삼척시청 김완기 감독이 1위로 결승선에 들어오고 있는 이수민 선수를 잡아주고 있다.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

11일 삼척시체육회에 따르면 시 체육회는 전날 스포츠공정위원회를 열고 김완기 삼척시청 육상팀 감독에 대해 직무태만, 직권남용, 인권침해, 괴롭힘을 이유로 자격정지 1년 6개월 징계를 의결했다. 한눈에 보는 오늘 스포츠 일반 뉴스 osen강필주 기자 인천국제마라톤 결승선에서 포착된 부적절 접촉 논란으로 여론이 들끓었던 강원 삼척시청 육상팀 김완기 감독이 결국 중징계를 받았다. 10일 연합뉴스tv에 따르면 삼척시체육회는. 2025 인천국제마라톤대회에서 불거진 소속 선수 부적절 접촉 논란에 대해 강원 삼척시청 육상팀 김완기 감독이 성추행이 아니다라고 해명한 가운데.

Osen이인환 기자 김완기 삼척시청 육상팀 감독을 둘러싼 논란이 징계와 실태조사로까지 이어지고 있다.

女 제자와 스킨십 논란 김완기 감독, 너무 억울해 재심 신청.

명실상부한 엘리트 주자로 자리 잡습니다, 대학 2학년 때 연극부에 들어가면서 연기를 시작했으며 대학 선배인 정진영과 2인극을 공연하며 전국 read more, 한눈에 보는 오늘 스포츠 일반 뉴스 osen강필주 기자 인천국제마라톤 결승선에서 포착된 부적절 접촉 논란으로 여론이 들끓었던 강원 삼척시청 육상팀 김완기 감독이 결국 중징계를 받았다, 헤럴드경제민성기 기자 지난 11월 인천마라톤대회 결승선을 통과한 이수민 선수에게 과도한 신체접촉을 했다는 논란을 빚은 삼척시청 김완기, Osen이인환 기자 김완기 삼척시청 육상팀 감독을 둘러싼 논란이 징계와 실태조사로까지 이어지고 있다, 18일 강원도체육회 등에 따르면, 김완기 감독은 전날.

서울뉴스1 소봄이 기자 2025 인천국제마라톤대회 국내 여자부 우승자 이수민 삼척시청 선수가 김완기 감독의 부적절한 신체 접촉 논란에 대해 극심한 통증을 느꼈으나 감독으로부터 어떠한 사과도 받지 못했다고 밝혔다.

이수민 이수민마라톤 마라톤이수민 인천마라톤 김완기감독 김완기감독논란 성추행논란 과도한신체접촉 삼척시청육상팀 2026아시안게임 여자마라톤 마라톤선수프로필, 女 제자와 스킨십 논란 김완기 감독, 너무 억울해 재심 신청, 마라톤 대회에서 소속팀 선수에게 불필요한 신체 접촉을 했다는 비판을 받은 김완기 강원 삼척시청 육상팀 감독이 ‘자격정지 1년 6개월’의 중징계를 받았다, 수건을 두르며 잡아주는 김완기 감독을 뿌리치고 있다. 명실상부한 엘리트 주자로 자리 잡습니다. 사진 유튜브 캡처 ‘부적절한 신체접촉’ 논란 후 자격정지 처분을 받은 김완기 58 삼척시 육상팀 감독이 상급기관인 강원도체육회에 재심을 신청했다.

논란 왜 번졌나 네이버 블로그 방송칼럼 22개의 글 목록열기. 女 제자와 스킨십 논란 김완기 감독, 너무 억울해 재심 신청. 헤럴드경제민성기 기자 지난 11월 인천마라톤대회 결승선을 통과한 이수민 선수에게 과도한 신체접촉을 했다는 논란을 빚은 삼척시청 김완기. Kbs스포츠 유튜브 영상 캡처마라톤 대회에서 소속팀 선수에게 불필요한 신체 접촉을 했다는 비판을 받은 김완기.

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다만 실제 징계 사유는 당시 논란이 됐던 신체 접촉과는 무관했다.. 달리는거 뿐인데 감독이 도와준건 있음.. Com › article › 20251212082547748너무 억울하다 김완기 감독, 재심청구 예고女 선수 신체접촉 논..

김완기, 남성 감독 성추행으로 자격정지 마라톤 마이너.

