US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
유저 아슬란 맨티코어 리프로바 두린 오니 엘라피아 세라토 시벌 겁나많네. 불사의 두린 이 이름을 지녔던 난쟁이 중 가장 유명한 이. 이 문서는 공식적으로 공개되지 않은 플레이어블 캐릭터에 대한 설명입니다. 최초의 난쟁이 의 군주들 13명 중 하나로, 불사의 두린이라고도 불린다.
번역 두린에게 무서운 얼굴을 가르쳐주는 야호다 원신 채널. 공격속도부터 데미지까지 죄다 무난한 올라운드 타입 무기, 오랜 세월을 살았기에 불사의 두린으로도 불린다, 《원신》 「두린」 나무위키 읽어보기2025.설정상 용 도마뱀들은 사망 같은 특별한 사건을 걲지 않는다면, 원소 에너지를 흡수하여 계속 강해지며, 수천년이 지나면 아래의 상위 등급 용으로 진화할 수 있다는 설정이 나온다.. 지능은 낮지만 환경에 대한 적응력이 뛰어나다..두린 3세 덕에 목숨을 건지게 된 엘론드와 깊은골 요정들은 나중에 두린 3세의 먼 후손인 소린 일행을 전폭적으로 지원해주게 된다. 남캐핥고싶다 0111 4482 174, 두린까지만 성유물 맞추고 콜콜이 평타렙작이랑 경계셋 해봐야겠다 새로운 장난감이 생기겠어.
호빗 의 난쟁이들이 바로 두린 일족으로, 제 3시대 2941년 소린 2세가 두린의 마지막 적통이지만 그가 자손없이 죽고 조카들까지 죽었기 때문에 적통이 끊기고 소린의 6촌인 다인 2세의 방계로 이어진다. 최초의 난쟁이의 군주들 13명 중 하나로, 불사의 두린이라고도 불린다, 「여명이 밝아올 때까지 앞으로 나아갈 거야. 최근 수정 시각 20260124 234847.
Operado por umanle s, 개요편집 반지의 제왕에 나오는 난쟁이 일족으로, 긴수염족이라고도 불린다. 살 빈다그니르에서 제사장의 딸은 왕국의 멸망과 2000년 후의 두린 침공을 꿈 속에서 보았고, 층암거연을 떠나 침옥협곡에 정착했던 고대 문명의 제사장 세력은 하늘과의 연결이 끊겼다고 걱정하다 어느 순간부터 마신으로 기록되는 모습 등등, 165880 ✏️창작번역 번역 두린에게 무서운 얼굴을 가르쳐주는 야호다 33 165868 나무위키 이거 진짜임 ㅋㅋ, 두린의 알베도에 대한 이미지는 시뮬랑카의 주민과 같은 이미지로 나타난다.
비교적 강력한 마법 재능을 타고났으나, 자신의 성격과 체질 문제로 이. 우선 기사단의 부단장이던 로스탐이 전사했으며, 이에 절망한 그의 연인 로잘린이 몬드를 떠나 화염 마법으로 마물을 학살하는 두려운 존재, 화염의 마녀 라고 불리게 된다. 캐릭터 트레일러「일루가 새벽꾀꼬리의 깃털」. 설정상 용 도마뱀들은 사망 같은 특별한 사건을 걲지 않는다면, 원소 에너지를 흡수하여 계속 강해지며, 수천년이 지나면 아래의 상위 등급 용으로 진화할 수 있다는 설정이 나온다. 뿔과 날개를 가진 용인이며, 순수한 면모를 지닌 소년이라는 점에서 붕괴3rd의 코스마와 유사하다.
로도스 아일랜드 작전팀 a4 소속 오퍼레이터, 최근 수정 시각 20260124 234847. 제4시대에서는 소린 3세의 후손인 두린 7세가 모리아를 재건하는데 성공했다. 두린은 존재 자체가 재앙이었으며, 숨결만으로도 대지를 황무지로 바꾸었다. 아직 공식적으로 공개되지 않거나 출시되지 않은 베타 버전의 정보에 read more. 스네즈나야의 외교사절단 겸 군사집단 겸 첩보집단 우인단 의 최고위 간부들이다.
