US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 19, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
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🤣 빵 터지는 아재개그 레전드 모음, 김부장은 오늘도 아재 개그를 시전합니다, 유치하지만 다시 떠올리면 피식 웃음 나오는 아재 개그. Okay, lets hear your legendary 아재개그 everyone.아재개그는 말 그대로 아재가 하는 개그이다. 참신한 아재개그 모음 60가지 오리가 얼면. 칠레 웃긴 아재개그 모음 중에서 나라에 관한 것들이 몇몇 있더라구요. 아재개그 모음 족보 7탄24012800 블로그. 😂 최신 유행 개그부터 썰렁한 명작까지 엄선, 아재개그 모음 300개를 총 정리했습니다.
세대 간의 소통을 도와주기도 하니 한 번쯤은 아재개그를 활용해 보셔도 좋을 것 같습니다. 아재개그 유머와 위트가 살아있는 아재개그 저장소. 이번 포스팅은 던파 아재개그 정답 모음입니다. 전체보기 1,864개의 글 목록열기 활동정보. 아재개그 모음 족보 7탄24012800 블로그.
평범한 일상에 웃음꽃을 피워줄 46가지 아재개그부터, 더욱 다양하고 풍성한 개그들을 만나보세요.. 세대 간의 소통을 도와주기도 하니 한 번쯤은 아재개그를 활용해 보셔도 좋을 것 같습니다.. 이 포스트에서는 아재개그의 여러 종류를 소개하고, 재미있고 유머 가득한 내용들을 모아볼 예정이다.. 이 글 하나면 단톡방에서 분위기를 주도할 수 있고, 회식 자리에서 어색한 침묵도 거뜬히 깨뜨릴 수 있어요..
그 유래와 특징을 이해하면, 우리가 경험하는 일상의 소소한 웃음이 어떻게 만들어지는지 알 수 있습니다, 20대, 30대에겐 다소 민감한 주제일 수 있지만, 적절한 상황에서 센스 있게 활용한다면 분위기 메이커로 등극할 수 있는 아재개그. 이 포스팅에서는 아재개그 모음 100개를 같이 살펴보겠습니다, Okay, lets hear your legendary 아재개그 everyone.
| 지금 바로 확인하고, 유머 감각을 업그레이드하세요. | 평범한 일상에 웃음꽃을 피워줄 46가지 아재개그부터, 더욱 다양하고 풍성한 개그들을 만나보세요. | ㅎㅎㅎ 회사에서 일만 하다보면 회사 집 패턴이 반복되는데 그나마 이런 것들이 작은 힐링이 된달까요. | 단순히 재미유머를 위해 만들어졌으니 과몰입은 금지해주세요. |
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| 아재 능력 고사 아재개그와 넌센스퀴즈. | 재미있는 아재개그 모음 110 넌센스 퀴즈 정답은 바로 아래 1. | 한 두가지씩 알고 계시면 어디서나 인싸 가능. | 16% |
| 20대, 30대에겐 다소 민감한 주제일 수 있지만, 적절한 상황에서 센스 있게 활용한다면 분위기 메이커로 등극할 수 있는 아재개그. | 아재 개그 모음 100가지 네이버 블로그 일만감사. | 아재 개그 모음 100가지 네이버 블로그 일만감사. | 17% |
| Com › 471아재개그 모음 46개. | 아재개그 모음 족보 4탄12011600 블로그. | 문제를 시간내에 풀지 못하면 아재개그가 랜덤에 발송됩니다. | 67% |
참신한 아재개그 레전드 모음 100가지 자유게시판. 20대, 30대에겐 다소 민감한 주제일 수 있지만, 적절한 상황에서 센스 있게 활용한다면 분위기 메이커로 등극할 수 있는 아재개그. Comgg6757326 scientia potentia est 조회 수 9419 댓글 10. Com › entry › 아재개그모음집아재개그 모음집 100개 lucid. 유머와 위트가 살아있는 아재개그 저장소.
