바로 김연아 선수다 김연아선수는 피겨스케이팅 인프라가 열악했던 우리나라에서 훈련하여 세계1등을 수도없이 했고, 금메달을 밥먹듯이 땄다.

선수 시절 세계 정상에 오른 실력뿐만 아니라, 은퇴 이후 광고와 부동산 투자 등으로 막대한 재산을 축적한 점이 크게 주목받고 있는데요.

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.

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기타스포츠 김연아 재산 2000억은 넘겠죠.

세계적에서 가장 뛰어난 여자 피겨 선수로도 거론되고 있는 김연아 선수는 은퇴한 이후에도 많은 사랑을 받고 있습니다, Com › board › view김연아 재산 vs 아이유 재산 아이유 갤러리, 또한 김연아 선수는 장동건 고소영 부부, 현빈이 선택한 동작구 아파트를 2011년 당시 22억원 주고 매입했으며 현재 그 아파트의 시세는 약 35억원을 호가, Company has a low return, 실력도 실력인데 외모도 준수하고 무엇보다 이미지가 좋아서, 많은 광고주들의 사랑을 한몸에 받았다, 김연아가 17년 동안 모은 재산은 얼마나될까.

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어린나이에 비해, 워낙에 커리어가 독보적이라서 돈도 많이벌고 광고 Cf도 많이 찍었을건데요 부자인건 알아도 김연아 자산, 재산이 얼마인지 정확하게 모르는 분들도 많으시겠죠 그래서 정리해본 김연아 재산 포스팅 갑니다.

본문 기타 기능 김연아는 세계 기록을 11번이나 경신했던 자타 공인 최고의 피겨 선수로 여자 선수로는 처음으로 200점을 돌파하기도 했습니다.. 2024년 현재 김연아의 총 자산은 약 4천만 달러 약 536억 원 으로 추정됩니다.. 김연아는 인천 송도에 총합 30억원 대의 상가 3채와 경기 가평군에 별장으로 지상 3층지하 1층 규모의 주택을 보유하고 있는 것으로 알려졌습니다.. 자꾸 거품거품 그러시는데 10년넘는 거품이 있냐구요..

김연아가 15년간 모은 재산에 대해서. 어지간한 배우들이나 아이돌들도 건물주일 정도로 유명인 수입은 상상을 초월함. 어린나이에 비해, 워낙에 커리어가 독보적이라서 돈도 많이벌고 광고 cf도 많이 찍었을건데요 부자인건 알아도 김연아 자산, 재산이 얼마인지 정확하게 모르는 분들도 많으시겠죠 그래서 정리해본 김연아 재산 포스팅 갑니다. 김연아, 그 이름이 가진 특별함 김연아는 단순한 피겨 선수나 스포츠 스타 이상의 존재입니다. 김연아일수밖에 없음 광고료때문에 광고빼면 하뉴겠고 앗쇼 수익이 아무리 좋아도 광고만 못하고 한국이 광고 단가가 셈.

선수 시절 세계 정상에 오른 실력뿐만 아니라, 은퇴 이후 광고와 부동산 투자 등으로 막대한 재산을 축적한 점이 크게 주목받고 있는데요. 어지간한 배우들이나 아이돌들도 건물주일 정도로 유명인 수입은 상상을 초월함. 피겨여왕에 이어 이제는 cf퀸으로 불리는 김연아의 놀라운 광고 수입이 알려졌다.

김연아는 인천 송도에 총합 30억원 대의 상가 3채와 경기 가평군에 별장으로 지상 3층지하 1층 규모의 주택을 보유하고 있는 것으로 알려졌습니다. 이렇게 대한민국을 대표하는 피겨여왕 김연아 선수는 실제로 가지고 있는 재산도 결코 적지 않음을 알 수 있는데요. 15년간 누적벌어들인 수입은 얼마나 될까. Kr › 김연아재산광고비연금김연아 재산 광고비, 연금, 수입 총정리.
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세계적인 피겨스케이팅 선수로 우리나라 포함 세계인들의 사랑과 관심을 받은 김연아씨의 사주팔자를 풀이한다. 단순 광고 모델료로 측정하면 1500억 이상 여기에 아이스쇼 포함하면 감이 안오네. 진짜 돈못버는 사람들이나 하는 소리죠. 자꾸 거품거품 그러시는데 10년넘는 거품이 있냐구요.
15년간 누적벌어들인 수입은 얼마나 될까. 상대 예비 신랑은 서울대 성악과를 졸업한 재원으로 팬텀싱어 시. Com › salgoo921212 › 223835266817더 이룰게 있나. Com › 2225김연아 재산,연봉 및 광고료 ft.
Com › 2225김연아 재산,연봉 및 광고료 ft. 최근 김연아의 경제효과가 5조원 이상이라는 소식이 전해져 화제를 모았던 가운데, 편당 cf료가 10억원이라는 그녀의 재산 수준에도 관심이 쏠리고 있습니다. 피겨스케이팅하면 떠오르는 사람이 딱 1명 있다. 5살 연상 연하인 두 사람은 2018년 올댓스케이트 아이스쇼 축하 무대를 계기로 처음 만나 연인으로 발전, 3년간 열애했다.

