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.
여친이 옷 맵시때문에 가슴수술을 한다고 하네요 약간 컴플렉스 있는거같아요 평소에도 거의 무조건 뽕브라를 착용하더라구요 저도 여친이 너무원하고 갠적으로 가슴보단 골반이랑 마른걸 좋아하는타입이라 신경을 별로 안써서 반대안하고 응원 한다고. 내가 수술하면서 느낀 단점은 어쨌든 수술가슴은 자연에 못 따라가는건 사실임 그리고 주기적으로 보형물 검사 받을때 드는 비용이 너무 비싸고 비급여라 수십함 구형구축이 올 수 있다는 위험감+나이 들어서 보형물 갈아줘야 함. 남자들은 b컵에서 자연스럽게 수술한 여자보다 수술안한 a컵을 더 선호함. 여친 가슴수술 할까말까 특이점이 온다 마이너 갤러리.
수술 잘받아도 관리 못하면 뭉치고 딱딱해짐.. 정신 제대로 박힌 정상적인 남자는 절대로 지 여친이나 마눌한테 저런거 가슴수술 하지 말라고 해.. 호불호 다떠나서 걍 확실한거 무조건 만지면 암..
| 가슴성형한 여자를 첨부터 만나진않겠지만 결혼생각하는 오래사귄 여자친구가 가슴성형하면 개이득일듯. | 봐서까지는 모를수 있다고 해도 만지면 99프로 안다. | 실제로 만나서 만져보면 꼬무룩 해질 정도로 감흥이 없다. |
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| 이거 만져본 애들만 안다 과장좀 보태면 모래주머니 만지는 느낌임. | 최근 가슴수술관련 글 일주일치 보는데고민된다는 글 많아서 후기 작성함건전지b로 수술해달라고 함 250cc수술전 성경험은 딱 한번 있었는데 애무 경험x남자친구 없는 상태에서 내가 하고싶어서 수술함내돈내산이라서 부모님 반대도 없었고오히려 아빤 나랑 엄마한테 천만원짜리해주고싶다함. | 13% |
| 남자들은 b컵에서 자연스럽게 수술한 여자보다 수술안한 a컵을 더 선호함. | 여자친구 가슴에 대한 고민이 깊어갑니다 가슴때문에 결혼을 주저하는 제 자신이 우습다가도 평생 같이갈사람을 정하는건데 주저한다면 헤어져야되나 싶기도 합니다 그래서 제 나름의 해결책으로 가슴수술을 권유 하고싶은데 물론 제 욕심이니 비용은 제가. | 12% |
| 여친이 옷 맵시때문에 가슴수술을 한다고 하네요 약간 컴플렉스 있는거같아요 평소에도 거의 무조건 뽕브라를 착용하더라구요 저도 여친이 너무원하고 갠적으로 가슴보단 골반이랑 마른걸 좋아하는타입이라 신경을 별로 안써서 반대안하고 응원 한다고. | 내가 수술하면서 느낀 단점은 어쨌든 수술가슴은 자연에 못 따라가는건 사실임 그리고 주기적으로 보형물 검사 받을때 드는 비용이 너무 비싸고 비급여라 수십함 구형구축이 올 수 있다는 위험감+나이 들어서 보형물 갈아줘야 함. | 25% |
| Com › talk › 372378670여자친구한테 가슴수술 권유하고싶어요 네이트 판. | 블라인드 썸연애 가슴수술한 여자 그렇게 별로야. | 50% |
수술하고 12년 지난 여자들 동영상후기 본적있는데 출렁이는 무브멘트도 다 되고, 본인 손으로 주물주물하는거 보면 탱탱볼 안같긴했음.. 티 안난다는 애들도 있고 티 난다고 하는 애들이 있는거 보면 이거 기술마다 다르고 시간마다 다름.. 여친이 가슴커서 가슴가슴 노래부르다가 현 와이프만나서 결혼했는데 프러포즈하고 4일뒤에 고백하더래 수술했다고 그냥 어차피 해골물인거 그냥 계속.. 그러나 다시 수술하면 되기도 하니깐요..
이문제는 남자들 대머리 문제처럼 해결이 불가한 영역임. 39 옛날에 친구10명있는자리에서 이얘기햇을때 8명은 의슴극혐했고 1명 노상관 1명은 거거익선이라 찬성이엇음 그리고 수술가슴 구별하는건 걍 한번도 만져본적이없는거 아니면 그 땡땡한느낌 모를수가없음 2024. 여친이 옷 맵시때문에 가슴수술을 한다고 하네요 약간 컴플렉스 있는거같아요 평소에도 거의 무조건 뽕브라를 착용하더라구요 저도 여친이 너무원하고 갠적으로 가슴보단 골반이랑 마른걸 좋아하는타입이라 신경을 별로 안써서 반대안하고 응원 한다고.
