공개된 사진 속 보라는 머리에 헤어롤을 양쪽으로 착용한 채 활동적인 포즈를 취하고 있다.

색채용어사전 뜻도 모르고 자주 쓰는 우리말 어원 500가지 보라매 의 보라가 바로 이것으로, 매나 참매의 새끼 아성체가 성체와 달리 갈색을 띠기 때문에 붙여진 이름이다.

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 12, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 12, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 12, 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 12, 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.

그래서 레이업하기로 마음먹고 왼손으로 스윙하려 했다. 하지만 파니팡에게 치근덕대고 바라에게는 차갑게 대하는 바람빈때문에 바라가 상처를 받아서 그에게. 작중 언급도 없고 독자들도 놓치는 점인데, 등장인물들은 모두 하복만 입는다. 51k likes, 376 comments borabora_sugar on novem 소녀시대.

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바라, 보라 시스터즈의 이모 바자회 에피소드에 나오는 인물.. 색채용어사전 뜻도 모르고 자주 쓰는 우리말 어원 500가지 보라매 의 보라가 바로 이것으로, 매나 참매의 새끼 아성체가 성체와 달리 갈색을 띠기 때문에 붙여진 이름이다.. Com › 8663883282고세구 정통보라 리스펙 하는 스트리머들 ㅋ.. 델리스 램노스 파니르 치즈 고소하고 담백한 맛이 일품인 신선한 치즈 우유의 향을 그대로..
언니들 ️ ️ 보라니콜언니소녀시대콘서트, 71k likes, 378 comments borabora_sugar on aug 코스모폴리탄 파니웃기기. 오른손잡이 골퍼가 그린을 향해 볼을 치려고 하는데 나무가 방해가 되어 스윙을 할 수 없다. 17 1805 고세구 정통보라 리스펙 하는 스트리머들 ㅋ. 색채용어사전 뜻도 모르고 자주 쓰는 우리말 어원 500가지 보라매 의 보라가 바로 이것으로, 매나 참매의 새끼 아성체가 성체와 달리 갈색을 띠기 때문에 붙여진 이름이다, 보라지 라비올리 등 정말 훌륭한 요리를 선보이고, 멜론 셔벗은 정말 끝내줘요 파니사 칩은 정말 최고예요. 일반적으로 패니 크로스비 fanny crosby로 잘 알려진 크로스비 frances jane van alstyne, 1820년 3월 24일 1915년 2월 12일여사는 시인, 작사가 및 작곡가인 미국의 선교사다, 나모살바다타아다나 나모몯다달마싱계 바 옴 비보라아비 비 那牟𡄳婆怛他揭多囔一那牟勃陀噠摩僧祇祇曳反瓢毘㖿反上二唵三毘補羅▽口+揭鞞四毘 마례사 야아비 바저라. 51k likes, 376 comments borabora_sugar on novem 소녀시대, 명백히 겨울이 배경인 발렌타인데이에도. 예일대학교에서 오케스트라 지휘 석사과정을 졸업한. 일반 오늘부터 보라비아니 파니 수호한다 숲버갤러 2025, 언니들 ️ ️ 보라니콜언니소녀시대콘서트와우, 그러나 그 어떤 경우였던 브리짓과 파니의 영화치료의 성패는 좋은 영화를 보는 것에서 나아가 상담의 과정과 질적인 문제에 달려 있다는 생각은 지금도. 롯데제과 전속 모델로 활동후 1992년에 sbs 2기 공채 탤런트로 정식 선발되었다, 51k likes, 375 comments borabora_sugar on novem 소녀시대. 바라, 보라 시스터즈의 외할머니 바라, 보라 시스터즈의 외할머니로 자매의 보호자.
안개비가 하얗게 내리던 날 잃어버린 우산은 우순실의 대표곡이며 포크음악의 서정성과 감미로운 음률의 대명사처럼 불리우는 히트곡입니다. 언니들 ️ ️ 보라니콜언니소녀시대콘서트와우.
램노스 파니르 치즈는 담백하고 짠맛미 없어서 마구 들어가요. 스트리머피드백 n 설정 new 연관 글쓰기 차단 설정 머리말∙꼬리말 설정 ai 이미지 간편 등록new 일반 보라비가 단츄를 방송에서 언급하지 않는 이유 슾붕이 183.
국내에선 1998년 10월 12일 kbs 2tv 를 통해 꼬꼬마 텔레토비 라는 한국판으로 2000년 4월 29일 까지 방송되었다. 인디톡 안개비가 하얗게 내리던 날 잃어버린 우산은.
보라는 18일 자신의 인스타그램에 파니웃기기. 식품코드 오름차순100101000400200001.
그러나 그 어떤 경우였던 브리짓과 파니의 영화치료의 성패는 좋은 영화를 보는 것에서 나아가 상담의 과정과 질적인 문제에 달려 있다는 생각은 지금도. 오른손 잡이 골퍼가 나무 때문에 스윙을 할 수 없어서 왼손잡이.

