US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 9, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
모아둔 달러를 카카오톡으로 친구에게 선물하거나, atm 출금 및 트래블월렛 카드로의 충전결제를 통해 여행에 사용하실 수 있습니다. 설정으로 들어가 외환 달러박스 달러박스 만들기를 누른 후 안내되는 절차에 따르기만 하면 끝이랍니다. 트레블 월렛으로는 원화를 통한 입금나 가능하고. 입장 방법 위스키 싸게 사는법 6가지 ft.
카드 충전한도는 원화 read more. 트래블월렛 사용법에 대하여 알아보겠습니다. 앱을 다운로드하여 원하는 외화를 충전 후 사용하기만 하면 되는데요 한번 살펴보겠습니다.| 해외나가서 현지 결제하거나 atm기기에서 외화출금할때트래블월렛카드를 많이 사용하고 있을껍니다. | 트래블월렛 충전한도는 최소 10달러에서 최대 200만 원이다. | 트래블월렛 트래블페이 카드편집 기본적으로 연결 가능 계좌는 usd만 가능하며, 토스뱅크 외화쏠 트래블 외화예금은 usd 외 통화도 지원한다. | 해당 카드에 외화로 보유가능한 한도와 충전 방법이궁금하면. |
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| 트래블 카드에 달러 지폐를 입금할 수 있을까. | 그래서 다른 교통카드에 넣어서 사용하시거나, 현금 그대로 사용하시는 것을 추천해 드립니다. | 어플 메인 화면에 충전하기를 클릭한 후 국가를 선택하고 충전금액 입력 후 연결된 계좌에서 돈이 빠져나가면 환전이 완료됩니다. | 전 세계 45개, 70개국의 통화를 어플로 간편하게 환전할 수 있어. |
| Com › 트래블월렛사용법트래블월렛 사용법 및 환전하는 방법. | Com › successroad › 223767339307트래블 카드에 달러 지폐를 직접 입금할 수 있을까. | 트래블월렛에서 유로 eur를 충전하면 유로 eur를 사용하는 유럽연합 국가에서만 사용할 수 있고, 트래블월렛에서 미국 달러 usd를 충전하면 미국 달러 usd를 사용하는 미국에서만 사용할 수 있어요. | 트래블월렛을 사용할 때 수수료와 환율은 여행자에게 중요한 고려사항입니다. |
| 이 글을 통해 트래블월렛을 더욱 효율적으로 사용할 수 있는 방법을 알아보세요. | 트래블월렛 카드 추천, 사용법, 종류와 결제수수료 알아봄. | Com › yu__bin_ › 223357455337트래블월렛 사용법 부터 입금방법 까지 한눈에 네이버 블로그. | 이번 포스팅에서는 트래블 월렛 travel wallet을 활용해 수수료 걱정 없이 스마트하게 해외에서 결제하는 방법을 알려드릴게요. |
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모아둔 달러를 카카오톡으로 친구에게 선물하거나, atm 출금 및 트래블월렛 카드로의 충전결제를 통해 여행에 사용하실 수 있습니다.. 해외를 자주 나가는 분이라면, 사용하고 남은 외화잔고를 환율상황에 따라 원화로 환불하지 않고그대로 놔두는 경우도 많을꺼구요..충전한 통화를 원하는 통화로 바꿀 수 있어요. 반드시 외화 계좌를 통해 충전해야 사용 가능, 예를 들어 유로를 살 때 1,433원, 유로를 팔 때 1,419원이라고 가정하면 보통은 은행에서 살 때 우리가 약 12%의 수수료가 붙은 1,461원 가량을. 해외여행에서 알뜰하고 현명하게 결제하기✈️ 해외여행. 네이버 블로그 경제 1,426개의 글 목록열기. 이번 포스팅에서는 트래블 월렛 travel wallet을 활용해 수수료 걱정 없이 스마트하게 해외에서 결제하는 방법을 알려드릴게요. 트래블월렛에서 유로 eur를 충전하면 유로 eur를 사용하는 유럽연합 국가에서만 사용할 수 있고, 트래블월렛에서 미국 달러 usd를 충전하면 미국 달러 usd를 사용하는 미국에서만 사용할 수 있어요. 해외생활팁 트레블월렛, 수수료없이 해외송금하는 방법, 해외나가서 현지 결제하거나 atm기기에서 외화출금할때트래블월렛카드를 많이 사용하고 있을껍니다, 그래서 오늘 본문에서는 트래블월렛 카드 환전 사용법 을 총정리해드리며 참고하여 편리하게 사용해보시길 바랍니다. Com › successroad › 223767339307트래블 카드에 달러 지폐를 직접 입금할 수 있을까. 일본에서 첫 사용 트래블월렛 단점 3가지 정리 ft. 외화결제계좌 usd인 경우 현지통화usd → 원화krw. 트래블월렛을 사용할 때 수수료와 환율은 여행자에게 중요한 고려사항입니다. 해외여행객에게 다양한 혜택을 제공하는 트레블월렛 카드에 대해서 자세히 알아보도록 하겠습니다.
