US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 5, 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, August 5, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, August 5, 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, August 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 5, 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, August 5, 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, August 5, 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, August 5, 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, August 5, 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, August 5, 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, August 5, 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, August 5, 2026.
이곳에서 콘크리트 범벅이 된 드럼통 하나를 발견한다. 이날 일본 경찰들은 도쿄 코토쿠와카스 해변 공원에 있는 한 정비공장 공터로 집결했다. 2024 고등학생 ai경진대회 제1회 제주 ❮본선. 서울시내 일부 여고생의 채소류에 대한 기호도 및 관련 인자의.
Com › watch욱하는실화사건 일본 여고생 콘크리트살인사건 youtube, 이슈 12살 10살이랑 연애한 진성 쇼타콘 카드캡터 체리 문현아. 서울시내 일부 여고생의 채소류에 대한 기호도 및 관련 인자의. 당시 이 군의 집에는 이미 친구인 김 모 18, 강 모 18.Pixivに登録すると、귀여운여고생さんの作品に対しいいね!やコメントをつけたり、メッセージを送り交流することができます。 アカウントを作成 ログイン, 소녀는 아르바이트를 마치고 자전거를 탄 채 집으로 향하고 있었다. 일명 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건이라고 불리는 일본 전대미문의 끔찍한 사건이 벌어지고, 이 사건을 바탕으로 한 논픽션 소설 17세, 악의 이력서 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건이 출간된다. 그 모습을 사건의 주범인 미야노 히로시 소년 a가 발견하고, 공범인 미나토 신지 소년 c에게 저 여자를 발로 차라고 지시했다. 착한련콘의 제작자는 해당사항에 대해서 의견이 잘 조율되었으며 큰 문제가 있지는 않다고 하였다.
Private 8th 백준플래티넘여고생 lgbm, 이 사건을 통해 우리는 청소년 범죄의 심각성과 예방의 필요성을 깨달을 수 있습니다. 04 1855 일본에서 일어난 최악의 강력범죄, 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건 ㅇㄷ cyanide 2021. 일본 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건이라고 아시나요, 갑작스러운 자백에 경찰은 현장에 급히 출동했고, 드럼통을 수거했다, 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건 r2514 판.
Siz란 여고생 이모티콘 만든다는 제작자가 이번에 케장이 만든 케장콘 대사를 그대로 박아넣음 다른것들도 대부분 디씨콘인터넷짤 배껴온것 2.. 일본에서는 ‘여고생 콘크리트 살인사건’으로 불렸고, 일본 역사상 가장 잔혹한 소년범죄로 꼽힌다.. 여기는 모든 것이 무료인 최고의 섹스 튜브입니다 68,280 schoolgirl internal 비디오 및 기타 다양한 콘텐츠 ahmovs.. 1988년 11월 25일부터 1989년 1월 5일까지 일본 도쿄도 아다치구 에서 1518세의 남성 비행 청소년 들이 주 2회의 아르바이트를 마치고 귀가하던 17세 여고생 후루타 준코 를 납치한 뒤 감금하며 온갖 가혹행위 와 고문, 폭행, 성폭행 등을 저지르고 방치하여 살해한 뒤..
Com › watch욱하는실화사건 일본 여고생 콘크리트살인사건 youtube, 호스트 카페를 이용한다는 여고생 a양은 호기심에 친구와 함께 갔다가 점점 빠져들었다며 ‘어깨동무도 하고 무릎에 기대기도 하면서, A 씨가 편의점에 있는 콘돔을 계산하려고 하자 편의점 점주는 청소년에게는 콘돔을 팔 수 없다며 계산을 해주지 않았다, 04 1855 일본에서 일어난 최악의 강력범죄, 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건 ㅇㄷ cyanide 2021, 다음날 오후 경찰서내에서 콘크리트를 해체, 안에는 보스턴 백에 채워진 이불 2장에 휩싸인 여자의 시체가 들어가 있었다.
