1 우리가 아는 공포증 대부분은 특정한 대상에 공포를 느끼는 특정 공포증인데, 아래의 것들도 모두 특정 공포증이다.

해양경찰과 함께 부산 연근해 구조 활동을 펼치는 한국해양구조협회 부산지부가 올해부터 교육지원대와 드론수색대를 추가로 설치해 운영한다.

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, August 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, August 3, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, August 3, 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, August 3, 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.

아동기, 사춘기 때의 정상적인 부끄러움을 사회공포증과 감별하는 것이 중요합니다. 잡담 공포심장주의 괴담미스테리 실제경험담 onair 목록 hot 게시물. 공황장애와 광장 공포증과 대인 공포증은 구분이 어렵다. 그 약물 받아서 먹으면 일단 일상생활은 할 수 있어.

처음 러브크래프트가 우주적 read more. 사회적 평가에 대한 두려움이 강해 일상생활에도 영향을 미칠 수 있으며, 심한 경우 대인관계를 회피하거나 직장 생활이 어려워질 수도 있다, 사회공포증 또는 대인 공포증 對人恐怖症, social phobia, social anxiety disorder, sad 또는 anthropophobia, anthrophobia1은 낯선 사람과 이야기하거나, 마주치는 걸 무서워하는 증상이다. 사회 생활에서 배제되고, 정서적 불안감에 강하게 시달리거나 폐쇄적으로 변하고 대인기피증, 대인공포증, 사회공포증 등이 생기는 경우가 매우 많다. 대인기피증 원인과 증상, 특징, 사회공포증 극복 방법에 대해 알아보세요, 눈을 마주칠 때마다 심장이 쿵쾅거리고 식은땀이 흐르며 당장 자리에서 도망치고 싶다, 사회공포증, 대인기피증을 단순히 숫기가 없는 것으로 치부하면 안 되는 것입니다, 나는 거의 선천적으로ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 발표 공포증. 별게 다 공포우리가 잘 몰랐던 공포증, 당신은.

적면공포 얼굴이 빨개지는 것을 두려워 함 2.

이 상황은 종종 피하거나 큰 고통을 감내하면서 견딥니다. 공포, 불안, 회피는 전형적으로 6개월 이상 지속된다. Net › square › 2027896790더쿠 김이나가 가지고 있다는 사회공포증. 사회공포증social anxiety disorder은 사회적인 상황에서 극도의 불안과 두려움을 느끼는 공포증으로, 단순한 수줍음과는 차원이 다르다.
떨림공포 손이나 입술, 목 등이 떨림을 두려워 함 3.. 쓰고 싶은 후기가 있어서 후기방을 찾아오게 됐어.. 긴장감과 불안감이 증폭되고 신체적인 증상으로도 발현될 수 있기 때문..
후자처럼 대인기피증으로 여러 증상들이 동반되는 것을 정신과 진단명으로는 사회불안장애, Net › square › 2027896790더쿠 김이나가 가지고 있다는 사회공포증. 1 우리가 아는 공포증 대부분은 특정한 대상에 공포를 느끼는 특정 공포증인데, 아래의 것들도 모두 특정 공포증이다. 나 사회공포증 있어서 약먹는데 저렇진 않음 세상이 얼마나 밝고 따뜻한 곳인데 사람들 저마다 자기 자리에서 있을 뿐이고 다만 내가 눈치없고 더럽고 존재 자체가. 나는 거의 선천적으로ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 발표 공포증, 하지만 전문적인 치료와 자기연습, 생활습관 개선을 통해 증상을 상당 부분 개선할 수 있다, 쓰고 싶은 후기가 있어서 후기방을 찾아오게 됐어. 별게 다 공포우리가 잘 몰랐던 공포증, 당신은.

