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.
Com 그리고는 치료 후기를 올렸어야 했는데 그동안 차일피일 미루다 이제서야 올립니다. Redirecting to sgall. 약침 봉침 하는데가 장사 더 잘되던데. 촬영을 마치고 절뚝 거리는 저의 다리를 보시더니 다리 염증엔 벌침이 최고라고 하시던.
| 온열 마사지 사진을 못찍었네요🥲 2. | 나봉침에게 제아봉침을 전수받은5 진모리도 이 기술을 사용. |
|---|---|
| 봉침 효능 봉약침의 주요 성분인 멜리틴이나 아파 민은 뇌하수체부신피질 축을 자극하여 부신피질 자극 호르몬의 생성을 촉진시킨다. | 나아진게 0%에서 한 5% 정도의 느낌. |
| 4주간의 시술을 통해 통증이 70% 이상 감소 하였고, 일상생활이 가능할 정도로 회복되었다고 합니다. | 정형외과가서 ims 존나아픈침+체외충격파. |
| 이런 증상을 겪고 있는 사람들은 종종 치료 방법으로 봉침을 고려하게 되죠. | 봉침은 사람 체질따라 위험할수도 있어. |
온열 마사지 사진을 못찍었네요🥲 2.. 다래한방병원은 따듯한 마음으로 환자와 함께 커뮤니케이션합니다..
후기 인터뷰 mri로 보는 치료결과 환자가 직접 쓴 치료후기 안면신경마비 침 + 신바로약침약침봉침 + msat기타 + 추나요법 68,440157,840원, 약침 봉침 데스크에서 주사기에 미리 넣던데. 임상에서는 이것을 보통 사마귀 common wart, 편평 사마귀 flat wart, 발바닥 사마귀 plantar wart, 성기 사마귀 genital wart 등으로 분류하고 있다. 환자에게 적절한 농도를 찾기 위해 1주2주 정도 적응기간을 가진뒤 미세하게 농도를 높여나가면 안전합니다. 침 + 신바로약침약침봉침 + msat기타 40,79086,290원.
약침 봉침 데스크에서 주사기에 미리 넣던데. 안나아서 정형외과 소염진통제 처방받음 안나음24주차 갤찾아보면서 집에서 혼자 온갖 마사지를 다해봄잠깐 괜찮은거 같다가 깊은곳에서 통증 다시 올라옴. 항상 눈팅만 하다가 처음으로 후기 남김일단 최근 써본 노트북 실사용 용도로 산 lg 짭그램 4300u, 990g작년 이맘 때 갑자기, 사실 달마다 후기 글 남기려고 했는데, 1달 + 2주가 지나니 그 후로는 큰 변화가 없어서 150일쯤 지났겠다 후기 남김. 조금씩 좋아지긴 했지만 크게 차도가 없더군요.
이런 증상을 겪고 있는 사람들은 종종 치료 방법으로 봉침을 고려하게 되죠. 외래 입원 검진비 약침 봉침 추나요법 동작침 한약 물리치료 비급여 진료비, 첩약 건강보험 적용 안내 자생한방병원. 실리콘링은 안전한 의료용 실리콘으로 만들어져 한국식약청 kfda에서도 정식 승인을 받은 재료입니다, 다래한방병원은 따듯한 마음으로 환자와 함께 커뮤니케이션합니다. 약침 봉침 하는데가 장사 더 잘되던데.
허리디스크는 뭉치고 단축된 허리 주변 근육만 풀어줘도 증상이 좋아집니다. 꽃을 든 남자 20년 넘게 사용했는데 한번 바꿔보고 싶어서 구매했어요. 나다움 한의원 신재승 원장의 통증타파 봉침 2개의 글 목록열기.
척추나 한의원에서는 매우 정밀한 농도 조절을 통해 안전하게 봉침 시술을 하기 때문에, 봉침 치료를 고려하신다면 척추나 한의원을 방문해주세요.. 촬영을 마치고 절뚝 거리는 저의 다리를 보시더니 다리 염증엔 벌침이 최고라고 하시던.. 후기 인터뷰 mri로 보는 치료결과 환자가 직접 쓴 치료후기 안면신경마비 침 + 신바로약침약침봉침 + msat기타 + 추나요법 68,440157,840원..
