US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 15, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026.
강릉원주대 마이너 갤러리 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드. 보통 강릉대, 원주대 또는 강릉원주대 라고 부르며 강릉 에서는 강대 라고 하기도 한다. 글로컬대학 페이지 교육부 윤석열 정부 의 교육부 가 2025년까지 비수도권 대학 30곳을 글로컬 glocal 대학으로 지정해 지원하는 정책 사업이다. 강릉원주대 졸업생인데 궁금한거 강원대 갤러리.
라고도 물어보는 애들이 종종있었음 그래도 여기는 read more. Jpg 한국기술교육대학교 국민 평생 직업능력 개발법. 학교의 공식 약칭은 강대 江大이며, 공식 영문 약칭은 knu 이다. 친구중에 지잡병신고등학교에서 내신 6등급 쳐맞고 학종으로 여기온 친구 있었는데 특히나 요즘 대학정원보다 학생수가 적잖아 강릉대는 진짜 돈만있으면 오는 대학아 니냐.
아래 글은 강릉원주대학교 입학처에서 제공하는 강릉원주대 2023 편입학 모집요강을 참고하여 작성하였습니다, 강릉원주대 졸업생인데 궁금한거 강원대 갤러리. 강릉 원주대 기숙사 비용, 알바 강릉원주대 취업 타학교 언급 죄송합니다 강릉원주대vs한세대vs청운대 간호학과 교직이수 예비 정시 합격가능성 간호학과 제발요 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ 334. 국립강릉원주대학교 공고 제2025210호 공 고 강원대학교 강릉 원주캠퍼스 2026학년도 수시모집 치의예과 최종 합격자 명단을 다음과 같이 공고합니다2025.
아래 글은 강릉원주대학교 입학처에서 제공하는 강릉원주대 2023 편입학 모집요강을 참고하여 작성하였습니다. 1학점이고 부동산 학과로 편입하려는데 좀 힘들까. 아르바이트 하는건 좋은데 그만큼 공부할 시간이 줄어들어서 애좀 먹었던게 생각나네요, 글로컬대학 페이지 교육부 윤석열 정부 의 교육부 가 2025년까지 비수도권 대학 30곳을 글로컬 glocal 대학으로 지정해 지원하는 정책 사업이다. 처음 상담을 요청했을 때 그는 편입에 대한 막연한 두려움과 정보 부족으로 혼란스러워했습니다. 2016년에는 30년간 캠퍼스를 관통하고 있었던 강릉원주대.
여기 다니면 쪽팔릴거 같아서걍 휴학하고 일년 공부해서올해 편입 시험 준비칠 예정.. Jpg 한국기술교육대학교 국민 평생 직업능력 개발법.. 반수, 편입 준비하는 애들이 거의 40퍼는 되는 듯..
마지막 2학년 2학기 겨울방학이 시작될 무렵, 제 편입 준비에 있어 조금 실수였었을 수도 있는게 이 때 아르바이트를 병행하면서 편입 면접공부를 시작하게 되었습니다. 반수, 편입 준비하는 애들이 거의 40퍼는 되는 듯. 말 그래도 둘 다 붙었는데 어디가야할까요 두곳다 기숙사 들어갈수 있을까요.
1980년대 이후로 대형치대의 신설이 없다. 보통 강릉대, 원주대 또는 강릉원주대 라고 부르며 강릉 에서는 강대 라고 하기도 한다. 2008년에 완공된 도서관 과 2009년에 완공된 기숙사 나 학생회관 등의 건물은 꽤 좋은 편이기 때문에 학생들의 이용률이 높은 편. 글로컬은 세계화 를 뜻하는 global 과 지역화 를 뜻하는 local 의 합성어다.
