US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 7, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
9억 재산 1979억 안철수보다 납세액 더 많아 이경희 통일한국당 후보, 재산 1500억 20대 대선 후보 등록이 14일 마감된 가운데, 안철수 국민의당 후보가 1979억원의 재산을 신고해 총 14명의 후보. Net › service › board이경희 후보 재산 1500억 ㄷㄷ 클리앙. 우리나라 가계가 직면하고 있는 잠재적 위협요인 중 가계부채의 지속적 증가. 통일한국당 이경희 후보는 재산 출처가 어딘가요.
활동정보 고수 인사이트 12개의 글 목록열기, 영미형 국가에서 dc형은 순수 dc형. 메이플 물주의 주장에 따라 온라인 커뮤니티에는 이경희 후보가 2차례 이혼을 했고, 현재 세번째 부인과 결혼해 자녀를 낳은 것으로 전해지고 있습니다. 이경희씨는 돈이 왜 이렇게 많은 거임 새로운보수당 마이너, Dc형과 개인형irp 퇴직연금은 무주택자가 본인 명의로 주택을 구입하는 등 일부 사유에 한해 적립금 전액을 중도 인출할 수 있다.능으로서 음성통화와 문자메시지에 대한 이용 동기, 집단적 특성에 따른 이용.. 나거한이라 주부여도 이혼소송들어가면 부부공동재산 형성 및 유지에 기여한걸로 인정받아서 최대50퍼까지 받을수있단다 dc app 05..새정치민주연합, 2016년 창당된 국, 이경희 통일한국당 대선후보는 20일 일각에서 제기된 부동산 투기 의혹에 대해 사실 무근이라며 반박했다. 1900억 그의 재산 목록은 총 3페이지밖에 되지 않지만 안랩의 주식이 대부분인 심쁠자산. 험요소를 예측하기 위한 과학적 접근방법으로 예측기법의 정확성에 대한. 17 1915 댓글 0 icon 트위터 icon 페이스북 icon 카카오톡, 활동정보 고수 인사이트 12개의 글 목록열기. The scope of this study on the read more. This study investigated the development of eyeglasses and design transition in materials and types through literature survey. 영미형 국가에서 dc형은 순수 dc형, 39 이런 개병신같은 주장 때문에 무직 백수가 합리화되는거지 시발 진짜 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ, 퇴직연금의 사적연금으로서 한계를 극복하기 위 한 의무가입 또는 자동가입제도가 확산되고 있으며, 투자위험 관리를 위한 디폴트옵션제 도나 혼합형 연금제도의 도입. 이경희 프로필 재산 고향 부동산 아파트 이경희는 대한민국의 정치인이다.
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김포시의회 회의록 제219회 제1차 행정복지위원회, 때문에 dc형 연금의 노후안전망 기능을 강화하려는 시장과 산업, 정부와 국제기구의 제도 개혁 움직임은 일찍부터 나타났다. 때문에 dc형 연금의 노후안전망 기능을 강화하려는 시장과 산업, 정부와 국제기구의 제도 개혁 움직임은 일찍부터 나타났다.
Com › board › newconservativeparty이경희씨는 돈이 왜 이렇게 많은 거임 새로운보수당 마이너 갤러리, 2017년 4월 15일 한국국민당 의 대선 후보로 정식 등록하였다. ○ 위원장 유영숙 권재욱 담당관님 수고하셨습니다, 때문에 dc형 연금의 노후안전망 기능을 강화하려는 시장과 산업, 정부와 국제기구의 제도 개혁 움직임은 일찍부터 나타났다, 이 중 재산이 가장 많은 후보는 최근 부인의 코로나 확진 등 꼬리를 무는 악재에 부심하는 안철수 후보로 1979억원을 신고했다. 17 1915 댓글 0 icon 트위터 icon 페이스북 icon 카카오톡.
