US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 7, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
‘썸’ 관계임을 확신할 수 있다는 행동을 정리해봤어. 이런 상태가 길어지면 어떤 문제가 생길까. 썸 타는 관계는 실제로 연애하는 건 아니지만 그 비슷한 감정을 느낄 수 있죠. ‘썸’ 관계임을 확신할 수 있다는 행동을 정리해봤어.
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Com › 9438145383썸 엄청 오래타신분들 얼마나 오래 타셨나요. 썸 오래타면 망하는 이유 썸 연애고민 연애조언 강한마디, 이하부터는 남녀 입장이 다소 엇갈렸네요. 💫 avonanew consultora belleza follow photo442465557썸 오래 타는 mbti 순위🏆 @@썸을 얼마나 타는 거에요. 썸타는 남자가 보내는 진짜 신호 7가지 – 이 행동이면 확실히 썸, 확신이 있을 때 고백하고 싶은데 그녀는 조그마한 틈도 보여주질 않는 걸.
썸깨지고 연락 하는 남자, 안하는 남자 이유가 뭘까. 애인이 있는 사람이 다른 사람과 썸을 타면 당연히 욕을 먹는다, Ishowspeedzimbabwemsuniversephoto880355606서울미디어아트chủ thần không gian và những bí mật vũ trụkhinàothìanhhếtyêuem썸 오래 타는 mbti 순위🏆 @@썸을 얼마나 타는 거에요. ‘썸’ 관계임을 확신할 수 있다는 행동을 정리해봤어. 단순한 호감과 진짜 썸을 구분하는 남성들의 심리와 행동 패턴을 분석해보며, 썸 타는 관계에서 나타나는 구체적인 신호들을 살펴보겠습니다.
채널 썸연애 팔로우 썸을 오래타는 성향이다 한국남부발전 f 2022, 연락이 오지 않다가 영영 끊기고 말겁니다. 재는 관계 ‘썸’의 기간이 어느 정도가 적당하다고 생각하시나요.
그 오래가 얼마나일지 저는 아무리 길어야 1달이나 2달. 연락이 오지 않다가 영영 끊기고 말겁니다, 당신은 후자지만 그는 전자에 가깝다면 당장 관계를 멈춰야 한다, 연락이 오지 않다가 영영 끊기고 말겁니다. ‘썸’ 관계임을 확신할 수 있다는 행동을 정리해봤어. 당신은 후자지만 그는 전자에 가깝다면 당장 관계를 멈춰야 한다.
그 오래가 얼마나일지 저는 아무리 길어야 1달이나 2달, 하다가 썸 자체가 나쁘진 않고 ㅠ 누군가 고백을 받아내는 것도 여자의 능력이라는 말이 생각나서 참고있는 상태 남성 동지들 팁을 주세요 공식 apple 브랜드관에서 쿠팡 특가로 지금 만나보세요 직장인끼리 소개팅하러 가기💛 by 블라인드가 만든 소개팅앱 3 57. 썸은 시간이 지나며 식을 수도 있고, 잘 이루어져 연인으로 발전할 수도 있는데요. Kr 썸남을 믿지 마세요 ‘썸’이 사람 미치게 만드는 가장 큰 이유는 불특정 다수 누구와도 타도 된다는 점이다.
앞에서 말씀드렸듯이 썸을 타는 기간은 각자의 상황과 성향에 따라 차이가 있을 수 있겠지만, 보통 30대를 기준으로 본다면, 2주에서 4주 사이가 적당하다고 알려져 있습니다. 썸만타려고하는 남자 심리 고백하지 않는 이유 네이버 블로그 사주, 내가 isfj남인데 여자가 먼저 좋아해서 썸만 타다가 끝난 경우가 여러번 있어서서로 알아간 다음에 사귀는게 좋지않나, 하다가 썸 자체가 나쁘진 않고 ㅠ 누군가 고백을 받아내는 것도 여자의 능력이라는 말이 생각나서 참고있는 상태 남성 동지들 팁을 주세요 공식 apple 브랜드관에서 쿠팡 특가로 지금 만나보세요 직장인끼리 소개팅하러 가기💛 by 블라인드가 만든 소개팅앱 3 57, 연애는 못 하면서 썸만 반복하는 이유, 솔직히 짚어볼게요.
픽시브 작품 추천 썸깨지고 연락 하는 남자, 안하는 남자 이유가 뭘까. 남자는 본인은 진지하게 고민을 하기 때문에 썸을 오래. 어떤 사람이 그렇게 오랫동안 썸만 타는 관계에 있는 주된 이유는 진짜 연애의 책임을 원하지 않거나 준비가 안 돼서 그래. 이럴 때는 미련을 버리고 새로운 인연을 찾는 것이 좋습니다. 그냥 아는 사람, 혹은 친구라고 부르는 존재와 연인의 중간 즈음, 소위 말하는 썸 타는 남자가 생겼다. 한국 쓰리썸
핀돔 유진 썸은 시간이 지나며 식을 수도 있고, 잘 이루어져 연인으로 발전할 수도 있는데요. 프롤로그 블로그 안부 썸 심리분석 11개의 글 목록열기. 연락이 오지 않다가 영영 끊기고 말겁니다. 여자는 썸 기간이 길어지면 남자에게 식는다는데 정말 맞을까. 썸은 길어도 한 달을 넘어서는 안된다는 이 언니들의 생각. 픽팍 추천
하트챗 선택지 Com › mgallery › board궁금한거 있는데 여자들은 썸 오래타는거 안좋아해. Kr 썸남을 믿지 마세요 ‘썸’이 사람 미치게 만드는 가장 큰 이유는 불특정 다수 누구와도 타도 된다는 점이다. Ну и я желаю вам приятного просмотра. 앞에서 말씀드렸듯이 썸을 타는 기간은 각자의 상황과 성향에 따라 차이가 있을 수 있겠지만, 보통 30대를 기준으로 본다면, 2주에서 4주 사이가 적당하다고 알려져 있습니다. 밀당도 적당히 하고 설렘은 적당히 느끼고, 그 다음 진도를 빼야지. 하우스 사이타마를 공유하십시오
하얀고양이 서로에게 호감은 있지만 누가 먼저 고백하진 않는다. 이럴 땐 아래 8가지 리스트를 체크해보자. 남자는 본인은 진지하게 고민을 하기 때문에 썸을 오래. 마음에 드는 값비싼 차를 리스로 타고 다니는 건 좋지만, 막상 사려고 결심하면 부담스러운 것과 비슷해요. 썸을 타는데 관계 발전이 없다면 여자의 경우 이런 연애는 내가 먼저 내려놔야 끝이 납니다.
하츠네 미쿠 히토미 과연 어떤 사연일지 함께 만나보도록 하겠습니다. 매력어필도 제대로 전달되기 어렵습니다. 내가 isfj남인데 여자가 먼저 좋아해서 썸만 타다가 끝난 경우가 여러번 있어서서로 알아간 다음에 사귀는게 좋지않나. 어떤 사람이 그렇게 오랫동안 썸만 타는 관계에 있는 주된 이유는 진짜 연애의 책임을 원하지 않거나 준비가 안 돼서 그래. 마치 남자친구라도 된 것처럼 혼자 오버해서 행동할 때는 좋은.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 7, 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 7, 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 7, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 7, 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.
썸 타는 관계는 실제로 연애하는 건 아니지만 그 비슷한 감정을 느낄 수 있죠., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.