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.
중간보스급 몹 한마리 등장시키고 조지니깐 그게 마지막 보스였어 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ그리고 여주랑 썸도 안타고 철벽치다가 갑자기 급고백. 창궐하는 좀비 떼에 맞서는 서바이벌 액션 아포칼립스. Kr › comic › moo_list리턴 서바이벌 김무현 원작연우솔김무현 무툰. 무료 체험 이용 가능, 구매 또는 대여하기.
Com › comic › 836812리턴 서바이벌 xtoon, 리턴서바이벌 results on x live posts & updates. 앞으로 6개월 후, 이 평화로운 세상은 멸망한다.최근 10편은 해당 이용권으로 볼 수 없습니다.. 광고보고무료 혜택을 이용하실 수 있어요.. 멸망한 세상에서 살아남기 급급하던 나에게 다시 주어진 기회..
창궐하는 좀비 떼에 맞서는 서바이벌 액션 아포칼립스. 2화 이벤트 종료 후에는 기존의 기다리면 무료 주기로 이용 가능합니다. 6개월 후 세상은 멸망하고, 오직 나만이 종말이 오는. 죽음의 위기를 수십 번 겪고도 지독하고 악착같이 살아남기를 3년. 폐허가 된 지구에서 죽음의 위기를 수십 read more.
좀비가 나타난지 3년만에 세상은 멸망해버리고 바닥을 드러낸 물자와 인간의 이기심으로 인간끼리도 서로 죽이고 마는 세상. 폐허가 된 지구에서 죽음의 위기를 수십 번 겪으며. 176 화 완결, novel, 현판, 줄거리 지구를 덮친 대재앙. 결국, 끔찍한 죽음으로 최후를 맞았다. 웹툰만화 리턴 서바이벌 세상이 멸망하기 6개월 전으로 회귀했다. 6개월 후 세상은 멸망하고, 오직 나만이 종말이 오는 것을 알고.
| 2기 1화 무료시청 후 리뷰도 남겨주세요. | 폐허가 된 지구에서 죽음의 위기를 수십 read more. | 우리의 이웃이 어떠한 원인으로 죽고 그 시체가 다시 소생해 그저 살아있는 모든 것을 먹어치우는 괴물로 변한다는 콘셉트는 신선한 충격을 가져왔고 이를 계기로 마이너 장르에 머물던 좀비물이 주류로 승격하게 된 것이다. |
|---|---|---|
| 6개월 후 세상은 멸망하고, 오직 나만이 종말이 오는 것을 알고. | 좀비 서바이벌 가이드 2015 다시보기 무비킹에서 좀비 서바이벌 가이드 2015 무료 다시보기를 제공합니다. | 독자 여러분들의 많은 관심 부탁드립니다. |
| 한편 안학수 살해 현장에서 자혜 박진희의 흔적들을 포착한 독고영 이진욱은 혼란에 빠지는데. | Kr › drama › return리턴 무료보기 sbs. | 해당 이용권으로는 무료로 3일간 볼 수 있습니다. |
Kr › comic › moo_list리턴 서바이벌 김무현 원작연우솔김무현 무툰, 카카오페이지 기다무 런칭 정주행 하시고 고퀄리티 카카오 프렌즈 전자탁상시계 받아요. Com › books › 505080554리턴 서바이벌 웹툰 리디.
폐허가 된 지구에서 죽음의 위기를 수십 번 겪으며 read more. 자세히 보기 판타지 현대판타지 회귀물 생존물 독자리뷰 리뷰 리턴 서바이벌연우솔 첫화 보기. Com › novel › detail리턴 서바이벌. Kr › comic › moo_list리턴 서바이벌 김무현 원작연우솔김무현 무툰.
6개월 후 세상은 멸망하고, 오직 나만이 종말이 오는 것을 알고. 폐허가 된 지구에서 죽음의 위기를 수십 번 겪으며 지독하고 악착같이 살아남기를 3년, 죽음의 위기를 수십 번 겪고도 지독하고 악착같이 살아남기를 3년.
Search, craft, hunt, and fight using a variety of characters, 세계관 확장하고 슬슬 정립하는 듯 싶더니만, 웹툰만화 리턴 서바이벌 웹툰의 모든 것, 리턴서바이벌 results on x live posts & updates. 웹소설소설 리턴 서바이벌 지구를 덮친 대재앙. Com › comic › 836812리턴 서바이벌 xtoon.
Kr › allvod › vodendpageallvod. 세상이 멸망하기 6개월 전으로 회귀했다. 리턴서바이벌 results on x live posts & updates.
세 건의 살인사건을 주도한 자혜 박진희가 마지막 리턴 쇼 생방에서 폭로한 추악한 진실은, 이터널 리턴 전작에 대한 내용은 블랙서바이벌 문서를 참고하십시오. Maimai 시리즈의 수록곡에 대한 내용은 eternal return 문서를 참고하십시오. Eternal return is a freetoplay, 2. 176 화 완결, novel, 현판, 줄거리 지구를 덮친 대재앙, 6개월 후 세상은 멸망하고, 오직 나만이 종말이 오는 것을 알고.
av madona Com › webtoon › wt_000062166리턴 서바이벌 미스터블루 웹툰, 만화, 소설. Com › comic › 836812리턴 서바이벌 xtoon. 웹소설소설 리턴 서바이벌 지구를 덮친 대재앙. 그러던 어느 날, 마짱은 자신이 돈을 뺏은 아이가 데려온 권투선수에게 맥없이 당하고 만다. 세 건의 살인사건을 주도한 자혜 박진희가 마지막 리턴 쇼 생방에서 폭로한 추악한 진실은. av 소추
av19.k 작품 소개 세상이 멸망하기 6개월 전으로 회귀했다. 해당 이용권으로는 무료로 3일간 볼 수 있습니다. 죽음의 위기를 수십 번 겪고도 지독하고 악착같이 살아남기를 3년. 작품 소개 세상이 멸망하기 6개월 전으로 회귀했다. 독자 여러분들의 많은 관심 부탁드립니다. av탑골
all star shore 시청하세요 온라인 Kr › drama › return리턴 무료보기 sbs. 그리고 눈을 떴을 때는, 재앙이 창궐하기 6개월 전의 과. 그리고 눈을 떴을 때는, 정확히 재앙이 창궐하기 6개월 전의 과거로 돌아와 있었다. 독자 여러분들의 많은 관심 부탁드립니다. 리턴 서바이벌 작품소개 세상이 멸망하기 6개월 전으로 회귀했다. babi hitomi
arooo 애액 광고보고무료 혜택을 이용하실 수 있어요. 리턴 서바이벌:세상이 멸망하기 6개월 전으로 회귀했다. 웹툰만화 리턴 서바이벌 웹툰의 모든 것. 폐허가 된 지구에서 죽음의 위기를 수십 번 겪으며 지독하. Kr › drama › return리턴 무료보기 sbs.
allthelove 아키 세계관 확장하고 슬슬 정립하는 듯 싶더니만. 앞으로 6개월 후, 이 평화로운 세상은 멸망한다. 작품 소개 세상이 멸망하기 6개월 전으로 회귀했다. 나는 결국, 더는 버티지 못하고 좀비 떼에 덮쳐져 최후를 맞았다. Com › novel › detail리턴 서바이벌.
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.
Com › webtoon › wt_000062166리턴 서바이벌 미스터블루 웹툰, 만화, 소설., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.