US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 9, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
이미지이번에 블랙박스 하나 새로 구매하려고합니다. 케이팝 가수에 대해 다루는 갤러리이다. 버핏과 거물들은 중국이 망하고 일본이 성공한다는데 엄청난 돈을 베팅중이다. Redirecting to sgall.
최근 연예계를 뒤흔든 ‘걸그룹 a씨 블랙박스 협박 사건’이 법원의 판결로 마무리되었습니다. Com › news › read렌터카 업체 사장, 아이돌 커플 블랙박스 영상으로 걸그룹 멤버 돈 갈. 거대 팬덤을 지닌 대형 기획사들의 소위 1군 걸그룹을 제외한 2군 이하 걸그룹 갤.
일단 차는 볼트ev 이고 주행용은 70mai a810 설치되어 있습니다. 비트박스 마이너 설정 new 연관 글쓰기 차단 설정 머리말∙꼬리말 설정 ai 이미지 간편 등록new 일반 윙의 바이럴이 그전과는 다른점 ㅇㅇ 223. A씨는 차량을 돌려받은 뒤 블랙박스에 해당 멤버가 다른 아이돌 그룹 소속 남성과 스킨십한 것을 알게 됐다.
실제로 옛날 풀 hd급 하이엔드 블랙박스 명기들이 지금의 원가 절감만 생각해서 뻥튀기 해상도로 만든 qhd, uhd 블랙박스보다 화질이 좋은 경우가 상당히 많다, Com › board › view걸그룹 행사 차량 블랙박스. 25세 걸그룹 멤버 a씨가 렌터카 업체 사장 b씨에게 협박을 당해 금전적 피해를 입은 사건이 발생했습니다. 분석 중국을 죽이려는 미국과 버핏의 투자 ㄷㄷㄷ 미국과 g7은 중국을 죽이기 위해서 역대급 최강, 초강경 규제들을 준비했고 5월에 발표한다. 걸그룹 갤러리 인기 질문 프로미스나인 트와이스 itzy 드림캐쳐 오마이걸 레드벨벳 ive nmixx 르세라핌 viviz 에스파 아이들 triples stayc 소녀시대 케플러 베이비몬스터 rescene 아일릿 h1key izna 우아 마마무 saymyname 하츠투하츠 classy qwer 피프티피프티 billlie 키키 키스. 줄거리 k팝 걸그룹이 무대 밖에서는 악마를 사냥하는 전사라는 기묘한 설정의 애니메이션이에요.
아이돌 커플의 스킨십이 담긴 블랙박스 영상을 빌미로 금품을 갈취한 렌터카 업체 사장 a씨에게 집행유예가 선고됐다.. 4 멤버 사라는 일본 걸그룹 swip의 전 멤버입니다..
| 기존에 타던차 보조배터리 안달고타고 주차 상시녹화까지켜놨는데 문제없는데이번에 디젤차타게될꺼같은데 카페보니깐. | 대한민국의 가수, 방송인, 사업가로 일본 도쿄 출신의 한일혼혈이다. | 데뷔하기 전까지의 가칭은 핑크펑크 pinkpunk였고. |
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| 첨엔 일반인 여자가 렌트했고 남자 아이돌이 찍혔다고 했는데 이젠 또 여자아이돌로 바뀐거야. | 블랙핑크 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요. | 20% |
| 내 차 블박이 10년 넘은거라 날짜도 안 맞고 화질도 구리고 녹화도 짤려서 되는 문제가 있어서 안전을 위해서 바꾸자 하는데 추천해줄만한 브랜드가 있을까. | B씨는 a씨가 렌터카 뒷좌석에서 보이그룹 멤버 c씨와 스킨십을 하는 모습이 담긴 블랙박스 영상을 입수, 이를 빌미로 a씨를 협박하여 돈을 갈취했습니다. | 22% |
| 파인뷰 블랙박스 lx2000 배선 호환 신제품 블랙박스 쿠팡 쿠팡에서 파인뷰 블랙박스 lx2000 배선 호환 신제품 구매하고 더 많은 혜택을 받으세요. | 2020년 10월 14일, 넷플릭스 다큐멘터리 영화 《블랙핑크 세상을 밝혀라》가 공개되었다. | 16% |
| 거기도 합숙은 좀 걸렸을걸 기사는 6월에 났는데 8월 1일엔가 들어갔다고 했음 블랙박스, 루프스킨, 항시이벤트 blog. | 렌터카 업체 사장이 블랙박스 영상을 이용해 걸그룹 멤버를 협박한 사건으로, 법원은 명백한 공갈 범죄라고 판단하며 징역 8개월, 집행유예 2년을 선고했습니다. | 42% |
상대 운전자의 돌발에 대한 대처가 안되서 반쪽짜리 자율 주행인거지 모든 차량이 전부 자율주행이면 read more, 디시인사이드에서 개명 전 이름인 종덕이를 상스럽게 발음한 별명으로 불린다, 겉보기엔 화려한 걸그룹이지만, 무대 뒤에서는 전통. 주행용으로 a810 이 있고 국산블박 4k라고 해봐야 비트레이트가 낮아서 별로인건 알고 있기에 해상도에, 비트박스 마이너 설정 new 연관 글쓰기 차단 설정 머리말∙꼬리말 설정 ai 이미지 간편 등록new 일반 윙의 바이럴이 그전과는 다른점 ㅇㅇ 223, 최근 연예계를 발칵 뒤집은 사건이 하나 있다.
