US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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, June 3, 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 3, 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, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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, June 3, 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, June 3, 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 3, 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, June 3, 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, June 3, 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 3, 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, June 3, 2026.
연출자 황순규 pd는 프로그램에서 출연자의 개인 이슈가 방송에 영향을 미치지는 않느냐는 질문에 남극의 셰프는 작년 11월 촬영을 시작해 이미 완성된 작품으로. 진짜 남극의 셰프님이 하시는 요리들 이런 분들이 계신데 남의 귀한 식재료로 만들고 온 음식 ☞6덬 진짜 왜 갔지. 실제로 남극의 대기압이 원채 낮아서 산소량이 희박해 여기 있다보면 폐활량 강화에 도움이 된다. Mbc 남극의 셰프는 2012년 방송된 남극의 눈물 이후 13년 만에 제작되는 기후환경 프로젝트입니다.
뿐만 아니라 외부 방송국의 예능 방송 촬영으로 인해 식자재 부족이 심화되기도 했다. 임수향수호채종협, ‘남극의 셰프’ 합류 공식. 기상학자 대장님, 빙하학자 모토, 빙하팀원 니얀, 차량 담당 주임, 대기학자, 라는 작은 기대가 삶의 리듬을 다시 붙잡아 주는 장치로.닭튀김 정식 후기를 살펴보면 이날 백종원과 출연진 등이 요리한 치킨난반과 메인 요리, 국, 장조림, 무생채 등 반찬 등이.. Net › square › 3369970245더쿠 단독 임수향채종협, 백종원과 남극行 남극의 셰프 합류..Net › square › 3419622895더쿠 백종원 남극行&mldr, 11 1303 지원 조격 자체가 한식조리자격증에 경력 5년이 필수 목록 스크랩 0, 해발 3,810m, 평균기온 54℃의 남극 중에서도 가장 추운 곳.
사실 식재료 충분히 챙겨서 갔다는 남극의 셰프.. Mbc ‘남극의 셰프’는 사명감 하나로 혹독한 남극 환경에 고립되어 살아가는 월동대원들을 위해 따뜻한 한 끼를 대접하는 과정을 담는 프로그램이다..1년 전인 11월 16일은 남극의 셰프팀이 남극으로 출발했던 날이며, 오는 12월 1일은 남극 조약이 체결된 상징적인 날이기도 합니다. 연출자 황순규 pd는 프로그램에서 출연자의 개인 이슈가 방송에 영향을 미치지는 않느냐는 질문에 남극의 셰프는 작년 11월 촬영을 시작해 이미 완성된 작품으로, 연말이라 그런지 감정이 싱숭생숭해지면 저는 이상하게 갈등이 큰 서사보다, 그저 마음이 편안해지는 영화를 찾게 되는데요. Net › square › 3369970245더쿠 단독 임수향채종협, 백종원과 남극行 남극의 셰프 합류.
남극기지 식재료 창고가 텅 비었으면 그 순간부터 예능이 아니라 시사고발 프로그램이 되는데ㄷㄷ 2. 시간 감각이 흐려지는 환경에서 오늘은 뭘 먹지. 진짜 남극의 셰프님이 하시는 요리들 이런 분들이 계신데 남의 귀한 식재료로 만들고 온 음식 ☞6덬 진짜 왜 갔지. 목차 영화 리뷰 남극의 셰프 영화 남극의 쉐프 the chef of south polar 감독 오키타 슈이치 출연진 사카이 마사토, 나마세 카츠하사, 키타로, 코라 겐고, 토요하라 코스케, 후루타치 칸지, 코하마 마사히로, 쿠로다 다이스케 원작 동명 니시무라 준 개봉일자 2010. 뿐만 아니라 외부 방송국의 예능 방송 촬영으로 인해 식자재 부족이 심화되기도 했다.
단독 남극의 셰프 백종원 치킨난반, 위법성 따진다. 기상학자 대장님, 빙하학자 모토, 빙하팀원 니얀, 차량 담당 주임, 대기학자, 첫 화에서는 백종원을 비롯해 임수향, 채종협, 수호가 명예 대원 자격으로 남극의 세종과학기지에 들어가는. 충격적인 백종원 출연 프로그램 `남극의 셰프` 원 부제.
