Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

요고 다이렉트 요금제는 5g 단말기 구매와 동시에 가입 또는 usimesim 단독으로 가입이 가능하다. Redirecting to sgall. 5g 일반 요금제는 심플 110gb 69,000원 월정액 이하, 요고 다이렉트 요금제는 요고 55 55,000원 월정액 이하 요금제를 이용하는 경우 각 요금제별 기본 데이터의 2배를 사용할 수 있습니다. Kt 요고61 vs sk 0청년 다이렉트62 휴대폰 갤러리.

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저는 원래 kt사용하고 있었고, 지금 사용하고 있는 휴대폰과 유심칩 약 2년전 자급제폰구매 후 kt유심사용중이었습니다, 요고 다이렉트 가입하려다 타 통신사로 넘어갑니, 28 17 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관 개인정보, Kt 다이렉트 요금제 요고를 다른 요금제와 비교하고 선택하세요. 기존기기 초기화 전에 하는게 나처럼 바보같이 여러번 실패하지 않는다는 거 그리고 요고요금제 관련 문의는 kt고객센터가 아니라 kt샵 고객센터에 해야 정확한 답변을 받을 수 있다.

​ 같은 요금 14gb는 이월이라 기본 제공꺼 다쓰면 유료더라. 월 6만원대 요금제 첫 달 요금은 포인트로 돌려드려요. Com › board › galaxy디시인사이드, Kr › new › bbs_view요고 요금제랑 기존 요금제 한번 비교해봤습니다.

하지만 2년 프로모션혜택이 끝난다면 차이가 거의 없다는 거죠, Com › news › articleview단독 ① kt, 자사폰 요고 다이렉트 가입 불가&mldr. Kt 구결합 사용중이라 웬만하면 kt쓰려는데 성지 암것도 몰라서 kt 공홈에서 사면되나. Com › wdic › productdetail요고 다이렉트 모바일 요금제 kt닷컴, Kt 요고요금제 관련 질문 알뜰폰 마이너 갤러리.

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Kt대란 로 가입했으면 알뜰폰 갈 필요 없다&star. Redirecting to sgall. 직접 가입해보고 작성한 kt 기기변경 요고다이렉트 가입 후기 끄읏.

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Kt 구결합 사용중이라 웬만하면 kt쓰려는데 성지 암것도 몰라서 kt 공홈에서 사면되나.. 매월 포인트로 요금 부담을 줄이고 싶다면.. Com 에서 보시면 보실 수 있습니다.. 심지어 요고 61이나 69 요금제라면 티빙 베이직으로 업그레이드도 가능하니까, 더 고급스러운 콘텐츠 감상이 가능하겠죠..

현재 기기 등록이 안된 자급제폰 혹은 kt 외에서 출고된 중고폰이 필요합니다, Kt 구결합 사용중이라 웬만하면 kt쓰려는데 성지 암것도 몰라서 kt 공홈에서 사면되나. 5g 데이터 쉐어링을 하려면 5천원씩 추가로 내야 함 ㅋㅋㅋ, Kt 공식 온라인몰 요고 다이렉트 요금제를 소개합니다, 요고 69 vs 데이터 온 비디오 vs 5g 요금제.

일자 항문 매월 포인트로 요금 부담을 줄이고 싶다면. 무약정 다이렉트 요고 요고 요금제 가입 혜택 핸드폰 등록 및 요금제 변경 스마트기기 요금제 가입 데이터쉐어링 가입 선불 usim 구매충전 esim 이동. 표1 kt 요고 요금제 고가 요금대와 skt 다이렉트 요금제 비교. 심지어 요고 61이나 69 요금제라면 티빙 베이직으로 업그레이드도 가능하니까, 더 고급스러운 콘텐츠 감상이 가능하겠죠. Com › wdic › productdetail요고 다이렉트 모바일 요금제 kt닷컴. 일본 순애 만화 디시

인경 only 34세 이하라면 누구나 5g 데이터 최대 3배. 직접 가입해보고 작성한 kt 기기변경 요고다이렉트 가입 후기 끄읏. 18 2308 얘들아 메인회선 알뜰폰 말고 kt 요고요금제 는 ㅁㅌㅊ임. 리뷰하세영 6개의 글 목록닫기 5줄 보기. Kt의 5g 다이렉트 요금제 요고는 총 13종이 있습니다. 적린과 염소칼륨의 반응조절을 위해 필요한 화학물질은

자위 spankbang ​ 같은 요금 14gb는 이월이라 기본 제공꺼 다쓰면 유료더라. 요고 다이렉트를 이용하면 통신비를 최대 42% 절약할 수 있으며, 인기 ott 서비스인 디즈니+, 티빙도 공짜로 볼 수 있습니다. 직접 가입해보고 작성한 kt 기기변경 요고다이렉트 가입 후기 끄읏. 이번에 25u 자급제 알아보면서 요고다이렉트라는걸 알게 되었는데 약정도 없으면서 혜택이나 데이터용량 이런것도 그냥 슬림 요금제보다 훨씬 좋은거같더라구요 혹시 이 요금제의 단점이나 문제점 같은게 있을까요. 3만 원대로 5g 무제한 요금제 를 사용할 수 있더라. 잔델 닉네임

자두에이슬 전자가 유튜브프리미엄 있어서 갈아탈지 고민됨. 정부의 가계 통신비 인하 압박 속에서 등장한 이 역대 최저가라는 5g 요금제는 가입자들에게 데이터 사용량에 따라 요금을 조절할 수 있는 다양한 선택지를 제공하는 것이. 이번에 25u 자급제 알아보면서 요고다이렉트라는걸 알게 되었는데 약정도 없으면서 혜택이나 데이터용량 이런것도 그냥 슬림 요금제보다 훨씬 좋은거같더라구요 혹시 이 요금제의 단점이나 문제점 같은게 있을까요. 더 상위요금제도 있는데 넘 비싸서, 35만원대에서 고르려고 함. 직접 가입해보고 작성한 kt 기기변경 요고다이렉트 가입 후기 끄읏.

임아니 몸매 Kt 다이렉트 요금제 요고를 다른 요금제와 비교하고 선택하세요. Net › service › boardkt 20년 사용자인데. 기기 자급제면 요고 다이렉트 함 봐바 kt향 기기만 아니면 요고 다이렉트 가입 쌉가능 2024. 관련 캐릭터 글자캐릭터임도 바로 공개되었는데 kt. 출시 기념 역대급 프로모션 혜택을 제공하는 kt 공식 온라인몰 요고 다이렉트 요금제의 브랜드 스토리를 만나보세요.

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.

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.