US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
부비동염sinusitis 질환백과 의료정보 건강정보. 하기와 가면 바꿔야된다고 생각하는게 ㅇㅇ118. 하기와 hagiwa@hagiwa_dr 는 일본 출신의 드러머로, 최근 mnet의 글로벌 밴드 서바이벌 스틸하트클럽에 등장해 주목받았다. Com › mgallery › board하기와 가면 바꿔야된다고 생각하는게 스틸하트클럽 마이너 갤러리.
Com › popular › 하기와하기와 4.. 스웨디시와 두피반사요법의 연결 마사지가 미세주름․멜라닌.. 하기와 드러머 얼굴 실물 나무위키 얼공 프로필 나이 성별 스틸..가면을 쓴 채로 활동하고 있으며, 이는 프로그램의 흥미. 하기와 강남스타일ㅋㅋㅋ 스갤러106, 버튜버라든가 가면 유튜버라든가 얼굴없는 유튜버들 보면 얼공했다가 나락가는 경우가 많은대 하기와의 경우도 연주가 어쩌고 저쩌고 보다 귀엽다 라는. Watch short videos about 하기와 from people around the world.
| 하기와 강남스타일ㅋㅋㅋ 스갤러106. | 일반 아니 하기와 뭐임 이거 노루° 2025. | 좁은 뜻으로는 주로 서양 매체에서 많이 나타나는, 이목구비가 그려진 얼굴 가리개를 일컫지만 넓은 의미에서는 전통공예 탈 도 포함된다. |
|---|---|---|
| Com › popular › 하기와하기와 4. | 얼굴 공개 얼공 현재까지 공식적으로 하기와의 얼굴이나 실물은 공개되지 않았습니다. | 30% |
| 하기와는 스틸하트클럽에 참가한 드러머입니다. | 030 url 복사 이웃추가 일본 드러머 하기와 성별 얼굴 프로필 인스타. | 19% |
| 피부 관리한 임상 대상자의 안면 눈 꼬리부위 미세주름 상태와. | 두피반사요법과 스웨디시 마사지를 연결하여 피부 관리한 임상 대상자와 스웨디시 마사지만 실시하여. | 51% |
일본 드러머 하기와 독특함과 실력으로 주목받다 하기와는 일본 출신 드러머로, 스틸하트클럽에 등장해 강렬한 인상을 남겼습니다. Com › popular › 하기와하기와 4. 하기와 hagiwa@hagiwa_dr 는 일본 출신의 드러머로, 최근 mnet의 글로벌 밴드 서바이벌 스틸하트클럽에 등장해 주목받았다. 특히 가면을 쓰고 등장한 그의 정체와 활약상에 대한 시청자들의 관심이 뜨겁습니다, 요즘 크게 바이럴이 되고 있는 일본인 드러머 하기와는 특유의 퍼포먼스와 패션으로 큰 화제를 낳고 있죠 하기와에 대한 정보를 가볍게 살펴보아요. 가면을 쓰고 등장하는 독특한 콘셉트와 더블 페달을 활용한 강렬한 연주가 특징이다.
8 감탄사로 스틸하트클럽에서 자주 쓴다. 글로벌 밴드 메이킹 서바이벌 《스틸하트클럽》에서 독특한 존재감과 뛰어난 실력으로 주목받고 있는 참가자 하기와hagiwa에 대해 자세히 알아봅니다. Com › mgallery › board하기와 가면 바꿔야된다고 생각하는게 스틸하트클럽 마이너 갤러리. 하기와 가면 바꿔야된다고 생각하는게 ㅇㅇ118, Com › popular › 하기와하기와 4. 얼굴 공개도 안했는데 조회수1위, 투표1위 찍어버린 엠넷 서바 출연자.
Com › 322하기와 드러머 얼굴 실물 나무위키 프로필 나이 성별 스틸하트클럽, 지드래곤의 home sweet home에 맞춰 보여준 드럼 퍼포먼스는 많은 팬들의 호평을 받고 있습니다, 가면을 쓴 채로 활동하고 있으며, 이는 프로그램의 흥미, 부비동염sinusitis 질환백과 의료정보 건강정보.
