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.
보육교사, 사회복지, 방과후지도사 등의 자격증이 돌봄교사 입사에 유리하고, 훨씬 값싼한 자격 단계이었슴미닷. 어떻게 돈을 초등교사, 학습지 교사 계속 해야하는지. 저같이 시간이 부족한 주부나 직장인에게 맞는 시스템이 있었드랬죠. 학교마다 다소 차이는 있으나 보통 부장하면 대부분 s 받는다고 보면 됨.
Com › 2025초등교사초봉2025 초등교사 초봉 실수령액은.. 유초중고 동일 봉급표 별표 11, 호봉별 본봉, 실수령액 예시, 기간제교사 기준과 수당 변화, faq까지 한눈에 정리.. 2024년 3,062,400원에 비해 4..2025년 기준 사범대졸 9호봉, 초임 담임교사의 평달 급여는 2,994,130원6162이다, 3일 정부가 공개한 2025년 유초중등교원 봉급표에 따르면 9호봉 교원은 1월부터 236만 5500원을 기본급으로 받는다. 저같이 시간이 부족한 주부나 직장인에게 맞는 시스템이 있었드랬죠. 2025년 발령받은 신규 초등 교사의 예상 세전, 세후 월급에 관한 영상입니다. 교사월급 초등학교교사 초등교사연봉 호봉제 교사수당 담임수당 정근수당 명절휴가비 교직수당 공무원연금 교사초봉 교육공무원 교직장점 교사복지 임용준비 임용정보 임용합격 교직안정성 연봉구조 교사월급정리 0 인쇄. 3일 정부가 공개한 2025년 유초중등교원 봉급표에 따르면 9호봉 교원은 1월부터 236만 5500원을 기본급으로 받는다, 직무내용 모집직무 돌봄교사, 교육보조, 사회복지사, 아동돌봄 직무소개 우리 기관은 아이들의 안전하고 행복한 성장을 지원하기 위해 노력합니다. 이 글에서 늘봄학교 교사자격증, 나이 제한, 연봉, 채용 정보에 대해 상세히 알려드리겠습니다. 2021년 17년차 현직 초등학교 교사 연봉. 담임 안하고 특정교과만 들어가는 전일제교사구요. 초등교사 월급과 중등교사 월급 고등교사 월급은 모두 같습니다, 신규 임용된 초임 교사부터 10년차, 20년차, 30년차, 그리고 40년차까지 실제 지급되는 급여 수준을 정리해 보았습니다. Com › 2025초등교사초봉2025 초등교사 초봉 실수령액은. 초등학교 교사는 공무원으로, 호봉에 따라 연봉과 월급이 다르게 책정됩니다, 다른직업에 월급이 선생님 상담선생님들은 간략한 받나요. 교원 급여는 모두 교육공무원 호봉제에 따라 지급되기 때문에, 초등중등고등학교 교사 모두 동일한 봉급표를 적용받아요. 최주부 305 공무원의 보수월급은 민간 근로자에 비해 얼마나, 한국 초등학교 교사 급여는 5907만원, 중고교는 5913만원이었다.
교사 1호봉의 기본급은 약 191만원이며, 경력이 누적될수록 꾸준히 상승합니다, 10호봉, 12월1일내년2월28일까지 딱 3개월 근무입니다, 2025년 발령받은 신규 초등 교사의 예상 세전, 세후 월급에 관한 영상입니다. 여기는 회원 신청을 하면 어느 기관에서 교육과정를 듣고 습득할 수 있었구요, 초등학교 교사의 월급은 교육계에서 중요한 이슈로, 교사들의 경제적 안정과 직업 만족도에 큰 영향을 미칩니다.
신규 교사는 약 3,000만 원, 10년 차는 5,000만 원 수준이에요. ️ 교사 월급은 매년 정해진 호봉표를 따라 오르지만, 근속연수와 승진 여부에 따라 차이가 발생합니다, 관련 기사 2026년 교원 봉급표교사 호봉표 교직경력 30년이 되어 40호봉이 넘어가면 근가 1호봉이 되고, 2025년 발령받은 신규 초등 교사의 예상 세전, 세후 월급에 관한 영상입니다, Gpt, 우리끼리 소소한정보 61개의 글 목록열기. Com › kjobworld › 223866746155초등학교 교사 월급, 임용부터 하루 일과까지 알아보기.
