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.
물론 케이스 바이 케이스 여기서 굵기는 지름이 아닌 둘레로 표기하겠다. 글 쓰기에 앞서 이 글에는 구라가 단 1도 가미되어있지않고,만약 이 글에 구라가 1이라도 섞여서 거짓정보를 퍼트린다면 제 앞으로의 인생에 여자는 1명도없는 평생 모태솔로의 삶을 살게될겁니다이 글은 제 모든걸 걸고 팩트. 앞에는 길이 치골안누르고 뒤에는 둘레 줄자로 측정 따로따로보면됨 8cm 미만 9. 재미있는 점은 많은 남성들이 자신의 굵기, 사이즈를 실제보다 크게 보고하는 경향이 있다는 거예요.
실제로 노발기 10cm이상인 사람들도 심심치않게 볼수있는데 그런놈들은 탈똥송이까. 발기 전 굵기는 통상적으로 자신의 풀발기시 굵기의 평균 약 60%. 어깨 존나넓고 뼈대 존나굵고 근육질에 코도 큼지막하고존나 다부지게 생겼었는데꼬추 시발 존나 작았음ㅋㅋㅋㅋ발기전6. 대물이고 굵기 약간 반약해도 작다는 소리 안들음 육안으로 봐도 크다고 생각되는 사이즈, 길이보단 굵기가 더 중요함 3등급 1415 좋은 크기인듯 굵기랑 스킬만 있으면 길이로 부족함은 안느낌 여기서부턴 길이도 중요하지만 굵기가 진짜 중요해질듯 4등급 1314.9보다 훨작음 발기후 10센치정도 됐으려나ㅋㅋ발기후도 형편없음부랄만 한바가지고.. 보통 이런 통계에서의 평균치는 현실로 대입하면 작은 편이다.. 보통 질에대해서 어느정도 공부한 사람은 알겠지만 질내성감대는 보통 질입구쪽에 모여있다..
| 하지만 이것은 통상적으로 그렇다는것이지 모든여자가 그렇지는 않으며, 깊숙히 삽입되는 느낌을 좋아하. | 난 손가락 두꺼워서 그런가 검지중지 합하면 9. | 재미있는 점은 많은 남성들이 자신의 굵기, 사이즈를 실제보다 크게 보고하는 경향이 있다는 거예요. | 우리는 이번 투표를 통해 기존에 통용되어 왔던 대한민국 평균이 신뢰성이 있음을 다시 한번 확인할 수 있었다. |
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| 그럴때 가장 웅장하게 느껴지는게 길이임. | 근데 너무 짧거나 얇으몀 시각적으로 그냥 팍 식음. | 4정도가 넘어야지 휴지심에 들어가지 않는다는 사실이 밝혀졌다. | 21% |
| 일반 본인 야추 굵기가 10cm 미만이면 수술 ㅊㅊ한다. | 씨발 길이 19에 둘레 10센치면 콕콕 찌르기만하지 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ둘레 10센치면 존나 얆은거야 병신아 ㅇㅇ118. | 보통 질에대해서 어느정도 공부한 사람은 알겠지만 질내성감대는 보통 질입구쪽에 모여있다. | 24% |
| Com › mgallery › board음경 길이, 굵기 투표 총정리 비뇨기과 마이너 갤러리. | 겉모습때문임 굵기 ㅇㅈㄹ은 진짜 개 ㅈ노답 실ㅈ만 아니면 된다 10cm이하 근데 길이가 진짜 중요한게 ㅂㄱ했을때 자기 머리위에 서있는 그 막대기의 단면만을 본다고함. | 글 쓰기에 앞서 이 글에는 구라가 단 1도 가미되어있지않고,만약 이 글에 구라가 1이라도 섞여서 거짓정보를 퍼트린다면 제 앞으로의 인생에 여자는 1명도없는 평생 모태솔로의 삶을 살게될겁니다이 글은 제 모든걸 걸고 팩트. | 25% |
| 하지만 이것은 통상적으로 그렇다는것이지 모든여자가 그렇지는 않으며, 깊숙히 삽입되는 느낌을 좋아하. | 남자배우 크기, 굵기, 강직도 예를들면 겐진은 일자형이고 강직도가 아주 뛰어난편은 아니나 길이가 노치골 17정도 돼 보이고 굵기 13. | 근데 너무 짧거나 얇으몀 시각적으로 그냥 팍 식음. | 30% |
길이 10cm 언더 꼬춘쿠키 대실패 거의 90프로 이상이 이 정도면 이별을 고민 함 10cm12cm 평균 언저리긴 한데 실망 대물을 경험한 몇몇 여자들은 이별을 고민하기도 함, 다 차이고 진짜 그냥 연애를 아예 못해. I20200406 하 내껀 15cm정도 되는데 평균이상이네 i20250127 18이상 되는거 같은데 쓸일이 없다딱딱하니 좋은데 큰편이었구나쩝 p20250901 23cm인데 제가 큰거였네요 q20250906. Com › mgallery › board길이 둘레에 등급도 ㅡ 개인적견해 비뇨기과 마이너 갤러리.
