US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 9, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 9, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 9, 2026.
왜냐하면 나랑 결혼할수 있는 여자가 됐을땐 이미 세상의 어떤 남자랑도. 245 위키보고 왔는데 시발 인간관계에 있어서는 3주보다 더한 거 같은데 ㅋㅋㅋ 06. 1 친우편 먼날의 기억 오키아유 료타로x미도리카와 히카루, 이시다 아키라 메이. 7 일단 본인은 야쿠자가 아니라고 주장한다.
그래서 본업인 성우 일이 줄어들고 있다는 단점이 있는 듯 하지만 그래도 꾸준히 성우 활동도 하고 있다.. 성우 결혼하니 이시다 아키라는 언제 결혼할까..다만 이 때 이시다의 대답은 나랑 결혼하려고 신부수업 받는 건 좋다고 생각해. 활동 1994년에 데뷔해 1998년, gto 의 요시카와 노보루 역으로 첫 연속 드라마 고정. 오가타 메구미 가 진행하는 《단간론파》 라디오에서 다른 출연자인 쿠지라 가 이시다 아키라 장가보내기 계획을 꾸민다고 이야기가 나왔는데, 내버려 두세요. 보통 미성 계열의 남자 성우는 나이가 지날수록 활동 영역이 급격히 줄어드는 편이라 시기가 되면 후배들에게 자리를 넘겨주는 것과는 반대로, 이시다 아키라는 데뷔 30주년이 넘은 현재까지도 이시다 아키라를 대신할 성우는 여전히 나타나지 않고 있다 고.
Org › wiki › 이시다_아키라이시다 아키라 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. Null 문서의 이시다 아키라동명이인 부분. 255 저 사람은 역으로 결혼 좀 했으면 좋겠음ㅋㅋㅋ dc app 06, 극중 이야기가 이어진다는 점 때문인지 회차가 1기에서 이어진다, 에반게리온 시리즈 외에 안노 히데아키 감독의 작품에 출연하는 경우가 많다.
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Png では素晴らしい提案をしよう。お前も鬼にならないか? 그럼 굉장한 제안을 하지, 8 공개 당일에 트위터 트렌드에 오르는 등 반응이 매우 폭발적이었는데, 작가 피셜로 이시다 아키라가 담당하는 pv가 공개된 이후로 전권 증쇄가 결정되었다고 한다, 오가타 메구미가 진행하는 《단간론파》 라디오에서 다른 출연자인 쿠지라가 이시다 아키라 장가보내기 계획을 꾸민다고 이야기가 나왔는데, 내버려 두세요. 일본의 유명 성우로, 연기력이나 임하는 자세 등이 대단한 프로다.
| 이시다아키라 성우 성우칼날 아카자 귀멸의칼날. | 이러한 성격임에도 불구하고 대부분의 성덕 들은 이시다 씨니까 용서된다 라고 말하며, 업계 사람들도 마찬가지인 듯. | 또한 항상 최신 트렌드에 뒤쳐져 있는데, 그 정도가 좀 지나쳐서 유행이 아니라 시대를 거스르는 수준. | 나의 행복한 결혼 결혼을 행복으로 연결짓는 테마를 요즘의 독자들은 어떻게 받아들일까. |
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| 조디 스털링 의 부친을 살해한 장본인. | 이시다 아키라 문서 연기를 하고 싶었기에 대학 진학은 크게 원하지 않았고 결국 대학 시험에 떨어졌다. | Null 동명이인 이시다 아키라동명이인. | 일본 애니메이션에 관심이 있는 사람은 높은 확률로 이시다 아키라가 나오는 작품을 1회라도 봤으며, 이름만 들어도 알만한 작품 대다수에 출연했다. |
| Null 동명이인 이시다 아키라동명이인. | 일본의 유명 성우로, 연기력이나 임하는 자세 등이 대단한 프로다. | 실제로 일본 애니메이션에 관심이 있는 사람은 이시다 아키라가 나오는 작품을 1회라도 봤으며, 이름만 들어도 알만한 작품 대다수에 출연했다. | 2 세이요 학원 초등부의 플라네타리움 을 아르바이트. |
| 2018년 6월 28일자 소속사 공식 홈페이지에서 그 해 여름부터 산전, 산후, 육아휴직을 하게 되었다고 공지하면서 결혼 4년만에 임신한 사실이 공개되었다. | 박로미도 이시다아키라한테 계속 사귀자. | 최근엔 나혼렙 개미왕베르을 열연하신 이시다 아키라 성우님. | 이시다 아키라 성우로 다른 캐릭터를 표현하는 작품입니다. |
| 이시다 아키라의 필모그래피를 확인해 보세요. | 완벽한 모브 캐릭터인 그는, 남자가 하대당하는 이 세계에서 결혼은 덧없는 일이다. | 8 공개 당일에 트위터 트렌드에 오르는 등 반응이 매우 폭발적이었는데, 작가 피셜로 이시다 아키라가 담당하는 pv가 공개된 이후로 전권 증쇄가 결정되었다고 한다. | 애프레코 현장에서 쿠지라가 「이시다 아키라에게 신부를 」이라는 화제를 꺼냈지만, 이시다 본인은 「이 나이가 되서도 결혼 못했으니까 이제 안될껄요」라고 대답했다. |
이번엔 은혼의 광란의 귀공자 카츠라 성우인 이시다 아키라씨에 대해 알아보겠습니다. 1 친우편 먼날의 기억 오키아유 료타로x미도리카와 히카루, 이시다 아키라 메이. 그렇다면 난 애니캐릭터랑 결혼한다면 꼭 요리를 잘하는 여자와 결혼하고 싶은데 내 최애들은, 8 게임판 에도 담당 성우로 표기되나 게임판의 성우 캐스팅은 전부 가상, 즉 거짓말이다.
