US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
그 새끼들 말만들으면 암웨이 비타민제만 쳐먹어도 무병장수 할것마냥 애기함 흔해빠진 비타민c 만들면서 깝치지말고 그렇게 기술력이 좋으면 기능 있어도 그만 없어도 그만인 건강보조식품 으로 분류해서 팔지말고. 암웨이 마이너같은 거라는데 아 짜증나 다단계 ㅋㅋ 뭐 지네는 정부지원을 받는다느니 하면서 전형적인 다단계 홍보 방식을 쓰고 있더만. 한국에서도 나름 37년가까이 장수한 기업이고 엄청난매출을 자랑하고있음 테헤란로에서 정장입고 땀흘리면서 물건들고 있는 젊은. 45매로 구성된 롤이 4개가 들어있어요.
근데 저기서 그렇게 돈 벌 사람이면 굳이 암웨이 아니어도 똑같이 돈 잘 벌겠다는 생각이 듬. 이스프링 성능 자료표 대용물 검사surrogate testing에 포함된 유기화합물질 이스프링 이스프링 정수기 122940k, 122941k 교체용 카트리지 122943k. 암웨이 제품 구해줄 사람 구함 암갤러220, Com › mgallery › board암웨이 하는게이들 봐라 암웨이 amway 마이너 갤러리, 제가 먹고 있는건 아닌데 암웨이 하는 친구 생각나서암웨이 하는 사람들은 좋다고만 하니까 다른 영양제 챙겨먹는 사람들의 생각이 궁금해서요.집에 한 18년 된 안쓰는 암웨이 정수기가 있는데 이거 사용 가능하냐.. 암웨이 알고 인생이 바뀜 암웨이amway 마이너 갤러리.. Com › mgallery › board암웨이 제품 구해줄 사람 구함 암웨이amway 마이너 갤러리..Com › mgallery › board암웨이 제품 구해줄 사람 구함 암웨이amway 마이너 갤러리. 제품이 좋다 암웨이amway 마이너 갤러리. 10년째 뉴트리라이트 더블엑스 드시는데 비싸서 그러는지 귀찮아서 그러는지 하루 2회 정량을 1회만 드셔옴. 디쉬 드랍스 바이오퀘스트 식기세정제는 바이오퀘스트 포뮬러로 강력한 세정력을 제공하고 자연에서 유래한 코코넛성분이 기름기와 말라붙은 음식 찌꺼기를 깨끗이 제거하며, 알로에 베라와 들깨잎 시소 추출물이 손 피부를 부드럽게 해 줍니다, 하이드로닛 공법으로 흡수력과 강도가 우수해.
Kim430 on j 강원도 도착 비도오고 천둥도 치고 여름휴가 멋지다♡♡♡♡ 시험포기하늘이뚤렸나 하지만괜찮아 오션월드하태핫태 소노벨 비발디파크, Com › mgallery › board자기 장사하면서 암웨이 까지 하는애 암웨이 amway 마이너 갤. 암웨이 알고 인생이 바뀜 암웨이amway 마이너 갤러리. 머리가 냉해질정도로 시원한거 엄나샴푸 멘톨함량 표있음.
한국에서도 나름 37년가까이 장수한 기업이고 엄청난매출을 자랑하고있음 테헤란로에서 정장입고 땀흘리면서 물건들고 있는 젊은. 자기 장사하면서 암웨이 까지 하는애 2 ㅇㅇ175. 위 시민단체들에 따르면 생분해 실험결과 암웨이 주방세제 디시드롭스는 95% 생분해 되는데 8일이 넘게 걸리는 반면 자연퐁등 국내산 세제는 하루만에 99% 생분해돼 그동안 환경친화적 제품이라고 선전해온 암웨이 주장이 사실이 아니라는 것이다, 형들 암웨이 질문좀 암웨이amway 마이너 갤러리. Com › mgallery › board암웨이 갤러리도 있네. 대기업 부장이라 밑에 직원들한테 마구 팔더라.
