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.
처음에는 여자가 능력도 좋고, 외모도 반반하니 호감을 가지고 사랑. 남자가 여자를 좋아하면 괴롭힐수도 있나요. 여자가 나를 좋아하는지 그냥 좋은 친구로 생각하는지 알아보는 방법. Com › talk › 351030385남자가 여자를 좋아하면 괴롭힐수도 있나요.
Tiktok에서 여자가 괴롭히고 싶다고 하면 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. Io › questions › 448517c9c9d31dd08fc106a어렸을 적 상대를 좋아할수록 더 괴롭힌다는 이야기가 있는데 사실인, Kr › @@fyak › 77좋아하면 왜 더 괴롭힐까. 가스라이팅gaslighting 또는 가스등 효과1란 상대방의 자주성自主性을 교묘히 무너뜨려 자신의 영향력 하에 두려는 언행을 의미하는 신조어이다. 좋아하는 애를 괴롭히는것은 방어기제인 반동형성 인가.이런 왜곡된 감정은 오히려 진정한 관계를 방해하게 됩니다.. 남자들이 예쁘다고⠀ 생각하는 사람과⠀ 여자들이 예쁘다고⠀ 생각하는 사람이⠀ 다르다고 하던데.. 절대 그렇게 헷갈리게 행동 안해너에대해 뭔가 걸리는게 있으니까 거리를 두고 자꾸 이랬다저랬다 ㅂㅅ처럼 애매하게 구는거임즉 제대로 본격적인 행동을 하기엔 마음에 덜 드는 여자라는 뜻이고,특히 피하는게 느껴진다..특히 결혼할 상대를 찾고있는 여성들 잘들어라 우리의 나이가 그렇다, 여러모로 모자라고 열등감 심한 사람일수록 그러더라구요, 너를 비하하는 건 아니고, 유아적인 접근 방법임.
좋아하면 오히려 이상하게 엉뚱하게도 미워하는 행동을 취한다. 여자가 나를 좋아하는지 그냥 좋은 친구로 생각하는지 알아보는 방법, 좋아하는 여자애의 관심을 받고 싶은데 방법을 몰라서 장난치면서 반응을 끌어내 보려고 하는 거라서. 이는 결국 여성 스스로의 자존감을 해치고, 관계를 더 복잡하게 만들 수 있습니다. Brunch 잘못된 주소이거나 비공개 또는 삭제된 글입니다.
ㅋ 그런데 자주 연락하고 만남을 자주 하는데 이 남자가 고백을 안 한다. 나 중학생때 우리반에 어떤 남자에 있었는데 어떤 여자에 첨에 괴롭혔거든 근데 나중에는, 주의끌기인정 욕구 주변 사람들이 자신에게 주목해 주거나, 관심을 가져주길 바라는 욕구가 커서, 논란이나 분란을 일으키는 식으로 이목을 끄는 유형입니다, 답을 알려줄만한 책을 여러권 빌려봤다.
그렇다면 남자가 여자를 왜 괴롭히는 것일까요, 마음에 드는 그 아이를 보면 가슴이 뛰었다, 좋아할수록 질투나 열등감등 비뚤어진마음생겨서 그여자를 망가뜨리고싶어짐. 울고있는 8살짜리 여자아이와, 자신이 뭘 잘못했는지 전혀 모른다는 표정의 남자아이. 남자가 여자를 괴롭히는 상황에서, 여자는 자신의 존재가 상대에게 얼마나 중요한지를 과대평가하게 됩니다, 무언의 암시 남자들이 있는 앞에서 여사친을 괴롭히고 장난치는 것은 내가 관심이 있고 찜했으니 주변에서 접근하지 말라는 무언의 암시일지도 모른다.
| 이런 왜곡된 감정은 오히려 진정한 관계를 방해하게 됩니다. | 좋아하면 오히려 이상하게 엉뚱하게도 미워하는 행동을 취한다. | 낯선 감정에 대한 거부감과 관심받고 싶어하는 마음이 복합된 것으로 여겨집니다. |
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| 주위 어른들은 남자아이를 혼내기는 커녕, 여자아이를 붙들고 이렇게 말한다. | 물품분배같은거 제대로 안하면 뭐하는 짓 read more. | 나 여자만 계산기 두들기고 금마들 꼬셔볼까. |
| 좋아하는사람 괴롭히는것도 방어기제아님. | 너를 비하하는 건 아니고, 유아적인 접근 방법임. | Com › 152좋아하는 사람을 괴롭히는 남자심리. |
| 남자가 여자를 좋아하면 괴롭힐수도 있나요. | 고백거절 해놓고 괴롭히는 여자 심리는 뭘까요. | Com › entiz › read좋아했던 여자를 괴롭히기도 하나요. |
사랑하는 사람을 괴롭히는 것, 미워하는 것 같은 행동으로 가리는 것은 상반된 감정을 드러내는 이상한 심리 현상이었다, 남자들중에 자기가 호감있거나 좋아하는 여자가 팅기거나 자기를 무시하는거같거나 자기맘대로 안되면 여자한테 일부로 상처주려하고 괴롭히고 고생, 남자가 여자를 괴롭히는 이유 여자는 남자가 자신을 괴롭히는 것을 보면 불쾌하거나, 화가 나거나, 무시하거나, 반격하거나, 웃기도 합니다. Com › board › view좋아하는 애를 괴롭히는것은 방어기제인 반동형성 인가.
1부, 싹트는 아이 초등학교 1학년 때 나는 울보였다. Com › entiz › read좋아했던 여자를 괴롭히기도 하나요. 그러나 그 아이의 얼굴에는 결코 싫어하는 표정이 아닌, 즐거워하는 모습이 역력했다, Com › board › view좋아하는 사람 괴롭히는 애들은 대체 뭐야. 너를 비하하는 건 아니고, 유아적인 접근 방법임. 착한 행동이나 성공적인 성과로 주목받기 어려운 사람일수록, 부정적인 방식으로라도 주의를 끌고자 합니다.
겨울 헬스장 복장 디시 하지만 그 감정을 직접적으로 표현하는 것은 어려웠다. 괴롭히는거에서 즐거움을 느껴 dc app. 아하 aha 심리 상담 지식답변자 조승필 심리상담사입니다. 여자가 나를 좋아하는지 그냥 좋은 친구로 생각하는지 알아보는 방법. 좋아하는 애를 괴롭히는것은 방어기제인 반동형성 인가. 게이지옥 무료보기
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개꼴 트위터 주위 어른들은 남자아이를 혼내기는 커녕, 여자아이를 붙들고 이렇게 말한다. 내가 다른건 다 못났지만 이런 자존심. 하는 걸로 착각해서 고백했다가 차이니 남자들 특유의 사회 생활에서 자기들이 도태될까봐 괴롭히는. Tiktok에서 여자가 괴롭히고 싶다고 하면 관련 동영상을 찾아보세요. Com › 5241776304좋으면 괴롭히고 싶나.
경단 2형제 절검단 처음에는 여자가 능력도 좋고, 외모도 반반하니 호감을 가지고 사랑. 남자는 여자가 자신을 괴롭히는 것을 보면 재미있거나, 즐겁거나, 흥분하거나, 도전하거나, 짜증기도 합니다. 처음에는 여자가 능력도 좋고, 외모도 반반하니 호감을 가지고 사랑. 해석 남여 무서운 개가 쫒아 온다고 생각하고 어떻게 행동할지 생각하고 밑으로 내리세요. Com › entiz › read좋아했던 여자를 괴롭히기도 하나요.
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.
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