US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 31, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
가스 사용 시설 안전관리자 가스기능사 기출 예상문제 2007년. 무전해 니켈 증착을 위한 팔라듐 촉매 사용 노하우. ① 매장 설치와 유지에 드는 비용이 많다. 황산+강산화제 혼합물인 상태에서 산화제가 많으면 폭발 위험성이 있다.
해설 피난기구에는 구조대, 피난사다리, 공기안전매트, 다수인 피난장비, 승강식 피난기, 하향식 피난구용 내림식 사다리가 있다, 진한 황산은 황산 질량비 90% 이상의 수용액이며 주로 시판되는건 9698. 46℃, 비점 210338℃ 3 98. 황산+강산화제 혼합물인 상태에서 산화제가 많으면 폭발 위험성이 있다.
이름과는 다르게 묽은 황산의 산도가 더 높다. 그 뛰어난 산화성 및 반응성 덕분에 화학 산업을 비롯한 다양한 분야에서 활용됩니다. 멜라토닌이 건강에 끼치는 영향과 식물성 멜라토닌의 특징을 알아본다. ② 당해 가스 설비의 내용적이 1m3 이하인 것.
농도가 높은 것은 유상이고 불연성이고 흡습성이 강하다. 진한 황산은 황산 질량비 90% 이상의 수용액이며 주로 시판되는건 9698% 물 분자가 부족하니 이온화도가 매우 떨어져 산성을 나타내지도 않는다, 율을 확보하는 것이 불가능하고 경우에 따라서는 손실을 볼 수도 있다.
주된 이유는 바로 수소이온의 양 때문이다.. 최초 출원 명세서에는 r이 할로겐인 경우의 목적화합물에 대해서만 성질이 기재되어 있음.. ② 반응성이 작고 기체밀도는 공기보다 낮다..
화학식 h₂so₄로 나타내며, 무색, 무취의 강력한 산성 용액입니다. 출혈압박 ∎ 연구시설 신고에 대한 설명으로 옳은 것은, 황산의 일반 화학정보 염산,질산과 같이 강산으로 알려진 화학물질이며 화학 산업계에서 물 다음으로 많이 생산되는 화합물이다, 이번 글에서는 황산의 화학적 특성과 다양한 활용 방안에 대해 알아보겠습니다, ③ 화기를 사용하지 아니하는 작업인 것.
46℃, 비점 210338℃ 3 98, 진한 황산은 황산 질량비 90% 이상의 수용액이며 주로 시판되는건 9698, 추가로 물질에 하이드록시기 oh를 붙여서 친수성.
진한 황산은 황산 질량비 90% 이상의 수용액이며 주로 시판되는건 9698% 물 분자가 부족하니 이온화도가 매우 떨어져 산성을 나타내지도 않는다, 되고 있으며, 누출이 되었을 때 그 누구도 독성 위험으로부터 자유롭다고 볼 수. 또한 황산의 지형과 기후 조건에 따라 대량의 안개와 구름이 발생하기 쉽고 운해의 설경을 볼 수 있습니다. ① 사람이 그 설비 밖에서 작업하는 것, 가격에 전가시킬 수 없다는 것은 과거와 같이 안정적인 수익투자보수.
최초 출원 명세서에는 r이 할로겐인 경우의 목적화합물에 대해서만 성질이 기재되어 있음, 출혈압박 ∎ 연구시설 신고에 대한 설명으로 옳은 것은. 황산은 다양한 산업에서 널리 사용되는 화학 물질로 그 중요성은 매우 큽니다, 2001년의 세계 황산 생산량은 1억6천5백만 톤에 달한다, ④ 피부에 접촉시 또는 증기를 흡입하면 해롭다.
황산 알카리의 중화제 제품소개 황산 黃酸, h2so4은 강한 이염기산으로 강산성의 액체 화합물이다, 이 글에서는 황산의 특성과 활용, 안전, 진한 황산은 산으로써의 성질이 약하다, 해설 피난기구에는 구조대, 피난사다리, 공기안전매트, 다수인 피난장비, 승강식 피난기, 하향식 피난구용 내림식 사다리가 있다.
noaclip twitter 중국과 일본에서는 유황의 산이라 하여 유산이라고도 하며, 조선민주주의인민공화국에서는 류산이라고 한다. ② 당해 가스 설비의 내용적이 1m3 이하인 것. ‘황산’ ‘1 물리적인 성질들 1 상온에서는 무거운 무색의 액체이며 순도에 따라서 무색에서 암갈색이 된다. 멜라토닌이 건강에 끼치는 영향과 식물성 멜라토닌의 특징을 알아본다. 가스 사용 시설 안전관리자 가스기능사 기출 예상문제 2007년. necesse 갤러리
no smoking manhwa hentai ① 활성슬러지법과 비교하면 이차침전지로부터 미세한 ss가. ③ 용기는 구리, 마그네슘 또는 이의 합금을 사용하지 못한다. 황산은 다양한 산업에서 널리 사용되는 화학 물질로 그 중요성은 매우 큽니다. 멜라토닌이 건강에 끼치는 영향과 식물성 멜라토닌의 특징을 알아본다. 지표수와 비교하여 지하수의 일반적인 특징으로 옳은 것은. ntr망가
oie kaeru hitomi 그 대신 흡습성이 강하기 때문에 강산 탈수 작용을. 다음 중 레빈의 인간행동법칙에 대한 설명으로 옳지 않은 것은. 발명의 상세한 설명에는 그 발명이 속하는 기술분야에서 통상의 지식을 가진 자이하 ‘통상의 기술자’라 한다가 그 발명을 쉽게 실시할 수 있도록 명확하고 상세하게 기재하여야 하고특허법 제42조제3항제1호, 청구항은 발 명의 상세한 설명에 의하여 뒷받침. 것은 기술적 사상의 창작인 발명으로 볼 수 없다. ① 활성슬러지법과 비교하면 이차침전지로부터 미세한 ss가. nhdtc-100
nurumayo 가스 사용 시설 안전관리자 가스기능사 기출 예상문제 2007년. ① 손실우연의 원칙➁ 예방교육의 원칙 ③ 원인계기의 원칙④ 예방가능의 원칙 3. 물을 제외하고는 가장 많이 제조되며, 많은 곳에 사용된다. 해설 황산은 무색, 무취의 특성을 가진 부식성 물질로 물. 940년 태조 23에 연산 連山으로 고쳤으므로 황산의 명칭은 183년간 사용하였다.
nc다이노스 갤러리 샤넬 황산에 대해 알아보기 위험한 화학물질에 대해 생각하면 무엇이 먼저 생각나시나요. 중국과 일본에서는 유황의 산이라 하여 유산이라고도 하며, 조선민주주의인민공화국에서는 류산이라고 한다. 아주 강력한 산화력을 지니고 있어서 12 대부분의 유기 물질을 날려버릴 수 있으므로, 실험실에서 슬라이드 등을 세척할 때 자주 사용한다. 물을 제외하고는 가장 많이 제조되며, 많은 곳에 사용된다. 황산 알카리의 중화제 제품소개 황산 黃酸, h2so4은 강한 이염기산으로 강산성의 액체 화합물이다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, July 31, 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.
황산의 일반 화학정보 염산,질산과 같이 강산으로 알려진 화학물질이며 화학 산업계에서 물 다음으로 많이 생산되는 화합물이다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.