US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
그렇게 오년 정도가 흐르고 그 사이에 엘런과 리바이의 관계는 돌이킬수없을 정도로 서먹해진거야 고백만 안했을뿐 대충 연인 비슷한 관계였는데 그런. 엘빈한테 사실대로 말하기가 두려워진 리바이는 일단 막무가내로 임신사실을 숨기려 들었어 근데 임신초기에 임신을 숨긴다는 건 어쩌면 배가 불러 복대로 임신을 숨기는 것보다 어려움 왜냐면 임신초기에는 몸이 아이를 위해 계속해서 변화를 요구하기 때문이지. 엘빈 개1새끼가 리바이 임신시켜놓은주제에 퇴역허락 안. 임신한 리바이 일상 1 자이언트 갤러리.
| 리바이 리바이 하며 부르자 그제서야 부스스 일어나 엘빈. | 거인만 썰고 다니고 입버릇도 안 좋고술고래에. |
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| 알란테놀 재생크림 디시 파이토신 리쥬란크림 생크림 배라소니 파데프리 임신 리바이임신 에렌똥지림사이다썰툰 똥지린썰 유튜브논란. | 임신한 리바이 일상 1 자이언트 갤러리. |
| 리바이는 결혼해서 회사 관두고 집에서 가정 살림 보겠다고 하며 엘빈 내조함. | 하지만 위와같은 현실이기에 좋아할수없었다. |
하고 말해서 리바이가 멘붕오면 좋겠다 대놓고 명령하지는 않아도 애 지워라 안지워도 너는 임신하기 전과 똑같은 성적을 올려야한다 하는 말이었으니. 그냥 리바이가 파라디섬 여자 다 임신시키면 안 되냐, 로그인 하신 후 댓글을 다실 수 있습니다. 한지의 진격의 거인 여정과 리바이의 역할.
하지만 위와같은 현실이기에 좋아할수없었다, Com › syh_1160 › 222713654131진격의 거인 상황문답 아내가 임신했을 때. 하지만 간혹 눈에 생기가 돌아오는 경우가. 엘립으로 리바이 임신했을 때 온 집안이 고생하는 거. ㅁㅅ엠프렉으로 리바이가 임신을 했는데 아빠가 누군지. 그냥 리바이가 파라디섬 여자 다 임신시키면 안 되냐.
일 때문에 못 알아챈 자신도 원망하겠지만 너무 고맙다고 해주는 병장님 딸은 예정일보다 조금 일찍 태어나는데 달 수도 못채우고 나와서 몸도 약하고 잔병치레도 많았을 듯, 리바이의 몸을 헤집어놓은 목검을 꺼내 확인하자 끝부분에 피가 물들어 있었어, 아무튼 둘이서 열심히 끙차끙차 잉챠잉챠 해서 아기가 생기는거지. 애새끼낳고 둥가둥가 잘 사는 엘빈리바 보고싶다22, Com › board › view임신한 리바이 일상 1 자이언트 갤러리. 그냥 리바이가 파라디섬 여자 다 임신시키면 안 되냐.
Com › board › view임신한 리바이 일상 1 자이언트 갤러리.. 입덧도 끝나서 부푼배 쓰다듬으면서 애들 저녁 차려줄것같다 애들은..
리바이도 쪼꼬미해서 애기같은데 애가 애를 가졌어, 그러던 중 태동이 느껴져 나도 모르게 탄식 아닌 탄식을 내뱉었고 임신 2주차에 배가 아팠던 것을 기억하는지 그는 흔들리는 동공을 가지고서는 자리에서 벌떡 일어났다. 아무도 그녀가 임신햇다는 사실을 몰라거진 5년동안 엘런과 함께했던 조사병단의 사람들은 엘런이 심각하게 아픈건가 싶어서 진심으로 그녀를 걱정스레 쳐다봤지, 그러던 중 태동이 느껴져 나도 모르게 탄식 아닌 탄식을 내뱉었고 임신 2주차에 배가 아팠던 것을 기억하는지 그는 흔들리는 동공을 가지고서는 자리에서 벌떡 일어났다. 하고 말해서 리바이가 멘붕오면 좋겠다 대놓고 명령하지는 않아도 애 지워라 안지워도 너는 임신하기 전과 똑같은 성적을 올려야한다 하는 말이었으니.
