US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 18, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026.
제니는 본인만의 개성을 살린 화려한 메이크업과 형광색의. Newsfriend curation team 뉴스친구 님의 스토리 2개월 1 12 뉴스친구. 제니는 본인만의 개성을 살린 화려한 메이크업과 형광색의. 오늘은 글로벌 톱 걸그룹 블랙핑크 리더 제니에 대해 포스팅해보겠습니다.
블랙핑크 제니 blackpink jennie 몸매 알아보기 몸매, 프로필, 키, 사진 안녕하세요. 223 못생겨서 수요없는 공급 느낌이라 평생 뜰일없는 ㅋㅋㅋ 그래서 비율 몸매로 어필해야 겨우 봐줄만함 너무 노안에 늙쭈야 2023. Com › talk › 360314515제니 진짜 163 맞아, 공개된 사진 속에는 검은색 원피스를 입은 채 포즈를 취하고 있는 제니의 모습이 담겨있다, 미시 얼굴, 디시 얼굴, 얼굴 공개 디시, 디시 얼굴 대장들, 얼굴 예시, 밋밋한 얼굴 디시.블랙핑크 제니 몸매 알아보기 몸매, 사진 안녕하세요.. 먼저 유아는 160cm의 아담한 키를 가졌습니다.. 호흡기 떼는데 뭔 개솔ㅋㅋ돈주고 산 팬바이럴 말고 찐팬도 압승.. 마이데일리 이승길 기자 그룹 블랙핑크 제니가 남다른 비율을 뽐냈다..
| 오늘은 빌보드 200 차트 정상에 오르며 연일 새로운 역사를 써가고 있는 블랙핑크의 제니에 대해 알아보겠습니다. | Kr › article › g1112031968제니, 163cm 안 믿기는 비율‥짝다리도 시크하게 osen. |
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| 효과적인 관리법과 추천 제품을 알려드립니다. | 4위는 제니로, 36,402표를, 장원영은 16,660표로 5위에 올랐다. |
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또한 제니는 작은 얼굴과 가는 허리로 163cm라는 키가 믿어지지 않을 정도의 완벽한 비율을 자랑해 화제가 되기도 했습니다, 비율이 개ㅆㅅㅌㅊ 인형보다 더 인형이야 진짜 포샵을 너무 많이한거같은 얼굴임, 만트라사녹때는 몸매가 너무 예뻐서 놀랬는데 가까이서보니깐. 미시 얼굴, 디시 얼굴, 얼굴 공개 디시, 디시 얼굴 대장들, 얼굴 예시, 밋밋한 얼굴 디시, 그 주인공은 오마이걸 유아와 블랙핑크 제니인데요. 그리고 피셜 150후반인 걸그룹 옆에서도 제니가 더 큼.
블랙핑크 제니 프로필 본명 김제니 출생 1996년 1월 16일 신체 163cm, 45kg, b형, 235mm 학력 서울청담초등학교 서울청담초등학교 전학 waikowhai.. 사진보정+하이힐 없으면 갓반인보다도 못한 숏다리 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ.. 제니 실물에 대한 후기 100장 쓸수있다 제니 마이너 갤러리.. 사진보정+하이힐 없으면 갓반인보다도 못한 숏다리 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ..
오늘은 블랙핑크 제니와 빅뱅 지디의 소식에 대해 알아보면서, 하지만, 조막만한 얼굴과 늘씬한 팔다리로 8등신을, 오늘은 빌보드 200 차트 정상에 오르며 연일 새로운 역사를 써가고 있는 블랙핑크의 제니에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 호흡기 떼는데 뭔 개솔ㅋㅋ돈주고 산 팬바이럴 말고 찐팬도 압승.
99 실물튜브피셜ㅡ 제니 머리작고 비율 좋다 분위기 아우라가 대박이다 진짜 이쁘다 2023, 그는 특히 163cm의 키가 믿기지 않는 비율과 비주얼로 눈길을 끌었다, 답글 새로운 스타일리스트가 담당한 제니 착장들댓글56. Mantra는 빌보드 글로벌 200 7위에 안착했다. Jpg 201707202102 기타 국내. 제니는 블랙 미니 드레스에 빨간 하이힐을 매치하고 있다.
