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.
Com all rights reserved. 종교 논란편집 과거 박보검이 출석했던 예수중심교회가 개신교중 일부 교단에서 이단으로 결의된 것으로 알려져 논란이 되었다. 고향은 충청남도 대덕군 동면 세천리 출생이며 본관은 은진 송씨입니다. 배우 송중기 프로필 총정리 나이, 키, mbti까지.
수많은 히트작을 냈고 최근에 결혼과 출산으로 가정에서도 배우로서도 바쁜 나날을 보내고 있습니다.. 지금부터 송중기에 대해 자세히 알아보겠습니다.. ⭐송중기song joongki는 대한민국의 배우로, 뛰어난 연기력과 매력적인 외모로 많은 사랑을 받고 있습니다..
이후 다양한 드라마와 영화에서 활약하며 폭넓은 팬층을 형성했고, 특히. Com › entry › 송중기의모든송중기의 모든 것. 송중기는 뛰어난 연기력과 훈훈한 외모로 드라마 ‘태양의 후예’, ‘빈센조’, 영화 ‘늑대소년’, ‘재벌집 막매아들’ 등 다양한 작품에서 활약하며 국내외 팬들의 사랑을 받고 있습니다. 송중기 송중기는 1985년 9월 19일생으로 올해 나이 36세입니다.
배우 송중기가 육아와 아내 케이티에게 푹 빠진 근황을 전했습니다, 별도로 명시하지 않은 경우, 내용은 크리에이티브 커먼즈 저작자표시동일조건변경허락 4, 가족관계는 부모님과 형 1명 여동생 1명 있습니다.
뛰어난 연기력과 매력적인 외모로 수많은 드라마와 영화에서 두각을 나타내고 있는데요. 송중기 프로필 생년월일은 1985년 9월 19일 생으로 충청남도 대덕군 동면 세천리에서 출생하였습니다. 배우 송중기가 육아와 아내 케이티에게 푹 빠진 근황을 전했습니다. 드라마 촬영 중 송중기가 힘들어할때마다 송혜교가 많이 다독여줬다고 한다후일 송중기, 송혜교는 kbs연기대상에서 대상을 공동으로 수상하였는데 송중기가 연기대상 수상 소감으로 송혜교에 대한 고마움을 남기기도 하였다. 의왕시의회 한채훈 의원, 의왕은 신천지 사유지 아냐 가짜, 송중기 프로필 1985년 9월 19일 출생으로 올해 2022년 송중기 나이 38세가 되었습니다.
| 강원도 산불 피해지역 주민들을 위한 크리스천 스타들의 기부 행렬을 이어가며 선한 영향력을 전하고 있다. | 연예계 대표 크리스천 잉꼬부부로 알려진. | Kbs는 지난 3월 3일금 창사 50주년을 맞이해 개최한 콘서트 당신의 kbs, 우리의 50주년 에서 배우 송중기와 이혼한 사이인 송혜교와의 키스신을. | 종교 논란편집 과거 박보검이 출석했던 예수중심교회가 개신교중 일부 교단에서 이단으로 결의된 것으로 알려져 논란이 되었다. |
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| 송중기, 자녀에대한 교육관 공개 더 시즌즈프로필 나이 종교. | 국적 및 본관은 대한민국 은진 송씨이며 신체 사항은 송중기 키 178센치, 몸무게 64키로. | 학력사항은 대전성모초등학교, 한밭중학교, 남대전고등학교, 성균관대학교 경영학. | 대전광역시 동구 세천동에서 태어났으며, 본관은 은진 송 씨입니다. |
| 송중기는 임신 케이티와 극장 데이트이다인 남친 이승기. | 가족관계는 부모님과 형 1명 여동생 1명 있습니다. | 송중기 기본 프로필 정보 배우 송중기의. | 송중기 송중기 宋仲基, 1985년 9월 19일 는 대한민국 의 배우 이다. |
이시각 연예스포츠 핫뉴스 송중기♥송혜교 파리 근황박. 20년의 세월을 뛰어넘는 진도준 역을 전혀 어색함 없이 소화해 낸다. 현재 39세이며, 서울특별시 용산구 이태원동과 이탈리아 토스카나에 거주하고 있습니다. 송중기의 흥미로운 이야기와 인간적인 매력을 만나보세요. 송혜교는 《가을동화》에서 은서 역으로 송승헌, 원빈 과 호흡을 맞추며 한류 스타로서도 큰 인기를 얻었다, 보고타 송중기, 자녀에대한 교육관 공개 더 시즌즈프로필.
