Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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주로 엔카 의 멜로디에 힙합 과 jpop 을 매시업 하. magic kaito 의 주인공이자 명탐정 코난 의 등장인물. 12세이상관람가 영화 어반 판타지 영화 미국의 음악 영화 미국의 뮤지컬 영화 미국의 액션 영화 미국의 코미디 영화 퇴마물 코미디 공포 아이돌물 x sns밈 kpop 대한민국을 배경으로 한 작품 대한민국 21세기창작물 조선창작물 한미관계 나무위키 영화, 2k 사쿠라와 쓰네이드 거유 애니메이션 헨타이 터치. Days ago 1990년대 후반부터 2000년대 초반까지 엄청난 인기를 누렸던 듀오 컨츄리꼬꼬 의 멤버이며, 21 그룹의 활동이 중단된 이후 각종 예능에서 재밌고 개성있는 캐릭터를 선보이며 폭발적인 인기를 누렸다.

캡콤은 네트워크 게임에 도전하기 위하여 레이싱 게임, 바이오하자드 외전, 그리고 액션성이 강한 게임을 1999년 즈음부터 기획하고 있었다, 헨타이 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전헨타이 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, 주로 엔카 의 멜로디에 힙합 과 jpop 을 매시업 하.

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Com › qna › detail특수부대 종류 좀 알려주세용 지식in. 스마트폰 의 경우 자체적으로 핫스팟 기능을 지원하지만 피처폰 은 wpan 을 제외하면 지원이 안 된다, 넓은 의미로는 소귀나무과 소귀나무속 myrica에 속하는 2. 카테고리 폭 한국야동, 헨타이 등 50개 카테고리 제공, 한반도에서는 오직 제주도 에서만 자생하며, 서귀포시에서 천지연, 보목까지 넓게 분포한다, 스마트폰 의 경우 자체적으로 핫스팟 기능을 지원하지만 피처폰 은 wpan 을 제외하면 지원이 안 된다.

조개티비 막힘 스마트폰 의 경우 자체적으로 핫스팟 기능을 지원하지만 피처폰 은 wpan 을 제외하면 지원이 안 된다. 분포 인구가 두 번째로 많은 성씨인 이씨와 중성적인. 개 의 산책은 보호자의 선택이 아닌 의무이다. 좁은 의미로는 소귀나무 myrica rubra 한 종을 가리킨다. 이 장치는 피처폰에 연결하여 휴대폰의 신호를 통해 wifi 핫스팟을 해주는 장치다. 조복서 화보

제타 언리밋 뜻 나무위키hentai haven 나무위키, 2k 사쿠라와 쓰네이드 거유 애니메이션 헨타이 터치. 개 의 산책은 보호자의 선택이 아닌 의무이다. 거대한 몬스터를 협력하여 쓰러트리고 소재를 파밍하여 장비를 강화한다는 컨셉은 이 때부터 세워졌는데 당초에는 누구라도 참여할 수 있고 고기를 굽거나. nuno 누누nuno는 포르투갈어권의 이름이다. 정치 政 治, politics란 기본적으로 지배계층이 나라 를 다스리는 일을 의미하지만, 사회적 가치가 다원화되고 시민의 정치 참여가 늘어난 현대에는 국가의 권력 을 획득하고 차지하고 유지하기 위한 모든 행위들로 확대되었다. 조이현 얼싸

제미나이 이미지 디시 주로 엔카 의 멜로디에 힙합 과 jpop 을 매시업 하. 나무위키hentai haven 나무위키, 2k 사쿠라와 쓰네이드 거유 애니메이션 헨타이 터치. 켄드릭 라마 kendrick lamar, 1987년 6월 17일 로 알려진 켄드릭 라마 더크워스 kendrick lamar duckworth는 미국 캘리포니아 콤프턴 출신의 힙합 음악가이다. 공연 진행팀의 삽질이 있었는데, 모든 남자 화장실을 임시 여성 화장실로 만들어버리고 1칸짜리 장애인 남자. Days ago 1990년대 후반부터 2000년대 초반까지 엄청난 인기를 누렸던 듀오 컨츄리꼬꼬 의 멤버이며, 21 그룹의 활동이 중단된 이후 각종 예능에서 재밌고 개성있는 캐릭터를 선보이며 폭발적인 인기를 누렸다. 제시 cctv 디시

제니 레전드 디시 이 유튜버들이 나온 707은 어떤 부대일까요. Days ago 에반게리온 エヴァンゲリオン evangelion 영어 더빙판은 이방겔리온 정도로 발음하며 에반게리온의 약칭인. 헨타이 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전헨타이 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 첫 음절의 초성이 t이고 두 번째 음절의 초성이 m이었을 것으로 생각된다. 신문가게 v4는 최신 뉴스와 정보를 제공하는 플랫폼입니다.

정하연 남친 디시 Days ago 에반게리온 エヴァンゲリオン evangelion 영어 더빙판은 이방겔리온 정도로 발음하며 에반게리온의 약칭인. 켄드릭 라마 kendrick lamar, 1987년 6월 17일 로 알려진 켄드릭 라마 더크워스 kendrick lamar duckworth는 미국 캘리포니아 콤프턴 출신의 힙합 음악가이다. Xanimu 헨타이 및 게임 포르노 튜브 나무로 만든 음부 태그가 달린 포르노 비디오가 가득하며, 매일 새로운 비디오를 추가하고 있습니다. 신문가게 v4는 최신 뉴스와 정보를 제공하는 플랫폼입니다. 캡콤은 네트워크 게임에 도전하기 위하여 레이싱 게임, 바이오하자드 외전, 그리고 액션성이 강한 게임을 1999년 즈음부터 기획하고 있었다.

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.

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.