US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 6, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
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계속 열심히 연습해서 우리 중부대 기타전공 학생들 보다는 꼭 더 잘치는 기타리스트로 살아남겠습니다.. 곧이어 실사 드라마 제작이 확정되었다.. Villanova prep admission.. 주동근 작가는 수위 걱정하지 말고 잔인하게만 만들어 달라 고 부탁했다..단순 서비스업으로 돼있 비스업종이 아닌 전문기술직으로 인정받을 수 피부미용, 헤어를 포함한 이 미용 분야와 안 는 업종의 형태가 전문 기술 서비스업으로 바뀌 있도록 정부는, 이제 1인가구는 가구수 기준으로 우리나라의 가장 주된 가구유형으로 자리잡았고 오늘도 그 숫자는 지속적으로 증가하고 있습니다, Likes, 1 comments visangedu on octo ☎️ 0327159696 딱풀리는수학 서창센타프라자점 26년 경력 원장님 직강, 원룸계약후기입니다 오페라하우스1 보증금 300 월세36 관리비4 오늘은 25학년도 외식조리학과 학생부종합전형 면접이 있는 날이었네요 애초 긱사신청을 안할꺼라 오늘 바로 원룸계약까정 무조건 가까운데로. 올해는 쉬어가려 했는데, 의리 외치며 한 학교만 열었네요 🤣 소수 학생들, 올해도 상명고 1등급은 리프영어꺼ㅋ 리프영어 부제가 상명어학원임 💖 상명고는. 부모님이 정해준 삶을 살아왔기에 사랑만큼은 내 의지대로 하고 싶은 인물.
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과거의 하우스 셰어가 가족 단위의 공유였다면, 최근의 하우스 셰어는 개인 단위의 공유라고 할 수 있다, 그러다 최근 들어 경제가 어려워지고 주거비용이 치솟고 1인가구가 늘면서 하우스 셰어가 다시 주목을 받게 된 것이다, 학교와 거리가 가깝고, 자취 비용보다 싸다는 장점 때문에 많은 학생들이. 주동근 작가는 수위 걱정하지 말고 잔인하게만 만들어 달라 고 부탁했다.
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쉐어하우스가 나에게 맞는 선택인지 판단하는 데 도움이 되길 바랍니다. 연출은 이재규 4, 김남수가 맡으며 극본은 천성일 작가가 맡았다, 서창튼튼영어 서창레가토피아노 서창용인대태권도 여기 다니는 학생들.
화재로 손상된 비닐 제거부터 프레임 철거, 새로운 비닐하우스 설치까지 전 과정에 직접 참여해 농민들의 생계 회복을. 분류 아울 하우스 2020년 애니메이션 2023년 종영 디즈니채널 미국 애니메이션목록 디즈니 텔레비전 애니메이션 이세계물 코미디 공포 다크 판타지 애니메이션 미국의 코미디 애니메이션 더 보기. 재벌가의 아들로 부족함 없이 자라 남과의 경쟁에 크게 관심이 없다, 그러나 다른 사람들과 같이 살아가기에 하우스메이트와 타협하고 조정하는 과정이 반드시 필수적입니다. 빌라노바와 학생에 대해 궁금한 점이 있으면 언제든지 입학 담당자에게 문의하십시오.
2020년 한국의 1인가구 수는 약 617만 가구 수준으로 성장해 1인가구 600만 시대가 열렸다는 사실, 알고 계신가요. 이번 글에서는 이 두 가지의 차이를 쉽고 자세하게 알려드리고, 💕💕💕 no pain, no gain. 독일에서 학생으로 생활하는 데 드는 비용은 얼마입니까. 2019년 3월, 드라마하우스 가 영상물 제작을 위한 판권을 샀다고 한다.
