US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
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오피셜트럼프 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. 정치적 이슈와 밈 meme 문화가 결합되어 시장에서 주목받고 있으며, 트럼프 지지층과 투자자들 사이에서 큰 관심을 끌고. 도널드 트럼프가 공화당 대선 후보로서의 지위를 유지할지, 아니면 새로운 인물이 등장할 것인지에 대한 논의가 치열합니다. 싱글벙글 자식이 100명 이상인 세계의 정력왕 군주들 터키 오스만 튀르크 제국 12대 술탄무라트 3세 자식 100명 이상 15461595, 재위 15741595오스만 제국이 서서히 쇠퇴하기 시작한 아버지 셀림 2세의 아들로 태어났다.| 오피셜트럼프코인 산이유 전자화폐 마이너 갤러리. | 📋 목차트럼프 코인의 기원과 배경트럼프 코인의 주요 특징현재 시장 동향과 가격 전망트럼프 코인의 미래 가능성투자 시 주의할 점과 리스크다른 밈코인과의 비교faq트럼프 코인은 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령과 관련된 암호화폐로, 정치적 인물과 연계된 밈코인의 한 형태예요. | 혹시 이 차트가 어떤 코인의 차트인지 아시는 분 계실까요. | 2024년 미국 대선이 다가오면서 많은 이들이 오피셜 트럼프 전망을 주목하고 있습니다. |
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| 일봉 거래대금과 변동성 지표를 함께 보면서. | 오피셜 트럼프는 트럼프 대통령이 출시한 밈 토큰입니다. | ‘미국을 다시 위대하게 make america great again라는 그의 슬로건처럼, 트럼프 2기 정책은 미국 우선주의에 기반해 수립추진될 전망이다. | 7b, 유통량 약 2억으로 볼 수 있어. |
| Com › news › view트럼프 취임 후 기대감 무너진 비트코인 향후 전망은. | 트럼프, 차기 연준 의장에 워시 지명 준비중종합2보. | 본 오피셜 트럼프 official trump, $trump 전망 가이드를 통해 도널드 트럼프가 출시한 트럼프 코인을 자세히 들여다보고, 향후 가격 전망을 연도별로 에측해봅니다. | 이 코인은 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령의 이름을 딴 밈코인으로, 이틀 만에 1000% 이상 가격이 폭등하며 시장을 뒤흔들었습니다. |
| 16달러에 거래되고 있어, 전체 가상자산 중 상승률 1위를, 시가총액은 94억8661만달러로 전체 19위를. | 7b, 유통량 약 2억으로 볼 수 있어. | Com › news › articleview구매 거래소 어디트럼프 밈코인 오피셜 트럼프 사는법 간단하. | 45 krw이며 24시간 거래량은 ₩175,659,673,974. |
본 가이드는 트럼프 가격 전망을 예측하며, 이 코인에 대해 집중적으로 분석한다.. 📋 목차🇺🇸 오피셜트럼프trump 코인이란.. 밈 meme코인은 인터넷 밈이나 유행을 기반으로 만들어진 암호화폐로, 내재 가치보다는 커뮤니티의 관심과 투기적 심리에 의해 가치가 결정되는 특징이 있습니다..오피셜 트럼프는 트럼프 대통령이 출시한 밈 토큰입니다. Cbc뉴스 오피셜트럼프 trump의 시세 향방이 주목받고 있다. 오피니언뉴스박준호 기자 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령 당선인의 취임이 하루 앞으로 다가왔다.
정치적 이슈와 밈 meme 문화가 결합되어 시장에서 주목받고 있으며, 트럼프 지지층과 투자자들 사이에서 큰 관심을 끌고, Com › news › articleview구매 거래소 어디트럼프 밈코인 오피셜 트럼프 사는법 간단하. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 20일현지시간 공식 취임한 뒤 워싱턴dc 캐피털원아레나에 모인 지지자들에게 직접 서명한 행정명령을 들어 보이고. 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 20일현지시간 공식 취임한 뒤 워싱턴dc 캐피털원아레나에 모인 지지자들에게 직접 서명한 행정명령을 들어 보이고.
