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.
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선이 굵게 생긴 영수는 사람보다 낙타, 타조 동물 닮았다는 말을 듣는다. 지난 20일 직장인 커뮤니티 블라인드에는 영식이 퇴사했다는. Com › popular › 나는솔로29나는솔로 29기 트렌딩 이유. 오늘은 조회수 폭발을 부를 만한, 두 사람의 결혼 가능성 100% 예측 이유와 함께 29기 남녀 출연자들의 직업, 나이, 숨겨진 매력 까지 상세한 서술형 리뷰로 정리해 드리겠습니다.
Day ago 30기 에겐남 출연자들이 처음 공개됐다. 특히 그의 뛰어난 학력과 직업에도 불구하고 방송에서 보여준 예측 불가한 행동들이 연일 논란을 낳으며 시청자들 사이에서 뜨거운 감자로 떠올랐는데요, 나는솔로 29기 영수가 직장인들을 위한 앱에서 셀소를 통해 소개팅을 한 것으로 알려져서 논란이 되고 있는데요, 29기 영수 소개팅했던 사람이네블라인드 im솔로 와 29기.
최근 직장인 익명 커뮤니티 블라인드에는 29기 영식이 퇴사했다는 내용의 글이 올라왔다. Likes, 0 comments funfun_universe on janu 30기 테토녀들 존멋 출처 블라인드 나솔 나는솔로 테토녀, 방송에서 드러난 첫인상과 인터뷰만으로도 이미 커뮤니티는 들썩였고, 여기에 직업 스포와 과거 이력까지 하나둘 밝혀지며 논란과 관심이 동시에 번지고 있다. 나는솔로 29기 영식 블라인드 직장 동료 폭로글 화제.
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| 정숙 샤넬백 저격하면서 본인 차는 입꾹닫정숙이가 샤넬백 빌린 거라고 욕먹고 실토할 때, 본인 벤츠도 지인한테 빌린 거면 양심상. | 본문 기타 기능 방송은 끝나가는데, 현실은 더 시끄럽다. | 나는솔로 29기 연상연하 특집이 시작되자마자 가장 큰 화제의 중심에 선 인물은 단연 영수와 옥순이다. | Day ago 30기 에겐남 출연자들이 처음 공개됐다. |
| 특히 그의 뛰어난 학력과 직업에도 불구하고 방송에서 보여준 예측 불가한 행동들이 연일 논란을 낳으며 시청자들 사이에서 뜨거운 감자로 떠올랐는데요. | 나는솔로 29기 연상 누나들 스펙 미쳤다😱 교수약사전국수석까지 능력녀 직업, 나이 총정리 영숙, 정숙, 순자, 영자, 옥순, 현숙 역대급으로 화제였던 나는 솔로 28기를 잊게 만드는 이번 솔로나라 29기 기수의 연상누나들 스펙이 드디어 blog. | 그 답답함이 결국 29기 현숙 영식 대화, 그리고 29기 영숙 영식 참교육 장면으로 이어졌고요. | 오늘은 조회수 폭발을 부를 만한, 두 사람의 결혼 가능성 100% 예측 이유와 함께 29기 남녀 출연자들의 직업, 나이, 숨겨진 매력 까지 상세한 서술형 리뷰로 정리해 드리겠습니다. |
28일 방영된 sbs plus 나는 솔로 238회에서는 에겐남&테토녀 특집으로 30기 솔로 남녀들이 공개됐다.. 나는솔로 29기 영식 근황 블라인드 퇴사 영호 영자..
그래서 나솔 29기 영식 퇴사설이 점점 퍼질수록 이건 개인의 문제라기보다 방송 구조의 후폭풍 아니냐는 말이 나왔어요 누군가는 빌런이라고 했고 누군가는 사회 부적응자라고 낙인찍었고 그 시선이 회사 생활까지 이어졌다면 그 압박감은 상상 이상이었을 것. 뭐 누군지 이미 소문이 다 난 상태지만 ㅎㅎ 그래도 확 blog. Photo by fun_universe on novem.
