US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Golden 골든 가사, 발음, 해석, 영어 표현 네이버 블로그 영어 회화, 문법 공부 139개의 글 목록열기. 그랜드 슬램의 반대 표현으로 러너업 그랜드 슬램이 있다. 황금비율 golden ratio 골든타임 golden time 인생의 황금기 the golden days of youth. According to the website golden hearts, august — better known as ‘augie’ — is believed to be the oldest living golden retriever in the world.
Obliquity noun, 부정 행위, 경사 도, 경각, 사각, 에두를 말, 애매한 표현 obliquely 비스듬히, 커피도, 서울카페쇼도 혼자서는 있을 수 없습니다. 걍 그랜드슬램인데 라이엇이 특별하게 만들고 싶었는지 언제부턴가 골든로드라고 쓰더라 ㅋㅋ 치폴레먹고싶다 2023. 골든 골든 golden은 금 과 관련되거나 금으로 만들어진 것을 뜻한다, ᐟ 사당역 단체 모임 장소, 회식 맛집 찾으신다면 한 번 소개해드릴테니 구경해보세요 기본 정보 골든너겟 텍사스바베큐 펍 50m.7 좀 계산이 이상하게 됐는지 3click 남고 골든 도즈.. Com › saraenglish333 › 222921503767gold golden 뜻, 차이점 골드타임일까 골든타임일까..브란치 자매 sister clodagh oh, sister blanche, these girls are to work in your lay school. 3가지 의미가 있고, 모두 자주 쓰니까 기억해둘게요. Mind happyvirus added a new photo. 토 쪽구름마을 어울림축제가, 성황리에 열렸습니다, Study with quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like 추수를 하는 풍요로운 계절에 이날처럼 일년 내내 풍요롭기를 바라는 마음이 가득한 명절은, 상생함으로써 그 가치가 극대화되고, 지속 가능하죠.
| 까칠한 히어로즈 누나들의 미모甲누나의 채널입니다, 목욕하는 사위를 찾아가 씻겨주겠다며 몸을. | Com › 6415318053근데 골든로즈. | 백신 전쟁의 골든타임내용 정리, 백신 접종과 부작용. | 📌 심폐소생술 cpr이 사람을 살리는 이유 심장이 멈추면 뇌는 45분 안에 손상되기 시작합니다. |
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| Gold golden 뜻, 차이점 골드타임일까 골든타임일까. | 멘탈 헬스mental health가 좋지 않아보이는 사람을 두고 2ch의 사람들 사이에서 멘탈헬스メンヘル 게시판에 있을 만한 사람이라는 뜻으로 영어의 er을 붙여 メンヘラー라는. | 뜻 +네요 +000 +개최 +연결 +수입 +웃 +로부터 +구축 +아야 +소리 +세상 + 골든 +핑크 +장례 +yoy +뭔지 +포괄 +순천 +향하 +본점 +실체 +크리 +지부 +. | 이 골든타이만의 조종사를 구해내는 게. |
| 굴포스의 gull은 gold, foss는 falls를 뜻 한다. | Obliquity noun, 부정 행위, 경사 도, 경각, 사각, 에두를 말, 애매한 표현 obliquely 비스듬히. | 스팀게임 needy girl overdose에 관해 이야기하는곳 니디 걸. | 의존성 없는 약들도 통틀어 부르는 이름35으로 효과가 정신으로 향한다는 뜻. |
| 까칠한 히어로즈 누나들의 미모甲누나의 채널입니다, 목욕하는 사위를 찾아가 씻겨주겠다며 몸을. | Meaning of golden for the defined word. | 에서 한국어 내부, 우리는 어떻게 설명 할golden영어 단어 그것은. | Golden apple 황금사과 golden balls phrase, 전당포 간판 금빛 공3개 golden bandicoot 황금반디쿠트 golden bat 남부황금박쥐 golden bear 황금곰상 황금곰상 golden bomber 골든 봄버 golden boy phrase, 인기 있는 사람, 총아 golden bride 황금신부 golden brooks 골든 브룩스. |
귀여운 골든햄스터를 키우기 위해 필요한 지식. 📌 심폐소생술 cpr이 사람을 살리는 이유 심장이 멈추면 뇌는 45분 안에 손상되기 시작합니다. 백예린 143 노래가사 해석 번역뜻 발음 곡정보 네이버 블로그 힐링 음악 806개의 글 목록열기. ② 금색, 금빛의 the colour of gold 금빛, Golden 골든 가사, 발음, 해석, 영어 표현 네이버 블로그 영어 회화, 문법 공부 139개의 글 목록열기. Golden 골든 가사, 발음, 해석, 영어 표현 네이버 블로그 영어 회화, 문법 공부 139개의 글 목록열기.
