US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
栄州市(ヨンジュし)は、大韓民国慶尚北道の北部にある市である。 慶尚北道 栄州市. 韓国語辞典での 영주 の定義 永住 中世ヨーロッパの封建社会で農民を保護支配した政治権力者。 영주 중세 유럽의 봉건사회에서 농민을 보호 지배한 정치권력자. Learn korean online want to learn korean or other languages in a fun. 영주の意味や日本語訳。日本語訳 永住 韓国語辞書なら「weblio日韓韓日辞典」.
Org › wiki › 栄州市栄州市 wikipedia. 申請人とは、日本での永住を希望している外国人の方のことです。 配偶者とは、上記申請人と結婚している日本人又は「永住者」の方のことです。 申請書・身元保証書 read more. 2 지상파 공모전 수상작도 100% 상업 작품화로 이어지지 않는다는 것을 감안해보면 매우 이례적인 사례다, 2 지상파 공모전 수상작도 100% 상업 작품화로 이어지지 않는다는 것을 감안해보면 매우 이례적인 사례다, ネイティブが回答「영주」ってどういう意味? 質問に2件の回答が集まっています! hinativeでは韓国語や外国語の勉強で気になったことを、ネイティブスピーカーに簡単に質問できます。.韓国語辞典での 영주 の定義 永住 中世ヨーロッパの封建社会で農民を保護支配した政治権力者。 영주 중세 유럽의 봉건사회에서 농민을 보호 지배한 정치권력자, 경상북도 의 최북단에 위치한 영주 보관됨 20220307 웨이백 머신 시는 남북이 길고 동서로는 협소하며, 소백산맥 이 서남쪽으로 뻗어 주봉인 비로봉 1,439m, 국망봉 1,421m, 연화봉 1,394m과 죽령 을 경계로 하여 도솔봉 1,315m으로 이어진 소백산 산록 고원 부지에. English translation permanent residence more meanings for 영주 yeongju. 2 지상파 공모전 수상작도 100% 상업 작품화로 이어지지 않는다는 것을 감안해보면 매우 이례적인 사례다, ギャップ萌え 여러 가지 모에속성 중 하나.
농민과 수공업 장인들에게 부역과 공납을 과하고 재판권과 경찰권을 행사하며, 영지의 질서를 유지하는 역할을 하였다.. Com › contents › todays_korean영수증 ヨンスジュン「レシート」 todays韓国語|韓国旅行「コ.. 490 한편 헤이안 시대 말 중앙정부가 귀족간 내분으로.. 여유余裕 に 지 が付く事で「余裕だよ! 」「余裕じゃん」みたいな感じで捉えて良いのでしょうか? はたまた別の意味があるのでしょうか? 訳し方がいまいち分からず、、教えて頂けると幸いです。 よろしくお願い致します。 韓国・朝鮮語..
영주인 영주인營主人 명사 영저리 營邸吏. 영주 english translation & meaning. 영주って日本でいう県ですか?市ですか? yahoo.
読み方 :영주꿘、yŏngjukkwŏn、ヨンジュックォン, 여유余裕 に 지 が付く事で「余裕だよ! 」「余裕じゃん」みたいな感じで捉えて良いのでしょうか? はたまた別の意味があるのでしょうか? 訳し方がいまいち分からず、、教えて頂けると幸いです。 よろしくお願い致します。 韓国・朝鮮語, 또 일제강점기에 뜻있는 주민들에 의해 건립된 아도서숙은 항일운동의 지역 구심체 역할을 한 곳으로 우리나라 독립운동사에서도 중요한 의미를 갖고 있다. 경영주 경영주經營主 명사기업이나 사업을 관리, 운영하는 주인.
영주 translation — koreanenglish dictionary, 22k followers, 416 following, 285 posts 영주 youngjoo @jxxrang on instagram 𝒀𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑮𝑱𝑶𝑶 ɴᴀᴍʏᴏᴜɴɢᴊᴏᴏ ꜱɪɴɢᴇʀ ️ᴀᴄᴛᴏʀ 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒕 & 𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏 📩 𝑫𝑴 𝑬𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒍. 대한민국의 유튜버 0zoo 편집 자세한 내용은 영주 유튜버 문서를 참고하십시오. 영주兌与의 주与의 의미意味는 줄 아닌 영주, 영주の意味 韓国語辞書 weblio日韓韓日辞典.
따라서 지명형성에는 내와 산의 이름이 바로 특정 지역의 지명으로 통용되는 보기들이 많다.. 그 가운데에서도 가장 결정적인 요인 가운데 하나가 바로 물과 산이다..
영주とはどういう意味ですか? 韓国語に関する質問, 손으로 뭔가를 만질 때 행동頻りと手探る様を表現する言葉です。. 영주의 영문 첫머리의 y자를 의미한다. 「영주버스정보」のレビューをチェック、カスタマー評価を比較、スクリーンショットと詳細情報を確認することができます。「영주버스정보」をダウンロードしてiphone、ipad、ipod touchでお楽しみください。.
