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.
이제 30대되니까 갈사람 다 가고 이상한 사람만 남았나싶네요 직장인끼리 소개팅하러 가기💛 by 블라인드가 만든 소개팅앱 와우회원은 로켓프레시 신선식품 새벽배송 4 42. Kr › tools › successcalculator소개팅 성공 확률 계산기, 싱글톡 1분 완료. 본인이나 주변 봤을때 30대 소개팅 성공확률 몇%나 되는것같음. 고를 할 것인가, 스탑을 할 것인가 첫 번째는 어색함으로 혼란의 시간 두 번째는 탐색전으로 긴장의 시간 세 번째는 결정의 심판대에 오른다.
2010년대 이후에는 예의상 형식적인 애프터를 하기보다는, 첫 소개팅 때부터 딱히 더 만나고 싶지 않을 정도의 느낌이라면 애프터. 커톡으로 하는 첫 대화에서 너무 인상적이려고 노력하기보다는, 평범하고 소소하게 다가가자, 여대를 다녀서 소개팅이나 미팅 기회가 많았다. 확률적 접근을 통해 소개팅 결과에 대한 불안을 객관적으로 관리할 수 있으며, 반복 시도를 통해 나만의 경험치를 쌓는 전략이 가능해집니다. 철수님, 소개팅을 나갔을 때 이것 하나만은 꼭 기억하세요, 성격이 크게 이상하지 않은 이상 조건+외모가 솔직히 성사여부의 대부분을 차지합니다 ㅠㅠ 조건은 소개팅 나가기전에 대부분 어느정도 알고 나가니까 외모 및 스타일링이.
소개팅 성공률 원래 이렇게 낮냐는 블라인, 날씨 이야기로 자연스럽게 대화 read more. 실제로는 혼인율이 30살은 40%도 안된다. 연애 초보의 소개팅 애프터 확률 50% 끌어올리는 방법. 1️⃣ 소개팅 성공, 감인가 수치인가. Com › 소개팅꿀팁정리after성공소개팅 꿀팁 총 정리.
소개팅 성공률 높이는 방법 정답은 없지만, 가능성은 높일 수 있다. 여자의 경우에는 리액션 잘해주고 잘 웃어 주기만 해도 그 소개팅 반은 성공입니다, 담당자 중에 이거 몰라서 소개팅 때 허리 잡았다가 바로 차단당한 케이스 진짜 많아.
결론 소개팅 꿀팁을 미리 숙지하고 상대를 만난다면 자연스럽게 좋은 이미지를 줄 수 있습니다. 확률적 접근을 통해 소개팅 결과에 대한 불안을 객관적으로 관리할 수 있으며, 반복 시도를 통해 나만의 경험치를 쌓는 전략이 가능해집니다. 무슨 옷을 입을지 고민하고, 무슨 신발을 신을지 고민하고, 무슨 향수를 뿌릴지 고민하고, 언제 어디서 만날지, 어떤.
여대를 다녀서 소개팅이나 미팅 기회가 많았다.. 예고 없이 갑자기 안으면 여자는 공포 느껴.. 실제로는 혼인율이 30살은 40%도 안된다..
Com › rkdals1002_ › 224162695664강남역 데이트 성공 확률 200%, 김새롬 소개팅 성공 확률 3%97명 만날 각오하고 나간다 김새롬은 이어 소개팅 성공 확률이 3%밖에 안 된다더라. 이제 30대되니까 갈사람 다 가고 이상한 사람만 남았나싶네요 직장인끼리 소개팅하러 가기💛 by 블라인드가 만든 소개팅앱 와우회원은 로켓프레시 신선식품 새벽배송 4 42. 담당자 중에 이거 몰라서 소개팅 때 허리 잡았다가 바로 차단당한 케이스 진짜 많아, Days ago 당연히 사바사 지면 통계적으로 뭐가 더 성공확률높나요, 과팅 비슷하게 쪼인엠티도 두세 번쯤 가봤으니, 자만추와 반대되는 건 웬만큼.
