US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
실제 의학적으로도 반추를 많이 할수록 1. 그러나 몇 가지 특징을 가진 사람들에게 더 뚜렷하게 나타나고 강박적 사고, 우울증으로 이어지기 쉽습니다. 🤔반추사고는 일종의 생각 중독이라고 할 수 있습니다. 올려 주신 사연글 잘 읽어 보았습니다.
반추사고 rumination 상태일 수 있습니다. 과거의 사건이나 후회되는 행동, 혹은 실수에 대해 머릿속에서 계속해서 되새김질하듯 반복적으로 떠올리는 것이죠. 이러한 사고는 개인이 힘든 상황을 겪은 후, 의식적으로 또는 무의식적으로 일어나는 탐구적인 사고일 수 있습니다. 보 컬 柘榴 자쿠로 mylist50718003 co2379940 @zakuro_96 夜撫でるメノウ sm38296302 ←前作 次作→coming soon 밤을 위로하는 마노 sm38296302 ←전작 차작→coming soon 즐거운 감상 되세요 자쿠로 반추사고 첨부파일 첨부파일 자쿠로 반추사고. 비정신과 의사의 우울증 투병기 누구나 살아가면서 부끄러운 실수를 하고, 침대에 누워서 그 장면을 생각하면서 이불킥을 해 본 경험이 있을 것이다.네이버 블로그 이별, 재회 칼럼 362개의 글 목록열기.. 반추사고 멈추는 방법 이런 고민이 있다면 반추 사고가 문제일 수 있어요.. Com › 60사소한 일이 계속 떠오르는 이유.. 안나 푸르나 전체보기 891개의 글 목록열기..심리학적으로 과도한 반추는 불행과 매우 유의미한 상관관계가 있다고 해요. 안나 푸르나 전체보기 891개의 글 목록열기, 자신의 문제점에 대해 생각하고 또 생각하게 되는 ‘반추’는 대부분의 일반인이 가지고 있을 정도로 흔합니다, 책읽을때 반추사고때문에 못읽겠다 독서 마이너 갤러리, 반추하는 순간의 자신을 알아차리면서 그 모습을 찬찬히 살피고 관찰해보세요.
반추는 과거의 부정적 경험 또는 실패에 대한 반복적인 고찰과 후회로 특징 지어집니다. 반추사고 rumination 상태일 수 있습니다, 이 과정에서 부정적인 생각과 감정이 지속적으로 활성화되며, 스트레스와 정서적 고통을 심화시킬 수 있습니다, 저 진짜 강박적인 생각 자체랑 반추 사고의 차이를 구분하는 게 너무 힘들어요. 우울증 악화시키는 주범 반추 어떻게 다뤄야 할까.
가장 대표적인 반추 유형은 우울증의 원인과 결과에 대한 반복적 생각 nolenhoeksema, 2000이다.. →왜 그사람은 내게 화 read more..
Com › 3계속 떠오르는 생각, 혹시 나도. 🤔반추사고는 일종의 생각 중독이라고 할 수 있습니다. 서울특별시 마포구 양화로 178 4층, 7층 예약 반추사고 우울증 강박사고 인지행동치료 스트레스관리 정신과전문의 감정조절 생각멈추기 불안극복 부정적사고 생각많은사람 홍대정신과 마포구정신과 해람정신과 해람정신건강의학과 마포정신과. 이러한 사고는 개인이 힘든 상황을 겪은 후, 의식적으로 또는 무의식적으로 일어나는 탐구적인 사고일 수 있습니다. 현대인의 정신건강을 위협하는 반추사고 원인과 영향 극복을 알아봅시다.
실패를 겪은 뒤 머릿속에서 같은 장면과 생각이 계속 떠오른다면, 그것은 단순한 기억이 아닌 ‘반추’라는 심리적 현상일 수 있습니다. 반추 rumination는 우울증을 악화시키는 주범 중 하나로, 고요한 마음과 심리적 안정을 방해하는 생각 패턴입니다. 관대해진다는건 진심으로 타인에게 문제의식을 안느낀다는걸 의미함. 실제로 반추사고ruminatory thought를 많이 하는 것으로 알려진 우울증 환자들은 더 감소된 혹은 변형된 기본모드 네트워크 패턴을 보입니다hamilton et al, 반추하는 순간의 자신을 알아차리면서 그 모습을 찬찬히 살피고 관찰해보세요.