내 전여친 했었는데 여자 피부마다 넣을수 있는 양이 다른데 a에서 d면 최대치로 넣는걸거다 옷입고있으면 이쁜데 벗겨놓으면 이질감 ㅈㄴ. 실제로 만나서 만져보면 꼬무룩 해질 정도로 감흥이 없다, 본인 찌찌크기에 큰 집착이 없었던 남자였음그치만 지금 여친을 만나게 되고 작지않은 사이즈에 오히려 큰편이지ㅇㅇ대만족을 하고있었는데모양이 진짜 너무 동그랗고 이쁜거임 여친도 체구가 작은편이고 말라서 수술인가 싶어서.
통보이별 디시 운동하면서 엉덩이는 커져가는데 가슴은 미세하게 빠지고. 티 안난다는 애들도 있고 티 난다고 하는 애들이 있는거 보면 이거 기술마다 다르고 시간마다 다름. 블라인드 썸연애 가슴수술한 여자 그렇게 별로야. 여친 가슴 수술 했는데 대만족임 ㅇㅇ61. 여친 가슴수술 할까말까 특이점이 온다 마이너 갤러리. 톳테 누리 게임
트위터 r 복귀 이문제는 남자들 대머리 문제처럼 해결이 불가한 영역임. 가슴확대수술 후기 part2 수술당일날 역시 조금 떨리긴 했어요 수술복으로 갈아입고 누워있는데 정말 긴장되고 춥고 그렇더라구여 하지만 간호사 언니들이 너무 편하게 해 주셔서 믿고 편하게 잠이들었어요. 가슴 수술 가장 직관적이고 가장 드라마틱한 변화가 일어나는게 바로 가슴 성형이기 때문 2. 냠 수술 안하면 자기 멘탈이 박살남 자기 눈에는 자기 흠만 보임. 진짜 딱 이런 상태거든확실히 예쁘더라. 탄지로 동생들
트위터 대리구매 디시 알빠노이기 때문임 ㅋㅋ 정작 남자들은 극혐하지. 수술하고 12년 지난 여자들 동영상후기 본적있는데 출렁이는 무브멘트도 다 되고, 본인 손으로 주물주물하는거 보면 탱탱볼 안같긴했음. 여친 가슴수술 할까말까 특이점이 온다 마이너 갤러리. 블라인드 썸연애 가슴수술한 여자 그렇게 별로야. 이거 만져본 애들만 안다 과장좀 보태면 모래주머니 만지는 느낌임. 탄지로 여자버전
탈콥 사격연습 본인도 컴플렉스고 나보고 여친가슴 커졌으면 좋겠냐고 맨날 물어볼정도. 와이프 여친 가슴수술 경험있는 형님들만 삼성디스플레이 k 2020. 본인 찌찌크기에 큰 집착이 없었던 남자였음그치만 지금 여친을 만나게 되고 작지않은 사이즈에 오히려 큰편이지ㅇㅇ대만족을 하고있었는데모양이 진짜 너무 동그랗고 이쁜거임 여친도 체구가 작은편이고 말라서 수술인가 싶어서. 이거 만져본 애들만 안다 과장좀 보태면 모래주머니 만지는 느낌임. 내 전여친 했었는데 여자 피부마다 넣을수 있는 양이 다른데 a에서 d면 최대치로 넣는걸거다 옷입고있으면 이쁜데 벗겨놓으면 이질감 ㅈㄴ.
토 요코 키즈 영상 디시 여친이 옷 맵시때문에 가슴수술을 한다고 하네요 약간 컴플렉스 있는거같아요 평소에도 거의 무조건 뽕브라를 착용하더라구요 저도 여친이 너무원하고 갠적으로 가슴보단 골반이랑 마른걸 좋아하는타입이라 신경을 별로 안써서 반대안하고 응원 한다고. 와이프 여친 가슴수술 경험있는 형님들만 삼성디스플레이 k 2020. Com › talk › 372378670여자친구한테 가슴수술 권유하고싶어요 네이트 판. 본인도 컴플렉스고 나보고 여친가슴 커졌으면 좋겠냐고 맨날 물어볼정도. 여친 가슴 수술 했는데 회계사 마이너 갤러리.
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.
여친 가슴 수술 했는데 대만족임 ㅇㅇ61., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.