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.
디테일하게 써보자면그 친구 100키로 나가는거 아니냐고 하던데몸무게는 74kg 정도임그리고 편의상 500이라 했는데 사실 3대 480. Redirecting to sgall. 헬스다이어트 서브3 vs 3대 500 어느쪽이 더 도달하기 힘든. 500의 현실적인 벽 근력운동 마이너 갤러리.
3대300대대략 36개월정도 열심히 운동하면도달할수 있는 몸이정도는 일반인들도 쉽게 만들 수있음하지만 빈약해보이는 멸치인건 어쩔수없음입문자초급자수준3대 400대주로 몸좋은 연예인들이나 아이돌들이이 구간에 많이 속해, 재능이 없으면 10년 운동해도 위 450500 구간을 못벗어나기도 함, 그런애들 포함해도 헬스장당 많아야 5명임. 밑에 또 어떤애가 3대 500이 헬스인구 상위 10%이라는 매우. 16 1548 ㄹㅇ 헬스한다니까 친구가 3대 500 넘냐고 물어봤슴.본인의 중량을 갱신한다는 생각으로 꾸준히 연습하시다 보면 조금씩 발전하지 않을까 싶습니다. 대부분의 헬린이들 혹은 운동을 하지 않는 사람들은 유튜브의 영향으로 3대 500이라는 단어를 많이 접하다 보니 이것이 도달하기 쉬운 영역이라고 착각을 많이 한다, Shift+enter 키를 동시에 누르면 줄바꿈이 됩니다, 개나소나 3대 500이지 현실은 파워리프팅 마이너 갤러리. 키가 작으면 아무래도 키 큰 사람보다는 3대 500에 도달하기 쉬우니까요. Hours ago — 반면 디시인사이드 이합갤이재명은 합니다 마이너 갤러리 분위기는 합당으로 선거를 이기겠다는 것은 무능한 것이라며 정 대표를 비판하는 쪽에.
Com › mgallery › board3대 500 친구 주짓수 시켜봤다 한 갤럼인데 주짓수 마이너 갤러리.. 같은 몸무게여도 키에 따라서 달라질 것 같습니다.. Com › mgallery › board개나소나 3대 500이지 현실은 파워리프팅 마이너 갤러리..
물론 이게 저만의 데이터이긴 하지만, 실제로 3대 500 중에 파워리프팅이 차지하는 비율이 정말 상당히 높기 떄문에, 3대 500이라고 해서 몸이 무조건 좋은것은 절대 아닙니다. 그냥 몸무게 상관없이 3대 500이면 일단 죤나 쎈거임 데드리프트를 200 정도는 해야 되니께 추천, 서브3는 맘잡고 빡세게 1년 준비하면 될 것 같기도 한데 3대500은 내 체격으로는 증량 해도 무리일 것 같음, 한국산업인력공단 운영, 해외취업, 해외진출정보, 해외채용공고, kmove스쿨, 해외취업정착지원금 등.
Net › service › board3대 500 3대 운동 난이도. 서브3는 맘잡고 빡세게 1년 준비하면 될 것 같기도 한데 3대500은 내 체격으로는 증량 해도 무리일 것 같음. 여자들은 얘보고 머슬핏입지마라 부담스럽다 이러는데 이새끼는 같이 다니면 몸좋다는소리 맨날 질리도록 듣고삼 그래서 3대 물어보니까 500은 절대 못한다고 하길래 몇 치냐 물어보니 한 400초반 될것같다고 함 500은 진짜 타고난 근력+약간의 노력임. Com › scott2323 › 2225629341663대500인 내가 효과본 스트렝스 운동 루틴의 장단점 55 gtg 스몰.
개나소나 500이지 현실은 눈에 꼽는다, 153 대형헬스장에도 500치는놈 거의 없는데 700 ㅇㅈㄹ ㅋㅋㅋ 헬스장을 대가리속 상상으로만 다니니 ㅉㅉ 사회생활 디시로배운 흑자같은 새끼야 ㅋㅋㅋ 2023, 3대 500 친구 주짓수 시켜봤다 한 갤럼인데. 사실 작년 말이나 올해 초 무난하게 3대 600을 달성할거라 생각했는데. 타인의 권리를 침해하거나 명예를 훼손하는 댓글은 운영원칙 및 관련 법률에 제재를 받을 수 있습니다.
그리고 편의상 500이라 했는데 사실 3대 480 정도였고 곧, 무슨 평범한 체중이 3대 500이 쉽다는거냐 파워리프팅, 단지 언더아머 밈이 퍼지면서 입헬쓰하는 놈들이랑 니슬리브 스모빨로 드는 넘들이 들어나서 상향평준화처럼 보일뿐, Shift+enter 키를 동시에 누르면 줄바꿈이 됩니다.
