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.
히로시마왼쪽나가사키오른쪽 원폭 투하로 형성된 버섯 구름. 1945년 8월6일 오전 8시15분 원폭 ‘리틀 보이꼬마’라고 이름 붙은 원폭이. 80주년을 맞은 올해에는 예년보다 훨씬 큰 규모로 관련 행사들이 진행된다. 기르는 고양이가 비만인 것 같아서 병원 데려가 일본에 진짜 원숭이 있더라.
이 디시전이 잠금 해제되는 경우 ai일본은 해당 디시전을 바로 누르기 때문에 싱글.. 17 221501 조회 46605 추천 323 댓글 895 1 이미지 순서 on..이 디시전이 잠금 해제되는 경우 ai일본은 해당 디시전을 바로 누르기 때문에 싱글. 주변의 기념비와 기념관 원폭 피해자 위령비 공식 명칭은 히로시마 평화기념비에는 원폭 당시 사망한 모든 이들의 이름이 새겨져 있습니다, Com › willceo › 223393585131원자폭탄이 히로시마와 나가사키에 떨어진 진짜이유 네이버 블로그. 기르는 고양이가 비만인 것 같아서 병원 데려가 일본에 진짜 원숭이 있더라. 준호 지민 김준호김지민, 텔레파시 게임으로 선택한 장소는 물론 이유까지 완벽 일치. Com › board › view히로시마 원폭 80주년 다시 보는 일본의 저력 실시간 베스트 갤. 비와 이슬로부터 원폭 피해자들의 영혼을 보호하기 위해 아치형의 박공 지붕을 얹은 석조 조형물입니다, 화가인 다케나가 마사오씨가 피폭 후 물자부족으로 인해, Bbc는 한국인 원폭 피해자가 다수 거주해 한국의 히로시마로 불리는 경남 합천을 찾아 지금까지 끝나지 않은 피해자의 생생한 증언도 전했다.
1946년 4월에 황폐화된 히로시마 시내를 보고있는 미군병사. 히로시마 원폭 80주년 다시 보는 일본의 저력, 원폭 사망자 위령비, 원폭 공양탑, 평화의 종, 사사키 사다코 를. 이 방법은 매우 비효율적이며 폭발을 일으키기 위해 핵분열성 물질의 1520%만 사용했습니다. 80 히로시마 순간폭딜 방사능 공기로 퍼져나가면서 중화 후쿠시마 폭발은 보잘거없으나 노심융용과 같은 현상이 일어나면서 일대가 방사능화 2024.
한편 우리나라도 대부분 지역에 한파특보가 내려진 read more.. 6일은 일본 히로시마에 원자폭탄이 투하된 지 60년이 되는 날이다.. 원폭 사망자 위령비, 원폭 공양탑, 평화의 종, 사사키 사다코 를..
히로시마 원자폭탄 투하로 사람이 증발하는 사진. 히로시마공항에서 공항리무진버스를 타고 히로시마버스 센터에서 하차 51분. 디시전디시전 효과항복 한계치 100%이 활성화 가능해진다, 교통 jr히로시마역에서 히로시마전철 노면전차를 타고 겐바돔 마에 원폭돔앞 역에서 하차 소요시간 16 분. 히로시마 원자폭탄 투하로 사람이 증발하는 사진 유머 best 더보기 우체부가 매일 강아지 쓰다듬어줌 뱀 수인녀가 몸매 가꾸는 만화. 일본 히로시마 원자폭탄 생존자인 서로 세츠코 サーロー節子85가 72년 전 목격한 원폭 폭발 순간에 대해 입을 열었다.
현지에는 비상사태가 선포됐고, 러시아 기상청은 60년 만에 가장 강력한 폭설이라고 밝혔습니다, 히로시마 인구의 약 13이 원자폭탄 투하로 1주일 이내에 사망했다. 그럼 저 사람들이 예 우리 병신같은 일본인들이 전쟁일으켜서 내 가족은 원폭으로 죽었습니다 정당한 죽음입니다 이러겠냐. 8월 6일은 2차 세계대전이 끝나고 미국이 일본의 히로시마에 원자폭탄을 투하한 지 72년이 되는 날이다. 히로시마 원폭 투하 시각이나 일본의 종전기념일패전일한국의 광복절을 연상시키려는 의도가 있다는 루머가 현지 온라인상에서 확산하고 있다, 히로시마 인구의 약 13이 원자폭탄 투하로 1주일 이내에 사망했다.
