US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 2, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 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 2, 2026.
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| 미쿠미쿠댄스 유튜브에 묻힌영상들 많네 갤러리 디시인사이드. | 룻기서 3장은 세 단락으로 짜여 있습니다. | 박이윤정 삐삐 ppippi on instagram 울엄마네 리틀 생추어리 반려 꼬꼬댁들 이름한번 들어보실텐가요 🐔 첫 사진은 뉴 진이와 스 친구도 있어서 모이면 뉴. | 지난해 서울 최초의 도심형 자연휴양림 수락휴休 개장으로 여가휴양의. |
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| 이 목사는 십보라는 남편의 부족함을 채워 생명을 살리는 조력자의 리더십을 보여주었다라며 여선교회 회원들이 이와 같은 역할을 감당해야 한다고. | 오늘 새벽 2시쯤부터 지금까지 계속 안들어가지네 서버 바꾸는건가. | Com › youtube › thread나중에 볼 동영상 전체삭제 youtube 커뮤니티. | 있으니 검색하면나온다 단점은 욱일기같은 비판대상 문제되는 상징도 검열없이 올린다는것 영상올리고 순위매겨지고 삭제하는 사람도 적잖이 있음. |
| 채널 관리자는 유튜브 스튜디오의 알림 설정과 이메일 알림을 통해 채널 전반의 주요 변화나 경고를 확인할 수 있다. | 첫째 단락은 나오미가 계대결혼법에 의지하여 홀로된 며느리 룻을 보아스와 결혼시키기 위한 계획을 세우는 read more. | 있으니 검색하면나온다 단점은 욱일기같은 비판대상 문제되는 상징도 검열없이 올린다는것 영상올리고 순위매겨지고 삭제하는 사람도 적잖이 있음. | 하지만 모든 삭제 요청이 합법적인 것은 아니며, 부당한 요구에는 단호히 대응할 필요가 있습니다. |
| ① 행복나래는 정보주체의 개인정보를 개인정보의 처리 목적에서 명시한 범위. | 김기수는 지난 17일 자신의 유튜브 채널 김기수에서 진행한 라이브 방송에서 정명석을 흉내냈다. | 이로써 부처님불, 가르침법, 수행공동체승가 갖추어졌고, 이 삼보는 read more. | Com › rplus_kr › 223102799194건축물 용도별 용도지역 요건 위락시설 네이버 블로그. |
| 단, 관계 법령에 의하여 보존할 필요가 있는 경우에는 관계 법령에 따라 보존합니다. | Com › youtube › thread나중에 볼 동영상 전체삭제 youtube 커뮤니티. | Com › ishield › 223534000839아이쉴드 억지로 찍은 유튜브 영상, 이제는 지우고 싶다면. | 제40조 제4항 제2호 에 따라 건축물의 경사지붕 아래에 설치하는 대피공간의 면적 5. |
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안녕하십니까, 제26대 총학생회장 강동우입니다.. 첫째 단락은 나오미가 계대결혼법에 의지하여 홀로된 며느리 룻을 보아스와 결혼시키기 위한 계획을 세우는 read more.. 첫째 단락은 나오미가 계대결혼법에 의지하여 홀로된 며느리 룻을 보아스와 결혼시키기 위한 계획을 세우는 read more..
별표 1 용도별 건축물의 종류제3조의4 관련 1. 관련 기사 2013년 5월 10일에 부산경찰 페이스북 커버에도 사용했다, 1 학생 또는 직장인 등 여러 사람이 장기간. 일반숙박시설 및 생활숙박시설「공중위생관리법」 제3조제1항 전단에 따라 숙박업 신고를 해야 하는 시설로서 국토, 이와 관련한 고충을 신속하고 원활하게 처리할 수 있도록 하기 위하여 다음과 정보주체의 영상정보 열람 등 요구에 대한 조치 개인영상정보 열람․존재확인. + 동영상 삭제 요청은 삭제할 영상을 선택상태로 바꿔준다.
bj 찬미로 사이버폭력이란 정보통신망 「정보통신망 이용촉진 및 정보보호 등에 관한 법률」 제2조제1항제1. 2014년 3월 7일에 나는 남자다 티저 영상에. 이와 관련한 고충을 신속하고 원활하게 처리할 수 있도록 하기 위하여 다음과 정보주체의 영상정보 열람 등 요구에 대한 조치 개인영상정보 열람․존재확인. Com › youtube › thread나중에 볼 동영상 전체삭제 youtube 커뮤니티. 일반숙박시설 및 생활숙박시설「공중위생관리법」 제3조제1항 전단에 따라 숙박업 신고를 해야 하는 시설로서 국토. bibianeruby
bj 쏠이 Com › youtube › thread나중에 볼 동영상 전체삭제 youtube 커뮤니티. 하지만 모든 삭제 요청이 합법적인 것은 아니며, 부당한 요구에는 단호히 대응할 필요가 있습니다. 단독주택 단독주택의 형태를 갖춘 가정어린이집공동생활가정지역아동센터 및 노인복지시설노인복지주택은 제외한다을 포함한다 가. 신세계면세점, 내일까지 명동서 코리아그랜드세일 부스 운영. 첫째 단락은 나오미가 계대결혼법에 의지하여 홀로된 며느리 룻을 보아스와 결혼시키기 위한 계획을 세우는 read more. bill & ted face the music 무료 영화
bj수안 밑에 그림에서 보듯 워래 하얗게 표시되었던 영상 목록이지만 이 느낌표를 누르면 회색으로 표시되게 된다. 유희시설 「관광진흥법」에 따라 유원시설업의 허가를 받거나 신고를 하여야 하는 시설. Com › youtube › thread나중에 볼 동영상 전체삭제 youtube 커뮤니티. 이로 인해 네이버는 정권에 굴복했다는 비난을 받았다. 동영상을 삭제한 뒤에는 youtube 분석에서 동영상 url과 제목이 더 이상 표시되지 않으며 검색도 불가능합니다. bj hn3627
bj정예린 영화나 광고cf에서 컴퓨터그래픽cg은 오랫동안 연출을 보조하는 기술로. 건축법 시행령 별표 1 용도별 건축물의 종류제3조의5 관련15. 지난해 서울 최초의 도심형 자연휴양림 수락휴休 개장으로 여가휴양의. 관련 기사 2013년 5월 10일에 부산경찰 페이스북 커버에도 사용했다. 일반숙박시설 및 생활숙박시설「공중위생관리법」 제3조제1항 전단에 따라 숙박업 신고를 해야 하는 시설로서 국토.
bj디샤 이와라 붕괴 비공개영상어캐보냐 붕괴3rd 채널. 박이윤정 삐삐 ppippi on instagram 울엄마네 리틀 생추어리 반려 꼬꼬댁들 이름한번 들어보실텐가요 🐔 첫 사진은 뉴 진이와 스 친구도 있어서 모이면 뉴. 신세계면세점, 내일까지 명동서 코리아그랜드세일 부스 운영. 관련 기사 2013년 5월 10일에 부산경찰 페이스북 커버에도 사용했다. 밑에 그림에서 보듯 워래 하얗게 표시되었던 영상 목록이지만 이 느낌표를 누르면 회색으로 표시되게 된다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 2, 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 2, 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 2, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 2, 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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