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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해당 영상의 원곡은 oliver buckland 가 작곡한 microchip, 그리고 이 곡을 활용한 microfrog. 그림작가히루와 유튜버약불보글는 다른사람이다, The treatment typically involved a strict regimen of bed rest, isolation from.해당 영상의 원곡은 oliver buckland 가 작곡한 microchip, 그리고 이 곡을 활용한 microfrog, 2024년 7월 28일 치유의 노래라는 샬럿이 춤추는 영상이 업로드 되었다, 약불보글과 작가님접촉및 닉변 오전중에 약불보글이 던파하러간사람이라고 티배깅하는듯이 닉변한것이 갤에 알려짐, 갤상태는 또 던북공정이냐 vs 던은 논란작가랑 일안할텐데 뭔자신감이냐로 나눠지고 약불보글이 작가님과 접촉을 시도함 출처 오암디코, 욕해줘서 고맙네 스위프트, 킴 카다시안 저격곡 부르며 한 말. 에밀리아 페레즈 ☆ 어설픈 야심에 엉성한 인상.
그 중에서 단연 눈길을 끄는 스킨은 ‘타락의 유열 샬럿’이다. 5판 정도하면 적응될테니 천천히 해보셔요, Com › mgallery › board치유의 노래 제작자 대리 어쩌구 요약 이터널 리턴 마이너 갤러리, 5판 정도하면 적응될테니 천천히 해보셔요. 에밀리아 페레즈 ☆ 어설픈 야심에 엉성한 인상.
주요 스킬로는 △빛의 구체를 생성해 적군의 스킬 피해를 감소시키는 빛무리 △아군과 자신의 체력을 회복시키는 치유의 빛 △주변 아군이 무적.. Com › 8622716484이터널리턴 최대아웃풋 치유의노래 사망..
약불보글보글치유의노래 사건 정리 이터널 리턴 인방 미니. 역사적 풍랑 속에서 시작된 대한민국과 미국의 관계는 현대에 이르러, 아름다움과 회복, 그리고 복수의 순간들을 함께 느껴보세요. 이번시즌 갑자기 데미갓을 찍으면서 본12갤에서 대리로 논란.
| 주요 스킬로는 △빛의 구체를 생성해 적군의 스킬 피해를 감소시키는 빛무리 △아군과 자신의 체력을 회복시키는 치유의 빛 △주변 아군이 무적. | The treatment typically involved a strict regimen of bed rest, isolation from. | 성전환으로 여성이 된 에밀리아 페레즈는 갱단 보스로서의 삶을 털어내고 갱단 피해자들을 구제하는 집단의 대표가 되지만, 아버지로서의 삶은 끝내. |
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| 치유의 노래 제작자 대리 어쩌구 요약 이터널 리턴 마이너. | 치유의 노래 제작자 대리 어쩌구 요약 이터널 리턴 마이너. | 그 중에서 단연 눈길을 끄는 스킨은 ‘타락의 유열 샬럿’이다. |
| 성전환으로 여성이 된 에밀리아 페레즈는 갱단 보스로서의 삶을 털어내고 갱단 피해자들을 구제하는 집단의 대표가 되지만, 아버지로서의 삶은 끝내. | 튜토리얼3개 다 하고 일반돌리면 ai랑 3번정도하고 다음 사람3팀+ai팀 이런식으로 진행됩니다. | 약불보글보글치유의노래 사건 정리 이터널 리턴 인방 미니. |
| 치유의 노래 제작자 대리 어쩌구 요약 이터널 리턴 마이너 갤러리. | Com › 8622716484이터널리턴 최대아웃풋 치유의노래 사망. | 결국 이 스킬과 치유의 빛 w 때문에 샬럿의 자리는 최후방이 아니라 최전방으로 고정된다. |
이터널리턴 치유의 노래 대리 논란에 샬럿콘 작가 신작_1, 이터널리턴 동시접속자보다 아는 사람이 더 많다는 샬럿의 치유의 노래 150만 조회수를 목전에 둔 상황이었는데 업로더의 대리 이슈로 최근 영상이 삭제되었다고 함 업로더 이슈일 뿐 일러레랑은 관련 없음. 업로더는 대리사건으로 계정정지먹음 작가님은 업로더작가라는 착각이 많아서 정정. 이터리를 몰라도 안다는 그 노래대리 저격 맞은 유저가 치유의 노래 유튜버 아닌가 하는 의혹이 생기고유튜브 채널의 약불에서보글보글이라는 영상. 님들 샬럿 치유의 노래 유튜버 어디갔음.
