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.
반신욕, 시간과 온도지키면서 해야 효과적 김련옥 헬스조선 기자 김선우 헬스조선 인턴기자 입력 20151112 0700 반신욕의 건강효과 반신욕의 효능은 다양하다. 오늘 비뇨기과에 방문하여붓기를 빠르게 제거하는 방법에 관해 문의하였다. 반신욕 깔짝해보고 더 심해져서 그만두는 사람 많은거 앎 나도 그랬거든 근데 한달만 나죽었다하고 꾸준히해봐라 무조건 땀 흠뻑날정도로 뜨겁게 초반에는 땀안나고 더심해질텐데 인내심갖고 하다보면 무조건 좋아진다. 반신욕 효능 9가지, 주의사항, 올바른 반신욕 방법 반신욕은 건강을 살리는 가장 좋은 목욕법이다.
이런 경우 대부분은 일시적이며 며칠 내로 호전되지만. 살인지 붓기인지도 모르겠고 어떻게 빼야해, 녹차에 레몬즙조금타서먹어 아이돌물 레시피라고 돌던건데 난효과봄 ㅇㅇ. 반신욕을 꼭 피해야 하는 체질부터 반신욕의 효과를 극대화시켜주는 방법까지. 일반 반신욕 하는분들무조건 추천인가요. Com › 20230828 › 반신욕반신욕 제대로 알고 하기. 바이오포톤을만나고 반신욕 바이바이 이분 처음시작할땐 땀이 가슴부분만 났는데 9회차지난 지금 머리부터 발끝까지 노폐물제거에 스페로이드효과주는. 근데 제거직후면 레몬즙타지마라 이녹는다 식갤러2222, 주 12회 정도로 조절해도 충분해요 얼굴에 너무 열오르면 얼굴에 찬수건 대고 해줘도 좋아요.반신욕, 시간과 온도지키면서 해야 효과적 김련옥 헬스조선 기자 김선우 헬스조선 인턴기자 입력 20151112 0700 반신욕의 건강효과 반신욕의 효능은 다양하다.. Com › 20230828 › 반신욕반신욕 제대로 알고 하기..
| 주 12회 정도로 조절해도 충분해요 얼굴에 너무 열오르면 얼굴에 찬수건 대고 해줘도 좋아요. | 반신욕 효능 9가지 완벽 가이드 올바른 방법과 주의사항까지. | 반신욕 효능 9가지 완벽 가이드 올바른 방법과 주의사항까지. | 이 루틴은 얼굴붓기 + 이중턱 정리에 효과적이에요. |
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| 다낭 마사지 추천 로컬 오션스파 가격 후기 블로그. | 반신욕 효능 9가지, 주의사항, 올바른 반신욕 방법 반신욕은 건강을 살리는 가장 좋은 목욕법이다. | Redirecting to sgall. | 18% |
| 평소 더운 날씨나 앉았다 일어났을 때 어지럼증을 자주 느끼시거나, 식후 피로감을 종종 느낀다면, 반신욕 효능에 주의해야 한다. | 굳이 너무 수분제한하거나 역으로 많이먹거나 그러지말고 자기전이나 아님 일어나서 가볍게 반신욕하고가 붓기에 직빵임. | 더 이상 반신욕 붓기 때문에 망설이지 마세요. | 29% |
| Com › sdcklmid › 223914910303임신준비 중 반신욕 효과 붓기, 냉증개선, 반신욕 제대로 하는법. | 검색으로 찾아본 결과얼굴이 붓는다고 못생겨졌다고 호소하는 사람들 공통점은낮은 체지방을 유지하는 사람들이였음 ㅇㅇ10퍼 +. | 형들 고려해서해 하여튼 난 확실히 반신욕하고. | 53% |
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땀으로 얼마나 빠지는지, 사우나와 반신욕의 차이, 안전한 온도시간루틴 을 알아야 붓기피부대사 개선 효과를 제대로 체감할 수 있습니다. 이면 생기는 변화✨ 림프 순환을 촉진해 얼굴 붓기를 줄이고, 단순히 몸을 담그는 것 이상의 놀라운 효능을 지닌 반신욕의 모든 것을 파헤쳐 보겠습니다. 반신욕 다이어트 방법, 반신욕 다이어트 효과, 제니의 얼음 마사지 제니는 자신의 유튜브 채널을 통해 2023 멧갈라 준비 과정을. 목 피부가 늘어나 목주름과 턱밑 처짐이 가속화된다.
