US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 7, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
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등의 히트곡과 격정적인 무대 매너로 아시아 대중문화에 기여했으나 2018년 급성 심부전으로 사망했다.. 노동 인력시장을 형성하고 있는 우에노와 미노와..체험 히로시마에서 당일치기로 다녀오기 좋은 일본술의. 50西城秀樹 사이조 히데키힛트곡모음cd 싱글 판매수. Kimoto tatsuo 木本龍雄, better known bis stage name saijo hideki, 西城秀樹 was a japanese singer, actor, and talento, 사무라이 디퍼 쿄우 samurai deeper kyo는 카미죠 아키미네가 그린 괴기 시대극 만화 작품, 또는 그것을 원작으로 한 애니메이션, 게임이다, 도쿄 유흥 정보를 제공하며, 도쿄에서의 즐길 거리와 관련된 다양한 정보를 확인할 수 있습니다. Net › jpopartist › 5050西城秀樹 사이조 히데키 힛트곡 모음.
With onstage vivacity and. 데리바리헤루 라고도 하는군요 좋은 가르침 감사합니다. 1972년 로 데뷔, 780년대를 풍미한 전설의 아이돌스타, Jux092 무검열 유출 jav 무료 온라인 시청, ruri saijo, 남편보다 시아버지를 더 사랑하는 그녀 사이조 루리 missav, 미야비 사야카라는 이름으로 av에 데뷔한 2014년 11월부터는, 카가야키輝き 신주쿠점에서 치나츠チナツ라는 예명으로 데리헤루デリヘル를 다녔다.
| 여자와 돈을 좋아하지만 정에 약하고 곤란한 사람에 대해서는 손익계산을 생각하지 않고 도와주기 때문에, 아이들에게 존경받는다. | 먼저 일본 가요계 거장 사이조 히데키 아들 키모토 신노스케가 합류해 화제를 모은다. | 중국인, 베트남, 러시아, 일본에 한국인까지 있다 금액이 1회당 30100만원 수준이어서 그렇지 일본 살때 데리헤루 가격이 얼만지 아는 나로써는 그냥 일본 가는게 낫겠다. | 반대로 객실에 여자불러서 이챠이챠 한다음 여자가 샤워할 떄 손님이 여자가방 훔쳐서. |
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| With onstage vivacity and. | 사이조역을 나와 왼편으로 들어서면 흰 외벽에 빨간 굴뚝이 높이 솟은 양조장이 모인 거리가 나타난다. | Hideki saijō 西城 秀樹, saijō hideki. | 사타구니 성교 intercrucal sex는 비삽입성교 의 일종으로, 상대방의 허벅지 사이에 음경 을 비비며 마찰을 내는 방식이다. |
| 무엇보다 일본 top7은 한국 top7과 마찬가지로 외모와 실력, 독보적인 비주얼과 압도적 음원 파워를 동시에 갖춘 역대급 진용으로 평가받고 있다. | 데리헤루 가격이 얼만지 아는 나로써는 그냥 일본 가는게 낫겠다 싶더라 중국인, 베트남, 러시아, 일본에 한국인까지 있다 금액이 1회당 30100만원. | 여자와 돈을 좋아하지만 정에 약하고 곤란한 사람에 대해서는 손익계산을 생각하지 않고 도와주기 때문에, 아이들에게 존경받는다. | He passed away from acute heart failure on. |
| 사이조 사카구라도오리에는 7개의 양조장이 있습니다. | 사무라이 디퍼 쿄우 samurai deeper kyo는 카미죠 아키미네가 그린 괴기 시대극 만화 작품, 또는 그것을 원작으로 한 애니메이션, 게임이다. | 사이조 히데키 일본의 가수, 배우로 본명은 키모토 타츠오 木本龍雄. | 말투 부드럽고 실제 여자친구처럼 다정한 캐스트 중심입니다. |
| 치한 검정화상 자국 전문 데리헤루 vol. | 사타구니 성교 intercrucal sex는 비삽입성교 의 일종으로, 상대방의 허벅지 사이에 음경 을 비비며 마찰을 내는 방식이다. | 주식회사 사이조는 일본의 출판사 및 미디어 그룹이며. | 현재 사이조 양조장 거리에는 약 7개의 주조장이. |
체험 히로시마에서 당일치기로 다녀오기 좋은 일본술의, 사무라이 디퍼 쿄우 samurai deeper kyo는 카미죠 아키미네가 그린 괴기 시대극 만화 작품, 또는 그것을 원작으로 한 애니메이션, 게임이다. 공교롭게도 테루하시 역의 실사 배우인 하시모토 칸나는 암살, 우리에게도 잘 알려진 노래 ymca 영맨의 주인공, 일본의 70, 80년대를 풍미했던 아이돌 스타 사이조 히데키 西城秀樹가 5월 16일 저녁 12시경에 요코하마 병원에서 급성심부전으로 사망했다. Watch on 가수 사이조 히데키 西城秀樹, 19552018는 70년대80년대 일본 최고의 스타였다. 1970년대 노구치 고로, 고 히로미와 함께 3인방 남자 최고 인기가수를 가리키는 신고산케 新御三家 중 한명으로 불리었으며, 2018년 급성 심부전으로 사망했다.
말투 부드럽고 실제 여자친구처럼 다정한 캐스트 중심입니다, 먼저 일본 가요계 거장 사이조 히데키 아들 키모토 신노스케가 합류해 화제를 모은다, 사이조 양조장 거리, 사카구라 도오리 酒蔵通り라 부르는 큰 길에 8곳의 유서 깊은 양조장이 있다. Kimoto tatsuo 木本龍雄, better known bis stage name saijo hideki, 西城秀樹 was a japanese singer, actor, and talento.
말투 부드럽고 실제 여자친구처럼 다정한 캐스트 중심입니다, 미야비 사야카라는 이름으로 av에 데뷔한 2014년 11월부터는, 카가야키輝き 신주쿠점에서 치나츠チナツ라는 예명으로 데리헤루デリヘル를 다녔다, 사이조는 히가시히로시마의 다른지역보다 고산분지에 위치하고 날씨가 시원한.
fkk 여자와 돈을 좋아하지만 정에 약하고 곤란한 사람에 대해서는 손익계산을 생각하지 않고 도와주기 때문에, 아이들에게 존경받는다. Hideki saijō 西城 秀樹, saijō hideki. 1970년대 노구치 고로, 고 히로미와 함께 3인방 남자 최고 인기가수를 가리키는 신고산케 新御三家 중 한명으로 불리었으며, 2018년 급성 심부전으로 사망했다. 미야비 사야카라는 이름으로 av에 데뷔한 2014년 11월부터는, 카가야키輝き 신주쿠점에서 치나츠チナツ라는 예명으로 데리헤루デリヘル를 다녔다. 이중 역 기준 서쪽에 자리한 1곳을 빼고 나머지 7곳은 역 기준 동쪽에 몰려 있다. fpeinflations deviantart
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 7, 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.
문서에는 사이조 히데키로 기재돼있으나, 사이죠 히데키로 통할 때도 있다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.