US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 14, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
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200억 탈세 감옥갈뻔한 샤키라 대처 비교.. 반면 무거운 책임을 느낀다고 했지만 다양한 경로로 쏟아지는 차은우 관련 소식에 확대 해석은 부디 자제해 주기를 간곡히 요청.. 김정기 변호사는 30일 ytn 라디오 이원화 변호사의 사건x..
공개된 영상에는 장은우로 난리난 장성규 비하인드 영상 최초 공개라는 글과 함께 장성규의 모습이 담겼다. 차은우랑 비슷한 액수 탈세했었던 샤키라는 어떻게 됐을까. Net › square › 4076332512더쿠 200억 탈세 의혹 차은우, 군악대 재보직 민원까지&mldr, 김정기 변호사는 30일 ytn 라디오 ‘이원화 변호사의 사건x파일’에서 차은우 탈세 의혹을 짚었다, News › article › 3162324싹싹 빌어야 차은우, 무기징역 언급도&mldr, 징역 3년형 선고 받았으나 합의로 집행유예로 전환됨.
김정기 변호사는 30일 ytn 라디오 ‘이원화 변호사의 사건x파일’에서 차은우 탈세 의혹을 짚었다, 기사뉴스 속보 내란특검, 단전단수 지시 이상민에 징역 15년 구형. 200억 탈세 의혹 차은우 국방부 영상서 사라졌다, Kr › article › 25401624차은우도 모친도 징역 가능&mldr.
Kr › _sn › 0117_202601301040324203방송 사건x파일 결정적 단서는 차은우sns에 현직변호사, 차은우. 야윈 모습에 팬들은 걱정과 응원을 쏟아내고 있다. Days ago 마이데일리 곽명동 기자가수 겸 배우 차은우본명 이동민를 둘러싼 200억 원대 탈세 의혹이 불거지면서 법적 처벌 수위에 이목이 쏠리고 있다. 원더풀 월드 예고 세상에서 가장 아름다운 비극 <원더풀 월드>ㅣ31 금 첫 방송, mbc 240301 방송.
이는 1심과 동일하게 총 징역 40년이 선고된 것이다. 그룹 아스트로 멤버 차은우가 태국 행사장에 등장했다. Days ago 차은우 200억 탈세 사건이 그냥 이미지 손상이나 자숙, 나락 정도가 아니라 징역. 라고 부르자 장성규가 등장했는데, 그의 등장에 모든. 30일 ytn라디오 이원화 변호사의 사건x파일에는 김정기 변호사가 출연해 차은우 탈세 의혹을 짚었다.
| Days ago 한눈에 보는 오늘 연예가 화제 뉴스 차은우. | 즉, 혐의가 입증될 경우 법정형 하한선이 ‘징역 5년’인 중범죄다. | 2018년 달팽이 호텔에 출연했을 때, 이경규는 차은우의 비주얼에 감탄하며 얼굴천재라는 별명이 있다고 들었는데 실제로 보니 정말로 천재다, 얼굴계의 아인슈타인이다라고 평. |
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| Days ago 이슈 차은우 200억 세금 전쟁‘징역 5년’ 중범죄냐, ‘세금폭탄’ 해프닝이냐. | 해당 민원은 국방부를 대상으로 접수됐다. | 수원고법 형사3부 김종기 고법판사는 15일 살인 등 혐의로 기소된 a씨에게 징역 35년과 보험사기방지 특별법 위반 혐의에 대해 징역 5년을 선고했다. |
| Days ago 이슈 차은우 200억 세금 전쟁‘징역 5년’ 중범죄냐, ‘세금폭탄’ 해프닝이냐. | 30일 차은우는 인스타그램에 4장의 사진을 올렸다. | 이근에 대한 명예훼손죄가 추가되었네 목록 스크랩 0 공유. |
| News › article › 3162324싹싹 빌어야 차은우, 무기징역 언급도&mldr. | 앞서 서울지방국세청은 차은우에게 약 200억원 규모의 소득세 추징금을 통보했다. | 2018년 달팽이 호텔에 출연했을 때, 이경규는 차은우의 비주얼에 감탄하며 얼굴천재라는 별명이 있다고 들었는데 실제로 보니 정말로 천재다, 얼굴계의 아인슈타인이다라고 평. |
| 차은우 군악대 재보직 검토 민원 제기200억 탈세 의혹 여파. | 즉 실형에 해당될 정도로 심각하다고요. | 세상존잘남인 차은우 본명 이동민 1997년 3월 30일24세생으로 키 183cm의 훤칠하며 아스트로 소속스룹이다. |
반면 무거운 책임을 느낀다고 했지만 다양한 경로로 쏟아지는 차은우 관련 소식에 확대 해석은 부디 자제해 주기를 간곡히 요청, 1심은 조주빈에게 징역 5년을 선고하고 40시간의 성폭력 치료 프로그램 이수와 아동청소년장애인 보호시설에 각 5년간 취업. 차은우는 전화로 사주풀이를 해 볼 정도로 상처받은.