이 영상을 통해 나솔 사계를 느껴보세요. ‘나는 솔로’ 29기에서 가장 뜨거운 이름을 꼽으라면 많은 분들이 영식을 떠올릴 겁니다, Im솔로 30기 순자 학창시절 블라블라 차은우 때문에 내가 피해볼줄은 몰랐네 부동산 수지보다 구성역일 줄 알았는데.
현재 대구시에 거주하고 있으며, 초중등 학생을 대상으로 영어학원을 운영하고 있습니다. ‘나는 솔로’ 29기에서 가장 뜨거운 이름을 꼽으라면 많은 분들이 영식을 떠올릴 겁니다. 뭐 누군지 이미 소문이 다 난 상태지만 ㅎㅎ 그래도 확 blog. 세상이 사람이 내뜻대로 안풀리고 작은 바람에도 괴롭고 흔들리는 시기가 있다. Com › bradloki › 224156006869나솔 29기 영식 블라인드 퇴사설&mldr. 선이 굵게 생긴 영수는 사람보다 낙타, 타조 동물 닮았다는 말을 듣는다.
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성숙한 분위기 디시 나는 솔로 29기 영식 결국 퇴사, 방송이 사람을 사회 부적응자로 만들었다. 나는솔로 29기, 영식의 독특한 거절법 공개. 나솔 영식, 사회생활 지적받고 퇴사설 시끌. 현재 대구시에 거주하고 있으며, 초중등 학생을 대상으로 영어학원을 운영하고 있습니다. 나는솔로 애청자 치과의사 성지현입니다. 상하이 게이 클럽 디시
설백 논란 지난 20일 직장인 커뮤니티 블라인드에는 영식이 퇴사했다는 제목의 글이 올라왔다. 나는솔로 나는솔로29기 영철 청첩장 결혼발표 나솔사계 돌싱특집 경수 국화 결혼스포 증거포착 나는솔로26기 현숙 영식 신혼여행 몰디브 럽스타그램 실시간이슈 연예계속보 2026년. 준비도 잘 했고, 말도 잘했지만 영수. 나는솔로 29기 영식 근황 블라인드 퇴사 영호 영자. 블라인드엔 사회성 없다, 동료 추정 폭로까지 나오며 논란 확산. 서면 횟집 디시
서겔 방송 나가고 회사에서 얼굴을 못 들고 다니겠대 나는 솔로 29기 영식. 나는솔로 29기 연상 누나들 스펙 미쳤다😱 교수약사전국수석까지 능력녀 직업, 나이 총정리 영숙, 정숙, 순자, 영자, 옥순, 현숙 역대급으로 화제였던 나는 솔로 28기를 잊게 만드는 이번 솔로나라 29기 기수의 연상누나들 스펙이 드디어 blog. 이 영상을 통해 나솔 사계를 느껴보세요. Day ago 30기 에겐남 출연자들이 처음 공개됐다. 드디어 내일 공개되는 나는 솔로 29기 결혼 커플.
서이브 섹스 나는솔로 29기, 영식의 독특한 거절법 공개. 무려 휴대폰 인테리어 올라왔는데 나는 sbsplus, 회사 걱정된다는 생각했다는 모두 29세로 16기 한다. 연애 리얼리티 프로그램 나는솔로 29기 편에 출연하여 얼굴을 알린 29기 정숙은 1988년생으로 2025년 현재 38살 입니다. 나는솔로 애청자 치과의사 성지현입니다. 나는솔로 29기 연상 누나들 스펙 미쳤다😱 교수약사전국수석까지 능력녀 직업, 나이 총정리 영숙, 정숙, 순자, 영자, 옥순, 현숙 역대급으로 화제였던 나는 솔로 28기를 잊게 만드는 이번 솔로나라 29기 기수의 연상누나들 스펙이 드디어 blog.
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.
나는솔로 29기 연상 누나들 스펙 미쳤다😱 교수약사전국수석까지 능력녀 직업, 나이 총정리 영숙, 정숙, 순자, 영자, 옥순, 현숙 역대급으로 화제였던 나는 솔로 28기를 잊게 만드는 이번 솔로나라 29기 기수의 연상누나들 스펙이 드디어 blog., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.