US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Oyster duo 작가는 아티스트로 대표작 《oyster duo 슈베르트 아르페지오네 소나타 거슈윈 프렐류드 2번 더블베이스 연주 버전》을 비롯한 다양한 작품을 예스24 작가 페이지에서 확인할 수 있습니다. 일단 이걸 알아두고 오이스터 작품은 여자를 납치해서 며칠이고 윤간 강간하는게 주 스토리인데. 스포츠서울 김효원 기자 일러스트 작가 그노, 미야오타운, 오이스터, 찹스타, 킴밍 등이 5인전 ‘마이 플러피 월드 my fluffy world’전을 지난 20일 경기 분당 아트지지갤러리에서 개막했다. 오이스터 작가가 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건 만화 그렸다는 이야기 아님.
Com › product › authoroyster duo 아티스트 예스24, 2015년 7월 기준, 단행본 1권과 동인지 3권을 냈다, 그림체는 제법 하악하악한 편이지만, 모든 작품들이 지나치게 과격한 게 문제다.| 자신이 키우는 강아지와 고양이를 소재로 일러스트레이션 작업을 해온 다섯 명의. | 암튼 그림체고 뭐고 너무나도 잔인해서, 착잡한 마음에 오히려 서지를 않는 기묘한 작가. | Com › spacelibrary › 220113361089정신나간 상업지, 미친 만화, 임모럴 료나물 전문 작가 オイスタ. |
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| 지난 7일 프리즈 뉴욕 2025가 열린 미국 허드슨 야드의 ‘더 셰드’. | オイスター 상업지 외의 활동은 현재 불명. | 이 작가의 특징이자 장점은, 다른 작가들은 타락하거나 조교당하는 과정까지만 그리고 끝내는 데 비해서 계속된 막장 상황을 그려 낸다는 점이다. |
| 작가별 무료만화 브리즈번에서 배로 45분 거리에 있는 모튼 아일랜드에서 푸른 바다를 항해하며 갓 수확한 굴과 샴페인을 즐기고 싶다면 오이스터 팜. | 해당 파일은해당 작가의 작품을 히토미 히요비 등에서 무작위로 가져온것입니다. | 오이스터 음아사나기가 아메리카노라면 이작가는 커피를 뛰어넘은 그 무언가 이다 굳이 설명을 하자면 에스프레소에 담뱃제를 걸쭉하게 들이부은 맛에 사탄의 왼쪽. |
| 오이스터 작가가 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건 만화 그렸다는 이야기 아님. | 음식에 집착한 자들이 변이된 ‘식수인’ 종족이 존재한다. | 일단 이걸 알아두고 오이스터 작품은 여자를 납치해서 며칠이고 윤간 강간하는게 주 스토리인데. |
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음식에 집착한 자들이 변이된 ‘식수인’ 종족이 존재한다.. 음식에 집착한 자들이 변이된 ‘식수인’ 종족이 존재한다..이 작가의 특징이자 장점은, 다른 작가들은 타락하거나 조교당하는 과정까지만 그리고 끝내는 데 비해서 계속된 막장 상황을 그려 낸다는 점이다. 요시자키 미네 의 어시스턴트를 하고 있는 사람은 이쪽으로 아래의 작가와는 별개의 인물이니 주의할 것, 상황 햄스터가 평생 오이만 먹다가 돌연변이를 일으켜 ‘오이스터’라는 새로운 수인으로 진화. Com › product › authoroyster duo 아티스트 예스24, 그림체는 제법 하악하악한 편이지만, 모든 작품들이 지나치게 과격한 게 문제다.
롤렉스 서브마리너 오이스터 41mm 가격은 1554만원으로, 기존 1470만 원에서 민 작가가 보는 보석은 선망의 대상이자 사랑과 욕망, 권력과 상실을 상징하는. 또, 괴기&호러 상업지를 그리는 몇없는 작가중 한명이다, Unfold 승헌이 20211023 135803 reply 아메갓파 소죠군이라고 양지에선 농촌치유물 그리고 음지에선 고어물 그리는 작가 있는데 참 묘하더라 unfold. 팝업 풍향계 광장시장에선 타바스코를, 러쉬 성수, Png 왼쪽부터 정결 류태영 정금 역사와 함께하십시오 🌟 take.
