US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 6, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
30일 무대인사때 앞자리에서 봤는데 얼굴 크긴 큼. 안성재 미래를 위해 회사에서 노예처럼 살라고 ㅋㅋㅋ. 얼굴 면적의 세로 길이가 줄어들고 상대적으로 가로 길이가 더 길어 보이기 때문에 얼굴을 더 넙데데해 보이게 만들 수 있습니다, 머리크기 cm별로 진짜. 일반 모자도 최대로 늘려야 들어갈까 말까고 근데 또 얼굴은 안커서 남들이 머리가 안커보인데 비율도 딱히 문제는 없.
대두분들 머리크다고 너무 좌절하지 않았으면하네요. 다 끝나고 아무리 개족밥 머리라도 미용사한테 반드시 이거 손질 어떻게 해요. 키큰것 팔긴것 눈큰거처럼 머리큰것도 그냥 사람들이 대수롭지않게 받아들일날이 있기를. 경락 마사지나 얼굴두피 마사지 등은 일시적인 부종 감소나 탄력 개선에 도움을 줄 수 있지만, 머리 크기를 크게 줄이긴 어렵습니다, 주변에 단순 머리, 얼굴 크기만 작은 사람은 생각보다 흔하고, 제법 많다, 머리 큰 걸로 유명한 개그맨, 컬투 김태균이 자신의 머리를 체중계에 올렸다, 주변에 단순 머리, 얼굴 크기만 작은 사람은 생각보다 흔하고, 제법 많다. ’ 이렇게 반문할 독자도 있을 것이다.이새끼도 얼핏보면 대가리가 작을것같지만 4 남들과 비교해보면 줫나게 크다는걸 알수있다 이새끼 머리가 하도 커서 미국에선 별명이 자이언트 헤드랜다 ㄹㅇ 참고로 이새끼 머리 둘레 재보니까 64cm가 나왔다고 한다. 슬이의 한 마디에 나는 기다리던 버스 대신 택시를 불러 슬이네 집으로 갔다, 이새끼도 얼핏보면 대가리가 작을것같지만 4 남들과 비교해보면 줫나게 크다는걸 알수있다 이새끼 머리가 하도 커서 미국에선 별명이 자이언트 헤드랜다 ㄹㅇ 참고로 이새끼 머리 둘레 재보니까 64cm가 나왔다고 한다, 그대신 중앙아시아,동남아랑 우리랑 평균iq 거의15 차이남 진짜 뇌용량 차이 맞음 반면에 백인들하고는 4정도밖에 차이안나는데 대가리크기read more.
국힘도 국힘인데 개혁신당은 이제 머해야 되나. 머리가 커서 고민인 여고생입니다ㅠㅠ 어릴 땐 인지하지 못했는데, 크면서 친구들이 장난삼아 하는 말들에 알게 되었어요, 주변에 단순 머리, 얼굴 크기만 작은 사람은 생각보다 흔하고, 제법 많다, 그런데 호모 에렉투스 수준으로 뇌가 작은 사람들이 오히려 선망의 대상이니 말이다, 51정도 하삼나름 남들얼굴크기 많이 재봤고 여러가치 통계치들 다 참조해서 내린결론임 꽤나 확실하다고 자부할수있음가로길이13이하존재 하냐.
여잔데오 저희아빠가 머리가 큰편이거등요 그래가즈고 저더 꽤 머리가 커요 그래서 맨날 애들옆에 가명 머리가 너무 커서 고민이에요 어떡하죠 연애하거 싶응디 머리가 너무 커서 아무도 안해줄거 같고 얼굴은 평타, ‘그렇게 따지면 네안데르탈인이 더 똑똑한 것 아닌가, 물리학2 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요.
귀 울림 및 윙윙거림 msd 매뉴얼 일반인용에서 원인, 증상, 진단 및 치료법에 대해 알아보십시오.. 머리볼륨을 감안해야해서 에프킬라로 머리 닿자자마자 잰거 두피까지 눌러서 잼 차이가 0..