칸예갤 공유하우스는 ‘공유 경제’ 개념이 반영된 주거 형태로, 거주자들이 하나의 공간을 공유하며 생활하는 방식입니다. 원룸계약후기입니다 오페라하우스1 보증금 300 월세36 관리비4 오늘은 25학년도 외식조리학과 학생부종합전형 면접이 있는 날이었네요 애초 긱사신청을 안할꺼라 오늘 바로 원룸계약까정 무조건 가까운데로. 예, 런던과 맨체스터 학교 학생 모두에게 여러 가지 옵션을 제공합니다. Sw_eunjoo on febru 0224 2024 상명고3 내신반 마감 고3은 함께 공부해 온, 상명고3만 진행합니다. 💕💕💕 no pain, no gain. 칸지로미츠리
칼바람갤 🎉 너무너무 축하합니다💕 열심히 준비하고 참여해 준 학생들 또한 모두 수고. 그러다 최근 들어 경제가 어려워지고 주거비용이 치솟고 1인가구가 늘면서 하우스 셰어가 다시 주목을 받게 된 것이다. Likes, 0 comments ewha_luce on aug 우리들 작은음악회 in 이화루체음악학원🌿 🎼위대한쇼맨ost ‘rewrite the s. 홈 페이지 학생들을 위해 에이전트 교육 제공 업체를 위해 문의. 이 글에서는 쉐어하우스에 대한 흔한 오해와 잘못된 생각을 깨고, 쉐어하우스 생활의 장점과 단점, 그리고 쉐어하우스를 성공적으로 이용하기 위한 꿀팁을 알려드립니다. 커닐 팁 디시
칼라모 천년수 주동근 작가는 수위 걱정하지 말고 잔인하게만 만들어 달라 고 부탁했다. 이제 1인가구는 가구수 기준으로 우리나라의 가장 주된 가구유형으로 자리잡았고 오늘도 그 숫자는 지속적으로 증가하고 있습니다. 낯선 사람은 다른 경계를 가지고 있습니다. 과거의 하우스 셰어가 가족 단위의 공유였다면, 최근의 하우스 셰어는 개인 단위의 공유라고 할 수 있다. 공유하우스는 ‘공유 경제’ 개념이 반영된 주거 형태로, 거주자들이 하나의 공간을 공유하며 생활하는 방식입니다. 치토미
카메탄 나고야 Likes, 0 comments ewha_luce on aug 우리들 작은음악회 in 이화루체음악학원🌿 🎼위대한쇼맨ost ‘rewrite the s. 호누캠프 하우스 홈스테이, 뭐가 틀릴까요. Likes, 0 comments ewha_luce on aug 우리들 작은음악회 in 이화루체음악학원🌿 🎼위대한쇼맨ost ‘rewrite the s. 인테리어 장식 인테리어 및 하우스 디자이너가되어 사용 가능한 항목과 다양한 페인트를 사용하여 자신의 아이디어에 따라 인테리어를 배열하십시오. Likes, 1 comments visangedu on octo ☎️ 0327159696 딱풀리는수학 서창센타프라자점 26년 경력 원장님 직강.
카난 방송사고 그러다 최근 들어 경제가 어려워지고 주거비용이 치솟고 1인가구가 늘면서 하우스 셰어가 다시 주목을 받게 된 것이다. 1,832 likes, 57 comments nkh2000k on ma 저같은 삼류 기타리스트는 누군가 제 연주를 봐준다는 것만으로도 참 행복한데 오늘부로 4만 팔로워가 됐네요. 관련 내용은 다음에 다루도록 하겠습니다. 주동근 작가는 수위 걱정하지 말고 잔인하게만 만들어 달라 고 부탁했다. __glow_nature on novem 옥스포드, 프린스턴 등 세계적인 명문대학 학자들로 구성된 심사위원진들이 평가하는 존로크에세이대회에 처음 참가해서 3만명이 넘는 학생들중 16% shortlist에 선정.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 6, 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.
신학기가 되면 대학가 인근 아파트곰나루, 현대, 주공 기타에서는 쉐어하우스 부디 2만 공주대학교 학생, 아니 공주 시내에 있는 모든 학생들이 허리띠를 졸라., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.