곽부성 郭富城, aaron kwok fushing.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tv리포트박설이 기자곽부성과 그의 아내가 결혼 5주년을 맞아 결혼식 당시 사진을 최초 공개했다. 이어진 2주차 설해원전에서는 오랜만에 꺼내든 미드 탈리야와 트페로 전라인을 휩쓸면서 게임을 30분 이전에 터뜨려버리면서 pog를 독식. Kt는 21일 오후 공식 채널을 통해 곽보성과의 재계약을 공식 발표했다. 불과 5월 초 수원에서 열린 ‘홈커밍 데이’에서 낙담하던 모습은 이제는 찾을 수 없었다.

Bdd, Or Kwak Boseong 곽보성, Is A Mid Laner For Kt Rolster And Kr Resident.

공식 비디디 곽보성, 슈퍼전트 전격 합류.

Com › news › articleview곽부성, 2년 열애한 23세 연하 여자친구와 결혼&mldr. Osen종로, 고용준 기자 서글서글한 얼굴로 연신 미소를 띄우던 그의 모습이 아니었다, Kt는 31일 서울 종로구 롤파크 lck 아레나에서 열린 농심과의 ‘2025 lck’ 정규시즌 5라운드 경기에서 20으로 승리했다. 곽부성, 결혼 전 화려한 여성편력 눈길약혼자 충격받고 동성애 전향 홍콩 톱스타 곽부성이 23세 연하 연인과 결혼식을 올려 화제인 가운데, 그의 과거 연인들이 눈길을 끌고 있다. 시즌 초반 팀을 지탱했던 ‘비디디’ 곽보성도 이젠 짐을 덜고, 편한 환경에서 경기에 임하고 있다. Kr › view › pyh20250108153000013각오 밝히는 비디디 곽보성.

엑스포츠뉴스 최희재 기자 배우 박세영, 곽정욱이 깜짝 결혼 소식을 전했다. 모델 출신인 그녀는 가난한 집에서 태어난 것으로 알려졌당. 그런데 비디디 키 180넘네 작은줄 알았는데 180넘네.

곽부성은 21일 홍콩에서 열린 한 행사에 모습을 드러냈다, 그리고 한창 월즈가 진행 중이던 2024년 10월 21일, kt 롤스터와 2년 재계약을 체결하며 일찌감치 잔류를 확정지었다, 먼저 곽부성은 모델 슝다이린웅대림과 7년 동안 교제했다. 롤챔스 스프링 드디어 데뷔신예 비디디 곽보성, 콩두전.

외부 링크 어쩌다, 결혼 무비스트 어쩌다, 결혼 한국영화 데이터베이스 영어 어쩌다, 결혼 인터넷 영화 데이터베이스 분류 한국어 영화 작품 2019년 영화 위장 결혼을 소재로 한 영화 대한민국의 로맨틱 코미디 영화.. 올해 한 번도 이기지 못했던 한화생명을 넘어 그 이상을 바라볼 수 있는 의미를 제시한 이정표였기 때문이었다..

홍콩 4대천왕 곽부성 결혼 그리고 득녀 홍콩 4대천왕으로 한 축을 담당했던 곽부성이 2년 열애끝에 중국모.

우승한 차지한 롱주 게이밍 곽보성 선수가 감격의 눈물을 흘리고 있다. 지난 18일 곽부성은 자신의 웨이보에 오늘은 매우 즐겁고 특별한 날이다, 곽보성 선수에게 2025 롤드컵은 그 어떤 대회보다 간절했습니다.

Kt는 14승16패로 정규시즌을 4위로 마무리했다. Com › view › 20240629n09505취재진 질문에 답하는 비디디 곽보성 포토 네이트 뉴스. 중화권 톱스타인 배우 곽부성 51이 23세 연하 여자친구인 모델 팡위안 28과 결혼한다. 과연 두 사람의 ‘하는 척’은 성공할 수 있을까.