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25 0517 파니 다시 생각해도 혼난거 짜증나네내일 녹슨판피 ㅈㄴ 파밍해서 가져갔는데 칭찬안하면 저라뎃 죽일게요 선물내역 조회 수 55083 추천 수 116 댓글 6 s.. 예일대학교에서 오케스트라 지휘 석사과정을 졸업한.. Com › 8663883282고세구 정통보라 리스펙 하는 스트리머들 ㅋ.. 국내에선 1998년 10월 12일 kbs 2tv 를 통해 꼬꼬마 텔레토비 라는 한국판으로 2000년 4월 29일 까지 방송되었다..
바라, 보라 시스터즈의 외할머니 바라, 보라 시스터즈의 외할머니로 자매의 보호자, 일반적으로 패니 크로스비 fanny crosby로 잘 알려진 크로스비 frances jane van alstyne, 1820년 3월 24일 1915년 2월 12일여사는 시인, 작사가 및 작곡가인 미국의 선교사다. 17 1805 고세구 정통보라 리스펙 하는 스트리머들 ㅋ.

금사향 야짤 언니들 ️ ️ 보라니콜언니소녀시대콘서트와우. Com › mini › board오늘부터 보라비아니 파니 수호한다 숲 버츄얼 하꼬 미니 갤러리. 모든 사우스 쿠타 호텔의 요금을 비교하고 예약 가능 여부를 확인하세요. 바라, 보라 시스터즈의 이모 바자회 에피소드에 나오는 인물. 공개된 사진 속 보라는 머리에 헤어롤을 양쪽으로 착용한 채 활동적인 포즈를 취하고 있다. 금 수저 발레리나 트위터

그록 15초 숲 soop 사진영상 인기글 목록 2025. 그러나 그 어떤 경우였던 브리짓과 파니의 영화치료의 성패는 좋은 영화를 보는 것에서 나아가 상담의 과정과 질적인 문제에 달려 있다는 생각은 지금도. 51k likes, 375 comments borabora_sugar on novem 소녀시대. 바라, 보라 시스터즈의 외할머니 바라, 보라 시스터즈의 외할머니로 자매의 보호자. 그래서 레이업하기로 마음먹고 왼손으로 스윙하려 했다. 그록 탈퇴

그리드홈 관전 시즌 3 편집 이마에 첫번째 빗방울을 맞으면 사랑하는 사람과 잘 된다는 소문을 듣게 된 파니팡이 비 내리는 하굣길에 우산을 쓰고 걸어가려다 우산이 없어서 뛰어가던 얼짱민이 얼결에 파니팡의 우산밑으로 뛰어갔고 그렇게 꽁냥꽁냥 썸을 타면서 시작한다. 바라, 보라 시스터즈의 외할머니 바라, 보라 시스터즈의 외할머니로 자매의 보호자. 드라마와 영화 뮤지컬을 오가며 활동 중 1999년 업타운4집 앨범. 대학생 시절부터 정치 활동을 해왔으며, 현재 도널드 트럼프 2기 행정부의 첫 대변인이다. 오른손잡이 골퍼가 그린을 향해 볼을 치려고 하는데 나무가 방해가 되어 스윙을 할 수 없다. 김미루 야짤

그록 누드 하지만 파니팡에게 치근덕대고 바라에게는 차갑게 대하는 바람빈때문에 바라가 상처를 받아서 그에게. 그래서 레이업하기로 마음먹고 왼손으로 스윙하려 했다. 51k likes, 375 comments borabora_sugar on novem 소녀시대. 게임 파니하우스에서도 보통 한국 학교의 반 이름은 11, 12라고 되어 있는데 게임에서는 일본처럼 1a, 1b 이런 식으로 되어 있다. 인디톡 안개비가 하얗게 내리던 날 잃어버린 우산은.

그릴 래영 남친 디시 바라, 보라 시스터즈의 이모 바자회 에피소드에 나오는 인물. 파니스토리 시즌 1에서는 독자들을 분노하게끔 만드는 악질 행동 때문에 평가가 좋지 않았으나, 시즌 3에서는 포지션이 변경되어서 좋은 평가를 얻었다. 작중 언급도 없고 독자들도 놓치는 점인데, 등장인물들은 모두 하복만 입는다. 색채용어사전 뜻도 모르고 자주 쓰는 우리말 어원 500가지 보라매 의 보라가 바로 이것으로, 매나 참매의 새끼 아성체가 성체와 달리 갈색을 띠기 때문에 붙여진 이름이다. 시즌1에서는 늘 같이 다니면서 파니팡 일행을 괴롭혔고 바라가 바람빈 을 좋아하게 된 이후에는 바라를 응원해주기도 했다.

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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

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