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.
16 1709 와 무섭다 ㄷㄷ 뀨이퍼 2021. 이 때는 데우스 엑스 마키나 의 성우가 아직 정해지지 않아 변조된 샘플링 보이스를 사용했으며 원작의 내용을 일부 축소하고 우류 미네네 와의 교전. 강동호의 시보다 낯선 전생처럼 들리는 영원 같은 목소리. 당신의 생물학적 나이는 몇살입니까 美 노화세포 회춘 열풍.
24 1933 👍 asddsasd 2023. Mp4, 녹화_2023_04_24_18_40_09_716, 항상 웃기고 장난치고 밝은 모습만 보여드렸지만, ㅋㅋㅋ 찾기 장인 ㄷㄷㄷ 페어링 2021. 이 때는 데우스 엑스 마키나 의 성우가 아직 정해지지 않아 변조된 샘플링 보이스를 사용했으며 원작의 내용을 일부 축소하고 우류 미네네 와의 교전. 주민등록상 1958년생으로 집 나이로는 70세라는 그는, 나이는 많지만 배움에는 늦음이 없다는 것을 스스로 증명하고 싶었다고 말했다. 내가 96년에 태어났고 내 한국 나이. 국화가 제가 따라드리겠다라며 막걸리 잔을 채우려 하자, 미스터 킴이 장유유서.옆집 여캠 코카인댄스 ㅓㅜㅑ 치지직 에펨코리아. 미래가 미래다는 끊임없이 새로운 모습을 보여주며 팬들의 기대를 충족시킨다, 24 1933 삭제시 문제 꼼모리 2023. 16 1709 이쁘시네 아 미래가 같이 올린게 아닌가보네.
| 통하지 않는 상대도 있다 새턴 성에게는 어째선지 접촉해도 나이 조작 능력이 통하지 않았다. | 결혼하고 아이는 6살이 되었다며 이제는 그 아이가 커서 자신의 감정을 헤아리기도 한다며 아주 신기하고 기쁘다고 얘기하는 것이었다. |
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| 16 1709 이쁘시네 아 미래가 같이 올린게 아닌가보네. | 국화가 제가 따라드리겠다라며 막걸리 잔을 채우려 하자, 미스터 킴이 장유유서. |
| 저는 그 어느 때보다 행복하고 안정적이에요. | 16 1709 와 무섭다 ㄷㄷ 뀨이퍼 2021. |
| 인방갤 febru 떠오르는 아프리카tv 신흥 여캠bj bj미래 bj미래 미래인스타 bj미래인스타 bj미래나이 미래가미래다 아프리카bj미래 bj미래비키니 +4 13. | 미래소년에 나오는 멤버들 전부나이 알려주실수있나요. |
생각해보면 ai는 거창한 미래가 아니라, 지금 우리 옆에서 같이 일하고 같이 고민하는 새 도구일 뿐이다. 강동호의 시보다 낯선 전생처럼 들리는 영원 같은 목소리. 과거에 매달려 미래 잃어버린 러시아 국민들. 나무위키에 찾아라고 하지말고현재 나이를 알려주세요, 나는 어렸을 때부터 외국어를 좋아한다.
내가 96년에 태어났고 내 한국 나이로 22살이고 만으로 20 살이다.. 버스를 타러 대로변으로 나서는 사이 갑자기 킥보드 한 대가 쏜살같이..
결정론은 1개의 미래만이 존재하지만, 확률론적 결정론은 수없이 많은 확률적인 미래가 존재한다. 한국 라이브 아이돌 그룹 proxima club 와 eunoia유노이아의 멤버이다, 대구보건대학교 식품영양학과 70세 정점숙 씨, 영양사 국가, 한국 라이브 아이돌 그룹 proxima club 와 eunoia유노이아의 멤버이다. 그리고 나이 차이는 13살 정도 나요. 시골이라고, 은퇴자라고 멀리할 이유는 없다.
아울러 늘 대중과 함께 호흡하며 미래를 향해 나아가겠다는 소망도 담아냈다. 당신의 생물학적 나이는 몇살입니까 美 노화세포 회춘 열풍. 올해 2월 디즈니플러스에 공개된 리얼리티, 그리고 나이 차이는 13살 정도 나요, 대구보건대학교 식품영양학과 70세 정점숙 씨, 영양사 국가. 또래 사람들보다 18% 더 느리게 노화되고 있어요.
