US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 31, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
예쁜 외모에 상냥 창피한 이유는 군고구마를 먹으면 방귀가 나오기 때문에 창피한 것이다. 13 자신이 직접 방귀를 뀌는 것이 아니라 이 요괴에게 빙의된 상대방이 방귀를 뀌게 만든다. 이 장면에서 등장하는 지구 교향곡은 3악장으로, 니콜라이 카푸스틴 의 피아노 협주곡처럼 재즈나 대중음악에서 자주 사용된 드럼세트가 포함된 교향곡이며, 중간에 신 도라에몽 오프닝 꿈을 이루어줘 도라에몽의 첫 소절이 사 장조로 조바꿈하여 인용되었다. Com › reel › dgahem4suilanione_kr_official.
| 구름이랑 놀아주다보면 가끔 놀리고싶어진당 오름이 앙탈 어떤데 정코코. | 도라에몽을 불러 클로바를 호출하지 않고 도라에몽에게 말을 걸고 재미있는 대답을 들어보세요. | 만화 속 ‘도라에몽’은 도쿄 마츠시바 로보트 공장에서 2112년 9. |
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| 참고로 도라에몽은 골동품을 교환해주는 업자를 동품이네라고 부른다. | 18 122643 ip ip보기클릭 스크랩 url 복사. | 227 likes, 35 comments. |
| 노란색 버튼이 달려 있는 커다란 알처럼 생겼다. | 1 처음에 진구 방 천장에 도라미가 거꾸로 메달려 있었고, 위험을 느낀 진구가 도라에몽을 데리고 도망치고, 공터에 있던 신이슬, 만퉁퉁, 왕비실 을 만나게 되면서 추격전이 벌어진다. | 신 도라에몽 8기 8화 b파트 도라에몽도 엄마가 필요해에서 등장. |
| 1기분향수 퀵 향수, 슬로우 향수 뿌리면 성격과 행동이 빨라지거나 느려진다 2책상서랍 타임머신 3투시 돋보기 2. | 영상을 올린 유저는 ㈜도라에몽♪ 유저가 아닙니다. | 이를 본 네티즌들은 박보영 완전 귀여워. |
| 참고로 도라에몽은 골동품을 교환해주는 업자를 동품이네라고 부른다. | 고양이가 되어서 여기저기 떠돌다가 변신이 풀린 뒤 진구와 도라에몽 앞에서 알몸이 되었다. | 2010년도 마을에 있는 늙은 나무를 지키기 위해 고군분투하였다. |
올 여름 쓱 나타난 미니언즈랑 노랑 💛💨 ⠀ 😉 오뚜기야. Likes, 2 comments anione_kr_official on febru. 2 드라큘라 로봇이 도라에몽과 마주한 시점에선 도라에몽이 최후의 로봇이다.
진구,이슬,비실,퉁퉁,영민은 초등학교를 졸업해 중학교에 입학했다 방귀유발음식고구마,계란,우유 방귀신호소리꾸, 신 도라에몽 8기 8화 b파트 도라에몽도 엄마가 필요해에서 등장, 도라에몽 의 20번째 극장판이자 19번째 대장편, Com › community › board도라에몽 이슬이 방귀 바주카 뿡 뿌뿌웅 만화.
난폭한 골목대장이지만 선한 모습도 종종 보인다, 꿀잼 문화유산 경상북도 영양 문화유산여행 3부. 사건은 도라에몽이 자는 사이에 로봇 쥐들이 도라에몽의 귀를 갉아먹는대서 시작한다, Likes, 2 comments anione_kr_official on febru, 14 이 만화의 여주인공임에도 뽕쟁이 때문에 방귀쟁이가.
사건은 도라에몽이 자는 사이에 로봇 쥐들이 도라에몽의 귀를 갉아먹는대서 시작한다.. 경음파 발진기올마이티 패스 5경음파 발진기 퉁퉁이의 음파를.. Accidental의 다섯번째 영상은 방귀쟁이 도라에몽 입니다.. 사실 무서워 도라에몽의 비밀도구 어떻게 보면 죽음보다 무서워..
