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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| 천사와 같은 날개를 지녔고 고결한 성격을 지녀 흔히 천사the angel 생귀니우스라고 불렸다. | 생귀니우스, 위대한 천사sanguinius, the great angel warhammer 40,000에 등장하는 인류제국의 9번째 스페이스 마린 군단이자 충성파 군단인 블러드 엔젤의 프라이마크. | 개요 생귀니우스 은 인류제국 의 제 9군단장인 인물이다. |
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| 생귀니우스 자신도 예지 계열 사이킥 능력을 지니고 있어서 어느 정도 알고는 있었는데, 이후 마찬가지로 예지 능력이 있던 콘라드 커즈가 더욱 자세하게 알려줌으로써 이 점을 확신하게 되었다. | 대천사의 장엄함, 전장의 군림자 생귀니우스 그의 존재만으로도 블러드 엔젤의 전설이 새롭게 쓰여집니다. | 생귀니우스 자신도 예지 계열 사이킥 능력을 지니고 있어서 어느 정도 알고는 있었는데, 이후 마찬가지로 예지 능력이 있던 콘라드 커즈가 더욱 자세하게 알려줌으로써 이 점을 확신하게 되었다. |
| 에버쵸즌으로 각성한 호루스의 갑옷에 흠을 냄. | 제가 아들로서 마땅히 폐하께 봉사하겠나이다. | 워해머40k ts 당해버린 생귀니우스가 쇼타콘인 만화jpg. |
| I never wanted to unleash my legions. | 일반 gpt 친한 머신 스피릿께서 그려주신 ts 생귀니우스 바라아재 2025. | 마그누스 magnus the red 16. |
| 콘라드 커즈 konrad curze 9. | 천사와 같은 날개를 지녔고 고결한 성격을 지녀 흔히 천사the angel 생귀니우스라고 불렸다. | 호루스가 졌을 때 생귀니우스의 몸은 어떻게 됐어. |
Webp warhammer 40,000의 등장인물, 유머 워햄40k ts빔을 맞은 프라이마크들. 의사는 그녀를 다시 정원으로 안내했다. 그리고 생귀노어가 블러드 엔젤스가 절실히 필요할 때만 나타나고, 그를 본 사람들은 생귀니우스를 닮았다고 말한다는 걸 읽었어, 오랫동안 전장에서 구른 베테랑중에 베테랑이.
I will serve as a son must serve. Mr10101110 호루스x생귀니우스 가 이렇게 좋습니다, 하지만 생귀니우스가 죽음으로 향한다면, 호루스를 이길 기회가 있고, 심지어 죽더라도 운명이 황제가 이기는 길을 열어줄 수도 있겠지. 자가타이 칸과 친했던 형제는 호루스, 마그누스 더 레드, 그리고 누구와도 사이가 좋았던 생귀니우스 정도였고, 사이가 좋다고 할 순 없어도 말을 나누었던 프라이마크는 모타리온 16 과 펄그림 정도였다, 생귀니우스 ts 팬아트호루스 헤러시 종반부, 반역파로부터 황궁을 방어하던 블러드 엔젤 군단은 극심한 손실로 인해서 전력 복구가 불가능한 상황까지 몰림계속 전선이 밀려나면서 전사자들의 진시드를 회수하지 못하게 된.
마그누스 magnus the red 16. Profile_image 돌아온 감염충 ip보기클릭, 마그누스 magnus the red 16. 그리고 생귀노어가 블러드 엔젤스가 절실히 필요할 때만 나타나고, 그를 본 사람들은 생귀니우스를 닮았다고 말한다는 걸 읽었어. 호루스가 생귀니우스 카운터로 어릴 때부터 검투사로 살아왔고, 지금도 피와 살육밖에 모르는 프마 중 손꼽히는 강자 앙그론을 준비함, 블러드엔젤 단편소설 생귀니우스의 전령 네이버 블로그.
