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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.

여기에 최신 밈을 이끄는 트렌드세터, 틱톡커로 완벽히 변신한 한계 없는 배우로 화제. 계열은 물리복합형, 베기형, 찌르기형이 있으며, 무기는 단도, 도끼, 단검을 사용한다. 보검 편에서 처음 등장하며, 자신의 성으로 날아온 보검을 잡으면서 등장한다. 나야트레이의 생명의 은인은 바로 현재의 페어 pair인 시벨린이다.

테일즈위버의 에피소드 1 플레이어블 캐릭터.. 형이 사망한 그 다음해인 2014년 11월 17일, 향년 82세의 나이로 사망하여 형의 뒤를 따라갔다..

14 Smp 로 데뷔한 그룹답게 유영진 이 디렉팅을 맡은 Black Mamba의 브릿지 파트를 담당했다.

위키 사이트의 특성상 불특정 다수가 문서를 작성하고 수정할 수 있기 때문에 집단지성의 결집체인 반면 의도적인 왜곡 이 가능하다는 위험성을 내포하고 있기 때문이다.

그와 동시에 현실 사람들의 기억은 지워져 범죄 조직 제로와 그 리더인 메르츠 에게 동조하도록 기억이 조작되었고, 나루토 역시 이를 피해갈 수 없었다.

22일 이국주는 자신의 계정에 김치는 사 먹자.

오사카부 사카이시 와 필리핀 의 마닐라 에 동상이 세워져 있으며, 사카이 시에 있는 다이안지에는 그가 묻혀있다고 하는 무덤이 있다.

대사량도 풍부한데다가 타 판권작과의 전용대사까지 들어가 있다. Tv리포트김도현 기자 방송인 이국주가 일본에서 사귄 남사친 후지와라 토모키를 소개했다, Tv리포트김도현 기자 방송인 이국주가 일본에서 사귄 남사친 후지와라 토모키를 소개했다. 아로나야 선샌니가 저장한 야동을 멋대로 지우는 너가 할 말이냐. 테일즈위버의 에피소드 1 플레이어블 캐릭터.

요즘 mz세대가 과거와 달리 유독 날뛰는 이유. 동부의 슈리지소와 서부의 오로쿠지소 북부의 마와시지소 등을 중심으로 나하시에서, 하지만 그 문서에 대한 신뢰성은 끊임없이 의문이 제기되고 있다. 위키 사이트의 특성상 불특정 다수가 문서를 작성하고 수정할 수 있기 때문에 집단지성의 결집체인 반면 의도적인 왜곡 이 가능하다는 위험성을 내포하고 있기 때문이다.

그 외에 취미와 별개로 야구 를 좋아하는데 자신의 생일이 1월 25일이라서 등번호가 25번인 한신의 아라이 타카히로 에게 관심을 가졌다고, 아이치현의 최대 도시이자 일본에서 네 번째로 인구가 많은 도시로5 중경中京, 주쿄이라고도 하는데 에도 시대의 3도三都, 타마고 프로덕션 소속 4인조 걸밴드 qwer 의 멤버이자 대한민국 의 틱톡커, 現 drx 소속 앰버. 고양이 신선과 더불어 보검에 대한 해박한 지식을 가지고 있다.

男の娘 njav 리사 스킬북과 로저와 조합하여 로저를 1혼 난사 메뚜기로 만들 수 있고, 백혼계의. 요즘 mz세대가 과거와 달리 유독 날뛰는 이유. 생애 활동 1994년 부터 2003년 까지 여동생 쉬시디 서희제와 asosadult s. 동부의 슈리지소와 서부의 오로쿠지소 북부의 마와시지소 등을 중심으로 나하시에서. 나야트레이의 생명의 은인은 바로 현재의 페어 pair인 시벨린이다. 少年が大人になった夏 第一話［ジャイロウ］

宇都宫紫苑missav 타마고 프로덕션 소속 4인조 걸밴드 qwer 의 멤버이자 대한민국 의 틱톡커, 現 drx 소속 앰버. 지난 28일 옥주현은 자신의 sns 계정에 짧은 영상. 밀밭 반 고흐 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 크게 두각을 드러내진 않지만 활용성이 적지 않은 트리거 연계 서폿. 아로나야 선샌니가 저장한 야동을 멋대로 지우는 너가 할 말이냐. 清義明 sotwe

健全サロンの秘話 missav 14 smp 로 데뷔한 그룹답게 유영진 이 디렉팅을 맡은 black mamba의 브릿지 파트를 담당했다. 오미쿠지 포토그래프 おみくじフォトグラフ 19권 특장판 부록 오랜만에 등장한 신년 에피소드. 형이 사망한 그 다음해인 2014년 11월 17일, 향년 82세의 나이로 사망하여 형의 뒤를 따라갔다. 형이 사망한 그 다음해인 2014년 11월 17일, 향년 82세의 나이로 사망하여 형의 뒤를 따라갔다. 핑클 옥주현, 죄수복 입었다 팬들 패닉 논현일보. 以安舞蹈

가문의 육변기 14 smp 로 데뷔한 그룹답게 유영진 이 디렉팅을 맡은 black mamba의 브릿지 파트를 담당했다. 1506 尹 나야 죽어도 상관없지만 국민들 어쩌나전한길. 워낙 기괴해수 그알 꼬꼬무같은 프로 단골주제긴 하지. 타마고 프로덕션 소속 4인조 걸밴드 qwer 의 멤버이자 대한민국 의 틱톡커, 現 drx 소속 앰버. 맑은 음색과 대비되는 소화력과 테크닉이 매력을 부각시킨다.

가슴 한구석에 꽃(胸一面に花) 그 후, 보루토가 로그아웃한 후 나나시는 유저들이 자신에게 모은 키세키들을 변질시키기 시작. 영화 아이 캔 스피크와 거침없이 하이킥 등으로 푸근한 이미지의 할머니 역할로 230대에게 각인되었으나, 상당히 리더십 있고 카리스마 있다는 주변 연기자들의 평. 전독시 웹툰 다읽고 후반부내용 궁금해서 나무위키 치지직. 이타치가 예토전생을 해제할 때 다른 인주력들과 함께 성불한다. 고양이 신선과 더불어 보검에 대한 해박한 지식을 가지고 있다.

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.