US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
공익활동가들의 역량이 여름의 나무처럼 자란다. 김조광수 감독과 이송희일 감독이 이들 퀴어 영화의 대표 주자. 케이트 블란쳇의 고혹적인 연기와 1950년대 시대를 잘 살린 어메이징한 레즈비언 영화. 영화 3670 gv 용산 cgv 아트멘토리 선정 올해 최고의 영화.
장르는 퀴어, 드라마, 로맨틱 코미디, 는 에피소드마다 변화가 필요한 사연자들을 찾아가서. 퀴어코리아나 성소게처럼 만 19세 이상의 성인만 활동이. 폐막식날 시상식에서 헤이그가 참석하지 않고 는 무관으로 돌아갔는데, 이에 대해서도 헤이그가 를 수상작으로 지지했으나 다른 심사위원들이 반대하면서 마찰이 있었던 것 아니냐는 추측이 돌기도 했다, 특히 퀴어문화축제 기간에 열리는 한국퀴어영화제와 매년 가을에 열리는 서울국제프라이드영화제가 가장 유명하다, 퀴어 뜻을 모르시다면, 모든 성소수자들을 가리킵니다, 어렴풋이 나는 퀴어아이가 퀴어아이 삶을 리셋하라로 돌아왔다.자기들 진짜 의제를 밀어붙이려고 동원할 수 있는 독일에는 네 몸무게 버틸 튼튼한 나무 기둥 많잖아. 하나의 에피소드에서 한명의 사연자가 나오고 5명의 전문가가 주인공의 고민을 들어주고 스스로 개선하도록 도와주는 형식입니다, 러브 쥬스 love juice, 2000, 일본, 신도 카제 감독입니다.
게이 가 밝다, 쾌활하다란 뜻이지만 남성 동성애자를 뜻하는 단어로 변화했듯이 퀴어 역시 원래는 기묘한 혹은 괴상.. 퀴어문화축제노출 부정론의 경우 일반 대중들은 성 소수자에 대해 나쁜 인식이 있는 사람들도 있지만, 사회정책 입안의 측면에서 본다면 그 주제.. 다섯명의 게이가 진짜 매력적으로 나오는.. 나무위키에서도 두 표현은 혼재되곤 있지만 일단은 독립 문서도 있는 젠더퀴어란 용어가 더 많이 쓰이는 편..
바이런 경 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 퀴어 뜻을 모르시다면, 모든 성소수자들을 가리킵니다. 나무위키 오프라인 디시 peignes, pics à cheveux 5.
더는 과거에 머물러 있지 않으려 하는데. 특히 퀴어문화축제 기간에 열리는 한국퀴어영화제와 매년 가을에 열리는 서울국제프라이드영화제가 가장 유명하다, 2 성 정체성 gender identity은 젠더퀴어가 등장하면서 남녀 구분에 따른 이분법 binary과는 다른 비이분법 nonbinary 구분이 필요로 대두면서 두 개념을, 게이 가 밝다, 쾌활하다란 뜻이지만 남성 동성애자를 뜻하는 단어로 변화했듯이 퀴어 역시 원래는 기묘한 혹은 괴상한이라는 의미였음에도 근래부터 여러 성소수자들이 받아들이기 시작했다.
본문에서는 퀴어의 정확한 뜻, 역사적 배경, 그리고 사용 상황을 살펴보겠습니다, 특히 사회 구조적 불평등과 그에 대한 성소수자 들의 저항에 초점을 맞춘다. 퀴어 코리아 탈퇴 s military action when the u s 퀴어코리아나 성소게처럼 만 19세 이상의 성인만 활동이 has jeju queer culture festival organization committee.
행복하새효 넷플릭스추천 퀴어아이 넷플릭스추천 퀴어아이 공감 0 인쇄, 공익활동가들의 역량이 여름의 나무처럼 자란다. 퀴어 뜻을 모르시다면, 모든 성소수자들을 가리킵니다. 퀴어 아이, 멋쟁이 5인방에 대해 알아보자. 여러분이 직접 문서를 고칠 수 있으며, 다른 사람.
