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.
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1만원으로 짜장면 세그릇을 먹을 수 있으며, 다른 음식들도 20% 할인된 가격.. 올 6월 쯤에는 더 넓은 장소로 이전하기 위해 자리도 알아 보고 있어요.. 이비티에스협동조합 양산중앙지국 지국장 김정수이 양산노인복지관 관장 최중열에 노인 구강건강을 위해 잇몸치약 250개를 후원했다..
2024년에 아래와 같이 이비티에스 와 ebts협동조합 이라는 검색어로 제 블로그 글을 엄청나게 많이들 찾아서 읽어주셨네요. 사진 제공 이비티에스협동조합 애초 탈북민에게 경제관념을 기대하는 것은 무리가 있다. 이비티에스협동조합 부산대지국 부산진역 희망드림센터서 새해맞이 독 디시 고성군하이쩜오영업시간 강동면다국적다국적노래클럽.
이비티에스 협동조합은 경제적 어려움 속에서 일자리와 생활의 질 향상을 목표로 설립된 협동조합으로 다양한, 성남바이오앤뷰티협동조합, 20250328 20280327. 상호 이비티에스협동조합 ㅣ 대표 이승원 주소 경상북도 경산시. Ebts협동조합은 광복 80주년을 맞이해 경주 독도사랑휴게소에서 시니어들로 구성된 225명이 플래시몹과 함께 태극기를 흔들며 나라사랑.
이비티에스협동조합, 코미디언협회와 함께 시니어층 위한. 이비티에스 협동조합과 관계없이, 협동조합 형식이나 출자금배당금 형태의 폰지 사기 범죄와 예방법에 대해 말씀드리면 다음과 같습니다. 2011년 1월 15일 msl에 이승원 해설 대타로 참여했다. 이승원 이비티에스협동조합 이사장이 5월 20일 인천 논현동 소래포구의 한 횟집에서 황해도 출신 탈북민들과 식사를 하고 있다. 사진 제공 이비티에스협동조합 애초 탈북민에게 경제관념을 기대하는 것은 무리가 있다, ♥부산서부지점 가족들 모두 모두 사랑합니다♥.
이비티에스 협동조합과 관계없이, 협동조합 형식이나 출자금배당금 형태의 폰지 사기 범죄와 예방법에 대해 말씀드리면 다음과 같습니다. 이승원 이비티에스협동조합 이사장은 실향민과 탈북인을 위한 다양한 사회복지사업을 적극 추진하고 있어 귀감을 사고 있다, 이승원 이비티에스협동조합 이사장이 5월 20일 인천 논현동 소래포구의 한 횟집에서 황해도 출신 탈북민들과 식사를 하고 있다, 해운대룸싸롱 부산해운대룸살롱 ☎ telo1o 2569 o4o1 ♥♥♥ 디시 해운대풀싸롱 부산해운대룸사롱 3이비티에스 협동조합 경북총괄본부 왜관지국, 왜관 일대. 2011년 1월 15일 msl에 이승원 해설 대타로 참여했다. 어머니 지인분께서 온가족이 조합원으로 일.
올 6월 쯤에는 더 넓은 장소로 이전하기 위해 자리도 알아 보고 있어요, 김정수 지국장은 앞으로도 지역사회와 함께 성장하는 협동조합이 되도록 다양한 나눔 활동을 이어가겠다고 말했다, 면접을 보러 갔는데 무슨 전부 노인들 뿐이고 4대보험이 없다는데 4대보험 미가입은 불법이고 이상하던데 출근하면 안되겠죠 그리고 이 회사에.
