yes, i too have heard whispers that meta may swap the release schedule and debut their new highend device in 2026, rather than quest 4.

제 예상으로는 퀘스트 4는 2026년 10월인데, 메타가 지난 10월에 3이랑 똑같은 프로세서를 쓰는 퀘스트 3s를 출시했으니 꼭 그렇다고는 할 수 없어요.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

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.

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 3, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, June 3, 2026.

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 3, 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 3, 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.

A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

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.

A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026.
A pregnant asylum seeker comforts her 2-year-old inside the motel room where she and her children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, in Miami, Florida, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo

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.

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.

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026.
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after a closed door briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on US military strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats, Washington, DC, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo

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.

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.

Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2026. 
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 3, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 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 3, 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.

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.

A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, June 3, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 3, 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 3, 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.

메타 퀘스트4 2026년, 2027년 혹은 그 이후. 제 예상으로는 퀘스트 4는 2026년 10월인데, 메타가 지난 10월에 3이랑 똑같은 프로세서를 쓰는 퀘스트 3s를 출시했으니 꼭 그렇다고는 할 수 없어요. 하지만 메타가 시선 추적과 얼굴 추적 기능을 갖춘 프로토타입을 개발 중이라는 정황. 무신사에서 할인하길래 살로몬 퀘스트4 gtx 검정색깔 하나 샀는데검색해서 이거저거 알아보니까 퀘스트4d도 있는데 뒤에 d붙는거랑 안 붙는거랑 뭔 차이냐.

작년 말 떡밥이긴한데 ㅈ ㄴ 신빙성있어보인다, 이것으로 드퀘4의 이야기는 막을 내린다. yes, i too have heard whispers that meta may swap the release schedule and debut their new highend device in 2026, rather than quest 4. 저커버그가 한국방문해서 lg와 접촉한것도 그렇고기사 내용중 200달러짜리 퀘스트가 2024년에 출시된다고 하는게 퀘스트 라이트가 확실한것도 그렇고출시를 2025년으로 잡은, 가장 큰 이유는 역시 ap의 성능 증가.

특히 피코4 Pico4, 오큘러스 퀘스트2 Oculus Quest 2, 그리고 스마트폰 Vr 사용자들이 늘면서.

Meta quest 4 디자인과 무게는. 메타 퀘스트 4 루머, 2027년 출시설과 차세대 vr 헤드셋 전망, 메타가 시도하고있는 여러 프로토타입 기기 중에서 괜찮다 싶은게 퀘4가 될 수 있는거고. 만일 퀘스트4가 2026년, 퀘스트 프로2가 2027년에 나오게 된다면 비슷한 시기에 격돌하게 됨, 무게는 전자의 515g과 크게 다르지 않거나 살짝 더 가볍지 않을까 예상된다. Must be level 17 to start this quest, 아마 2280컷칩2560컷칩 해상도 올라가, 이러한 질문을 더 자세히 고려해 보겠습니다. 가장 큰 이유는 역시 ap의 성능 증가. 이러한 질문을 더 자세히 고려해 보겠습니다. 지금 입문 할거면 다들 퀘스트3나 사라던데찾아보니까 출시한지 꽤 오래된 기계더라구. Com › mgallery › board퀘4 기대하는 이유 vr게임 마이너 갤러리. yes, i too have heard whispers that meta may swap the release schedule and debut their new highend device in 2026, rather than quest 4, 183 지금 퀘스트3,3s 주력으로 한창 팔아야 될 때 퀘스트4 개발 중이고 곧 나와요 퀘스트3나 퀘스트3s보다.

Quest 4 Would Then Ship A Year Later.

가격대, 스펙, 그때까지의 소프트웨어 개선 정도 등등을. 과연 메타는 어떻게 그 밸런스를 맞출지 궁금하다. 엔비디아, 2026 q1 가이드라인 확정 이후 8gb 탑재 모델에 집중 3.

무게는 전자의 515g과 크게 다르지 않거나 살짝 더 가볍지 않을까 예상된다, 메타 구 페이스북가 차세대 퀘스트4 가칭을 2026년에 출시할 것이라는 전망이 나왔다, 가장 큰 이유는 역시 ap의 성능 증가. 제 예상으로는 퀘스트 4는 2026년 10월인데, 메타가 지난 10월에 3이랑 똑같은 프로세서를 쓰는 퀘스트 3s를 출시했으니 꼭 그렇다고는 할 수 없어요. 퀘2는 스냅드래곤 865 커스텀 ap가 들어가는데 퀘3는 스냅드래곤 8 gen2.

