US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
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다음 중 근골격계질환 발생 원인에 해당하지 않은 것은. 1 전선의 합선 또는 단락에 의한 발화는 주요 원인, 문제 다음 중 화재사고 대비 작업장 환기대책이 아닌 것은, 해설 화재 발생 시에는 연기나 불길이 확산되지 않도록 출입문을 닫는 것이 원칙입니다. 4번 ① 전선의 합선 또는 단락에 의한 발화는 주요 원인이다, Com › mj_wh › 223951069824업무공부 사무직 2025년 하반기 산업안전보건교육 화재예방과 화.
Com › mj_wh › 223951069824업무공부 사무직 2025년 하반기 산업안전보건교육 화재예방과 화.. ④ 발화성 물질 5 다음은 원인별 화재 바생에서 전기화재의 주요 원인에 대한 설명이다.. 0% 정답률 정답 금속화재 d급화재 해설 일반화재a급화재, 유류화재b급화재, 전기화재c급화재이다.. ① 화기사업을 수행하기 전에 주변 상황을 고려하여 위험요인을 찾아낸 후 안전대책을 적절히 수립하여 이행하여야 한다..
오늘은 과학실험실에서 발생하는 다양한 화재의 원인과 대처 요령을 알아볼게요. 국소배기 문제 다음은 원인별 화재 발생에서 전기화재의 주요 원인에 대한 설명이다. 특히 동절기에는 건조한 바람이 심하게 불며 화기를 많이 다르기 때문에 각별한 주의가 필요함. 엘리베이터는 절대 이용하지 않도록 하며 계단을 이용합시다, 가연성 물질 가연성 물질의 특징 폭발한계농도의 하한이 10퍼센트 이하 또는 상하한의 차가 20퍼센트.
문제 다음 중 화재사고 대비 작업장 환기대책이 아닌 것은. 문제 안전화 사용방법 및 관리의 설명 중 거리가 먼 것은, 화재는 작업자의 생명과 구조물의 안정성에 심각한 영향을 미치므로, 철저한 화재 예방 점검과 효과적인 예방 대책이 필요합니다, 태그 서울아산병원, 화재 시 대처방법 오시는길 모바일진료카드 진료검사결과 조회 16887575 유튜브 네이버. ② 누전에 의한 발화는 주요 원인이다.
교육부, 시도교육청, 학교안전공제중앙회에서 개발한 고등학교 안전교육 콘텐츠 자료입니다. Days ago 글에 사용된 그림 등은 개인정보보호 등을 위해 ai를 통해 제작하였습니다. Com › entry › 2분기산업안전보건g.
Com › matsal_ › 223507851615하반기정기안전보건교육 한문철의 현장속으로 10차시 답안 화재. 2022년 화재 폭발 예방을 위한 안전관리 시험 답안지. 화기작업을 수행하기 전에 주변 상황을 고려하여 위험요인을 찾아낸 후 안전대책을 적절히 수립하여 이행하여야 한다. 화기작업을 수행하기 전에 주변 상황을 고려하여 위험요인을 찾아낸 후 안전대책을 적절히 수립하여 이행하여야 한다. Com › entry › 2분기산업안전보건g.
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| Com › maru1707 › 223683529631화재예방과 화재 시 대처법 4차 정기교육 네이버 블로그. | 출입문을 여는 행위는 불길이나 연기의 확산을 돕게 되므로 잘못된 행동입니다. |
| 울산갈대밭화재 태화강명촌교 화재예방 자연보호 안전수칙 지역사회 생태복원 울산갈대밭화재 태화강명촌교 화재예방 자연보호 안전수칙 지역사회 생태복원. | 해설 화재 발생 시에는 연기나 불길이 확산되지 않도록 출입문을 닫는 것이 원칙입니다. |
| 엘리베이터는 절대 이용하지 않도록 하며 계단을 이용합시다. | 가연성 물질 가연성 물질의 특징 폭발한계농도의 하한이 10퍼센트 이하 또는 상하한의 차가 20퍼센트. |
다음 중 근골격계질환 발생 원인에 해당하지 않은 것은, 교육부, 시도교육청, 학교안전공제중앙회에서 개발한 고등학교 안전교육 콘텐츠 자료입니다, 안전보건공단 2022년 화재 폭발 예방을 위한 안전관리 시험 답안지관리감독자 교육에 대한 내용입니다. 문제1 다음 중 화재의 분류가 옳은 것은, 출입문을 여는 행위는 불길이나 연기의 확산을 돕게 되므로 잘못된 행동입니다.
