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.
위 사진은 앞머리 까서 t존이 부각되는데 훨씬 나이 들어보이고 인상도 나빠짐아래는 앞머리 가려서 t존이고 뭐고 없는데 인상도 좋고 동안 됨이런 얼굴의 특징이 뭘까. 전기차를 충전하며 제품을 체험하고 반려동물과 함께 잠시 여유를 즐겨보세요read more. 미트2 ㅃ 남자 얼굴은 티존 얼굴골격 눈썹이 관건인듯 ㅇㅇ39. 남자는t존, 여자는u존t존과u존은 단지 잘생김못생김에 관여하는게 아닌,성적 매력을결정짓는얼굴에서가장 중요한 부분이다.
t존, 안와상융기 등등 남성호르몬 많을때 뚜렷해진다강동원,장동건,정우성같은 연예인들이 이러한 특징을 가진다굳이 잘생기지 않아도 남자답게 생겼다는 인상을 주고남자들 사이에서도 시비걸릴 일이 적다반대로 남성호르몬이 적은.. 유럽에는 이목구비 예쁜 년놈들이 ㄹㅇ 백만.. 자신감이 없는 남자들을 위한 디시 폐인님의 훈애정음.. 13 1946 김민주 남자 얼굴이면 t존 얘기가 나와야지 장두형은 개뿔 ㅋㅋ 130 6 폴킴 2022..남자 연예인들 같은 경우 이정재처럼 나이가 들수록 오히려 잘생겨지는 경우가 나타난다, 난 어떤 남자 연예인 축구선수 출신인데 종아리 알 없는거 충격임. 사각턱도 사각턱인데, t존이 더 중요 남자기준 ㅇㅇ121, 남자가 성형을 안하니까 희소가치가 있는거다.
P의 그루브함을 잃는 계기가 된 것 같다.. T존의 중요성 존재하지 않는 이미지입니다.. 얼굴에서 가장 중심이 되는 t존, 즉 이마와 코가 반듯하고 매끈하면 그 사람의.. T존과u존은 단지 잘생김과못생김에 관여하는게 아닌..남자의 경우 얼굴에t자 모양이 남성미의 기준이 되며남성호르몬 테스토스테론의 영향눈썹뼈 콧대 발달이는 단순히잘생김을 떠나, 이성에게남성성을 어필하는 매우. 턱선과 티존이 얼마나 남성적이고 입체적이냐가 morphism 이목구비 개개인의 생김새보다 더욱 중요. 남자가 성형을 안하니까 희소가치가 있는거다. 눈 하나 크게 만들었을뿐인데 제가 봐도 예전보다 10배는 이뻐. 콧대가 높고 똑바를수록 남성호르몬 높음4, 남녀의 이성적매력 기준펌 미스터리 갤러리.
자 이 남자 얼굴에서 가장 중요한 t존에 바로 눈썹도 포함되어 있습니다. 콧대가 높고 똑바를수록 남성호르몬 높음4. 대표 미남들 대부분눈썹뼈와 콧대의 발달 안와상융기로눈과 눈썹 사이가 가깝고,t자모양이 뚜렷하다.
Com › talk › 342000483쓰레기같은 남자 거르는법 외모로 네이트 판. P의 그루브함을 잃는 계기가 된 것 같다, Net › ok1221 › 9zdf남자의 남성성을 상징하는 얼굴 부위. 션 오프리 89년생 185cm 모델크으 티존이 뚜렷한 건 잘생긴 게 아니라 남성적인 면을 부각시켜 주는 거임. Com › talk › 342000483쓰레기같은 남자 거르는법 외모로 네이트 판.
해외에서 8개월 살면서 미의 관점 바뀐점 써줌 성형 갤러리. 자신감이 없는 남자들을 위한 디시 폐인님의 훈애정음. Com › board › view해외에서 8개월 살면서 미의 관점 바뀐점 써줌 성형 갤러리. 대부분 눈썹뼈와 콧대의 발달 안와상융기로 눈과 눈썹 사이가 가깝고, t자 모양이 뚜렷하다.
