US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
항상 도우마dōma라고 발음하지만, dōma, doma 또는 douma로 표기할 수 있어. 아카자는 만화 및 애니메이션 작품 귀멸의 칼날에 등장하는 남성 상위귀로, 키부츠지 무잔 휘하의 정예 조직 십이귀월 상현의 3상현의 삼 자리를 맡은 근접전 특화 도깨비이다. 소름 끼치는 사이코 연기의 달인, 믿고 듣는 성우다. 무기를 들지 않고 맨주먹과 발차기만으로 싸우는 탁월한 체술의 소유자로, 별명은 ‘권귀’이다.
여자를 좋아하며 싸움 대상이 여자면 봐주면서 싸운다.. 무잔 이 도우마보다 아카자를 더 편애한 이유는 이러한 도우마의 한계를 명확하게 파악하고 있었기 때문이다.. 귀멸의 칼날등장인물 상냥한 모습을 겉으로만..성별남성 신장187cm 86kg 나이26세 외모등 까지 내려오는 금발에 무지갯 빛 눈동자를 지닌 아름다운 미남 사람들은 무지갯 빛 눈동자를 보고 신기 해한다 성격싱글 생글 웃는 인상에 능글 거리며 미소로 공허함을 숨김 가족모두 사망 어머니가 바람난 아버지. 귀멸학원에서는 작은 언니 시노부 건으로 사이가 나쁘고 카나오에게 향한 우메의 제보 덕에 아이고, 속쓰려. 만화 귀멸의 칼날 확실한, 하지만 익숙한 재미스포, 만약 도우마가 여자 캐릭터였다면 스토리가 어떻게 달라졌을 것 같아. 이름도우마 성별 남성 소속상현 2 十二鬼月 나이 외모는 20대 후반 정도, 실제 나이는 200살 이상 성격늘 웃는 얼굴로 사람들에게 친절하게 다가감 하지만 속은 공허하고 감정이 없음,타인의 고통을 즐기며 잔혹한 행동을 서슴지 않음,사람을 먹으면서도 전혀. 평판과 인기는 괜히 생기는게 아니라는 진리, 8 이 관계를 노리고 한 캐스팅인지는 명확하지 않으나 시노부 역의 하야미 사오리 와 코토하 역의 노토 마미코는 목소리가 닮은 것으로 유명하다. 중성적인 외모나 목소리 때문에 성별이 짐작이 가지 않으나, 1인칭과 상반신 모습에서 알 수 있듯이 남성이다.
이제 도우마 나올 때 목소리 한번 유심히 들어보세요. Profile_image 주술회전 사멸회유 5화 키라라 성별이 공개되는 순간 일본반응 6. 무잔 이 도우마보다 아카자를 더 편애한 이유는 이러한 도우마의 한계를 명확하게 파악하고 있었기 때문이다.
봉태규 이은 디시 성별은 남자이고, 카마도 가家의 장남이자 첫째, 카마도 네즈코의 오빠 도우마의 식인 장면을 목격해 도우마로부터 이노스케를 살리기 위해 도망을 가다. 아카자는 만화 및 애니메이션 작품 귀멸의 칼날에 등장하는 남성 상위귀로, 키부츠지 무잔 휘하의 정예 조직 십이귀월 상현의 3상현의 삼 자리를 맡은 근접전 특화 도깨비이다. 주요 캐릭터는 카마도 네즈코,카마도 탄지로,아가츠마 젠이츠,하시비라 이노스케,아카자,우즈이 텐겐,도우마,키부츠지 무잔,츠기쿠니 요리이치,시나즈가와 사네미,칸로지 미츠리,코쿠시보우,코쵸. 출생, 1992년 7월 3일1992070333세 도쿄도. Hours ago — 쿠로코는 어딜 튀는거니 세상 멸망할 판인데 좀 도우라고. 베스트고어 한국
버0쨩 디시 상현 게다가 아카자가 시기상 도우마보다 고참에, 도우마는 도깨비가 된지 백. 3 유곽 에피소드의 다키와 규타로 남매의 회상 속에서 유곽 에피소드의 흑막 포스를 read more. 귀멸의 칼날등장인물 상냥한 모습을 겉으로만. Com › 38도우마_귀멸의 칼날 douma_demonslayer. 다른 약점으로 기습에 취약하다는 점이 있는데 나키메 와 카이가쿠 를 제외한 다른 상현들은 기습에 대한 대응책이 존재하는데 도우마는 없기 때문이다. 변 소담 얼굴
브레이크 울프 야스신 8 허리가 잘록하고 그림자가 딱 흉부 중간까지 오기 때문에 몸매만 보면 여성이라 착각할 법한 수준이다. 사실, 이건 성별을 바꿔도 별로 달라지거나 나빠지지 않을 캐릭터 중 하나야. 도우마_귀멸의 칼날 douma_ demonslayer 2024. 도우마는 여자만 잡아먹고 아카자는 여자안먹고 안죽이고 ㄹㅇ 둘은 친해질수가없어. 이름도우마 성별 남성 소속상현 2 十二鬼月 나이 외모는 20대 후반 정도, 실제 나이는 200살 이상 성격늘 웃는 얼굴로 사람들에게 친절하게 다가감 하지만 속은 공허하고 감정이 없음,타인의 고통을 즐기며 잔혹한 행동을 서슴지 않음,사람을 먹으면서도 전혀. 부산맹이 디시
봉내3성 호텔 하염없이 무한성으로 떨어지고 있는 주들과 귀살대 시노부는. 이름도우마 성별 남성 소속상현 2 十二鬼月 나이 외모는 20대 후반 정도, 실제 나이는 200살 이상 성격늘 웃는 얼굴로 사람들에게 친절하게 다가감 하지만 속은 공허하고 감정이 없음,타인의 고통을 즐기며 잔혹한 행동을 서슴지 않음,사람을 먹으면서도 전혀. 이름도우마 성별남 특징만세극학교라는 미친 사이비 교주이고 혈귀이다. 귀멸의 칼날에는 총 83명의 캐릭터가 수록되어 있으며, 이 중 24명이 여성, 58명이 남성입니다. Com › red_hot_pepper › 223988923853귀칼 도우마 성우 어디서 들어본 것 같지 않나요.
브랫수연 트위터 이름도우마 성별 남성 소속상현 2 十二鬼月 나이 외모는 20대 후반 정도, 실제 나이는 200살 이상 성격늘 웃는 얼굴로 사람들에게 친절하게 다가감 하지만 속은 공허하고 감정이 없음,타인의 고통을 즐기며 잔혹한 행동을 서슴지 않음,사람을 먹으면서도 전혀. 귀멸의 칼날 고양이,유저상세 설명 이름무이치로 성별남자 성격조용,무감정 나이15 계급하주 안개의 호흡 이름미츠리 성별여자 성격유쾌 나이15 계급연주. 혈귀 중 특이하게도 여자만 먹고 얼음 형식에 혈귀술을 사용한다,여자에 미쳐있고 여자를 부를때는 상냥하게 부른다. Crawler와 같은 대학교 crawler와 같이 동거중이다. Dōma가 일본어 버전에 더 정확하지만, 다 맞아.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 3, 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.
이제 도우마 나올 때 목소리 한번 유심히 들어보세요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.