훗날 마왕 魔王이라 불릴 한 사내의 화려한 이야기가 시작된다.

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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.

10 리셋은 2019년 12월 트위터에서 성착취 대화방의 유입을. 2021년부터 360˚영상도 게시하고 있다. Com › hapro11 › 223326539673트위터 ‘마왕’ 팔로워 불법 촬영물 영상 시청, 소장 처벌받나요. 매운 맛인 팩맨 고스트 댄스 챌린지 영상 이후 read more.

T 의 리더, 프론트맨 및 메인 보컬이었으며 마왕 이라는 별명으로 잘 알려져 있다.

나무위키 등재조건을 유튜브하고 트위치보다 먼저 트위터로 달성했다.. 유튜브에 캐릭터를 활용한 개성있는 연출 영상을 주로 올려왔으며, 밈 영상도 마왕만의 개성을 넣으려고 하는 편이다.. 2020년 7월 27일부터 유튜브로 활동을 시작해 vrchat과 직접 커스텀한 아바타 캐릭터들을 활용하여 영상을 올리고 있다.. 2020년 6월 29일 버츄얼 유튜버로 활동 개시..
별의 탑에서 잠들어 있던, 기억이 상실된 수수께끼 투성이의 인물. 10 리셋은 2019년 12월 트위터에서 성착취 대화방의 유입을, 또한 마왕 계정 외에도 각종 음란물을 시청하거나 소지한 경우 어떻게 될까요. 알포드 마키나 애니에서 등장한 유리의 드래곤 만나기 에피소드에 등장하는 용자 캐릭터. 2020년 6월 21일 트위터에 첫 게시글이 올라왔다. 30대 남성으로 마왕이라는 닉네임을 쓰는 박모 33씨는가스라이팅을 통해 상대를 노예처럼 부린 것으로 알려졌다, 캐릭터를 활용한 개성있는 연출 영상을 주로 올리는 편이며, 영상에 다양한 캐릭터가 동시에 등장하는데, 모두 마왕 본인이다, 2022년 4월 22일 팬카페 가입자 1,000명을 달성하였다. 작가는 미타카 호즈미御鷹穂積 《 복수 완수자의 인생 2회차 이세계담 》의 작가이다. 트위터는 비공개로 변경하였으며, 트위치 채널의 다시보기. 본인 목소리는 나오지 않고 밈에서 사용되는 소리 등.

박씨는 지난 68월 자신의 트위터 계정에 미성년자를 포함한 여성들을 성 착취하는 영상 100여개를 찍어 올린 것으로 알려졌다.

줄거리 편집 마도천하 魔道天下의 시대. 유튜브에 캐릭터를 활용한 개성있는 연출 영상을 주로 올려왔으며, 밈 영상도 마왕만의 개성을 넣으려고 하는 편이다, 드래곤 퀘스트 시리즈 로 대표되는 rpg의 클리셰 인 용자와 마왕의 관계를 비틀어놓았다고 볼 수 있다. 나무위키 등재조건을 유튜브하고 트위치보다 먼저 트위터로 달성했다. 주로 밈 동영상과 짧은 코미디 영상을 올린다. 가스라이팅 존재하지 않는 이미지입니다. 1988년 mbc 대학가요제 에서 무한궤도 라는 이름의 밴드로 참가해 를 불러 대상을 받으며 화려하게 데뷔했다. 알포드 마키나 애니에서 등장한 유리의 드래곤 만나기 에피소드에 등장하는 용자 캐릭터. 마왕이 업로드한 동영상을 단순 시청하거나 다운로드한 사람들, 저장한 사람들, 소지한 사람들은 어떤 처벌을 받게 될까요. 신세카이 에서 같이 활동하며 마왕의 어눌한 말투 성대모사를 퍼뜨린 장본인. 서울중앙지법은 어제 17일 성폭력처벌특례법과 정보통, 작가는 미타카 호즈미御鷹穂積 《 복수 완수자의 인생 2회차 이세계담 》의 작가이다, Com › hapro11 › 223326539673트위터 ‘마왕’ 팔로워 불법 촬영물 영상 시청, 소장 처벌받나요. 2020년 6월 21일 트위터에 첫 게시글이 올라왔다, @1@2 그리고 이게 웹상에서 남아있는 가장 오래된 활동내역이다. 유튜브에 팩맨 고스트 댄스 챌린지 영상 read more.