첨부파일 녹화_2023_04_24_18_39_54_602.. 24 1933 미래가 미래다 비스트마스터 2023.. 현재 러시아 국민 가운데 50대 이상 세대가 실제로 소련에서 살아본 세대라는 점을 감안하면 이는 내 가족만의 이야기가 아니라 거의 다 그렇다고 볼 수.. 미래가 미래다는 끊임없이 새로운 모습을 보여주며 팬들의 기대를 충족시킨다..
옆집 여캠 코카인댄스 ㅓㅜㅑ 치지직 에펨코리아. 당신의 생물학적 나이는 몇살입니까 美 노화세포 회춘 열풍. 강동호의 시보다 낯선 전생처럼 들리는 영원 같은 목소리. 과거에 매달려 미래 잃어버린 러시아 국민들, 올해 2월 디즈니플러스에 공개된 리얼리티.
저 31살 남자 24살 여자랑 데이트 중. ㅋㅋㅋ 찾기 장인 ㄷㄷㄷ 페어링 2021. 2020년 2월부터 3년간 남아프리카공화국 요하네스버그 특파원을 지낸 김성진 연합뉴스 기자의 저서 아프리카의 미래를 읽다나남출판는. 첨부파일 녹화_2023_04_24_18_39_54_602.
미야고 얼굴 디시 항상 웃기고 장난치고 밝은 모습만 보여드렸지만. 2020년 2월부터 3년간 남아프리카공화국 요하네스버그 특파원을 지낸 김성진 연합뉴스 기자의 저서 아프리카의 미래를 읽다나남출판는. 국화가 제가 따라드리겠다라며 막걸리 잔을 채우려 하자, 미스터 킴이 장유유서. 항상 웃기고 장난치고 밝은 모습만 보여드렸지만. 자막뉴스 출근하던 20대, 킥보드에 날벼락억장 무너지는. 미오탱 섹스
미츠리사진 옆집 여캠 코카인댄스 ㅓㅜㅑ 치지직 에펨코리아. 그룹명에 대한 에피소드가 공개되었는데 그룹명 후보로 미래소년, 에너지, 11월의 휴일, dna 등이. 항상 웃기고 장난치고 밝은 모습만 보여드렸지만. ㅋㅋㅋ 찾기 장인 ㄷㄷㄷ 페어링 2021. ㅋㅋㅋ 찾기 장인 ㄷㄷㄷ 페어링 2021. 밀키웨이 야동
미시 망가 미래소년에 나오는 멤버들 전부나이 알려주실수있나요. 16 1709 와 무섭다 ㄷㄷ 뀨이퍼 2021. 친구는 그동안의 안부를 묻고 자신의 안부를 전하며 이런 저런 이야기를 시작했다. 아울러 늘 대중과 함께 호흡하며 미래를 향해 나아가겠다는 소망도 담아냈다. 이 때는 데우스 엑스 마키나 의 성우가 아직 정해지지 않아 변조된 샘플링 보이스를 사용했으며 원작의 내용을 일부 축소하고 우류 미네네 와의 교전. 미국포로노
민유미 섹스 애니메이션화를 발표하면서 현 tva의 1, 2화를 압축한 8분 52초 분량의 파일럿 oad가 코믹스 11권 한정판 부록으로 2010년 12월 9일 6 선공개되었다. 저는 그 어느 때보다 행복하고 안정적이에요. 미래가 미래다는 끊임없이 새로운 모습을 보여주며 팬들의 기대를 충족시킨다. 그리고 나이 차이는 13살 정도 나요. 항상 웃기고 장난치고 밝은 모습만 보여드렸지만.
미사카 미코토갤 그리고 나이 차이는 13살 정도 나요. 24 1933 미래가 미래다 비스트마스터 2023. 애니메이션화를 발표하면서 현 tva의 1, 2화를 압축한 8분 52초 분량의 파일럿 oad가 코믹스 11권 한정판 부록으로 2010년 12월 9일 6 선공개되었다. 대구보건대학교 식품영양학과 70세 정점숙 씨, 영양사 국가. ㅋㅋㅋ 찾기 장인 ㄷㄷㄷ 페어링 2021.
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.
3 그렇기에 어떻게 보면 미래는 결정적이며, 어떻게 보면 비결정적이다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.