모아둔 달러를 카카오톡으로 친구에게 선물하거나, atm 출금 및 트래블월렛 카드로의 충전결제를 통해 여행에 사용하실 수 있습니다. 해외 유랑 경험과 삶의 가치관을 공유 합니다, 그래서 오늘 본문에서는 트래블월렛 카드 환전 사용법 을 총정리해드리며 참고하여 편리하게 사용해보시길 바랍니다. 외화결제계좌 usd인 경우 현지통화usd → 원화krw. 트래블월렛은 달러, 엔화, 유로와 같은 주요 통화를 수수료 없이 환전할 수 있는 장점이 있습니다. 트래블 월렛 어플을 다운 받아서 카드 신청하기를 눌러 필요한 정보를 넣고 내가 충전할 계좌를 연결해 놓으면 끝.
해외여행 때 환전이나 결제 수수료 걱정 없이 사용할 수 있는 카드가 있습니다, 충전한 통화를 원하는 통화로 바꿀 수 있어요. 일본에서 첫 사용 트래블월렛 단점 3가지 정리 ft, 카드 등록이 완료되면, 트래블월렛 카드로 해외에서 결제나 현금 인출이 가능합니다.
해외나가서 현지 결제하거나 atm기기에서 외화출금할때트래블월렛카드를 많이 사용하고 있을껍니다.. 해외생활팁 트레블월렛, 수수료없이 해외송금하는 방법.. 입장 방법 위스키 싸게 사는법 6가지 ft.. 단 한 번에 1천달러 이내, 하 read more..
해외생활팁 트레블월렛, 수수료없이 해외송금하는 방법. 트래블월렛 atm 입금 가능여부 알아보기. 지원통화가 점점 늘어나서 진짜 편리해요, 카드 비밀번호가 잘 기억나지 않거나 모르겠다면 카드 비밀번호를 먼저. 충전한도는 200만원까지, atm 출금한도는 미화 1천달러, 월간 이용한도는 미화 2천달라까지입니다.
네이버 블로그 경제 1,426개의 글 목록열기, 막판에 짤짤이 남기기 싫어서 계산해서 충전했는데 그래도 환불할 때 수수료가. Com › successroad › 223767339307트래블 카드에 달러 지폐를 직접 입금할 수 있을까. 트래블월렛 카드는 여행 중 결제와 환전에서 매우 유용한 도구인데요, 오늘은 트래블월렛 입금 가능여부 트래블월렛 atm 입금 가능여부에 대해 자세히 알아보겠습니다. 5% 환전수수료 발생 자동충전 2025년부터 자동충전 기능 도입, 트래블월렛 트래블페이 카드편집 기본적으로 연결 가능 계좌는 usd만 가능하며, 토스뱅크 외화쏠 트래블 외화예금은 usd 외 통화도 지원한다.
오늘은 여행자를 위한 해외통화체크카드 트래블월렛 배송과 사용 후기입니다 트레블월렛 요즘은 해외결제 카드들이 워낙 잘 되어있어서. 트래블월렛은 은행에서 환전할 필요 없이 모바일로 간단하게 환전해서 해외 atm기로 바로 인출하거나 체크카드로 사용할 수 있는 체크카드입니다. 201k views 1 year ago.
외화 통장에서 트래블 월렛으로 이체 가능한가요, 그런데 예전 히스토리를 보니 출시 이후로 최소 금액을 많이 낮추긴 했더라구요, 트래블로그는 최소 금액 1,000원인 것에 반해 트래블월렛은 무조건 10달러 이상 충전해야 돼요, 막판에 짤짤이 남기기 싫어서 계산해서 충전했는데 그래도 환불할 때 수수료가.
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 9, 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.
트레블월렛 카드에 달러입금 비공개 조회수 352 2023., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.