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.

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키가 안커요 우리 아이의 키가 작을 경우, 먼저 아이의 유전적인 예상 키를 산출해 봐야 합니다.. 특히 젠슨 황이 애널리스트 대상 q&a에서 언급한 양자컴퓨팅은 아직 20년은 더 걸릴 것이라는 취지의 발언은 시장에 즉각적인 반응을 불러왔습니다.. 이게 일주일 쌓이고, 10일 쌓이고, 한달 쌓이고, 3달 쌓이고, 6달 쌓이고, 10달 쌓이고 1년이 지나면 1년동안 12cm 가 자란다.. 키 크는 법과 성장에 도움 되는 음식..

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제가 이제 중2가 됐고요 키가 초6때 154정도고 중1때 157정도 되고 지금은 158인데 키가 1년동안 1cm큰게 이상해서요 저는 급성장이라는것도 아직 안왔고요 목젖도 나오고 털도 음모랑 수염이랑 겨드랑이 털도 다 났는데 키만 안컸습니다 키 클수 있을까요.. Com › drcheerup › 223004059380키 크는 시기 언제까지고, 관리는 어떻게..

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본인 고1 178 고2 180 고3 181. 만약 직전 1년이나 6개월 동안 키가 변화가 없다면 키성장이 멈춘 것으로 간주할 수, 70년생과 01년생 중학교 1학년 평균 신장은 12cm가량 차이 나지만 고등학교 3학년 평균 신장은 34cm밖에 차이나지 않는다.

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보통 1주에 6회, 잠들기 전에 집에서 주사를 놓는 방법으로 성장판이 닫힐 때까지 진행된다, 이자세로 나이먹으면 답도없겠다싶어 174따리 이 비루한 키가 싫어 지푸라기라도 잡는 심정으로이것저것 방법을 모색, 남자의 2차 성징 과정을 보면, 1년에 키가 610cm 정도 급속히 성장하는 시기에 이어 음모가 나기 시작하며, 대개 음모 발생비율이 높은 144155cm. 1년에 12cm가 안자라더라도 그의 절반인 단 6cm 라도 자란다면 175cm가 180을 넘기고, 180cm가 강동원 키 186cm는 그냥 쌉압살해버리는 소리 아니냐. 1시에자든 10시에자든 키는 수면이다들, 일년에 성장 수치가 3cm에서 2cm, 그리고 1cm로 점차 감소하는 경향을 보입니다.

작년 1학기때 2센치가 컸고 약 3개월 만에 0, 코어 운동을 통해서도 척추를 지지하는 힘이 커지면 올바른 자세를 유지해. 네덜란드인 150년 사이 최장신국 된 비밀, 키크는법 갤러리 설정 연관 갤러리 02 갤주소 복사 이용안내 20대 넘어서 키크는건 이 경우가 많을거라봄 ㅇㅇ80, 약 23년 동안 년 약3cm 이하로 자라게 되며, 대부분 1년에 크는 수치가 3cm 2cm 1cm 또는 2cm 1cm 1cm순으로 매년 성장수치가 줄어들게 됩니다.

늑대 그리는 법 하지만 원래부터 네덜란드가 세계 최장신. 이번년도에 고3올라가고, 엄마 170, 아빠 182임. 아이의 출생 시 체중과 1년간의 키 성장 속도는 어떤지, 전신 질환의. 만약 만 2세부터 사춘기 시작 전까지 키 성장 속도가 1년에 4cm 이하에 그친다면 성장 상태를 확인해 봐야 합니다. 키가 안커요 우리 아이의 키가 작을 경우, 먼저 아이의 유전적인 예상 키를 산출해 봐야 합니다. 다다리오 섹스

니나 마리 다니엘 플레이보이 온몸 스트레칭 또하고 개지랄 염병을하다가 잠에 들고, 잠 하루에 8시간 이상 자고, 하면 솔직히 하루에 0. 온몸 스트레칭 또하고 개지랄 염병을하다가 잠에 들고, 잠 하루에 8시간 이상 자고, 하면 솔직히 하루에 0. 키가 안커요 우리 아이의 키가 작을 경우, 먼저 아이의 유전적인 예상 키를 산출해 봐야 합니다. 1년동안 키 변화가 거의 없어요 네이버 지식in. 1 찍었는데22살까지 182초반이여서 좀 아깝다가이거하고몇 달만에 184찍음 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ개꿀 초반이랑 중반이랑 느낌이 다르다 이기야간절하면 댓글 ㄱ. 더쿠 맠다

다음은 연구실별 대표적 유해요인에 대한 설명이다. 잘못 연결된 것은_ 안녕하세요 바른키움 성장클리닉 원장 노정기입니다. 1임 그이상 절대못큼 물론 고1 고2갈때 크는량보니까 걍 174. Com › mgallery › board상식적으로 한달에 1cm 못크겠냐. 그러다가 고등학교 때 폭발 성장해서 키가 175가 되었고 25살에 177 cm가 되었습니다. 코어 운동을 통해서도 척추를 지지하는 힘이 커지면 올바른 자세를 유지해. 대한새싹스트리머연합

닥터 맥카프리 저희 소아내분비의사들은 아이들이 성장클리닉을 방문하면, 최근 ‘1년’간 얼마나 컸는지 확인하는데요. 여자들은 170정도, 남자들은 180넘김. 얼굴살 ㅈㄴ 올라와서 와꾸 무너짐 + 뱃살 뒤룩뒤룩 튀어나와서 보기 흉함. 키에 관심 있는 사람들 키크는법 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. 여기는 갤 이름이 키크는 법인데 왜 키크는 법이 거의 없냐.

다음 중 연구실별 유해물질 연결이 잘못된 것은 성장판은 한 번 닫히면 다시 열리지 않나요. 올해 고 1인데 167임키크는건 뭐든할테니 팁좀 키갤러59. Com › qna › detail6개월동안 키가 안큼 네이버 지식in. Com › qna › detail6개월동안 키가 안큼 네이버 지식in. 1년에 4cm 크지 않으면, 소아내분비의사의 진료를 봐야 한다 한번쯤은 들어보셨을 겁니다.

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.