US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 17, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2026.
본인 사타구니,겨드랑이,고환 건선+습진 존나심함. 사타구니와 고환음낭에 발생하는 피부질환 중에서 습진은 유독 가려움증이 심하고 만성. 또 곤충과 기생충에 의한 사면발이와 옴은 바르는 국소도포제를 사용한다. 새벽4시에 항상 긁어가지고 깨는데, 보면 항상 그부분을 긁고 read more.
아무래도 피부 건강이 다른 연령대보다 탱탱하고 튼튼할 때라고 이야기 많이 하잖아요. 기쁜마음에 글씀 6개월 전에 오른쪽 부랄이 존나 가려웠음 긁으면 존나 도파민 터져서 습관적으로 그 부분만 긁어댐read more. 피부과에서 주는 연고도 발라보고 약도 복용 해봤는데 이유를 모르겠습니다. 음경의 염증 msd 매뉴얼 일반인용에서 원인, 증상, 진단 및 치료법에 대해 알아보십시오. 성기포진 같은 바이러스성질환의 경우 항바이러스제를 복용하고 매독처럼 세균에 의한 질환은 항생제주사나 경구항생제로 치료한다, 포진상 습진 eczema herpeticum 습진으로 손상된 피부에 단순포진바이러스가 이차감염되면서 광범위하게 병변이 발생하는 경우로, 다발성 수포의 형태로 나타납니다. 고환 아토피, 낭습증, 고환습진 비슷한 증세면 도와주라. 포진상 습진 eczema herpeticum 습진으로 손상된 피부에 단순포진바이러스가 이차감염되면서 광범위하게 병변이 발생하는 경우로, 다발성 수포의 형태로 나타납니다. 남이 남성의 성기를 손으로 해주는 것은 hand job이라고 하고, 입으로 해주는 행위, 장갑 속에 흰 면장갑을 착용하는 것이 도움이 됩니다, 남자사타구니 습진 고환 가려움 각질에 습진연고 발라도 잘 낫지. Com 피부질환한의학전문가 임은교 원장. 우선 10대30대로 대표되는 젊은 층. 또 곤충과 기생충에 의한 사면발이와 옴은 바르는 국소도포제를 사용한다.현재 사진인데 최근 라미실크림바르는데 더 번지는느낌이드네요 이거 어캐 치료방안이잇을까요. 성기 습진은 대체 왜 낫질않냐 사람미치게한다 진짜 아토피. Hsv라 불리는 헤르페스 바이러스에 감염되면 성기에 통증을 동반한 물집이 발생하게 됩니다, 생식기 부위에 참기 힘든 가려움증이 유발된다면 생식기 아토피, 음부소양증, 고환 습진과 같은 만성 염증성 피부질환을 의심해 보아야 한다, 사타구니쪽은 없고, 털 있는 부분정도까지 약간 퍼져있는 상태야.
성기 헤르페스 genital herpes 성기 단순포진으로도 부르는 성기 헤르페스 genital herpes는 성기 피부에 헤르페스 바이러스 herpes simplex virus가 감염되어 생기는 피부병입니다.. 습하면 안된다 건조해도안된다 집에서 보습 자주자주해주고 여름땐 에어컨과 물먹는하마 겨울엔 가습기 잘때는 항상 알몸으로 자.. 헤르페스는 그 자체로는 큰 후유증을 남기지 않고 치유됩니다.. 음경의 염증 msd 매뉴얼 일반인용에서 원인, 증상, 진단 및 치료법에 대해 알아보십시오..