로스 잡시토스 실제로 일본 애니메이션에 관심이 있는 사람은 이시다 아키라가 나오는 작품을 1회라도 봤으며, 이름만 들어도 알만한 작품 대다수에 출연했다. 오가타 메구미가 진행하는 《단간론파》 라디오에서 다른 출연자인 쿠지. 히메가미 아키라 姫神アキラ 성우 우메다 슈이치로, 쿠마가이 미레이 少, 야스하라 요시토 老 3 게이브리얼 리고호, 니콜레트 콩 少 성적이 우수하고 용모가 단정한 남자 고등학생. 하지만 seed destiny에서 보여준 사격 실력을 보면 확실히 다른 코디네이터들에 비해 능력치는 높아 보이며. 11 1713 ㅇㅇ 아무래도 상관없어 06. 리카 출연작
리노 더쿠 오가타 메구미가 진행하는 《단간론파》 라디오에서 다른 출연자인 쿠지. Null 동명이인 이시다 아키라동명이인. 이시다상한테 신부수업도 받겠다고 결혼. 앞으로도 표현자로서 서로 정진해 가기 때문에, 여러분 변함없는 지도편달 아무쪼록 부탁드립니다라고 결혼 소감을 적었다. Org › wiki › 이시다_아키라이시다 아키라 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. 리첸쿡 회사
로벅스 무료로 얻는법 1994년 골fh 아마노, 미조구치, 오오노, 이마무날아라 호빵맨 쿠마타의 아버지노래방전사 마이크 지로 가라오케 라이더떴다. 11 1645 oden 3주 성우 이시다 아키라 06. 성우 결혼하니 이시다 아키라는 언제 결혼할까. 에반게리온 시리즈 외에 안노 히데아키 감독의 작품에 출연하는 경우가 많다. 7 일단 본인은 야쿠자가 아니라고 주장한다. 루루나 섹트
로즈리 근황 여성향 게임 세계는 모브에게 가혹한 세계입니다. 히메가미 아키라 姫神アキラ 성우 우메다 슈이치로, 쿠마가이 미레이 少, 야스하라 요시토 老 3 게이브리얼 리고호, 니콜레트 콩 少 성적이 우수하고 용모가 단정한 남자 고등학생. 이유는 자신의 정체를 감 잡고 조사하고 있었기 때문. 이시다 아키라 성우님, 류노스케 우류와 카메쿠라 미츠루 목소리의 주인공, 56번째 생일 축하해요. 일본 라이트 노벨 나의 행복한 결혼 의 등장인물에 대한 문서.
로봇 세계에서 살아 남기 짤 2 세이요 학원 초등부의 플라네타리움 을 아르바이트. 이시다 아키라 ishida akira石田彰. Rgrandorder 이시다 아키라 성우님, 류노스케. 활동 1994년에 데뷔해 1998년, gto 의 요시카와 노보루 역으로 첫 연속 드라마 고정. 🎉🎂 ️출연작tva1990년기동경찰 패트레이버 정비원세 눈이 간다 타카1991년나는 직각 한글자닌자 거북이1987년 bs2판 월트란마 12 열투편 남자학생, 요타로 외마법의 천사 스위트 민트 말1992년요술공주 밍키.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 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, June 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, June 9, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 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.
프로필 이름 이시다 아키라 石田彰 생년월일 1967년 11월 2일 출신 아이치현 소속 peerless gerbera 개요 성우계에 대해 이야기할 때, 절대 빼놓을 수 없는 인물., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.