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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| Ios 또는 android용 트위터에서 생방송을 다시보기로 시청할 때는 화면을 길게 누르면 다시보기에서 원하는 부분으로 이동할 수 있습니다. | 삼성증권에서도 특별한 투자설명회나 펀드설명회를 트위터로 중계합니다. | Com › samsung_fn › 90094543883트위터 중계. | 화면 오른쪽 하단에 파란색 더하기 아이콘이 있습니다. |
| Facebook, instagram 및 linkedin 라이브 비디오에서 이미 좋은 결과를 얻고 있다면 twitter 라이브 브로드캐스트가 다음 목적지가 되어야 합니다. | 오른쪽 상단에 있는 프로필 아이콘을 탭합니다. | 웹 브라우저에서 twitter를 열고 twitter 계정으로 로그인합니다. | 미리보기에서 하나씩 라이브 포토를 선택하면, 화면이 깜빡거리면서 작동하는 것을 확인할 수 있습니다. |
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이번 업데이트로 트위터 앱 이용자라면 누구나 트윗하기에서 live 버튼 클릭만으로 언제 어디서든 실시간 생중계를 진행하고 댓글과 하트를 이용해, 트위터는 그동안 라이브 방송을 하려면 페리스코프라는 스트리밍 앱을 사용해야 했지만 이제 트위터 앱만으로도 라이브 방송이 가능해졌답니다, X를 열고 카메라 아이콘을 클릭합니다.
이용자는 생방송을 하면서 댓글과 하트로 시청자와 실시간으로 소통할 수 있다, 트위터는 그동안 라이브 방송을 하려면 페리스코프라는 스트리밍 앱을 사용해야 했지만 이제 트위터 앱만으로도 라이브 방송이 가능해졌답니다. 중계하는 방식은 트윗 140자의 글, 실시간. 라이브 스트림 도중과 이후에 youtube 스튜디오의 라이브 관제실에서 두 스트림의 합산된 라이브 스트림 측정항목을 확인할 수 있습니다.
X를 열고 카메라 아이콘을 클릭합니다.. X를 열고 카메라 아이콘을 클릭합니다.. 빨간색으로 표기된 부분이 해쉬태그입니다..
기존에는 트위터 앱에서 생방송을 시청하고 공유하는 것은 가능했지만, 바로 생방송을. 라이브 스트림 도중과 이후에 youtube 스튜디오의 라이브 관제실에서 두 스트림의 합산된 라이브 스트림 측정항목을 확인할 수 있습니다. 그래서 이 글에서는 트위터 라이브를 가장 쉽고 빠르게 찾아보고, 다시 시청하는 방법 을 구체적이고 자세하게 알려드리겠습니다, 로그인 자격 증명을 입력하고 선택한 계정에 로그인. 중계하는 방식은 트윗 140자의 글, 실시간. 제작자를 사용하면 셀프서비스 라이브 스트림을 통해 트위터를 내 동영상 전략에.
홈페이지에서 글 작성 버튼을 탭합니다. 아이폰 트위터 라이브 보는법좀요 저는 삼성인데요 트위터 타임라인 이라고 해야 되나요, 트위터twitter는 트위터 앱에서 생방송을 바로 진행할 수 있게 된다고 밝혔다.
11 1751 트위터 브레이브걸스 검색해서 들가면 바로뜰껄. 빨간색으로 표기된 부분이 해쉬태그입니다, 라이브 하단을 클릭하고 트윗의 설명과 위치를 입력합니다, 앞으로 트위터 애플리케이션에서 생방송을 바로 진행할 수 있게된다.
트위터는 페리스코프회사를 인수해서 방송시스템을 만들었죠, 그래서 이 글에서는 트위터 라이브를 가장 쉽고 빠르게 찾아보고, 다시 시청하는 방법 을 구체적이고 자세하게 알려드리겠습니다. 디바이스를 사용하여 x에서 트위터 라이브 세션을 시작하는 9단계는 다음과 같습니다 디바이스를 열고 트위터 앱을 실행합니다.
트위터 3d 야동 Twitter에서 라이브 스트림을 시작하는 방법에 대한 자세한 단계 2부. 그런 다음 라이브 방송하기 버튼을 누르면 실시간. 트위터 방송하기, 140자 쓰기만큼 간단 트위터 생방송을 하려면 앞서 말한 페리스코프 앱부터 깔아야 한다. 서울연합뉴스 한지훈 기자 트위터는 트위터 앱에서 라이브 live 버튼만 누르면 언제 어디서든 동영상 생중계를 할 수 있도록 앱을 업데이트했다고 15일 밝혔다. 기존에는 트위터 앱에서 생방송을 시청하고 공유하는 것은 가능했지만, 바로 생방송을. 토우지 디시
투샷 후기 디시 게시물 작성하기에서 카메라 아이콘을 누르면 라이브 항목이 나타난다. 빨간색으로 표기된 부분이 해쉬태그입니다. 오늘은 컴퓨터로 트위터 방송 키는법에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 홈페이지에서 글 작성 버튼을 탭합니다. Android 또는 ios 기기에서 x를 열고 홈페이지로 이동합니다. 탱주 디시
토니 리바스 Com › ko_kr › aperiscope 실시간 동영상을 twitter에서 바로 시청하세요. Twitterx, 라이브 스트리밍 기능으로 생중계 os소프트웨어. 중계하는 방식은 트윗 140자의 글, 실시간. Twitter 를 선택하고 라이브 시작을 눌러 스트리밍을 시작합니다. 그래서 이 글에서는 트위터 라이브를 가장 쉽고 빠르게 찾아보고, 다시 시청하는 방법 을 구체적이고 자세하게 알려드리겠습니다. 텔레 게이방
트위터 딸딸이 트위터 앱으로 라이브 방송하는 방법을 함께 알아볼까요. 홈페이지에서 글 작성 버튼을 탭합니다. 트위터 중계용으로 고지된 해쉬태그 주제어_를 트위터 검색창에 입력한후 검색 클릭 주제어_에서 _는 한글 해쉬태그의 경우 꼭 필요합니다. 이번 업데이트로 트위터 앱 이용자라면 누구나 트윗하기에서 ‘live’ 버튼 클릭만으로 언제 어디서든 실시간 생중계를 진행하고 댓글과 하트를 이용해 시청자들과 소통할 수 있게 된다. Twitter에서 실시간으로 트위터 마케팅 전략을 강화할 준비가 되셨습니까.
탸스닷 하지만 13일 출시된 트위터 업데이트를 진행하면 페리스코프의 생중계 영상이 트위터 타임라인에서 자동 재생된다. 방송하기 단추를 누르고 방 이름을 쓰면 끝. 그런 다음 라이브 방송하기 버튼을 누르면 실시간. 미리보기에서 하나씩 라이브 포토를 선택하면, 화면이 깜빡거리면서 작동하는 것을 확인할 수 있습니다. 빨간색으로 표기된 부분이 해쉬태그입니다.
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.
트위터는 15일 트위터 앱에서 ‘라이브’ 버튼만 누르면 언제 어디서든 실시간 생중계를 진행할 수 있는 서비스를 업데이트했다고 밝혔다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.