마왕 아노스가 정식으로 복귀한 후에도 이 체제는 바뀌지 않아서, 마왕은 국가의 전체적인 방향성만 제시할 뿐 세부적인 정치 활동은 마황들에게 맡겨놓고 있다. 박 씨는 한 여성에게 남성 여러명과 성관계를 갖게 한 의혹도 받고 있다, Kr 국민청원 링크 남깁니다 공감 댓글 서이추 환영 7 7. 훗날 마왕 魔王이라 불릴 한 사내의 화려한 이야기가 시작된다, 박씨는 지난 68월 자신의 트위터 계정에 미성년자를 포함한 여성들을 성 착취하는 영상 100여개를 찍어 올린 것으로 알려졌다.

특이하게 마왕 아자토스 는 demon sultan azathoth로 표기한다.. 마교 대공자 혁련휘와 정파 소속의 정체불명 남장여자 비설의 무림제패기.. 충격적인 트위터 성착취 마왕 사건이 또 다시 수면위로 올라와 세간의 충격을 안겼다..

성 착취 영상 100여개를 올린 트위터 계정 ‘마왕’의 운영자가 경찰에 체포됐다.

2022년 4월 14일 마왕 레비와 로비아 히나의 트위터 계정이 개설되었으며 4월 17일 공식 트위터를 통해 정식으로 트위터, 트위치 계정과 데뷔 소식을 알렸다.

3 또한 유튜브 공식 계정으로 데뷔 pv「질투」 가 공개되었다. 트위터 안에선 열심히 여권신장운동에 매진중인 듯. 12 마족 이 세계관의 마족은 외모 자체는 인간과 똑같이 생겼다.
지난 17일 제2의 n번방으로 불리며 성착취를 일삼은 트위터 계정 마왕이 검거되었다. 가스라이팅 존재하지 않는 이미지입니다. Svg 틱톡 아이콘 7 아바타는 코코아 마왕과 악마 마왕을 주로 사용한다.
2021년부터 360˚영상도 게시하고 있다. 즉 이 문서에서 가리키는 마왕 중에서도 현대 한국일본에서 가리키는 마계의 군주 란 의미에 가장 가까운 영어 표현이다. 트위터 안에선 열심히 여권신장운동에 매진중인 듯.
2020년 6월 29일 버츄얼 유튜버로 활동 개시. 거대한 음모 속에서 죽어 버린 동생의 복수를 위해, 어둠에서 그가 돌아왔다. 유튜브에 팩맨 고스트 댄스 챌린지 영상 read more.
줄거리 편집 마도천하 魔道天下의 시대. Kr 국민청원 링크 남깁니다 공감 댓글 서이추 환영 7 7. 이날 밤, 마왕루야 유튜브 채널의 동영상은 숨김 처리되었고 트위치 프로필 사진과 채널 아트도 삭제하였다.

이틀동안 30명이랑 성관계 시켜 성노예 만들어 초대남 부르는 트위터 마왕을 강력처벌과 신상공개촉구합니다 대한민국 청와대 나라를 나라답게, 국민과 함께 갑니다, 1988년 mbc 대학가요제 에서 무한궤도 라는 이름의 밴드로 참가해 를 불러 대상을 받으며 화려하게 데뷔했다. 별의 탑에서 잠들어 있던, 기억이 상실된 수수께끼 투성이의 인물. 대표적인 예로 루리웹 에서는 종종 올라오는 그의 만화에 대해 호의적인 의견이 많았었으나, 논란 이후 여론이 반전되었고 이런 여론을 의식한 것인지 4월 배트맨 대 슈퍼맨 만화 이후 루리웹 활동도 끊긴 상황.

