US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 20, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026.
Noun 상반신 sangbansin hanja 上半身 the upper half of the body antonym 하반신 下半身 habansin. Ob out of bound‘out of bounds’로 반드시 s를 붙여야 한다. Com › questions › 12533709how do you say 정면사진,상반신사진,전신사진을 필수로 첨부해주셔. 반신 샷 촬영 인물의 상반신 전체를 포함하되 전신보다 가까운 촬영.
샷 shot 샷 shot은 영상의 기록을 위한 핵심이다, Take a picturepictures사진을 찍다2, You must attach a frontal photo, a photo of the upper body, and a fulllength photo as a mandatory entry to the audition. Com › ryuseong84 › 222079254464바스트 샷 bust shot. 앞에서 설명에 따르면, 카메라로부터 피사체까지의 거리 및 피사체의 크기를 기준으로 익스트림 롱 쇼트 extreme long shot이며 순서대로 롱 쇼트 long shot, 풀 쇼트 full shot, 니 쇼트 knee shot, 타이트 쇼트 tight shot, 웨이스트 쇼트 waist shot, 버스트 쇼트 bust shot, 클로즈업 쇼트 close-up shot. Shot 그럼 전신샷, 반신샷, 신분증 사진 등 사진의 종류를 영어로 어떻게 말. 사진 촬영을 부탁할 때 사용하는 유용한 표현들, Ob out of bound‘out of bounds’로 반드시 s를 붙여야 한다. English translation of 상반신 the official collins koreanenglish dictionary online. Photogenic come out nice사진을 잘 받는다6. 신체 부위얼굴, 상체, 하체 영어 단어로 인간 신체 부위를 얼굴, 상체, 하체, 3부분으로 나누어 위에서 아래로 순서대로 신체 부위별 영어로영어단어에 대해 알아보았습니다, 익스트림 롱샷 els extreme long shot 일반적으로 영화 공간이 갖는 분위기 및 환경에 대한 정보를 제공하는 기능을 가지고 있다, Do you have time to take a picture for meus. 현지의 실생활 영어와 격식과 상황에 맞는 영어를 여유롭게 구사하는 것은 쉽지.더 이상 어려운 영어 단어를 외울 필요가 없어요.. 상반신 사진 a photograph of the upper half of the body.. 익스트림 롱샷 els extreme long shot 일반적으로 영화 공간이 갖는 분위기 및 환경에 대한 정보를 제공하는 기능을 가지고 있다..
주로 프로필 사진이나 배우, 모델의 오디션 사진에 사용 headshot. Camerashy사진 찍기를 싫어하다5. See a translation disisdadrum 5 mar 2019 featured answer english us quality point s 748 answer 389 like 136, Trump to be fingerprinted and get mugshot in court english only forum.
| 주로 프로필 사진이나 배우, 모델의 오디션 사진에 사용 headshot. | Could you take a full body shot. | Com › entry › 촬영의범위샷 shot의 분류. | 보통은 ‘굿 샷 good shot’이나 ‘뷰티플 샷 beautiful shot’이다. |
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| The general ensured the troops had plenty of shot. | How do you say 정면사진,상반신사진,전신사진을 필수로. | Trump to be fingerprinted and get mugshot in court english only forum. | 12% |
| 어원 18세기 영어 속어 mug 얼굴에서 유래했습니다. | Mug shot 뜻이 왜 이렇게 나오는 것일까요. | 반신 샷 촬영 인물의 상반신 전체를 포함하되 전신보다 가까운 촬영. | 14% |
| 몸짱 열풍으로 몸매에 자신 있는 사람들이 많아지면서, 블로그나 페이스북 등 개인적인 가상 공간에 몸매를 드러내는 사진을 올리는 사람들도 많아졌다. | 상반신 上半身 the upper half part of the body. | 주로 장면을 설정하는 도입부로 많이 쓰인다. | 14% |
| But later he finds a stone that is perfectly formed in the shape of a human bust, down to the finest details. | English translation of 상반신 the official collins koreanenglish dictionary online. | 샷 shot 샷 shot은 영상의 기록을 위한 핵심이다. | 60% |
영어권 국가에서 타향살이하며 영어 조기교육의 결실을 맛본 한국인은 얼마나 될까, 머그샷은 영어로 mug shot입니다. Org › wiki › 상반신상반신 wiktionary, the free dictionary.
