2008년 모 게임회사에서 그래픽디자인 업무를 하던 유다엘 씨당시 27세는 3년간 다니던 회사에 돌연 사표를 냈다.

표류소녀 공식카페에 따르면 다에리소프트는 최근 악질적으로 해킹환불을 일삼는 유저들에 대한 소송을 시작한 것으로 알려졌다.

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 7, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 7, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 7, 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 7, 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.

악질 유저 때문에 공황장애까지 다에리소프트, 해킹. 지금 잡플래닛에서 내 연봉과 비교해 보세요. Kr › webzine › news다에리소프트 유니티 게임 요금, 모두 부담. 다에리소프트 대표이사 유다엘는 지난 12일 발표된 ‘유니티 런타임 요금 정책’과 관련하여 대응책을 발표하고, ‘유니티 런타임 요금 정책’이 이대로 확정될 경우엔 자사 퍼블리싱 게임에 부과되는 추가 요금을 모두 회사가 부담하기로 결정했다고 13일 밝혔다.

오토메이트가 현재 en 현지화 배포를 확실하게 장악하고 있지만, 본질적으로 쇠퇴하고 있고 en 커뮤니티는 이 붐 속에서 조만간 그걸 느낄 거야, Kr › webzine › news다에리소프트 유니티 게임 요금, 모두 부담, 게임개발 및 퍼블리싱 기업 다에리소프트대표 유다엘이 유니티 요금정책 논란에 추가요금 전액 부담이라는 강력한 카드를 꺼내며 개발자 보호에 총 read more. 오픈월드 모바일게임 를 서비스하는 다에리소프트가 유저들에게 신년 인사를 전하며 자신들의 현재 상황을 공유했다.

요약하자면 Html5 로 개발된 게임에 계속 터지는 버그와, 개발 취지에 맞지 않는 무기간 밸런스 파괴 등으로 게임을 정상적으로 유지하기.

2008년 모 게임회사에서 그래픽디자인 업무를 하던 유다엘 씨당시 27세는 3년간 다니던 회사에 돌연 사표를 냈다. 챗gpt 개발사 오픈ai의 기술을 활용한 마이크로소프트ms의 인공지능ai 챗봇이 사용자의 유도로 부적절하고 위험한 발언을 할 수 있다는 ai의 윤리 문제가 지적되자 ms가 부랴부랴 수정에 나섰다, 발할라 이후부터 어쌔신 크리드 시리즈를 총괄해온 마크알렉시스 코테의 사임이 10월 14일 기사로 보도됨. 오픈월드 모바일게임 표류소녀를 서비스하는 다에리소프트가 악질적으로 해킹과 환불을 일삼는 유저들에 대한 소송을 진행한다. 이슈 퍼블리싱 직전 계약파기, 폴리싱 먹튀 논란. 자사가 운영중인 마녀의기사 카페에 마기사라는 아이디로 게시글 지우면 각종 팬사이트에 글올린다고 협박을 진행하셨고 이후 마녀의기사 카페에 지속적으로 여러아이디로 게시글을 작성하였습니다. Kr › news › article다에리소프트 ‘유니티 런타임 요금 정책’ 대응책 발표. 악질 유저 때문에 공황장애까지 다에리소프트, 해킹. 영상 원어민 강사서 게임사 과장까지데이빗 과장 인터뷰.

주다에리소프트 기업소개 업력 16년차, 기업형태 중소기업, 업종 응용 소프트웨어 개발 및 공급업 주다에리소프트의 직원수, 연봉, 채용, 근무환경, 복리후생, 재무정보 등이 궁금하시다면, 사람인에서 더 많은 정보를 확인해보세요.

다에리소프트가 개발한 슈퍼스타욕k맞고가 최근 kt올레마켓에서 화제를 몰고 있다. 다에리소프트는 1일 공지를 통해 유저들에게 신년인사를 겸해 운영에 대한 이야기와 악질 유저에 대한 대응방안을 전달했다.
발할라 이후부터 어쌔신 크리드 시리즈를 총괄해온 마크알렉시스 코테의 사임이 10월 14일 기사로 보도됨. 자신이 원하는 게임을 만들려고 했더니 회사 내에서는 설득해.
2008년 모 게임회사에서 그래픽디자인 업무를 하던 유다엘 씨당시 27세는 3년간 다니던 회사에 돌연 사표를 냈다. 글로벌 흥행 게임으로 주목받은 팀 타파스의 대표작 표류소녀의 경우 다에리 소프트를 퍼블리셔로 선택하면서 게임성에 대한 간섭을 일체 받지 않고.
자신만의 게임을 개발하고 싶었기 때문이다.. 이슈 퍼블리싱 직전 계약파기, 폴리싱 먹튀 논란..

기존의 제작 방식으로는 문제들을 해결할 수 없다고 판단한 다에리소프트가 잡캐키우기 Ip를 인수해 다시 개발에 들어갔다.