강원일보 〈삼척시 육상부 초대감독에 김완기 전 마라톤협회 감독〉 2021. 11일 삼척시체육회에 따르면 전날 시 체육회에서 스포츠공정위원회를 열고 김완기 감독에 대해 직무태만, 직권남용, 인권침해, 괴롭힘을 이유로 자격정지 1년 6개월 징계를 의결했다. 다만 실제 징계 사유는 당시 논란이 됐던 신체 접촉과는 무관했다. 마라톤 대회에서 소속팀 선수에게 불필요한 신체 접촉을 했다는 비판을 받은 김완기 강원 삼척시청 육상팀 감독이 ‘자격정지 1년 6개월’의 중징계를 받았다. 뉴스1에 따르면 삼척시체육회는 10일 스포츠공정위원회를 열고 김완기 육상팀 감독에게 자격정지 1년6개월을 의결했다.

브뤼셀 센트럴역 Com › view › 20251124n28215인천마라톤 女 1위 이수민에 과도한 신체접촉한 김완기 감독 도마 위. 삼척 김완기 감독 성추행논란 재계약 포기 마라톤. Com › times_minton › 224087185458과거 커리어가 놀랍다. Com › lovemi_yammi › 224087182128인천 마라톤 성추행 김완기 감독 해명 네이버 블로그. 논란 왜 번졌나 네이버 블로그 방송칼럼 22개의 글 목록열기. 비비 mbti

사카모토데이즈 갤러리 뉴스1에 따르면 삼척시체육회는 10일 스포츠공정위원회를 열고 김완기 육상팀 감독에게 자격정지 1년6개월을 의결했다. 🏃‍♂️ 김완기 감독 삼척시청 육상팀 2025년 11월 인천국제마라톤 결승선에서 여자 국내부 1위로 들어온 이수민 선수를 잡아주는 과정에서 과도한 신체 접촉 논란이 발생했습니다. 김완기 남성 감독성추행으로 자격 정지 확정. 강다니엘 법률대리인 법원에 프듀2 갤러리 폐쇄 공식 요청. 11일 삼척시체육회에 따르면 전날 시. 빌리 아일리시 묵직

브훔 등급 11일 삼척시체육회에 따르면 전날 시 체육회에서 스포츠공정위원회를 열고 김완기 감독에 대해 직무태만, 직권남용, 인권침해, 괴롭힘을 이유로 자격정지 1년 6개월 징계를 의결했다. 사회 사회일반 논란은 부적절 접촉이었지만 징계는 직무 문제마라톤 김완기 감독 1년6개월 자격 정지 중징계 전상일 기자 파이낸셜뉴스 입력 2025. 마라톤 대회에서 소속팀 선수에게 불필요한 신체 접촉을 했다는 비판을 받은 김완기 강원 삼척시청 육상팀 감독이 ‘자격정지 1년 6개월’의 중징계를 받았다. 18일 강원도체육회에 따르면 김완기 감독은 17일 저녁 변호사를 통해 이메일로 재심 청구서를 접수했다. 이어 디시인사이드, 여성시대, 네이트판, 인스티즈, 더쿠, 인스 ☞ 과도한 신체접촉 논란 김완기 감독, 직권남용직무태만으로 1년 6개월 징계. 사이코스 후부키

비욘드 클로 젯 디시 김완기 감독이 인천국제마라톤에서의 논란에 대해 재심을 신청했습니다. 서울뉴스1 소봄이 기자 2025 인천국제마라톤대회 국내 여자부 우승자 이수민 삼척시청 선수가 김완기 감독의 부적절한 신체 접촉 논란에 대해 극심한 통증을 느꼈으나 감독으로부터 어떠한 사과도 받지 못했다고 밝혔다. 마라톤 성추행 논란 러닝 마이너 갤러리. 대학 2학년 때 연극부에 들어가면서 연기를 시작했으며 대학 선배인 정진영과 2인극을 공연하며 전국 read more. 한 눈에 보기에도 달리는 사람의 몸이 아니었다.

빈유 좋아 하는 이유 디시 참고로 김완기 감독은 그냥 동네 아저씨가 아닙니다. 이수민 이수민마라톤 마라톤이수민 인천마라톤 김완기감독 김완기감독논란 성추행논란 과도한신체접촉 삼척시청육상팀 2026아시안게임 여자마라톤 마라톤선수프로필. 女 제자와 스킨십 논란 김완기 감독, 너무 억울해 재심 신청. 하지만 김완기 감독이 강하게 반발하면서 싸움은 더 길어질 것으로 보인다. 사회 사회일반 논란은 부적절 접촉이었지만 징계는 직무 문제마라톤 김완기 감독 1년6개월 자격 정지 중징계 전상일 기자 파이낸셜뉴스 입력 2025.

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.

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.