신세카이 에서 같이 활동하며 마왕의 어눌한 말투 성대모사를 퍼뜨린 장본인. 2022년 4월 14일 마왕 레비와 로비아 히나의 트위터 계정이 개설되었으며 4월 17일 공식 트위터를 통해 정식으로 트위터, 트위치 계정과 데뷔 소식을 알렸다, 용의 비늘과 이빨로 만들었다는 간지나는 모양의 성검을 가지고 있어서 맨날 울부짖기나 하는 폼 안나는, 마왕 아노스가 정식으로 복귀한 후에도 이 체제는 바뀌지 않아서, 마왕은 국가의 전체적인 방향성만 제시할 뿐 세부적인 정치 활동은 마황들에게 맡겨놓고 있다.

래전등ㄷ 줄거리 편집 마도천하 魔道天下의 시대. 캐릭터를 활용한 개성있는 연출 영상을 주로 올리는 편이며, 영상에 다양한 캐릭터가 동시에 등장하는데, 모두 마왕 본인이다. 충격적인 트위터 성착취 마왕 사건이 또 다시 수면위로 올라와 세간의 충격을 안겼다. 거대한 음모 속에서 죽어 버린 동생의 복수를 위해, 어둠에서 그가 돌아왔다. 유튜브에 캐릭터를 활용한 개성있는 연출 영상을 주로 올려왔으며, 밈 영상도 마왕만의 개성을 넣으려고 하는 편이다. 딥페이크 포르노 주소

똥침 체벌 2022년 4월 22일 팬카페 가입자 1,000명을 달성하였다. 9 물론 대부분은 일종의 장난식인 밈처럼 받아들인다. 이틀동안 30명이랑 성관계 시켜 성노예 만들어 초대남 부르는 트위터 마왕을 강력처벌과 신상공개촉구합니다 대한민국 청와대 나라를 나라답게, 국민과 함께 갑니다. 팩맨 고스트댄스 챌린지 영상 이후 구독자가 꾸준히 늘며 구독자 급상승 순위에서 1위를 한적이 read more. 주로 밈 동영상과 짧은 코미디 영상을 올린다. 똥침 ㅊ

딜도 호텔 예약 2020년 6월 21일 트위터에 첫 게시글이 올라왔다. 충격적인 트위터 성착취 마왕 사건이 또 다시 수면위로 올라와 세간의 충격을 안겼다. Svg 틱톡 아이콘 11 아바타는 코코아 마왕과 악마 마왕을 주로 사용하였으나 미정 마왕을 만든. 특이하게 마왕 아자토스 는 demon sultan azathoth로 표기한다. 10 리셋은 2019년 12월 트위터에서 성착취 대화방의 유입을. 레제 영화 짤

럽라 메구미 성우 나무위키 등재조건을 유튜브하고 트위치보다 먼저 트위터로 달성했다. 마왕이 업로드한 동영상을 단순 시청하거나 다운로드한 사람들, 저장한 사람들, 소지한 사람들은 어떤 처벌을 받게 될까요. 대표적인 예로 루리웹 에서는 종종 올라오는 그의 만화에 대해 호의적인 의견이 많았었으나, 논란 이후 여론이 반전되었고 이런 여론을 의식한 것인지 4월 배트맨 대 슈퍼맨 만화 이후 루리웹 활동도 끊긴 상황. 30대 남성으로 마왕이라는 닉네임을 쓰는 박모 33씨는가스라이팅을 통해 상대를 노예처럼 부린 것으로 알려졌다. 9 물론 대부분은 일종의 장난식인 밈처럼 받아들인다.

딸감 순위 본인 목소리는 나오지 않고 밈에서 사용되는 소리 등. 또한 마왕 계정 외에도 각종 음란물을 시청하거나 소지한 경우 어떻게 될까요. 박 씨는 한 여성에게 남성 여러명과 성관계를 갖게 한 의혹도 받고 있다. 유튜브에 캐릭터를 활용한 개성있는 연출 영상을 주로 올려왔으며, 밈 영상도 마왕만의 개성을 넣으려고 하는 편이다. 팩맨 고스트댄스 챌린지 영상 이후 구독자가 꾸준히 늘며 구독자 급상승 순위에서 1위를 한적이 read more.

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

훗날 마왕 魔王이라 불릴 한 사내의 화려한 이야기가 시작된다., 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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