교육부와 한국직업능력연구원이 지난해 발표한 ‘2024년 초중등 진로 교육 현황조사’ 결과에 따르면, ‘교사’는 중고등학생이 희망하는 직업 1위를 차지했습니다. 2025년 초등학교 교사 월급 현황2025년의 초등학교 교사 월급은 기본급이 3%, 초등학교 기간제 교과전담교사 지원하려 합니다. 다른직업에 월급이 선생님 상담선생님들은 간략한 받나요.
2025년 초등학교 교사 월급 현황2025년의 초등학교 교사 월급은 기본급이 3%. 초등학교 교사는 많은 이들이 꿈꾸는 안정적인 직업 중 하나입니다. 이 글에서는 초등학교 교사 연봉, 월급, 그리고 직업의 장단점을 정리하였습니다. 먼저 초등교사월급과 고등교사월급은 기본급 자체는 완전히 동일하다는 점입니다. 호봉제부터 다양한 수당까지, 초등학교 선생님의 실질적인 수입 구조를 함께 살펴볼게요, 먼저 초등교사월급과 고등교사월급은 기본급 자체는 완전히 동일하다는 점입니다.
초등교사의 월급과 연봉, 복지 초등학교 선생님 초등교사 송은주 선생님 초등교사 초등교사월급 초등교사연봉 초등교사 직업과 관련해서 추가. 초등학교 기간제 교과전담교사 지원하려 합니다. 지난해 구매력평가지수ppp로 계산한 한국 국공립 초중고 초임교사의 연간 법정 급여는 3만 6639달러다.
| 선생님은 방학도 많고, 월급도 안정적이라며. | 그는 외식을 일주일에 한 번으로 자제하고 신용카 중앙일보 2024. |
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| 초등교사의 월급과 연봉, 복지 초등학교 선생님. | 초봉은 다소 낮게 느껴질 수 있지만 경력이 길어질수록 보상이 확실히 늘어나는 구조이고, 안정성복지연금까지. |
| 한화로 환산하면 약 3399만 원ppp 달러당. | 교사 1호봉의 기본급은 약 191만원이며, 경력이 누적될수록 꾸준히 상승합니다. |
| 2일 인사혁신처가 발표한 ‘2025년 및 2026년 유치원초등학교중학교고등학교 교원 봉급표’를 비교분석한 결과 주요 호봉에서 월 봉급이 최소 10만 원 이상 상승한 것으로 확인됐다. | 2025년 기준 사범대졸 9호봉, 초임 담임교사의 평달 급여는 2,994,130원6162이다. |
| 고1인데 직업을 못 정하고있어서 고민인데 최근에 부모님이 교육쪽이 안정적이고 사람들 대우도 좋다해서 생각해보고있어요 아무래도 초등학교 교사가 중고등보단 쉬울거라 생각해 초등학교교사. | 다양한 활동을 통해 아이들과 함께 시간을 보내며 따뜻한 돌봄을 제공하는 동행돌봄교사를 모집하고 있습니다. |
Kr › 2025 교사 월급 인상2025 교사 월급 인상, 한국교원단체총연합회교총가 공개한 저연차초등교사 9호봉, 비담임 기준 신규교사의 월 실수령액은 2,309,160원이며, 최저임금 수준과 큰 차이가 나지. 2024년 3월부터 시행된 늘봄학교는 방과후 교육을 전담하는 새로운 체제로, 현재 많은 학교에서 늘봄교사를 채용 중에 있습니다. 하지만 실제로 받는 연봉이 어느 정도인지 잘 모르는 경우가 많습니다.
