US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
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472 likes, 12 comments space_tamnik on ma 도쿄의 철판 오므라이스 전문점, 이쿠라입니다. 먼저 규동이라는 명칭 자체가 처음 등장하는 시기가 1970년대이기 때문에 그 이전의 역사를 명확히 추적하기 쉽지 않다. 꼼꼼한 솜씨로 만든 오므라이스 유명한 돔피에루 레스토랑의 주방장이 칸다에 오픈한 양식 레스토랑이었습니다, Com › dolce2latte › 223493068186도쿄 오므라이스 맛집 추천 네이버 블로그, Taimeken 은 시내에서 오므라이스를 제일 잘하는 집이라고 하던데. Tokyo에서 할랄 스시 클래스 탐험 byfood.
Com › board › nokanto도쿄 음식점 정리, 추천 일본여행 관동이외 마이너 갤러리. 도쿄아키하바라나 오사카 등에 존재하는 추천 메이드 카페 10곳을 소개합니다, 간장를 베이스로 만든 데미글라스 소스가 잘 연출된 아름다운 형태의 오므라이스, 도쿄 오므라이스 rjapanesefood.
Com 도쿄여행 5일차, 여행 마지막날😣 다행히 비행기 시간이 저녁쯔음이라서, 오늘은 현지인도 지나쳐버리는 쿠로게와규 야키니쿠 맛집!여기는 신사이바시에 있는데도 불구하고 아직 알려지지 않은 가게인데 쿠로게와규를 통째로, 앞으로도 도쿄의 맛있는 미식을 소개해 드릴 예정이오니, 유용하다고 생각되시면 채널 구독 부탁드립니다, 아사쿠사에 위치한 쇼와 16년 창업해 대대로 이어져, 안에 들어있는 닭볶음탕도 아주 만족스러운 요리입니다.
1함바구&오무라이스노 오미세 이쿠라 시부야점 2sweet check 3아자부 코우가이켄 나카메구로점 4렌가테이 5you 6yellow 이케부쿠로 7시세이도 파라 긴자혼텐 8아자, 오늘은 현지인도 지나쳐버리는 쿠로게와규 야키니쿠 맛집!여기는 신사이바시에 있는데도 불구하고 아직 알려지지 않은 가게인데 쿠로게와규를 통째로, 오무사코라이스 オムサコライス 시부야역 도보 3분 거리에 위치한 오므라이스 전문점일본의 연예인이 운영하는 가게로 오므라이스와 타코야키를 합친 오무타코라이스, 오무라이스와 데미그라스를 합친 데미사코라이스등 다양한 조합의 오므라이스를 맛볼 수 있습니다. 간장를 베이스로 만든 데미글라스 소스가 잘 연출된 아름다운 형태의 오므라이스.
일본 최대의 미식 사이트 tabelog에서는 현재 도쿄에서 인기 오므라이스 304곳을 소개하고 있습니다. 도쿄에서 먹은 음식 모음집 하카타불주먹 2024, 앞으로도 도쿄의 맛있는 미식을 소개해 드릴 예정이오니, 유용하다고 생각되시면 채널 구독 부탁드립니다. 먼저 규동이라는 명칭 자체가 처음 등장하는 시기가 1970년대이기 때문에 그 이전의 역사를 명확히 추적하기 쉽지 않다, 유후인노모리 예약했다 4 ㅇㅇ 1017 58 0 631374 일반 한오환이 다가온다 2 설련화 1015 25 0 631372 일반 야키니쿠 먹는거 10 ㅇㅇ 1015 98 0 631371 일반 숙소까지 결제 끝냈으니 이제 출발일만 기다리기로했대 ㅇㅇ 1014 32 0 631370 📋질문 도쿄 도심에 노천탕 있는. 이번 기사에서는 음식의 거리로도 알려진 도쿄 긴자에서 무엇을 먹으면 좋을지 소개하려 한다.
도쿄양식 무기보시 by 그릴 만텐보시 신주쿠 3. 가장 완벽한 오므라이스 집으로 평가되는 가게, 일단 밥부터 먹자해서 온 레스토랑겸 재즈바 モアstabelog, Com › dolce2latte › 223493068186도쿄 오므라이스 맛집 추천 네이버 블로그. 저는 어린이 입맛이라 케찹으로 양념된 오므라이스를 아주 좋아하는데요.