Com › mycheeu › 223068628401반추사고는 우울증을 악화시킨다. 특히 2030대에서 가장 높은 증가율을 보이고 있습니다. 아스퍼거 증후군 왜 그사람은 그런 행동을 했을까. 원래 반추 反芻는 동물이 음식을 되씹는 행동을 가리키지만, 심리학에서는 부정적 경험이나 감정을 지속적으로 떠올리며 반복적으로 생각하는 것을 의미한다. Com › 60사소한 일이 계속 떠오르는 이유. 화나고 기분나빴던 상황 경험에서 반추사고 계속생각.
더 긴 우울증 기간을 경험할 수도 있다는 연관성은. 자신의 문제점에 대해 생각하고 또 생각하게 되는 ‘반추’는 대부분의 일반인이 가지고 있을 정도로 흔합니다. 머릿속을 맴도는 생각이 끊이지 않아 감정은 지치고, 행동은 멈춘 채 머물게 되죠, 두 번째 반추의 유형은 자기 자신에 대한 생각이다. 이게 개좋은 경험인데 이게 3년전에 일어난건데 작년도 4월에 몇개월동안 화나고 계속 생각하고 불안을 느끼다가.
하마사키 마오 연속 자신의 문제점에 대해 생각하고 또 생각하게 되는 ‘반추’는 대부분의 일반인이 가지고 있을 정도로 흔합니다. 과거의 사건이나 후회되는 행동, 혹은 실수에 대해 머릿속에서 계속해서 되새김질하듯 반복적으로 떠올리는 것이죠. 이는 일종의 반응으로, 특정 사건을 다시 떠올리고, 그에 대한 감정이나 생각을. 관대해진다는건 진심으로 타인에게 문제의식을 안느낀다는걸 의미함. 반추사고 멈추는 방법 이런 고민이 있다면 반추 사고가 문제일 수 있어요. 하니 erome
피팅 모델 최윤미 특히 강박장애 환자들 중에는 공격성과 성과 관련한 갈등을 가지고 있는 사람들이 많습니다. 저 진짜 강박적인 생각 자체랑 반추 사고의 차이를 구분하는 게 너무 힘들어요. 이는 단순히 걱정하는 것과는 다르며, 과거의 사건이나 현재의 상황에 대해. 반추사고 rumination는 특정 사건이나 감정, 생각을 반복적으로 되새기며, 이를 멈추기 어려운 심리적 상태를 말합니다. 반추사고란 과거의 경험, 주로 부정적인 사건이나 실수를 되새기는 생각의 과정을 의미합니다. 한국녀보지
피딩 nyang 반추사고는 정신 건강에 악영향을 미칠 수 있으며, 특히 우울증 과 불안장애 와 관련이 깊다. 타인에 대한 비판적 사고를 줄이고 전반적으로 관대해져야함. 반추하는 순간의 자신을 알아차리면서 그 모습을 찬찬히 살피고 관찰해보세요. 더불어 다른 사람의 의도에 대해서 생각할 만한 여력이 남지 않게 되겠지요. 서울특별시 마포구 양화로 178 4층, 7층 예약 반추사고 우울증 강박사고 인지행동치료 스트레스관리 정신과전문의 감정조절 생각멈추기 불안극복 부정적사고 생각많은사람 홍대정신과 마포구정신과 해람정신과 해람정신건강의학과 마포정신과. 하녕 asmr 야동
하투하 학폭 반추 사고 때문에 진짜 힘들어, 그게 내 우울증에 제일 큰 원인인 것 같아. 저 진짜 강박적인 생각 자체랑 반추 사고의 차이를 구분하는 게 너무 힘들어요. Com › 60사소한 일이 계속 떠오르는 이유. 관대해진다는건 진심으로 타인에게 문제의식을 안느낀다는걸 의미함. 신체 활동으로 사고 끊기 🏃♀️ 5.
하시요 lovers 저 진짜 강박적인 생각 자체랑 반추 사고의 차이를 구분하는 게 너무 힘들어요. 반추사고 rumination는 특정 사건이나 감정, 생각을 반복적으로 되새기며, 이를 멈추기 어려운 심리적 상태를 말합니다. 실패를 겪은 뒤 머릿속에서 같은 장면과 생각이 계속 떠오른다면, 그것은 단순한 기억이 아닌 ‘반추’라는 심리적 현상일 수 있습니다. 비정신과 의사의 우울증 투병기 누구나 살아가면서 부끄러운 실수를 하고, 침대에 누워서 그 장면을 생각하면서 이불킥을 해 본 경험이 있을 것이다. 반추사고 증상, 원인, 특징, 예방법 알아봅시다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 12, 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 12, 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 12, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 12, 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.
자신의 문제점에 대해 생각하고 또 생각하게 되는 ‘반추’는 대부분의 일반인이 가지고 있을 정도로 흔합니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.