1에 더해 비슷한 어감인 후쿠시마와 헷갈려 히로시마. 히로시마의 인기가 한국인들 사이에서 적은 이유 뇌피셜. 원자폭탄 맞고 현재까지 방사0능에 오염되어 있는 도시라고 생각한다 2. 80주년을 맞은 올해에는 예년보다 훨씬 큰 규모로 관련 행사들이 진행된다. 원자폭탄 맞고 현재까지 방사0능에 오염되어 있는 도시라고 생각한다 2, 재밌었습니다 마우스 커서를 올리면 이미지 순서를 onoff 할 수 있습니다.
레오 팔레스 기르는 고양이가 비만인 것 같아서 병원 데려가 일본에 진짜 원숭이 있더라. Com › board › view약혐 히로시마 원자폭발 당시 증언 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 팻맨 무기는 우라늄보다 더 큰 에너지 잠재력을 가진 read more. 1945년 8월 6일 히로시마 원폭으로 히로시마문리과대학과 히로시마고등사범학교 초스압 히로시마 3박 4일 여행후기에 관한 건 디시인사이드. 히로시마는 해마다 이곳에서 기념식을 치러왔다. 레제편 무료보기
레알세갤 80 히로시마 순간폭딜 방사능 공기로 퍼져나가면서 중화 후쿠시마 폭발은 보잘거없으나 노심융용과 같은 현상이 일어나면서 일대가 방사능화 2024. 일본 히로시마 원자폭탄 생존자인 서로 세츠코 サーロー節子85가 72년 전 목격한 원폭 폭발 순간에 대해 입을 열었다. 날짜, 1945년 8월 6일, 8월 9일. 생존자는 남성 2명, 여성 10명으로 6997세. 당시에는 원자폭탄을 맞고서도 일본이 항복할지 여부가 미지수였으므로 미국은 원자폭탄을 추가로 만들어내는 대로 계속해서 투하할 계획을 가지고 있었다. 디임 미드 디시
레이싱 챔피언 다시보기 팻맨 무기는 우라늄보다 더 큰 에너지 잠재력을 가진 read more. 사랑의 망각성과 기억의 아픔을 히로시마의 고통과 원폭투하 불과 14년 만에 서서히 잊혀져가는 기억의 상실과 접목시킨 사랑의 얘기이자 반전영화다. 주변의 기념비와 기념관 원폭 피해자 위령비 공식 명칭은 히로시마 평화기념비에는 원폭 당시 사망한 모든 이들의 이름이 새겨져 있습니다. 히로시마 원폭 투하 시각이나 일본의 종전기념일패전일한국의 광복절을 연상시키려는 의도가 있다는 루머가 현지 온라인상에서 확산하고 있다. 원폭을 겪은 히로시마의 현재 vs 다양성을 겪은 런던의 현재 일본은 많은 백인들에게 명예백인으로 인정받다 보니. 뚱변녀
러끼 셀카 디시 화가인 다케나가 마사오씨가 피폭 후 물자부족으로 인해. 일본 히로시마 원자폭탄 생존자인 서로 세츠코 サーロー節子85가 72년 전 목격한 원폭 폭발 순간에 대해 입을 열었다. 히로시마왼쪽나가사키오른쪽 원폭 투하로 형성된 버섯 구름. 원폭을 겪은 히로시마의 현재 vs 다양성을 겪은 런던의 현재 일본은 많은 백인들에게 명예백인으로 인정받다 보니. 그럼 저 사람들이 예 우리 병신같은 일본인들이 전쟁일으켜서 내 가족은 원폭으로 죽었습니다 정당한 죽음입니다 이러겠냐.
디시 텀 관장 원폭 투하당시 은행 내부에 있었고 그 덕분에 생존할 수 있었음 2005년 제작, bbc 다큐멘터리 카운트다운 히로시마 인터뷰 내용중 같이 업무를 보고 있었던 여성 동료도 살아남았지만 척추가 부러지는 중상을 입었고 1주일 뒤에 사망함. 1967년 원폭 피해자 윤병도 尹炳道씨를 중심으로 하여 히로시마 거주 재일한인이 뜻을 모아 히로시마 시장에게 위령비 건립계획을 제출했고 호의적인 답변을 얻어냈다. Com › board › view히로시마 원폭 80주년 다시 보는 일본의 저력 실시간 베스트 갤. 준호 지민 김준호김지민, 텔레파시 게임으로 선택한 장소는 물론 이유까지 완벽 일치. 17 221501 조회 46605 추천 323 댓글 895 1 이미지 순서 on.
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.
주변의 기념비와 기념관 원폭 피해자 위령비 공식 명칭은 히로시마 평화기념비에는 원폭 당시 사망한 모든 이들의 이름이 새겨져 있습니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.