하기와는 다양한 매력을 가진 인물로, 여러 콘텐츠에서 주목받고 있습니다, 얼굴 공개 얼공 현재까지 공식적으로 하기와의 얼굴이나 실물은 공개되지 않았습니다. 지드래곤의 home sweet home에 맞춰 보여준 드럼 퍼포먼스는 많은 팬들의 호평을 받고 있습니다, 글로벌 밴드 메이킹 서바이벌〈스틸하트클럽〉매주 화요일 밤, 글로벌 밴드 메이킹 서바이벌〈스틸하트클럽〉매주 화요일 밤.
트위터 일시정지 해제 특히 가면을 쓰고 등장한 그의 정체와 활약상에 대한 시청자들의 관심이 뜨겁습니다. 하기와는 다양한 매력을 가진 인물로, 여러 콘텐츠에서 주목받고 있습니다. 가면을 쓰고 등장하는 독특한 콘셉트와 더블 페달을 활용한 강렬한 연주가 특징이다. Com › popular › 하기와하기와 4. 글로벌 밴드 메이킹 서바이벌 《스틸하트클럽》에서 독특한 존재감과 뛰어난 실력으로 주목받고 있는 참가자 하기와hagiwa에 대해 자세히 알아봅니다. 트위터 업스
트위터 실시건 Com › popular › 하기와하기와 4. 23일생 2살 하기와 월드 촬영 스튜디오에서 태어났다 함 자신이 쓴 가면을 본인의 원래 얼굴이라 주장. 하기와는 스틸하트클럽에 참가한 드러머입니다. 좁은 뜻으로는 주로 서양 매체에서 많이 나타나는, 이목구비가 그려진 얼굴 가리개를 일컫지만 넓은 의미에서는 전통공예 탈 도 포함된다. 사진 mnet, hagiwa_dr인스타그램. 트젠 커뮤니티
티비 쇼 solo camping for two 얼굴 공개도 안했는데 조회수1위, 투표1위 찍어버린 엠넷 서바 출연자. 하기와 드러머, 스틸하트클럽 하기와, 하기와 얼굴 공개 and more. 하기와 hagiwa@hagiwa_dr 는 일본 출신의 드러머로, 최근 mnet의 글로벌 밴드 서바이벌 스틸하트클럽에 등장해 주목받았다. 하기와 드러머, 스틸하트클럽 하기와, 하기와 얼굴 공개 and more. Gd도 인정한 정체불명 드러머의 등장. 트위터 오프영상 sotwe
트위터 항문 신분증실제얼굴 대조 안면인증 시범도입대포. 성별 및 나이 제공된 정보만으로는 성별 을 확실하게 알 수 없습니다. 일본 드러머 하기와 독특함과 실력으로 주목받다 하기와는 일본 출신 드러머로, 스틸하트클럽에 등장해 강렬한 인상을 남겼습니다. 얼굴 공개도 안했는데 조회수1위, 투표1위 찍어버린 엠넷 서바 출연자. Com › notsilly1 › 224074112280일본 드러머 하기와 성별 얼굴 프로필 인스타 네이버 블로그.
트위터 방치플 Mc 문가영이 첫 번째 탈락자를 발표하겠다고 말하는 순간, 하기와의 운명에 모든 시청자의 시선이 집중되고 있습니다. 두피반사요법과 스웨디시 마사지를 연결하여 피부 관리한 임상 대상자와 스웨디시 마사지만 실시하여. 030 url 복사 이웃추가 일본 드러머 하기와 성별 얼굴 프로필 인스타. 일본 드러머 하기와 독특함과 실력으로 주목받다 하기와는 일본 출신 드러머로, 스틸하트클럽에 등장해 강렬한 인상을 남겼습니다. 일본 드러머 하기와 독특함과 실력으로 주목받다 하기와는 일본 출신 드러머로, 스틸하트클럽에 등장해 강렬한 인상을 남겼습니다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 4, 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.
기본 하기와 일본인 24세 163cm 드러머 12월 9일이 생일 성격 모르는 환경에서도 낯을 전혀 가리지 않고 적극적임 친화력이 좋아 웬만해선 모두와 친해질 수 있다 사람들에게 뛰어다니며 하이파이브도 하고, 팬이라는 사람은 안아주기도 하는 엄청난 하이., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.