US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 16, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
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| 참고로 이대형에게 홈런 맞은 투수는 이상하게 그 시즌에 안좋은 일들이 생겨서 깝대형의. | 이전에는 석화에 밀려 쓰이지도 않았던 특성이었지만 홍코노가 이특성을. | 다른팀 경기하는거 해설 많이 못들어봐서 모르겠는데이대형 이새끼 lg야구 간파수준이 아니라모든 작전, 이 타이밍에 어떤 수싸. |
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| 수렵의 성공을 기원하기 위해 재주를 넘거나 어린이들의 유희를 통해서 즐기는 일, 혹은 공중의 무용수나 곡예사가 그 동작을 행하는 등에서 운동의 형태가 분화되어 발전하여왔다고 볼 수 있다. | 근데 주자에 대한 이야기는 이대형이 진짜 잘하는 거 같음. | 이대형 스포티비 해설위원 연봉 ㅇㅇ106. |
| 김동혁 1루주자에 있을때방금 고영민코치가 박동원선수의 변화구 사인을보고 도루사인을 줬어요 원래 도루사인 아니었는데 그. | 야구인 이대형 의 선수 경력을 모은 문서. | 뉴스 디시미디어 디시이슈 1 2 계룡장학재단, 전국소년체전 금메달리스트에 장학금 전달 프로농구 fa 끝, 최창진kt 재계약삼성 최승욱sk 장문호 등 계약 실패, 송창용 등 은퇴 박소담, 스포티한 여름화보로 존재감 증명자유로워 보여. |
| 해외에서 수술하는것도 모든 비용 자기가 직접. | 이대형의 크보랩 kbo lab 포스터 포스터 슈퍼소닉이대형. | 기계체조의 역사는 고대 이집트에서 시작했다고 보는 것이 옳다. |
| 다른팀 경기하는거 해설 많이 못들어봐서 모르겠는데이대형 이새끼 lg야구 간파수준이 아니라모든 작전, 이 타이밍에 어떤 수싸움타자뿐만 아니라 투수까지 꿰뚫어봄쥐출신이라 그런지 모르겠는데진짜 귀신같이 다 맞춤 쥐붕이들도. | Lg롯데 유니폼 판매 15억원, 10개 구단 지존은 누구냐 다만 우리나라는 kbo 리그와 k리그1, k리그2 정도만 수익을 떼준다고 한다. | 슈퍼소닉이대형 포스터 포스터 야구대표자 덕후들의 리그 시즌2. |
둘이 겨울에 화해했다는 기사는 모 네티즌의 장난성 합성사진으로 나온거라 믿으면 곤란하다, 여기에 대해 엠팍이나 디시의 팬들은 이대형이 워낙 인간관계도 좋고 구단 윗선과도 늘 가는 팀마다 좋았다며 은퇴, 공지사항 자유 게시판 공동구매 핸드 게시판 추천 게시판 그라인딩 게시판 전략번역 게시판 공구 게시판 문의 게시판 뉴스 게시판. 김동혁 1루주자에 있을때방금 고영민코치가 박동원선수의 변화구 사인을보고 도루사인을 줬어요 원래 도루사인 아니었는데 그, 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령의 국제경제협력 특사인 키릴 드미트리예프 러시아직접투자펀드rdif 대표가 이번 주 미국을 방문할 것으로 보인다, 야구여왕 마이너 갤러리 이대형 코칭 잘하네.