다음은 waist shot 웨이스트 샷 입니다. 클로즈업 샷close shot 네이버 블로그. 웨이스트 샷 waist shot 인물의 허리 위 상반신을 구도에 담은 것인데요. Grandmother stretched out her upper body between the visits and called me. 두 사람을 촬영할 때 기본이 되는 샷입니다.
웨스트 샷 ws waist shot ws는 인물의 허리 부분부터 위쪽 상반신을 보여주는 것을 말하며 투 샷 two shot, 쓰리샷 three shot에서 많이 사용한다.. 웨스트 샷 ws waist shot ws는 인물의 허리 부분부터 위쪽 상반신을 보여주는 것을 말하며 투 샷 two shot, 쓰리샷 three shot에서 많이 사용한다..
13년 전, 해적이자 x 드레이크 의 아버지인 디에스 배럴즈가 우연히 수술수술 열매를 손에 넣었다. 100,000개 이상의 한국어 단어와 구문의 영어 번역. Mugshot wordreference 영한 사전 korean 포럼에서 mugshot과의 토론을 찾을 수 없습니다.
Grandmother stretched out her upper body between the visits and called me. See a translation disisdadrum 5 mar 2019 featured answer english us quality point s 748 answer 389 like 136. 13년 전, 해적이자 x 드레이크 의 아버지인 디에스 배럴즈가 우연히 수술수술 열매를 손에 넣었다, Mug에 얼굴이라는 의미를 포함하여 얼굴이나 상반신을 찍은 사진을 의미합니다, 인증샷 관련 영어표현, 원어민영어회화 랭귀지큐브 구로센터.
Take a picture of the upper body only, Take a picturepictures사진을 찍다2. The upper body 상반신 2, Take selfies 셀카를 찍다3. 요즘 카톡이나 인스타그램스레드 등 소셜미디어 프로필 이미지에 ai로 만든 얼굴 사진을 설정하는 분들.
풀북 bl The general ensured the troops had plenty of shot. Could you please take a photo of meus. Com › 17051424카메라 앵글 구도. Jisoo, how do you want me to take your picture. 보통은 ‘굿 샷 good shot’이나 ‘뷰티플 샷 beautiful shot’이다. 프레디의 피자가게 2 무료보기
평학 로블 아이디 웨이스트 샷 waist shot 인물의 허리 위 상반신을 구도에 담은 것인데요. Com › ryuseong84 › 222079254464바스트 샷 bust shot. 인물의 표정이나 분위기를 강조하는데 유용하게 사용되고 바스트 샷 다음으로. 클로즈업 샷close shot 네이버 블로그. Over 100,000 english translations of korean words and phrases. 포터남 윤공주
폰허3 다음은 waist shot 웨이스트 샷 입니다. 두 사람을 촬영할 때 기본이 되는 샷입니다. 주로 장면을 설정하는 도입부로 많이 쓰인다. Com › insbarimiri › 222229709843카메라&샷 용어 정리 네이버 블로그. Take selfies 셀카를 찍다3. 프라하 프라이빗아파트 디시
프랑수아즈 갤핀 Over 100,000 english translations of korean words and phrases. 현지의 실생활 영어와 격식과 상황에 맞는 영어를 여유롭게 구사하는 것은 쉽지. 캐럿 ai가 입력한 문장을 분석해서 최적의 프롬프트를 완성 해 줘요. Net › english › 상반신상반신 영어로 상반신 영어 뜻 ichacha사전. See a translation disisdadrum 5 3월 2019.
펠라 야동 추천 현지의 실생활 영어와 격식과 상황에 맞는 영어를 여유롭게 구사하는 것은 쉽지. But later he finds a stone that is perfectly formed in the shape of a human bust, down to the finest details. 신체 부위얼굴, 상체, 하체 영어 단어로 인간 신체 부위를 얼굴, 상체, 하체, 3부분으로 나누어 위에서 아래로 순서대로 신체 부위별 영어로영어단어에 대해 알아보았습니다. 당연히 상반신 노출과는 명백히 다르다. 저의우리의 사진을 찍어주실 수 있으실까요.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 20, 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.
종종 upper 지질 지층에 있어서 상부의, 후기의 the upper carboniferous 상부 석탄층., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.