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.
러시아 아내랑 연애 결혼인데내가 러시아 무역관련 일 하다가 자연스럽게 러시아어를 접하고 또 재밌어서 공부를 했어그러다가 모 아쿠아리움에서 인어공주로 일하는 지금 아내를 만나서 결혼하게 됨우선 예쁘다같이 다니면 어딜가나 시선받고남녀노소 예쁘다고 하고 좋아해줌부러워 하는 사람도. 요즘 결혼실태 가감없는 현실 결혼 갤러리. 대한민국 신드롬 여배우의 충격적인 결혼생활. 평범한 외모 이상이면 늦어도 21살이면 다 관계하는게 현실 아니냐.
모든게 다 팩트고 방송에 나온건 마일드 한거다, 36살 결혼 3년차 나는 좀 늦었다고 생각했는데 요샌 뭐 평균, Com › mgallery › board결혼하면 진짜 현실 알려줌 보디빌딩 마이너 갤러리. 그외 결혼은 정말 현실인가 선배들 조언받고 싶은 중기 9,048 51 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo, 결혼은 현실이라지만 사랑은 지금 이 순간이다.| 결혼시 장인어른이랑 와잎이 시집 잘보냈고, 와잎 본인도 시집 잘왔다고 했었는데. | 17 210502 조회 50057 추천 261 댓글 580 1 이미지 순서 on. |
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| 전세 대출 받아서 개썩다리 구축 가는거임실수령 합산 500700만원이제 신혼때는 대출 이자 내. | 결혼은 현실이라는것들이 존나리 비현실적인 말을 해댄다 즈그 나이가 3236이면 남자 3539를 만날텐데 현실적으로 177이상에 표준체중 자기관리 되어있고 탈모없는 나쁘지 않은 외모의 공기업이나 공무원 이건 급나눔 전문직 대기업 사원을 원한다. |
| 결혼정보회사 남자 현실, 디시 커뮤니티 후기로 솔직하게 알아볼까요. | 결혼을 앞두고 주변 어른들께 인사를 드리다보면 다들 약속이라도 한 듯이 연애랑 결혼은 많이 다르다면서 결혼은 현실이야라고 조언을 해주시더라고요. |
| 이 순간 없는 미래는 없고, 순간이 모여 현실을 만드는 법. | 나도 열심히 모아서 내 가게, 집, 차 샀지만 결혼은 존나 고민되더라 돈 장난아니게 들어가서 진짜 돈이 현실이라지만 서로가 거기에 매여있으면 안됨 아낄줄 알고 까페나 외식등 지출 전부 끊어내도 행복할수있어야함 2021. |
이 순간 없는 미래는 없고, 순간이 모여 현실을 만드는 법, Com › no1keyman › 222219481876결혼은 현실이다 라는 말이 나오는이유 네이버 블로그. 사랑하는 사람을 만나 사랑하다보면 그 순간들이 모여 현실에서 행복한 당신을 만들어 줄 것이다, 지금부터 내가 하는 얘기는 결혼현실 이라는 제대로 된 정의로 시작된다.
요새 소개팅 간간히 하고 있고 솔직히 맘만 먹으면 사귈 수 있는데, 계속 저 생각이 맴돌아서 시작을 못하겠음.. 모든게 다 팩트고 방송에 나온건 마일드 한거다.. 삼성은 28일현지시각 미국 워싱턴 디시d..
7 1651 116 5 뉴스 ‘백번의 추억’ 김다미x신예은, 두 눈으로 확인한 ‘베프’ 케미에 시선 집중. 어디가서 주갤하는 티 내지마라 칼 맞을지도. 한살 연상 여자친구있는데 연애는 둘이 오래했어. 28살 공무원도 결혼시장에서 퇴짜만 먹음 그럼 30살 이상 장모님들 상황은. 근데 그렇게 결혼해서 이혼한 케이스를 2번이나 봐서 결혼 전에는 무슨 공주님 처럼 떠받들더니 결혼하고 살면서 그 속에 가지고있던 불만, 불안, 피해의식 다 튀어나오더라고요.
이건 연애하면서 착하고 그런거랑 다르고, 측은지심이타심 이런게 있는지 없는지 아주 면밀하게 관찰해라. 이는 내 사랑하는 자요 나의 친구로다 아가서 516 성경은 부부관계와 우정을 하나로 본다. 아니면 빠른편 이더라ㅋㅋㅋ 일단 나고 와잎이고 와꾸랑 키랑 이런건 뭐 기본이니 결혼하지 않겠음. 현실 가능성은한화도 마냥 외면하기 못한다, 돌파구 열린다 상승2, 결혼은 무조건 피해라 실시간 베스트 갤러리 ㅇ.
의 스미소니언 예술산업관에서 이건희 컬렉션 전시회의 마무리를 기념하는 행사를 열었다고 밝혔다. 삼성은 28일현지시각 미국 워싱턴 디시d. 일녀랑 결혼하기로 자기 전에도 다짐한다 dc official app.
Com › mgallery › board결혼하면 진짜 현실 알려줌 보디빌딩 마이너 갤러리, 특히나 인간은 혼자서는 살아갈 수 없다는 사회적 자각에서 발생한 것이다. 그외 결혼은 정말 현실인가 선배들 조언받고 싶은 중기 9,048 51 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo.
대한민국 신드롬 여배우의 충격적인 결혼생활. Com › no1keyman › 222219481876결혼은 현실이다 라는 말이 나오는이유 네이버 블로그, 7 1651 116 5 뉴스 ‘백번의 추억’ 김다미x신예은, 두 눈으로 확인한 ‘베프’ 케미에 시선 집중. 평범한 외모 이상이면 늦어도 21살이면 다 관계하는게 현실 아니냐.
특히나 인간은 혼자서는 살아갈 수 없다는 사회적 자각에서 발생한 것이다.. 다들 그만 꿈에서 깨서 사랑하는 사람을 만나시라.. Com › board › view결혼은 현실이다..
결혼을 유지하는 힘은 사실 개인의 욕구나 의지보단 집안, 사회의 압력, 눈초리였음. 지금부터 내가 하는 얘기는 결혼현실 이라는 제대로 된 정의로 시작된다, 결혼은 현실이라는것들이 존나리 비현실적인 말을 해댄다 즈그 나이가 3236이면 남자 3539를 만날텐데 현실적으로 177이상에 표준체중 자기관리 되어있고 탈모없는 나쁘지 않은 외모의 공기업이나 공무원 이건 급나눔 전문직 대기업 사원을 원한다.
36살 결혼 3년차 나는 좀 늦었다고 생각했는데 요샌 뭐 평균, Com › no1keyman › 222219481876결혼은 현실이다 라는 말이 나오는이유 네이버 블로그. 결혼해서 배우자 분이 현실적으로 어려워지면 버리고 떠나실 건가요. 그외 결혼은 정말 현실인가 선배들 조언받고 싶은 중기 9,048 51 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 36살 결혼 3년차 나는 좀 늦었다고 생각했는데 요샌 뭐 평균. 하지만 만나는 남자의 알파력은 점점 떨어짐.
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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.
결혼정보회사 남자 현실, 디시 커뮤니티 후기로 솔직하게 알아볼까요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.