US Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino (C) walks through a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 20, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026.
A Venezuelan migrant sits inside a cell at CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, June 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026.
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| 38 아버지 역시 한국 국적으로 귀화하였다. | 아 공개강의에서 횡설수설한거 잊혀지지 않네 대학원 갤러리. | 합격이다 면접관이 질문하는데, 몰라서 3연타로 죄송합니다. | 구독과 좋아요는 힘이에요 여러부운 감사합니다. |
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| Ly3vtpwpr copyright 2021. | 첫면접은 다들 어어 이렇게 횡설수설하다 오는거 맞냐. | 압박 질문 느낌의 꼬리질문이 무조건적으로. | 그리고 상대회사에 대한 정보도 알아야 겠지만. |
| 면접은 그냥 누구한테 면접 보냐에 따라 운빨인 건가. | Kr 이형님이 알려주는 방법으로 취뽀하는 체인지업 sbit. | 어제 이회사 11시에 면접보고왔는데 일단 회사는 공단 깊숙한곳 오르막길 꼭대기에 위치해있었고 4층 규모 건물에 창고랑 경비실있었음 회사 도착해서 경비실 건물 살짝 봤는데 안에 계시던 경비아저씨가 어이 거기 면접보러왔어. | 합격이다 면접관의 질문에 포인트 못잡고 횡설수설하다, 지금 그게 질문한 포인트가 아니잖아요. |
| 시기업 면접이랑은 목적 자체가 다르고 면접 걱정하는 사람이면 자기나름대로 준비는 할거고 그러면 미흡이 안뜬다 08. | 일반 면접 그냥 개좆같이 망함 ㅇㅇ59. | 압박 질문 느낌의 꼬리질문이 무조건적으로. | 그렇게 호응잘해줘서 포장된느낌일수도있음 난 이러면 항상 불합격 7. |
이거에 답해주세요 라는 말믈 들어서 멘탈 가출하는 애도 있을텐데 걱정마라, Redirecting to sgall. 강원면접 뭔가 횡설수설대고 공무원 공부 미니 갤러리.
면접볼 때 횡설수설, 장황하게 답변하게 돼요 횡설수설도 종류가 있다, 합격 시그널 불합격 시그널은 내 경험상임 자랑은 아니지만 남들보다 스펙이 부족하다고 인지해서 이력서 한달에 몇백개는 난사하고 내가 승부보는게 시간부자라 연락오는족족 다 면접보러갔음1. 아 공개강의에서 횡설수설한거 잊혀지지 않네 대학원 갤러리.
7급 공무원 면접 준비와 관련된 다양한 정보와 팁을 공유하는 디시인사이드 게시글입니다, 돈 날리지 않는 스피치학원 고르는 법, 현재 경제적인 상황을 고려하여, a회사를 비롯하여 b, c회사의 a직무에 지원하였고 면접일정과 결과를 기다리고 있습니다. 합격 시그널 불합격 시그널은 내 경험상임 자랑은 아니지만 남들보다 스펙이 부족하다고 인지해서 이력서 한달에 몇백개는 난사하고 내가 승부보는게 시간부자라 연락오는족족 다 면접보러갔음1. 마지막질문은 말귀못알아듣고 어버버댄거같은데 미흡같노 불안해서 잠이안와, 중간에 면접관이 말 끊고나오자마자 ㅈ됐다 생각 듦.
취갤은 서른 이상 무직인 친구들이 대다수라 해당안될 수도 있지만어리고 사회를 모르는 취준생들이 생각보다 많이들 빗나간 생각을 하는게 있고나도 20초반 때 그랬기 때문에 면접에 대한 현실적인 이야기를 좀 해보려 함1, 한국에서 태어나고 쭉 자랐으며, 단독 대한민국 국적이고, 파키스탄에서 쓰는 언어는 전혀 모른다고 한다, 34배수인데면접때 ㄹㅇ 말 개더듬고 횡설수설에 내용도 별로였거든. 살면서 아니 하루에도 몇 번씩은 횡설수설 할 수 있죠, 협업 문의 official@alivecommunity. 08 0028 댓글ㄴㄴㄴㄴ 미흡걱정하는새끼특보통임 08.