매년 100억 번 김연아 선수 총 재산은, 2010년 밴쿠버 올림픽의 경우 금메달을 획득한 그녀는 총 6000만 원의 포상금을 얻게 되었습니다, Kr › 김연아재산광고비연금김연아 재산 광고비, 연금, 수입 총정리. 김연아, 추정 수입 2000억 분석 보유한 부동산의 정체는.

점점 나이는 드는데  cf한 편에10억피겨퀸 김연아가17년간 모은 재산 현황, 김연아가 15년간 모은 재산에 대해서, 김연아가 17년 동안 모은 재산은 얼마나될까.

그렇다 피겨퀸은 부자, 김연아가 15년간 모은 재산.

어지간한 배우들이나 아이돌들도 건물주일 정도로 유명인 수입은 상상을 초월함. 김연아 고향은 경기도 부천시로, 올해 나이 33세이며, 키 164cm, 그리고 학력은 고려대 사범대학 체육교육과 학사 및 고려대 대학원 체육학 석사과정 재학 중으로 알려져 있습니다. 상대 예비 신랑은 서울대 성악과를 졸업한 재원으로 팬텀싱어 시. 상대 예비 신랑은 서울대 성악과를 졸업한 재원으로 팬텀싱어 시.

ahoo lovepiace 4년마다 6000만 원, 매년 1200만 원의 수입이라면 read more. 광고료만 2천억 넘겼다고 하길래 dc app. 최근 김연아의 경제효과가 5조원 이상이라는 소식이 전해져 화제를 모았던 가운데, 편당 cf료가 10억원이라는 그녀의 재산 수준에도 관심이 쏠리고 있습니다. 2018년 평창동계올림픽 홍보대사인 피겨스케이팅의 여왕 김연아 선수는 현지시간으로 13일 유엔연설에서 평화적인 올림픽을 강조해 많은 이들의 감동을 자아냈다. 김연아 연예인은 아니지만 스포츠스타 & 저의 애정을 담아. ahoo.live00

@ririsu_amano81 Company has a low return. 오늘은 김연아 선수의 사주를 통해 2025년 현재를 기준으로. 광고료만 2천억 넘겼다고 하길래 dc app. 언론에 알려진 정보를 토대로 자세히 정리해 드리겠습니다. 일반 손흥민 김연아 재산이 2천억 넘던데 ㅇㅇ118. @lily_yunsky

65g 컵 근황 다른 유명인들의 재산은 어느 정도일까. 기타스포츠 김연아 재산 2000억은 넘겠죠. 그녀의 대단함은 부동산에서도 나타났습니다. 김연아 재산 202211202404 해외축구 갤러리. 바로 김연아 선수다 김연아선수는 피겨스케이팅 인프라가 열악했던 우리나라에서 훈련하여 세계1등을 수도없이 했고, 금메달을 밥먹듯이 땄다. aicomi f95 zone

ai 아이돌 합성 매년 100억 번 김연아 선수 총 재산은. 다른 유명인들의 재산은 어느 정도일까. 김연아가 17년 동안 모은 재산은 얼마나될까. 일반 손흥민 김연아 재산이 2천억 넘던데 ㅇㅇ118. 국민이 가장 좋아하는 스포츠 선수 설문에 24.

5ch cfnm 광고료 오랫동안 탑찍었었고 17세때부터 지금까지 대기업 메이저 광고 모델이니 세전은 가능할수도 있어. 세계적인 피겨스케이팅 선수로 우리나라 포함 세계인들의 사랑과 관심을 받은 김연아씨의 사주팔자를 풀이한다. 김연아, 그 이름이 가진 특별함 김연아는 단순한 피겨 선수나 스포츠 스타 이상의 존재입니다. 누적 수입이 추정치로 1천억은 거뜬히 넘을 것으로 예측됨 ㄷㄷㄷ 은퇴 후 10년 다되어가는 지금도 예능조차 1개도 안나오는데 대기업광고 10개 가까이. Company has a low return.

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

바로 김연아 선수다 김연아선수는 피겨스케이팅 인프라가 열악했던 우리나라에서 훈련하여 세계1등을 수도없이 했고, 금메달을 밥먹듯이 땄다., 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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