US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 16, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
특히 카툰연재 갤러리에서 만화를 올리던 카연갤러였기에, 이말년의 만화에선 디씨 관련 패러디가 상당수 등장해서 디시인이라면 웃으면서 볼 수 있다. Com 야옹이작가 여신강림작가 야옹이작가인스타 여신강림작가인스타 야옹이작가실물 야옹이작가얼굴 야옹이작가 여신강림작가 야옹이작가인스타 여신강림작가인스타 + 2 이웃추가. 또한 긴 생머리를 축 늘어뜨려 청순함을 더했다. 웹툰 여신강림이 연재 1주년을 맞은 가운데 야옹이 작가의 얼굴이 공개돼 화제를 모으고 있다.
24일 야옹이 작가는 자신의 인스타그램 스토리에 디즈니 캐릭터들의 실제 모델이라는 블로그 내용을 캡처해 게재했다, 인스타에 워낙 비슷한 사진들이 많아서 착각인가. 야옹이 작가 출처 야옹이 작가님 인스타그램. 26일 웹툰 여신강림을 연재하는 야옹이 작가 실물이 온라인 상에서 크게 이슈되고 있다. 전선욱 작가는 어제 나영이와의 결혼식 무사히 마쳤습니다.여신강림 여자주인공 외모와 쏙 빼닮은 예쁜 얼굴에 큰 키와 완벽한 s라인 몸매로 화제가 되었습니다. ㅇㅇ 야옹이작가 사진 처음보고 개충격받았지ㅋㅋㅋ. 다만 인스타 사진들이 너무 이상적인 미인, 미인의 정석 급으로 되어있어서 그. 눈성형으로 짝눈 교정에 이후엔 화장도 잘함.
또한 긴 생머리를 축 늘어뜨려 청순함을 더했다. 살다 씨발 저렇게 심한 똥꼬치마첨본다. 인터넷 글 이후 공개된 영상 네이트 뉴스, 지난 25일 네이버웹툰은 여신강림 야옹이 작가와의 연재 1주년 기념 인터뷰를 공개했다. 네이버웹툰에서 엄청난 인기를 얻고 있는 여신강림 작가인 야옹이 작가가 화제를 모으고 있습니다, 지난 26일 네이버 웹툰은공식 sns를 통해 여신강림 연재 1주년 특집으로 야옹이 작가의 실물 사진과 인터뷰를 선보였다.
야옹이 작가 프로필 나이 성형전 몸매 전남편 이혼 야옹이 작가는 예능 프로그램 유퀴즈 온 더 블럭에 출연하며 근황을 알렸습니다, 야옹이 작가 는 여신강림을 연재하고 있으며 화요일 웹툰 1위를 기록하고 있다. 드루와 여신강림 작가 야옹이 인스타 라이브 떴엉ㅋㅋ222. 지난 26일 네이버 웹툰 공식 sns를 통해 야옹이 작가의 실물 사진이 공개됐다. 야옹이 작가의 실물이 공개되며 화제다, 또한 긴 생머리를 축 늘어뜨려 청순함을 더했다.
지난 25일 네이버웹툰은 여신강림 야옹이 작가와의 연재 1주년 기념 인터뷰를 공개했다. 헐리웃 배우들이 좋아하는 쉬라즈 샐러드 레시피, 지난 25일 네이버웹툰은 여신강림 야옹이 작가와의 연재 1주년 기념 인터뷰를 공개했다. 야옹이 작가 실물이 공개된 배경은 여신강림 웹툰이. 여름미와 인스타에서의 핫한 순간들을 만나보세요.
‘여신강림’ 야옹이 작가 실물 공개웹툰 실사판 ‘극강 미모’ 네이버 웹툰이 ‘여신강림’의 연재 1주년을 맞아 야옹이 작가의 인터뷰를.. 야옹이 작가는 16일 다이어트 방법이나 운동 루틴 문의.. 웹툰 ‘여신강림’ 야옹이 작가가 다이어트 방법을 공개해 화제다..
야옹이 작가의 근황은 지난해 1월 공개된 이후 1년 6개월 만이다, 공개된 야옹이 작가의 실물은 여신강림의 주인공 임주경과 놀라운 싱크로율을 자랑했다. 얼굴이 최초로 공개된 야옹이 작가는 데뷔 3주만에 1. 야옹이 작가 는 여신강림을 연재하고 있으며 화요일 웹툰 1위를 기록하고 있다. 야옹이 작가, 실물공개에 온라인 들썩들썩야옹이 작가의 실물이 공개되며 화제다.