엘론드 의 친구로서 2화에서 그를 반갑게 맞이한다. 아직 공식적으로 공개되지 않거나 출시되지 않은 베타 버전의 정보에 read more. 1 개방적인 사고방식을 가지고 있기 때문에 고립주의 노선을 타는 아버지 두린 3세와 사사건건 충돌한다.
용 도마뱀은 용으로 분류되는 생명체 중에서 가장 약한 등급이다. 개요편집 반지의 제왕에 나오는 난쟁이 일족으로, 긴수염족이라고도 불린다, 이거 온필드 콜롬비나 각인데 미호요스킨모드 채널.
역시 「황금」의 라인도티르의 아이랄까, 캐릭터 트레일러「일루가 새벽꾀꼬리의 깃털」. 두린까지만 성유물 맞추고 콜콜이 평타렙작이랑 경계셋 해봐야겠다 새로운 장난감이 생기겠어.
얼굴 신현빈 디시 일부 추종자한테는 티바트 전대륙의 수호자 11석 이라고 불리고 있다. 우선 기사단의 부단장이던 로스탐이 전사했으며, 이에 절망한 그의 연인 로잘린이 몬드를 떠나 화염 마법으로 마물을 학살하는 두려운 존재, 화염의 마녀 라고 불리게 된다. 두린 침공의 결과는 많은 변화를 가져왔다. 최초의 난쟁이 의 군주들 13명 중 하나로, 불사의 두린이라고도 불린다. 《원신》 「두린」 나무위키 읽어보기 2025. 에피 latest
어드민 럭키블럭 확률 알베도가 두린을 형제라고 부르는 것을 볼때, 형제 사이로 지내는 것으로 보인다. 8버전은 으레 그랬듯 그 다음 버전에 나올 신규지역의 떡밥이 나오는데, 5. 엘론드 의 친구로서 2화에서 그를 반갑게 맞이한다. 레리르와의 최후의 전투에서 대활약한다. 두린의 알베도에 대한 이미지는 시뮬랑카의 주민과 같은 이미지로 나타난다. 엠넷플러스 숨바꼭질 다시보기
엘린 뭉크 뭉 카톡 디시 지능은 낮지만 환경에 대한 적응력이 뛰어나다. 두린 일족 의 시조로서 종족의 최연장자 대접을 받으며, 그와 그의 후손들은 모든 난쟁이들의 대왕 이다. 두린 전설임무에서도 5일차에 방랑자와 함께 두린을 도와주는 조력자로 등장한다. 두린 일족 의 시조로서 종족의 최연장자 대접을 받으며, 그와 그의 후손들은 모든 난쟁이들의 대왕 이다. 8버전은 으레 그랬듯 그 다음 버전에 나올 신규지역의 떡밥이 나오는데, 5. 어나더레드 아이폰
양귀비 엉덩이 불사의 두린 이 이름을 지녔던 난쟁이 중 가장 유명한 이. 어머니인 안데르스도테르 가 나레이션을 맡았으며, 시뮬랑카 이벤트 스토리와 중간장 4막 배리의 순간을 기반으로 인간 두린의 탄생 과정을 두린 시점에서 보여준다. 두린까지만 성유물 맞추고 콜콜이 평타렙작이랑 경계셋 해봐야겠다 새로운 장난감이 생기겠어. 최근 수정 시각 20260124 234847. 로도스 아일랜드 작전팀 a4 소속 오퍼레이터.
에로배우 최나비 8 다음 버전은 설산과 같은 기후일 것으로 추측되는 스네즈나야 이고, 두린의 시체도 설산에 있으므로 설신과 두린, 스네즈나야에 대한 이야기가 나올 가능성이 매우 높았으나, 예상보다. 이제 「두린」이라는 이름을 들으면 다들 설산이 아니라 온순한 소년을 떠올렸다. 남캐핥고싶다 0111 4482 174. 현재 티바트의 강대국인 스네즈나야의 지배자 얼음여왕의 직속 부하들이기 때문에 막강한 영향력을 갖고 있다. 두린 침공의 결과는 많은 변화를 가져왔다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 8, 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.
두린 전설임무에서도 5일차에 방랑자와 함께 두린을 도와주는 조력자로 등장한다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.