인터뷰365 박미선 5일 폭력조직 ‘범서방파’의 두목 김태촌씨64가 사망했다는 소식이 알려지자 배우 권상우와의 ‘피바다 협박’ 사건이 또 다시 회자되고 있다.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

7080년대 폭력조직 출신 故김태촌 1975년 전남광주의 폭력조직인 서방파의 행동대장이었습니다. 그게 그 회사에서 얘기했을텐데, 이야기를 안 했나 보지. 김태촌을 가장 가까이서 지켜본 아내는 그의 마지막을 어떻게 정리할까. 서울에서 범서방파를 결성 오비파 양은이파와 함께 80년대 폭력조직세계를.

당시 톱스타였던 배우 권상우가 조직폭력배의 대부라 불리던 김태촌에게 위협을 당했다는 소식은 큰 파장을 일으켰는데요.

당시 권상우씨를 협박한 협박범은 누구.

이날 아침 서방파 옛두목 김태촌씨가 인기 연예인 권상우씨를 협박했다는 소식이 언론보도로 전해지면서 김태촌이라는 검색어가 주요 포털사이트 검색어 상위에 올랐다, 右씨에게서 협박을 당했다는 주장이 제기돼 검찰이 수사 중이다. 인터뷰365 박미선 5일 폭력조직 ‘범서방파’의 두목 김태촌씨64가 사망했다는 소식이 알려지자 배우 권상우와의 ‘피바다 협박’ 사건이 또 다시 회자되고 있다.

피바다 사건 후에 인터넷에선 많은 패러디가 속출하며 이를 가십거리 정도로 여겼으나.. 한때 조직폭력배 김태촌에게 협박을 받기도 했는데 이때 김태촌의 피바다 디시인사이드 유저들이 새로운 필수요소로 밀었던 적이 있었고, 심지어..

김태촌 씨는 지난해 3월부터 심장마비로 중환자실에서 치료를 받아오다 5일 0시 30분께 서울 종로구 연건동 서울대병원에서 숨을 거.

자신이 직접 만든 9쪽짜리 유인물을 보여주며 카랑카랑한 목소리로 설명하기도 했다. 15일 권상우 소속사 골든섬 측에 따르면 권상우는 뇌물공여 혐의에 이어 자신에게 협박성 전화를 건 혐의로 추가 기소된, 서울을 공포에 떨게 한 전설의 조폭 국내사연 권상우 틈만나면 wheneverpossible sbsenter.

상대가 김태촌 씨라는 점을 알게된 권상우 씨는 되도록 통화를 피하려 합니다.

당시 권상우씨를 협박한 협박범은 누구, 폭력조직 서방파의 옛 두목 김태촌 59씨가 영화배우 권상우씨를 위협해 일본 공연을 강요한 혐의로 기소된 일이 보도되면서 김씨가 누구인지에. 김태촌은 1월 5일 자정, 서울대병원에서 치료를 받아오다 심장마비로 숨을 거뒀다, 형사문제관련 형사전문변호사 김태촌 권상우 폭행협박 사건일명 피바다사건 2008도1097 이윤희변호사 ・ 2017. 9일 서울중앙지검에 따르면 권씨는 올 5월 검찰에 출두해 구두로 김씨를 강요미수 혐의로 고소했다.

당시 권상우씨를 협박한 협박범은 누구. 참고로 조양은 김태촌 이동재 다 전라도 출신임. 심지어 2009년 mbc 황금어장 무릎팍도사에 게스트로 나왔을 당시에는 동료 배우이자 절친인 송승헌이 녹화장으로 찾아와 녹화를 지켜봤다. 고등학생 때는 아예 조직을 만들어서 광주, 김씨는 지난 2011년 12월 갑상샘 진단을 받고 서울대병원에 입원했으며 지난해 3. 한류 스타 권상우씨를 협박해 매니지먼트 권한과 이권을 독차지하려던 서방파 옛 두목 김태촌 59씨가 기소됐다.

당시 김태촌은 자신의 일본인 지인으로부터 배우 권상우가 일본 팬미팅 공연의 대가로 고급 시계를 받아놓고 이를 이행하지 않는다는 내용의 이야기.

이효균 기자 소미연 기자 범서방파 보스 김태촌은 미디어에 민감했다. 영화배우 권상우왼쪽씨를 위협해 일본 공연을 강요한 혐의강요미수로 검찰에 기소된 서방파 옛두목 김태촌. 한때 조직폭력배 김태촌에게 협박을 받기도 했는데 이때 김태촌의 피바다 디시인사이드 유저들이 새로운 필수요소로 밀었던 적이 있었고, 심지어, 참고로 조양은 김태촌 이동재 다 전라도 출신임. 나 김태촌인데 안 만나주면 집이 피xx가 될텐데 상관없다 이거지.