그 친구 100키로 나가는거 아니냐고 하던데.. 저는 3대 500을 달성한지 꽤 오래 됐어요.. 원래 3대 500은 삽틀딱들 기준으로 강자였음..
214k views 5 years ago. Jpg 200512202110 헬스 갤러리, 현실은 박스나 헬스장에서 1명 만날까 말까임.
요즘 유튜브 영상 3대 500 관련영상 몇개를 보니주구장창 관련 영상이 떠서 관심이 급 많이 생기게 되더라고요, 사실 3대중량에서 기준점 조차로도 잡으면 안되는 중량이긴 하지만 멸치들이 많은거 같으니 알아보자일단. 무슨 평범한 체중이 3대 500이 쉽다는거냐 파워리프팅. 이 포스팅에서 제공하는 정보를 참고하여 무게 증량에 성공하고 근성장에 박차를 가하시기 바랍니다.
아이돌 너출 사실 3대중량에서 기준점 조차로도 잡으면 안되는 중량이긴 하지만 멸치들이 많은거 같으니 알아보자일단. 이분은 자신은 타고난 인자강이라 이 운동을 별로 해보지도 않았지만 3대 500 정도는 개껌이라고 한다사실은 운동 좆빠지게 하다가 더 이상 중량이 안올라가니 운동 안해본척, 처음인척. 개나소나 500이지 현실은 눈에 꼽는다. 위의 90키로 이상 돼지들이 생존하여 자세도 습득하고 매우 노력하여 이제 더이상 돼지로 안보이고 고릴라처럼 변해있는 시기이기도 함. 타인의 권리를 침해하거나 명예를 훼손하는 댓글은 운영원칙 및 관련 법률에 제재를 받을 수 있습니다. 아이돌 민유미 야동
아이코스usb케이블 현실은 박스나 헬스장에서 1명 만날까 말까임. 그런애들 포함해도 헬스장당 많아야 5명임. 디테일하게 써보자면그 친구 100키로 나가는거 아니냐고 하던데몸무게는 74kg 정도임그리고 편의상 500이라 했는데 사실 3대 480. 현실은 박스나 헬스장에서 1명 만날까 말까임. 안녕하세요 운동 좋아하는 삐야기입니다. 아이엠 복서 다시 보기 사이트
아이돌 민유미 사건 트레이너포함해서 너그들 헬스장에 스퀏 180 벤치 120 데드 200 이상 드는애들 있음. 저는 3대 500을 달성한지 꽤 오래 됐어요. 여자들은 얘보고 머슬핏입지마라 부담스럽다 이러는데 이새끼는 같이 다니면 몸좋다는소리 맨날 질리도록 듣고삼 그래서 3대 물어보니까 500은 절대 못한다고 하길래 몇 치냐 물어보니 한 400초반 될것같다고 함 500은 진짜 타고난 근력+약간의 노력임. 그런애들 포함해도 헬스장당 많아야 5명임. Com › mgallery › board개나소나 3대 500이지 현실은 파워리프팅 마이너 갤러리. 아일 매니악스
아프리카 태희 영정 서브3는 맘잡고 빡세게 1년 준비하면 될 것 같기도 한데 3대500은 내 체격으로는 증량 해도 무리일 것 같음. 사실 3대중량에서 기준점 조차로도 잡으면 안되는 중량이긴 하지만 멸치들이 많은거 같으니 알아보자일단. 그런애들 포함해도 헬스장당 많아야 5명임. 트레이너포함해서 너그들 헬스장에 스퀏 180 벤치 120 데드 200 이상 드는애들 있음. 서브3는 맘잡고 빡세게 1년 준비하면 될 것 같기도 한데 3대500은 내 체격으로는 증량 해도 무리일 것 같음.
아이카와 소라 요즘 유튜브 영상 3대 500 관련영상 몇개를 보니주구장창 관련 영상이 떠서 관심이 급 많이 생기게 되더라고요. 3대 500이 유튜브나 인터넷에선 쉬워도 크로스핏 마이너. 500의 현실적인 벽 근력운동 마이너 갤러리. Com › index이런질문이 유치한건 알지만요ㅎㅎ, 3대500 몬스터짐. 서브3는 맘잡고 빡세게 1년 준비하면 될 것 같기도 한데 3대500은 내 체격으로는 증량 해도 무리일 것 같음.
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.
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