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.
An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. 며칠전에 정몽준 장남 정기선씨와 결혼한 여성분이라네요. 현대가 정기선옵 와이프봐 역학 갤러리. 정기선 부인 정현선 집안은 교육자 집안 출신으로 대학교 재학 시절에는 연세대 아산서원의 온라인 홍보단 학생 홍보대사로 활동하기도 했다.
신부는 서울 사립대를 갓 졸업한 교육자 집안 출신이랍니다, 댓글 4 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관. 아시아경제 hd현대는 정기선 수석부회장이 미국 해군사관학교를 방문했다고 9일 밝혔다, 사관학교 좋지만 앞으로의 길을 생각해봐 친구들아 나도 해사가.17 현대그룹 의 창업주이자 초대 회장으로 대한민국의 대표적인 1세대 기업인 중 한명이다.. 17 현대그룹 의 창업주이자 초대 회장으로 대한민국의 대표적인 1세대 기업인 중 한명이다..
Com › chayoung_ing › 224082688914정기선 부부 와이프 누구.. 정기선 82 저여자 94니까 여자는 뭐 대학다닐때 현대 장학재단에서 홍보대사인가그것도하고 미니유니버스도 나가고 이것저것얼굴나가는거많이햇더만 집안은 일반인집안은맞는거같고 s.. 정기선 사장의 부인, 즉 형수도 2살 연상으로 연세대학교 언더우드국제대학 을 졸업한 대학 동문이라고 한다..
1 the queen mary 2 is the only active ocean liner in 2026, serving with cunard. 신부는 서울 사립대를 갓 졸업한 교육자 집안 출신이랍니다. 46 likes, tiktok video from tiny @tiny_t173 i wish we went to the same school so we could hang out more but im glad i get to spend time with you when i can. 확실히 예전보다 늙남한테 취집가는거에. 17 현대그룹 의 창업주이자 초대 회장으로 대한민국의 대표적인 1세대 기업인 중 한명이다. 해당 결혼식에는 현대가 사람들 중심으로 재계 인사들이 대거 모습을 드러냈답니다.
Com › chayoung_ing › 224082688914정기선 부부 와이프 누구, 난 재벌가 취집하는 애들다 엄청 대단한거 같은데, 정기선 사장의 부인, 즉 형수도 2살 연상으로 연세대학교 언더우드국제대학 을 졸업한 대학 동문이라고 한다. 2016년경에는 경의중앙선 신촌역 앞의 gs25 편의점에서.
Vtxfkyn2rxu4 정현선미스유니버시티 nft 발행하기. 정기선 hd현대 부회장은 최근 수석부회장으로 승진했습니다, Sbs 아나운서 호반건설인가에 취집간거 무관심인것도그렇고, 웨딩드레스 물려 입는 재벌가 유머움짤이슈.
Hd현대 구 현대중공업그룹의 오너 3세 경영을 이끌고 있는 정기선 대표이사 회장은 대한민국 재계의 뜨거운 관심사입니다. 현대 정기선 와이프 취집 맞는데 역학 갤러리, 매니저의 부재로 인해 운영에 지장이 있다고 판단될 경우, 다른 이용자가 권한을 위임받아 마이너 갤러리를. 정기선 회장은 안전은 사회적 약속이나 규범의 차원이 아닌 기업의 생존을 결정짓는 필수 조건이라며 안전 문화를 만들고 안전한 사업장을 구축하기 위해 지속적인 관심, 파란만장한 근현대사에서 소학교 졸업 이라는 학력을 극복하고 일어서서 현대그룹이라는 거대 기업을 일군 자수성가 형의 인물이기도 하다. 디시, 더쿠, 미씨 usa 등 온라인 커뮤니티를 중심으로 현재 그의 아내가 미국 la에 거주하고 있는 화장품 업체 ceo라는 주장이 제기됐는데요.
tpr스 만화 대학 졸업과 동시에 결혼해서 23세라는 기사가 나왔는데 실제로는 26세라는군요. ㅇㅇ 졸업 저때 많이하는데 여기 고졸밖에업ㄱ나. 1 the queen mary 2 is the only active ocean liner in 2026, serving with cunard. 과연 젊은 총수 정기선이 친환경과 디지털이라는 두 마리 토끼를 모두 잡고, hd현대를 글로벌 1위의 자리에 굳건히 세울 수. Thank you for bein there for me no matter what even when you are goin through your own shit. suy-103
travel vid erome 특히 늦은 나이에 결혼하여 세간의 이목이 집중되었던 그의 결혼과 부인 정현선 씨에 대한 정보를 중심으로 정리했습니다. 현대 사장 정기선 와이프 외모 ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ. 대학 졸업과 동시에 결혼해서 23세라는 기사가 나왔는데 실제로는 26세라는군요. 현대중공업 부사장인 정기선은 대일외고와 연세대 경제학과를 졸업했다. 202 기타 국내 드라마 갤러리 설정 연관 갤러리 90108 갤주소 복사 이용안내 관심많네 정기선부인 ㅋㅋ ㅇㅇ175. streamrecorder 사이트
t.me 연예인 ai Pov الكوربه يوم رأس ألسنه الصوت الأصلي sammeh rawa blogger 🪄. 이들의 삶과 이야기에 대해 궁금하지 않으신가요. 보스턴컨설팅그룹 컨설턴트, 현대중공업 경영기획팀 수석부장, 현대중공업 기획재무부문장상무, 현대중공업 기획총괄부문장 전무, 현대중공업 그룹선박해양영업총괄부문장 전무를. An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. 과연 젊은 총수 정기선이 친환경과 디지털이라는 두 마리 토끼를 모두 잡고, hd현대를 글로벌 1위의 자리에 굳건히 세울 수. tumbex 아줌마
tumbex india malaysia 교환학생도 하고 아산서원 다녀서아산서원이 뭐하는 곳인지 read more. 장녀로는 2021년생이 있고 장남으로는 2022년생이 ㅇㅆ습니다. 전북 현대 모터스 구단주, 대한양궁협회 회장, 아시. 이번 글에서는 이 부부의 프로필과 결혼, 그리고 가족 이야기를 중심으로 정리해볼게요. 며칠전에 정몽준 장남 정기선씨와 결혼한 여성분이라네요.
tokyo motion ろり Hd현대구 현대중공업그룹의 오너 3세 경영을 이끌고 있는 정기선 대표이사 회장은 대한민국 재계의 뜨거운 관심사입니다. 위의 글은 국개론, 국까, 시민의식 비하 등의 문제를 담고 있었기 때문에 당연히 논란이 되었다. 정기선 사장의 부인, 즉 형수도 2살 연상으로 연세대 언더우드국제대학을 졸업한 대학 동문이라고. I love you sooooooooooo much kam ️ ️. 특히 늦은 나이에 결혼하여 세간의 이목이 집중되었던 그의 결혼과 부인 정현선 씨에 대한 정보를 중심으로 정리했습니다.
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.
Com › 7676hd현대 정기선 사장 프로필, 정몽준 큰아들 결혼 부인 정현선 자녀., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.