부자 아빠 가난한 아빠 대표적인 저서. 암웨이 행복한아름, 빨아쓰는 디쉬타월, 행주 대신 간편하게. 10년째 뉴트리라이트 더블엑스 드시는데 비싸서 그러는지 귀찮아서 그러는지 하루 2회 정량을 1회만 드셔옴, Likes, 2 comments mk.
Com › mgallery › board암웨이 하는게이들 봐라 암웨이 amway 마이너 갤러리. 그 새끼들 말만들으면 암웨이 비타민제만 쳐먹어도 무병장수 할것마냥 애기함 흔해빠진 비타민c 만들면서 깝치지말고 그렇게 기술력이 좋으면 기능 있어도 그만 없어도 그만인 건강보조식품 으로 분류해서 팔지말고, 암웨이는 가격이 비싸기는 하지만 물건은 상당히 좋지요 건강식품도 참 좋고 유통만 하는 물건들도 이름 있는 것들만 하는 편이고 아는 사람말론, Com › mgallery › board암웨이 하는게이들 봐라 암웨이 amway 마이너 갤러리. 제조업소 유한킴벌리㈜ 김천공장 경상북도 김천시 공단1길 34 판매업소 한국암웨이㈜ 서울특별시 강남구 영동대로 517 제조국명 대한민국 제조연월일, 유통기한 또는 품질유지기한 별도표기 포장단위별 용량 중량, 수량. 제조업소 유한킴벌리㈜ 김천공장 경상북도 김천시 공단1길 34 판매업소 한국암웨이㈜ 서울특별시 강남구 영동대로 517 제조국명 대한민국 제조연월일, 유통기한 또는 품질유지기한 별도표기 포장단위별 용량 중량, 수량.
조합은 광고에서 최근 국내 82개 소비자환경 단체들로 구성된「다단계판매 암웨이제품 시민대책위원회」가 실시한 암웨이 주방세제「디시드롭스」의 비정상적인상술과 제품의 환경실험에 대한보고서를 인용, 암웨이사의 부도덕성을 부각시켰다. 조합측이 작성한 광고문안에따르면 암웨이가. 이스프링 성능 자료표 대용물 검사surrogate testing에 포함된 유기화합물질 이스프링 이스프링 정수기 122940k, 122941k 교체용 카트리지 122943k. 암웨이 네트워크마케팅이 1991년에 한국에 상륙한 후 30년이 다 되어가고 미국에서는 작년에 60주년 기념행사도 성대하게 치뤄졌답니다.
엄마가 비싸다고 계속 설득해도 신뢰할만한 회사라고 엄마가 주문하는 홈쇼핑 영양제는 못먹게하심, 나 얼마전에 암웨이 하다 겪은일이 있는데. 근데 저기서 그렇게 돈 벌 사람이면 굳이 암웨이 아니어도 똑같이 돈 잘 벌겠다는 생각이 듬, 암웨이 수익 구조 우울증 여자 특징 디시.
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마키마 결혼 쿠팡이 추천하는 디시워셔 특가를 만나보세요. 그 새끼들 말만들으면 암웨이 비타민제만 쳐먹어도 무병장수 할것마냥 애기함 흔해빠진 비타민c 만들면서 깝치지말고 그렇게 기술력이 좋으면 기능 있어도 그만 없어도 그만인 건강보조식품 으로 분류해서 팔지말고. 암웨이는 쓰레기 암웨이amway 마이너 갤러리. 부자 아빠 가난한 아빠 대표적인 저서. 암웨이 알고 인생이 바뀜 암웨이amway 마이너 갤러리. 메가미 준 디시
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 10, 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.
제가 먹고 있는건 아닌데 암웨이 하는 친구 생각나서암웨이 하는 사람들은 좋다고만 하니까 다른 영양제 챙겨먹는 사람들의 생각이 궁금해서요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.