US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 5, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 5, 2026.
꼭 주의해서 사용하시길 바라며 코앤쿨 부작용과 주의사항, 비염에 좋은 생활 습관까지 알려드릴게요. Chlorpheniramine maleate 2. 코앤쿨 사용 방법 안전핀을 제거합니다. 오트리빈쓰다가 약물성비염오고코에 뿌려도 이제 약효가 없어서 버리고코앤쿨 샀는데거의 7년째 쓰는데 부작용 없고 신임감기걸린날엔 하루 2회감기없으면 자기전 1회 혹은 안쓰는데빈도는 낮음부작용 심하단 글 엄청많네.
오트리빈, 화이투벤나잘, 코앤쿨, 메타리빈, 나리스타자일로 등 존재하지 않는 이미지. 제약 비염 스프레이 오트리빈코앤쿨 3일만 써도 내성 생긴다. 코막힘 증상 뿐만 아니라 콧물, 재채기가 동반된 경우에는 비충혈제거제와 항히스타민제가 함께 들어있는 제품 나리스타에스, 코앤쿨 나잘스프레이등이 도움이 됩니다. 오트리빈쓰다가 약물성비염오고코에 뿌려도 이제 약효가 없어서 버리고코앤쿨 샀는데거의 7년째 쓰는데 부작용 없고 신임감기걸린날엔 하루 2회감기없으면 자기전 1회 혹은 안쓰는데빈도는 낮음부작용 심하단 글 엄청많네. 오트리빈은 장기간 못쓰게하면서, 약은 장기처방하는게 너무웃기지 않냐. 알러지비염 약사가 알려주는 스테로이드 스프레이, 스프레이형 비충혈제거제 는 반동성 비염 등 내성이 생길 위험이 커 용법용량을 정확히 지켜 사용해야 한다. Com › board › nose코앤쿨 오트리빈 5년째 사용중인데 비염 마이너 갤러리, 이게뭐약 신은진 헬스조선 기자 입력 20220930 1659 이게뭐약 국소형 비충혈제거제. 코앤쿨을 사용할 때 주의해야 할 점이 있어요. 약사가 1주일 이상 사용하지 말라고 경고하지. Chlorpheniramine maleate 2, 비염에 쓰이는 다양한 약들이 있습니다, 이게 가장 효과가 크거든 근데 웃긴건 이게 오트리빈,코앤쿨 같은 뿌리는 비충혈제랑 같은성분이다. 약사가 1주일 이상 사용하지 말라고 경고하지. 4일에 걸쳐 처방약 복용 완료했고아직 스테로이드 나잘스프레이는 12시간마다 뿌리는중 점점 괜찮아지면 이것도 줄일생각이다3년.자일로메타졸린 오트리빈, 화이투벤 등 2. 감기몸살 관련 질문 코앤쿨 나잘스프레이 3일 연속 사용, 부작용은 없을까요. 꼭 주의해서 사용하시길 바라며 코앤쿨 부작용과 주의사항, 비염에 좋은 생활 습관까지 알려드릴게요. 노즈스위퍼 아침에 1번, 샤워할때 1번.
생리 2,3,4일차에 한번씩 질내사정을 했는데 정확히 생리 맞고, 주기도 규칙적이고 배란일은 아직 멀었어요. Com › aoaiap3 › 223089506438코앤쿨 사용 후 부작용 리얼 리뷰 네이버 블로그, 오트리빈은 장기간 못쓰게하면서, 약은 장기처방하는게 너무웃기지 않냐. 코앤쿨 나잘스프레이 오늘뿌리면 3일째인데 뿌려도되나요. 일반 장문 오트리빈, 코앤쿨 평생 써야되나 비갤러112. 자일로메타졸린 오트리빈, 화이투벤 등 2.
약 2년간 나잘 스프레이를 꾸준히 사용했었습니다, 이러한 두 가지 성분의 작용으로 코앤쿨 코 스프레이 는 코막힘과 콧물이 함께 나타나는 코감기, 비염에 효과적 인데요. 그러나 사용 시 주의해야 할 부작용이 있습니다.
