US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
거절 했는데도 돈 빌려달라고 질척거려서 차단 한다고 했더니 욕하네 너는 영구박제야 아이디 안 가리고 올린다 음악한다는 새끼가 인맥이 ㅈ도 없농 read more. 15일 중국 공산당 총서기에 오른 시진핑習近平59의 부인. 샤오미 폰 농담에 웃음터진 시진핑트럼프 담판서도 활짝. 중국 국방부는 지난 24일 장유샤75 부주석에 대한 조사를 발표하면서 심각한 기율 위반과 불법 행위라고만 밝혔다.
그의 몰락은 중국공산당 내의 여러 모순을 드러내는 역할을 했으며, 시진핑 1인 체제로의 변화에 직간접적인 영향을 주었다는 평가를 받는다.. 5세대 지도부를 맡게 되는 시진핑 부주석은 공산당의 레닌주의를 21세기 경제와 소셜미디어 시대의 정치역학에 조화시켜야 한다는 책임을 맡게 됐다.. Kr › article › 9913241중국 ‘제1부인’ &mldr.. 英총리 8년만에 중국서 시진핑 만났다g7 중 4개국 베이징행..펑리위안은 1986년 친구 소개로 당시 샤면시 부시장으로 재직하던, Org › wiki › 시밍쩌시밍쩌 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전. Kr › article › 9913241중국 ‘제1부인’ &mldr.
web site created using locofy 북한 노동신문 북중정상회담 자세히 보도 서울연합뉴스 김정은 국무위원장과 시진핑 중국 국가주석의 북중정상회담을 내용을 1면에서 4면까찌 기사와 다양한 사진으로 노동신문이 9일 보도했다, 시진핑 중국 국가주석이 1박2일 간의 평양 방문을 마쳤습니다. 그녀는 시진핑과 아내 펑리위안 사이에서 태어난 외동딸이기에 귀하게 자랐습니다, 인민망 한국어판 9월 1일 시진핑 習近平 중국 국가주석과 부인 펑리위안 彭麗媛 여사가 8월 31일 밤 톈진 메이장 梅江컨벤션센터에서 연회를 열어 2025년 상하이협력기구 sco 정상회의 참석차 중국을 찾은 해외 귀빈을 환영했다.
뉴델리 로이터연합뉴스 인도의 반중 시위대가 22일현지시간 뉴델리 거리에서 시진핑 중국 주석의 사진과 중국산 제품을 불태우고 있다. 거절 했는데도 돈 빌려달라고 질척거려서 차단 한다고 했더니 욕하네 너는 영구박제야 아이디 안 가리고 올린다 음악한다는 새끼가 인맥이 ㅈ도 없농 read more. @inxnyxn 여장남자 단발 시진핑상 날씬 구린년 포악한 냄새. 1986년, 친구의 소개로 시진핑과 만나 27살에 결혼했는데 시진핑은 33살로 재혼이었다. 시진핑 부주석이 후진타오 주석보다 책임을 더 잘 완수할 것이라는 예측이 지배적이다.
중국 7대 주석 시진핑习近平& 가족관계 1, 사실 중국학생 입장에서 한국어 배우려면 한국을 와도 되지만 북한을. 펑리위안 여사 대표 프로필 다음은 시진핑 習近平 중국 국가주석 부인인 펑리위안 彭麗媛, peng liyuan 여사의 프로필 나이고향학력경력활동을 정리한 내용입니다 기본 프로필 학력 펑리위안 여사는 예능음악 분야의 전문적 교육 배경을 갖고, 산둥성 허쩌시 가 고향이며 14살 때 산둥 예술학교에 입학하였다. 마찬가지로 여장남자 히로인으로 유명한 cage에서 2개, catear에서도 1개를 출시했다.
Cn › n320250901 › c20327820359998시진핑 주석과 부인 펑리위안 여사, 2025년 sco 정상회의 참석 국제, 딸바보에 부인에게 만두 빚어주는 자상함까지 시진핑 이런. 시진핑은 국가 원수보다는 쉬멜여장보추가 어울림 정치. 1 시밍쩌는 시진핑 총서기의 외동딸 이며 2010년 9월에 시녀들과 경호대들의 경호를 받고 있으며 하버드 대학교 에 입학하였다고 보도되었다.
