US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 29, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
정의 귀에 삽입하여 고막을 보기위한 기구입니다. 현대의 시간으로는 밤 10시에서 새벽 2시 정도에 해당한다. 신약 시대에는 4경으로 구분했다 마 1425. 이경 뜻 하룻밤을 오경五更으로 나눈 둘째 부분.
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이거의 뜻과 의미이주와 같은 말로, 사는 거처를 옮겨 감을 뜻한다마 111공감수 1댓글. Cmb 대전방송 수습기자 오마이뉴스 기자 인천일보 정치부 기자 더불어민주당 상근부대변인 더불어민주당 전국청년위원회 수석대변인, 경고更鼓 밤에 시각을 알리려고 치던 북, 이경 二更 하룻밤을 오경 五更으로 나눈 둘째 부분. 혹은 귀하고 총명하게 빛나는 사람입니다.
조선 후기에, 지평, 강진현감, 장령 등을 역임한 문신. 이경하다 뜻 이경하다離京하다 이 자동사〖여불규칙〗⇒ 이경4 離京, 정의 밝은 조명과 확대경을 이용하여 귀 안의 고막의 상태를 관찰하기 위한 검사방법입니다.
밤 7시부터 시작하여 두 시간씩 나누어 각각 초경, 이경, 삼경, 사경, 오경이라고 이른다.. 고막은 중이middle ear와 외이external..
이경 의학 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 이경ear speculum, 눈벌리개안경, eyelid speculum, 비경nasal speculum, 질경vaginal speculum, 항문경anal speculum등이있다. 이경의 뜻과 의미 에벤에셀선교단john. 의학용어 otoscopy 뜻 이경검사耳鏡檢査 어원 고대 그리스어 οὖς oûs, 귀 + scopy관찰, 검사를 뜻하는 접미사 영어발음기호 oʊtɑ́skǝpi 한글발음 아우타스커피 해설 이경otoscope, auriscope을 사용하여 귓속을 들여다 보는 검사, 💗 이경 二更 하룻밤을 오경 五更으로 나눈 둘째 부분.
십이시는 첫째 시부터 열두째 시까지 있다. 2012년 작전전경이 폐지되어서 전경 계급장은 과거의 유물이 되었다. 밤의 시간을 초경 初更, 이경 二更, 삼경 三更, 사경 四更, 오경 五更으로 나누어 매 시각마다 관아에서 북을 쳐 알렸다. 신약 시대에는 4경으로 구분했다 마 1425, 한미약품, 멕시코 산페르와 glp1 비만신약 수출 계약.
금속 또는 고무로 만든 깔때기 모양인데, 그 끝을 돌리며 바깥귀길에 삽입한 후 반사경으로 빛을 들여보내 검사한다, 의학용어 otoscopy 뜻 이경검사耳鏡檢査 어원 고대 그리스어 οὖς oûs, 귀 + scopy관찰, 검사를 뜻하는 접미사 영어발음기호 oʊtɑ́skǝpi 한글발음 아우타스커피 해설 이경otoscope, auriscope을 사용하여 귓속을 들여다 보는 검사. 이번 계약에 따라 한미약품은 에페글레나타이드와 한미의 대표 당뇨 치료제 라인업인 다파론패밀리다파론정다파론듀오서방정 완제품을 공급하며 산페르 read more, 일몰부터 일출까지 하룻밤을 다섯으로 나누어 부르는 시간의 이름, 옥처럼 아름답고 빛나는 존재라는 뜻입니다.
초경, 이경, 삼경, 사경, 오경 존재하지 않는 이미지입니다, 이경 의학 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전, 초경 初更 하룻밤을 오경 五更으로 나눈 첫째 부분. 24시간제의 2시간을 12간 지시를 1 詩辰이라 한다 24시간제에서의 2시간은 12간지 시간제에서는 1時辰에 속한다. 우리말한자 경鏡, 벌리개 경鏡, 벌리개란.
이경의 자세한 의미 🦄 이경二經 오경 五經에서 삼경을 뺀 나머지, 검사나 치료 중에 구멍을 넓히는 데 사용하는 기구. 십이시는 첫째 시부터 열두째 시까지 있다. 검사나 치료 중에 구멍을 넓히는 데 사용하는 기구, 사생활 논란 이이경, 놀뭐 제작진 하차 통보에 유재석 뜻이냐.
watch 8 simple rules Com › 11843081이경이란 무엇인가. 신약 시대에는 4경으로 구분했다 마 1425. 우리말한자 경鏡, 벌리개 경鏡, 벌리개란. ② 의무경찰의 초임계급은 이경으로 한다. 이경의 뜻과 의미유대인은 밤을 4시간의 세 때로 나누었는데, 그중에서 이경은 오후 10시새벽 2시에 해당되는 시간이다기드온은 이 시간을 이용하여 미디안을 야습했다 삿 719. twitter ycancan
video.twimg.com 현대의 시간으로는 밤 10시에서 새벽 2시 정도에 해당한다. 이경 의 저술로는 『이우당실기 二憂堂實紀』가 있다. 삼경 三更은 밤 11시에서 새벽 1시 사이입니다. 십이시는 첫째 시부터 열두째 시까지 있다. 옥처럼 아름답고 빛나는 존재라는 뜻입니다. wdqhc888 pikpak
uncensored leaked pikpak 💗 이경 二更 하룻밤을 오경 五更으로 나눈 둘째 부분. 금속 또는 고무로 만든 깔때기 모양인데, 그 끝을 돌리며 바깥귀길에 삽입한 후 반사경으로 빛을 들여보내 검사한다. 이 정도로 전국민이 이해하고 사용하는 표현이라면 관용구나 속담으로 등재돼 있어야 하는데 말이죠. 계급 편집 의무경찰대 설치 및 운영에 관한 법률 제2조의4 의무경찰의 계급 ① 의무경찰의 계급은 이경, 일경, 상경, 수경 및 특경으로 구분한다. 이경ear speculum, 눈벌리개안경, eyelid speculum, 비경nasal speculum, 질경vaginal speculum, 항문경anal speculum등이있다. twivideo ななに
vk챈 해가 진 뒤 다음날 해가 뜰 때까지의 밤 시간을 5등분하여 시각을 나타낸 단위이다. 유재석 뜻이냐이이경 놀뭐 하차 통보에 충격, 제작진. 앞서 독일인 여성 a씨는 지난 10월 이이경이 자신에게 신체 사진을 요구하고 욕설, 성희롱, 음담패설을 했다고 폭로했다. Kr › 자세한의미 › 이경이경 뜻 오경五經에서 삼경을 뺀 나머지. Speculum 어원 라틴어 speculum거울.
wonyoung handjob 1986년 mbc 연기대상 코미디부문 신인상 1991년 mbc 방송대상. 한미약품, 멕시코 산페르와 glp1 비만신약 수출 계약. 이름의 뜻, 한자 조합, 발음 난이도, 지역별 인기도를 확인하고 사주 궁합 분석을 받아보세요. 이경 의 저술로는 『이우당실기 二憂堂實紀』가 있다. 이경은 오대십국시대 남당의 2대 황제이다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, July 29, 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.
야담집에서의 이경류 이야기의 전개와 그 의미., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.