전체보기 1,864개의 글 목록열기 활동정보, 웃긴 아재개그 모음 36가지 알아봤는데 술자리에서 2년에 한번정도 써보면 나쁘지 않을지도 모르겠네요 요즘 1020대들은 아재개그 안하죠, 흔히 아재 개그로 불리는 언어유희 퀴즈, 하이개그, 허무개그 그리고 넌센스 퀴즈등의 유머를 모아 하나의 게임으로 만들었습니다, 이번에 소개한 웃긴 아재개그 레전드 재밌는 퀴즈 모음 100선을 통해 잠시나마 웃음을 찾고, 주변 사람들과도 함께 즐겨보는 시간을 가져보자.
웃긴 아재개그 모음 36가지 알아봤는데 술자리에서 2년에 한번정도 써보면 나쁘지 않을지도 모르겠네요 요즘 1020대들은 아재개그 안하죠. 문제를 시간내에 풀지 못하면 아재개그가 랜덤에 발송됩니다. Post them here and what it means so we can all learn a little and read more, ㅎㅎㅎ 긴 아재개그 읽어 주셔서 감사합니다, 그 유래와 특징을 이해하면, 우리가 경험하는 일상의 소소한 웃음이 어떻게 만들어지는지 알 수 있습니다.
더바붐샵 디시 모르는것보다 아는게 힘이다 라는 말이 있죠. 생활 정보 2024년 띠, 삼재띠, 대박띠좋은띠 알아보기. 추억의 아재개그참 많네욤ㅎㅎ 별빛카페. 전 연령용으로 부담 없고, 말장난 감칠맛만 쏙쏙 뽑은 신박한 아재개그 레전드 모음 75선을 준비했다. 참신한 아재개그 레전드 모음 100가지 자유게시판. 다음은 근로자 작업안전 방법 중 수술실과 치과에 대한 설명이다. 거리가 먼 것은_
다키 야스 아재개그는 2, 30대에겐 민감한 주제입니다. While learning korean, have you come across some ridiculous dad jokes. 그래서 새해부터 이웃분들께 웃음을 드리겠다는 의미로 같은 거창한건 아니고. Com › awloy › 223294192064참신한 아재개그 레전드 모음 100가지 네이버 블로그. 이 포스트에서는 아재개그의 여러 종류를 소개하고, 재미있고 유머 가득한 내용들을 모아볼 예정이다. 대딸 ㅇㄷ
눈나눈나 방송 본 포스팅에서는 최고의 아재개그 100가지를 소개하며, 여러분의 일상에 긍정적인 에너지를. 직장회식에서 분위기 띄우는 아재개그 회사나 회식 자리에서 센스 있게 활용하면 웃음과 친근감을 동시에 얻을 수 있습니다. 이번 포스팅은 던파 아재개그 정답 모음입니다. 신박한 아재개그 20가지로 여러분의 하루에 조금이나마 웃음을 전해드리고 싶어요. 과연 어떤 개그들이 여러분을 기다리고 있을까요. 누키 타시 짤
대구 요정집 2차 직접 녹화해가면서 정답들 찾아 정리해보았는. 요즘 아재개그 모음에 빠진 것 같아요. 센스 있는 사람이 되는 비법은 바로 아재개그. 오늘은 아재개그와 관련된 여러 내용들을 살펴보겠습니다. 요즘 코로나로 인해 웃을일이 많이 줄어든 것 같아요.
누키타시 무삭제 로그인을 하시면 커뮤니티 리스트를 편집가능합니다. 이번 글에서는 웃긴 정도, 반응, 밈화된 유행어 등을 기준으로 아재개그 top 50을 정리해봤습니다. 어색한 분위기를 녹이고, 🤣 모두를 빵 터지게 만들 아재개그. 아재개그 모음집 보시고 하루를 시작해 보세요. 이 포스트에서는 아재개그의 여러 종류를 소개하고, 재미있고 유머 가득한 내용들을 모아볼 예정이다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 19, 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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