③ 과전류 과부하에 의한 발화는 주요 원인이다, ② 누전에 의한 발화는 주요 원인이다, 문제 다음 중 화재사고 대비 작업장 환기대책이 아닌 것은, 인화성 물질은 작업장에 필요한 수량만 반입, 고등학교 화재를 예방하는 방법과 대처요령을 알아보아요. 산업안전보건정답해설 근로자정기교육정답해설 근로자정기교육4분기정답 한문철의현장속으로정답 화제예방과화재시대처법정답 화제예방과화재시대처법 한문철 정기교육 멀티캠퍼스 한문철의현장속으로 근로자정기교육 + 12 이웃추가.
화재는 작업자의 생명과 구조물의 안정성에 심각한 영향을 미치므로, 철저한 화재 예방 점검과 효과적인 예방 대책이 필요합니다, Com › matsal_ › 223507851615하반기정기안전보건교육 한문철의 현장속으로 10차시 답안 화재. 차량 사고 화재시를 대비해 차량에 소화기는 비치를 해 둬야 한다.
콴시 2부 울산갈대밭화재 태화강명촌교 화재예방 자연보호 안전수칙 지역사회 생태복원 울산갈대밭화재 태화강명촌교 화재예방 자연보호 안전수칙 지역사회 생태복원. 오늘은 과학실험실에서 발생하는 다양한 화재의 원인과 대처 요령을 알아볼게요. 전기 화재 38%, 담뱃불 화재 17%, 방화 12%, 불장난 화재 7%, 가스 화재 6%, 유류 화재 4%입니다. 차량 사고 화재시를 대비해 차량에 소화기는 비치를 해 둬야 한다. 전기 화재 38%, 담뱃불 화재 17%, 방화 12%, 불장난 화재 7%, 가스 화재 6%, 유류 화재 4%입니다. 타블르 나이
킴아연 치로투 화재는 작업자의 생명과 구조물의 안정성에 심각한 영향을 미치므로, 철저한 화재 예방 점검과 효과적인 예방 대책이 필요합니다. 해설 화재 발생 시에는 연기나 불길이 확산되지 않도록 출입문을 닫는 것이 원칙입니다. 정전기 등 부적절한 점화원 관리는 원인이 아니다. ② 누전에 의한 발화는 주요 원인이다. 정전기 등 부적절한 점화원 관리는 원인이 아니다. 쿠도 라라 키
코이탈 얼라이먼트 해설 화재 발생 시에는 연기나 불길이 확산되지 않도록 출입문을 닫는 것이 원칙입니다. ② 누전에 의한 발화는 주요 원인이다. 따라서 ④번은 화재 시 올바른 행동요령과 거리가 먼 보기입니다. 고등학교 화재를 예방하는 방법과 대처요령을 알아보아요. 다음 중 근골격계질환 발생 원인에 해당하지 않은 것은. 코네 픽팍
크레이지팬즈 고등학교 화재를 예방하는 방법과 대처요령을 알아보아요. 1 산소 2 가연물 3 점화원 4 질소 응급처치 시행자의 행동수칙으로 올바르지 않은 것은. 0% 정답률 정답 금속화재 d급화재 해설 일반화재a급화재, 유류화재b급화재, 전기화재c급화재이다. 모든 사람을 밖으로 먼저 내보내고 119에 신고를 한다 2. 화재예방과 화재 시 대처법 다음은 어떤 물질에 대한 설명인가.
타잔 베일리 연애 디시 ③ 과전류 과부하에 의한 발화는 주요 원인이다. 담뱃불은 꼭 끄고, 확인 후 버립시다. 모든 사람을 밖으로 먼저 내보내고 119에 신고를 한다 2. 화재예방과 화재 시 대처법산업안전보건교육, 산업안전기사. 문제 안전화 사용방법 및 관리의 설명 중 거리가 먼 것은.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 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.
, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.