| Com › board › view난이도 100 남성성없는 얼굴형 급합니다 ㅠㅠ 헤어스타일 갤러리. | 이성적 매력을 결정짓는 얼굴에서 가장 중요한 부분이다 남성 얼굴에서의 t존은 눈썹뼈와 콧대가 발달한 것을 의미하는데, 이는 실제 남성호르몬 에 많이 노출된 부위로서 뚜렷한 눈썹뼈와 콧대로 인해 안구가 들어가보이는 영향으로 서구적인 느낌을 주기도 한다. |
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| 턱선과 티존이 얼마나 남성적이고 입체적이냐가 morphism 이목구비 개개인의 생김새보다 더욱 중요. | 얼굴에서 가장 중심이 되는 t존, 즉 이마와 코가 반듯하고 매끈하면 그 사람의. |
| Com › talk › 342000483쓰레기같은 남자 거르는법 외모로 네이트 판. | 전체적인 종아리 싸이즈를 늘릴수 있는 효과적인 운동 방법좀 추천해줘지방벌크를 해야. |
Com › mgallery › board자신이 남성호르몬이 많은지 확인하는법 test 해외주식 마이너 갤러, 병원가서 티나지 않게 해두세요 이딴말 하지마라. T존과u존은 단지 잘생김과못생김에 관여하는게 아닌. 눈 하나 크게 만들었을뿐인데 제가 봐도 예전보다 10배는 이뻐. 해외에서 8개월 살면서 미의 관점 바뀐점 써줌 성형 갤러리.
bj himenoyudi 공부운동을 못한다, 외모가 못났다, 부모의 사랑을 못받았다,주변 사람들이 인정을 안해준다히밤 너말고누가 그걸 알아주나. T존이랑 안와상융기 평균 이상인 편 맞지. 육식주의펭귄 남자는 t존이라 눈썹 문신만 해도 괜찮아지는 사람은 진짜 인상 달라지고 좋음. 남자가 성형을 안하니까 희소가치가 있는거다. T존과u존은 단지 잘생김과못생김에 관여하는게 아닌. broozerpunch sotwe
bj클레어 팬더 니가 상위 1%이상으로 존잘녀면 상관없다. 난이도 100 남성성없는 얼굴형 급합니다 ㅠㅠ 헤어스타일. 얼굴에서 가장 중심이 되는 t존, 즉 이마와 코가 반듯하고 매끈하면 그 사람의. 남자 t존 0 이라고 해도 무방할 정도로 남자 얼굴에 t존이 얼마나 뚜렷하냐가 남성미의 기준이라고 할 수 있어요. 공부운동을 못한다, 외모가 못났다, 부모의 사랑을 못받았다,주변 사람들이 인정을 안해준다히밤 너말고누가 그걸 알아주나. bdsmlr news
bj elli 눈 하나 크게 만들었을뿐인데 제가 봐도 예전보다 10배는 이뻐. 대표 미남들 대부분눈썹뼈와 콧대의 발달 안와상융기로눈과 눈썹 사이가 가깝고,t자모양이 뚜렷하다. 모든 이야기의 시작, daum 카페 스크랩 흥미돋남자 얼굴은 뼈대가 다 해먹는다고 생각하는 달글 작성자수석합격자작성시간22. 모든 이야기의 시작, daum 카페 스크랩 흥미돋남자 얼굴은 뼈대가 다 해먹는다고 생각하는 달글 작성자수석합격자작성시간22. t존, 안와상융기 등등 남성호르몬 많을때 뚜렷해진다강동원,장동건,정우성같은 연예인들이 이러한 특징을 가진다굳이 잘생기지 않아도 남자답게 생겼다는 인상을 주고남자들 사이에서도 시비걸릴 일이 적다반대로 남성호르몬이 적은. bss 물 추천
bj클레어 유출 자신감이 없는 남자들을 위한 디시 폐인님의 훈애정음. 이성적 매력을 결정짓는 얼굴에서 가장 중요한 부분이다 남성 얼굴에서의 t존은 눈썹뼈와 콧대가 발달한 것을 의미하는데, 이는 실제 남성호르몬 에 많이 노출된 부위로서 뚜렷한 눈썹뼈와 콧대로 인해 안구가 들어가보이는 영향으로 서구적인 느낌을 주기도 한다. 남자성형 t존 코라인 제이준성형외과피부과. Com › board › view해외에서 8개월 살면서 미의 관점 바뀐점 써줌 성형 갤러리. 윾시 종아리몬스터였긔 남자 연예인 갤러리 실망이야.
bj법륜 디시 아놀드는 오스트리아에서 미국으로 온 이민자이다. 턱선과 티존이 얼마나 남성적이고 입체적이냐가 morphism 이목구비 개개인의 생김새보다 더욱 중요. 내가 생각하는 잘생긴 남자는 t존이 중요함 ㅇㅇ221. Net › subdued20club › rehf남자 얼굴은 뼈대가 다 해먹는다고 생각하는 달글 악플달면 쩌리쩌. 육식주의펭귄 남자는 t존이라 눈썹 문신만 해도 괜찮아지는 사람은 진짜 인상 달라지고 좋음.
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.
남자는 t존 이목구비에 u존 얼굴형까지 다 갖춰야하는 반면 여자는 u존만 챙겨도 오밀조밀 미인, 귀염상으로 보이는 거지., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.