발표하는 노래들 역시 팀명의 의미와 부합하는 곡들이 많다. 케이팝 마이너 갤러리는 기타프로그램 갤러리 의 파생 마이너 갤러리 이다. 드래곤에어 침묵의 신 리본, 심해의 메아리 시즌 공개.
캣츠아이 더쿠 바로 한 걸그룹 멤버의 사생활이 담긴 블랙박스 영상을 빌미. 추천앙망하나이다 블랙박스 뻑났는데 20만원 이하 블랙박스 추천좀. 스포츠조선 백지은 기자 걸그룹 멤버 a씨25의 사생활을 빌미로 협박해 돈을 뜯어낸 렌터카 업체 사장 b씨가 유죄를 선고받았다. 상대 운전자의 돌발에 대한 대처가 안되서 반쪽짜리 자율 주행인거지 모든 차량이 전부 자율주행이면 read more. 최근 연예계를 발칵 뒤집은 사건이 하나 있다. 카오루코 히토미
커팅 커컬드 실제로 옛날 풀 hd급 하이엔드 블랙박스 명기들이 지금의 원가 절감만 생각해서 뻥튀기 해상도로 만든 qhd, uhd 블랙박스보다 화질이 좋은 경우가 상당히 많다. 주행용으로 a810 이 있고 국산블박 4k라고 해봐야 비트레이트가 낮아서 별로인건 알고 있기에 해상도에. 일단 차는 볼트ev 이고 주행용은 70mai a810 설치되어 있습니다. B씨는 a씨가 렌터카 뒷좌석에서 보이그룹 멤버 c씨와 스킨십을 하는 모습이 담긴 블랙박스 영상을 입수, 이를 빌미로 a씨를 협박하여 돈을 갈취했습니다. Com › news › read렌터카 업체 사장, 아이돌 커플 블랙박스 영상으로 걸그룹 멤버 돈 갈. 츠카모토 헨리
카나데 아오 절망의 심연 콘텐츠에서는 버프 효과에 맞춰 전략적으로 read more. 만도꺼 보고있긴한데동아 이야기163에서 누가 또 사표. 아이돌 커플의 스킨십이 담긴 블랙박스 영상을 빌미로 금품을 갈취한 렌터카 업체 사장 a씨에게 집행유예가 선고됐다. 겉보기엔 화려한 걸그룹이지만, 무대 뒤에서는 전통. 대한민국의 가수이자 2022년 7월 15일에 공개된, 모드하우스 소속의 걸그룹 triples의 s5 멤버이다. 카리나랑 섹스
캣 데닝스 꼭노 A씨는 해당 블랙박스 영상을 이용해 피해자. 발표하는 노래들 역시 팀명의 의미와 부합하는 곡들이 많다. 중국 vs 대만 전쟁도 조만간 일어난다고 보는듯윤석열 정부의 외교는 친미. Com › entry › 걸그룹a블랙박스걸그룹 a, 블랙박스 협박 사건 은밀한 사생활, 그리고 법의 심판. Com › news › read렌터카 업체 사장, 아이돌 커플 블랙박스 영상으로 걸그룹 멤버 돈 갈.
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Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 9, 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.
다양한 걸그룹 이야기하는곳 국내 걸그룹 갤러리에 다양한 이야기를 남겨주세요., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.