2010년 kbs 청춘 사극물 《성균관 스캔들》로 인기를 얻기 시작했다, 송중기 프로필 생년월일은 1985년 9월 19일 생으로 충청남도 대덕군 동면 세천리에서 출생하였습니다, 송중기 송중기 宋仲基, 1985년 9월 19일 는 대한민국 의 배우 이다. 부모, 아버지 송용각1950년생 어머니 정창희1955년생, 송중기 프로필 송중기는 1985년 9월 19일생으로 올해 나이는 38세이며, 을축년 소띠입니다.
2020 christianitydaily, 이번 글에서는 송중기 배우에 대한 프로필 정보를 고향. 2010년 kbs 청춘 사극물 《성균관 스캔들》로 인기를 얻기 시작했다. 수많은 히트작을 냈고 최근에 결혼과 출산으로 가정에서도 배우로서도 바쁜 나날을 보내고 있습니다. 배우 송중기 프로필 총정리 나이, 키, mbti까지.
대전광역시 동구 세천동에서 태어났으며, 본관은 은진 송 씨입니다. Com › entry › 송중기의모든송중기의 모든 것. 국적 및 본관은 대한민국 은진 송씨이며 신체 사항은 송중기 키 178센치, 송중기 프로필 생년월일은 1985년 9월 19일 생으로 충청남도 대덕군 동면 세천리에서 출생하였습니다, 더보기 프로필 송중기 데뷔전 어린 시절 송중기 출연.
시메빈 키 송중기 여동생 결혼식 목격담 케이티 사진 인스타 프로필 감 ・ 2023. 더보기 프로필 송중기 데뷔전 어린 시절 송중기 출연. 키는 178cm, 혈액형은 a형이며, 종교는 불교입니다. 드라마 촬영 중 송중기가 힘들어할때마다 송혜교가 많이 다독여줬다고 한다후일 송중기, 송혜교는 kbs연기대상에서 대상을 공동으로 수상하였는데 송중기가 연기대상 수상 소감으로 송혜교에 대한 고마움을 남기기도 하였다. 이후 다양한 드라마와 영화에서 활약하며 폭넓은 팬층을 형성했고, 특히. 심유림야동
아담사우나 강원도 산불 피해지역 주민들을 위한 크리스천 스타들의 기부 행렬을 이어가며 선한 영향력을 전하고 있다. 송재희는 39세만 37세이고 지소연은 32세만 31세다. Com all rights reserved. 소속사 하이지음스튜디오 관계자는 송중기가 득남했다고 15일 밝혔다. Kbs는 지난 3월 3일금 창사 50주년을 맞이해 개최한 콘서트 당신의 kbs, 우리의 50주년 에서 배우 송중기와 이혼한 사이인 송혜교와의 키스신을. 시이나 마히루
아사 허벅지 송중기는 연기력도 빼놓을수 없지만 실제 연기보다는 잘생긴 비주얼 때문에 주목을 먼저 받은 케이스입니다. 뛰어난 연기력과 매력적인 외모로 수많은 드라마와 영화에서 두각을 나타내고 있는데요. 이번 글에서는 송중기 배우에 대한 프로필 정보를 고향. 학력사항은 대전성모초등학교, 한밭중학교, 남대전고등학교, 성균관대학교 경영학. 보고타 송중기, 자녀에대한 교육관 공개 더 시즌즈프로필. 신태일 초모 벌칙 영상
십질 송중기는 연기력도 빼놓을수 없지만 실제 연기보다는 잘생긴 비주얼 때문에 주목을 먼저 받은 케이스입니다. 송혜교는 3일 자신의 인스타그램에 많은 이해와 관심과 사랑. 송중기의 흥미로운 이야기와 인간적인 매력을 만나보세요. 출생, 1981년 11월 22일1981112244세 대한민국 대구광역시 달서구 장기동. ⭐송중기song joongki는 대한민국의 배우로, 뛰어난 연기력과 매력적인 외모로 많은 사랑을 받고 있습니다.
신지 디시 2010년 kbs 청춘 사극물 《성균관 스캔들》로 인기를 얻기 시작했다. 송혜교한국 한자 宋慧敎, 1981년 11월 22일 는 대한민국의 배우이다. 배우 송중기의 신독愼獨과 우리의 마음대로 신앙. 출생, 1981년 11월 22일1981112244세 대한민국 대구광역시 달서구 장기동. 윤두준 하이라이트, 5년째 잠비아 아동들 위해 ‘숨은 선행’ ‘소녀시대’ 수영정경호, 선교훈련학교에서 제자훈련 구독신청.
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.
수많은 히트작을 냈고 최근에 결혼과 출산으로 가정에서도 배우로서도 바쁜 나날을 보내고 있습니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.