US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
둥지 고작 84년생 주제에 지가 대단한 언니고 유튭 선배행세하며 말하는 투가 재수없음. 근데 갑자기 잠수탈 사건이 없엇자나예의가 없군. 사람이 맛이 간다 경험상 월 3천이상 찍어본적 있으면 그때부터 망가짐 그 수입이 꾸준하면 모르겠는데 유튜버는 광고수익이 read more. 근데 갑자기 잠수탈 사건이 없엇자나예의가 없군.
이지아 팬들중 일부의 지나친 동정론과 쉴드로 오히려 더 반감을 느낀 사람도.. 저는 사실 오랜 둥지언니 팬으로서 최근에 둥지언니에 대한 여론이 좋지 않다는 것은 알고 있었습니다..어떤 유튜버든 인기에 한계가 있고 결국 망하고 잊혀지게 되있음 둥지언니도 이걸 알거임 이 부부는 유튜브 원툴이라 망하면 끝이다. 조회수 처참 싫어요 60프로 근접 nft 발행 방법 nft 발행하기 클릭 klip 지갑 연결 nft 예비발행 판매가능 디시 nft 판매 완료 nft 실발행 블록체인 발행 예비발행 블록체인에 nft 발행 전 디시인사이드 db에 우선 nft 정보를 저장한 상태 실발행 예비발행한 nft가 판매가 완료되어 클레이튼 블록. 둥지언니 욕글에 조금이라도 반박하면 바로 삭제하고둥지언니랑 쏘이 욕글을 사람들에게 계속 봐달라며 끌올하고, Com › mgallery › board둥지언니 농협합천 댓글 난리 여행유튜버 마이너 갤러리. 돈 고소당했단 사람은 없고, 변호사 자문 구하고 영상 제작했다면서, 또 그부분은 자문 구한게 아니래대체 어떤걸 자문 구한거냐. 틀니 x에서 돈돈돈거리다 여기저기서 ㅈㄴ 까이고 빤스런, 감정을 공유하고 즐거운 순간을 느껴보세요. 그렇게 아무일도 없는거처럼 행동하더니 ㅋㅋㅋ 속으론 꽤나 속타고 잇엇나, 둥지언니는 비호감으로 바뀐 지 오래됐어요, 절벽끝에서 살아남기 위해 발버둥치고 있는게 뻔히 보인다.
| 자기가 해명하고 싶은 루머만 해명하고 본인한테 불리한 논란은 회피한 것이 아니냐는 것. | 혹시 고소 예정이라면 여행유튜버갤 쇼펜도 고소하세요. | 둥지언니 고소 10월 7일 둥지언니 유튜브에 고소영상이 올라옵니다. | 물론 절대 캐럿맨 만큼은 아니겠지만언니도 그동안 조금씩 이미지를 깎아먹었어적어도 예전처럼 될 수없다는거고, 큰 성장은 더 이상없다는거. |
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| Com › mgallery › board둥지언니 왜 잠수탐. | 디씨갤러리에도 실베로 올라가고 노메드크리틱인가 하는 유튜버한테도 씹히고. | Com › mgallery › board둥지언니의 몰락 여행유튜버 마이너 갤러리. | 이 영상에서는 6학년 언니들, 강아지, 그리고 학교 이야기들을 다룹니다. |
| 둥지언니 마이너 갤러리 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. | 조회수 처참 싫어요 60프로 근접 nft 발행 방법 nft 발행하기 클릭 klip 지갑 연결 nft 예비발행 판매가능 디시 nft 판매 완료 nft 실발행 블록체인 발행 예비발행 블록체인에 nft 발행 전 디시인사이드 db에 우선 nft 정보를 저장한 상태 실발행 예비발행한 nft가 판매가 완료되어 클레이튼 블록. | 둥지언니의 몰락 여행유튜버 마이너 갤러리. | 둥지 유튭농협합천영상2에 있는데 x구 트위터, 일론인수 내용가관. |
사람이 맛이 간다 경험상 월 3천이상 찍어본적 있으면 그때부터 망가짐 그 수입이 꾸준하면 모르겠는데 유튜버는 광고수익이 read more, 2024년 1229일 안타까운 무안공항 대참사날 11시넘어 쇼핑천국 말레이시아 영상광고포함올린후 구독자말 무시하고 뻐팅기다 5시간만에 영상내리 read more. 특유의 표독한 꼰대미가 있음 다른 유투버들의 컨셉 꼰대미와는 다름 둥지는 딩크족, 파이어족을 추구하면서 기성세대와는 달리, 유연하고 깨어 있는 사람이라고 외치고 있음.
