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.
문정중외부지문 tiktok 틱톡 에서 문정중외부지문에 대한 최신 동영상을 시청하세요. 如今,越来越多爱心人士用实际行动践行光前精神。 作为梅山人,我们受惠于光前先生,在光前学村培育下学习、成长,如今事业取得一定的成绩,希望能回馈梅山、光前学村,传承‘光前精神’。. 피해자는 우메야마 코이치 梅山光一로 당시 20살의 젊은 청년으로, 발견 당시 시체는 새까맣게 타있었다. 今(23)日由林俊謀鄉長親自關心督導,吳福仁秘書陪 同,並有梅山鄉民代表會副主席林明仕、代表鍾孟殷, 以及梅東村長劉文科、梅北村長施淵元到場關心,共同 為孩子們的健康把關。.
1988년 12월 7일 후쿠오카현 미야와카시 이누나키지구의 이누나키 터널에서 한 구의 사체가 발견되었다.. 피해자는 우메야마 코이치梅山光一로 당시 20살의 젊은 남성이었으며, 발견 당시 시체는 새까맣게 타 있었다.. Com › item › 光前学村光前学村_百度百科.. 당시 피해자의 신원은 우메야마 코이치 梅山光一, 당시 20세라는 이름을 가진 젊은 남성이었으며, 발견 당시에 시체는 새까맣게 그을린 자국으로 타 있었다..李光前不僅嚴格要求自己,對子女的教育同樣嚴格。 在他的言傳身教下,子女們都勤儉自奉。 數年前,李光前的孫女李嫻曾回國參觀李光前故居,當時我們打算要派車去接她,但她堅持不肯,最後自己搭出租車前來,一身素裝,完全看不出是豪門名媛。, 피해자는 우메야마 코이치 梅山光一씨로 당시 20살의 젊은 청년이었다, Com › meishantownshipoffice › posts嘉義縣梅山鄉公所 國際佛光會中華總會大林講堂於玉虛宮廣場前舉辦「. 李光前故居纪念馆位于福建省南安市梅山镇竞丰村,为清代乾隆年间始建的闽南红砖官式大厝,现存二进双护厝格局,建筑面积840平方米。 该馆于2003年10月开放,现为南安市重点文物保护单位及爱国主义教育基地,兼具华侨文化交流功能。, 极品新人19岁晴子被夫妻档拐来打炮老公干著粉穴给老婆看威哥视频, 37m 麻豆传媒映画・mdhg0015梁若轩这个面试有点硬・美系惹火的小恶魔高清1080p原版首发 read more, 梅山鄉 梅山鄉,舊稱「梅仔坑」、「小梅庄」 1,位於 台灣 嘉義縣 東北部, 嘉南平原 的東北端,緊鄰 嘉義都會區。 北隔 清水溪 與 雲林縣 古坑鄉 為界,西鄰 大林鎮 、 民雄鄉,東臨 阿里山鄉,南接 竹崎鄉。. 當天晚上,有一名叫梅山光一的男子下了班,正準備開車回家之時,遇到了5個青少年攔路,其中一位少年開口道:「我想載女生回去,車子能不能借我?」 梅山. 光前学村 流年似水,岁月纷呈。 无论时代如何变化,李光前及其哲嗣两代人心系桑梓的情怀永远不变。 回首来路,1950年代、1990年代到新世纪成为学村发展,乃至家乡发展的两个黄金高峰期。 从芙蓉乡到梅山镇,两代人为家乡的教育等公益事业持续付出。. 경찰은 즉시 조사를 시작해서 인근에 있던 16세19세까지의 불량 남고생 5명을 불렀다, Com › tag › 은평구일본도사건은평구일본도사건 tiktok.
1810 จีบหนูหน่อยย😆 โสดมากกกก fypเสียงต้นฉบับ หนูเลิกกับผัวแล้วค่ะ.. 피해자는 우메야마 코이치梅山光一로 당시 20살의 젊은 남성이었으며, 발견 당시 시체는 새까맣게 타 있었다.. 1988년 12월 7일, 후쿠오카 현 미야와카시 이누나키지구의 이누나키 터널 에서 한구의 시체가 발견된다..
李光前生前简朴之至,出门常搭三等座的公交车和电车,平素以地瓜和稀饭为主食,经常配咸菜。 他把省下来的积蓄都捐献给了社会。 李光前不仅严格要求自己,对子女的教育同样严格。 在他的言传身教下,子女们都勤俭自奉。. 李光前生前简朴之至,出门常搭三等座的公交车和电车,平素以地瓜和稀饭为主食,经常配咸菜。 他把省下来的积蓄都捐献给了社会。 李光前不仅严格要求自己,对子女的教育同样严格。 在他的言传身教下,子女们都勤俭自奉。. 개요 犬鳴トンネル焼殺事件 1988년 에 이누나키 터널 에서 일어난 살인 사건.
경찰은 즉시 조사를 시작해서 인근에 있던 16세19세까지의 불량 남고생 5명을 불렀다, Kr › 이누나키터널괴담의이누나키 터널 괴담의 실체인 1988년 일본을 뒤흔든 살인사건 수수, 경찰은 즉시 조사를 시작해서 인근에 있던 16세19세까지의 불량 소년 5명을 불렀다.
582 ถูกใจ,21 ความคิดเห็นวิดีโอ tiktok จาก หนูเลิกกับผัวแล้วค่ะ @arisa. 피해자는 우메야마 코이치梅山光一로 당시 20살의 젊은 남성이었으며, 발견 당시 시체는 새까맣게 타 있었다. Org › hqxl › 75024南安侨亲故事之李光前:光前精神一直流淌在我们心中 福建省侨联, Com › archives › 675197探訪南安梅山李光前故居:一世勤儉留典範,終生慷慨濟桑梓. 1988년 12월 6일, 인근 지역 공장에서 근무하던 우메야마 코이치 梅山光一는 자신의 차량을 몰고 퇴근하던 중 교차로에서 신호 대기를 하고 있었다. 일본 후쿠오카 공포의 터널 이누나키 터널 가까운 일본의 유명한 공포의 터널 이누나키犬鳴터널에 대해서조사를 해보았습니다.
1988年12月7日,20歲的工人梅山光一在下班回家途中,被五名青少年攔下。 因拒絕將車借給他們,梅山光一被五人輪流毆打,隨後被帶到舊犬鳴隧道. 피해자는 우메야마 코이치梅山光一로 당시 20살의 젊은 남성이었으며, 발견 당시 시체는 새까맣게 타 있었다, 피해자는 우메야마 코이치 梅山光一씨로 당시 20살의 젊은 청년이었다. 為確保孩童遊戲環境安全,梅山鄉立幼兒園、兒童遊憩 區辦理全面消毒作業。 今(23)日由林俊謀鄉長親自關心督導,吳福仁秘書陪 同,並有梅山鄉民代表會副主席林明仕、代表鍾孟殷, 以及梅東村長劉文科、梅北村長施淵元到場關心,共同 為孩子們的健康把關。 鄉公所將持續落實環境清潔與. 當天晚上,有一名叫梅山光一的男子下了班,正準備開車回家之時,遇到了5個青少年攔路,其中一位少年開口道:「我想載女生回去,車子能不能借我?」 梅山. : 大力弘扬光前文化 倾心打造品质医院 ——改革发展中的泉州市光前医院 在风光秀丽的杨梅山下,碧波盈盈的芙蓉溪畔,坐落着一所侨捐公办医院——泉州市光前医院,系著名爱国华侨李光前先生于1951年.
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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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