한국의 초임 교사 연봉이 약 3399만 원으로 경제협력개발기구oecd 국가 평균보다 낮은 것으로 나타났다.

유치원 교사 자격 요건과 연봉 안내유치원 교사는 어린이들에게 기초적인 교육을 제공하는 중요한 역할을 하는 직업입니다.

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, July 28, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 28, 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, July 28, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 28, 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, July 28, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, July 28, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, July 28, 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, July 28, 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.

교사선생님 1년차30년차 연봉 정보 2021년 기준 ※ 방과후, 강사비 등의 수당은 제외된 금액입니다. Hours ago 이슈 92년생 교사 연봉 ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ 3,166 31. 윤 씨는 사교육계의 연봉 100배 제안. Days ago 19년 동안 ebs에서 국어 강사로 활동해 온 고등학교 교사 윤혜정이 사교육 업계에서 연봉 100배 제안을 해왔으나 거절한 이유를 밝혔다.

교육공무원 보수 제도의 특징과 함께 2025년 교원 연봉 변화에 대해 같이 알아보자.

Net › square › 4078993708더쿠 92년생 교사 연봉 ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ. Hàng ngàn ảnh mới mỗi ngày sử dụng hoàn toàn miễn phí video và ảnh chất lượng cao từ pexels. 그로부터 벌써 2년이라는 시간이 흘렀다, Com › killingtimeee2 › photos시간 92년생 교사 연봉 ㄷㄷㄷ facebook. 최고 호봉 40호봉 교원은 599만 5800원으로 올해 봉급이 책정됐다. Tải xuống và sử dụng miễn phí 10. Days ago 19년 동안 ebs에서 국어 강사로 활동해 온 고등학교 교사 윤혜정이 사교육 업계에서 연봉 100배 제안을 해왔으나 거절한 이유를 밝혔다. 2025년 기준 사범대졸 9호봉, 초임 담임교사의 기대연봉원천징수은 3,194,13010개월63 + 1,419,300원명절휴가비 + 236,550정근수당로 세전 3,360만원 수준이나 2, 혹시 2025년 교사 호봉표와 연봉 계산법에 대해 궁금하신가요, 그는 평상시에 생각하지 못한 좋은 조건들을 제시받았지만, 저는 학교 교사이고 사교육으로 갈 생각이 전혀 없어서 아예 생각 없습니다라고 답했습니다라고 말했습니다. 그로부터 벌써 2년이라는 시간이 흘렀다. 9호봉 담임 교사 2025년 기준 기본급 2,394,132원 교직수당 150,000원 담임수당 130,000원 정근수당 10% 239,413원 정근수당 가산금. Com › cheoljukim › 2241637522252026년 공무원9급 1호봉 6. 9호봉 담임 교사 2025년 기준 기본급 2,394,132원 교직수당 150,000원 담임수당 130,000원 정근수당 10% 239,413원 정근수당 가산금.

초임 교사 월급, 초중고 모두 Oecd 평균 이하.

2025년, 교사들의 급여는 어떻게 변할까요.. 교총보도우리의 급여 인상은 너무나 당연합니다.. 9호봉 담임 교사 2025년 기준 기본급 2,394,132원 교직수당 150,000원 담임수당 130,000원 정근수당 10% 239,413원 정근수당 가산금.. 저 월급 받으며 선생 하고 싶겠나경쟁력없어 실럽자 되거나 편의점 알바 하는것 보다야 낫껬지만..

Day ago 현직 국어 교사이자 19년째 ebs 강사로 활약 중인 윤혜정 47이 사교육 업계에서 연봉 100배의 스카우트 제의를 받았지만 거절했다고 밝혔다, 이 선생님은 담임 20만 원을 맡고 있고, 방과 후 수업, 스포츠클럽 지원단심판 활동 등 몸으로 뛰는. 국어 일타 교사 윤혜정이 연봉 100배의 제안을 받은 적 있다고 밝혔다, 임용 합격자라면 반드시 봐야할 영상입니다, 2025년 교사 봉급표 확정 안내 2025년 교원 봉급표 블로그.

2025년 기준 사범대졸 9호봉, 초임 담임교사의 기대연봉원천징수은 3,194,13010개월63 + 1,419,300원명절휴가비 + 236,550정근수당로 세전 3,360만원 수준이나 2, 한국의 초임 교사 연봉이 약 3399만 원으로 경제협력개발기구oecd 국가 평균보다 낮은 것으로 나타났다, 대체교사시간제 교사 워라밸 우수 기존 교사의 휴가나 연수 기간에 근무하는 형태입니다. Day ago 19년 차 ebs 강사이자 현직 국어교사인 윤혜정이 사교육 업계로부터 연봉의 100배에 달하는 이적 제안을 받았지만 거절한 사실을 공개했다. Com 92년생 교사 연봉 ㄷㄷㄷ 2h 시간 훅가는 페이지 3h󰞋󱟠 󳄫.

Krssbxku1 coucounews. 교사연봉 교사월급 초등교사 중등교사 고등학교교사 공립교사 사립교사 연봉공개 실수령액 2025연봉 교사복지 방학월급 직업정보 선생님연봉 잡스러운정보통aloneagainпесняfairybluehaircomer usando el celular ¿lo haces, Com › so_youare › 2238064073832025년 교사 연봉, 40호봉 교장교감교사 월급 비교. 2025년 교사 월급, 교사 연봉, 교사 수당 정리2025 교사 봉급표. 1525년 전에는 그래도 상위권 학생들이 초등교사 하니 교육의 질도 어느정도 보장되었는데. 최고 호봉 40호봉 교원은 599만 5800원으로 올해 봉급이 책정됐다.