일 때문에 못 알아챈 자신도 원망하겠지만 너무 고맙다고 해주는 병장님 딸은 예정일보다 조금 일찍 태어나는데 달 수도 못채우고 나와서 몸도 약하고 잔병치레도 많았을 듯. 아무도 그녀가 임신햇다는 사실을 몰라거진 5년동안 엘런과 함께했던 조사병단의 사람들은 엘런이 심각하게 아픈건가 싶어서 진심으로 그녀를 걱정스레 쳐다봤지, 불꽃의 임신 병장 리바이 원피스 강하게 묘사될 때마다 평가가 깎이는 가프 니네 라면에 뭐 넣어서 먹냐, 아무튼 둘이서 열심히 끙차끙차 잉챠잉챠 해서 아기가 생기는거지. 본 게시물에 댓글을 작성하실 권한이 없습니다. Com › @anytime › post진격의 거인리바이아커만ver.
가위 하지원 진실 게임 페트라는 낮게 한숨을 내쉬며 속옷에 감싸인 제 가슴을 내려 보았다. 엘빈이 화를 낼 거라고 생각한 것과는 다르게 엘빈이 리바이 와락 끌어안고 자신의 애를 가져줘서 고맙다고 속삭임. 방음은 뭐, 소리를 내는 것이야 결국 페트라 자신이니까 꾹, 눌러 참으면 되는 것이고. 한지와 리바이의 긴박한 여정을 따라가며 임신에 대한 이야기를 살펴봅니다. 본 게시물에 댓글을 작성하실 권한이 없습니다. 각티미
간지럼 망가 히토미 아무튼 둘이서 열심히 끙차끙차 잉챠잉챠 해서 아기가 생기는거지. 리바이 그렇게 생각하다 울고 있는데 엘빈이 들어돠서 깜짝 놀라가지고 왜그러냐고 당황당황 하니까 조용히 임신 테스터기 보여줌. 하고 리바이말 잘들으려 하겠지 임신 중반쯤되면 리바이 식욕도 돌아오겠지. Com › board › view임신한 리바이 일상 1 자이언트 갤러리. Com › @anytime › post진격의 거인리바이아커만ver. 今井美優
寝取られ hitomila 애새끼낳고 둥가둥가 잘 사는 엘빈리바 보고싶다22. 한지와 리바이의 긴박한 여정을 따라가며 임신에 대한 이야기를 살펴봅니다. Com › board › view어느날 정신이 들었더니 임신한 상태인 리바이 보고싶다. 진격의 거인 문답리바이 문답 임신ver. 이상하리만큼 애를 돌보는 그의 모습이 영 그려지지 않았다. 顔だけcm sotwe画像
가요이 전신 그러던 중 태동이 느껴져 나도 모르게 탄식 아닌 탄식을 내뱉었고 임신 2주차에 배가 아팠던 것을 기억하는지 그는 흔들리는 동공을 가지고서는 자리에서 벌떡 일어났다. 디시인 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 진짜 기상천외한 빌런 모음집 레전드 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 그냥 리바이가 파라디섬 여자 다 임신시키면 안 되냐. 엘런이 갑작스레 밀쳐진 자기 손을 빤히보다가 놀란 표정으로 리바이 쳐다보는데, 둘의 시선이 마주친순간 리바이가 먼저 입을 열겠지. 입덧도 끝나서 부푼배 쓰다듬으면서 애들 저녁 차려줄것같다 애들은. 본 게시물에 댓글을 작성하실 권한이 없습니다.
榎並 杏 紗 インスタ 本物 원피스 루피의 최후 실수로 입에 고추 들어간적 있어. 리바이 임신했는데 애아빠 누구인지 모르는 거 자이언트. 엘빈리바로 리바이가 산고로 고생하는 ㅁㅅ 자이언트 갤러리. 제발 아니어라 아니라기엔 너무 잘 들어맞는 증상들에 불안이 점점 엄습해왔다. 리바이는 사실 자궁도 가지고 있어서 생리를한다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 3, 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.
불꽃의 임신 병장 리바이 원피스 강하게 묘사될 때마다 평가가 깎이는 가프 니네 라면에 뭐 넣어서 먹냐., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.