이번 사태를 미 행정부의 글로벌 영향력 확대로 받아들인 투자자들이 관련 자산에 집중적. 투자자들에게 더 많은 매수를 유도하는 셈. 17일 출시된 이 코인은 하루 만에 960% 이상 상승하며 가격이 7달러에서 74.
밈코인 보유자 만찬 초대trump 76% 급등매일코인, 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령이 스스로 발행한 가상화폐에 투자한 220명을 다음 달 골프클럽으로 초대해 저녁 만찬을 하기로 했다, 그렇다면, 오피셜 트럼프가 왜 이렇게 급등했는지, 그 원인과 향후 전망에 대해 분석해 보겠습니다. 본 가이드는 트럼프 가격 전망을 예측하며, 이 코인에 대해.
하지만 실질적인 기술적 가치보다는 투기적 성향이 강한 코인이므로, 투자 시 변동성을 충분히 고려해야 합니다.. 트럼프 전 미국 대통령의 이름을 딴 이 코인은.. 45 krw이며 24시간 거래량은 ₩175,659,673,974.. 오피셜트럼프는 트럼프 대통령의 정치적 상징성을 활용한 밈코인으로, 출시 이후 단기간에 큰 주목을 받으며 시장의 변화를..
트럼프 미국 대통령 당선인은 지난 17일 현지시간 자신의 사회관계망서비스 sns 계정을 통해 유일한 공식 트럼프 밈이라며 새로운 밈코인 ‘오피셜 트럼프’ official trump를 출시했다고 밝혔다. 밈 meme코인은 인터넷 밈이나 유행을 기반으로 만들어진 암호화폐로, 내재 가치보다는 커뮤니티의 관심과 투기적 심리에 의해 가치가 결정되는 특징이 있습니다. 트럼프 취임에 덩달아 뜬 밈코인하루만에 18000% 폭등 지금. 오피셜트럼프 도널드 트럼프 코인, 상승 준비 끝났습니다, 16달러에 거래되고 있어, 전체 가상자산 중 상승률 1위를, 시가총액은 94억8661만달러로 전체 19위를.
싱글벙글 자식이 100명 이상인 세계의 정력왕 군주들 터키 오스만 튀르크 제국 12대 술탄무라트 3세 자식 100명 이상 15461595, 재위 15741595오스만 제국이 서서히 쇠퇴하기 시작한 아버지 셀림 2세의 아들로 태어났다. 오피셜 트럼프는 트럼프 대통령이 출시한 밈 토큰입니다, 트럼프 미국 대통령의 밈코인 오피셜 트럼프trump가격이 급등 트럼프는 오는 5월 22일 워싱턴 d.
밈코인이란 인터넷 유행어 등을 뜻하는 밈에 코인을 더한. 안녕하세요,오늘 소개해드릴 암호화폐는 바로오피셜 트럼프trump 입니다. 화이트 ceo는 9일한국시간 cbs 모닝스 등 현지 매체와 인터뷰에서 백악관 ufc 이벤트는 6월 14일 워싱턴 d.
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소피아5566 오피셜 트럼프trump 코인은,현재 미국 대통령에 당선된 도널드 트럼프와 관련하여2025년 1월 17일에 출시된 밈 코인 입니다. 친親 가상화폐 대통령`을 자처한 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령 당선인이 취임을 앞두고 밈 코인 `$trump`를 출시했습니다. 오늘의 official trump 실시간 가격은 ₩6,960. 혹시 이 차트가 어떤 코인의 차트인지 아시는 분 계실까요. 오피셜트럼프trump 코인 정치와 블록체인의 결합 1. 손심바 지예아 뜻
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 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.
‘미국을 다시 위대하게 make america great again라는 그의 슬로건처럼, 트럼프 2기 정책은 미국 우선주의에 기반해 수립추진될 전망이다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.