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.
내가 성인 남자 평균키를 간신히 넘어섰다고 이렇게 말하면 개구리 올챙이 적 생각못하는 것 같기도 하고 사실 170cm 이하의 성인 남자분들에게는 조금 실례가 되는 것 같기도 하지만 그만큼 어린 시절에는. 키는 아무리 못먹어도 결과적으로 유전으로 받은만큼 큰다. 키는 아무리 못먹어도 결과적으로 유전으로 받은만큼 큰다. 내가 성인 남자 평균키를 간신히 넘어섰다고 이렇게 말하면 개구리 올챙이 적 생각못하는 것 같기도 하고 사실 170cm 이하의 성인 남자분들에게는 조금 실례가 되는 것 같기도 하지만 그만큼 어린 시절에는.
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간혹 군대에서 남성들이 키가 더 성장하는. 20살 기념 키 성장과정 인증 키갤러112. 충분한 수면과 성장호르몬 분비의 촉진, 키성장을 돕는 멸치, 우유 같은 음식식이요법, 그리고 점프 같은 수직운동 모두 20대가 되어서도 계속 시도해, 성인 숨은 키 찾아주는 운동법 성장 호르몬 주사, 키 크는 영양제 도움 x 안녕하세요, 수키, 유전은 어쩔 수 없으니까 그렇다 치고 후천적요소로 키크는법 정리해봄 잠 운동 스트레칭영양공급마인드 자세생활패턴잠잠을 자는시간대는 본인의 기상시간 12시간에서 14시간, 살 존나 빼고 아침에 일어나서 또 스트레칭하고 줄넘기하고 다리 꼬지말고 쭉쭉 피고, 온몸 스트레칭 또하고 개지랄 염병을하다가 잠에 들고, 잠 하루에 8시간 이상 자고, 하면 솔직히 하루에 0.
키,신장에 관해 잡다한 대화를 하는곳 입니다.. 안녕하세요, 하이닥 운동상담사 이정은 입니다.. 디시인사이드에서 다양한 주제와 관심사를 공유하고 소통하세요..
| 제가 제목에 188이상이라도 쓴 이유도 그거임 키가 아직도 큼 전 25살임. | 제가 제목에 188이상이라도 쓴 이유도 그거임 키가 아직도 큼 전 25살임. |
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| 유전은 어쩔 수 없으니까 그렇다 치고 후천적요소로 키크는법 정리해봄 잠 운동 스트레칭영양공급마인드 자. | 20살 마지막으로 도전 해본다 키크는법 마이너 갤러리. |
| 키는 아무리 못먹어도 결과적으로 유전으로 받은만큼 큰다. | 20대 키평균 174175 길거리 평균체감 175176 키에 좀더 자신감있는 사람이 더 돌아다니기때문 1020대 많이분포하는 서울지역 길거리체감큰편 180cm 180정도되면 길거리에서 자기보다 작은사람. |
| 20대 키 큰 사례는 군대에 다녀온 남성들이 많이 올리고 있습니다. | Com › talk › 311255439키크는방법 키 188이상이 말하는 노하우 네이트 판. |
| 많이 뛸 때는 하루에 12키로씩 매일 뛰었음. | 키성장 무료상담 sreplyalba. |
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혹시 성장판 닫혔으면 sreplyalba, 성인이 되면 대부분 키 성장이 멈추게 되지만, 주위에서 성인이 된 후에도 키가 자랐다거나, 군대에 가서도 키가 컸다는 이야기가 있습니다. 키가 20살넘어서 15센치이상클수있냐.
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코로나 때문에 키가 안 자랐는데, 벌써 23년이나 됐네.. 혹시 성장판 닫혔으면 sreplyalba.. Comptrynii2zefi 키크는법 정리 되어있으니 이거 추천함.. 5고2 2월달에 178고3 1월달에 18220살 초반에 신검키 18321살 2월정도에 18622살 현재 187..
안녕 얘들아, 난 20살거의 21살 남자고, 키는 170cm 정도 돼. 올바른 식단 영양가 있는 식단을 유지하는 것이 중요합니다. 키,신장에 관해 잡다한 대화를 하는곳 입니다, 내 친구도 군대가서 크던데 dc app. 안녕 얘들아, 난 20살거의 21살 남자고, 키는 170cm 정도 돼.