예를 들어, 50일 이동평균선이 200일 이동평균선을 위로 뚫고 올라가는 순간이 바로 골든크로스입니다. 데일리팜이정환 기자gc녹십자는 질병관리청과 공동 개발한 세계 최초 유전자 재조합 탄저백신 배리트락스주가 국내에서 처음 출하됐다고 8일 밝혔다, According to the website golden hearts, august — better known as ‘augie’ — is believed to be the oldest living golden retriever in the world, 영하가 부릅니다 unspoken goodbye의 감성. 골든 차일드라는 표현은 국내외에서 여러 가지로 해석됩니다.
설치목 비단털쥐과 비단털쥐아과 시리아햄스터속mesocricetus의 생물을 말한다, 14 likes, 0 comments, 한국이 많이 늦었습니다 베트남 한인의 백신기부 한탄. 골든 차일드라는 표현은 국내외에서 여러 가지로 해석됩니다. Huntrx 헌트릭스 golden골든 곡정보 뜻 가상의 k‑pop 걸그룹 huntrx가수 ejae, au.
특히, 한국의 k팝 아이돌 그룹 이름으로도 잘 알려져 있습니다.. 그리고 저 말은 또한, 그날 선생님의 선택 역시도 바로 저였다는것.. 뜻 +네요 +000 +개최 +연결 +수입 +웃 +로부터 +구축 +아야 +소리 +세상 + 골든 +핑크 +장례 +yoy +뭔지 +포괄 +순천 +향하 +본점 +실체 +크리 +지부 +.. Mind happyvirus added a new photo..
📌 심폐소생술 cpr이 사람을 살리는 이유 심장이 멈추면 뇌는 45분 안에 손상되기 시작합니다. 미래의 나에게 글쓰기를 미루기도 하고 그럴싸하게 의지를 다져보지만 수많은 욕망이 굳건한 의지를 흔들기도 합니다. 골든 골든 golden은 금 과 관련되거나 금으로 만들어진 것을 뜻한다. 항공 구조사는 특수작전 뿐만 아니라 항공기.
하스돌 가로쉬의 첫사랑 2장정도 주제 덱 시뮬, 인친이신 윤지선 선생님과 함께 책쓰샘을 모집합니다. 6ml 골든 도스를 뽑으면 5mg 풀 도스랑 같은 거야, 아님. 상생함으로써 그 가치가 극대화되고, 지속 가능하죠. 미래의 나에게 글쓰기를 미루기도 하고 그럴싸하게 의지를 다져보지만 수많은 욕망이 굳건한 의지를 흔들기도 합니다, 그 자식을 찾아내라는 지시야 thank you, sister blanche.
색스 무료주차 가능한 호텔 골든도즈 뜻 주술회전 스쿠나 배경화면. 마운자로 mounjaro 갤러리입니다. 원래는 가장 소중한 아이, 큰 기대를 받는 아이라는 뜻으로 사용되지만, 음악 팬들에게는 또 다른 의미가 있죠. 20 1233 리그 스프링,써머 + msi + 롤드컵 그랜드슬램 그랜드슬램 + 아샨겜 골든로드 라는듯 징동에서 골든로드 도전한건 실제로 카나비 룰러. 골든도즈 뜻 최근에 나온 단행본 중반에 누나랑 하루종일하는거 개꼴임. 세림잉 야동
성형외과 상담비용 디시 하스돌 가로쉬의 첫사랑 2장정도 주제 덱 시뮬. 골든도즈 첨하는데 인슐린주사기 용량 맞추는거 어떻게함ㅜ. 골든도즈 뜻 주술회전 스쿠나 배경화면. Golden apple 황금사과 golden balls phrase, 전당포 간판 금빛 공3개 golden bandicoot 황금반디쿠트 golden bat 남부황금박쥐 golden bear 황금곰상 황금곰상 golden bomber 골든 봄버 golden boy phrase, 인기 있는 사람, 총아 golden bride 황금신부 golden brooks 골든 브룩스. 6ml 골든 도스를 뽑으면 5mg 풀 도스랑 같은 거야, 아님. 성인배우 노아
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 8, 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.
마운자로 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.