천사와 같은 날개를 지녔고 성격이 고결하여 흔히 천사the angel 생귀니우스라고 불렸으며. 이름은 피를 의미하는 라틴어 sanguis의 어근 sanguin에 로마인 귀족 남자 인명에 흔히 나오는 접미사 ius를 붙인 것. 일반 생귀니우스 ts 미소녀 된 버전 못찾겠음, 호루스 루퍼칼 아직없음 horus lupercal 17, 바알 세쿤두스의 루이스 단테 luis dante of baal secundus warhammer 40,000 의 등.
인스 타 특사 뜻 번역 생귀니우스 vs 임페라토르급 타이탄 번역 1부, 2부, 3부 생귀니우스는 블러드 엔젤 군단의 유전병을 황제가 안다면 군단이 숙청될지도 모른다고 걱정했다. 로가 아우렐리안 리만 러스 펄그림 로갈 돈 콘라드 커즈 앙그론 라이온 엘 존슨 자가타이 칸 생귀니우스 모타리온 불칸 코르부스 코락스 그리고 본격적으로 프마 여체화 그리기전 설정화 알파리우스 오메곤은 무려 2차창착인데 2차창작이 있음 ㄷㄷ. I never wanted to unleash my legions. 오랫동안 전장에서 구른 베테랑중에 베테랑이. 2 그가 그렇게 지겹도록 긴 세월동안 챕터를 위해 싸워온 이유는 생귀니우스 가 생전에 썼던 한 예언서에 언급된, 황제와 적 사이에 선 금색의 전사가 자신이라고 생각하기 때문. 인스타 비계 보는 사이트 디시
임여은 알몸 Jpg 저런 망상도 슬라네쉬의 오염이다. I will serve as a son must serve. But let colchis stand as i have shaped it a planet of peace and prosperity. 천사와 같은 날개를 지녔고 성격이 고결하여 흔히 천사the angel 생귀니우스라고 불렸으며. 라이온 엘 존슨 lion el’jhonson퍼스트 프라이마크, 사자, 숲의 아들, 다크 엔젤의 프라이마크사자의 무구 the leonine panoply칼리반 갑옷과 새로운 군단의 유산에 경의를 표하며 제작된 사자의 무. 일본여자 디시
장원영 신음소리 개요 생귀니우스 은 인류제국 의 제 9군단장인 인물이다. 지금 가입하여 타임라인을 원하는 대로 설정해 보세요. 호루스가 졌을 때 생귀니우스의 몸은 어떻게 됐어. 이 멋진 118 피규어와 함께 영웅의 신화를 당신의 컬렉션에 더하세요 상품정보 발매 예정 24. I never wanted to unleash my legions. 장 지아하오 논란
장기연애 이혼 I will serve as a son must serve. 출처 shield of baal exterminatus 생귀니우스의 검날오래 전부터, 위대한 퍼스트 챕터들 중 하나인 블러드 엔젤 챕터의 고귀한 챕터 마스터, 커맨더 단테는 크립투스 성계를 예의주시하며 성계가 결국 함락되리라고 예상하고 있었습니다. Rafen caught up with arkio atop a ruined cathedral and the two fought. Com › heresyblog › 223095829218리베르 아스타르테스헤레티쿠스 75 블러드 엔젤 생귀니우스, 던. 유년기부터 수십, 수백년간 검술을 단련한 천재 검객 마린들도 지기스문트 앞에선 한 합도 버티지 못하고 쓸려나가는데 그런 지기스문트의 기술도 프라이마크인 생귀니우스보다 뛰어나진 않음.
자기만의 방 asmr 다름아닌 그의 군단인 블러드 엔젤에게서 일어나는 레드 써스트red thrist라는 하나의. 지금 가입하여 타임라인을 원하는 대로 설정해 보세요. 바알 세쿤두스의 루이스 단테 luis dante of baal secundus warhammer 40,000 의 등. 워해머 귀여운 가드맨을 발견한 ts 생귀니우스. Com › jhscmm › 222369616600워해머 40k 流星r님의 프라이마크 ts.
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.
2 어록 이 문서는 2025년 3월 13일 목 0204에 마지막으로 편집되었습니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.