촬영을 마치고 절뚝 거리는 저의 다리를 보시더니 다리 염증엔 벌침이 최고라고 하시던. 각 사마귀는 발현되는 병변이 다른데, 보통 심상성사마귀의 경우에는 주로 손에, 편평 사마귀의 경우에는 주로 얼굴에, 발바닥 사마귀는 주로 발 혹은, Com › zkdkcl6 › 221670883190봉침 후기ㅡ 봉침 맞은후 심한 붓기 부종에 대하여15일 일기, 그래서 전 글은 호들갑이 쫌 많이 섞임. Com › mgallery › board거위발건염6주 봉침치료 2주째 치료3회차 후기 러닝 마이너 갤러리. 좀 떠넘기는 기분이 들기도 했지만 가라는데 가야지 결국 아무것도 못하고 나와서 응급실행.
유진 냥 방귀 척추나 한의원에서는 매우 정밀한 농도 조절을 통해 안전하게 봉침 시술을 하기 때문에, 봉침 치료를 고려하신다면 척추나 한의원을 방문해주세요. 조금씩 좋아지긴 했지만 크게 차도가 없더군요. 정형외과가서 ims 존나아픈침+체외충격파. 손목건초염 치료 기록 90% 나았어요. 봉침 주사가 들어가는 동안 이를 악물고 참아야만 합니다. 원더스갤
유미노 리무 마이팬스 이것은 세포막 인지질에서의 포스 포리 파제의 작용으로 아라키돈산이 생기는 과정을 차단하며, 염증반응에 관여하는 보체계c3의 활성을 억제하고 이 과정에서. 봉침 오케이 우리동네는 약침을 주로 놔주시던데 봉침 놔주세요 라고 직접적으로 얘기해도 실례가 안될까. 촬영을 마치고 절뚝 거리는 저의 다리를 보시더니 다리 염증엔 벌침이 최고라고 하시던. 약침 봉침치료좀 해보자고해서 첫날 맞고 3일뒤에 또 맞는식으로 2주정도 맞았는데 방사통이 확실히 많이 줄었어요 10년도 넘은 디스크라 재발해서 요통없이 방사통만 와서 진짜 삶의질이 많이 떨어졌는데 침에 대해 상당히 부정적인 시각으로 바라봤지만. 목디스크 터졌을때 도수 잘못받다가 큰일납니다. 유식민경 현커
위대한 박현우 손절 이런 증상을 겪고 있는 사람들은 종종 치료 방법으로 봉침을 고려하게 되죠. 나다움 한의원 신재승 원장의 통증타파 봉침 2개의 글 목록열기. Redirecting to sgall. Com › mgallery › board거위발건염6주 봉침치료 2주째 치료3회차 후기 러닝 마이너 갤러리. 거위발건염 6주차침치료 2주째 봉침 3회째 낫는거같기도하고 더아픈거같기도하고 dc official app. 유축기 디시
원피스 1110 우선 제아봉침의 지속시간이 정해져있다. 척추나 한의원에서는 매우 정밀한 농도 조절을 통해 안전하게 봉침 시술을 하기 때문에, 봉침 치료를 고려하신다면 척추나 한의원을 방문해주세요. 뉴 위너크림 200ml100ml 2box남성강화단련롱파워. 각 사마귀는 발현되는 병변이 다른데, 보통 심상성사마귀의 경우에는 주로 손에, 편평 사마귀의 경우에는 주로 얼굴에, 발바닥 사마귀는 주로 발 혹은. 봉침치료를 시작하기 전처럼 자다가 수없이 깨는 새벽통증이 다시 찾아왔고, 회사에서도 10분이상 앉아있으면 바로 통증이 시작되었다.
원피스 1기 자막 디시 봉침 오케이 우리동네는 약침을 주로 놔주시던데 봉침 놔주세요 라고 직접적으로 얘기해도 실례가 안될까. 환자에게 적절한 농도를 찾기 위해 1주2주 정도 적응기간을 가진뒤 미세하게 농도를 높여나가면 안전합니다. 보존치료로 5달다녓고 지금도 다니고있음 34 팽윤 45파열직전돌출 협착 51 심한돌출 협착을 앓고있음 일단 난 한의원. 사실 달마다 후기 글 남기려고 했는데, 1달 + 2주가 지나니 그 후로는 큰 변화가 없어서 150일쯤 지났겠다 후기 남김. 거위발건염 6주차침치료 2주째 봉침 3회째 낫는거같기도하고 더아픈거같기도하고 dc official app.
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.
사기성 짙은 기술이니 단점도 만만치 않게 크다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.