지난 2015년 cj 엔투스 소속으로 처음 프로게이머로 데뷔한 곽보성은 2017년부터 2년간 킹존 드래곤x에서 뛴 후 kt로 팀을. 농심전 분전에도 패한 비디디 곽보성 실력에서 밀렸다. Tv리포트박설이 기자곽부성과 그의 아내가 결혼 5주년을 맞아 결혼식 당시 사진을 최초 공개했다, 라우드코퍼레이션 산하 e스포츠 에이전시 슈퍼전트는 17일 kt 롤스터 미드라이너 비디디 곽보성 선수가 새롭게 합류했다고 공식 발표했다, 외부 링크 어쩌다, 결혼 무비스트 어쩌다, 결혼 한국영화 데이터베이스 영어 어쩌다, 결혼 인터넷 영화 데이터베이스 분류 한국어 영화 작품 2019년 영화 위장 결혼을 소재로 한 영화 대한민국의 로맨틱 코미디 영화.

샌드박스전에서도 에코와 아지르로 파괴적인. Kt 롤스터가 상승 곡선을 그리고 있다. Kt는 14승16패로 정규시즌을 4위로 마무리했다. 중화권 언론매체 보도에 따르면 홍콩 톱스타 곽부성 52이 23일 홍콩 페닌슐라 호텔에서 23세 연하의 연인인 모델 팡위안 29과 백년가약을 맺는다.

과연 두 사람의 ‘하는 척’은 성공할 수 있을까. Hours ago — 비디디 곽보성이 농심 레드포스전 패인으로 팀의 전반적인 경기력 자체를 지적했다, Comboardleagueoflegends5224223축하드립니다 dc official app, 시즌 초반 팀을 지탱했던 ‘비디디’ 곽보성도 이젠 짐을 덜고, 편한 환경에서 경기에 임하고 있다, 샌드박스전에서도 에코와 아지르로 파괴적인.

곽보성 선수에게 2025 롤드컵은 그 어떤 대회보다 간절했습니다.

비디디 진짜 결혼했는줄 알았네 리그 오브 레전드 갤러리. 외부 링크 어쩌다, 결혼 무비스트 어쩌다, 결혼 한국영화 데이터베이스 영어 어쩌다, 결혼 인터넷 영화 데이터베이스 분류 한국어 영화 작품 2019년 영화 위장 결혼을 소재로 한 영화 대한민국의 로맨틱 코미디 영화. G esports리그 오브 레전드이적 및 은퇴, 김남일, 김보민과 결혼 19년만에 이혼, 소속사 측은 두 사람은 드라마 학교 2013에 함께 출연한 인연으로 우정을 쌓아.

키린 캠프 디시 Osen지민경 기자 중화권 톱스타 곽부성의 아내 팡위안이 결혼 5주년을 자축하며 다정한 투샷을 공개했다. Comboardbaseball_new7응원합니다 dc official app. Kr › view › pyh20250108153000013각오 밝히는 비디디 곽보성. 풀세트 접전 끝에 아쉽게 패해 폭발 직전의 투사가 앉아있었다. 그리고 한창 월즈가 진행 중이던 2024년 10월 21일, kt 롤스터와 2년 재계약을 체결하며 일찌감치 잔류를 확정지었다. 클로야짤

코스어 항아 사건 엑스포츠뉴스 최희재 기자 배우 박세영, 곽정욱이 깜짝 결혼 소식을 전했다. 지난 2015년 cj 엔투스 소속으로 처음 프로게이머로 데뷔한 곽보성은 2017년부터 2년간 킹존 드래곤x에서 뛴 후 kt로 팀을. 곽부성과 팡위안은 지난 2015년 파파라치에게 열애 현장이 포착되자 연인 관계를 인정했고, 2017년 3월 웨딩 마치를 울렸다. 그런데 비디디 키 180넘네 작은줄 알았는데 180넘네. 올해 한 번도 이기지 못했던 한화생명을 넘어 그 이상을 바라볼 수 있는 의미를 제시한 이정표였기 때문이었다. 타일 라 남친

키노시타 리리코 나무위키 곽부성과 결혼한 후에야 부모님이 도시로 이사했으며, 자동차를 구입했을 정도였다고 한당. 곽부성, 결혼 전 화려한 여성편력 눈길약혼자 충격받고 동성애 전향 홍콩 톱스타 곽부성이 23세 연하 연인과 결혼식을 올려 화제인 가운데, 그의 과거 연인들이 눈길을 끌고 있다. 고동빈 감독이 이끄는 kt 롤스터는 30일 오후 5시 서울. 먼저 곽부성은 모델 슝다이린웅대림과 7년 동안 교제했다. 엑스포츠뉴스 최희재 기자 배우 박세영, 곽정욱이 깜짝 결혼 소식을 전했다. 코야나기 로우 빨간약

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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.

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.