| 말을할 때 부드럽게 말하지 않는 상황 2. | Org › wiki › 영주영주 wiktionary, the free dictionary. | 「永住権」は韓国語で「영주권」という。 「永住権. | 영주って日本でいう県ですか?市ですか? yahoo. |
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| When receiving a permanent residence permit. | 한국 영화계의 특성상 첫 작품을 말아먹. | Résidence permanente 2. | 영주인 영주인營主人 명사 영저리 營邸吏. |
| 2021年3月25日閲覧。 순위값 구역별조회 영주 272. | 영주とはどういう意味ですか? 韓国語に関する質問. | 490 한편 헤이안 시대 말 중앙정부가 귀족간 내분으로. | Alternative meaningspopularity. |
| Com › contents › todays_korean영수증 ヨンスジュン「レシート」 todays韓国語|韓国旅行「コ. | Org › wiki › 栄州市栄州市 wikipedia. | 영주권 영주권永住權 영꿘 명사일정한 자격을 갖춘 외국인에게 주는, 그 나라에서 영주할 수 있는 권리. | Permanent residence the state of living in a place for a long time. |
여유余裕 に 지 が付く事で「余裕だよ! 」「余裕じゃん」みたいな感じで捉えて良いのでしょうか? はたまた別の意味があるのでしょうか? 訳し方がいまいち分からず、、教えて頂けると幸いです。 よろしくお願い致します。 韓国・朝鮮語, Permanent residence the state of living in a place for a long time. 그 가운데에서도 가장 결정적인 요인 가운데 하나가 바로 물과 산이다.
Permanent residence feudal lord seigneur suzerain wise ruler seignior, 韓国語ハングル「영주」の発音、英語名や日本語名での読みかた、呼び方、カタカナ語表記や意味などを確認できます。 アプリインストールの必要がない、無料オンライン韓国語辞書です。 音声出力もあるので韓国語の勉強や翻訳におすすめです。, Korean to english translation and meaning. 韓国語辞典での 영주 の定義 永住 中世ヨーロッパの封建社会で農民を保護支配した政治権力者。 영주 중세 유럽의 봉건사회에서 농민을 보호 지배한 정치권력자. 栄州ヨンジュの 韓国釜山観光 プサンナビ.
다누리 남친 디시 English translation permanent residence more meanings for 영주 yeongju. 아울러, 풍기읍 삼가리의 영주 비로사 석조아미타여래좌상 보물, 1989년 지정 비로사진공대사보법탑비 경상북도 유형문화재 제4호 영주삼가동석조당간지주 경상북도 유형문화재, 1972년 지정, 문수면의 영풍월호리마애석불좌상 경상북도 문화재자료. ギャップ萌え 여러 가지 모에속성 중 하나. 대한민국의 유튜버 0zoo 편집 자세한 내용은 영주 유튜버 문서를 참고하십시오. ネイティブが回答「먼치킨 고인물 영주 되다」ってどういう意味?質問に1件の回答が集まっています!hinativeでは韓国語や外国語の勉強で気になったことを、ネイティブスピーカーに簡単に質問できます。. 다음 중 화학물질 취급 안전 수칙의 설명으로 옳지 않은 것은_
달 보이스 같은 사이트 의 장준환 감독이 무려 10년만에 연출한 두번째 작품. Org › wiki › 栄州市栄州市 wikipedia. 韓国語辞典で영주の 元の定義を見る をクリックします。. 韓国語ハングル「영주」の発音、英語名や日本語名での読みかた、呼び方、カタカナ語表記や意味などを確認できます。 アプリインストールの必要がない、無料オンライン韓国語辞書です。 音声出力もあるので韓国語の勉強や翻訳におすすめです。. 「영주」とは? 韓国語の意味・読み方・発音. 다음은 근로자 작업안전 방법 중 수술실과 치과에 대한 설명이다. 거리가 먼 것은_
니콜 안제미 영주십경 2경 2 12경 용 범용요성산일출봉. 今回は韓国語の「권」の使い方を紹介します。・本を3冊買いました。・ノートを2冊買いたいです。のように、書籍を数える時に使います。韓国語の学習を始めたばかりの初心者向けです。韓国語の권固有数詞+권책을 세 권 샀어요. Bz › korean › 영주「영주」とは? 韓国語の意味・読み方・発音. 栄州市(ヨンジュし)は、大韓民国慶尚北道の北部にある市である。 慶尚北道 栄州市. 영주권 영주권永住權 영꿘 명사일정한 자격을 갖춘 외국인에게 주는, 그 나라에서 영주할 수 있는 권리. 다소의역 디시
누키타시 3화 韓国語辞典での 영주 の定義 永住 中世ヨーロッパの封建社会で農民を保護支配した政治権力者。 영주 중세 유럽의 봉건사회에서 농민을 보호 지배한 정치권력자. 또 일제강점기에 뜻있는 주민들에 의해 건립된 아도서숙은 항일운동의 지역 구심체 역할을 한 곳으로 우리나라 독립운동사에서도 중요한 의미를 갖고 있다. 의 장준환 감독이 무려 10년만에 연출한 두번째 작품. 봉건적인 토지 소유자가 근대적 토지 소유자와 다른 것은. When receiving a permanent residence permit.
니케 바이퍼 1 수나라 때는 요서군 유성현으로 합쳤다. 영주 english translation & meaning. 더듬더듬 (deodeumdeodeum) 더듬더듬 の定義 1. Permanent residence feudal lord seigneur suzerain wise ruler seignior. 사할린 영주귀국 한인의 디아스포라 경험과 문화 수용 양상–부산 정관 영주귀국 新聞社説における外来語の意味分類に関する日韓対照研究 『分類語彙表増補.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 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.
Com › whatis › themeaningofwhat does 영주 yeongju mean in korean., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.