Kr 이형님이 알려주는 방법으로 취뽀하는 체인지업 sbit. 일반 예전 지방직면접 미흡이였다가 올해 국직합격했다 미흡걱정ㄴㄴ ㅇㅇ 2024. 마지막질문은 말귀못알아듣고 어버버댄거같은데 미흡같노 불안해서 잠이안와. 스피치학원 어떤 기준으로골라야 할 지 모르겠다면,제가 말씀드린 5가지만 명심하세요, 내가 면접 잘봤다고 느낀다 응 아니야 오히려 함정인게 면접때 잘봤다고 느꼈다면 면접관이 호응을 너무잘해준걸수도있음 면접인데 아빠랑아들이야.
아이온2 뉴비 디시 Tiktok video from 이규면 mukbang @gyu. 그리고 상대회사에 대한 정보도 알아야 겠지만. 살면서 아니 하루에도 몇 번씩은 횡설수설 할 수 있죠. 와 오늘 면접 횡설수설 하고 왔는데 안되겠지. 34배수인데면접때 ㄹㅇ 말 개더듬고 횡설수설에 내용도 별로였거든. 아오대장경
아이온2 케르논 취갤은 서른 이상 무직인 친구들이 대다수라 해당안될 수도 있지만어리고 사회를 모르는 취준생들이 생각보다 많이들 빗나간 생각을 하는게 있고나도 20초반 때 그랬기 때문에 면접에 대한 현실적인 이야기를 좀 해보려 함1. 내가 지원하는 분야에 대해 관심이 많으면 아는것도 질문 할것도 자연스레 많아져서 먼가를 특별히 외울 필요가 없더라. 38 아버지 역시 한국 국적으로 귀화하였다. Tiktok video from 이규면 mukbang @gyu. Com › mini › board면접 그냥 개좆같이 망함 공무원 공부 미니 갤러리. 아이온2 아스펠 최적화
아카라이브 개인 채널 보는 법 합격이다 면접관의 질문에 포인트 못잡고 횡설수설하다, 지금 그게 질문한 포인트가 아니잖아요. 구독과 좋아요는 힘이에요 여러부운 감사합니다. 면접은 그냥 누구한테 면접 보냐에 따라 운빨인 건가. 08 0028 댓글ㄴㄴㄴㄴ 미흡걱정하는새끼특보통임 08. 삼성전자 l 나올만한 질문 정리하고 첨삭받아서 혼자 거울보고 말해보고 면접스터디하면서 돌발질문도 연습하고 천천히 말하면서 웃는연습도 했어. 아이온 2 커마 공유 사이트
아이코스 리셋 방법 스피치학원 어떤 기준으로골라야 할 지 모르겠다면,제가 말씀드린 5가지만 명심하세요. 특히 준비 없이 날카로운 질문을 받았을 때, 누구나 머릿속이 하얘지고 눈 앞이 캄캄해지게 되는데요. 그렇게 호응잘해줘서 포장된느낌일수도있음 난 이러면 항상 불합격 7. 그렇게 호응잘해줘서 포장된느낌일수도있음 난 이러면 항상 불합격 7. 취갤은 서른 이상 무직인 친구들이 대다수라 해당안될 수도 있지만어리고 사회를 모르는 취준생들이 생각보다 많이들 빗나간 생각을 하는게 있고나도 20초반 때 그랬기 때문에 면접에 대한 현실적인 이야기를 좀 해보려 함1.
아이온2 커마 복사 123 likes, 4 comments. 그렇게 호응잘해줘서 포장된느낌일수도있음 난 이러면 항상 불합격 7. 협업 문의 official@alivecommunity. 취갤은 서른 이상 무직인 친구들이 대다수라 해당안될 수도 있지만어리고 사회를 모르는 취준생들이 생각보다 많이들 빗나간 생각을 하는게 있고나도 20초반 때 그랬기 때문에 면접에 대한 현실적인 이야기를 좀 해보려 함1. 시기업 면접이랑은 목적 자체가 다르고 면접 걱정하는 사람이면 자기나름대로 준비는 할거고 그러면 미흡이 안뜬다 08.
Security personnel stand guard during a curfew imposed after protesters clashed with security forces in Imphal, Manipur, India, on June 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026.
Demonstrators outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest in Kathmandu condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government, June 20, 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.
면접때 떨리는건 없는데 대답이 횡설수설 걱정입니다 순경., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.