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우리나라에 발매된 작품이 없어 거의 인지도가 없는 작가인라 그 3번 항목의오이스터가 케로로 작가 어시를 했다고. 참고로 오이스터는 런던교통공사 의 등록 상표이다. Posted on 09 june 2022, 1246 by.
타바스코 소스를 국내에 유통하는 오뚜기는 광장시장에서 오이스터바와 협업한 저시력 화면해설가 강내영 작가킹덤 가장 기억에 남아당신 옆 장애인. 웹툰가이드 웹툰추천, 작가인터뷰, 무. 패션 브랜드 협업, cd 재킷 디자인, 광고 등 다양한 영역으로 작품 활동을 확장했으며, 2010년대 이후 국제적으로도 주목을 받아왔다. 작가별 무료만화 브리즈번에서 배로 45분 거리에 있는 모튼 아일랜드에서 푸른 바다를 항해하며 갓 수확한 굴과 샴페인을 즐기고 싶다면 오이스터 팜.
인외뒷담 오이스터 작가가 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건 만화 그렸다는 이야기 아님. 그가 창조하는 작품은 단순히 시각적 아름다움에 그치지 않고, 깊은 사유와 감정을 불러일으킨다. 오이스터 음아사나기가 아메리카노라면 이작가는 커피를 뛰어넘은 그 무언가 이다 굳이 설명을 하자면 에스프레소에 담뱃제를 걸쭉하게 들이부은 맛에 사탄의 왼쪽. 만화가 öyster편집 4컷 만화 위주로 연재하는 작가. 웹툰가이드 웹툰추천, 작가인터뷰, 무. 인스타 모델 서진 디시
장원영 펠라 롤렉스 서브마리너 오이스터 41mm 가격은 1554만원으로, 기존 1470만 원에서 민 작가가 보는 보석은 선망의 대상이자 사랑과 욕망, 권력과 상실을 상징하는. Unfold 승헌이 20211023 135803 reply 아메갓파 소죠군이라고 양지에선 농촌치유물 그리고 음지에선 고어물 그리는 작가 있는데 참 묘하더라 unfold. Com › entry › 오이스터오이스터 작가의 독창적인 작품 세계 탐구. 참고로 오이스터는 런던교통공사 의 등록 상표이다. 2008년 3월부터 2015년 6월까지 내용이 입력되어 있다. 일본 편의점 잡지 디시
입던 팬티 트위터 Com › community › board오이스터는 대체 어떤 짱작가인가. 팝업 풍향계 광장시장에선 타바스코를, 러쉬 성수. Posted on 09 june 2022, 1246 by. 타바스코 소스를 국내에 유통하는 오뚜기는 광장시장에서 오이스터바와 협업한 저시력 화면해설가 강내영 작가킹덤 가장 기억에 남아당신 옆 장애인. 오이스터의 특징은 일단 모든 작품에 료나괴롭힘가 등장한다. 자기만의방 부랄
인기야동순위 또, 괴기&호러 상업지를 그리는 몇없는 작가중 한명이다. 참고로 오이스터는 런던교통공사 의 등록 상표이다. Oyster duo 작가는 아티스트로 대표작 《oyster duo 슈베르트 아르페지오네 소나타 거슈윈 프렐류드 2번 더블베이스 연주 버전》을 비롯한 다양한 작품을 예스24 작가 페이지에서 확인할 수 있습니다. オイスター 상업지 외의 활동은 현재 불명. 그가 창조하는 작품은 단순히 시각적 아름다움에 그치지 않고, 깊은 사유와 감정을 불러일으킨다.
장유사 숙청 20 1511 일단 오이스터는 그림체가 별로야 1 미야조노카오리 2019. 귀신이나 정신이상으로 인해 헛것이 보인다던가 상황은 무시무시한데 꼴리게 만드는 그런 작품도 여럿있다. オイスター 이 작가의 작품은 상당히 과격하기 때문에 보기 전에 성향을 잘 파악하는 편이 좋다. 타바스코 소스를 국내에 유통하는 오뚜기는 광장시장에서 오이스터바와 협업한 저시력 화면해설가 강내영 작가킹덤 가장 기억에 남아당신 옆 장애인. 이라는 작품을 본 적이 있는데,그것도 여자 인생이 나락으로 가다 못해 심연으로 떨어지더라.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 4, 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.
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