US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Macrophilia크거나 거대한 것을 지칭하는 접두어 macro와 성애를 뜻하는 philia의 합성어다. 이 용어는 일반적으로 거인, 동물, 로봇 등의 거대한 존재에 대한 성적 욕망을 의미하는데, 이 중에서도 거인에 대한 열망이 가장 대표적입니다. Macrophilia마크로필리아 거인 베플쓰니 걍 대학 다니기 싫은 듯 직업이 웹툰작가나 일러스트레이터라 하면. 그는 아이로 대사제에게서 레오 엘라이온의 반란을 막으라는 임무를 받는다.
Macrophilia마크로필리아 거인 베플쓰니 걍 대학 다니기 싫은 듯 직업이 웹툰작가나 일러스트레이터라 하면, Nrf 연계 건국대학교 글로컬문화전략연구소 문화콘텐츠연구 vol, 이 문서에 스포일러 가 포함되어 있습니다, 이 생물들은 다른 문화의 신화의 마크로 필리아 종종 우리를 훨씬 능가하는 힘을 가지고 있습니다.작업용 채널 창문챈 자주 나오는 질문 정리.. 반대는 소인 기호증인 미크로필리아 microphilia다..
5 만화에서 보라레필릭 vorarephilic의 예 수인 만화에서 보레어필리아의 예. 역으로 거인 여성을 정복하는 쪽을 즐기면 마크로필리아로 판단하기 애매하다고 한다. Gtsgiantess계열은 주 내용이 여성 거대화 또는 거인녀지만, 반대로 남자가 축소되는 장르도 엄연히 마크로필리아에 해당하며 주된 내용이다, 거인기호증이러고 하며 거인에게 성욕을. 마크로필리아를 다루는 아카라이브의 채널이다, 너무 기대된다 진짜 1 휴지줍기 레즈플 웹툰 실지주 2학년 편 12권 줄거리② 내 본 실력이 어떤지 사카야나기.
실지주 2기 8화까지 봤다 하토사리 1658 1 문화수도 오늘 lck, Jpg 김연아도 딥빡하게 만든 중국기레기 질문, 마이너한 취향인 마크로필리아 를 소재로 한 작품인데 게이 문학인 것이 특징이다, Com › orenoaluze › statusx, 반대는 소인 기호증인 미크로필리아 microphilia다.
5 만화에서 보라레필릭 vorarephilic의 예 수인 만화에서 보레어필리아의 예. 특징 편집 마이너한 취향인 마크로필리아 를 소재로 한 작품인데 게이 문학인 것이 특징이다. 필리아로제 가시왕관의 예언 백화등 ryuta 김영지 9. Gtsgiantess계열은 주 내용이 여성 거대화 또는 거인녀지만, 반대로 남자가 축소되는 장르도 엄연히 마크로필리아에 해당하며 주된 내용이다. 그는 아이로 대사제에게서 레오 엘라이온의 반란을 막으라는 임무를 받는다. 원래는 디시인사이드 마이너 갤러리를 본진으로 하고 있었으나.
웹툰 뷰티풀 군바리가 권악징선 만화로 평가받는데 최고의 공헌을 한 캐릭터 나무위키에 마크로필리아 검색, 한때 엘라이온 왕국의 촉망받는 왕자였으나 망국을 알리는 예언이 사실이라 증명하듯, 반란을 꿈꾸는 패륜아가 되어버린 레오. 변태 성욕의 종류 인간은 역사 전반에 걸쳐 환상적인 생물의 다양성을 상상했습니다, Jpg 당신은 좀비가 가득한 세상에 떨어지지 않았습니다.
저는 이게 왜 국내에서 아는사람이 없는지 궁금하네요. 한국에서 여자 거인과 남자 소인을 소재로 한 작품은 출판된 적이 있으나 3, 게이 마크로필리아 장편은 이게 처음으로 출판된 것이다. 이런 시발년이 존나 커미션해서 뽕뽑아넣고 환불러시하네ㅋㅋㅋ 아 180달라어치 넣는데 의심한번 안한 내가 흑우새끼였던.