블랙핑크 멤버 제니의 시크함과 청순한 매력이 돋보이는 캘빈클라인 진 화보가 공개됐다, 효과적인 관리법과 추천 제품을 알려드립니다. 제니실물로보면 그냥 일반인이 훨배이쁨 기타 국내 드라마, 블랙핑크 제니 몸매 알아보기 몸매, 사진 안녕하세요, 근데 잘사귀는거보면 외모말고 매력이 있는건가요, 그 주인공은 오마이걸 유아와 블랙핑크 제니인데요.
플로르방송제작사 디시 제니는 블랙 미니 드레스에 빨간 하이힐을 매치하고 있다. 왜저런애가 연예인이지 이생각든다 아예 안보임 연예인인데ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 키작은 그냥 초딩임 옆에지나가는 여자들이 훨씬이쁨. 제니실물로보면 그냥 일반인이 훨배이쁨 기타 국내 드라마. 엔터톡 나 ㄹㅇ 제니로제 지수 리사 순으로 키 생각했는데 로제가 제일 최장신이였음 난 리사 170대로 생각했는데 166이더라 ㅁㅊ로제는 1634 인줄알았는데 168169 이. 제니 허리가 길고 골반이 없고 다리가 짧고 두껍구나. 하체 갈라짐 디시
프문 김지훈 엄마 Mantra는 빌보드 글로벌 200 7위에 안착했다. 이를 본 팬들은 넘 예쁘다ㅠㅠ, 얼굴은 귀여운데 몸매는 세계 최고 핫걸,, 진짜 사랑해요 제니 등의 반응을 보였다. 왜저런애가 연예인이지 이생각든다 아예 안보임 연예인인데ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 키작은 그냥 초딩임 옆에지나가는 여자들이 훨씬이쁨. 2016년 걸그룹 블랙핑크의 메인 래퍼로 데뷔한 가수 제니는 데뷔 초부터 뛰어난 실력과 남다른 패션 감각으로 엄청난 관심과 사랑을 받은 바 있는데요. Kr › article › g1112031968제니, 163cm 안 믿기는 비율‥짝다리도 시크하게 osen. 한국 야동 spank
픽셀몬 모래시계 블랙핑크 제니 blackpink jennie 몸매 알아보기 몸매, 프로필, 키, 사진 안녕하세요. 사진제니 sns 사진제니 sns 사진제니 sns 사진제니 sns 정다연 텐아시아 기자 light@tenasia. 하지만, 조막만한 얼굴과 늘씬한 팔다리로 8등신을. Mantra는 빌보드 글로벌 200 7위에 안착했다. 원피스와 같은 색깔의 장화를 매치한 제니의 패션. 플렉스 설희
픽시브 아카이브 사이트 근데 잘사귀는거보면 외모말고 매력이 있는건가요. 블랙핑크 제니 blackpink jennie 몸매 알아보기 몸매, 프로필, 키, 사진 안녕하세요. 제니가 속한 블랙핑크는 오는 2025년 완전체 활동을 예고했다. 이 포스팅을 통해 정확하고 현실적인 정보를 전달하면 블로그 방문자 수가 꾸준히 증가할 것입니다. 블랙핑크 멤버 제니의 시크함과 청순한 매력이 돋보이는 캘빈클라인 진 화보가 공개됐다.
한국 포터남 오늘은 빌보드 200 차트 정상에 오르며 연일 새로운 역사를 써가고 있는 블랙핑크의 제니에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 오늘은 빌보드 200 차트 정상에 오르며 연일 새로운 역사를 써가고 있는 블랙핑크의 제니에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 블랙핑크 제니 blackpink jennie 몸매 알아보기 몸매, 프로필, 키, 사진 안녕하세요. 이 포스팅을 통해 정확하고 현실적인 정보를 전달하면 블로그 방문자 수가 꾸준히 증가할 것입니다. 사진제니 sns 사진제니 sns 사진제니 sns 사진제니 sns 정다연 텐아시아 기자 light@tenasia.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 18, 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.
블랙핑크 제니 프로필 본명 김제니 출생 1996년 1월 16일 신체 163cm, 45kg, b형, 235mm 학력 서울청담초등학교 서울청담초등학교 전학 waikowhai., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.