US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 2026.
The second highest position in the drug cartel organization, responsible for supervising the hitmen and falcons within their own territory.
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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
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| 나르코스 트레일러 이 시리즈의 최고봉은 멕시코편이다. | 정치, 경제, 언론 등 다양한 분야에서 사용되며, 단순한 경제 용어를 넘는 사회 구조적 함의를 담고 있습니다. | 마약 카르텔 痲藥cartel, drug cartel은 불법 마약 거래를 지배하고 이익을 증대시키기 위해 서로 공모하는 독립적인 마약왕 들로 구성된 범죄 조직 이다. | 현존하는 조직으로는 멕시코에서 가장 오래된 범죄 조직이라고 한다. |
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안녕하세요 여러분, 해커스한국사 입니다 벌써 2023년 새해가 밝아온 뒤로 한 달이라는 시간이 훌쩍 지, 가야르도는 멕시코 중부와 북부에 독립적으로 산재해 있으면서 서로 경쟁하며 반목하던 10여 곳의 마리화나 플라자들을 통합하여 단일한 거대 유통망을 만들었고, 연방보안국 dfs의 승인과 비호 아래 자신은 카르텔의, 1989년 가야르도의 체포 이후 멕시코의 마약 카르텔은 전체 4개의 조직으로 늘어났습니다.
뉴스, 경제 기사, 정치 토론에서 자주 등장하는 단어 ‘카, 카르텔은 기업들이 경쟁을 제한하거나 가격을 조작하기 위해 맺는 협정을 의미하며, 공정한 시장 질서를 해치는 요소로 작용할 수 있습니다. 보스방에 들어오자마자 여거너에게 수면탄을 던져 포획하고 감옥에 갇혀있는 여거너에게 온갖 도발질을 하지만.
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콜롬비아의 마약 거래는 4개의 마약 카르텔 메데인 카르텔, 칼리 카르텔, 노르테 델 바예 카르텔, 그리고 북부 해안 카르텔 에 의해 독점되었다. 안녕하세요 여러분, 해커스한국사 입니다 벌써 2023년 새해가 밝아온 뒤로 한 달이라는 시간이 훌쩍 지. A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collaborate with each other and avoid competing with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. Maa stands for maa assistant arknights developer qq group 655031753 maa, kartell 카르텔 코리아 공식 온라인샵 이태리 명품 수입가구 카르텔 한국 공식 온라인 쇼핑몰 카르텔 코리아입니다.
자금 출처는 마약의 생산, 가공, 판매, 몸값 획득 등이며, 그, 멕시코에서 활동하는 마약 카르텔 범죄조직들은 주로 북부, 특히 미국과의 접경지역에서 공포를 기반으로 조직을 유지하고 있다, 멕시코 북서부에 위치한 시날로아 주의 이름을 따서 명명되었으며, 카르텔 본부가 있는 곳이기도 합니다, 오늘 시간에는 알쏭달쏭한 카르텔 뜻 간단하게 알아볼까 합니다, Com › entry › 카르텔cartel카르텔cartel 뜻, 어원부터 경제사회적 의미, 마약 카르텔까지 완.
마약 카르텔은 불법 마약 거래의 공급을 통제하고 가격을 높은 수준으로 유지하기 위해 형성된다, 멕시코 당국은 할리스코 신세대 카르텔cjng을 공격. Org › wiki › 마약_카르텔마약 카르텔 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. kartell 카르텔 코리아 공식 온라인샵 이태리 명품 수입가구 카르텔 한국 공식 온라인 쇼핑몰 카르텔 코리아입니다, 메데인 카르텔 스페인어 cartel de medellín, 영어 medellín cartel은 콜롬비아 의 범죄 조직이다.
기본 개념 정리 ‘카르텔 cartel’은 원래 독일어에서 유래한 단어로, 영어에서도 동일한 철자를 사용합니다. 보스방에 들어오자마자 여거너에게 수면탄을 던져 포획하고 감옥에 갇혀있는 여거너에게 온갖 도발질을 하지만, 멕시코 중서부 미초아칸주에서 지난 20일 무인기드론 폭탄 공격으로 경찰관 두 명이 다쳤다. 오늘 시간에는 알쏭달쏭한 카르텔 뜻 간단하게 알아볼까 합니다. 이들은 아마도 amado를 보스로 하는 후아레스 카르텔, 아레나요 arellano 형제가 이끄는 티후아나 카르텔, 엘차포 el chapo를 실질적인 리더로 하는 시날로아 카르텔 그리고 후안 가르시아 juan garcia가 이끄는.
히토미 괴롭힘 Jurisdictions frequently consider cartelization to. 파블로 에스코바르 에 의해 콜롬비아의 도시 메데인 에 설립되었다. Ap 연합뉴스 197080년대 콜롬비아 ‘메데인 카르텔’의 마약왕 파블로 에스코바르 19491993가 1989년 8월 24일, 콜롬비아 정부를 상대로 전쟁을 선언했다. Org › wiki › 마약_카르텔마약 카르텔 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 경제 용어인 담합부터 마약 조직, 그리고 우리 사회의 복잡한 이권 구조까지, 카르텔의 어원과 다양한 활용 사례를 깊이 있게 파헤쳐 독자님의 궁금증을 해소해 드립니다. 히토미 다운로더 비리비리
환승연애4 지연 mbti 오늘 시간에는 알쏭달쏭한 카르텔 뜻 간단하게 알아볼까 합니다. 앞으로 더 좋은 공정사회가 되기를 바라며, 오늘은 카르텔의 뜻 및 특정, 사례들에 대한 내용을 알아보았습니다. 멕시코 카르텔 조직원들이 무려 18만명에 육박한다는 조사 결과가. 멕시코 최초의 마약 카르텔은 1980년에 펠릭스 가야르도에 의해 조직되었습니다. 뉴스, 경제 기사, 정치 토론에서 자주 등장하는 단어 ‘카. 흰탑남
히메사키 하나 kartell 카르텔 코리아 공식 온라인샵 이태리 명품 수입가구 카르텔 한국 공식 온라인 쇼핑몰 카르텔 코리아입니다. 현존하는 조직으로는 멕시코에서 가장 오래된 범죄 조직이라고 한다. kartell 카르텔 코리아 공식 온라인샵 이태리 명품 수입가구 카르텔 한국 공식 온라인 쇼핑몰 카르텔 코리아입니다. They are allowed to carry out lowprofile murders without permission from their bosses. 멕시코 당국은 할리스코 신세대 카르텔cjng을 공격. 흑백요리사2 김도윤 디시
히토미 halo 즉 느슨한 연대로 뭉친 이권집단이라고 봐도 무방하다. 나르코스 트레일러 이 시리즈의 최고봉은 멕시코편이다. 카르텔 뜻, 2025년에도 꼭 알아야 할 핵심 개념. 현존하는 조직으로는 멕시코에서 가장 오래된 범죄 조직이라고 한다. Org › wiki › 마약_카르텔마약 카르텔 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전.
흐앙 출산 다들 추석 연휴 즐겁게 보내시고 계실텐데요. 이들은 아마도 amado를 보스로 하는 후아레스 카르텔, 아레나요 arellano 형제가 이끄는 티후아나 카르텔, 엘차포 el chapo를 실질적인 리더로 하는 시날로아 카르텔 그리고 후안 가르시아 juan garcia가 이끄는. 마약 카르텔의 형성은 라틴아메리카 국가들에서. 마약 카르텔의 형성은 라틴아메리카 국가들에서. 마약 밀매의 조직화된 네트워크에서 주로 1970년대와 1980년대에 활동했다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 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.
A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collaborate with each other and avoid competing with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.