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.
얘넨 왜 인기있는건지 1도 모르겠더라 잘생긴것도 아니고 노래가 유니크 한 것도 아니고. 산정 높이 올라가 굶어서 얼어죽는 눈 덮인 킬리만자로의 그 표범이고 싶다. Com › bbs › board다아는 유명작사가 보짓살 썰 익명 게시판|놀쟈 성인들의 파라다. 김이나는 1979년 4월 27일 서울특별시에서 태어난 대한민국의 유명 작사가이자 방송인이다.
산정 높이 올라가 굶어서 얼어죽는 눈 덮인 킬리만자로의 그 표범이고 싶다, 대만 현지 다수 매체에 따르면 유명 작사가인 리쿤청이 지난 8일 대장암으로 별세했다, 40살 연상 아빠 친구랑 결혼 작사가 리쿤청이 사망하자 부동산 팔아버린 린징언 출처 페이스북 40살 연상인 아빠 친구랑 결혼했던 소녀의 충격적인 근황이 전해졌다. 지난 2013년, 당시 미성년자였던 린징언 씨가 대만의 유명.익명 게시판 논현동에서 피티 3개월 정도 나한테 받았다.. 작사가가 인스타에 올려준 구조 당시 사진과 썰..주로 쓰는 곡은 팝발라드곡이나, 강은경 작사가 본인은 팝발라드와 r&b, jazz를 비롯해 rock, dance곡, 트로트까지 다양한 장르를 섭렵하고 있다. 히트곡이 300여 개이며 저작권료 수입 1위로 오르기도 하였다. 음반 표지를 위한 화보 촬영에 돌입하는가 하면 유명 작사가 이건우, 첫 방송에 이어 재등장한 동묘 박토벤 박현우 작곡가의 도움을 받아 데뷔곡 합정역 5번 출구 작업도 일사천리로 이뤄진다. 얘넨 왜 인기있는건지 1도 모르겠더라 잘생긴것도 아니고 노래가 유니크 한 것도 아니고.
그녀는 우드브리지 고등학교를 졸업한 후, 미술사를 전공하며 학문적 배경을 쌓았다.. 얘넨 왜 인기있는건지 1도 모르겠더라 잘생긴것도 아니고 노래가 유니크 한 것도 아니고..
당시 57세였던 리쿤청이 연애 중이라고 밝힌 여성의 나이가 17세였기 때문. 앞서 지난 2013년 미성년자였던 린징언과 대만 유명 작사가 리쿤청李坤城이 열애 사실을 공개해 논란이 됐다, Com › inter_news › 223686946054김이나 작사가 일베 논란 휩싸인 이유, Com › dgse2011 › posts지역활성화랩 마르텔로 망치tv세모직에서 유명 작사가 하해룡 선생, 재즈피아니스트로 활동하기 이전인 10대 후반 20대.
인사이트 김다솜 기자 40세 연하 미성년자와의 열애로 구설에 올랐던 대만 유명 작사가가 사망했다. 가슴 속 두려움과 분노 read more. 박주연 1962년 박주연 1962년 2월 11일 은 대한민국의 가수 겸 작사가이다.
싱어송라이터 밥 딜런 싱어송라이터 폴 사이먼 싱어송라이터 에이브릴 라빈 싱어송라이터 영어 singersongwriter는 싱어 singer와 송라이터 songwriter의 합성어로, 작사가, 작곡가, 가수 를 겸하는 사람을 이른다. 대한민국 의 작곡가, 작사가, 프로듀서, 문학시나리오, 기획아이디어에 관심있다면 지원해주세요.
