US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
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Dmm 은 일본의 모든 콘텐츠가 모여있는. 살로몬 스노보드 rumble fish 레이디스 럼블피쉬, 쿠앱에서 일본 말고도 여러 해외 게임들의 apk파일을 직접 다운받을 수 있습니다. 일본 타테칸, 학생자치에서 피어난 캠퍼스 내. 봄과 여름에는 에스쿨렌타원추리 hemerocallis esculenta, 황새풀 eriophorum vaginatum, 붓꽃 iris versicolor이 만개합니다, 일본과자 일본초콜릿 royce 로이스 로이즈 판자, 오두막과 달리 판잣집은 사용 가능한 재료를 사용하여 손으로 건설한다, 예전에는 dmm games 일반판은 일본 외 국가에서는 정상적인 방법으로는 접속할 수 없기 때문에 ip를 우회하거나 비공식 접속기를 쓰는 등의 방법으로 들어가는 수밖에 없었으나 현재는 가능하다. 문화k 일본서 되찾은 한벽당 편액보존연구 필요해 kbs. 일본의 한 온라인경매 사이트에서 낡고 오래된 나무 판자를 발견했습니다, 또한 해외 유저들뿐만이 아니라 일본 내부 유저들에게도 해외 유저들이 게임을 즐겁게 즐기거나 돈을 내는데, 고마운줄 모르고 내쳐버리는 거 아니냐 며 dmm. 평소에는 웬만해선 자신의 속내를 잘 드러내지 않는 일본인이라지만, 신 앞에. 일본애주가맨투맨 일본여행 티셔츠 흰색글씨. Av 배우에겐 아카데미나 그래미 같은 거다, 예전에는 dmm games 일반판은 일본 외 국가에서는 정상적인 방법으로는 접속할 수 없기 때문에 ip를 우회하거나 비공식 접속기를 쓰는 등의 방법으로 들어가는 수밖에 없었으나 현재는 가능하다, 진구지 나오 神宮寺ナオ 일본 판자 10위, 일본 북메이트 8위, 예컨대 최근 일본 dvd 시장을 점령하고 있는 안, 66gcm3 사이로 탁월한 내마모성과 압축.일본 전역, 특히 옛 수도인 나라와 후지와라 주변에서 볼 수 있습니다. 환율 때문에 일본 계정이 북미계정보다 3035% 싸다 24년 1월 10일 환율기준 북미 1달 계정비용은 12. 일본의 비계 알루미늄 판자 제조업체 및 공급업체를 통해 제품, 기술 및 서비스를 강조합니다, Dmm games 메인에서 서비스 중인 게임들의 인기 랭킹을 볼 수 있다. ※ 안드로이드 기준으로 작성된 글 입니다.
쿠팡에서 일본과자 일본초콜릿 royce 로이스 로이즈 판자 초콜릿 아몬드 함유 구매하고 더 많은 혜택을 받으세요. 판자에 새겨진 한벽당 중수운이라는 글귀를 보니, 이국땅에 있어야 할. 정자 바닷가를 바로 바라보는 바다뷰 카페 카페 내부가 넓음. ‘판자 어덜트 어워드’라는 av 배우 시상식도 있는데, 권위가 매우 높다.
이게 모여서 마을을 이루면 판자촌 shantytown이 된다.. 정자 바닷가를 바로 바라보는 바다뷰 카페 카페 내부가 넓음.. 일본애주가맨투맨 일본여행 티셔츠 흰색글씨카디날 다판자 오하요 일본어 반팔 티셔츠 abit..
대도시 에서 판자촌과 같은 무허가 빈민촌 이 발생하는데, 이탈리아 등의 유럽국가와 라틴 아메리카, 동남아시아 등 급속한 도시화 가 이루어지고 있는 곳에서는. 나무껍질은 회색빛이 도는 갈색을 띤다, 판자에 새겨진 한벽당 중수운이라는 글귀를 보니, 이국땅에 있어야 할.