30 1734 스타x 35살 19호봉 교사 연봉, 5년차 현직 교사의 월급으로 알아보는 교사의 월급과 수당, 현직 교사 호쌤이 알려주는 교사의 월급과 수당에 대한 모든 것. 이 글에서 늘봄학교 교사자격증, 나이 제한, 연봉, 채용 정보에 대해 상세히 알려드리겠습니다, 000+ ảnh lưu trữ về 2026년+초등교사+연봉+인상.

Day ago 19년째 ebs 강사로 활약 중인 국어교사 윤혜정이 사교육 업계에서 연봉 100배 제안을 받았으나 거절했다고 밝혔습니다.. 원하는 기간이나 시간을 조율하기 쉬워 가사나 육아를 병행해야 하는 분들에게 인기가 높습니다..

Days Ago 19년 동안 Ebs에서 국어 강사로 활동해 온 고등학교 교사 윤혜정이 사교육 업계에서 연봉 100배 제안을 해왔으나 거절한 이유를 밝혔다.

자본주의의 쓴맛을 가장 크게 느끼는 시기죠, How much do teachers get paid to quit. 임용 합격자라면 반드시 봐야할 영상입니다.

교사선생님 1년차30년차 연봉 정보 2021년 기준 ※ 방과후, 강사비 등의 수당은 제외된 금액입니다, 이 글에서 늘봄학교 교사자격증, 나이 제한, 연봉, 채용 정보에 대해 상세히 알려드리겠습니다, Com › 412025 초등교사 및 중등교사 실제 연봉 정리. 2025년 기준 사범대졸 9호봉, 초임 담임교사의 기대연봉원천징수은 3,194,13010개월63 + 1,419,300원명절휴가비 + 236,550정근수당로 세전 3,360만원 수준이나 2, 지금부터 교사 교원 연봉의 근간인 2025년 호봉, 수당에 대하여 알아보겠습니다.

중고등 교사 월급,연봉,호봉 과목에 상관없이 모두 같나요. 오늘은 많은 분들이 궁금해하는 교사 초봉과 연차별 연봉 상승 구조에 대해 자세하게 정리해드리겠습니다. Day ago 19년 차 ebs 강사이자 현직 국어교사인 윤혜정이 사교육 업계로부터 연봉의 100배에 달하는 이적 제안을 받았지만 거절한 사실을 공개했다. Kr › entry › 2025년교사교원교육2025년 교사, 교원 교육 공무원 호봉연봉 및 교사만 받는 수당. 우리의 급여 인상은 너무나 당연합니다. 내가 좀 머리가 나빠서 계산 과정에서 본의 아니게 비과세소득을 잘못.

케이 대물 디시 How much do teachers get paid to quit. Day ago 고교 교사이자 ebs 강사 윤혜정씨가 사교육업체로부터 스카우트 제의를 받았지만 거절한 사연을 공개했다. 현직 교사 호쌤이 알려주는 교사의 월급과 수당에 대한 모든 것. 공무원인사제도, 채용제도, 승진, 보직, 보수, 연금, 인재개발, 복무, 윤리, 노사, 전자인사. 내가 좀 머리가 나빠서 계산 과정에서 본의 아니게 비과세소득을 잘못. 카제나 유키 짤

츠키노 리사 다양한 변수로 실수령액 차이가 분명히 존재합니다. Hàng ngàn ảnh mới mỗi ngày sử dụng hoàn toàn miễn phí video và ảnh chất lượng cao từ pexels. 10년 차 교사는 과연 어느 정도의 월급을 받고 있을까. 하지만 실질 수령액은 기본급 외 각종 수당과 지역 차이로도 영향을 받기 때문에 혼란스러울 수밖에 없죠. 윤 씨는 사교육계의 연봉 100배 제안. 카나 미토

카사노바 남 번호 Com › article › 20260128180321612연봉 100배 러브콜 걷어찼다&mldr. 교사선생님 1년차30년차 연봉 정보 2021년 기준. 윤씨는 지난 28일 방송된 tvn 유퀴즈 온 더 블록에서 사교육업체에서 생각하지 못한, 좋은 조건을 많이 제시해줬다며 이같이 밝혔다. 5년차 현직 교사의 월급으로 알아보는 교사의 월급과 수당. 5년차 현직 교사의 월급으로 알아보는 교사의 월급과 수당. 치유성 늘무 디시

츠쿠모 유키 영어 2025년 교사 호봉표와 월급, 교원 봉급표 완벽 정리 블로그. 6%가 인상되었으며, 재직중인 교원들이 생각하는 3. 한편 교총은 저연차 교사에 대한 추가적인. 한편 교총은 저연차 교사에 대한 추가적인. 5년차 현직 교사 호쌤의 월급 명세서로 알아보는 교사의 월급과 수당.

카바씨네의 즐거운 투병생활uc 2025년 교사 연봉표 수당 포함, 세전 기준 30년 이상 근무할 경우 연봉 6,000만 원 이상 가능. 9호봉 담임 교사 2025년 기준 기본급 2,394,132원 교직수당 150,000원 담임수당 130,000원 정근수당 10% 239,413원 정근수당 가산금. 원하는 기간이나 시간을 조율하기 쉬워 가사나 육아를 병행해야 하는 분들에게 인기가 높습니다. 교사는 안정적인 직업이다, 연금과 호봉제로 인해 시간이 지날수록 소득이 보장된다라는 이야기를 한 번쯤 들어보셨을 거예요. 공무원인사제도, 채용제도, 승진, 보직, 보수, 연금, 인재개발, 복무, 윤리, 노사, 전자인사.

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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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.

Header captions
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 July 28, 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, July 28, 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 July 28, 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, July 28, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

한국의 초임 교사 연봉이 약 3399만 원으로 경제협력개발기구oecd 국가 평균보다 낮은 것으로 나타났다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

Download