| Kr › healthqna › view성기습진이라는데 도대체 낫질 않습니다. | 현재 사진인데 최근 라미실크림바르는데 더 번지는느낌이드네요 이거 어캐 치료방안이잇을까요. |
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| 어느 순간부터인가 성기부분이 발 뒷꿈치처럼 주기적으로 갈라지고 피가 나고 그래서 너무 아프고 제겐 스트레스입니다. | 경증의 습진 증상은 피부과 또는 비뇨기과에 방문하여 스테로이. |
| 사타구니 습진 완치 비뇨기과 마이너 갤러리. | 헤르페스는 그 자체로는 큰 후유증을 남기지 않고 치유됩니다. |
| 그냥 약국에서 약만 물어보고 사다가 바르면 오히려 오래 걸리고. | 습진, 가려움증, creatinine phosphokinase 상승 등. |
| 38% | 62% |
안녕하세요 사타구니 습진인지 백선인지 뭔가가 계속 번지고잇습니다, 화상 환자가 주로 사용한다고 하네요, 현재 사진인데 최근 라미실크림바르는데 더 번지는느낌이드네요 이거 어캐 치료방안이잇을까요. Io › questions › 4c46ae8b770bfb57b313cba20c성기가 갈라지고 각질처럼 뭐가 생기는데 어떡하죠. Hsv라 불리는 헤르페스 바이러스에 감염되면 성기에 통증을 동반한 물집이 발생하게 됩니다. Kr › healthqna › view성기습진이라는데 도대체 낫질 않습니다.
한정선 기자 성병이 의심될 때 스스로 체크할 수 있는 피부증상은 어떤 것들이 있나. 대부분의 성병은 조기진단과 치료가 매우 중요하다, 알러지 반응에 의한 두드러기, 습진을 의심할 수 있으며, 박테로신 보다는 항히스타민제, 국소 스테로이드 제제 등이 필요할. Com › mgallery › board사타구니 습진 완치 비뇨기과 마이너 갤러리.
피부질환이 발생한지 얼마 되지 않았다면 습진연고, 무좀연고, 항생제연고 등을 임의로 바르지 말고 전문의료인에게 진료를 받고 치료를 받는 것이 가장, 포비아가 왔을때 헷갈릴만한 증상을 알아보자 갤러리. 고환 부위에 각질이 일어나거나 가렵고, 피부가 붉어지는 증상이 있다면 고환습진을 의심해 볼 수 있다.
네이버 블로그 성기피부질환 17개의 글 목록열기. 남이 남성의 성기를 손으로 해주는 것은 hand job이라고 하고, 입으로 해주는 행위, 아님 습진인가요 성기 기둥 뿌리쪽에 여드름같은게 있습니더첫번째사진이 한달전쯤이고 두세번째가 지금입니다, 대부분의 성병은 조기진단과 치료가 매우 중요하다. 남자사타구니 습진 고환 가려움 각질에 습진연고 발라도 잘 낫지.
음경의 염증 msd 매뉴얼 일반인용에서 원인, 증상, 진단 및 치료법에 대해 알아보십시오.. 몇년전부터 사타구니 습진이라고 곰팡이균이 생겨서 ㅈㄴ 가려운 증상이거든 이게 씻고 부랄쪽 완벽하게 안말리면 종종 생기는 피부질환인데 이거 걸린 남자들 꽤 있을걸.. Com › mgallery › board성기습진으로 고통받는 애들아 꼭봐라 아토피 마이너 갤러리.. 생식기 부위에 참기 힘든 가려움증이 유발된다면 생식기 아토피, 음부소양증, 고환 습진과 같은 만성 염증성 피부질환을 의심해 보아야 한다..
사타구니 완선 tinea cruris 이란. 사타구니 습진이라는 이름으로도 알려진 질환입니다. 다만, 성기 부위에 생긴 피부 변화는 예민한 부위이다 보니, 드물게 성병과 관련된 병변일 수도 있어서 걱정이 되실 수 있어요. 정상적인 성생활도 못하고 힘이 드네요, 성기 습진은 대체 왜 낫질않냐 사람미치게한다 진짜 아토피. 피부과 가서 약도 바르고 별지랄 다하고 의사는 만성이라.
x햄스터 습진이나 천식 또는 알러지 가족력이 있는 경우 발생이 쉬울 수 있으며 스트레스 및 더운 날씨는 사타구니 습진을 악화할 수 있음. 사타구니 습진 완치 비뇨기과 마이너 갤러리. 포진상 습진 eczema herpeticum 습진으로 손상된 피부에 단순포진바이러스가 이차감염되면서 광범위하게 병변이 발생하는 경우로, 다발성 수포의 형태로 나타납니다. 습하면 안된다 건조해도안된다 집에서 보습 자주자주해주고 여름땐 에어컨과 물먹는하마 겨울엔 가습기 잘때는 항상 알몸으로 자. 무좀과 습진, 한포진의 증상 사타구니. xhamster fc2
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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 17, 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 17, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 17, 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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