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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공부해도 성과를 내지 못하는 사람들의 7가지 특징 1, 광대가 큰데 앞머리를 내리는 경우 광대를 더욱 강조시켜 광대가, 실제 얼굴 크기가 같음에도 크기가 다르게 보이는 이유를 알아보자, 동아사이언스 뉴스 404 페이지를 찾을 수 없습니다.
그럼 저 조그만한 공간에 눈코입이 다 들어가있어 머리가 커보임. 피부 탄력이 떨어지고 연부 조직을 지지하는 인대가 약해지기 때문이다. Com › svc › news_view살도 안 쪘는데 얼굴이 커보인다&mldr. Com › we5699_ › 223762749341머리 내렸을 때 얼굴이 커보이는 유형과 이유 네이버 블로그. 그럼 저 조그만한 공간에 눈코입이 다 들어가있어 머리가 커보임, 롤 페이커 3cm 텔도 다르게 보이는 이유.
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| 살 처짐 노화 등으로 살이 처지면 얼굴이 커보일 수 있다. | 머리를 풀렀을때 얼굴이 커보이고 볼살 광대가 부각되 보이는 분들이 있습니다, 반대로 머리를 묶었을때 얼굴이 작아보여서 자주 묶는 분들이 많을거예요. | 좋아요 8309개,얼굴형 전문 헤어개꿀팁진리뷰 @jin_mijang_official 님의 tiktok 틱톡 동영상 각기 다른 얼굴형에 어울리는 헤어스타일을 알아보세요. |
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| 진미장살롱에서 맞춤 스타일링과 꿀팁을 제공합니다. | 중요한 일정, 약속으로 시간들여 머리 예쁘게 하고 나갔는데 묶은게 더 낫다는 이야기를 듣거나 머리 내렸을 때 얼굴이 더 커보이고, 부해보여 고민인 분들 있으시죠. | 머리를 항공 승무원과 같은 모습으로 묶어준다면 머리를 작아 보이게 만드는 데 도움을 받을 수 있습니다. |
| 머리카락을 지키기 위한 영양소와 두피 마사지법, 탈모 예방 습관까지 총정리. | 자르고 2주후에는 비교적 괜찮은데 미용실가서 옆에 9미리+뒷머리 상고로 밀고 앞머리 눈썹 가리게 해달라고하면 꼭 1주일 동안은 얼굴 넙대대해보이고 광대 부각됨 평소에는 머리 작다는 말 듣는데 미용실만 갔다오면 얼굴 커. | 머리카락을 지키기 위한 영양소와 두피 마사지법, 탈모 예방 습관까지 총정리. |
| 원래 내가 크긴한데다운펌하니깐 길어보이고 얼굴튀어나와보이는게 심함내 착각임. | Com › board › view사진 찍어왔는데 대가뤼 커보이는 이유좀 알려주라 대두 마이너 갤. | 울좆 머리 작은데 사진 찍으면 커보이는 이유가 머긔. |
| Com › we5699_ › 223762749341머리 내렸을 때 얼굴이 커보이는 유형과 이유 네이버 블로그. | 17 감소했음, 두신지수와 키를 역산해 머리수직길이를 구해보면 1986년엔 21cm, 2021년엔 22. | 연예인 머리는 구렛나루만 눌려있고 위에 옆머리는 볼륨이 살짝 살아있어서 자연스러운 느낌이 나는 반면에 일반인 머리는 옆머리까지 미친듯이 눌러놔서 이상해보임 요즘 길거리보면 얼굴이 머리통보다 커보이는 사람들 많아보임 맨 아래는 일반인 좋은 예시. |
중요한 일정, 약속으로 시간들여 머리 예쁘게 하고 나갔는데 묶은게 더 낫다는 이야기를 듣거나 머리 내렸을 때 얼굴이 더 커보이고, 부해보여 고민인 분들 있으시죠. 먼저 머리 자르고 뭔가 펑퍼짐한 느낌이 드는 분들은 광대 부각이 있는 경우에요. 왜 유난히 머리를 내렸을때 얼굴이 커보인다면 왜 그런지 알아보면 좋을 정보 가져왔습니다.
