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.
이처럼 오해원의 사례는 아이돌 그룹 멤버 개인의 활약이 그룹 전체의 성장을 이끌 수 있다는 것을 보여주는 좋은 예시다. 푸리나, 파루잔 원화가 남성혐오 논란 2. 가수 더원이 딸의 양육비 논란에 대해 입을 연다. 강백호는 지난 20일 한화와 4년 최대 100억원 규모의 프리에이전트 fa 계약을 맺었다.
최근 공개되 논란중인 오해원 데뷔전 과거사진 ㄷㄷ. 다만 이 프로그램에 참여하려면 일반 고객은 1000만 위안 약 20억 원, 프라이빗 뱅킹 고객은 500만 위안 약 10억원을 신규 예치해야 한다는 조건이 붙었다. 현재 국내에서 캄보디아 대형 민간기업 ‘프린스 그룹 prince group’의 프린스 은행이 한국계 은행들의 캄보디아 현지 법인에 약 912억 원 규모의 예금을 보유하고 있으며 이 자금이 범죄 수익과 연관돼 있을 수 있다는 의혹이 제기되고 있다. 그러나 서장훈은 은퇴 후 잠깐의 휴식기를 가진 뒤 곧바로 방송에 입문하였고, 예능에 완전히 정착하면서 본격적인 연예계 활동을 시작하였다.오해원 논란 진짜 어이가없네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ.. 보험부채의 인식 여부와 계약자 권리를 어떻게 구분해 설명할 것인지 등이 쟁점으로 부상한 가운데, 전문가들.. Kr › view › akr2026012916250000230조 추산 삼성생명 유배당계약자 몫 보험부채 0원 공시 논란..오해원 이건 쫌 논란이 되겠는데 자유, 이 소식이 알려지자 중국 sns에서 즉각적인 반발이 일어났다. 오는 29일에 방송되는 mbc 휴먼다큐 사람이 좋다에서는 가수 더원의 이야기가 전파를 탄다, 카베, 나히다를 이용한 오브젝트 핵 사건 3. Hours ago 서울뉴시스 변해정 기자 김용석 국토교통부 대도시권광역교통위원회대광위 위원장이 15억원대 재산을 신고했다. 다만 이 프로그램에 참여하려면 일반 고객은 1000만 위안 약 20억 원, 프라이빗 뱅킹 고객은 500만 위안 약 10억원을 신규 예치해야 한다는 조건이 붙었다.
해명할까 말까 생각했는데 굳이 안 했다고 말했다, 엔믹스nmixx의 오해원이 쌓은 호감도가 그룹 전체로 확산하며 긍정적인 영향을 미치고 있다. 사과받고 싶습니다라는 제목의 글을 올렸다. Day ago 삼성생명의 유배당보험 계약을 둘러싼 보험부채 0원 공시를 놓고 논란이 이어지고 있다.
현재 국내에서 캄보디아 대형 민간기업 ‘프린스 그룹 prince group’의 프린스 은행이 한국계 은행들의 캄보디아 현지 법인에 약 912억 원 규모의 예금을 보유하고 있으며 이 자금이 범죄 수익과 연관돼 있을 수 있다는 의혹이 제기되고 있다, Days ago ‘상금 3억원’ 최강록, 새벽 귀가칼 갈기하다 외도 오해딸도 몰랐다 mk스포츠 ‘린과 이혼’ 이수, 혼인 중 매입한 강남 건물로 초대박 터트렸다 70억 잭팟 mk스포츠 제니, ‘샴페인 걸’ 논란에도 생일 사진 공개사과 대신 선택한 자신감 mk스포츠, 싶었는데 자꾸 댓글에서 저게 남돌이었어봐라벌써 난리나고 뉴스에 기사에 이미 매장당했다이러니까 이젠 걍 오해, 20일 유튜브 채널 ‘뜬뜬’에는 ‘250320 mini핑계고 유재석, 엔믹스해원, 설윤, 배이 @뜬뜬편집실 onecam ep, 이날 게스트로 출연한 엔믹스 해원은 자신의 나무위키에 올라온 정보에 대해 외고를 준비했다는. Kr › _sn › 0117_202410021443355991y초점 엔믹스 오해원, 정말 ‘외모췍’ 이 유행어 하나로 떴을까.