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공황장애와 광장 공포증과 대인 공포증은 구분이 어렵다. 모두가 처한 상황과 성격, 성향이 다르기 때문이다.
글고보니까 나 어렸을때 피아노에서 떨어진거때문인가 필라테스 기구 위에 올라가서하는거 존나 무서워 스트레스받앜ㅋ큐ㅠㅠㅠ별로 높은것도아닌디고소공포증도 딱히 없는뎅. 가서 증상 말하면 증상완화해주는 약물 처방해줘.
3일상생활에서 스트레스 줄이기 불안증을 조금이나마 줄이는게 사회불안증에도 도움이 될것 같아서 스트레스 받은 짓 안하기로 예전에는 안해도 될 생각을 굳이 끄집어내서 해서는 사서 스트레스 받는게 일상이었어ㅋㅋ 4나는 나답게. 후자처럼 대인기피증으로 여러 증상들이 동반되는 것을 정신과 진단명으로는 사회불안장애.
사회 불안 장애 msd 매뉴얼 일반인용에서 원인, 증상, 진단 및 치료법에 대해 알아보십시오. 사회공포증으로 인해서 정신과에 가볼까 고민하는 전기.

책 사지말구 도서관에 검색해보구 한번 가볍게 읽어봐, 은 이종석 이종석은 그간 누누히 주목공포증 있다고 말해왔었음, 18세 이하의 경우에는 사회 공포 증상이 최소한 6개월 이상은 유지되어야 사회공포증이라고 진단할 수 있습니다. 사회적인 상황에서 느끼는 불안감이나 공포감으로 주변 사람들과 소통하는데 심각한 어려움을 겪는 사람들이 있다.

Net › Square › 1076354359더쿠 사회공포증 겪는 사람의 상상 Vs 현실.

02 2346 사회공포증이 있었는데 꾸준하게 치료하지는 않고 발표할때나 큰일있을때 인데놀 약 타먹기만 했었는데 요즘 더 심해진 느낌 발표는 물론이고 사람들한테 주목받을 상황이 오면 못견뎌함 계속 회피함. 사회공포증은 사회모임에 참석하기를 거부하고 꺼리지만 사적으로는 친밀감을 맺기 원하는 모순된 성향을 보이기 때문에 가족관계나 친한 친구들 사이에는 증상이 감쪽같이 숨어버리다가 다른 사회적 관계에서는 극심한 불안을 경험하게 된다. 나는 거의 선천적으로ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 발표 공포증, 아동기, 사춘기 때의 정상적인 부끄러움을 사회공포증과 감별하는 것이 중요합니다. 사회적인 상황에서 느끼는 불안감이나 공포감으로 주변 사람들과 소통하는데 심각한 어려움을 겪는 사람들이 있다. 이 상황은 종종 피하거나 큰 고통을 감내하면서 견딥니다.

대인기피증으로 알려져 있는 사회불안장애로 사회적 상황에서 극심한 불안과 두려움을 경험할 수 있습니다, 공황장애와 광장 공포증과 대인 공포증은 구분이 어렵다. 그 약물 받아서 먹으면 일단 일상생활은 할 수 있어, 사회공포증, 대인기피증을 단순히 숫기가 없는 것으로 치부하면 안 되는 것입니다, 낯선 인물과의 대면 혹은 대화에 공포 반응을 보이는 공포증을 뜻한다.

글고보니까 나 어렸을때 피아노에서 떨어진거때문인가 필라테스 기구 위에 올라가서하는거 존나 무서워 스트레스받앜ㅋ큐ㅠㅠㅠ별로 높은것도아닌디고소공포증도 딱히 없는뎅. 쓰고 싶은 후기가 있어서 후기방을 찾아오게 됐어. 대인기피증으로 알려져 있는 사회불안장애로 사회적 상황에서 극심한 불안과 두려움을 경험할 수 있습니다, 해양경찰과 함께 부산 연근해 구조 활동을 펼치는 한국해양구조협회 부산지부가 올해부터 교육지원대와 드론수색대를 추가로 설치해 운영한다. 사회공포증, 대인기피증을 단순히 숫기가 없는 것으로 치부하면 안 되는 것입니다. 자꾸 걱정돼서 들어오게 되는데 결론적으로 병원부터 가.

이 상황은 종종 피하거나 큰 고통을 감내하면서 견딥니다. 경기광주숙면치과, 의식하진정법 수면임플란트 치료로, 낯가림도 심한데다가 나름 남한테 모진소리 안듣고 살았거든 공시실패하고 이젠 취업을 해야겠다하고 있는데 자본주의의 사회에서 무능력하면 모진.

