US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, August 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
암웨이 다단계 하는 지인이 제품을 계속 홍보해서 부담스럽나요. 처음에 한국 암웨이의 판매 형태는 방문판매의 형태를 띄고 있어서 방문판매등에관한법률의 다단계 판매법에 영향을 받고 있습니다. 카페에서 다단계암웨이 설명중ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 창업 갤러리. 검색 검색어를 해당 양식서는 암웨이 브랜드 센터 & 비즈니스.
즉 암웨이에서 성공이라고 보는 수입 이상의 사람들이라면 암웨이나 다단계에 가입할 가능성은 극히 희박할 것입니다.. 테헤란로에서 정장입고 땀흘리면서 물건들고 있는 젊은남녀면 99% 암웨이 신입사원이라는 공식이 존재했는데 지금은 모르겠음 궁금해서 계속 찾아보니까 암웨어위키.. 반면, 불법 다단계는 법적으로 금지되어 있으며, 소비자에게 피해를 줄 수 있습니다.. 블라인드 썸연애 암웨이 사업이 다단계인지 좀 알려줘..
| 어머니와 암웨이 사업설명회를 다녀오시고 하시는 말씀이 암웨이라고 괜찮은것같아, 해보시겠다고 하십니다. | 한국암웨이 amway korea는 1988년에 설립되었으며, 다단계판매업체로 등록되어 방문. |
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| 암웨이 하는게이들 봐라 암웨이amway 마이너 갤러리. | 먼저, 암웨이가 다단계 마케팅을 사용하는 것처럼 보일 수 있지만, 실제로는 조금 다른 방식으로 운영됩니다. |
| 아, 같은 암웨이 사업자라고 하더라도 스스로 다단계 아니라고 하는 사람이면 무시합시다, 자기가 뭐 하는지 모르는 거예요 이상 안심레인저 호나였습니다 다음 번에는 더 유용한 정보를 들고 여러분에게 도움을 드리도록 할게요. | 가 있길래 한번들어가보니 한국 장사의신들이 기록되어있음. |
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암웨이는 충분히 좋은 기업이고 착한기업, 암웨이 다단계, 피라미드, 네트워크마케팅 무엇일까요, Com › vivid2282 › 223769762341암웨이 다단계 아니야.
국내 최대 커뮤니티 포털 디시인사이드.. 1% 들어가야 돈 좀 번다고 할수 있는 수준입니다 뭐 이건 암웨이뿐 아니라 모든 다단계가 그렇지만 물건은 괜찮긴 한데, 괜찮을 뿐이지 이걸 돈벌겠다는 관점으로 접근하면 망합니다.. 힛갤러리, 유저이슈 등 인터넷 트렌드 총 집합.. 블라인드 썸연애 암웨이 사업이 다단계인지 좀 알려줘..
내가 직접 듣고 조사한 정보를 공유해 보겠다. 암웨이 제품들이 나름 괜찮다는 얘기는 여기저기서 들어봐서 나쁘게 생각하는 편은 아닙니다 제가 11 수업하는집 학생 어머니가 암웨이하시는거같은데 제생각엔 그냥 집에서 쓸물건들 구매하시는 정도 인거같아요 게다가 저한테 직접적으로 암웨이 얘기를, 아직도 다단계 사업이 성공의 지름길인줄 알고 주님의 인도하심을 외면한 채 헛된 성공을 꿈꾸며 달려가시는 분이 계신다면 그리스도인의 참된 진리 안에서의 성공이 무엇인지 현명하게 판단하시기를 원해서 저의 경험을 말씀드렸습니다. 암웨이와 불법 다단계의 주요 차이점 암웨이는 한국의 다단계 판매법에 따라 합법적으로 운영되며, 소비자 보호와 공정 거래를 위해 여러 장치를 두고 있습니다, 한국에서의 등록 여부 암웨이는 공정거래위원회에 등록된 합법적인 방문판매업체이다.
yonu120 암웨이식 다단계가 새로운 유통방식으로 성공적인 것은 사실이죠. 카페에서 다단계암웨이 설명중ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 창업 갤러리. 비말방지 안심가드 앞에 서시고, 암웨이 손소독제로 손 소독도 하신 후, 비용결제하면 됩니다. 해당 용어의 흔적을 찾아볼 수 있는 최초의 기록이며 인터뷰 내용의 일부가 남자가 걸러야 할 직업과 같은 제목으로 여러 남초 커뮤니티 등 각종 인터넷 커뮤니티 에 짤 형식으로 돌아다니기 시작했다. 암웨이, 그래봤자 다단계는 다단계 암웨이amway 마이너. yako 대체
yigeren33 sotwe 암웨이와 국내 제품에 받은 인증을 보아라. Com › vivid2282 › 223769762341암웨이 다단계 아니야. 암웨이, 그래봤자 다단계는 다단계 암웨이amway 마이너. 처음에 한국 암웨이의 판매 형태는 방문판매의 형태를 띄고 있어서 방문판매등에관한법률의 다단계 판매법에 영향을 받고 있습니다. 이상한 다단계가 문제지 나도 참 까고싶어서 알아봤는데 파면 팔수록 괜찮더라. yonu1201 of leak
ydongparty 실제 돈이 되는지 궁금하고 경험해 보고 싶은데 한번 들어가면 못. 어머니와 암웨이 사업설명회를 다녀오시고 하시는 말씀이 암웨이라고 괜찮은것같아, 해보시겠다고 하십니다. 암웨이 하는 사람들은 도대체 뭘 믿으라고. 힛갤러리, 유저이슈 등 인터넷 트렌드 총 집합. 그 새끼들 말만들으면 암웨이 비타민제만 쳐먹어도 무병장수 할것마냥 애기함 흔해빠진 비타민c 만들면서 깝치지말고 그렇게 기술력이 좋으면 기능 있어도 그만 없어도 그만인 건강보조식품 으로 분류해서 팔지말고. xhamster twitter
xvdeioxvdeio 암웨이네트워크 마케팅 공부중인데 궁금한거 ㅈㄴ많다. 다단계류의 영업은 영업 비용이 어마어마하다. 22 다단계 빠지는 애들 보면 오히려 멀쩡한애들이 많음 그래서 주위사람들한테 존나 자연스럽게 권유함 ㅅㅂ 2023. 가 있길래 한번들어가보니 한국 장사의신들이 기록되어있음. 1999년 한국 암웨이 인터넷 쇼핑몰이 오픈하면서 암웨이 회사와 회원 소비자에게 직접판매하는 방식으로 전환되었습니다.
yong erome 1% 들어가야 돈 좀 번다고 할수 있는 수준입니다 뭐 이건 암웨이뿐 아니라 모든 다단계가 그렇지만 물건은 괜찮긴 한데, 괜찮을 뿐이지 이걸 돈벌겠다는 관점으로 접근하면 망합니다. 암웨이 다단계 하는 지인이 제품을 계속 홍보해서 부담스럽나요. 암웨이를 본업을 삼겠더 하루에 몇천만원 벌겠다하는걸 헤어지겠다고 협박해서 겨우 다른 또래들처럼 취준하고 지 들어가고 싶은 재단에 공고까지 찾아. 다단계류의 영업은 영업 비용이 어마어마하다. 인셀덤, 시너지월드와이드, 암웨이, 애터미, 동화세상에듀코 등의 회사가 대표적인 다단계 회사이다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on August 4, 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, August 4, 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.
다단계 회사는 허세 있는 사람을 꼬드기기., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.