코앤쿨도 비충혈제거제 들어있으면 아마 비슷할 거예요ㅜㅜ 처방약은 부작용은 하루종일 잠이 와요ㅠㅠ 병든 닭처럼 하루종일 졸려요 한. 자일로메타졸린 오트리빈, 화이투벤 등 2, 노즈스위퍼 아침에 1번, 샤워할때 1번. Com › board › nose여지껏 코앤쿨 잘못 쓰고 있었네. 비염환자 비염스프레이 비염치료 코앤쿨 나잘스프레이 코막힘 코뚫는법 코막힐때 코앤쿨가격 코앤쿨부작용 코앤쿨효과 코앤쿨효능 댓글 3 인쇄.
엄마가 막 스테로이제다 뭐시기다 했지만 친구는 한 4개월동안 하루에 23번씩 매일 썼는데 코 건조해지는거말고는 딱히 부작용 없다.. 거의 7년째 쓰는데 부작용 없고 신임 감기걸린날엔 하루 2회 감기없으면 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관 개인.. 거의 7년째 쓰는데 부작용 없고 신임 감기걸린날엔 하루 2회 감기없으면 디시앱 설치 전체리스트 로그인 회사소개 광고안내 이용약관 개인.. 코앤쿨은 평가가 극과극이네 비염 마이너 갤러리..
코 병신된거 느끼고 진단받고 약 처방받았다. Com › aoaiap3 › 223089506438코앤쿨 사용 후 부작용 리얼 리뷰 네이버 블로그, 일반 코앤쿨 부작용 심하네 비갤러58.
도라미 나무위키 일반 코앤쿨 부작용 심하네 비갤러58. Com › aoaiap3 › 223089506438코앤쿨 사용 후 부작용 리얼 리뷰 네이버 블로그. Com › board › nose여지껏 코앤쿨 잘못 쓰고 있었네. 자려고 누우면 양쪽다 막히고 앉으면 한쪽만 뚫리고 서있. 그러나 사용 시 주의해야 할 부작용이 있습니다. 동인지 어디서
드래곤플라이트2갤 그리고 약 사용을 중단한지 10일이 되었습니다. 코앤쿨 나잘스프레이 오늘뿌리면 3일째인데 뿌려도되나요. 스프레이형 비충혈제거제 는 반동성 비염 등 내성이 생길 위험이 커 용법용량을 정확히 지켜 사용해야 한다. 2️⃣ 병을 세운 상태에서 한쪽 코에 분사한 후, 가볍게 숨을 들이마십니다. 그리고 약 사용을 중단한지 10일이 되었습니다. 도원암귀 뜻
도리 야동 코앤쿨 나잘스프레이에는 한가지 성분이 추가되어 들어갑니다. 감기몸살 관련 질문 코앤쿨 나잘스프레이 3일 연속 사용, 부작용은 없을까요. Com › mgallery › board코앤쿨 부작용 심하네 비염 마이너 갤러리. 비염환자 비염스프레이 비염치료 코앤쿨 나잘스프레이 코막힘 코뚫는법 코막힐때 코앤쿨가격 코앤쿨부작용 코앤쿨효과 코앤쿨효능 댓글 3 인쇄. Redirecting to sgall. 데드락 디시
디시 은꼴 빠른 효과를 내는 비염스프레이, 코앤쿨 저희약국에서 가장 많이 찾으시는 나잘스프레이는 코앤쿨이라는 제품을 많이 찾으시는데요 사실 이외에도 오트리빈, 코마키텐 등에는 같은 성분인 자일로메타졸린이란 성분을 포함하고 있습니다. Redirecting to sgall. 스프레이형 비충혈제거제 는 반동성 비염 등 내성이 생길 위험이 커 용법용량을 정확히 지켜 사용해야 한다. 알러지비염 약사가 알려주는 스테로이드 스프레이. 일반 장문 오트리빈, 코앤쿨 평생 써야되나 비갤러112.
디시 그록 갤러리 꼭 주의해서 사용하시길 바라며 코앤쿨 부작용과 주의사항, 비염에 좋은 생활 습관까지 알려드릴게요. 일단, 코앤쿨 장기 사용으로 인한 만성 코막힘으로 현재까지 고생 중입니다. 이러한 두 가지 성분의 작용으로 코앤쿨 코 스프레이 는 코막힘과 콧물이 함께 나타나는 코감기, 비염에 효과적 인데요. 나조넥스, 나자케어, 라니넥스, 아바미스, 옴나리스, 딜라스틴 네이버 블로그 전체보기 71개의 글 목록열기. 기존의 코앤쿨은 약국 판매가격이 10,000원이었는데요.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 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, June 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, June 5, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 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.
일반 장문 오트리빈, 코앤쿨 평생 써야되나 비갤러112., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.