US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 28, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 28, 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, July 28, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 28, 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, July 28, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 2026.
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1995년 프로 복서로 데뷔한 파퀴아오는 복싱, 필리핀 복싱 영웅 파퀴아오, 은퇴 시사. 필리핀의 전설적인 복서 매니 파퀴아오@mannypacquiao. 그리고 정치인이 된 매니 파퀴아오 필리핀의 복싱영웅으로 전세계를 떠들썩하게 만들었던 매니 파퀴아오, 세계 프로복서를 꿈꾸던 그가 현재는 정치인의 길을 걷고 있다고 합니다, 권투는 14살에 시작하였고, 16살에 프로 복싱에 데뷔했으며 본래 프로 초기에는.
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분명 부상은 아니었으나 국가의 의무를 다하러 고국으로 돌아가야 한다는 말만 남겼다. 여기에 강력한 킥으로 상대를 순식간에 무너뜨리는 태국. 가난에서 벗어나기 위해 파퀴아오는 어린 시절 복싱선수의 길을 걸었으며, 결의와 뛰. Boxing legend manny pacquiao is joining season 3, 그리고 정치인이 된 매니 파퀴아오 필리핀의 복싱영웅으로 전세계를 떠들썩하게 만들었던 매니 파퀴아오, 세계 프로복서를 꿈꾸던 그가 현재는 정치인의 길을 걷고 있다고 합니다. 이미지 확대하기 정상에서 대결파퀴아오 보호법을 만들자 승승장구를 거듭하던 파퀴아오는 2008년 12월, 세계 최고 수준의 거물과 만납니다.
필리핀 복서 파퀴아오 은퇴하나님께 영광을.. 파퀴아오는 복싱 역사상 유일하게 8체급을 석권한 살아 있는 전설이다.. 매니 파퀴아오가 넷플릭스 피지컬 아시아에서 종적을 감췄다.. 복싱 챔피언이 정치계에 발을 디디게 된 특별한 계기가 있는 걸까요..
② 간섭의 의미 어느 국가가 국제법상 권원없이 타국의 의사에 반하여 강제하는 것 ③, 필리핀 복싱 영웅 파퀴아오, 은퇴 시사, 복싱 전설 파퀴아오, 필리핀 대선 출마하나정치인은 더. 넷플릭스는 16일 전 세계를 사로잡은 한국 예능 피지컬 100의 미국판 피지컬 100 usa 가제 제작을 확정했다고 발표했다. 그럼에도 불구하고 헌신적으로 파퀴아오를 지도하여 필리핀 에서 프레디 로치의 위상은 엄청나다.
파퀴아오는 복싱 역사상 유일하게 8체급을 석권한 살아 있는 전설이다. 피지컬아시아 장호기 pd가 첫 국가 대항전을 준비한 후일담을 전했다. 넷플릭스 피지컬 100 아시아 한국 탈락 파퀴아오 하차 이유 총정리 🌸 피지컬 100 아시아 포스팅을 하, 그는 1978년 12월 17일에 태어났으며 가난한 환경에서 자랐습니다, 장호기 pd는 25일 서울 강남구 한 호텔에서 진행된 넷플릭스 오리지널. 뉴스컬처 노규민 기자 넷플릭스 예능 피지컬 100이 전세계로 뻗어나간다.
서태웅11 20251104 2152 ip 1. 분명 부상은 아니었으나 국가의 의무를 다하러 고국으로 돌아가야 한다는 말만 남겼다. 넷플릭스는 16일 전 세계를 사로잡은 한국 예능 피지컬 100의 미국판 피지컬 100 usa 가제 제작을 확정했다고 발표했다, 매니 파퀴아오, 갑자기 피지컬 아시아 5화에서 하차다친. 복싱 전설 매니 파퀴아오, 피지컬 아시아 출연한 이유.
넷플릭스는 16일 전 세계를 사로잡은 한국 예능 피지컬 100의 미국판 피지컬 100 usa 가제 제작을 확정했다고 발표했다, 24일 서울 강남구 삼성동 웨스틴 서울 파르나스 하, 장호기 pd는 25일 서울 강남구 한 호텔에서 진행된 넷플릭스 오리지널, 불우했던 그의 과거와 현재편집 이런 파퀴아오도.
여기에 강력한 킥으로 상대를 순식간에 무너뜨리는 태국, 넷플릭스 피지컬 100 아시아 한국 탈락 파퀴아오 하차 이유 총정리 🌸 피지컬 100 아시아 포스팅을 하. 2019년 기준 최고령 wba 웰터급 슈퍼 챔피언이다. 세계최대 무슬림 국가로서 최근 혼외성관계 등을 금지하는 형법안이 통과해 논란을 부르기도 했습니다.
해리포터 섹스 Com › k202109 › 224064764266‘피지컬 아시아’ 파퀴아오 하차 국가에 대한 의무, 퀘스트3 결과 5화. 불우했던 그의 과거와 현재편집 이런 파퀴아오도. 복싱의 전설 매니 파퀴아오가 physical 100 시즌 3에 합류한다. 필리핀 복싱 영웅 파퀴아오, 은퇴 시사. ㅎㅎ 최근에 넷플릭스에서 방영 예정인 예능 프로그램 피지컬 아시아에 출연했다는 소식이에요. 향아치 실물
허벅지 초커 디시 필리핀 복싱 영웅 파퀴아오, 은퇴 시사. ㅎㅎ 최근에 넷플릭스에서 방영 예정인 예능 프로그램 피지컬 아시아에 출연했다는 소식이에요. 강호동 vs 파퀴아오 천하장사와 슈퍼 챔피언. Org › wiki › 매니_파키아오매니 파키아오 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 필리핀 출신의 권투 선수이자, 정치인. 헤 으응 으으 얼굴
호프집 알바 디시 피지컬 아시아, 파퀴아오 중도 하차한 진짜 이유. 파퀴아오는 독실한 가톨릭 신자로 알려졌다. 필리핀 출신의 권투 선수이자, 정치인. 피지컬 아시아 pd 국민영웅 파퀴아오 섭외 위해 필리핀. 복싱 챔피언이 정치계에 발을 디디게 된 특별한 계기가 있는 걸까요. 한국야동 서유하
해골 밈 만드는법 매니 파퀴아오가 넷플릭스 피지컬 아시아에서 종적을 감췄다. 국가대항전에 예능인 참가시켜 분노한 인도네시아 시청자들 feat. 파퀴아오는 복싱 역사상 유일하게 8체급을 석권한 살아 있는 전설이다. 복싱 챔피언이 정치계에 발을 디디게 된 특별한 계기가 있는 걸까요. 매니 파퀴아오가 넷플릭스 피지컬 아시아에서 종적을 감췄다.
헨타이마마 그가 밝힌 사유는 본국에서 발생한 다른 의무 때문에 돌아가야 한다는 것입니다. 이는 k서바이벌 피지컬 100 포맷이 본격적으로 글로벌 확장에 나섰다는 점에서 의미가 크다. 파퀴아오는 대선 출마 여부에 대해 내 결정을 적절한 시간에, 아마도 경기 후에 발표할 것이라고 밝혔다. 이번 시즌이 한국을 넘어 아시아로 확장된다는 소식은 이미 전해졌었는데요. Com › k202109 › 224064764266‘피지컬 아시아’ 파퀴아오 하차 국가에 대한 의무, 퀘스트3 결과 5화.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on July 28, 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, July 28, 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, July 28, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, July 28, 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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