된 내역뿐 아니라 수입에 대한 새로운 내역도 추가로 공개됐다, 트럼프 전 대통령은 퇴임 후 세계평화통일가정연합 통일교이 주최한 두 차례의 행사강연으로 200만달러 약 25억4000만원의 강연료를 받은 것으로 확인됐다, 관세위협 하루만에 해결책 찾겠다는 트럼프韓美협의.

통일교 한일 해저터널 사업 어디까지 왔나 홈플러스에서 만난 통일교 제품 트럼프, 통일교 행사서 특별연설 통일교 신한국가정연합 강원대에 발전기금 3000만 원 전달 남북관계 개선 신호에, 통일교 유관 일신석재 주가 급등 통일교 유관기관들의 공생.

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단순한 축사를 넘어 종교적 가치와 정치적 이념을 결합시켜 국제 보수 진영과의 연대를 강화하는 전략적 메시지로 해석됩니다. 수정된 내역뿐 아니라 수입에 대한 새로운 내역도 추가로 공개됐다. 워싱턴dc에서 대선불복 트럼프 지지 집회가 열렸다.

08 1618 정치병자는 갤러리에서 권장하는, 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 한국에서 숙청이나 혁명이 있는 것 같다고 올린 글과 관련해 교회를 상대로 한 급습과 군 기지에 들어가 정보를, In april 1990, moon visited the soviet union and met with president mikhail gorbachev. 통일교와 끈이 닿아있는 대표적인 인물은 전 세계에서 가장 큰 권력을 휘두르는 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이다. 공화당의 유력 대권 주자인 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령이 퇴임 후 통일교측으로부터 200만달러약 25억4천만원의 강연료를 받은 것으로 확인됐다. 이에 김 총리는 트럼프 대통령만이 북한과 관계 개선 의사와 능력을 갖고 있다고 말하면서 북한에 특사를 보내는 방안을 밴스 부통령에게 제안했다고.

erome 엄마 통일교와 끈이 닿아있는 대표적인 인물은 전 세계에서 가장 큰 권력을 휘두르는 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이다. Redirecting to sgall. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 25일 미국 워싱턴 디시 d. 19 1809 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관 개인정보처리방침 청소년보호. 지난달 20일에 출범한 도널드 트럼프 미국 행정부의 밴스 미국 부통령은 이번 irf 서밋 2025에 특별연설자로 참석해 종교의 자유 증진은 트럼프 행정부 1기에서 외교 정책의 가장 중요한 과제로 실현됐다며 종교의 자유를 존중하는 국가와 그렇지 않은. erome 진윤경

dramus imhentai Kr › view › akr20231025079500073트럼프, 통일교 관련 행사에서 3회 영상 강연에 33억원 받아. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 한국산 제품 관세를 25%로 올리겠다고 말한 지 하루만에 한국과 함께 해결책을 마련할 것이라며 협상을 시사했다. 세계로 뻗은 정교유착의 그림자 정치일반. 역사상 그 어떤 대통령도 실행한 적 없는. 공화당의 유력 대권 주자인 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령이 퇴임 후 통일교측으로부터 200만달러약 25억4천만원의 강연료를 받은 것으로 확인됐다. di한 게임

dㅑ스닷컴 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 25일 미국 워싱턴 디시 d. 에서 있을 트럼프 대선 불복 집회에 참석해야 한다. 이에 김 총리는 트럼프 대통령만이 북한과 관계 개선 의사와 능력을 갖고 있다고 말하면서 북한에 특사를 보내는 방안을 밴스 부통령에게 제안했다고. Redirecting to sgall. 12일 트럼프 전 대통령은 경기 가평군 청심월드센터에서 천주평화연합upf과 세계평화통일가정연합통일교. djawa pikpak

eee_ssrr00 야동 문선명 총재의 자녀들 중 가장 종교의 영향을 많이 받은 인물이다. 수정 삭제 댓글 1새로고침 최신순 등록순 최신순 답글순 ㅇㅇ 일본 통일교 교리가 신박한게 너희는 통일교 본국을 식민지배로 수탈해갔으니까 헌금도 더바치고 단체로 국제결혼해서 사죄하라고함ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 08. 뉴욕타임스 nyt는 현지시간 9일 키로프 아카데미가 오는 5월 폐교할 예정이라고 보도했습니다. Kr › arti › international트럼프, 통일교 행사 연설하고 25억원재산 1조8천억원 이상. 공화당의 유력 대권 주자로 꼽히는 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령이 통일교로부터 200만달러약 25억4천만원의 강연료를 받은 사실이 밝혀졌다.

erome 일진 1 트럼프 본인 스스로 재벌이기 때문에 돈은 의미가 없으며, 사실상 대통령 연봉도 국민을 위해 사용하겠다는 것이다. 수정 삭제 댓글 1새로고침 최신순 등록순 최신순 답글순 ㅇㅇ 일본 통일교 교리가 신박한게 너희는 통일교 본국을 식민지배로 수탈해갔으니까 헌금도 더바치고 단체로 국제결혼해서 사죄하라고함ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 08. 공화당의 유력 대권 주자인 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령이 퇴임 후 통일교측으로부터 200만 달러, 우리돈 약 25억 4천만 원의 강연료를 받은 것으로. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 대선 불복과 관련해 지지자들이 14일현지시간 워싱턴dc에서 선거 사기를 주장하는 집회를 열었다. 당선 이후 4억 7,000만원 상당의 대통령 연봉을 받지 않고 대통령으로서 연봉을 1달러만 받겠다 고 자신의 과거 공약을 재차 확인했다.

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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

통일교 창시자 고故 문선명 목사와 부인 한학자 세계평화여성연합 총재가 미국 워싱턴dc에 설립한 발레학교 키로프 아카데미가 32년 만에 문을., 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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