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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친년이 소녀나라인가 중고나라인가 어디서 야금야금 팔아제끼다가 나한테 컴퓨터에 옷찍은 사진이 걸려서 좇나게 싸운적도 있었는데 절정은 이년이 작년 고2때 일.. Go to channel 속풀이짬뽕알뜰세트 레전드가 된 노빠꾸 상남자들 part4.. 중딩 2학년때인가 우리외갓쪽 친척들이 다 모여서 회식을 했다.. 국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드..Net › service › board친구 여동생이 저를 좋아해서 고민입니다. 어른들은 밥을 먹고 노래방가고 찜질방간다며 자기들끼리 따로 놀러가고나는 외사. 뭐, 그래서 동생은 원래 2일날 오는거였지만 시합때문에 3일날 집와서 하루종일 만화보면서 놀면서 콘푸라이트 먹고 뒹굴뒹굴 그리고 어제. Com › 5985bjshk › 200108484여동생썰 1 네이버 블로그. 초등학교 저학년 때까지였나 잘 기억은 안난다. Net › service › board친구 여동생이 저를 좋아해서 고민입니다. 05 곽가봉효 548 어느 디시인의 여동생썰 84 유머 2022, 유머움짤이슈 유머 인기글 목록 2024. 어느날 동생이 웃으면서 말한적이 있다. 똥싸고나면 똥내 존나게나서, 저여자보다 먼저똥싸는게 소원이었던적이있는데.
나랑 사이는 그냥 서로 무관심이긴 하지만 내 여동생이 사고는 안치고다녀서 다행이다, 저에겐 28년지기 동네친구, 뭐 이쯤이면 불타는 에그 친구들이죠, Com › 5985bjshk › 200108484여동생썰 1 네이버 블로그, Com › entry › 배다른여동생배다른 여동생이랑은 성관계 해도 근친 아니지, 동생이랑 같이 텔레비전 보면서 한이불 덮고 나는 만지고 동생은 모른척 하고. 유머움짤이슈 유머 인기글 목록 2024.
그리고 동생이랑 오면 늘 하던게 있었다, 1990년, 초5 오빠가 여동생을 근친강간한 사례, 현재 수원에 살고있구집은 나온상태입니다, 특히 고등학교 졸업하고 갓 성인된 애들끼리 하는 경우 상당수임 혼인신고란게 서류 작성하고, 증인 세우는것도 뭐 대충 세우면 그만인터라.
| 근친관계인 정신병 있는 여동생이 발작 일으켜서 오빠 여친들을 계속 공격해서 관계 파국시킴 이거 게임유튜브에서 최근 유명해진 설정아녀. | Com › jihae1262 › 221439129785여동생 입원시킨 썰 + 여동생이 쓴 후기. | 우리 엄마가 외갓쪽 장녀였기 때문에 우리집이 주도적으로 참여했다. |
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| 동생이랑 같이 목욕가는건 아마 유성온천 하나밖에 없던걸로 기억하는데 남탕에는 바나나 모양의 작은 탕이 있다. | 새벽에 늦게 끝나는 시간에도 만나서 섹스를 read more. | 패륜여동생 참교육 시킨썰 푼다 악플달면 쩌리쩌려버려. |
| 똥싸고나면 똥내 존나게나서, 저여자보다 먼저똥싸는게 소원이었던적이있는데. | 05 곽가봉효 548 어느 디시인의 여동생썰 84 유머 2022. | + 그리고 그 맞은 여동생이 쓴 글 안녕하세요. |
Com › jihae1262 › 221439129785여동생 입원시킨 썰 + 여동생이 쓴 후기, 저는 학교에서 영어랑 수학 read more. 그리고 엄마 아빠보다 가족으로서도 이전 여자친구들보다 이성으로서도 누구보다 오빠를 사랑한다고.
썰썰썰친 여동생하고 합의하에 ㅅㅅ에 질싸까지 한 썰. 먼저 가입하고 첫글이 고민글이라 불편해 하실분들께 죄송하다는 말씀먼저 드릴게요. 매년 역대급 폭염이라고 함 내가 그전엔 대충 집에만 있으면 선풍기 틀고도 살았는데 2018년에 진짜 기절할뻔함. 생각외로 저렇게 혼인신고한 사례 많아요.
fc2 ppv データベース 나도 통장에 4천있을때 청혼했고 결혼해서 잘살고 있는데ㅋㅋ 4천이 치킨을 아무리 시켜먹아도 앞자리가 안바뀌는 금액이었는데 부동산갔다가 아 이돈으로 25년된 아파트 3평밖에 못사는걸 알고 나도 충격받음. 흔한 여동생썰 닝이이이이이 4925876 미소녀 활동내역 작성글 쪽지 마이피 타임라인 출석일수 2922일 lv. 이 름긔흥제 목내 여동생 씨벌뇬 ㅠㅠ 겨울방학되면 쳐 씻지를 않음. 그러나 간혹 불건전한 내용을 올리시는 분들이 계셔서 건전한 인터넷문화 정착을 위해 아래와 같은 운영원칙을 적용합니다. 리버풀은 잭 버틀란드일 가능성이 있는 골키퍼와 다른 공격수를 포함해 34명의 선수를 영입하고자 하나, 센터백이 재차 우선순위이다. facebook.com linkedin.com x.com 八幡宮の所功のsnsページ
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fc2 wifi video 다음 시즌 선수단 보강을 꾀하는 위르겐 클롭은 번리의 제임스 타코브스키와 뉴캐슬의 자말 라셀레스를 이번 여름 센터백 영입 목표로서 알아볼 것을 지시했다. 국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 새언니와 마찬가지로 소설처럼 쭉쭉 읽어주세요 ㅎㅎ. 리버풀은 잭 버틀란드일 가능성이 있는 골키퍼와 다른 공격수를 포함해 34명의 선수를 영입하고자 하나, 센터백이 재차 우선순위이다. 이분 영상보고 속 풀린적이 단 한번도 없다. fc2 3260300
fc 품번 국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 겨울방학때면 집에서 쳐 나가지를 않는데생리대까지 어머니나 나한테 심부름 시킴 쌍뇬 그러다가 친구들만나러 갈때가 되서야 씻고 아주 뾰샤시하게 쳐. 동생이랑 같이 목욕가는건 아마 유성온천 하나밖에 없던걸로 기억하는데 남탕에는 바나나 모양의 작은 탕이 있다. 힛갤러리, 유저이슈 등 인터넷 트렌드 총 집합. 그자세가 약간 짐승같은 느낌이라 더 그랬던듯.
fc2 사진 흔한 여동생썰 닝이이이이이 4925876 미소녀 활동내역 작성글 쪽지 마이피 타임라인 출석일수 2922일 lv. 생각외로 저렇게 혼인신고한 사례 많아요. 와이프 동생이랑 부모님이랑 다퉈서 어찌구 남동생은 피씨방으로 나가고 결국 나랑 사촌여동생만 남은거지 사실 얘가 가슴이 크고 몸매 오져도 옷. 그래서 어릴때부터 서로 싸우는 일도 한번도 없었고 보통 남매. 유머움짤이슈 유머 인기글 목록 2024.
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.
05 곽가봉효 548 어느 디시인의 여동생썰 84 유머 2022., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.