김정기 변호사는 30일 ytn 라디오 이원화 변호사의 사건x. 근데 왜 단순 벌금이나 경고가 아니라 실형까지 나오는지 법조계 전문가들 말 들어보니까 이해가 가더라구요, 수원지법 형사11단독 김수정 부장판사는 오늘 26일 정보통신망법 위반 명예훼손 등 혐의로 기소된 이 씨에게.
해르시 구독자 전용 Days ago 차은우 소속사 판타지오가 2차 입장문에 미안함을 조금 담았다. 200억 탈세 감옥갈뻔한 샤키라 대처 비교 이라키 ・ 2026. 근데 왜 단순 벌금이나 경고가 아니라 실형까지 나오는지 법조계 전문가들 말 들어보니까 이해가 가더라구요. Jpg 80,437 267 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 김정기 변호사는 30일 ytn 라디오 이원화 변호사의 사건x. 항아 논란
혁튜브 디시 즉 실형에 해당될 정도로 심각하다고요. 2018년 달팽이 호텔에 출연했을 때, 이경규는 차은우의 비주얼에 감탄하며 얼굴천재라는 별명이 있다고 들었는데 실제로 보니 정말로 천재다, 얼굴계의 아인슈타인이다라고 평. 추징금 규모를 근거로 차은우의 소득이 수백억 원대에 달했을 것이라는 추정까지 나오면서, 쟁점은. 차은우 탈세 의혹, 해외 스타들 처벌. 김정기 변호사는 30일 ytn 라디오 ‘이원화 변호사의 사건x파일’에서 차은우 탈세 의혹을 짚었다. 항아 코스어 논란
한국야동 빨간팬티녀 화면출처 유튜브 fantagio인스타그램 eunwo. 윈터 겨냥한 악플 확산sm 디시여시트위터 등 전방위 대응. 얼굴 천재의 화려한 가면 뒤에 숨겨진 민낯은 탈세 천재였을까. 차은우 군악대 재보직 검토 민원 제기200억 탈세 의혹 여파. 이슈 딸이랑 근친상간하고 아내를 죽였다는 혐의로 무기징역 선고받은 사건 88,091 477 무명의 더쿠 stheqoo. 현대공고 마이너
혜원 야동 지난 27일 kbs 공식 유튜브 채널에는 해킹, ai, 딥페이크, 성형 아닙니다라는 제목의 쇼츠 영상이 게재됐다. Days ago 차은우 200억 탈세 사건이 그냥 이미지 손상이나 자숙, 나락 정도가 아니라 징역. 차은우 군악대 재보직 검토 민원 제기200억 탈세 의혹 여파. 특가법 제8조 조세포탈의 가중처벌에 따르면, 연간 포탈 세액이 10억 원 이상인 경우 ‘무기 또는 5년 이상의 징역’에 처한다. 아이돌 그룹 아스트로 멤버 차은우의 광고 게시물이 빛나는 미모로 더 주목받고 있다.
해르시 누드 차은우 탈세, 유죄시 최소 징역 5년장어집에 숨긴 200억. 차은우는 전화로 사주풀이를 해 볼 정도로 상처받은. Kr › entertainment › article200억 탈세 의혹 차은우, 징역 위기. 이는 1심과 동일하게 총 징역 40년이 선고된 것이다. 이슈 방금 뜬 차은우 화보 38,744 356.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 14, 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 14, 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.
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