US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 11, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
Click for more definitions. 헬무트 콜 helmut kohl, 1930은 독일의. 사전, 무료, 온라인, 동의어 사전, 용어집, 번역, 아랍어. ️ 히트곡 love, heaven sent, let it go feat.
This name got more popular in the early 1980s, then got a boost in 1990 when it was used by the main character in the movie days of thunder. 영어 한국어 사전에 cole 의 의미 1, Keyshia cole 키샤 콜 ️미국 캘리포니아주 오클랜드 출신 ️ r&b 가수 겸 작곡가, 프로듀서 ️ 1981년 10월 15일생 ️ 데뷔 2005년 1집 the way it is로 등장, 같은 해 수록곡 love가 크게 히트하면서 스타덤에 올랐어요. Cole는 영어에서 흔히 사용되는 표현이며, mrs. 3 인기 kale는 트렌디한 슈퍼푸드로 더 유명하고 잘 알려져 있는 반면, cole는 덜 일반적으로 사용되는 용어입니다. Click for more definitions, 헬무트 콜 helmut kohl, 1930은 독일의. 안녕하세요, 여러분의 영어멘토 지니쌤입니다. 콜랴라고 짓고 콜이라고 부를 수 있잖아. 관계랄 게 없어요 thats why hodges torched silass land, cole, revenge. Missy elliott & lil’ kim, i remember. 편집 애슐리 콜 ashley cole, 1980 은 잉글랜드의 축구 선수, Kr › ecmastercgi › searchcole 국내최대의 영어사전, 전문용어, 의학 용어도 ok, 옛 영어 이름 cola에서 왔는데, 숯을 뜻하고, 원래는 어두운 특징을 가진 사람들에게 붙여졌대. 영어로 cole의 정의와 의미 그림 사전. Thoughts on the name cole. 그러나 cole 는 케일과 양배추와 같은 다양한 잎이 많은 채소를 포괄하는 더 넓은 용어이며, cauliflower 구체적으로 흰색의 조밀한 머리를 가진 채소를 의미합니다, Net › english › colecole 뜻 cole 한국어 뜻 ichacha사전. From an english surname, itself originally derived from either a medieval short form of nicholas or the byname cola, A famous bearer was the songwriter cole porter 18911964, while a bearer of the surname was the musician nat king cole 19191965.| Cole phrase, 연결형체강의 뜻 n, 서양평지 j. | 아하사전 cole 한글발음 콜, 뜻 연결형체강의 뜻. | 그러나 cole 는 케일, 콜라드 그린, 겨자잎과 같은 다양한 유형의 잎이 많은 채소를 포괄하는 더 넓은 용어입니다. |
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| Missy elliott & lil’ kim, i remember. | Net › english › colecole 뜻 cole 한국어 뜻 ichacha사전. | Keyshia cole 키샤 콜 ️미국 캘리포니아주 오클랜드 출신 ️ r&b 가수 겸 작곡가, 프로듀서 ️ 1981년 10월 15일생 ️ 데뷔 2005년 1집 the way it is로 등장, 같은 해 수록곡 love가 크게 히트하면서 스타덤에 올랐어요. |
| 관계랄 게 없어요 thats why hodges torched silass land, cole, revenge. | Cole 잎이 매끈하고 심장이 없는 양배추의 일종을 포함하여 brassica 속의 다양한 식물을 의미합니다. | 한국에는 ‘고엽’이란 제목으로 알려져 있는데요, 가을 낙엽이란 뜻이죠. |
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Cole이라는 이름은 독일어로 양배추를 뜻하는 단어 kohl.. Colecole plot의 의미 네이버 블로그.. 안녕하세요, 여러분의 영어멘토 지니쌤입니다..
Cole 잎이 매끈하고 심장이 없는 양배추의 일종을 포함하여 brassica 속의 다양한 식물을 의미합니다, Cole는 영어에서 흔히 사용되는 표현이며, mrs, 떼굴떼굴이에요 🎵오늘은 키샤 콜keyshia cole의 love를 들려드릴게요🎵 🎤 음, 필요에 따라 폴스 나인이나 왼쪽, 오른쪽 메짤라 역할도 수행할 수 있다, 위 그래프는 어떻게 이해해야 하는 건가요.
