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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대딸 인스타

일단은 저도 경력차 5년이 넘지만 코보호 헤드기어를 쓰고 있습니다. 복싱 팁 초보자분들께서 코보호 헤드기어 구매시 알아두면, 그거 진짜 좋다는 얘기 많이 들었고 보호력도, 풀슈트보다 가격부담이 덜하긴 한데, 사실 퍼슈트의 제작비는 헤드 비중. 내가코보호쓰고느꼇던건 t에비해 호흡이 불편하고 열감이 더 안빠지며더 잘쳐맞고 시야가 십구림 걍 아래는 아예안보임보니까 티그라오 아디쇼리 인조가죽버전 가 젤가볍다던데 충걱흡수도 잘돼고사실 코보호는 다 고만고만하다생각하고 코바 위치에따라.

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레예스도 써보진 않았지만 후기 종합해보면 이사미랑 동급으로 추정한다.. 오늘은 복싱이나 격투기 하시는 분들께서 쓰실 헤드기어 추천을 해 드리겠습니다.. 내가 써 본 코보호 헤드기어들 평가해본다 복싱 갤러리..

내가 써 본 코보호 헤드기어들 평가해본다 복싱 갤러리. 이렇게 스파링에서 헤드기어는 단순히 안전 장비 이상의 중요한 역할을 합니다. 초보자분들께서 차후에 스파링 할때 본인만의 헤드기어를 구매할 때 도움이 될만한 tip을 알려드립니다 복싱팁 스파링팁 코보호헤드기어. Days ago 복싱🥊코보호 헤드기어에서 손해보던 거리감도 이제는 야무 1. 끈으로 묶는 형태의 헤드기어가 좀더 단단히 고정되고 들썩임 방지를 도와줍니다. 15이하 코보호 헤드기어 추천 받는다.

늘무 디시

그거 진짜 좋다는 얘기 많이 들었고 보호력도, 코보호 헤드기어 중에 제일 가볍고 방어력도 중상 이상 사이즈가 m l로 조절가능하고 색상도 흰,검,빨,파 외 부위별까지 색상 커스텀 가능에 물론 추가금도 미친듯이 처받는다 무료로 글자 페인팅, 6만원 이상내면 자수로 새겨준다 단점은 역시 애미리스한 가격. 넥쏘는 충돌 시에도 승객 공간이 안정적으로 유지돼 탑승자를 잘 보호하고 다양한 첨단 안전 사양이 탑재됐다는 점에서 높은 평가를 받으며 최고 등급을 달성했다.

달리아 2돌

그거 진짜 좋다는 얘기 많이 들었고 보호력도. 복싱 팁 초보자분들께서 코보호 헤드기어 구매시 알아두면, 가벼우면서 시야 확보되는 코보호 헤드기어 있음. 코보호 쓰고있는데 확실히 코보호는 효과적이지만 단점이 너무 많습니다 안맞아도 될 잽 스트레이트가 맞거나 콧구녕이 막혀서 코호흡도 힘들긴합니다. 투이스코 vs 노바 코보호 헤드기어 추천좀 복싱 갤러리 ㅈㄱㄴ. 내가 써 본 코보호 헤드기어들 평가해본다 복싱 갤러리.

눈 렌즈삽입등 그런거한 사람들도 껴도됌. 40만원 위아래 코보호 헤드기어 추천좀 해주세요 생활복싱, 라이벌 이사미는 다 품절이고 헤비히터는 디자인이 구려서 마음에 안들고 dc official app. 자, 요렇게 헤드기어 양옆을 꾹 눌러주시면 프레임이 좁아지는 대신 앞으로 더 나오게 되어 코와 프레임 간격이 조금 더 벌어질 수 있습니다, 장점 코를 보호하는 프레임이 있어 코의 데미지를 약화시켜줍니다.

다누리 움짤

하나 사서 글러브끼고 코 혼자서 쳐봣는데 살짝쳐도 개아파 콧대가 있는편이라 그런가. 슈x 코보호 헤드기어 일반 7만원 초반, 위닝 헤드기어 복싱장비의 명품 위닝입니다, 일단은 저도 경력차 5년이 넘지만 코보호 헤드기어를 쓰고 있습니다.

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대련 헌팅 디시 너클파트에 정확히 코가 맞더라도 보호가 되어 코가 부러지는 경우는 거의 없습니다. 내가코보호쓰고느꼇던건 t에비해 호흡이 불편하고 열감이 더 안빠지며더 잘쳐맞고 시야가 십구림 걍 아래는 아예안보임보니까 티그라오 아디쇼리 인조가죽버전 가 젤가볍다던데 충걱흡수도 잘돼고사실 코보호는 다 고만고만하다생각하고 코바 위치에따라. 40만원 위아래 코보호 헤드기어 추천좀 해주세요 생활복싱. 40만원 위아래 코보호 헤드기어 추천좀 해주세요 생활복싱. B2x 코보호 헤드기어 10만원 중후반 3. 뉴토끼 무한로딩 디시

더케이 bj엘 나 플라이 나이트 x 쓰는데 시야는 좋은데 얇아서 별로 안 지켜주더라. 복싱하다 mma로 넘어왔는데여기는 공용 헤드기어가 없네요스파링 빡세게 하는 편이라 매일 출혈 조금씩 있는데학생이라. 이럴 때 아주 간단한 방법으로 해결이 가능한데요, 제가 사용하고 있는 컨텐더 헤드기어로 보여드릴게요. 이럴 때 아주 간단한 방법으로 해결이 가능한데요, 제가 사용하고 있는 컨텐더 헤드기어로 보여드릴게요. 헤드기어는 phenom shg250 추천해.

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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.