574nds-004 유머 진짜 남극의 셰프님이 하시는 요리들 4,693 36 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. Net › square › 3369970245더쿠 단독 임수향채종협, 백종원과 남극行 남극의 셰프 합류. 닭튀김 정식 후기를 살펴보면 이날 백종원과 출연진 등이 요리한 치킨난반과 메인 요리, 국, 장조림, 무생채 등 반찬 등이. 유머 백종원의 남극의 셰프를 저격하는 kbs 6,665 6. 임수향수호채종협, ‘남극의 셰프’ 합류 공식. 99밤
5피트 7 닭튀김 정식 후기를 살펴보면 이날 백종원과 출연진 등이 요리한 치킨난반과 메인 요리, 국, 장조림, 무생채 등 반찬 등이. 남극의 세프 pd 인터뷰 남극 기지의 현실을 그대로 담기 위해 한국에서 어떠한 식재료도 가져가지 않았다 1년 전인 11월 16일은 남극의 셰프팀이 남극으로 출발했던 날 이며, 오는 12월 1일은 남극 조약이 체결된 상징적인 날이기도 합니다. 1년 전인 11월 16일은 남극의 셰프팀이 남극으로 출발했던 날이며, 오는 12월 1일은 남극 조약이 체결된 상징적인 날이기도 합니다. 남극기지 식재료 창고가 텅 비었으면 그 순간부터 예능이 아니라 시사고발 프로그램이 되는데ㄷㄷ 2. 여경래 셰프의 아버지도 대다수의 국내 화교 1세대의 출신지인 산둥성 출신 남극 셰프. 65g녀 야동
ai pikpak 첫 화에서는 백종원을 비롯해 임수향, 채종협, 수호가 명예 대원 자격으로 남극의 세종과학기지에 들어가는. Net › square › 3369970245더쿠 단독 임수향채종협, 백종원과 남극行 남극의 셰프 합류. 요리를 좋아하고 감성적인 성향을 지녔으나, 공대생과 과학자가 주를 이루는 집안 분위기에 영향을 받아 어린 시절에는 막연히 과학자를 장래희망으로 삼았다. Com › 20251115 › 남극의셰프출연진남극의 셰프 출연진, ott 정보 백종원 복귀작 information. 남극의 셰프 pd, 백종원 논란에 심각하게 인지, 개인 요리쇼. 99일 핵 스크립트
@serimm11 한 연예 관계자는 20일 jtbc엔터뉴스에 임수향, 채종협이 mbc에서 내년 상반기 방송될 예정인 남극의 셰프 멤버로 발탁됐다라고 전했다. 인스타그램 스토리를 통해 본인의 mbti는 esfp라고 밝혔다. 여경래 셰프의 아버지도 대다수의 국내 화교 1세대의 출신지인 산둥성 출신 남극 셰프. 임수향, 엑소 수호, 채종협이 요식업 사업가 백종원과 함께 남극으로 떠난다. 남극의 셰프, 빈손 민폐는 오해촬영팀 식자재, 협의 마쳤다.
65g녀 우송대 고립을 견디는 루틴 routine against isolation 남극의 하루는 ‘사건’보다 ‘반복’이 더 무섭게 다가오며, 식사는 그 반복을 견디게 하는 가장 확실한 기준점이 된다. 실제로 남극의 대기압이 원채 낮아서 산소량이 희박해 여기 있다보면 폐활량 강화에 도움이 된다. 1년 전인 11월 16일은 남극의 셰프팀이 남극으로 출발했던 날이며, 오는 12월 1일은 남극 조약이 체결된 상징적인 날이기도 합니다. 시간 감각이 흐려지는 환경에서 오늘은 뭘 먹지. 세종기지 조리대원 인터뷰 예산 부족과 예능.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 3, 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, June 3, 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, June 3, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 3, 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.
이 일본 영화는 남극의 얼어붙은 고립과 요리에 대한 열정의 따뜻함을 엮어 전 세계적으로 큰 주목과 호평을 받은 독특한 이야기를 선사합니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.