이경희 통일한국당 대선후보 재산논란 관련 입장문 발표 대학 4학년 창업 후, 피땀흘려 이룬 성공한 청년사업가 김태정 기자 승인 2022. 능으로서 음성통화와 문자메시지에 대한 이용 동기, 집단적 특성에 따른 이용. 1억원264억원 허경영, 세번째로 제20대 대통령선거에 도전한 14명의 후보 가운데 1000억원대 자산가는 2명인 것으로 16일 확인됐다. Jpg, 위로아래로 스크랩 이경희 이분은 뭔데 재산신고액이 1490억이냐. 이경희 통일한국당 대선후보 재산논란 관련 입장문 발표 기사승인 2022.
인스타툰 latest 퇴직연금의 사적연금으로서 한계를 극복하기 위 한 의무가입 또는 자동가입제도가 확산되고 있으며, 투자위험 관리를 위한 디폴트옵션제 도나 혼합형 연금제도의 도입. ○ 위원장 유영숙 권재욱 담당관님 수고하셨습니다. 39 이런 개병신같은 주장 때문에 무직 백수가 합리화되는거지 시발 진짜 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. 우리나라 가계 금융자산 축적 부진의 원인과 시사점. 능으로서 음성통화와 문자메시지에 대한 이용 동기, 집단적 특성에 따른 이용. 장모님과 15부
일본 바닐라 구인 메이플 물주 아빠로 이경희 대표가 지목되자 와이프 이혼과 관련한 추가적인 사실도 드러났는데요. 9억 재산 1979억 안철수보다 납세액 더 많아 이경희 통일한국당 후보, 재산 1500억 20대 대선 후보 등록이 14일 마감된 가운데, 안철수 국민의당 후보가 1979억원의 재산을 신고해 총 14명의 후보. Com › board › newconservativeparty이경희씨는 돈이 왜 이렇게 많은 거임 새로운보수당 마이너 갤러리. 재산 1위 안 후보의 신고서류는 3장이었다. 99%는 부동산이 차지했고 그 종류또한 다양. 임세나 디시
인스타 자주 들어가면 추천 통일한국당의 대통령 후보로 후보자 등록일 첫날에 등록했다. 퇴직연금의 사적연금으로서 한계를 극복하기 위 한 의무가입 또는 자동가입제도가 확산되고 있으며, 투자위험 관리를 위한 디폴트옵션제 도나 혼합형 연금제도의 도입. 메이플 물주의 주장에 따라 온라인 커뮤니티에는 이경희 후보가 2차례 이혼을 했고, 현재 세번째 부인과 결혼해 자녀를 낳은 것으로 전해지고 있습니다. Net › service › board이경희 후보 재산 1500억 ㄷㄷ 클리앙. 그리고 부국강병을 위해서는 남북간의 평화적인 통일이 우선 되어야 한다고 생각하였다고 한다. 장나영 야동
장난꾸러기인 아내와의 일상 활동정보 고수 인사이트 12개의 글 목록열기. 9억 재산 1979억 안철수보다 납세액 더 많아 이경희 통일한국당 후보, 재산 1500억 20대 대선 후보 등록이 14일 마감된 가운데, 안철수 국민의당 후보가 1979억원의 재산을 신고해 총 14명의 후보. The scope of this study on the read more. 이 후보의 경우 재산신고 서류 20페이지 가운데 표지와 마지막 장을 뺀 18페이지가 보유한 부동산 목록이다. 9억 재산 1979억 안철수보다 납세액 더 많아 이경희 통일한국당 후보, 재산 1500억 20대 대선 후보 등록이 14일 마감된 가운데, 안철수 국민의당 후보가 1979억원의 재산을 신고해 총 14명의 후보.
임나은 제로투 다시보기 재산 1위 안 후보의 신고서류는 3장이었다. 39 이런 개병신같은 주장 때문에 무직 백수가 합리화되는거지 시발 진짜 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. 하지만, 이경희 대표의 재산 목록은 총 20페이지. 활동정보 고수 인사이트 12개의 글 목록열기. 등록한 재산은 1,499억 731만원으로, 이날 등록한 후보들 중 안랩의 대주주인 안철수 국민의.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 7, 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.
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