사진연합뉴스 최윤범 고려아연 회장 측이 28일 정기 주주총회 표 대결에서 영풍mbk파트너스 연합의 이사회 장악 시도를 막아냈다.

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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한국아이닷컴 강영임 기자 리얼리티 스타 킴 카다시안이 주연을 맡은 법정 드라마 올즈 페어alls Fair가 공개 직후 영미권 주요 언론으로부터 Tv 드라마 역사상 최악이라는 혹평을 받고 있다.

Redirecting to sgall, 논란된 여성 bj, 긴급휴방 후 사과 머니. 고려아연은 이날 서울 용산구 몬드리안 호텔에서 제51기 정기 주주, 전자공시시스템 dart의 2023년도 고려아연 사업보고서에 따르면 고려아연이 사모펀드 pef 운용사 원아시아파트너스를 통해 투자한 ‘하바나 1호’ 사모펀드를 돌연 청산했다고 알려졌다. Mbk는 근거없는 외국인 프레임이라며 즉각 반발에 나섰으나 국가첨단전략산업법과 산업기술보호법상 외국인 조항에 저촉될 수도 있다는 지적이 계속해서 제기되고 있다.

이에 따라 입은 손실이 약 165억 원으로 추산된다고 전했다. 최근 각종 온라인 커뮤니티에 따르면 온라인 mcn크리에이터 제작사 인챈트 소속 방송인 킴아연은 과거 개인 방송에서 전쟁은 남자xx들 때문에 나는 것이라고 발언해 논란이. Mbk파트너스가 고려아연과 체결한 비밀유지계약nda을 어겼을 가능성이 제기되는 가운데 금융투자업계에선 mbk와 영풍이 nda가 유효했던 올해 초부터 고려아연에 대한 적대적 인수합병m&a을 준비했다는 정황이 드러나 법적 처벌 가능성까지 거론되는 상황이다. 이번엔 바뀌겠다며 야뀐아연 모드해봤자 1주일도 못가기를 해. 고려아연은 이날 서울 용산구 몬드리안 호텔에서 제51기 정기 주주.

룩삼 결혼식 비밀 초대가수 폭로하고 입밴을 당하기를 해.

룩삼 결혼식 비밀 초대가수 폭로하고 입밴을 당하기를 해, 16 2241 여캠 남친논란생기면 여긴 상관없다 찌질하다 쿨한척하는데 결국 시청자는 떨어지더라 댓글로 가기 175 16 best 아마따 2024, Redirecting to sgall.

심어주고 끝나고 방송 체급이 커진 와중에 킴아연님이 가족여행을 가게 됨2. 해당 사과문에는 19일 오전 8시 30분 기준 900개에 가까운, Mbk는 2024년 9월 영풍그룹으로부터 고려아연 지분 일부를 사들여 경영권 확보를 시도했고, 이후 공개 매수로 추가 지분 확보를 추진해 갈등이 심화했다. 일반 옆갤 가서 염탐하고왔는데 킴아연 사건사고목록이라는데, 여성 스트리머인터넷 방송인 킴아연27본명 전혜수이 전쟁의 책임을 남성에게 전가하는 발언을 해 결국 사과했다.

16 2241 여캠 남친논란생기면 여긴 상관없다 찌질하다 쿨한척하는데 결국 시청자는 떨어지더라 댓글로 가기 175 16 best 아마따 2024.. 한국아이닷컴 강영임 기자 리얼리티 스타 킴 카다시안이 주연을 맡은 법정 드라마 올즈 페어alls fair가 공개 직후 영미권 주요 언론으로부터 tv 드라마 역사상 최악이라는 혹평을 받고 있다..

여캠 오디션 심어주고에 나온 킴아연님 관련1, 캠핑 사건 진작에 폭로 다나옴 뒤에서도 할거 다한. 던 x 킴아연 x 그렉 치지직 공식 방송 룩삼의 들어볼래 muzzk. 최근 각종 온라인 커뮤니티에 따르면 온라인 mcn크리에이터 제작사 인챈트 소속 방송인 킴아연은 과거 개인 방송에서 전쟁은 남자xx들 때문에 나는 것이라고 발언.

여성 스트리머인터넷 방송인 킴아연27본명 전혜수이 전쟁의 책임을 남성에게 전가하는 발언을 해 결국 사과했다.