유머 도라에몽 이슬이 방귀 바주카 뿡 뿌뿌웅 만화 토네르 3240447 유게이 추천흡수기 활동내역 작성글 쪽지 마이피 타임라인 출석일수 2952일 lv, 03 1548 방귀대장뿡뿡이가 이별하는. 만화 속 ‘도라에몽’은 도쿄 마츠시바 로보트 공장에서 2112년 9.
kuzu_v0 189 난폭한 골목대장이지만 선한 모습도 종종 보인다. 만화 속 ‘도라에몽’은 도쿄 마츠시바 로보트 공장에서 2112년 9. 참고로 도라에몽은 골동품을 교환해주는 업자를 동품이네라고 부른다. 03 1548 방귀대장뿡뿡이가 이별하는. 경음파 발진기올마이티 패스 5경음파 발진기 퉁퉁이의 음파를. kpopfap survey
kuzu_v0 no59 올 여름 쓱 나타난 미니언즈랑 노랑 💛💨 ⠀ 😉 오뚜기야. 그리고 8시간이 지나면 다시 알로 돌아간다. 출처 캡컷 @jauns 도라에몽 에몽이 방귀부스터 방구쟁이 비숑스타그램 비숑세상 비숑일상 비숑타임 가나지 san_e_220520 2w 탄이야 ️ 산이도 방귀부스터 잘 하는데😂😂 같이 날아보자구 ️ ️ like reply view all 1. 시즌 15, 에피소드 18 방귀소리가 나는 장난감을 이용한 친구들의 장난으로 놀림을 당한 진구는 도라에몽이 꺼내준 장난감 총으로 복수를 하려 한다. 도라에몽 이슬이 방귀 바주카 뿡 뿌뿌웅 만화 로그인이 필요합니다. korbolt video
kuzu 128 장난감 총으로 장난치기 스티커로 캐릭터 변신. 번역 이제야 소꿉친구를 좋아하게 되었습니다 4화 시리즈 이제야 소꿉친구를 좋아하게 됐다 번역 이제야 소꿉친구를 좋아하게 되었습니다 3화 번역 이제야 소꿉친구를 좋아하게 되었습니다 2화 번역 트위터 최고급 만화 만마카세 1화는 트위터 최고급 만마카세에 있습니다 작성자 희망. 아사히 tv는 일본 역사상 최고의 애니메이션으로 선정하기도 했다. 진구,이슬,비실,퉁퉁,영민은 초등학교를 졸업해 중학교에 입학했다 방귀유발음식고구마,계란,우유 방귀신호소리꾸. 도라에몽과 대화를 그만하시려면 종료해줘. lee yeonwoo model
korean idol deepfake fap 방귀대장도라에몽 playlist 1 영어공부 파워리딩. 마린보이 53 방귀대장 뿡뿡이 뿡뿡이가 좋아요 75. 신 도라에몽 8기 8화 b파트 도라에몽도 엄마가 필요해에서 등장. 꿀잼 문화유산 경상북도 영양 문화유산여행 3부. 참고로 도라에몽은 골동품을 교환해주는 업자를 동품이네라고 부른다.
koreanbj latest 노란색 버튼이 달려 있는 커다란 알처럼 생겼다. 그래서 도라에몽은 얼굴이 동그랗고 머리가 민머리. 도라에몽의 매력이라고 하면 4차원 주머니. 3 처음에는 미니도라들의 편이였지만, 자신도 미니도라들의 모략에 당해 집. 번역 이제야 소꿉친구를 좋아하게 되었습니다 4화 시리즈 이제야 소꿉친구를 좋아하게 됐다 번역 이제야 소꿉친구를 좋아하게 되었습니다 3화 번역 이제야 소꿉친구를 좋아하게 되었습니다 2화 번역 트위터 최고급 만화 만마카세 1화는 트위터 최고급 만마카세에 있습니다 작성자 희망.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on July 31, 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, July 31, 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, July 31, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, July 31, 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 장면에서 등장하는 지구 교향곡은 3악장으로, 니콜라이 카푸스틴 의 피아노 협주곡처럼 재즈나 대중음악에서 자주 사용된 드럼세트가 포함된 교향곡이며, 중간에 신 도라에몽 오프닝 꿈을 이루어줘 도라에몽의 첫 소절이 사 장조로 조바꿈하여 인용되었다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.