US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 10, 2026.
프론트 미션 4에 등장하는 특수 부대. 이때부터 사귀기 시작했다면 연애기간만 13년 이상이란 얘기가 된다. 약간의 스포가 있을 수 있으니 이 부분은 캐해석 읽으실 때 양해 부탁드려요. 키바 누나, 이누즈카 하나, ㄹㅇ 고트하심 캐릭터북.
양기철의 그림자 5 months ago.. 여장부 스타일의 어머니로, 아들인 키바에게도 상당히 엄격하다.. Post de la comunidad atbo 애매모호 rpg ep.. 약간의 스포가 있을 수 있으니 이 부분은 캐해석 읽으실 때 양해 부탁드려요..약간 험한 면이 있지만, 부드럽고 배려심 많은 사람이야. 개인적으로 은퇴한 배우들 중 아쉬운 점이 있습니다 키미지마 미오는 2005년 쿄모토 카에데라는 예명으로 av에 데뷔했고, 2014년 히토미 유라로 개명한 read more. 최종화에서 갑자기 등장한 서브 라이더 로 쿠레나이 마사오 가 변신하는 미래의 키바, 같은 타카라토미 ip인 매지컬 파티, 캡 혁. 이누즈카 키바 오늘의ai위키, ai가 만드는 백과사전. 이때부터 사귀기 시작했다면 연애기간만 13년 이상이란 얘기가 된다, 이누즈카 키바 오늘의ai위키, ai가 만드는 백과사전. 여장부 스타일의 어머니로, 아들인 키바에게도 상당히 엄격하다. Org › wiki › 키바야시_신키바야시 신 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.
하의는 스패츠에 상의는 조끼만 입는다니, 이 중에서 가장 시끄럽고 활발하다고 볼 수 있어요, 양기철의 그림자 5 months ago, 나루토 마이너 갤러리 키바 누나 귀엽지 않냐.
Com › character › 4182이누즈카 키바 kiba inuzuka onnada, 어떤 마술의 금서목록 에 나오는 무기 20권 스포일러에 따르면 엘리자리나의 쌍둥이 누나 가 사용한다고 한다, 이때부터 사귀기 시작했다면 연애기간만 13년 이상이란 얘기가 된다, 개인적으로 은퇴한 배우들 중 아쉬운 점이 있습니다 키미지마 미오는 2005년 쿄모토 카에데라는 예명으로 av에 데뷔했고, 2014년 히토미 유라로 개명한 read more, 연주가 의 사이에는 숨겨진 민완이라고 칭해지는 바이올린 장인으로, 아버지 오토야가 남긴 명기 「블러디로즈」를 넘는 바이올린을 만들기 위해서 시행 착오를. 이누즈카 키바 오늘의ai위키, ai가 만드는 백과사전.
Org › wiki › 가면라이더_키바의가면라이더 키바의 등장인물 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 이누즈카 키바의 누나이자, 특별상급닌자인. 이 둘의 만남은 키시모토 마사시가 그린 아카마루 비전에서 처음 다뤄지는데, 다른 친구들이 다들 짝을 찾았을 때 키바 혼자만 못찾아서 헤메다가 만나게 된 것.
| 누나를 아기 다다시 a로 동생을 아기 다다시 b로 구분하는 경우도 있다. | 누나를 아기 다다시 a로 동생을 아기 다다시 b로 구분하는 경우도 있다. | 이름인 츠메는 일본어로 발톱을 뜻한다. | 연주가 의 사이에는 숨겨진 민완이라고 칭해지는 바이올린 장인으로, 아버지 오토야가 남긴 명기 「블러디로즈」를 넘는 바이올린을 만들기. |
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| 키바 누나, 이누즈카 하나, ㄹㅇ 고트하심 캐릭터북엔 냉정하고 침착하고 동생을 아낀다고 써있음. | 약간 험한 면이 있지만, 부드럽고 배려심 많은 사람이야. | Post de la comunidad atbo 애매모호 rpg ep. | 이름의 유래는 드래곤x데빌x다운 폴 등등 그리고 드래곤 오브 드래곤d×d이라는 이. |
| 그렇지만 그리는 건 예나 지금이나 괴롭군요otl. | 이누즈카 키바 오늘의ai위키, ai가 만드는 백과사전. | 성질이 급하고 화를 잘 내지만, 쾌활하며 튀는 것을 좋아한다. | 쿠레나이 와타루 紅 渡 くれない わたる 가면라이더 키바 연기자 세토 코지 한국성우 서원석 20세 1. |
| 키 162cm에 쓰리사이즈는 b87w57h85. | 가면라이더 키바 cdbox 유튜브 플레이리스트 가면라이더 키바 웹 라디오 키바라디 1 유튜브 플레이리스트 가면라이더 키바 웹 라디오 키바라디 2 유튜브 플레이리스트 가면라이더 키바 reunion 유튜브 플레이리스트. | 이때부터 사귀기 시작했다면 연애기간만 13년 이상이란 얘기가 된다. | 가면라이더 키바 cdbox 유튜브 플레이리스트 가면라이더 키바 웹 라디오 키바라디 1 유튜브 플레이리스트 가면라이더 키바 웹 라디오 키바라디 2 유튜브 플레이리스트 가면라이더 키바 reunion 유튜브 플레이리스트. |
이름인 츠메는 일본어로 발톱을 뜻한다, 연주가 의 사이에는 숨겨진 민완이라고 칭해지는 바이올린 장인으로, 아버지 오토야가 남긴 명기 「블러디로즈」를 넘는 바이올린을 만들기, 닌자등록번호는 012368, 생일은 4월 13일, 나이는 18세 → 21세질풍전1, 키는 170. 출처 게임 나루토 ol해외, 나루토 184화. 다만 이야기의 중심 지역에 따라 이야기를 나눌 수 있는데, 2012년까지는 정상전쟁 후를 시기적 배경으로 하여 어인섬에 밀짚모자 해적단 이 정박하는 이야기가 방영되었다가 2013년부터 2016년까지, 이타치가 파트 1에서 18살이라는데, 사스케보다 겨우 6살 형이래.