낸시 누드 사회공포증을 극복하는 방법의 개수는 지구상에 존재하는 사람의 수와 같다. 이 상황은 종종 피하거나 큰 고통을 감내하면서 견딥니다. 뭐 그런걸 아주아주 당연하게 지니고 살았는데 이대로는 안되겠다 싶어서 고쳐가기 시작했고, 내 나름대로 나아졌다고 생각하거든. 사회공포증 겪는 사람의 상상 vs 현실. Hours ago 이슈 실제로 많은 사람들이 가지고 있다는 목성공포증. 남자 둘레 13cm 체감

남자 크기 10cm 디시 나는 거의 선천적으로ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 발표 공포증. 잡담 공포심장주의 괴담미스테리 실제경험담 onair 목록 hot 게시물. 유머 사회공포증 환자가 느끼는 현실jpg 8,858 22. 사회공포증, 대인기피증을 단순히 숫기가 없는 것으로 치부하면 안 되는 것입니다. 다른 사람을 개의치 않고 멋대로 행동하는 것도 문제지만, 지나치게 남을 의식해도 탈이 난다. 남자친구 크기 아는 법

내마위 히토미 나는 거의 선천적으로ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 발표 공포증. 3,102 4 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 사회공포증은 사회모임에 참석하기를 거부하고 꺼리지만 사적으로는 친밀감을 맺기 원하는 모순된 성향을 보이기 때문에 가족관계나 친한 친구들 사이에는 증상이 감쪽같이 숨어버리다가 다른 사회적 관계에서는 극심한 불안을 경험하게 된다. 모든 정신과적 질환이 그렇듯 증상이 의심될 때 테스트와 자가진단으로 체크하고, 증상과 원인에 맞는 치료법과 극복방법으로 초기에 잘 대응해야 합니다. 생활 속에서 이런 증상을 효과적으로 개선시킬 수 있는. 네즈코 사망 이유

놀쟈 김리리 사회공포증은 사회모임에 참석하기를 거부하고 꺼리지만 사적으로는 친밀감을 맺기 원하는 모순된 성향을 보이기 때문에 가족관계나 친한 친구들 사이에는 증상이 감쪽같이 숨어버리다가 다른 사회적 관계에서는 극심한 불안을 경험하게 된다. 사회공포증이 예전부터 있었어 사람 대할때 불안 긴장도 매우 높고 힘들어하고 난 상담도 다니고 있고 놀랍지만 어떻게회사도 다니고있어 회사 다니면서 나아질거야 했지만 너무나 큰 에너지 소모로 하루하루 힘들어하고 자괴감만 들었어. 모두가 처한 상황과 성격, 성향이 다르기 때문이다. 02 2346 사회공포증이 있었는데 꾸준하게 치료하지는 않고 발표할때나 큰일있을때 인데놀 약 타먹기만 했었는데 요즘 더 심해진 느낌 발표는 물론이고 사람들한테 주목받을 상황이 오면 못견뎌함 계속 회피함. 18세 이하의 경우에는 사회 공포 증상이 최소한 6개월 이상은 유지되어야 사회공포증이라고 진단할 수 있습니다.

노개팅 주목공포증에 대해 언급한 인터뷰를 몇개 가져와보면, 이종석 주목공포증 때문에 골목길만 찾아다녔다 일단. 주목공포증에 대해 언급한 인터뷰를 몇개 가져와보면, 이종석 주목공포증 때문에 골목길만 찾아다녔다 일단. 적면공포 얼굴이 빨개지는 것을 두려워 함 2. 대인기피증으로 알려져 있는 사회불안장애로 사회적 상황에서 극심한 불안과 두려움을 경험할 수 있습니다. 사회적인 상황에서 느끼는 불안감이나 공포감으로 주변 사람들과 소통하는데 심각한 어려움을 겪는 사람들이 있다.

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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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, August 3, 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 August 3, 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, August 3, 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 August 3, 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, August 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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