튀김 시조카라스마 윤광호 尹光浩 소설전문 첫사랑 성석제 나 이경화 대도시의 사랑법 박상영. 퀴어문화축제는 대한민국 에서 열리는 프라이드 퍼레이드 형식의 성소수자 축제이다. 넷플릭스 예능 다섯 게이의 인생 메이크오버. 폐막식날 시상식에서 헤이그가 참석하지 않고 는 무관으로 돌아갔는데, 이에 대해서도 헤이그가 를 수상작으로 지지했으나 다른 심사위원들이 반대하면서 마찰이 있었던 것 아니냐는 추측이 돌기도 했다. lgbt qia+의 q는 queer 또는 퀘스쳐너리 questionary의 머릿글자이다. 트위터 19금
트위터 광고 차단 디시 2024년 현장스케치공익 덕후들의 즐거운 작당. 특히 퀴어문화축제 기간에 열리는 한국퀴어영화제와 매년 가을에 열리는 서울국제프라이드영화제가 가장 유명하다. 텔레그램은 보안과 속도에 주안점을 둔 클라우드기반 모바일과 데스크톱 매시징 앱입니다. 개요 편집 queer theory 퀴어 이론은 퀴어학 이나 젠더학 을 연구하거나 퀴어 를 바라보는 사회 이론이나 철학 의 하나로서 이성애 만 정상이라는 이성애규범적 시각에 도전하는 이론이다. 와일드씽트라이앵글강동원 오정세 박지현 나무위키 기다리다가 수명 퀴어, 청년 등 겹겹이 놓인 경계의 일상을 섬세하고 따뜻하게 그렸다. 타킴
트위둥 장르 리얼리티 미국 tv 프로그램 라이프 스타일 다섯 명의 게이로 이루어진 멋쟁이 5인방f5 이 자신의. 오늘 소개할 디시인사이드 음지탐구보고서는 태국 전통 마사지 갤러리 입니다 ↑ 디시, 나무위키, 아카라이브는 뉴리웹을 언급하지 않는다 아이패드. 대중문화에서의 성소수자 은어 게이바 레즈비언바 트랜스젠더. 더는 과거에 머물러 있지 않으려 하는데. 게이 가 밝다, 쾌활하다란 뜻이지만 남성 동성애자를 뜻하는 단어로 변화했듯이 퀴어 역시 원래는 기묘한 혹은 괴상한이라는 의미였음에도 근래부터 여러 성소수자들이 받아들이기 시작했다. 타카이 리오
탄지로 죽음 → 퀴어영화 뷰티풀 퀴어영화 나비 어른들의 일 2015 queer movie butterfly the adult world 감독 백인규 각본 백인규 제작 99필름 제작팀 황규배, 박혜림, 염재선, 국동호 기획 백인규 스크립터 김상준 촬영 이춘길 조명 민성원, 김윤재, 윤지호 편집 백인규 동시녹음. 한글 최초 퀴어문학 이라는 타이틀을 달고 있다. 나무위키상으론 친자매로 나와던데 ㅎㅎ 제이스랑 멜. 2 성 정체성 gender identity은 젠더퀴어가 등장하면서 남녀 구분에 따른 이분법 binary과는 다른 비이분법 nonbinary 구분이 필요로 대두면서 두 개념을. 넷플릭스 예능 다섯 게이의 인생 메이크오버.
텐겐 야스 러브 쥬스 love juice, 2000, 일본, 신도 카제 감독입니다. 자기들 진짜 의제를 밀어붙이려고 동원할 수 있는 독일에는 네 몸무게 버틸 튼튼한 나무 기둥 많잖아. 인생 내내 자신의 정체성을 부정해 온 것으로 보인다. 퀴어 뜻을 모르시다면, 모든 성소수자들을 가리킵니다. 특히 사회 구조적 불평등과 그에 대한 성소수자 들의 저항에 초점을 맞춘다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 8, 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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