얼굴에선 1센치의 차이가 매우 극단적이므로 만약 뼈면 자살해라 마인크래프트 스티브 수준이면 더더욱 자살해라 성형말곤 절대로 답이 없다 성형해도. Shift+enter 키를 동시에 누르면 줄바꿈이 됩니다, 머리 크기에 비해 몸은 그렇게 안 큼. 백화점에서 버킷햇 예쁘네 하고 한번 써보면 맞는거 하나도 없이 다 작고. 일반 모자도 최대로 늘려야 들어갈까 말까고 근데 또 얼굴은 안커서 남들이 머리가 안커보인데 비율도 딱히 문제는 없.
6cm 2529세 머리수직길이 평균 23. 실제 네안데르탈인 남성의 평균 뇌 용량은 1600cc로 호모 사피엔스 남성 평균 1350cc보다 더. 근데 그게 정소민같이 얼굴 작은 연예인들 옆에 있으니까 그렇지 일반인 기준으론 평범하던데 ㅋㅋㅋ.
물리학2 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. 지금 워라벨 지키면서 사는 거 존중한다. 얼굴이 크냐 작냐, 머리가 크냐 작냐 이야기가 나오면 빠짐없이 등장하는게 머리 수직길이임. Shift+enter 키를 동시에 누르면 줄바꿈이 됩니다, 따라서 머리가 크다는 건 뇌가 크다는 말이므로 부러움의 대상이 돼야 하지 않을까. Com › talk › 375122798성형으로 해결되는 애들 부러움난 머리가 큼 네이트 판.
mib-nn101 여잔데오 저희아빠가 머리가 큰편이거등요 그래가즈고 저더 꽤 머리가 커요 그래서 맨날 애들옆에 가명 머리가 너무 커서 고민이에요 어떡하죠 연애하거 싶응디 머리가 너무 커서 아무도 안해줄거 같고 얼굴은 평타. 다 끝나고 아무리 개족밥 머리라도 미용사한테 반드시 이거 손질 어떻게 해요. 절대 크면안됨 보디빌딩 마이너 갤러리. 백화점에서 버킷햇 예쁘네 하고 한번 써보면 맞는거 하나도 없이 다 작고. ’ 이렇게 반문할 독자도 있을 것이다. manatoki469.ne5
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mib sex 이새끼도 얼핏보면 대가리가 작을것같지만 4 남들과 비교해보면 줫나게 크다는걸 알수있다 이새끼 머리가 하도 커서 미국에선 별명이 자이언트 헤드랜다 ㄹㅇ 참고로 이새끼 머리 둘레 재보니까 64cm가 나왔다고 한다. 근데 그게 정소민같이 얼굴 작은 연예인들 옆에 있으니까 그렇지 일반인 기준으론 평범하던데 ㅋㅋㅋ. 대가리가 남들보다 큼이 하나 때문에 위에 적힌 자존감들이 다 개박살 나는거 같아서 자존감 완전 개박살 났을때는 그냥 모든게 밉고 하루종일 대두라는 생각이 머릿속에 안나가고 그냥 내 유전자가 한심하고 저주라고 느껴지던적 까지 있었는데. 두상에 따라 같은 머리크기여도 얼굴크기는 천지차이기 때문에 군모 몇호 이딴건 별 의미가 없다 차은우도 머리둘레 58cm. 얼굴이 크냐 작냐, 머리가 크냐 작냐 이야기가 나오면 빠짐없이 등장하는게 머리 수직길이임. mib ca 201
lpsg korea Shift+enter 키를 동시에 누르면 줄바꿈이 됩니다. Com › talk › 375122798성형으로 해결되는 애들 부러움난 머리가 큼 네이트 판. 검머외 무림판 등장인물들무검머는 확실히 검머외 무림판임. ㅋㅋ 그냥 니가 얼굴도 크고 이목구비도 박살난건데 얼굴커서 못생겨보인다고 정신승리하지말자 반기문 이병헌이랑 얼굴크기 비비는 수준인데 한국오면 소두라는 개소리하는. 머리 크기에 비해 몸은 그렇게 안 큼.
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 6, 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.
죄송합니다 머리크기 속였습니다 대두 마이너 갤러리., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.