미개한인터넷일진 내가지금그럼 헬스 조지게하고 프로틴 글루타민 아미노 크레아틴 다쳐먹고 그나마 사람됨 키 184인데 머가리커서 항상 사람들한테 키그렇게 안커보이는데 이소리들을때마다 자살하고싶음 1 에투 2017. 자르고 2주후에는 비교적 괜찮은데 미용실가서 옆에 9미리+뒷머리 상고로 밀고 앞머리 눈썹 가리게 해달라고하면 꼭 1주일 동안은 얼굴 넙대대해보이고 광대 부각됨 평소에는 머리 작다는 말 듣는데 미용실만 갔다오면 얼굴 커. 울좆 머리 작은데 사진 찍으면 커보이는 이유가 머긔.
아니 그건 큰게맞긔 대리인척 하는거야. 자외선은 피부 노화를 촉진하는 주범이다. 이목구비 배치이목구비가 아래에 위치할수록 얼굴이 조밀하고 작아보이는 경향이 있다. 자외선은 피부 노화를 촉진하는 주범이다.
This is style consultant, rarelee it analyzes face shape body shape features and provides style tips that fit it, 피부 탄력이 떨어지고 연부 조직을 지지하는 인대가 약해지기 때문이다. 그렇다면 머리가 커지거나 솟은두상콘헤드이. 울좆 머갈은 자로옵이 작다고 인정해줬는데 병신아ㅋㅋ.
썬비키 누드 미개한인터넷일진 내가지금그럼 헬스 조지게하고 프로틴 글루타민 아미노 크레아틴 다쳐먹고 그나마 사람됨 키 184인데 머가리커서 항상 사람들한테 키그렇게 안커보이는데 이소리들을때마다 자살하고싶음 1 에투 2017. 먼저 외출하기 30분 전에는 자외선 차단제를 꼭 발라줘야 한다. Url 복사 이웃추가 머리 자르고 뭔가 어색하고 못생겨지는 것 같다면 1분만 보세요. Com › svc › news_view살도 안 쪘는데 얼굴이 커보인다&mldr. 본인은 예쁘다고 하는데 커마가 기괴해보이는 이유 연운. 아라이 리마 가슴
아리스 루루 품번 공부해도 성과를 내지 못하는 사람들의 7가지 특징. 머리카락을 지키기 위한 영양소와 두피 마사지법, 탈모 예방 습관까지 총정리. Url 복사 이웃추가 머리 자르고 뭔가 어색하고 못생겨지는 것 같다면 1분만 보세요. 사각턱, 광대, 이목구비 비율, 목길이 등 다양한 특징을 모두 파악해 종합적으로 분석해야 하고, 무엇보다도 글이 아닌 사진으로 봐야 정확한 진단을 드. This is style consultant, rarelee it analyzes face shape body shape features and provides style tips that fit it. 시스트트위터
신사이바시 패션헬스 실제 얼굴 크기가 같음에도 크기가 다르게 보이는 이유를 알아보자. 머리카락을 지키기 위한 영양소와 두피 마사지법, 탈모 예방 습관까지 총정리. Com › board › view싱글벙글 머리 크기의 중요성 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 머리카락을 지키기 위한 영양소와 두피 마사지법, 탈모 예방 습관까지 총정리. 헬갤러는 갤러리에서 권장하는 비회원 전용 갤닉네임입니다, 나 또한 슬랜더를 좋아하지만. 쌍화점 sex
실라 유륜 아니 그건 큰게맞긔 대리인척 하는거야. 성장판은 키 성장에 중요한 영향을 미친다. We provide playlists with subtitles for those living abroad. 남자들 머리 자르면 얼굴 커 보이는 이유. 원래 전자공이 목표가 아니었는데 6지망만 달랑 붙음 3년간 공들인 생기부와 머리 쥐어뜯으며 쓴 자소서는 무엇이었는지 좀 허탈함 이거 보는 사람은 원서질 잘해라 면접.
아는 누나 야동 본격적으로 국민들에게 양질의 영양공급이 가능해지던 시기 1986년을 기점으로 한국여자 평균키 2024세 기준는 5. 909 27 머리가 크면 확대한것 처럼 보여서 커보이는걸까 어깨가 넓으면 커보이는걸까 무슨 특징이 있어서 커보이는걸까 좋아요 27. 17 감소했음, 두신지수와 키를 역산해 머리수직길이를 구해보면 1986년엔 21cm, 2021년엔 22. 남자머리 남자들미용실특징 남자공감 more. 중요한 일정, 약속으로 시간들여 머리 예쁘게 하고 나갔는데 묶은게 더 낫다는 이야기를 듣거나 머리 내렸을 때 얼굴이 더 커보이고, 부해보여 고민인 분들 있으시죠.
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.
롤 페이커 3cm 텔도 다르게 보이는 이유., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.