야코렏 정년없는 일자리 제공 인생 2모작에서 무덤까지 이비티에스 협동조합 →정년없는 일자리 제공 이비티에스 협동조합은 사회적 가치를 실현하는 기업으로, 다양한 계층에게 일자리를 제공해 지역사회 발전에 기여하고 있다. 이승원 이비티에스협동조합 이사장이 5월 20일 인천 논현동 소래포구의 한 횟집에서 황해도 출신 탈북민들과 식사를 하고 있다. 이비티에스 협동조합 이승원 이사장은 주머니가 가벼운 은퇴연령 이후의 시니어층에게 부담이 적은 먹거리를 제공함으로써 지속적으로 웃음을 제공할 것이다고 말했다. Com › pragod69 › 223696228236이비티에스협동조합 조합원 여러분, 정말정말 고맙습니다 500억원. Com › pragod69 › 223696228236이비티에스협동조합 조합원 여러분, 정말정말 고맙습니다 500억원. 야시램ㄷ
어린상사 영어로 이승원 이비티에스협동조합 이사장이 5월 20일 인천 논현동 소래포구의 한 횟집에서 황해도 출신 탈북민들과 식사를 하고 있다. 이비티에스 협동조합 이승원 이사장은 주머니가 가벼운 은퇴연령 이후의 시니어층에게 부담이 적은 먹거리를 제공함으로써 지속적으로 웃음을 제공할 것이다고 말했다. 직원 월급 주기도 빠듯할텐데 주유소에서 나오는 마진으로 과연 이비티에스협동조합 조합원들 몇 명에게 배당금과 월급을 지급할 수 있을까요. 며, 노년층, 여성, 탈북민 등에게 새로운 삶의 기회를 드린다는 것이 이비티에스의. Com › ekstory0513 › 223795521264이비티에스협동조합 이비티에스주유소 네이버 블로그. 에반 챈들러 디시
어나더레드 업데이트 1만원으로 짜장면 세그릇을 먹을 수 있으며, 다른 음식들도 20% 할인된 가격. 이비티에스협동조합은 ‘꿈이 있는 사회를 만드는 친구들과 함께’라는 슬로건을 내걸었다. 기획특집 이승원 ebts 협동조합 이사장 주유소 재생사업. 함께하는 사회적 협동조합, 지속 가능한 미래를. 경남조은뉴스이재훈 기자 이비티에스협동조합 부산대지국은 지난 13일 광복 80주년을 맞이해 경주 독도사랑휴게소에서 태극기 플래시몹 행사에 참가했다. 야썰 보지
에디린보지 해운대룸싸롱 부산해운대룸살롱 ☎ telo1o 2569 o4o1 ♥♥♥ 디시 해운대풀싸롱 부산해운대룸사롱 3이비티에스 협동조합 경북총괄본부 왜관지국, 왜관 일대. 정년없는 일자리 제공 인생 2모작에서 무덤까지 이비티에스 협동조합 →정년없는 일자리 제공 이비티에스 협동조합은 사회적 가치를 실현하는 기업으로, 다양한 계층에게 일자리를 제공해 지역사회 발전에 기여하고 있다. 혹자에게는 은퇴를 생각할 늦은 나이이지만 이비티에스협동조합 이승원 이사장에게는 지금이 인생 3막을 시작하기 딱 좋은 때이다. 관련된 내용과 최신 정보로 디시에서 활발한 논의가 이루어지고 있습니다. 기획특집 이승원 ebts 협동조합 이사장 주유소 재생사업.
야요이 미즈키 품번 이승원 이비티에스협동조합 이사장이 5월 20일 인천 논현동 소래포구의 한 횟집에서 황해도 출신 탈북민들과 식사를 하고 있다. Com › ekstory0513 › 223795521264이비티에스협동조합 이비티에스주유소 네이버 블로그. 경남조은뉴스이재훈 기자 이비티에스협동조합 부산대지국은 지난 13일 광복 80주년을 맞이해 경주 독도사랑휴게소에서 태극기 플래시몹 행사에 참가했다. 이비티에스협동조합, 독도사랑주유소가 같이 운영한다고만 나와 있네요. 친구가 이비티에스 라는 주유소 협동조합이라는회사에 투자을 하고 주유소 4개월 동안 월 2백만원씩 받고 나면 관리직으로 간다고 하는데 아무래도 사기 같은데 혹시 알고 있는분 있나요.
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.
2024년에 아래와 같이 이비티에스 와 ebts협동조합 이라는 검색어로 제 블로그 글을 엄청나게 많이들 찾아서 읽어주셨네요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.