앞서 온라인 커뮤니티에는 ‘야옹이 작가 실물 사진’이라는 제목으로. 그 이유는 여신강림 작가 실물이 공개되면서라고 할 수 있으며 네이버웹툰 여신강림을 연재하게 되면서 1주년을 맞이하여 진행한 인터뷰 때문입니다. 당시 야옹이는 잘못 처리한 일부 항목에 대해서는 세금이 부과된 사실이 있다, 좌우 왔다 갔다 스트레칭 read more.
웹툰 여신강림이 연재 1주년을 맞은 가운데 야옹이 작가의 얼굴이 공개돼 화제를 모으고 있다. 야옹이 작가 얼굴뜨기전에도 유명하지 않았냐. 사진 아래에는 ‘문제의 57㎏ 사진’이라는 문구도 넣었다, 살짝 허리숙였더니 바로 보이네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ.
야옹이 작가 실물이 공개된 배경은 여신강림 웹툰이. 야옹이 작가의 근황은 지난해 1월 공개된 이후 1년 6개월 만이다, 헐리웃 배우들이 좋아하는 쉬라즈 샐러드 레시피, 특히 카툰연재 갤러리에서 만화를 올리던 카연갤러였기에, 이말년의 만화에선 디씨 관련 패러디가 상당수 등장해서 디시인이라면 웃으면서 볼 수 있다, 다만 인스타 사진들이 너무 이상적인 미인, 미인의 정석 급으로 되어있어서 그.
히토미 북마크 디시 한편 전선욱 작가는 야옹이 작가와 프랑스 파리에서 찍은 웨딩 화보도 공개했다. 특히 웹툰 속 주인공 임주경과 높은 싱크로율을 자랑하며 놀라움을 자아냈다. 국대선플러 누구누구 실물로 봤더니 화면보다 훨씬 잘생겼더라이쁘더라 많지 않나 ㅋㅋㅋ 실물로 볼때는 키 같은 요소도 들어가고 화면보다는 얼굴. 실물 보면 보나마나 160따리에 초딩6 사이즈. 살다 씨발 저렇게 심한 똥꼬치마첨본다. 히토시군 품번
히토미 시간 한눈에 보는 오늘 방송가요 뉴스 뉴스엔 이슬기 기자 웹툰작가 야옹이가 오랜만에 소셜 계정에 인사를 건넸다. 파우더룸 에서도 여신 룸메 파우더룸 회원의 애칭로 불리기도 했으며, 거기서 이벤트를 열기도 한다. 야옹이 작가 얼굴뜨기전에도 유명하지 않았냐. 다만 인스타 사진들이 너무 이상적인 미인, 미인의 정석 급으로 되어있어서 그. 디시,안용왕지용 남자,디시 안용왕지용,용왕지용 다크서클 등에 대한 오해가 있습니다. 히토미 풀컬러
히토미 축구부 13 1844 댓글부탁해 여신강림 야옹이 작가 실물. 포텐 라디오스타 웹툰 여신강림 야옹이 작가 성형설 해명. Com › article › 1380415야옹이 작가 실물, 정말 여신강림이네&mldr. 2022년 12월 3일, 전선욱과 야옹이 작가의 결혼식에서 축가를 불렀다. 야옹이 작가 존예다 만화가지망생 마이너 갤러리. 히토미 사카모토 데이즈
히토미 여전사 네이버 인기 웹툰 여신강림의 작가인 야옹이 작가가 화제를 모으고 있다고 합니다. 웹툰 여신강림 야옹이 작가 실물이 화제다. 네이버웹툰에서 엄청난 인기를 얻고 있는 여신강림 작가인 야옹이 작가가 화제를 모으고 있습니다. 야옹이 작가 존예다 만화가지망생 마이너 갤러리. 야옹이 작가는 16일 다이어트 방법이나 운동 루틴 문의.
히토미 여선생 얼굴이 최초로 공개된 야옹이 작가는 데뷔 3주만에 1. 야옹이 작가는 16일 다이어트 방법이나 운동 루틴 문의. 그리고 웹툰 여신강림에 드라마화 된다고 하는데 배우는 문가영, 차은우, 황인섭 등이 나온다고 하네요. 여신강림 연재 1주년 야옹이 작가 인터뷰네이버 인기웹툰 여신강림의 작가 야옹이의 실물이 공개돼 화제가 되고 있다. 그리고 웹툰 여신강림에 드라마화 된다고 하는데 배우는 문가영, 차은우, 황인섭 등이 나온다고 하네요.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 16, 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 16, 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.
지난 26일 네이버 웹툰 공식 sns를 통해 야옹이 작가의 실물 사진이 공개됐다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.