US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 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, August 10, 2026.
빠르면 20대극초반부터 정장을 입고 생활하게 되는데청바지와 티셔츠로 아메카지스럽게 크게 입고 체형을 커버하는 방식이 있겠지만슈트핏정장핏만큼은 세계적으로도. 청바지와 티셔츠로 아메카지스럽게 크게 read more. 근데 그거 감안해도 남자가 175는 넘어야함. ㅇㄱㄹㅇ 타인의 권리를 침해하거나 명예를 훼손하는 댓글은 운영원칙 및 관련 법률에 제재를 받을 수 있습니다.
| 여자들도 남성성 느끼고 자식 유전까지 생각하기 때문에 170은 작은키임. | 이상형은 노래 잘 부르고 키는 185 이하지만 너무 작아도 안되고 집착 안하고 개그코드 맞고 재미있고 문과이고 말도 잘하는 남자이다. | Com › discover › 인생네컷키111스tiktok. | 청바지와 티셔츠로 아메카지스럽게 크게 read more. |
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| 비율좋고, 체격좋고, 외모되면 그냥 알파남 구간. | 고진감래3 170남자는 근데 150대160초 여자 소개받으면 되긴함. | 비율좋고, 체격좋고, 외모되면 그냥 알파남 구간. | 서론남자란 나이를 쳐먹으면 인생에서 정장이 필수가 된다. |
| 남자 키 170 이상에 ㅅㅌㅊ 얼굴이면 현실 기준에선 상당한 상위권에 속한다 7. | 고진감래3 170남자는 근데 150대160초 여자 소개받으면 되긴함. | 63 한편 진자림 본인의 키는 153cm. | 빠르면 20대극초반부터 정장을 입고 생활하게 되는데청바지와 티셔츠로 아메카지스럽게 크게 입고 체형을 커버하는 방식이 있겠지만슈트핏정장핏만큼은 세계적으로도. |
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빠르면 20대극초반부터 정장을 입고 생활하게 되는데청바지와 티셔츠로 아메카지스럽게 크게 입고 체형을 커버하는 방식이 있겠지만슈트핏정장핏만큼은 세계적으로도. 등산 좋아해서 바람막이 하나 사줄까 하는데키가 170이거든, 체격은 약간 마름점퍼 사이즈 95면 되나. 서론남자란 나이를 쳐먹으면 인생에서 정장이 필수가 된다, 여자배구 현실에서 170이면 잘 나가긴 해도 환영받는 키는 아니지.
이상형말고 최소 마지노선 ㅇㅇ 생각보다 키 중요시 하는 사람 많길래 얼굴은 평범훈훈 정도라고 치고 난 163인데 170, 키170173남자들이 연애를 어렵게하는건 개소리인이유. 키 170 초반 남자들의 평소 속마음jpg 실시간 베스트.
23 2044 진짜 씹장사체형이다 개부러워 무니닌 2021, 서론남자란 나이를 쳐먹으면 인생에서 정장이 필수가 된다, 대부분의 남자들이 170 언저리니 불편한 건 없지만 연애하고 결혼하는데 180이하는 루저발언이 괜히 있는게 아닌데요. 정보키 공익 기준은 159cm 이하이다. 이정도 키는 사실상 거의 보기 힘들다.
22 2127 남자 키170 여자 키150. 비율좋고, 체격좋고, 외모되면 그냥 알파남 구간. 키 170아니라 160 신혜선키 160이 아니라 173. 내 생각은 이럼170 미만은 진짜 답없으니까 논외로 할게 미안 ㅎ170은 뭐라할까 진짜 남자의 마지노선 자존심이야이성에게 매력적으로 보이느냐와는 별개같고이 키가 진짜 수컷이다 이걸 증명하는 기본 시민권같은 그런 느낌의 키야이거 밑으로가면 심각하다, Com › board › view공감 키 170 초반 남자들의 속마음jpg 실시간 베스트 갤러리. Duracell4820260123 13 디시인.
Com › discover › 꾸밈차이tiktok. 비율좋고, 체격좋고, 외모되면 그냥 알파남 구간. 블라인드 블라블라 와 170미만의 키작남들의 사회적 시선이. 서론남자란 나이를 쳐먹으면 인생에서 정장이 필수가 된다. 김밍 닥터후 영상 디시 김밍닥터후 키 김밍 닥터후 주상컷 김밍 닥터후 오리지널 사운드 난둥난둥. 서론남자란 나이를 쳐먹으면 인생에서 정장이 필수가 된다.
근데 그거 감안해도 남자가 175는 넘어야함.. 키170173남자들이 연애를 어렵게하는건 개소리인이유.. 근데 그거 감안해도 남자가 175는 넘어야함..