경기도청이 지난달 주최한 플레이엑스포 2025 현장에서 다에리소프트에서 글로벌 프로젝트 매니저pm로 활동 중인 데이빗 젤러스david zellers 과장. 폴리싱 내역만 흡수하는 얌체짓을 했다는 퍼블리셔 측 주장과 이미 적용돼 있던 것이라는 개발사 측의 주장이 팽팽히 맞서고 있다, Com › talk › 352988932정말 억울합니다, 다에리소프트 유니티 게임 요금, 모두 부담. 국내 게임 업계에 폴리싱 먹튀 논란이 일고 있다. 기존의 제작 방식으로는 문제들을 해결할 수 없다고 판단한 다에리소프트가 잡캐키우기 ip를 인수해 다시 개발에 들어갔다, Com › talk › 352988932정말 억울합니다. 다에리소프트 대표이사 유다엘는 지난 12일 발표된 ‘유니티 런타임 요금 정책’과 관련하여 대응책을 발표하고, ‘유니티 런타임 요금 정책’이 이대로 확정될 경우엔 자사 퍼블리싱 게임에 부과되는 추가 요금을 모두 회사가 부담하기로 결정했다고 13일 밝혔다, 마상소프트 세븐나이츠, dk 온라인 저작권 침해넷마블 2심도 승소 마상소프트 vs 넷마블 ‘저작권 침해’ 법정 공방 넷마블, 1심에 이어 2심도. 다이노 배틀 아머드 사우루스 온라인은 대원미디어의 ‘아머드 사우루스’ ip 기반, 그의 사임은 핵심 ip어크, 파크라이, 레인보우 식스를 선별해 집중 육성하고 관리하기 위해 유비소프트와 텐센트가 합작해 설립한 밴티지 스튜디오의 조직 개편 발표가 나온 지 7개월 만의.

사신키우기 다에리소프트는 왜 심사숙고하지 않을까, 앨리스 소프트 의 간판 원화가로 유명하다. Com › site › data이루다 ai 윤리 논란, 예견된 人災&mldr. Kr › webzine › news다에리소프트 유니티 게임 요금, 모두 부담, 폴리싱 내역만 흡수하는 얌체짓을 했다는 퍼블리셔 측 주장과 이미 적용돼 있던 것이라는 개발사 측의 주장이 팽팽히 맞서고 있다, 이번에는 다에리 소프트에서 운영하는 더 스파이크라는 게임의 카페 네이버에서 일어난 일인데요.

아리아나 그란데 오픈월드 모바일게임 표류소녀를 서비스하는 다에리소프트가 악질적으로 해킹과 환불을 일삼는 유저들에 대한 소송을 진행한다. 애드웨이즈 코리아다에리소프트, 예약top10 마케팅 업무. Kr › view이슈 퍼블리싱 직전 계약파기, 폴리싱 먹튀 논란. 챗gpt 개발사 오픈ai의 기술을 활용한 마이크로소프트ms의 인공지능ai 챗봇이 사용자의 유도로 부적절하고 위험한 발언을 할 수 있다는 ai의 윤리 문제가 지적되자 ms가 부랴부랴 수정에 나섰다. 내외경제tv 정동진 기자다에리소프트가 다이노 배틀 아머드 사우루스 온라인 서비스를 1월 31일 종료한다. 아리오카 미우

실프 김종민 08502 서울 금천구 가산디지털1로 186 가산동, 제이플라츠 1206호 e메일. 악질 유저 때문에 공황장애까지 다에리소프트, 해킹. 다에리소프트 유니티 게임 요금, 모두 부담. 08502 서울 금천구 가산디지털1로 186 가산동, 제이플라츠 1206호 e메일. Kr › news › article다에리소프트 ‘유니티 런타임 요금 정책’ 대응책 발표. 아노 그라비아

시코 세라 얼굴 기존의 제작 방식으로는 문제들을 해결할 수 없다고 판단한 다에리소프트가 잡캐키우기 ip를 인수해 다시 개발에 들어갔다. ㈜다에리소프트는 2009년부터 100여 개의 게임을 개발 및 퍼블리싱하며, 표류소녀 600만 다운로드, life is a game 175만 다운로드 등의 성적을 거둔. 다에리소프트는 1일 공지를 통해 유저들에게 신년인사를 겸해 운영에 대한 이야기와 악질 유저에 대한 대응방안을 전달했다. 1일 공지를 통해 유저들에게 신년인사를 겸해 운영에 대한 이야기와 악질 유저에 대한 대응방안을 전달했다. 오픈월드 모바일게임 를 서비스하는 다에리소프트가 유저들에게 신년 인사를 전하며 자신들의 현재 상황을 공유했다. 시라카미 에미카 섹스

신태일 윤아 인스타 지난 9일 다에리소프트 유다엘 대표는 본인의 페이스북에 신의 따위는 없는건가라는 글을 게시했다. 영상 원어민 강사서 게임사 과장까지데이빗 과장 인터뷰. 17일 에스파의 데뷔곡 black mamba블랙마음바가 공개 됐습니다. 그 게임도 원래 다른 개발자가 만든 게임인데 다에리소프트가 무려 신작게임카페에서 그 게임을 발견하고. Kr › company › detail게임 직업이 되다 게임잡.

쏘공주 야동 주어없음 가끔은 다른 사람인 척 하는 계정도 있는 것으로 확인 특정 게임들의 매출이 폭등해도 인센티브 없으며 연봉도 업계 최저급. 기존의 제작 방식으로는 문제들을 해결할 수 없다고 판단한 다에리소프트가 잡캐키우기 ip를 인수해 다시 개발에 들어갔다. Kr › zf_user › companyinfo주다에리소프트 2025년 기업정보 직원수, 근무환경, 복리후생 등. 국내 게임 업계에 폴리싱 먹튀 논란이 일고 있다. 국내 게임 업계에 폴리싱 먹튀 논란이 일고 있다.

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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

2008년 모 게임회사에서 그래픽디자인 업무를 하던 유다엘 씨당시 27세는 3년간 다니던 회사에 돌연 사표를 냈다., 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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