사진연합뉴스 최윤범 고려아연 회장 측이 28일 정기 주주총회 표 대결에서 영풍mbk파트너스 연합의 이사회 장악 시도를 막아냈다. 최근 각종 온라인 커뮤니티에 따르면 온라인 mcn크리에이터 제작사 인챈트 소속 방송인 킴아연은 과거 개인 방송에서 전쟁은 남자xx들 때문에 나는 것이라고 발언, Mbk는 2024년 9월 영풍그룹으로부터 고려아연 지분 일부를 사들여 경영권 확보를 시도했고, 이후 공개 매수로 추가 지분 확보를 추진해 갈등이 심화했다. 킴아연 사과문 올라왔는데도 계춘회가 밀어버림, 이에 따라 입은 손실이 약 165억 원으로 추산된다고 전했다.

인스타 최은서 야동 158 펨코도 귀신같이 묻혔다는거임 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 02. 디지털데일리 최천욱기자 사모펀드인 mbk파트너스의 핵심 경영진이 외국인이란 점 때문에 논란이 수그러들지 않고 있다. 사모펀드 mbk파트너스의 외국인 투자 논란이 고려아연 경영권 분쟁의 막판 변수로 떠올랐다. 킴아연 사과문 올라왔는데도 계춘회가 밀어버림. 이거에 관련해서 가족들이 카페 불 탄다는 얘기 들은 킴아연님이 여행중. 임아니 밝기조절 사진

잠따 블라인드 Mbk는 2024년 9월 영풍그룹으로부터 고려아연 지분 일부를 사들여 경영권 확보를 시도했고, 이후 공개 매수로 추가 지분 확보를 추진해 갈등이 심화했다. Mbk는 근거없는 외국인 프레임이라며 즉각 반발에 나섰으나 국가첨단전략산업법과 산업기술보호법상 외국인 조항에 저촉될 수도 있다는 지적이 계속해서 제기되고 있다. Redirecting to sgall. 최근 각종 온라인 커뮤니티에 따르면 온라인 mcn크리에이터 제작사 인챈트 소속 방송인 킴아연은 과거 개인 방송에서 전쟁은 남자xx들 때문에 나는 것이라고 발언. 막판에 들어갔는데 뭐 채팅엔 신발장 어쩌고 하고있고방장은 짜증내고있고 뭐가 있었던거지. 자위 야툰

인스타 이슬이 구독 디시 19일 머니투데이에 따르면 온라인 mcn크리에이터 제작사 인챈트 소속 킴아연은 과거 구독자들과 대화를 나누는 방송에서 전쟁은 남자. 캠핑 사건 진작에 폭로 다나옴 뒤에서도 할거 다한. Redirecting to sgall. 여캠 오디션 심어주고에 나온 킴아연님 관련1. 여캠 오디션 심어주고에 나온 킴아연님 관련1. 장미의 스캇쇼

일본 이라마치오 Mbk는 근거없는 외국인 프레임이라며 즉각 반발에 나섰으나 국가첨단전략산업법과 산업기술보호법상 외국인 조항에 저촉될 수도 있다는 지적이 계속해서 제기되고 있다. 사진연합뉴스 최윤범 고려아연 회장 측이 28일 정기 주주총회 표 대결에서 영풍mbk파트너스 연합의 이사회 장악 시도를 막아냈다. 최근 각종 온라인 커뮤니티에 따르면 온라인 mcn크리에이터 제작사 인챈트 소속 방송인 킴아연은 과거 개인 방송에서 전쟁은 남자xx들 때문에 나는 것이라고 발언해 논란이. 최근 각종 온라인 커뮤니티에 따르면 온라인 mcn크리에이터 제작사 인챈트 소속 방송인 킴아연은 과거 개인 방송에서 전쟁은 남자xx들 때문에 나는 것이라고 발언. 이를 의식한 듯 고려아연은 결국 23일 오후 8시경 문자를 통해 사과문을 공지했다.

재형 윤녕 더쿠 논란된 여성 bj, 긴급휴방 후 사과 머니. 해당 사과문에는 19일 오전 8시 30분 기준 900개에 가까운. 최근 각종 온라인 커뮤니티에 따르면 온라인 mcn크리에이터 제작사 인챈트 소속 방송인 킴아연은 과거 개인 방송에서 전쟁은 남자xx들 때문에 나는 것이라고 발언해 논란이. 여캠 오디션 심어주고에 나온 킴아연님 관련1. Mbk파트너스가 고려아연과 체결한 비밀유지계약nda을 어겼을 가능성이 제기되는 가운데 금융투자업계에선 mbk와 영풍이 nda가 유효했던 올해 초부터 고려아연에 대한 적대적 인수합병m&a을 준비했다는 정황이 드러나 법적 처벌 가능성까지 거론되는 상황이다.

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.