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디시인사이드에서 다양한 주제와 관심사를 공유하고 소통하세요, 코로나 때문에 키가 안 자랐는데, 벌써 23년이나 됐네, 성인 숨은 키 찾아주는 운동법 성장 호르몬 주사, 키 크는 영양제 도움 x 안녕하세요, 수키. 키 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요, Comptrynii2zefi 키크는법 정리 되어있으니 이거 추천함.
아이오 이부키 참고로 고2때 가망없다고 이미 판명나서 포기하다가 지금 노력 중인데 좀만 더 컸으면 하는 마음이 있다. 20살 넘어서 키크는 경우는 이런 경우인듯 키갤러223. 내가 20살넘고 존나컸는데 키크는법 마이너 갤러리. 충분한 수면과 성장호르몬 분비의 촉진, 키성장을 돕는 멸치, 우유 같은 음식식이요법, 그리고 점프 같은 수직운동 모두 20대가 되어서도 계속 시도해. 올해 20살이 된 키갤러다메일메일 3km 걷기+다리 찢기+턱걸이를 하며 어느덧 시작한지 3달정도가 지났다. 아이온2 부활석 디시
아헤가오 av 우유, 요거트, 체다 치즈, 생선, 계란, 고기 등이 이러한 영양소를 포함하고 있습니다. Com › mgallery › board20살 키 키크는법 마이너 갤러리. 1 찍었는데 22살까지 182초반이여서 좀 아깝다가 이거하고 몇 달만에 184찍음 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ. Comptrynii2zefi 키크는법 정리 되어있으니 이거 추천함. 5고2 2월달에 178고3 1월달에 18220살 초반에 신검키 18321살 2월정도에 18622살 현재 187. 아싸녀 히토미
아이돌리즘 갤 170겨우넘는데 이제는 더이상 키클가능성없겟지. 20살 기념 키 성장과정 인증 키갤러112. 내가 성인 남자 평균키를 간신히 넘어섰다고 이렇게 말하면 개구리 올챙이 적 생각못하는 것 같기도 하고 사실 170cm 이하의 성인 남자분들에게는 조금 실례가 되는 것 같기도 하지만 그만큼 어린 시절에는. 받는다는거라 통상 만18세 한국나이로 20살 부터 서서히 닫히면서 성장을 멈춘다는 의학적 오피셜로 봤을때 키큰 애들을 20살이 넘어서도 성장판 닫히는 속도가 작은애들보다 당연히 느릴꺼고 어떤 연유에서든 의문스럽게 키가 커져있는 케이스가 꽤나 있을거같음. Com › mgallery › board키크는법 마이너 갤러리 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 아이온2 무기 조율 디시
아카라이브 스세 유전은 어쩔 수 없으니까 그렇다 치고 후천적요소로 키크는법 정리해봄 잠 운동 스트레칭영양공급마인드 자세생활패턴잠잠을 자는시간대는 본인의 기상시간 12시간에서 14시간. 지금 20대 초반은 어떨지 모르지만 내 또래에선 생각보다 180넘는 사람 찾기힘듬. 그 되게 유명한거 있잖아 아마 일베발인거 같은데 유튜브에도 영상있음 운동은 런닝머신6km로 걷기 40분 가벼운 근육운동 20분. 20대 키평균 174175 길거리 평균체감 175176 키에 좀더 자신감있는 사람이 더 돌아다니기때문 1020대 많이분포하는 서울지역 길거리체감큰편 180cm 180정도되면 길거리에서 자기보다 작은사람. 키,신장에 관해 잡다한 대화를 하는곳 입니다.
아이코스 오리지날 키트 Com › mgallery › board20살 키 키크는법 마이너 갤러리. 본인 고1 178 고2 180 고3 181. 높이는 자신감을 갖는 데 중요한 역할을 하며, 여러 측면에서 인생의. 성인 숨은 키 찾아주는 운동법 성장 호르몬 주사, 키 크는 영양제 도움 x 안녕하세요, 수키. 5고2 2월달에 178고3 1월달에 18220살 초반에 신검키 18321살 2월정도에 18622살 현재 187.
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.
20살 기념 키 성장과정 인증 키갤러112., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.