| 1800까지 다른대학에 합격하여 등록하고자 하 국립강릉원주대학교 공고 제2025211호 공 고 강원대학교 강릉 원주캠퍼스 2026학년도 수시모집 특수교육대상자전형 합격자 명단을 다음과 같이 공고합니다2025. | 1980년대 이후로 대형치대의 신설이 없다. | 여기 다니면 쪽팔릴거 같아서걍 휴학하고 일년 공부해서올해 편입 시험 준비칠 예정. | 강릉원주대 졸업생인데 궁금한거 강원대 갤러리. |
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| 아르바이트 하는건 좋은데 그만큼 공부할 시간이 줄어들어서 애좀 먹었던게 생각나네요. | 한세대편입강릉원주대 3464 편입 갤러리. | 관련 고등교육법 시행령 29조의 2 재입학 국립강릉원주대학교 학칙 제59조 재입학, 제76조 편입 및 재입학생의 학점, 제82조 수료학점 국립강릉원주대학교 학사운영규정 제14조 재입학2. | 강릉과 원주에 캠퍼스를 두고있는 국립대학, 강릉원주대학교의 마이너 갤러리입니다 강릉원주대 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. |
| 학교의 공식 약칭은 강대 江大이며, 공식 영문 약칭은 knu 이다. | 여기 21학번 수시로 온 법학과인데 강릉원주대 마이너 갤러리. | 강릉원주대학교 편입은 매년 12월 말쯤 원서 접수가 진행되기 때문에, 연말 시즌과 겹쳐 준비가 미뤄지기 쉬워요. | 글로컬대학 30 선정 국립강릉원주대학교 2026학년도 편입학모집요강 원서접수 2025. |
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1443 url 복사 이웃추가 강릉원주대 편입요강 경쟁률 확인하고 지원하자. 의대는 이와달리 1990년대 이후 신설된 의대만 해도 10개이다. 작년 국립강릉원주대학교 학사편입에 성공한 학생의 사례입니다. 국립강릉원주대학교 공고 제2025210호 공 고 강원대학교 강릉 원주캠퍼스 2026학년도 수시모집 치의예과 최종 합격자 명단을 다음과 같이 공고합니다2025.
처음 상담을 요청했을 때 그는 편입에 대한 막연한 두려움과 정보 부족으로 혼란스러워했습니다. 학교마다 규정이 다르지만 보통 평점이 1. 강릉원주대 편입 모집요강 을 알아보겠습니다, 한국공대 자유전공 vs 공주대 인공지는 한국공대 자유전공과 공주대 인공지능을 고민하고 계시는군요.
선택 하신 배차가 매진 되었습니다 마지막 2학년 2학기 겨울방학이 시작될 무렵, 제 편입 준비에 있어 조금 실수였었을 수도 있는게 이 때 아르바이트를 병행하면서 편입 면접공부를 시작하게 되었습니다. 1800까지 다른대학에 합격하여 등록하고자 하 국립강릉원주대학교 공고 제2025211호 공 고 강원대학교 강릉 원주캠퍼스 2026학년도 수시모집 특수교육대상자전형 합격자 명단을 다음과 같이 공고합니다2025. 2008년에 완공된 도서관 과 2009년에 완공된 기숙사 나 학생회관 등의 건물은 꽤 좋은 편이기 때문에 학생들의 이용률이 높은 편. 학생들 사이에서는 릉주대라는 약칭도 쓰이고. 상당히 주관적인거같은데 디지스트는 성서중 동시 합격한 애들. 성백현 폭로 디시
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서울 공연 예술고 박소연 디시 강원대학교과 강릉원주대학교가 2026년 통합을 위한 발걸음을 가속화하고 있다. 강릉원주대 편입 모집요강 을 알아보겠습니다. Com › mgallery › board편입 하려그러는데 조언좀 강릉원주대 마이너 갤러리. 강원대학교는 qs기준 세계 대학랭킹 10001200위권을 차지하고 있으며, 한국기업평판연구소에서 발표한 「대학교 브랜드. 학교의 공식 약칭은 강대 江大이며, 공식 영문 약칭은 knu 이다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 15, 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 15, 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 15, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 15, 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.
반수, 편입 준비하는 애들이 거의 40퍼는 되는 듯., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.