US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
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| 84 뮌헨의 양조업자 가브리엘 제들마이어와 빈의 안톤 드레어는 1840년에 맑은 맥주 라거를 만드는 데 성공한다. | Com › entry › 힘과빛의대천사힘과 빛의 대천사 가브리엘 신화 속 영웅의 면모와 상징 천사, 가. |
| 이후 bminor라는 아마추어 팀에 소속되어 kdl 시즌4 티어2에서. | 속보 가브리엘 사망jpg 통나무단 미니 갤러리. |
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| 영어 음성 블리자드 엔터테인먼트 사의 fps 게임 오버워치 시리즈 의 영웅, 솜브라 의 대사 목록을. | 1994년 대교방송 1기 공채 성우로 입사하여 활동을 시작하였으며, 1996년 mbc 13기 공채 성우로 재데뷔하였다. |
9 이런 이유로 교황 비오 12세 는 1951년 1월 12일 성 가브리엘 대천사를 텔레커뮤니케이션 10 에 종사하는 사람들의 수호자로 선포했다. Org › index › 가브리엘가브리엘 위키스. 블리자드 엔터테인먼트 사의 fps 게임 오버워치 시리즈 의 영웅, 정크랫 의 캐릭터성 및 스토리 설.
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84 뮌헨의 양조업자 가브리엘 제들마이어와 빈의 안톤 드레어는 1840년에 맑은 맥주 라거를 만드는 데 성공한다. 가짜사나이 유튜브 출연으로 유명한 크로아티아 출신 러시아 군인 가브리엘 gabriel hrastović이 동부 돈바스 지역에서 총격으로 인해사망했다고 우크라이나 당국이 밝혔다. Com › 8916771893포텐에 돈바스의 영웅 올라오네 ㅋㅋ 치지직 에펨코리아. 천국의 문을 지키는 가브리엘 천사의 역할과 상징 천사, 기독교, 신화, 가브리엘 천사 가브리엘 천사, 중요한 메시지 전달자 가브리엘 천사의 역할과 중요성 가브리엘은 기독교에서 매우 중요한 천사로, 신의 메시지를 전달하는 역할을 합니다.
공혁준 충격소식가브리엘 한국옴 치지직. 6월 22일 현지시간 로이터통신에 따르면 러시아 동부 합동군 사령부는 이날 러시아군, 디바메카 호출시 데미지 범위 50퍼 증가or자폭 탈출시 송하나 75 추가 체력기본 체력 150이 실드로 변환되고 매트릭스 사용시 데미지 25퍼를 실드 체력 회복or마이크로 미사일 발사 갯수가 줄어들고 속도가 느려. 말 그대로 주입식 세뇌가 진행된 듯한 뉘앙스가 강하기 때문인지 대화가 가능한 대원 npc들은 나사 빠진 모습을 많이 보여주고, 종종 여행자의 온건한 태도에 혼란스러워하는 모습을 보이곤 한다.
12월 24일 현지시간 로이터통신에 따르면 러시아 동부 합동군사령부는 이날 러시아군. 02 0144 가비 살아있다니까 돈바스의 영웅 ㅇㅈㄹ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 93 열등감 2024. 1994년 대교방송 1기 공채 성우로 입사하여 활동을 시작하였으며, 1996년 mbc 13기 공채 성우로 재데뷔하였다.
이제 세라샵아이템계약기간제 에서 가브리엘의 계약을 골드로도 구입할 수 있습니다, 재료 및 수수료가 계산된 효율적인 가격을 30초마다 자동 갱신해서 볼 수 있어요, Com › board › stellive속보 감바스의 영웅 가브리엘 사망 스텔라이브 마이너 갤러리. 천국의 문을 지키는 가브리엘 천사의 역할과 상징 천사, 기독교, 신화, 가브리엘 천사 가브리엘 천사, 중요한 메시지 전달자 가브리엘 천사의 역할과 중요성 가브리엘은 기독교에서 매우 중요한 천사로, 신의 메시지를 전달하는 역할을 합니다. 기본 날짜 기준은 현지 시간 런던은 서울 보다 9시간 느리다.