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한달에 1억 벌고도 웃음을 잃었다는 썸네일이자 제목이었던 영상이다. 근데 그러다보니 책도쓰고 의류사업도 하고 서울아파트 등등 유명해지니깐 제의도 많이 들어오고 이래저래 논란도 확실히 많아진듯, 둥지언니도 한참 잘. 반대로 남자가 일진느낌인데 말투가 상스럽고 이러면 오히려 재밌고 거부감이 없는데 여자는 다름 여자는 어울리는 사람이 상스러운 표현 쓰면 안됨. 자기가 해명하고 싶은 루머만 해명하고 본인한테 불리한 논란은 회피한 것이 아니냐는 것.
그렇게 아무일도 없는거처럼 행동하더니 ㅋㅋㅋ 속으론 꽤나 속타고 잇엇나. 둥지 고작 84년생 주제에 지가 대단한 언니고 유튭 선배행세하며 말하는 투가 재수없음. 한마디로 악플러를 고소하겠다는 내용이었구요, 둥지언니의 몰락 여행유튜버 마이너 갤러리, 둥지언니 욕글에 조금이라도 반박하면 바로 삭제하고둥지언니랑 쏘이 욕글을 사람들에게 계속 봐달라며 끌올하고. 맘에 안드는 댓글 다 숨김처리했는데 그게 그냥 평범한 질문도 자기들 기분에 안들면 전부 삭제, 숨김해서 둥지가 댓글 삭제할수 없는 농협둥지언니 ep02에 모여서 성토장이 됐어요.
돈 고소당했단 사람은 없고, 변호사 자문 구하고 영상 제작했다면서, 또 그부분은 자문 구한게 아니래대체 어떤걸 자문 구한거냐. 자기들의 선택이 틀리지 않았음을 계속 read more. Com › mgallery › board둥지언니의 몰락 여행유튜버 마이너 갤러리. 이 영상은 수익의 최정점을 찍고 광고까지 해서 지난번 1억을 벌었는데 오히려 더 불행했었다는 이야기 였다. 자기들의 선택이 틀리지 않았음을 계속 read more.
둥할매 만행 고발로 댓글 난리네 난리 dc official app. 둥지언니는 비호감으로 바뀐 지 오래됐어요, 사람이 맛이 간다 경험상 월 3천이상 찍어본적 있으면 그때부터 망가짐 그 수입이 꾸준하면 모르겠는데 유튜버는 광고수익이 read more. 틀니 x에서 돈돈돈거리다 여기저기서 ㅈㄴ 까이고 빤스런.
모모 랜드 낸시 트위터 사람이 맛이 간다 경험상 월 3천이상 찍어본적 있으면 그때부터 망가짐 그 수입이 꾸준하면 모르겠는데 유튜버는 광고수익이 read more. 둥지언니 젠틀정 무안공항 참사후 영상 내리고 x에서 활동. Com › mgallery › board둥지언니가 맛간 이유 여행유튜버 마이너 갤러리. 근데 갑자기 잠수탈 사건이 없엇자나예의가 없군. 절벽끝에서 살아남기 위해 발버둥치고 있는게 뻔히 보인다. 메키 유물 티어
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 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.
이 영상은 수익의 최정점을 찍고 광고까지 해서 지난번 1억을 벌었는데 오히려 더 불행했었다는 이야기 였다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.