첨엔 나도 엥 아이돌이 팬싸에서 저런 행동을. 사과받고 싶습니다라는 제목의 글을 올렸다. Tv리포트배효진 기자 구독자 400만에 육박하는 채널에서 대치동 거주 초등학생들과 재력으로 우열을 가리는 듯한 대화를 나눠 논란이 일고 있다, Kr › news › view30조 추산 삼성생명 유배당계약자 몫 보험부채 0원 공시 논란. Days ago ‘상금 3억원’ 최강록, 새벽 귀가칼 갈기하다 외도 오해딸도 몰랐다 mk스포츠 ‘린과 이혼’ 이수, 혼인 중 매입한 강남 건물로 초대박 터트렸다 70억 잭팟 mk스포츠 제니, ‘샴페인 걸’ 논란에도 생일 사진 공개사과 대신 선택한 자신감 mk스포츠, 오는 29일에 방송되는 mbc 휴먼다큐 사람이 좋다에서는 가수 더원의 이야기가 전파를 탄다.
일단, 제작진부터 선민의식 있는 것 같아서 문제이기는 한데. 텐아시아조나연 기자 서예지가 루머에 대한 심경을 밝혔다, 보험부채의 인식 여부와 계약자 권리를 어떻게 구분해 설명할 것인지 등이 쟁점으로 부상한 가운데, 전문가들, 써프라이드 치킨 19,900원 자메이카 통다리는 19,500원으로 매우 창렬스러운 가격으로 오른다.
심지어 대부분의 점포는 수수료를 이유로 공식bbq앱 포함 배달앱 주문이나 기프티콘,카카오톡 선물하기 등의 주문은 받지않거나 치킨무를 빼는 등의 횡포를 부리는데. 현재 국내에서 캄보디아 대형 민간기업 ‘프린스 그룹 prince group’의 프린스 은행이 한국계 은행들의 캄보디아 현지 법인에 약 912억 원 규모의 예금을 보유하고 있으며 이 자금이 범죄 수익과 연관돼 있을 수 있다는 의혹이 제기되고 있다, 30일 방송된 tv조선 예능프로그램 식객 허영만의 백반기행에서는 허영만과 서예지가 강원도 원주 나들이에 나섰다.
Net › news › articleview삼성생명 유배당보험 보험부채 0원 논란&mldr, 최근 공개되 논란중인 오해원 데뷔전 과거사진 ㄷㄷ no photo description available, 강백호는 지난 20일 한화와 4년 최대 100억원 규모의 프리에이전트 fa 계약을 맺었다. 일단, 제작진부터 선민의식 있는 것 같아서 문제이기는 한데.
성폭행 성매매 논란 및 유흥업소 출입 7.. 어머 최근 공개되 논란중인 오해원 데뷔전 과거사진 ㄷㄷ..
첨엔 나도 엥 아이돌이 팬싸에서 저런 행동을, 카리나는 28일 팬 커뮤니티 플랫폼 버블을 통해, 띄어쓰기 는 맞춤법 사이에서도 특히 어렵고 헷갈리기 쉽, 일단, 제작진부터 선민의식 있는 것 같아서 문제이기는 한데.
서유하 노출 영상이라는 자극적인 제목으로 유포되는 링크들은 대부분 피싱 또는 바이럴 read more, 그러나 서장훈은 은퇴 후 잠깐의 휴식기를 가진 뒤 곧바로 방송에 입문하였고, 예능에 완전히 정착하면서 본격적인 연예계 활동을 시작하였다, 우영우 패러디를 통한 자폐장애인 비하 논란 1. 이처럼 오해원의 사례는 아이돌 그룹 멤버 개인의 활약이 그룹 전체의 성장을 이끌 수 있다는 것을 보여주는 좋은 예시다.
| 최근 오석준 대법관의 800원 버스기사 해고. | Tv리포트배효진 기자 구독자 400만에 육박하는 채널에서 대치동 거주 초등학생들과 재력으로 우열을 가리는 듯한 대화를 나눠 논란이 일고 있다. |
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| 보험부채의 인식 여부와 계약자 권리를 어떻게 구분해 설명할 것인지 등이 쟁점으로 부상한 가운데, 전문가들. | 서유하 노출 영상이라는 자극적인 제목으로 유포되는 링크들은 대부분 피싱 또는 바이럴 read more. |
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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.
이처럼 오해원의 사례는 아이돌 그룹 멤버 개인의 활약이 그룹 전체의 성장을 이끌 수 있다는 것을 보여주는 좋은 예시다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.