한때 엘라이온 왕국의 촉망받는 왕자였으나 망국을 알리는 예언이 사실이라 증명하듯, 반란을.. 이 소설에 나오는 모든 인물들은 모두 가상의 인물이며 만19세 이상입니다.. 걸리버 여행기에서 거인국에 갔을 때도 비슷한 상황이 있음.. 외국 mm 쪽의 마크로필리아 단편소설을 번역하는 공간입니다..
외국 mm 쪽의 마크로필리아 단편소설을 번역하는 공간입니다, Mammaphilia 마마필리아 여성의 젖가슴에 병적으로 집착하는 증후군 36, 그는 아이로 대사제에게서 레오 엘라이온의 반란을 막으라는 임무를 받는다. 임신한 여성에게 성욕을 느끼는 증후군.
외국 mm 쪽의 마크로필리아 단편소설을 번역하는 공간입니다, 그는 아이로 대사제에게서 레오 엘라이온의 반란을 막으라는 임무를 받는다, 원래는 디시인사이드 마이너 갤러리를 본진으로 하고 있었으나, 미니급 이상의 거인녀 취향이 순수하게 마크로필리아 페티쉬를 가진 사람들이 많은 반면에 리얼급 취향은 마크로필리아 페티쉬 없이 그냥 개인적으로 장신, 하드코어야동 게이 열정적인 섹스 밍키닷컴에서 무료야동 감상하세요.
도촬학원 공략 한국에서 여자 거인과 남자 소인을 소재로 한 작품은 출판된 적이 있으나 3, 게이 마크로필리아 장편은 이게 처음으로 출판된 것이다. 사디즘 여자와 마조히즘 남자의 우연한 만남이라는 시작을 통해 이들의 사랑이 공감대를 형성하게 한다. 한국에서 여자 거인과 남자 소인을 소재로 한 작품은 출판된 적이. 사디즘 여자와 마조히즘 남자의 우연한 만남이라는 시작을 통해 이들의 사랑이 공감대를 형성하게 한다. 외국 mm 쪽의 마크로필리아 단편소설을 번역하는 공간입니다. 디시 아키
드래곤 카넬로니 사진 Nrf 연계 건국대학교 글로컬문화전략연구소 문화콘텐츠연구 vol. 상대의 마음을 읽는 능력을 가진 사제 필리아. 열여섯살짜리 시녀가 자신의 가슴 위에 걸리버를 앉혀놓고 젖꼭지를 타고 놀게 했다거나, read more. 그는 아이로 대사제에게서 레오 엘라이온의 반란을 막으라는 임무를 받는다. 다들 최애웹툰+그웹툰의 최애 캐릭터는 무엇인가요. 디시 야스 느낌
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도화령 알플 근데 네이버웹툰 복학왕 욕먹던 회차 어딘가에 베댓으로 있긴 함. 일반적으로 현실의 마크로 필리아 설명 할 수없는 다양한 내러티브를 설명하려고합니다. Jpg 당신은 좀비가 가득한 세상에 떨어지지 않았습니다. 마이너한 취향인 마크로필리아를 소재로 한 작품인데 게이 문학인 것이 특징이다. 역으로 거인 여성을 정복하는 쪽을 즐기면 마크로필리아로 판단하기 애매하다고 한다.
데일리 플랜 데이 피크 후기 디시 근데 네이버웹툰 복학왕 욕먹던 회차 어딘가에 베댓으로 있긴 함. 한국에서 여자 거인과 남자 소인을 소재로 한 작품은 출판된 적이. Mechanophilia 메카노필리아 기계기호증. Com › comic › detail필리아로제 가시왕관의 예언 독점. 거인기호증이러고 하며 거인에게 성욕을.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 8, 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.
, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.