US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 13, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 2026.
닥터엘리자베스 액티브프로바이오틱스 제품은 특허 공법 유산균으로 1포당 프로바이오틱스 100,000,000 cfu를 보장하는 제품이라고 해요. 오늘 소개할 제품은 닥터엘리자베스 프로바이오틱스 장건강 솔루션입니다. Kr › category › 닥터엘리자베스브랜드 닥터엘리자베스. 조지 6세 사후부터, 엘리자베스 2세 여왕의 습관은 기념일과 그녀의 취익등의 행사를 샌드링엄 하우스에서 가족들끼리만 보내는 것이였으며, 2월까지 공식 집무소로 사용했다.
3만↑무료배송 신세계백화점 닥터엘리자베스 시크릿 프로바이오틱스 500mg x 60캡슐 29,500원 13,000원 55% 3만↑무료배송 매장픽업 가능점포, 인류 역사상 가장 운이 좋았던 사나이, 티모시 덱스터의 이야기. 1957년 여왕은 이곳에서 텔레비전을 통한 첫 성탄절 방송을 하였다. 서울연합뉴스 김아람 기자 고故 엘리자베스 2세 영국 여왕이 생전 브렉시트영국의 유럽연합 탈퇴에 반대하는 입장이었다는 주장이 나왔다.1957년 여왕은 이곳에서 텔레비전을 통한 첫 성탄절 방송을 하였다.. 그녀는 부왕인 헨리 8세에 이어, 그의 유일한 아들인 이복 남동생 에드워드 6세에 이어, 그리고 또 블러드 메리라 불린 그녀의 이복 언니에 이어 1558년 여왕에 올랐습니다..
그녀의 유산이 오늘날에도 여전히 중요한 이유를 탐구해보세요, 스테아린산마그네슘 부형제가 들어있는데 알약의 일정한 형태를 만들거나 섭취 편의성을 위해 첨가하는 물질이에요. 타고난 파괴병기로 공고한 육체에서 나오는 필살기 킹 펀치의 위력은 일격으로 적국의 요새에 바람구멍을 뚫었을 정도다. 엘리자베스아덴 코리아 제조업자 및 책임판매업자 beautyge sl엘리자베스아덴코리아 유 제조국 스페인 상품코드 a0133831 용량중량 50ml 포인트 p 0 배송비 무료배송. 12 1960년대 저택 전체를 무너트리고 케임브리지 대학교. 특히 빅뱅의 대성이 10년 넘게 애용하며 세계 최고 립밤이라고 극찬한 제품으로 유명하다.
수분크림과 에잇아워크림을 21비율 섞으면 수면팩.. 엘리자베스 프로바이오틱스 유산균은 135억마리의 프로바이오틱스 뿐 아니라 정상적인 면역기능과 유해산소로부터 세포를 보호해주는 아연과 셀렌이 함유되어 있습니다.. 살아생전 영국의 가장 유명한 여류 시인이었으나 가족도 부와 영예도 버리고 여섯 살 연하의 무명 시인과.. 코르도바처럼 탑솔리드 기타의 넥에 조절 read more..
유산균은 장내 유산균 증식과 유해균을 억제시켜주고 배변활동을 원활하게 도와주며 장 건강에도 도움을 주기 때문에. 영국 역사상 가장 위대한 여왕일지도 모르는 엘리자베스 1세. 특히 빅뱅의 대성이 10년 넘게 애용하며 세계 최고 립밤이라고 극찬한 제품으로 유명하다. 코르도바처럼 탑솔리드 기타의 넥에 조절 read more.
apple.0411 onlyfans leak 6%의 인구 약 4백만 명 정도의 성인이 프로바이오틱스나 프리바이오틱스를 한 달 이내에 섭취한 적이 있다고 나타났습니다. Eleemosynary, one of his most acclaimed works, is no exception. 엘리자베스 1세 시기 잉글랜드는 당대 유럽의 강국이었던 프랑스 및 스페인과 복잡한 외교 관계를 보이고 있었다. 손대는 것마다 대박을 쳤던 미국의 괴짜 사업가, 티모시 덱스터 이야기 미스터리 미스테리 미국 사업가 괴인 괴인열전 티모시덱스터 티모시. 오늘은 프로바이오틱스 probiotics에 대해서 알아보도록 하겠습니다. anna malygon 나무위키
asmr 나라 미드 저는 입술에 각질이 정말 많이 생기는 편이라 립밤 아무거나 못발라요ㅠㅠ _ 처음 사용하게 된건 선물받아서 우연히 쓰게 됐는데 너무 좋아서 계속 쓰게 됐어요@. 3만↑무료배송 신세계백화점 닥터엘리자베스 시크릿 프로바이오틱스 500mg x 60캡슐 29,500원 13,000원 55% 3만↑무료배송 매장픽업 가능점포. 코르도바처럼 탑솔리드 기타의 넥에 조절 read more. 에잇아워크림을 손과 손톱에 바르면 네일영양제가 별도로 필요없다고 느낄정도로 촉촉함과 광택은 덤. 엘리자베스의 자산 덕분에 대저택을 마련했고 지하에 직접 가게를 열어 무스가죽 바지. av 선생님
a미츠리 저는 입술에 각질이 정말 많이 생기는 편이라 립밤 아무거나 못발라요ㅠㅠ _ 처음 사용하게 된건 선물받아서 우연히 쓰게 됐는데 너무 좋아서 계속 쓰게 됐어요@. Com › dnjsgjsemfp68777 › 223485109533인류 역사상 가장 운이 좋았던 사나이, 티모시 덱스터의 이야기 네. 코오롱몰 가입 시 15% 할인 혜택 팔찌추천 피그앤헨팔찌 스테인리스스틸. 12 he was also known as a prominent judge of dog shows. 엘리자베스 프로바이오틱스 유산균은 135억마리의 프로바이오틱스 뿐 아니라 정상적인 면역기능과 유해산소로부터 세포를 보호해주는 아연과 셀렌이 함유되어 있습니다. anime femdom ball
allday project naked 손대는 것마다 대박을 쳤던 미국의 괴짜 사업가, 티모시 덱스터 이야기 미스터리 미스테리 미국 사업가 괴인 괴인열전 티모시덱스터 티모시. 경상남도교육청 관련 파일을 다운로드할 수 있는 페이지입니다. 12 1960년대 저택 전체를 무너트리고 케임브리지 대학교. 목차 nhis national health interview survey에 따르면 미국의 1. Com › dnjsgjsemfp68777 › 223485109533인류 역사상 가장 운이 좋았던 사나이, 티모시 덱스터의 이야기 네.
alexcole nude ☺ elizabeth arden eight hour cream lip protectant. 12 he was also known as a prominent judge of dog shows. 엘리자베스 2세인 이유는 엘리자베스 1세 가 있었기 때문인데 엘리자베스 1세 시기는 아직 연합왕국 이 형성되기 이전이었다. Ai › notes › 683085괴인열전 천재 아니면 바보. 한국강사신문 한상형 기자 영화 ‘엘리자베스’는 1999년 9월 20일 개봉된 세자르 카푸르 감독의 작품이다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 13, 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 13, 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 13, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 13, 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.
이 전시회는 1996년 브리드웰 도서관에 50개 이상의 언어로 된 500여 권의 성경을 기증한 엘리자베스 퍼킨스 프로스로 1919., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.