조 복서 디시 17일 중국 외교부 홈페이지에 따르면 친 부장은 지난달 25일 베이징에서 스리랑카베트남 외교장관과 러시아 외교차관을 만난 후 공개석 상에서 자취를 감췄다. 사진제공epa 이러한 펑리위안의 내조도 빛을 발휘해 시진핑 주석은 2012년 국가주석이 됐고 다음달 2기 체제 출범을 앞두고 있다. 이 말은 일본 아사히신문의 미네무라 겐지峯村健司 기자가 쓴『13억분의 1의 남자중국 황제를 둘러싼 인류 최대의. 시진핑 중국 국가주석에게는 올해 32살이 된 딸 시밍쩌가 있는데요. Hours ago — 여장남자이거나 동성애자인 콜린과 엔젤, 모린과 조앤 등은 편견과 차별에 고통 받으면서도 사랑과 자유, 그리고 오늘을 노래한다. 조개 파티 처벌
정서현 구독 영상 Cn › n320250901 › c20327820359998시진핑 주석과 부인 펑리위안 여사, 2025년 sco 정상회의 참석 국제. Com › international › china시진핑 부인, 軍 인사권 틀어쥐었나 사진에 노출된 그녀 직책은. Com › view › 20251008n09460단독 시진핑 부인 펑리위안도 방한 네이트 뉴스. 1987년 9월 결혼식에 참석한 하객들은 인기 가수 펑리위안을 보고 의아해 하다가 시진핑이 새 아내라고 소개하자 깜짝 놀랐다고 한다. 펑리위안은 예술학교 출신의 가수로, 1980년대 큰 인기를 끌었다. 조각도시 백의원 여자
조한나 디시 펑리위안 남편 시진핑 1987년 결혼 펑리위안 딸 시밍쩌 1992년생 1962년생, 중국의 주석 시진핑의 아내다. ‘어린 딸을 자전거에 태우고 행복한 웃음을 짓고, 부인에게 만두를 빚어주는 애처가 남편’, 중국 관영언론이 새 지도자 시진핑 총서기의 인간적. 보도에 따르면 시진핑은 1986년 국민가수인. 중국 국방부는 지난 24일 장유샤75 부주석에 대한 조사를 발표하면서 심각한 기율 위반과 불법 행위라고만 밝혔다. 남편은 시진핑 중화인민공화국 최고지도자 겸 중국공산당 총서기 이다. 제타 기유
제로이드 디시 열병식, 중국 퍼스트레이디 펑리위안 누구. 5세대 지도부를 맡게 되는 시진핑 부주석은 공산당의 레닌주의를 21세기 경제와 소셜미디어 시대의 정치역학에 조화시켜야 한다는 책임을 맡게 됐다. 펑리위안 남편 시진핑 1987년 결혼 펑리위안 딸 시밍쩌 1992년생 1962년생, 중국의 주석 시진핑의 아내다. 1986년, 친구의 소개로 시진핑과 만나 27살에 결혼했는데 시진핑은 33살로 재혼이었다. 성장기 파일xi_jinping,_xi_yuanpi.
전서윤 디시 3 중국 국민여가수이자 중국군 소장인 펑리위안은 산둥山東성 출신으로 산둥예술학원을 졸업한 뒤 18세 때 인민해방군 총정치부 소속 가무단 단원으로 가요계에 데뷔했다. 현지시간 8일 로이터 통신에 따르면, 난징 지방 경찰은 지난 6일 음란물 유포 혐의로 중국인 남성 a씨38를 체포했습니다. @inxnyxn 여장남자 단발 시진핑상 날씬 구린년 포악한 냄새. 사실 중국학생 입장에서 한국어 배우려면 한국을 와도 되지만 북한을. 3 참고로 모든 배드 엔딩은 생각하는 것을 그만두었다.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 8, 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 8, 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 8, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 8, 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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