US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
조씨그냥 얘네들은 다혈질인데 여자는 안그럼 강 다정다감하고 억수로 사려깊고 그럼 권씨활발충 많고 잘 촐싹댐 여자는 사려깊었음 배려심좋음 서씨까칠함 이기적임 황씨고집쎔 윤씨활달하고 인싸형임 찐따에다가 소외된 윤씨는 단 한번도 못봄. 그렇기 때문에 이들에게는 다른 성씨와는 달리 동성同姓이라고 해서. 블라블라 추천 글 20초인데 외박했다고 이렇게옴 남친이 내 여동생 보고 이쁘대 아 진짜 심심하다 다들 모하고있어. 본 자료는 함안조씨 역사연구회 오깨비님 자료를 퍼 왔습니다.
Com › hyouncho › 223856904760한국인의 뿌리, 조씨 趙氏 조상은 누구인가, 그렇기 때문에 이들에게는 다른 성씨와는 달리 동성同姓이라고 해서. 창녕 조씨 인물들이 정사에서 뚜렷하게 행적이 남겨진 것은 고려 후기부터이다. 성격도 가지각색 자기주장뚜렷한 조씨여자들. 근데 풍양조씨가 엄청 대대로 뼈대 있는 가문이라는 소리를 자주 하는데, 술먹으면서 한번 그런 이야기가 나와서 그냥. 조씨 가문의 3대에 걸친 사건을 다루고 있는 가문소설 家門小說 로 대하소설 에 속한다. 그래서 창녕조씨 문중에서는 조계룡을 시조로 하고, 조겸을 중시조로 받들고 있다. 그러나 조 趙씨와 달리, 조 曺씨는 창녕을 본관으로 하는 성씨가 대부분이며, 그 외의 본관들도 창녕조씨에서 분관된 성씨로 파악되고 있죠. 우리나라의 성씨 문화는 세계적으로도 독특한 특징을 가지고 있습니다.| Com › discover › 성씨성격안좋은tiktok. | 조씨 趙 曺씨의 기원과 본관, 주요인물은. | 이 논문은 南平曺氏1574~1645가 쓴 『丙子日記』의 형성과정, 작품성격과 작품공간을 구명함으로써 그 문학사적 위상을 밝히는 것을 목적으로. | 남평조씨『병자일기』의 성격과 작품공간 december 2012 korean classical woman literature studies null25209239. |
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| 남의 기분이나 건강상태는 생각 안하고, 무조껀 자기가 원하는 대로 닥치는대로 추진한다. | 한양조씨 漢陽趙氏는 한양조씨의 시조는 고려 명종신종희종강종 등 4대에 걸쳐 조순대부 朝順大夫 첨의중서사 僉議中書事를 지낸 조지수 趙之壽이다. | 하지만 하후연의 경우 부인이 정부인 의 누이라고 하니 동서 관계로 인척이긴 하다. | 그렇기 때문에 이들에게는 다른 성씨와는 달리 동성同姓이라고 해서. |
| 나무위키에 조씨에 대해 잘 정리되잇내요 요약 趙 나라조씨의 빌런은 대표적으로 우주여신 조민아, 미국 총기난사 사건의 조승희, 조영남, 텔레그램 성착취물 조주. | 그리고 「양문충의록」 등과 연작 관계에 있다. | 그래서 저는 사람과 마주할 때 성씨를 보고 판단해요. | Com › kshky › 221769829560 조 趙씨와 한양조씨 네이버 블. |
| 그리고 「양문충의록」 등과 연작 관계에 있다. | 조 趙씨 본관은 문헌에 대략 200여 본이 전하나, 몇 본이 현존하는지는 미상이다. | 삼한시대 왕족이나 귀족들의 성씨의 경우 그 유래가 전해지고 있다. | 중종반정 에 이어 조선의 두 번째 반정인 인조반정 으로 백부 광해군 과 지지세력인. |
| 조씨 趙 曺씨의 기원과 본관, 주요인물은. | 11k views 2 years ago. | 이번 포스팅에서는 한양 조씨의 역사적 기원부터 현대 사회에서의 위상까지, 깊이 있게 살펴보고자 합니다. | 다음 시간에는 조씨 다음으로 인구가 많은 윤씨에 대해 알아보겠습니다. |
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이 논문에서는 『병자일기』의 형성과정과 작품적 성격 그리고 작품 공간을 집중적으로 분석함으로써 『병자일기』가 남성들이 쓴 한문일기의 글쓰기 전통을 일정 정도, 조조 의 업적과 능력을 정리한 문서. 1 《창녕조씨 만가보 昌寧曺氏萬家譜》에 의하면, 조겸의 손자 조연우 曺延祐로부터 15세 조자기 曺自奇에 이르기까지 8대에 걸쳐 문하시랑평장사를.
그러나 조 趙씨와 달리, 조 曺씨는 창녕을 본관으로 하는 성씨가 대부분이며, 그 외의 본관들도 창녕조씨에서 분관된 성씨로 파악되고 있죠.. Com › hyouncho › 223856904760한국인의 뿌리, 조씨 趙氏 조상은 누구인가..
조씨 주인공은 물론 단역으로도 보기 힘든 성씨, 우리나라의 성씨 문화는 세계적으로도 독특한 특징을 가지고 있습니다, 조원 趙瑗은 고려 말에서 조선 초 인물로, 양주에 세거하며 학자관료 집안으로 발전하였다. 겉으로는 자기는 세상 공평하고 정치는 중도를 지지하고 개념있는 척 하는데. 조씨, 가문, 역사, 인물, 조선, 족보, 혈통, 함안 조씨는 조나라 조 趙자를 쓰고 창녕 조씨는 성 조 曺자를 쓴다.
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dosankonyoku leak 그리고 「양문충의록」 등과 연작 관계에 있다. Com › discover › 성씨성격안좋은tiktok. 삼한시대 왕족이나 귀족들의 성씨의 경우 그 유래가 전해지고 있다. 조씨그냥 얘네들은 다혈질인데 여자는 안그럼 강 다정다감하고 억수로 사려깊고 그럼 권씨활발충 많고 잘 촐싹댐 여자는 사려깊었음 배려심좋음. 조씨 가문의 3대에 걸친 사건을 다루고 있는 가문소설 家門小說 로 대하소설 에 속한다.
elle lee 디시 우리나라 성씨 지금 조씨에 대해 인터넷 족보, 본관 종류, 순위, 가계도그리기, 가족역사에 대한 이야기를 찾아보세요. 조씨그냥 얘네들은 다혈질인데 여자는 안그럼 강 다정다감하고 억수로 사려깊고 그럼 권씨활발충 많고 잘 촐싹댐 여자는 사려깊었음 배려심좋음 서씨까칠함 이기적임 황씨고집쎔 윤씨활달하고 인싸형임 찐따에다가 소외된 윤씨는 단 한번도 못봄. 그렇기 때문에 이들에게는 다른 성씨와는 달리 동성同姓이라고 해서. 다음 시간에는 조씨 다음으로 인구가 많은 윤씨에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 중종반정 에 이어 조선의 두 번째 반정인 인조반정 으로 백부 광해군 과 지지세력인.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 4, 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.
Net › wiki › 조_성씨조 성씨 리브레 위키., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.