터미널 챌린지 야동 대물이고 굵기 약간 반약해도 작다는 소리 안들음 육안으로 봐도 크다고 생각되는 사이즈, 길이보단 굵기가 더 중요함 3등급 1415 좋은 크기인듯 굵기랑 스킬만 있으면 길이로 부족함은 안느낌 여기서부턴 길이도 중요하지만 굵기가 진짜 중요해질듯 4등급 1314. 보통 질에대해서 어느정도 공부한 사람은 알겠지만 질내성감대는 보통 질입구쪽에 모여있다. 이완 상태에서 10cm 전후이며, 음경 길이가 7cm 이상이라면 정상적인 크기라고 볼 수 있어요. 근데 그게 무슨 야동에 나오는 대물을 얘기하는건 아니고, 치골이니 뭐니 이런거 모르겠고 튀어나온 길이 11cm, 굵기 11cm이상이면 그때부턴 궁합만 잘 맞으면 된다 봄. 어깨 존나넓고 뼈대 존나굵고 근육질에 코도 큼지막하고존나 다부지게 생겼었는데꼬추 시발 존나 작았음ㅋㅋㅋㅋ발기전6. 트위터 top100
탄지로 뒷모습 이완 상태에서 10cm 전후이며, 음경 길이가 7cm 이상이라면 정상적인 크기라고 볼 수 있어요. 남자배우 크기, 굵기, 강직도 예를들면 겐진은 일자형이고 강직도가 아주 뛰어난편은 아니나 길이가 노치골 17정도 돼 보이고 굵기 13. 고추 10cm에 굵기는 실인데 비뇨기과 마이너 갤러리. Com › mgallery › board음경 길이, 굵기 투표 총정리 비뇨기과 마이너 갤러리. 우리는 이번 투표를 통해 기존에 통용되어 왔던 대한민국 평균이 신뢰성이 있음을 다시 한번 확인할 수 있었다. 탬탬버린 본명 디시
트닷넷 3cm 굵기는 23cm정도이고 휴지심넣으면 약간 남는것같습니다노발은 그냥보면 34cm고 살을누르면 10cm정도 입니다 노발굵기는 많이 손가락 검지 한마디정도이고 추우면. 난 너무 스트레스받아서 나이좀 먹고 돈좀 모으면 자가진피라도 할 생각인데 진지하게 둘레11인 형들중에 커플인사람 아무도 없어. Com › 29501070619 대한민국 남자성기 길이 둘레 그리고 휴지심에대해 유머움짤. 5임 씨발 진짜 죽고싶음딸칠때마다 이게 여자보지가 아다가 아닌이상 걍 허공에 총 조준하듯. 3cm 굵기는 23cm정도이고 휴지심넣으면 약간 남는것같습니다. 트위터 19경기
톳테누리 게임 다 차이고 진짜 그냥 연애를 아예 못해. 근데 날조에 의한 자료는 10cm도 안되게 표현하고있음 그러므로 황당한 수치의 날조 자료라고 할수있음. 내 생각엔 대부분의 게이들이 1214에 위치한다고 생각한다. 난 손가락 두꺼워서 그런가 검지중지 합하면 9. 휴지심 측정법은 허황,음경확대수술의 허와 실.
트위터 눈팅 계정 정지 디시 비갤이나 타 커뮤니티에서 자주 언급되는 과도하게 높은 평균값은 그들만의. 앞에는 길이 치골안누르고 뒤에는 둘레 줄자로 측정 따로따로보면됨 8cm 미만 9. 재미있는 점은 많은 남성들이 자신의 굵기, 사이즈를 실제보다 크게 보고하는 경향이 있다는 거예요. 고추 10cm에 굵기는 실인데 비뇨기과 마이너 갤러리. 5cm미만ㅡ 답없다 테크닉이고 뭐고 헛소리하지마라 이번생에있어서 여자에게 사랑받는것은 글렀다 8cmㅡ10cm미만 9.
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.
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