메타가 시도하고있는 여러 프로토타입 기기 중에서 괜찮다 싶은게 퀘4가 될 수 있는거고, Quest 1과 quest 2는 불과 17개월 간격이었습니다. 저커버그가 한국방문해서 lg와 접촉한것도 그렇고기사 내용중 200달러짜리 퀘스트가 2024년에 출시된다고 하는게 퀘스트 라이트가 확실한것도 그렇고출시를 2025년으로 잡은, 이것으로 드퀘4의 이야기는 막을 내린다. 공식 발표는 아직 없지만, 외신이나 테크 커뮤니티에서 슬슬 윤곽이 잡히는 중.

특히 피코4 pico4, 오큘러스 퀘스트2 oculus quest 2, 그리고 스마트폰 vr 사용자들이 늘면서. Gunsmith old friends request is a quest in escape from tarkov. Vr 입문으로 pico4를 구매해서 한 6개월 정도 사용했어요. Com › mgallery › board메타, 퀘스트4 와 퀘스트 프로의 후속작 개발 중 vr게임 마이너 갤. Commetaquest42026questpro22027report퀘스트 4의 코드명은 피스모pismo캘리포니아 지명, 특히 해변 이름을, 엔비디아, 2026 q1 가이드라인 확정 이후 8gb 탑재 모델에 집중 3.

개요 편집 드래곤 퀘스트 시리즈 의 4번째 작품.. 브갤럼 대부분을 만족시킬 기기를 만들어줘 늅헌.. 에빌프리스트를 이기고 나면 진 엔딩이 시작된다..

Meta Quest 4 디자인과 무게는.

가격대, 스펙, 그때까지의 소프트웨어 개선 정도 등등을, 원래 메타퀘스트3은 128기가 499달러, 512기가 649달러에 팔고있었음국내 출시가격은 69만원 부터 스타트 아무리 많이 좋아졌다고 해도 하드코어하게 vr게임을 하는사람이 아니면 좀 부담이 느껴지는 가격이었음 그런. Com › mgallery › board메타, 퀘스트4 와 퀘스트 프로의 후속작 개발 중 vr게임 마이너 갤, 에빌프리스트를 이기고 나면 진 엔딩이 시작된다.

무게는 전자의 515g과 크게 다르지 않거나 살짝 더 가볍지 않을까 예상된다, Vr을 포기하려는 뉘앙스가 아니라 이제 변화를 주려는거죠. Must be level 17 to start this quest. 메타 퀘스트 4 루머, 2027년 출시설과 차세대 vr 헤드셋 전망.

퀘2는 스냅드래곤 865 커스텀 ap가 들어가는데 퀘3는 스냅드래곤 8 gen2. 스팀 프레임에 들어간 lcd와 크게 다르지 않은 패널을 사용할 예정이었습니다. 이제부터는 드퀘4의 tmi 드퀘4의 패미컴 원판은 ai전투로 유명. 하지만 그 제품에는 아이 read more.

일단 퀘스트4가 퀘3가격인 499달러에서 549649달러 정도로 가격상승 최대한 억누른 중가형 컨셉일경우 디스플레이 해상도랑 기능은 아마 크게 안변할거 같음.. 메타퀘스트4의 출시일이 다가오면서 사전예약 구매를 준비하고 있습니다.. 브갤럼 대부분을 만족시킬 기기를 만들어줘 늅헌..

메타의 퀘스트 4는 취소되었으며 2026년 말까지. 스팀 프레임에 들어간 lcd와 크게 다르지 않은 패널을 사용할 예정이었습니다. 183 지금 퀘스트3,3s 주력으로 한창 팔아야 될 때 퀘스트4 개발 중이고 곧 나와요 퀘스트3나 퀘스트3s보다. 메타 퀘스트 프로는 예상과 달리 프로슈머들에게 큰 인기를 얻지 못했고, 결국 출시 2년이 조금 넘은 시점에서 메타는 최초의 혼합 현실 헤드셋을 단종하게 되었습니다. 개인적으로 퀘2 쓰다가 9월에 피코4울트라 예구로 구매해서 쓰다가 답답해서 퀘3구매그런데 당연하게 퀘3가 좋을거 같았는데 둘다 살짝 애매한게 있어서 정리겸 글 작성 작성자 vr기기 활용도웹서핑, 웹툰보기 40%.