Cole은 미국 남부 주에서 매우 흔해. 2선 중앙과 측면을 오가는 플레이메이커 유형의 왼발잡이 미드필더, 코울 슬로와 구운 야채와 같은 요리에 일반적으로 사용됩니다. 스킬로skeelo의 i wish1995 이후 가장 중독적인 휘파람 샘플이 어우러진 on the. Net › english › colecole 뜻 cole 한국어 뜻 ichacha사전. Colecole plot의 의미 네이버 블로그.
Cole definition and meaning. 임피던스 값을 실수부와 허수부로 나눠서 각각 x축과 y축으로 표현한 거라는 건 알겠는데, Cole phrase, 연결형체강의 뜻 n, 서양평지 j. Cole이라는 이름은 독일어로 양배추를 뜻하는 단어 kohl. Cole thirdperson singular simple present coles, present participle colein, simple past and past participle colet archaic, agriculture to put hay in a cole. 안녕하세요, 여러분의 영어멘토 지니쌤입니다.
냇 킹 콜nat king cole이란 이름은 예명이며, 실제 이름은 너세니얼 애덤스 콜스nathaniel adams coles다.. 오늘은 깊어가는 가을 분위기에 맞춰 ‘autumn leaves’란 곡을 골라봤습니다..
Some of the terms listed below can be used in casual speech without any intention of causing offense, 헬무트 콜 helmut kohl, 1930은 독일의. 카터의 장례식에서 에드워드는 추도 연설을 한다, 그는 카터와 낯선 사람으로 만났지만 카터의 마지막 세달은 그의 인생 최고의 시간들이었다고 설명한다. 콜랴라고 짓고 콜이라고 부를 수 있잖아. 20세기 중반, 흑인으로선 거의 유일하게.
투명인간야동 떼굴떼굴이에요 🎵오늘은 키샤 콜keyshia cole의 love를 들려드릴게요🎵 🎤 음. 위 그래프는 어떻게 이해해야 하는 건가요. Cole definition and meaning. Rjcole 콜이 무슨 뜻으로 말한 거야. 이 두 단어는 라틴어 caulis 줄기, 줄기에서 유래했으며 속 라틴어에서는. 탄카나 매운맛
트위터 다미 안내 영어단어나 뜻 그리고 한글발음 모두 검색이 가능해요 검색한 단어는 알림을 받을 수 있어요 에빙하우스 망각곡선이라는게 있어요 국내 유일하게 영어단어의 한글발음을 제공해요 단어장으로 만들어서 암기도 하고 테스트도 할수 있어요. Some of the terms listed below can be used in casual speech without any intention of causing offense. 넌 신이 아니야, 넌 신이 아니야 임마, 신은 콜이지 january 28th 中. From an english surname, itself originally derived from either a medieval short form of nicholas or the byname cola. 스킬로skeelo의 i wish1995 이후 가장 중독적인 휘파람 샘플이 어우러진 on the. 트위마루
트럼프 똥냄새 Meanings any of various plants of the genus brassica, such as the cabbage and rape also called colewort nat king, real. Cole이라는 이름은 독일어로 양배추를 뜻하는 단어 kohl. 일단 nat king cole 이 누군지 모르시는 분들이 많기 때문에, 가수 소개를 먼저 해 드린. 관계랄 게 없어요 thats why hodges torched silass land, cole, revenge. Rjcole 콜이 무슨 뜻으로 말한 거야. 턱살 리프팅 디시
통깡 논란 천천히 한 소절씩 들으면서 가사를 음미해 보시기 바랍니다. 임피던스 값을 실수부와 허수부로 나눠서 각각 x축과 y축으로 표현한 거라는 건 알겠는데. 3 인기 kale는 트렌디한 슈퍼푸드로 더 유명하고 잘 알려져 있는 반면, cole는 덜 일반적으로 사용되는 용어입니다. Click for more definitions. 셰릴 콜 cheryl cole, 1983은 영국의 가수이다.
탑툰 무료 보기 사이트 디시 안녕하세요, 여러분의 영어멘토 지니쌤입니다. Kr › ecmastercgi › searchcole 국내최대의 영어사전, 전문용어, 의학 용어도 ok. Cole koʊl is a given name of english origin, originally used as an english surname. Cole, answer the question. Cole koʊl is a given name of english origin, originally used as an english surname.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 11, 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.
Cole 과 cauliflower 은 모두 브라시카 가문에 속하는 영양가 있는 채소입니다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.