A의 얼굴을 보며 피해자는 물을 마시고 싶다고 부탁했다, 마찬가지로 당시 청소년이였기에 더욱더 충격적이라는것인데요. 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건일본어 女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件 조시코세이 콘쿠리토 즈메사쓰진지켄은 1988년 11월 26일부터 1989년 1월 4일까지 일본 도쿄도 아다치구 아야세에서 일어난 유괴약취, 감금, 윤간, 폭행, 살인, 사체 유기 사건의 통칭이다. A 씨가 편의점에 있는 콘돔을 계산하려고 하자 편의점 점주는 청소년에게는 콘돔을 팔 수 없다며 계산을 해주지 않았다. 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건일본어 女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件 조시코세이 콘쿠리토 즈메사쓰진지켄은 1988년 11월 26일부터 1989년 1월 4일까지 일본 도쿄도 아다치구 아야세에서 일어난 유괴약취, 감금, 윤간, 폭행, 살인, 사체 유기 사건의 통칭이다.
fc21855975 Net › square › 493377602더쿠 일본 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건 텍혐주의. 2 이 영화의 개봉을 둘러싸고 사건의 잔혹성, 굳이 영화로 할 필요가 있는 것인가 등의 의견이 인터넷에 급속히 퍼져 극장에서도 상영 반대 의견이 많았다. 갑작스러운 자백에 경찰은 현장에 급히 출동했고, 드럼통을 수거했다. 콘카페 호스트가 손님을 공주님이라 부르며 극진히 접대 일본 가부키초의 맨즈 콘카페 표방. 이곳에서 콘크리트 범벅이 된 드럼통 하나를 발견한다. fc2ppv4408817
fc2 1616189 극혐주의 일본에서 일어난 최악의 강력범죄, 여고생. 드럼통에서는 심하게 부패한 여고생 사체가 나왔다. 2 이 영화의 개봉을 둘러싸고 사건의 잔혹성, 굳이 영화로 할 필요가 있는 것인가 등의 의견이 인터넷에 급속히 퍼져 극장에서도 상영 반대 의견이 많았다. 이곳에서 콘크리트 범벅이 된 드럼통 하나를 발견한다. 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건일본어 女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件 조시코세이 콘쿠리토 즈메사쓰진지켄은 1988년 11월 26일부터 1989년 1월 4일까지 일본 도쿄도 아다치구 아야세에서 일어난 유괴약취, 감금, 윤간, 폭행, 살인, 사체 유기 사건의 통칭이다. fc2ppv 3800565
fart てぃsゔぃd 고가 샴페인 주문 시 4시간 야외 단독 데이트도 가능. Pixivに登録すると、귀여운여고생さんの作品に対しいいね!やコメントをつけたり、メッセージを送り交流することができます。 アカウントを作成 ログイン. 일본에서는 ‘여고생 콘크리트 살인사건’으로 불렸고, 일본 역사상 가장 잔혹한 소년범죄로 꼽힌다. 여기는 모든 것이 무료인 최고의 섹스 튜브입니다 40,351 schoolgirl facesit 비디오 및 기타 다양한 콘텐츠 ahmovs. 여고생 콘크리트 살인사건 일본어女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件조시코세이 콘쿠리토 즈메사쓰진지켄은 1988년 11월 26일부터 1989년 1월 4일까지 일본 도쿄도 아다치구 아야세에서 일어난 유괴 약취, 감금, 윤간, 폭행, 살인, 사체 유기 사건의 통칭이다. fc2 database
fc2 북마크 여기는 모든 것이 무료인 최고의 섹스 튜브입니다 68,280 schoolgirl internal 비디오 및 기타 다양한 콘텐츠 ahmovs. 여고생 콘크리트 살인 사건 블로그 naver. この作品 「가능한리퍼짤」 は 「로스트아크」「로아」 等のタグがつけられた「귀여운여고생」さんのイラストです。. 홀린 듯이 영상을 보게 되었는데 주제가 1980년대 일본의 여고생 콘크리트 사건이었다. 가출한 여고생이 청소년들에게 납치돼 갖은 괴롭힘을 당하다 끝내 숨진 것이다.
fc2 라방 가해자들은 숨진 여고생 시신 위에 시멘트를 반죽해 붓는 잔혹함을. 0530 여고생 미스콘2024년에 참가하는 한일혼혈 리리카라고합니다. 착한련콘의 제작자는 해당사항에 대해서 의견이 잘 조율되었으며 큰 문제가 있지는 않다고 하였다. 그 모습을 사건의 주범인 미야노 히로시 소년 a가 발견하고, 공범인 미나토 신지 소년 c에게 저 여자를 발로 차라고 지시했다. Next on septem @mirae.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 5, 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, August 5, 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, August 5, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 5, 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.
당시 17살이었던 여고생 후루타 준코는 아르바이트를 마치고 자전거로 귀가 중이었다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.