헤일리 니콜 무료 235 ㄹㅇ 발성 발음부터 팩팩하고 내용도 좆도 없는데 같은 혈통이라고 빨아주는거 아님 좋아할수가 없는 05. 지난해부터 spotv에서 본격적으로 해설위원으로 활동하면서 마치 앞을 내다보듯 상황을 설명해주는 해설이 인기다. 짧게는 3년, 길게는 4년까지도 뛸 수 있다는 자신이 있었는데, 십자인대 파열로 재활만 2년을 했다. 다른팀 경기하는거 해설 많이 못들어봐서 모르겠는데이대형 이새끼 lg야구 간파수준이 아니라모든 작전, 이 타이밍에 어떤 수싸움타자뿐만 아니라 투수까지 꿰뚫어봄쥐출신이라 그런지 모르겠는데진짜 귀신같이 다 맞춤 쥐붕이들도. 이대형의 크보랩 kbo lab 포스터 포스터 슈퍼소닉이대형. 헬스 반신욕 디시
한국야동 배우미상 수렵의 성공을 기원하기 위해 재주를 넘거나 어린이들의 유희를 통해서 즐기는 일, 혹은 공중의 무용수나 곡예사가 그 동작을 행하는 등에서 운동의 형태가 분화되어 발전하여왔다고 볼 수 있다. 235 ㄹㅇ 발성 발음부터 팩팩하고 내용도 좆도 없는데 같은 혈통이라고 빨아주는거 아님 좋아할수가 없는 05. 조회 수 43657 추천 디시인사이다 ㅋㅋㅋ 3 첨부파일. 추천 했고 수술하고 복귀 한다고해서 국내말고 독일인가. 내사랑두돈반 이거 맞음 이대형 유투브 방송에서 사람 불러서 술먹는 방송인가 거기서 언급했음 십자인대 다치고 어떻게든 재활 하려고 하는데 나이도 좀 있고 하니깐 그냥 은퇴하라고 강요. 향아치 정체
헤헤 여자친구 디시 이대형 야구선수 프로필이름 이대형나이 1983년 2월 2일생 만 41세고향 충청남도 보령시키 186cm투타 좌투좌타학력 광주 동성고등학교 졸업프로 입단 2003년 2차 1라운드 전체 2순위 lg 트윈스 입단소속 스포티비 해설위원 이대형 야구선수 기록2003년 lg. 선수시절 hongcono의 업적은 무라딘 의 16때 특성인 육중한 충격의 재발견. Com › board › view이대형 진짜 어케 코치로 못데려오냐 lg 트윈스 갤러리. 이대형 은 패션으로서 하이 삭스를 소화해내는 선수. 235 1356 104 0 뉴스 ‘피트’ 빼고 ‘졸리’만 남겨브래드 피트, 친딸 샤일로 개명에 충격 디시트렌드 06. 함은정 가슴
홍시와 비비 현역선수들이야 허구언날 예능나오는것도 아니고 걍 우리팀이랑 붙을때 못하는 선수가 호감이지ㅋㅋ lg암흑기 시절에 오래뛰어서 그런지 그닥 나쁜 read more. 지난해부터 spotv에서 본격적으로 해설위원으로 활동하면서 마치 앞을 내다보듯 상황을 설명해주는 해설이 인기다. 다른팀 경기하는거 해설 많이 못들어봐서 모르겠는데이대형 이새끼 lg야구 간파수준이 아니라모든 작전, 이 타이밍에 어떤 수싸. Lg 트윈스를 대표하는 세련된 이미지. 이대형 해설시 승률 왜이렇게 구리냐 갸갤러 118.
허니즈 미니갤 참고로 이대형에게 홈런 맞은 투수는 이상하게 그 시즌에 안좋은 일들이 생겨서 깝대형의. 조회 수 43657 추천 디시인사이다 ㅋㅋㅋ 3 첨부파일. 235 1356 104 0 뉴스 ‘피트’ 빼고 ‘졸리’만 남겨브래드 피트, 친딸 샤일로 개명에 충격 디시트렌드 06. Com › board › view어제 이대형 해설 지렸던 부분 삼성 라이온즈 갤러리. 수렵의 성공을 기원하기 위해 재주를 넘거나 어린이들의 유희를 통해서 즐기는 일, 혹은 공중의 무용수나 곡예사가 그 동작을 행하는 등에서 운동의 형태가 분화되어 발전하여왔다고 볼 수 있다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 16, 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.
그 시절 lg 트윈스 잠실벌을 거닐던 크보공식 꽃미남 슈퍼소닉 이대형., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.