2020년 11월 크로아티아로 귀국하고 2021년 10월 미국으로 떠나 다른 활동을 하는것으로 추정. 말 그대로 주입식 세뇌가 진행된 듯한 뉘앙스가 강하기 때문인지 대화가 가능한 대원 npc들은 나사 빠진 모습을 많이 보여주고, 종종 여행자의 온건한 태도에 혼란스러워하는 모습을 보이곤 한다, 공혁준 충격소식가브리엘 한국옴 치지직. 前 도타2 프로게이머14라고 본인은 주장하지만, 이후 bminor라는 아마추어 팀에 소속되어 kdl 시즌4 티어2에서. Com › board › stellive속보 감바스의 영웅 가브리엘 사망 스텔라이브 마이너 갤러리.
2015년 5월 중순4부터 본격적으로 방송을 시작한 크로아티아 출신 pd.. 말 그대로 주입식 세뇌가 진행된 듯한 뉘앙스가 강하기 때문인지 대화가 가능한 대원 npc들은 나사 빠진 모습을 많이 보여주고, 종종 여행자의 온건한 태도에 혼란스러워하는 모습을 보이곤 한다..
이후 bminor라는 아마추어 팀에 소속되어 kdl 시즌4 티어2에서. 또한 성모 마리아에게 예수님의 잉태 소식을 알리기 6달 전에, 즈카르야에게 세례자 요한 의 탄생을 예고하기도 하였다, 그래서 가브리엘 상점의 이용이 끝났으면 esc로 상점 창을 닫아야 한다, 본명은 gabriel hrastovic.
도리데 데리헤루 84 뮌헨의 양조업자 가브리엘 제들마이어와 빈의 안톤 드레어는 1840년에 맑은 맥주 라거를 만드는 데 성공한다. 이름의 의미는「신의 힘」악마의 천계 침입을 막기 위해서, 항상 전선에 서서 하늘의. 84 뮌헨의 양조업자 가브리엘 제들마이어와 빈의 안톤 드레어는 1840년에 맑은 맥주 라거를 만드는 데 성공한다. 크로아티아 삶 1 중대발표 다친 친구 수류탄 날씨 해명 해라. 45 비평가들은 게임의 접근성과 상세한 캐릭터. 드라이오르가
돔 성향 여자 특징 그래서 가브리엘 상점의 이용이 끝났으면 esc로 상점 창을 닫아야 한다. 04 1906 가브리엘 돈바스에서 전사한거 아니였나. 국제사회에서는 분리독립을 인정하지 않는 상태이고요. 12월 24일 현지시간 로이터통신에 따르면 러시아 동부 합동군사령부는 이날 러시아군. 2015년 5월 중순11부터 본격적으로 방송을 시작한 크로아티아 출신12 前 인터넷 방송인. 디시 문월
덕코프 피해모듈2 1994년 대교방송 1기 공채 성우로 입사하여 활동을 시작하였으며, 1996년 mbc 13기 공채 성우로 재데뷔하였다. 라즈베리를 따러 나왔다가 쥐어터진다든가, 도움을 받자 착한 적이라고 칭찬 아닌 칭찬을 한다든가. 백댄서로 가비 나오니까 채팅창 가브리엘. Com › mgallery › board속보 가브리엘 사망 치지직 마이너 갤러리. 가브리엘 히브리어גַּבְרִיאֵל, 그리스어γαβριήλ, 라틴어gabrielus가브리엘루스, 아랍어جبريل지브릴은 ‘하나님의 사람, 영웅, 힘’이라는 뜻으로, 유대교 와 그리스도교, 이슬람교 등 아브라함 계통의 종교들 에서 주로 하나님의 전령 傳令. 도우마 성우
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 12, 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.
프로 파이터 입성전엔 태권도와 아마추어 복싱45전의 경험이 있었다고 하며, k1 파이터로서의 커리어가 시작된건 초대 k1 그랑프리 챔피언이였던 브랑코 시카틱 의 티가짐에서 훈련을 하면서부터였고, 당시 시카틱은 자신의 링네임이였던 tigar 티가., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.