요즘엔 170중후반 평범한키맞음ㅋㅋ 키작남 마이너 갤러리. ㅇㄱㄹㅇ 타인의 권리를 침해하거나 명예를 훼손하는 댓글은 운영원칙 및 관련 법률에 제재를 받을 수 있습니다. 여자배구 현실에서 170이면 잘 나가긴 해도 환영받는 키는 아니지.
원피스 히토미 추천 Com › discover › 인생네컷키111스tiktok. Com › discover › 인생네컷키111스tiktok. 엘라 비주얼로 맥심 콘테스트 돌풍 37 박재범, 단독 콘서트 serenades & body rolls 서울 공연 성료월드투어 본격 시작. 키 170 초반 남자들의 평소 속마음jpg 실시간 베스트. 남자란 나이를 쳐먹으면 인생에서 정장이 필수가 된다. 원ㄴ버갤
위백갤 청바지와 티셔츠로 아메카지스럽게 크게 read more. 20대 이야기 댓글부탁해 키얘기 요즘 자주보는데 170미만이 키때문에 연애지장있다는건 동의를 어느정도한다만물론 할사람은 함 170이넘는데 키때문에 연애에 지장크거나 힘들다는글들 보면 이해가. 내 생각은 이럼170 미만은 진짜 답없으니까 논외로 할게 미안 ㅎ170은 뭐라할까 진짜 남자의 마지노선 자존심이야이성에게 매력적으로 보이느냐와는 별개같고이 키가 진짜 수컷이다 이걸 증명하는 기본 시민권같은 그런 느낌의 키야이거 밑으로가면 심각하다. Com › board › view공감 키 170 초반 남자들의 속마음jpg 실시간 베스트 갤러리. 그러나 현실에서 그리고 사회적으로 키가작아서 연애를 하기힘들다고 보는 키는 일반적으로 170미만을 말하는거지 170이상인 170대초반 남자들이 키로. 유디 leaked
원피스 1141 그러나 현실에서 그리고 사회적으로 키가작아서 연애를 하기힘들다고 보는 키는 일반적으로 170미만을 말하는거지 170이상인 170대초반 남자들이 키로. 그러나 현실에서 그리고 사회적으로 키가작아서 연애를 하기힘들다고 보는 키는 일반적으로 170미만을 말하는거지 170이상인 170대초반 남자들이 키로. 왼쪽 170오른쪽 185 신지♥지상렬 결혼전통혼례식 올렸다 母가 점찍은 사윗감 0 ‘42세’ 손석구, 20대 여성과 ‘단둘이 데이트’ 포착 1 이것이 섹시 엘프. 나도 키170에 작은편이고 연애몇번했는데 여친도 이런시선이였을려나 충격이노. 244 댓글 크면 클수록 좋은거고 170이면 170답게 살면됨ㅋㅋㅋㅋ근데 개약해보이자나170이면 피지컬적으로 개 ㅈ밥임 토끼운동 20240921 2013 ip 112. 원피스 강함 순위 디시
원피스 1147 화 애니 다시 보기 옛날 영포티세대는 170중후반이면 큰편 맞지. 남자 키 170 이상에 ㅅㅌㅊ 얼굴이면 현실 기준에선 상당한 상위권에 속한다 7. 블라인드 블라블라 와 170미만의 키작남들의 사회적 시선이. Com › discover › 인생네컷키111스tiktok. 키 170아니라 160 신혜선키 160이 아니라 173.
원피스 로빈 야스 디시 그러나 현실에서 그리고 사회적으로 키가작아서 연애를 하기힘들다고 보는 키는 일반적으로 170미만을 말하는거지 170이상인 170대초반 남자들이 키로. 나이 21살 키때문에 인생포기 물론 주변환경도있지만 남자 키 170안되시는 분들 100%공감 글 제가 적어봤습니다. 나도 키170에 작은편이고 연애몇번했는데 여친도 이런시선이였을려나 충격이노. 244 댓글 크면 클수록 좋은거고 170이면 170답게 살면됨ㅋㅋㅋㅋ근데 개약해보이자나170이면 피지컬적으로 개 ㅈ밥임 토끼운동 20240921 2013 ip 112. 170이면 작아보이긴 합니다만 김인호같은 애들이 폭격기인거 보면 닥전인듯.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 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, August 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, August 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 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.
이상형말고 최소 마지노선 ㅇㅇ 생각보다 키 중요시 하는 사람 많길래 얼굴은 평범훈훈 정도라고 치고 난 163인데 170., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.