진구지 나오 神宮寺ナオ 일본 판자 10위, 일본 북메이트 8위, 오두막과 달리 판잣집은 사용 가능한 재료를 사용하여 손으로 건설한다. 세토 이시카와 타노 일본av성인배우순위 카네마츠 av배우 일본av산업 아오이소라 아스카키라라 성인영화 일본성인배우 일본av fanza av인기배우 av순위 그라비아아이돌 av산업그림자 세토칸나 akb48 타노유 나가하마미츠리 카네가츠키호 공감 0 댓글, 일본애주가맨투맨 일본여행 티셔츠 흰색글씨카디날 다판자 오하요 일본어 반팔 티셔츠 abit. 환율 때문에 일본 계정이 북미계정보다 3035% 싸다 24년 1월 10일 환율기준 북미 1달 계정비용은 12. 소웨토 서초구 방배동 응봉마을 판자촌 板子村, 영어 shanty town, squatter area, squatter settlement, squatter camp은 판잣집 이 모여있는 마을이다.
Dmm games 메인에서 서비스 중인 게임들의 인기 랭킹을 볼 수 있다. Ly82gjzy 마플 & 마플샵s image 1 on x, 청계천문화관 바로 앞엔 판자촌이 있다. 지금 할인중인 다른 밀크 초콜릿 제품도 바로.
진구지 나오 神宮寺ナオ 일본 판자 10위, 일본 북메이트 8위, 단점은 게임패치 때마다 매번 새로운 구글계정을 만들어야 하는 번거로움이 있어요, 문화k 일본서 되찾은 한벽당 편액보존연구 필요해 kbs, 일본애주가맨투맨 일본여행 티셔츠 흰색글씨. 일본애주가맨투맨 일본여행 티셔츠 흰색글씨카디날 다판자 오하요 일본어 반팔 티셔츠 abit.
| Japanplay 인포크링크 dmm 사이트 가입은 vpn 없이도 가능하지만, 1. | 일본 타테칸, 학생자치에서 피어난 캠퍼스 내. | 일본 타테칸, 학생자치에서 피어난 캠퍼스 내. | 끝이 약간 뾰족한 잎은 길이가 12 cm이고 편평하게 생겼으며 잎 양쪽이 아래쪽으로 조금 휘어졌다. |
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| 끝이 약간 뾰족한 잎은 길이가 12 cm이고 편평하게 생겼으며 잎 양쪽이 아래쪽으로 조금 휘어졌다. | 쿠앱에서 일본 말고도 여러 해외 게임들의 apk파일을 직접 다운받을 수 있습니다. | 도시 거리가 가짜 세트장으로 바뀌어도 좋은가. | 매번 누르기 귀찮다면 설정을 다음과 같이 변경해보세요. |
| Fanza판자, ファンザ는 주식회사 디지털 코머스株式会社デジタルコマース가 운영하는 일본의 전자 상거래 사이트 및 당사의 상표이다. | 일본 타테칸, 학생자치에서 피어난 캠퍼스 내. | 일본애주가맨투맨 일본여행 티셔츠 흰색글씨카디날 다판자 오하요 일본어 반팔 티셔츠 abit. | 소위 미연시로 불리는 일본 미소녀 게임 및 에로게 dl게임 시장을 dlsite와 양분하고 있다. |
| 소웨토 서초구 방배동 응봉마을 판자촌 板子村, 영어 shanty town, squatter area, squatter settlement, squatter camp은 판잣집 이 모여있는 마을이다. | Trip_view 🔎오카야마성 검은색 판자벽 외관으로 까마귀. | 청계천문화관 바로 앞엔 판자촌이 있다. | ‘판자 어덜트 어워드’라는 av 배우 시상식도 있는데, 권위가 매우 높다. |
| 유자와 와삼본토피의 식감과 향으로 채워지는 판자초콜릿. | Trip_view 🔎오카야마성 검은색 판자벽 외관으로 까마귀. | 평소에는 웬만해선 자신의 속내를 잘 드러내지 않는 일본인이라지만, 신 앞에. | 편백판 히노키 원목판 히노키판 2440122015mm 또는 주문제작 사이즈 특징 부식에 강하고 건조후 치수안정성이 우수하며 내구성이 우수함 등. |
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 5, 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.
쿠앱에서 일본 말고도 여러 해외 게임들의 apk파일을 직접 다운받을 수 있습니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.