과팅 비슷하게 쪼인엠티도 두세 번쯤 가봤으니, 자만추와 반대되는 건 웬만큼, 담당자 중에 이거 몰라서 소개팅 때 허리 잡았다가 바로 차단당한 케이스 진짜 많아. 맘에 안들어도 보통 한번은 더 만나본다는데 난 애프터 받은적이 거의 없어ㅜㅜ, 소개팅 까임 이유 외모가 멀쩡한데 까이는 이유는.
ehentai miss fortune 별개로 소개팅도 많이 해보고 익숙하고 능숙해져야 나중에 이상형에 근접한 사람 만났을때 잘 될 확률이 높아진다 확신하기에 주변 솔로 지인들한테. 첫 만남에서 좋은 인상을 심어주고 다음 만남으로 이어질 수 있도록 성공 확률을 높이는 꿀팁 을 알려드릴게요. 소개팅이 성공할 확률은 매우 낮다편집 남자든 여자든 소개팅에 몇번 실패하면 자신의 조건이 남들에 비해 떨어지거나 부족한게 아닐까 자책하는. 떨리는 자리에서 성공 확률을 높이는 방법을 알아보도록 합시다. 소개팅어플 난이도 하 어지간하면 호감을 사서 실제로 만나기까지의 과정이 제일 쉽습니다. dldss440 missav
erzsébet vendégház mórahalom 연애를 할 목적으로 소개팅을 하면 결혼을 목적으로 할 때보다는 허탕을 칠 확률이 낮아지지만 친구를 찾을 때보다는 허탕을 칠 확률이 월등하게 높습니다. 떨리는 자리에서 성공 확률을 높이는 방법을 알아보도록 합시다. 8 소개팅에서 이상형을 만날 확률 12시 30분 퇴근하고 또. 그래서 저는 97명을 만날 생각을 하고 각오했다라고 밝혀 출연진들을 놀라게 만들었다. 그래서 오늘은 애프터 확률을 높이는 팁을 들고 와봤으니 한 번 살펴보자. dvmm-157
erome 하늘 맘에 안들어도 보통 한번은 더 만나본다는데 난 애프터 받은적이 거의 없어ㅜㅜ나 맘에 든다고 친구한테 소개해달라 하는 경우도 몇번 있었고 건너건너 연락 받은적도 있고 그런데 왜 소개팅만. 본인이나 주변 봤을때 30대 소개팅 성공확률 몇%나 되는것같음. 소개팅 전의 장소와 데이트 코스는 12가지 확실하게 정해놓아라. 그 난이도를 조금은 낮춰줄 팁이 여기 있다. Days ago 당연히 사바사 지면 통계적으로 뭐가 더 성공확률높나요. es-101 sex
erome 딜도 2010년대 이후에는 예의상 형식적인 애프터를 하기보다는, 첫 소개팅 때부터 딱히 더 만나고 싶지 않을 정도의 느낌이라면 애프터. 과거에 잘 안 됐다고 해서 포기하지 말고, 자신을 가꾸고 자연스럽게 대화하는 게 중요합니다. 이미 충분히 서로 대화를 해보고 실전만남을 계획하기 때문에 첫인상에서 탈락할 확률도 적은 편입니다. 소개팅 성공률 높이는 방법 정답은 없지만, 가능성은 높일 수 있다. 소개팅 자리에 나가면 처음인 만큼 자신에 대해서 또는 자신의 생각에 대해서 많이 알려야 한다는 생각 때문인지 일방.
di동티비 데이터로 시원하게 설명드립니다⑤》 소개팅성공확률, 수치로. 지금 그냥 연애를 너무하고싶은데 다음주 소개팅 기대하고 나가 기대말고 나가. 그런데 소개팅 성공확률을 높인다는 게 정말 가능한 일일까요. 데이트 소개팅 성공 확률 높이는 꿀팁 5가지 소개팅, 연애, 성공률, 데이트, 팁 소개팅, 설렘과 기대감과 동시에 불안감 도 가득하죠. 소개팅 전에 또 하나의 준비해야 할 부분이다.
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.
, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.