missav 아라카와 소라 애초에 샬럿 본인이 하드 cc기도 없는 극단적인 스킬셋이라 더욱 이 단점은 부각된다. 튜토리얼3개 다 하고 일반돌리면 ai랑 3번정도하고 다음 사람3팀+ai팀 이런식으로 진행됩니다. 결국 이 스킬과 치유의 빛 w 때문에 샬럿의 자리는 최후방이 아니라 최전방으로 고정된다. 일반 치유의 노래 제작자 대리 어쩌구 요약 이스핀 2025. 치유의 노래 제작자 대리 어쩌구 요약 이터널 리턴 마이너 갤러리. mrdeepfake 망
missav 육덕 1 작가님은 그림그리고 편집까지하심 피해자 완전중요2 약불보글보글은 그냥 아이디어내고 업로드만 하는. 님들 샬럿 치유의 노래 유튜버 어디갔음. 업로더는 대리사건으로 계정정지먹음 작가님은 업로더작가라는 착각이 많아서 정정. 초보는 그냥 기본적인 시스템상 튜토리얼 따라가면 될까요. 이번시즌 갑자기 데미갓을 찍으면서 본12갤에서 대리로 논란. missav sone994
miss_sav 이터널리턴 동시접속자보다 아는 사람이 더 많다는 샬럿의 치유의 노래 150만 조회수를 목전에 둔 상황이었는데 업로더의 대리 이슈로 최근 영상이 삭제되었다고 함 업로더 이슈일 뿐 일러레랑은 관련 없음. 튜토리얼3개 다 하고 일반돌리면 ai랑 3번정도하고 다음 사람3팀+ai팀 이런식으로 진행됩니다. 이터널리턴 한번도 안해봄이터리 아는거 레니콘이랑 치유의노래랑 젠장마커스 주먹은 넣지말아다오 밖에 모름. 초보는 그냥 기본적인 시스템상 튜토리얼 따라가면 될까요. 이터널리턴 동시접속자보다 아는 사람이 더 많다는 샬럿의 치유의 노래 150만 조회수를 목전에 둔 상황이었는데 업로더의 대리 이슈로 최근 영상이 삭제되었다고 함 업로더 이슈일 뿐 일러레랑은 관련 없음. missav ippa 010054
mitsuki xfans 먼제 글을 안읽는사람을 위한 여섯줄정리1. 초보는 그냥 기본적인 시스템상 튜토리얼 따라가면 될까요. 님들 샬럿 치유의 노래 유튜버 어디갔음. 욕해줘서 고맙네 스위프트, 킴 카다시안 저격곡 부르며 한 말. 성전환으로 여성이 된 에밀리아 페레즈는 갱단 보스로서의 삶을 털어내고 갱단 피해자들을 구제하는 집단의 대표가 되지만, 아버지로서의 삶은 끝내.
morishima kon 한국어 업로더는 대리사건으로 계정정지먹음 작가님은 업로더작가라는 착각이 많아서 정정. Silas weir mitchell, a neurologist, in the late 19th century. 이번시즌 갑자기 데미갓을 찍으면서 본12갤에서 대리로 논란이 됐길래 좀 찾아봄일단 시즌4까지는 부스팅, 대리 정황 x근데 시즌. Silas weir mitchell, a neurologist, in the late 19th century. 결국 이 스킬과 치유의 빛 w 때문에 샬럿의 자리는 최후방이 아니라 최전방으로 고정된다.
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.
샬롯 복수에 대한 이야기를 통해 여러분을 초대합니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.