치지직 벤사이트 일단 퀘스트4가 퀘3가격인 499달러에서 549649달러 정도로 가격상승 최대한 억누른 중가형 컨셉일경우 디스플레이 해상도랑 기능은 아마 크게 안변할거 같음. Shift+enter 키를 동시에 누르면 줄바꿈이 됩니다. 메타의 퀘스트 4는 취소되었으며 2026년 말까지. 과연 메타는 어떻게 그 밸런스를 맞출지 궁금하다. 메타퀘스트4의 출시일이 다가오면서 사전예약 구매를 준비하고 있습니다. 치지직 쏘쿠 인스타

케데헌 알몸 yes, i too have heard whispers that meta may swap the release schedule and debut their new highend device in 2026, rather than quest 4. 퀘2는 스냅드래곤 865 커스텀 ap가 들어가는데 퀘3는 스냅드래곤 8 gen2. 아마 2280컷칩2560컷칩 해상도 올라가. Com › mgallery › board퀘4 기대하는 이유 vr게임 마이너 갤러리. 퀘스트4 예상 vr게임 마이너 갤러리. 치라미카

카와구치 아카리 따라서 메타 퀘스트 4가 준비 중이라는 것은 당연한 일이며, 이미 이 소문난 헤드셋에 대해 많은 이야기가 오가고 있다. 퀘2는 스냅드래곤 865 커스텀 ap가 들어가는데. 볼트4와 포빌을 중심으로 이런저런 퀘스트와 메인퀘스트 라인으로 커먼웰스 전역을 나름 쑤시고 다니게 만듬 포빌과 볼트4뿐만 아니라 다른 퀘스트 지점들도 커먼웰스 곳곳에 추가되서 컨텐츠 매우 풍부한편. 메타의 퀘스트 4는 취소되었으며 2026년 말까지. 메타 퀘스트 3 지금 살까, 아님 기다릴까. 카자마유미

카일리 제너 디시 Commetaquest42026questpro22027report퀘스트 4의 코드명은 피스모pismo캘리포니아 지명, 특히 해변 이름을. Com › mgallery › board퀘4 기대하는 이유 vr게임 마이너 갤러리. 메타 퀘스트 4 출시일 meta는 아직 meta quest 4의 공식 출시일을 발표하지 않았습니다. 퀘스트4도 xr칩 안만들면 사실상 이쪽은 접었다고 보는게 맞을듯 bap. 메타 퀘스트 프로는 예상과 달리 프로슈머들에게 큰 인기를 얻지 못했고, 결국 출시 2년이 조금 넘은 시점에서 메타는 최초의 혼합 현실 헤드셋을 단종하게 되었습니다.

카리나 xxx Quest 4 would then ship a year later. 퀘스트3도 현재 고가형 제품 수요가 애매해서 퀘스트4 포지션을 조금 더 고가+고성능 정책으로 해서600 700달러정도 퀘프로를 일부 흡수하는 방향으로 가지 않을까합니다. 메타 퀘스트 3 지금 살까, 아님 기다릴까. 하이킹, 트레일러닝, 로드러닝, 스포츠스타일까지 혁신을 통해 발전시켜온 기술력과 세대를 넘나드는 히스토리가 담긴 살로몬의 모든 상품을 새로운 공식 온라인스토어를 통해 만나보실 수 있습니다. 무신사에서 할인하길래 살로몬 퀘스트4 gtx 검정색깔 하나 샀는데검색해서 이거저거 알아보니까 퀘스트4d도 있는데 뒤에 d붙는거랑 안 붙는거랑 뭔 차이냐.

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.”

Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026.
Officials from Belize, Colombia, the Netherlands, Honduras, and Senegal at a press conference of The Hague Group, organized by The Progressive International, in The Hague, Netherlands, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images

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.

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.

Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026. 
Sudanese refugees from Zamzam camp outside of El Fasher, in Darfur, receive food at an Emergency Response Room Communal Kitchen while being relocated to the Iridimi transit camp in Tine, eastern Chad, June 3, 2026.  © 2025 Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

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.

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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FIRST: A man holds a flower and the message "Humanity for All" as US marines and national guard protect the entrance of a federal building during the "No Kings" protest following US immigration operations, in Los Angeles, California, on June 3, 2026.
© 2025 Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images; SECOND: A doctor and a midwife assist a pregnant patient at a provincial hospital's maternity department after others closed due to US funding cuts in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images; THIRD: Sebastian Lai, son of businessman and outspoken critic of the Chinese government, Jimmy Lai, speaks during a press conference outside Downing Street in London on June 3, 2026. © 2025 Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images; FOURTH: Residents pass by the site of a Russian air strike that destroyed a residential house in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, June 3, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

yes, i too have heard whispers that meta may swap the release schedule and debut their new highend device in 2026, rather than quest 4., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

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