Com › ht0j1cxfz9p9 › 224095763489얼굴 붓기 완화에 효과적인 반신욕 방법 네이버 블로그. 라임 띄워놓고 반신욕해도 넘 좋을 것, 일반 반신욕 하는분들무조건 추천인가요. 바이오포톤을만나고 반신욕 바이바이 이분 처음시작할땐 땀이 가슴부분만 났는데 9회차지난 지금 머리부터 발끝까지 노폐물제거에 스페로이드효과주는, 아 40분은 좀 많고 20분정도가 적당할거같어 온도는 3840도 ㅋㅋ 그이상올라가면 오히려 해가 될수도 있어 ㅋ 족욕할거면 4042도가 적당하고 3040분이 적당해 이글쓰고 반신욕 검색해봣는대 고자된다는 글이 있던대.
야덱스 테라피스트분이 발 씻겨주실 때, 라임을 꾸욱 짜서 씻겨주시는데, 향긋하고 상큼한 향이 코까지 훅 오더라고요. 검색으로 찾아본 결과얼굴이 붓는다고 못생겨졌다고 호소하는 사람들 공통점은낮은 체지방을 유지하는 사람들이였음 ㅇㅇ10퍼 +. 물 안팎의 온도 차가 클수록 혈액순환에 더 효과적이기 때문이다. 굳이 너무 수분제한하거나 역으로 많이먹거나 그러지말고 자기전이나 아님 일어나서 가볍게 반신욕하고가 붓기에 직빵임. 다낭 마사지 추천 로컬 오션스파 가격 후기 블로그. 야마기시 아이카
야노 신지 av 이런 경우 대부분은 일시적이며 며칠 내로 호전되지만. 더 이상 반신욕 붓기 때문에 망설이지 마세요. 검색으로 찾아본 결과얼굴이 붓는다고 못생겨졌다고 호소하는 사람들 공통점은낮은 체지방을 유지하는 사람들이였음 ㅇㅇ10퍼 +. 평소 더운 날씨나 앉았다 일어났을 때 어지럼증을 자주 느끼시거나, 식후 피로감을 종종 느낀다면, 반신욕 효능에 주의해야 한다. Com › post › 2025반신욕 후 붓기, 단순히 물 때문이 아니었어요 진짜 원인과 해결법. 암웨이 판매
야만화 사이트 바이오포톤을만나고 반신욕 바이바이 이분 처음시작할땐 땀이 가슴부분만 났는데 9회차지난 지금 머리부터 발끝까지 노폐물제거에 스페로이드효과주는. 형들 고려해서해 하여튼 난 확실히 반신욕하고. 이런 경우 대부분은 일시적이며 며칠 내로 호전되지만. 요즘 저희 센터 회원분들이 가장 많이 하시는 질문 중 하나예요. Com › mgallery › board독한 의약품 쓰지말고 반신욕 무조건 해라jpg 아토피 마이너 갤. 야노 히토미
애널롱 콘도 예약 반신욕 다이어트 방법, 반신욕 다이어트 효과. 반신욕 효능 9가지, 주의사항, 올바른 반신욕 방법 반신욕은 건강을 살리는 가장 좋은 목욕법이다. Com › 반신욕반신욕 효과 7가지, 적정 시간, 하는법 다이어트 이점. 압박붕대답변 붕대를 하고있을때만 괜찮아진다는 쪽으로 표현을 하셨지만그래도 이것박에 없다고 하심한 이틀에서 삼일정도 하고 지내다가 풀면 된다고. 올바른 반신욕 방법과 주의사항을 숙지하고 건강하고.
애니캐릭터 임신 짤 바이오포톤을만나고 반신욕 바이바이 이분 처음시작할땐 땀이 가슴부분만 났는데 9회차지난 지금 머리부터 발끝까지 노폐물제거에 스페로이드효과주는. 목 피부가 늘어나 목주름과 턱밑 처짐이 가속화된다. 라임 띄워놓고 반신욕해도 넘 좋을 것. Redirecting to sgall. 목 피부가 늘어나 목주름과 턱밑 처짐이 가속화된다.
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.
반신욕 효능 9가지, 주의사항, 올바른 반신욕 방법 반신욕은 건강을 살리는 가장 좋은 목욕법이다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.