| 에이팝 엔터테인먼트는 로엔엔터테인먼트 의 인력들 중 일부가 로엔 을 나와서 꾸린 회사로 조영철 프로듀서 및 김이나 작사가, 이민수 작곡가, g. | 2020년대에도 초등학교나 유치원 등에서 종종 가르치기도 하며, 1990년 12월 창단된 어린이 역사노래 부르기회에 속한 박문영 4 이 작사작곡했으며 같은 단체에 속한 1991년 처음 발표할 당시에는 코미디언 최영준 과 대학생 노래패 노사사 노래를 사랑하는 사람들가 불렀다. | 지난 11일 방송된 o tvn ‘프리한 19’에서는 상식을 깨는 지구촌의 각양각색 러브스토리를 소개했다. |
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| 인사이트 강유정 기자 40살 연상 아빠 친구와 결혼해 구설에 올랐던 여성의 근황이 전해졌다. | 대만의 유명 작사가 리쿤청의 연애사에 대해 전했다. | 대중음악대학 작사과에서 강의를 하기도 하였다. |
| 어느 영성가는 머리에서 가슴까지 30센티를 내려오는데 50년이 걸렸다고 했는데, 나는 빤냐처럼 그리운 사람들을 떠나서 지구를 몇바퀴 돌았다. | 챗지피티한테 내 장단점 물어봤더니 ai가 내 무의식까지 분석해준다고. | 산정 높이 올라가 굶어서 얼어죽는 눈 덮인 킬리만자로의 그 표범이고 싶다. |
| 2006년, 방송인 조영철과 결혼해 가정을 이루었으며, 이복 남동생으로는 케빈 킴이 있다. | 2006년, 방송인 조영철과 결혼해 가정을 이루었으며, 이복 남동생으로는 케빈 킴이 있다. | 19902000년대를 대표한 대중음악 작곡가 중 한명으로, 이문세, 임재범, 인순이, 김광석, 신승훈, 성시경, 임창정, 박진영, 엄정화, 김건모, 조성모, 김조한 등 수많은 유명 가수들의 명곡을 다수 작곡했다. |
| 21% | 26% | 53% |
"셀카 이벤트하다가 팬의 어머니한테서 전화가 온 거야 받았지" 팬 사랑이 한껏 묻어나는 언니 오빠들의 팬 에피소드 모음 조회수 65. 김이나 작사가 일베 논란 휩싸인 이유. 그중에서도 대만 유명 작사가 리쿤청李坤城의 이야기는 많은 이들에 충격을 안겼다. 인식 개선을 위해데뷔 10년 차 박재정, 작사에 집중한, 김호중에 대한 관계자들의 이야기 임영웅과 유재석강호동남진나훈아의 공통점은, Pt하니까 작사가 김이나 pt썰 또 생각나네 201805202412.
히트곡이 300여 개이며 저작권료 수입 1위로 오르기도 하였다, 싱어송라이터 밥 딜런 싱어송라이터 폴 사이먼 싱어송라이터 에이브릴 라빈 싱어송라이터 영어 singersongwriter는 싱어 singer와 송라이터 songwriter의 합성어로, 작사가, 작곡가, 가수 를 겸하는 사람을 이른다. Jtbc 월화드라마 ‘으라차차 와이키키’극본 김기호 송지은 송미소, 연출 이창민, 이하 ‘와이키키’ ost ‘와일드 드림wild dream’이 오늘12일 정오 공개된다. 팬티 1주년 축하✨ "팬티 오빠가 이런사람. 26일 방송된 kbs 2tv 예능 해피투게더3의 해투동결혼은 잘한 짓이다 특집에는 결혼 전도사로 나선 김진수박준형함소원심진화가 출연했다. 싱어송라이터 밥 딜런 싱어송라이터 폴 사이먼 싱어송라이터 에이브릴 라빈 싱어송라이터 영어 singersongwriter는 싱어 singer와 송라이터 songwriter의 합성어로, 작사가, 작곡가, 가수 를 겸하는 사람을 이른다.
약 5년 전 아깽이들 구조하다 만난 아이돌과 작사가의 인연, 나름 컴플렉스라 고딩 올라가면서 동네 헬스장 피티 받으면서 운동 시작함 첨 23 개월은 별문제 없이 지나갔는데 아무래도 체형에 그닥 변화가 안보여서 좀 짜증났음 하체에 살짝 근육이 붙은 느낌. 그런데 다른 회원들이 유명 작사가라고 말해줘서 아 그런 사람이구나 했. "셀카 이벤트하다가 팬의 어머니한테서 전화가 온 거야 받았지" 팬 사랑이 한껏 묻어나는 언니 오빠들의 팬 에피소드 모음 조회수 65.
에이팝 엔터테인먼트는 로엔엔터테인먼트 의 인력들 중 일부가 로엔 을 나와서 꾸린 회사로 조영철 프로듀서 및 김이나 작사가, 이민수 작곡가, g. T보단 f의 마인드로 임한다ㅋㅋ,, 부르기 쉬운지 마지막에 불러본다, 그녀는 우드브리지 고등학교를 졸업한 후, 미술사를 전공하며 학문적 배경을 쌓았다.
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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.
망치tv세모직에서 유명 작사가 하해룡 선생님을 모셨습니다‼️‼️ 김정민 마지막 약속, 안재욱 forever, 박상민 애원, 야다 진혼, 박정현 p., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.