형사문제관련 형사전문변호사 김태촌 권상우 폭행협박 사건일명 피바다사건 2008도1097 이윤희변호사 2017. 전 서방파 두목 김태촌 씨가 오늘15일 오후 5시 20분쯤 창원지법 진주지원에 출석했습니다. 김용호는 2007년 권상우가 조직폭력배 두목 김태촌에게 협박받은 사건에 대해 말했다, 2006년 4월 14일 서울 강남구청 사거리 부근.

폭력조직 서방파 두목 출신인 김태촌58 씨가 영화배우 권상우30 씨를 협박해 검찰이 수사 중인 것으로 알려졌다고 동아일보가 9일 보도했다. 서방파 두목 출신의 김태촌씨가 한류스타 영화배우인 권상우씨에게 접촉한 것은 지난해 4월. 싸움은 전라도가 잘하고 입으로하는 말싸움은 부산이 1등. 사진 左씨가 폭력조직 서방파 두목 출신인 김태촌 58, 피바다 사건 후에 인터넷에선 많은 패러디가 속출하며 이를 가십거리 정도로 여겼으나. 싱글벙글 김태촌과 권상우 싱글벙글 지구촌 마이너 갤러리.

이강인 헤어스타일 당시 톱스타였던 배우 권상우가 조직폭력배의 대부라 불리던 김태촌에게 위협을 당했다는 소식은 큰 파장을 일으켰는데요. 권상우제공mbc 배우 권상우가 폭력조직 범서방파 전 두목 김태촌58씨의 심리 공판에서 협박 혐의에 대해 오해에서 빚어진 일이라고 밝혔다. 김태촌 씨는 지난해 3월부터 심장마비로 중환자실에서 치료를 받아오다 5일 0시 30분께 서울 종로구 연건동 서울대병원에서 숨을 거. 나 김태촌인데 안 만나주면권상우 협박 전모. 영화배우 권상우씨를 협박하고 진주교도소 직원한테 뇌물을 공여한 혐의로 구속기소된 범서방파 두목 출신인 김태촌 58씨가 징역 3년을 선고받았다. 이 맹둥 방송 사고 디시

윤공주 얼공 섹스 2006년 4월 13일 서울 강남 청담동 부근 김태촌 나 김태촌인데. 자신이 직접 만든 9쪽짜리 유인물을 보여주며 카랑카랑한 목소리로 설명하기도 했다. Com › site › data김태촌 사망에 권상우 피바다 새삼 화제. 서울에서 범서방파를 결성 오비파 양은이파와 함께 80년대 폭력조직세계를. 권상우 2003년 천국의 계단으로 한류스타 등극 2006년 폭력조직에 협박을 당했다. 윤가이 레깅스

유튜브 wav 다운로드 자신이 직접 만든 9쪽짜리 유인물을 보여주며 카랑카랑한 목소리로 설명하기도 했다. 2006년 4월 14일 서울 강남구청 사거리 부근. 좋은 아침 20130722 다시보기 17. 권상우 2003년 천국의 계단으로 한류스타 등극 2006년 폭력조직에 협박을 당했다. 김태촌 하고 엮인거 보면 멋지다는 말 안나올건데ㅋ. 이마스구린네

이나경 꼴림 폭력조직 서방파 두목 출신인 김태촌58 씨가 영화배우 권상우30 씨를 협박해 검찰이 수사 중인 것으로 알려졌다고 동아일보가 9일 보도했다. 권상우가 놀러와 손태영한테 반한 그 장면ㄷㄷ. 권상우 집이 l빌라 b동 xxx호 맞지. 나 김태촌인데 안 만나주면권상우 협박 전모. 나 김태촌인데 안 만나주면 집이 피xx가 될텐데 상관없다 이거지.

유키 리노 디시 이 사건의 요지는 권상우가 씨제스 스튜디오의 대표 백창주와 다툼이 생겼는데 이때 친분이 있던 김태촌 이 대신 해결을 해준답시고 권상우랑 통화를 하다가 권상우한테 일명 피바다 발언을 한 것. 19701980년대 국내 주먹계를 평정했던 김태촌. 당시 권상우씨를 협박한 협박범은 누구. 배우 권상우, 교통사고 뺑소니‥이틀 만에 경찰서 출석 검찰 뺑소니 권상우‥벌금 500만원 약식기소 경찰, 범서방파 두목 출신 김태촌 기업인 협박 혐의로 수사 김태촌, 기업인 협박 경찰출두‥협의 부인 김태촌, 혼수상태로 서울대병원 입원‥생명엔 지장. 일설에 의하면, 본래는 나 김태촌인데 너희 집에 불상사가 일어나도 상관없다 이거지.

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.

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.