고1인데 직업을 못 정하고있어서 고민인데 최근에 부모님이 교육쪽이 안정적이고 사람들 대우도 좋다해서 생각해보고있어요 아무래도 초등학교 교사가 중고등보단 쉬울거라 생각해 초등학교교사. 호봉제부터 다양한 수당까지, 초등학교 선생님의 실질적인 수입 구조를 함께 살펴볼게요. 5% 인상되며, 유치원초등중학교고등학교 교원 봉급표호봉별 월 봉급도 함께 공개되었습니다. 여기는 회원 신청을 하면 어느 기관에서 교육과정를 듣고 습득할 수 있었구요, 먼저 초등교사월급과 고등교사월급은 기본급 자체는 완전히 동일하다는 점입니다. 교직에 관심이 있는 분들이라면 급여 수준과 수당에 대해 미리 알아두는 것이 중요합니다.
초등학교 교사는 공무원으로, 호봉에 따라 연봉과 월급이 다르게 책정됩니다, 상여금의 경우, 첫째, 매년 1월과 7월에 정근수당이 지급되는데 정근수당은 지급시점의 기본급 본봉 액수에 만 경력 5%를 한만큼 주어집니다. Kr › 2025 교사 월급 인상2025 교사 월급 인상.
xnxxa 교원 급여는 모두 교육공무원 호봉제에 따라 지급되기 때문에, 초등중등고등학교 교사 모두 동일한 봉급표를 적용받아요. ️ 교사 월급은 매년 정해진 호봉표를 따라 오르지만, 근속연수와 승진 여부에 따라 차이가 발생합니다. 유초중고 동일 봉급표 별표 11, 호봉별 본봉, 실수령액 예시, 기간제교사 기준과 수당 변화, faq까지 한눈에 정리. 초등학교 교사 신입 연봉은 얼마인가요. 초등학교 교사 연봉은 어떻게 되나요. x9buddy
ydith21 2025년 교원 봉급표에 따르면, 초등학교 교사의 기본급은 약 3% 인상되어, 호봉에 따라 차등 지급됩니다. 2025년 교원 봉급표에 따르면, 초등학교 교사의 기본급은 약 3% 인상되어, 호봉에 따라 차등 지급됩니다. 초등학교 교사의 월급은 교육계에서 중요한 이슈로, 교사들의 경제적 안정과 직업 만족도에 큰 영향을 미칩니다. Com › qna › detail초등학교 기간제교사 월급 성과급 지식in. 임용 과정부터 하루 일과, 그리고 많은 분들이 궁금해하는 초등학교 교사 월급까지 함께 살펴보겠습니다. xvode
yako.22 초봉은 다소 낮게 느껴질 수 있지만 경력이 길어질수록 보상이 확실히 늘어나는 구조이고, 안정성복지연금까지. 먼저 초등교사월급과 고등교사월급은 기본급 자체는 완전히 동일하다는 점입니다. 초등학교 교사는 공무원으로, 호봉에 따라 연봉과 월급이 다르게 책정됩니다. 이 글에서는 초등학교 교사 연봉, 월급, 그리고 직업의 장단점을 정리하였습니다. 최주부 305 공무원의 보수월급은 민간 근로자에 비해 얼마나. xhamster100
xhamster70 초등학교교사월급 금액의 실제 범위신규 교사. 교사월급 초등학교교사 초등교사연봉 호봉제 교사수당 담임수당 정근수당 명절휴가비 교직수당 공무원연금 교사초봉 교육공무원 교직장점 교사복지 임용준비 임용정보 임용합격 교직안정성 연봉구조 교사월급정리 0 인쇄. Days ago 2026년 교육공무원 봉급표 및 인상률을 인사혁신처 확정 자료 기준으로 정리했습니다. 저같이 시간이 부족한 주부나 직장인에게 맞는 시스템이 있었드랬죠. 또 지역과 학교급에 따라 교원연구비 및 학생지도비가 최소 5만 5천원에서 최대 7만 5천원까지 주어집니다.
yako02.xom 초등학교 기간제 교과전담교사 지원하려 합니다. 어떻게 돈을 초등교사, 학습지 교사 계속 해야하는지. Com › kjobworld › 223866746155초등학교 교사 월급, 임용부터 하루 일과까지 알아보기. ️ 교사 월급은 매년 정해진 호봉표를 따라 오르지만, 근속연수와 승진 여부에 따라 차이가 발생합니다. 초등교사의 월급과 연봉, 복지 초등학교 선생님.
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.
초등학교 교사는 공무원으로, 호봉에 따라 연봉과 월급이 다르게 책정됩니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.