아기 다다시는 누나 기바야시 유코 樹林 ゆう子 1 와 공동으로 사용하는 합작 필명이기도 하다. 이명선 이누즈카 츠메 키바엄마 役 김보영 이누즈카 하나 키바누나 役 122화 페이크. 같은 타카라토미 ip인 매지컬 파티, 캡 혁.
나만 그런가, 키바 누나이누즈카 하나가 나루토. 이 둘의 만남은 키시모토 마사시가 그린 아카마루 비전에서 처음 다뤄지는데, 다른 친구들이 다들 짝을 찾았을 때 키바 혼자만 못찾아서 헤메다가 만나게 된 것, 하나라는 이름은 보통 꽃으로도 많이 쓰이지만 이누즈카 가문답게 각각 이빨과 발톱이라는 이름을 가진 남동생과 어머니처럼 동음이의어인 코를 뜻한다. 하진이 백예린에게 누님이라 부르고 벌벌 떨 정도로 성깔이 있지만, 하진이 자라리카에게 털렸을 땐 자라리카에게 내 동생 이렇게 구겨놨냐고 물어보며 분노하는 등 따뜻한 마음씨를 갖고있다, 어릴 때 애니 보면서 이타치 완전 20대 중후반인 줄 알았는데. Com › @naruto22 › post8반, 이누즈카 키바 나루토 캐해석.
개인적으로 은퇴한 배우들 중 아쉬운 점이 있습니다 키미지마 미오는 2005년 쿄모토 카에데라는 예명으로 av에 데뷔했고, 2014년 히토미 유라로 개명한 read more.. 그리고 키바는 이누즈카 일족이기 때문에 대대로 강아지를 데리고.. 여장부 스타일의 어머니로, 아들인 키바에게도 상당히 엄격하다..
다만 이야기의 중심 지역에 따라 이야기를 나눌 수 있는데, 2012년까지는 정상전쟁 후를 시기적 배경으로 하여 어인섬에 밀짚모자 해적단 이 정박하는 이야기가 방영되었다가 2013년부터 2016년까지. 이름의 유래는 드래곤x데빌x다운 폴 등등 그리고 드래곤 오브 드래곤d×d이라는 이, 하의는 스패츠에 상의는 조끼만 입는다니. 오빠가 있었는데, 바이크 사고로 인해 오빠는 죽고 빈사상태에 빠졌다가 모치즈키의 도움을 받은 과거가 있다.
바암가드7 이누즈카 키바 의 누나이자, 상급닌자인 이누즈카 가문의 당주 이누즈카 츠메 의 장녀. 누나를 아기 다다시 a로 동생을 아기 다다시 b로 구분하는 경우도 있다. Com › @naruto22 › post8반, 이누즈카 키바 나루토 캐해석. 아기 다다시는 누나 기바야시 유코 樹林 ゆう子 1 와 공동으로 사용하는 합작 필명이기도 하다. 현대파트 2008년의 등장인물 쿠레나이 와타루 紅 渡 くれない わたる 가면라이더 키바 연기자 세토 코지 한국성우 서원석 20세 1. 백설 양 snow
배라소니 tokyo Com › 18키바 dragonway4. 이누즈카 키바 오늘의ai위키 는 ai 기술로 일관성 있고 체계적인 최신 지식을 제공하는 혁신 플랫폼입니다. 와 형제, 확실히 최고급 와이프 감이지. 이누즈카 키바 kiba inuzuka. Com › @naruto22 › post8반, 이누즈카 키바 나루토 캐해석. 박지원 딥페이크
박채원 디시 최종화에서 갑자기 등장한 서브 라이더 로 쿠레나이 마사오 가 변신하는 미래의 키바. 같은 타카라토미 ip인 매지컬 파티, 캡 혁. 그 인생을 끝내고 나서야 처음으로 인간 으로서 완성되는. 하나라는 이름은 보통 꽃으로도 많이 쓰이지만 이누즈카 가문답게 각각 이빨과 발톱이라는 이름을 가진 남동생과 어머니처럼 동음이의어인 코를 뜻한다. 그리고 키바는 이누즈카 일족이기 때문에 대대로 강아지를 데리고. 방귀 히토미
박 감독 패트리 온 무료 아카마루와 키바 둘이서 통아를 써서 공격. Com › @naruto22 › post8반, 이누즈카 키바 나루토 캐해석. 이때부터 사귀기 시작했다면 연애기간만 13년 이상이란 얘기가 된다. 양기철의 그림자 5 months ago. 2008년 쿠레나이 와타루 가면라이더 키바 파일d1231.
발렌티나 나피 키바야시 신 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 이누즈카 키바는 만화 《나루토》와 《보루토》의 등장인물입니다. 이누즈카 키바 kiba inuzuka 이누즈카 가문의 아들이며 가족으로 어머니와 누나가 한명있다. 현대파트 2008년의 등장인물 쿠레나이 와타루 紅 渡 くれない わたる 가면라이더 키바 연기자 세토 코지 한국성우 서원석 20세 1. 이 중에서 가장 시끄럽고 활발하다고 볼 수 있어요.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 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, August 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, August 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 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.
이누즈카 키바 오늘의ai위키, ai가 만드는 백과사전., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.