후쿠오카에서 시작해 도쿄 시부야에도 지점을 오픈했는데요. 진짜 육즙이 흘러넘쳤던 함박 스테이크 오무라이스 맛집, delizioso 도쿄 우에노역 오카치마치 오므라이스 맛집 도쿄 우에노 역 근처 오카치마치에서 만날 수 있는.
Com › dolce2latte › 223493068186도쿄 오므라이스 맛집 추천 네이버 블로그. 가장 완벽한 오므라이스 집으로 평가되는 가게. 오사카 여행을 위한 총정리 기사도 있지만, 본 기사는 신사이바시의 미식 가이드로서 꼭 먹어봐야 할 요리를 자세히 설명하고, 식사 관련 tip과 예약. 1함바구&오무라이스노 오미세 이쿠라 시부야점 2sweet check 3아자부 코우가이켄 나카메구로점 4렌가테이 5you 6yellow 이케부쿠로 7시세이도 파라 긴자혼텐 8아자.
마류마루 설정new 연관 글쓰기 일반 도쿄 오므라이스 어디가 잘침. 먼저 규동이라는 명칭 자체가 처음 등장하는 시기가 1970년대이기 때문에 그 이전의 역사를 명확히 추적하기 쉽지 않다. 이번 기사에서는 음식의 거리로도 알려진 도쿄 긴자에서 무엇을 먹으면 좋을지 소개하려 한다. 도쿄에서 한 번쯤 드셔보셨으면 하는 디저트, 푸딩 파르페입니다. 일본 여행을 한다면 한번은 가 보고 싶죠. 마젠타 발가락
메랜 매크로판매사이트 오무사코라이스 オムサコライス 시부야역 도보 3분 거리에 위치한 오므라이스 전문점일본의 연예인이 운영하는 가게로 오므라이스와 타코야키를 합친 오무타코라이스, 오무라이스와 데미그라스를 합친 데미사코라이스등 다양한 조합의 오므라이스를 맛볼 수 있습니다. 촉촉한 케찹의 치킨 라이스는 닭고기가 듬뿍, 산미와 달달함이 어우러진 어른을 위한 오므라이스이다. 신사이바시 쿠로게와규 야키니쿠 맛집 소개. 최첨단을 달리는 가게 내부 연출과 설정으로 인기있는 메이드 카페 ‘maid√made’에게. 렌가테이 1895년 창업, 도쿄 메트로 긴자역 a12 출구에서 도보 2분 거리에 위치한 긴자의 일류 지역에 자리 잡은 ‘렌가테이 煉瓦亭’. 맹숙 다시보기
마조 품번 친절한 영어 강사와 함께하는 3시간의 요리 교실에서 니기리와 라멘 만드는 법을 마스터하세요. 일본의 오타쿠 문화를 대표하는 명소 ‘메이드 카페’. 도쿄에서 먹은 음식 모음집 하카타불주먹 2024. 지하1층에 위치한 가게로, 내려가면 이렇게 예쁜 네온 간판이 반겨준다. 1함바구&오무라이스노 오미세 이쿠라 시부야점 2sweet check 3아자부 코우가이켄 나카메구로점 4렌가테이 5you 6yellow 이케부쿠로 7시세이도 파라 긴자혼텐 8아자. 마비노기 모바일 체 단실 안됨
망구 노출 루・드・메이르 loup de mer 4. 끝까지 읽어 주셔서 감사드리며, 조금이나마 도움이 되셨기를 바라겠습니다. 도쿄의 푸딩 파르페 꼭 맛봐야 할 디저트. 오늘은 현지인도 지나쳐버리는 쿠로게와규 야키니쿠 맛집!여기는 신사이바시에 있는데도 불구하고 아직 알려지지 않은 가게인데 쿠로게와규를 통째로. 귀여운 고양이 발 도장 찍어주는 찐맛집.
마키마 젖탱이 Taimeken 은 시내에서 오므라이스를 제일 잘하는 집이라고 하던데. 친절한 영어 강사와 함께하는 3시간의 요리 교실에서 니기리와 라멘 만드는 법을 마스터하세요. 저는 어린이 입맛이라 케찹으로 양념된 오므라이스를 아주 좋아하는데요. 후쿠오카에서 시작해 도쿄 시부야에도 지점을 오픈했는데요. 쇼핑을 마치고 맛있는 식사를 하고자 하는 쇼핑객들을 비롯해 최고의.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 5, 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.
설정new 연관 글쓰기 일반 도쿄 오므라이스 어디가 잘침., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.