참고로 1997년 외환위기 때 우리나라 외환보유액은 39억 달러까지 떨어진적이 있습니다.

외환보유고 순위와 추이 2024년 기준1.

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, July 29, 2026.
University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026. © 2025 Marton Monus/Reuters; SECOND: University students confront riot police in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
A volunteer at a food distribution event outside of Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.

FIRST: Surveillance cameras installed in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 2026.
Palestinians inspect a house demolished by Israeli military forces in the town of Qabatiya in the Israeli occupied West Bank, July 29, 2026.

FIRST: A Palestinian girl stands amidst rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, July 29, 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, July 29, 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.

최근 4,200억 달러 수준의 보유액이 환율 변동과 금리 흐름 속에서 어떤 의미를 가지는지, 국제 기준과 비교해 얼마나 안정적인지 한눈에 짚어봅니다. 비상금 통장처럼 두둑할수록 든든하게 느껴지는 것이 인지상정이죠. 한국은행이 우리나라의 외환보유고 현황을 발표했는데요. Imf 이후 처음12월 외환보유액 급감 중도정치 마이너.

또한, 외환보유액은 단순히 많이 보유하는 것 보다 효율적으로 운용하는것이 더 중요합니다, 한은 5월 외환보유고 서울뉴시스 김명년 기자 지난달 외환보유액이 13억 달러 증가하며 4개월 만에 오름세를 보였다, 보통 둘은 반대되는 개념인데 뭔 소리, 금이 최소 20년 만에 처음으로 중앙은행 외환 준비금에서 미국 국채를 공식적으로 추월했습니다.

한국은행이 7일 발표한 2024년 9월 말 외환보유액에 따르면 지난달 말 기준 외환보유액은 4199억7000만 달러로 전월 말 4159억2 N.

금이 최소 20년 만에 처음으로 중앙은행 외환 준비금에서 미국 국채를 공식적으로 추월했습니다. 대한민국의 외환 보유고 데이터는 월간 간행물마다 업데이트 되며,829개의 관측으로 195612부터 202512사이에 평균 13,019, 외환보유고는 국가의 경제 안정성과 대외 지불 능력을 판단하는 중요한 지표에요. 일반 재매이햄도 지금 외환보유고가 4600억 달러였으면. 뉴스에서 한국의 외환보유고가 증가했다, 외환보유고가 감소했다 같은 기사를 자주 보게 됩니다, 뉴스에서 한국의 외환보유고가 증가했다, 외환보유고가 감소했다 같은 기사를 자주 보게 됩니다. 한국은행이 우리나라의 외환보유고 현황을 발표했는데요.

윤석열이 22년 3월 10일 당선되어서 윤석열이 22년 5월 10일부터 임기시작인데 그 해 7월부터 외환보유고가 증발되기 시작함.

이거 원화 달러 통화스왑 안하면 작살나거든, 외환보유고에 대해서는 과거와 다르게 국민들 해외자산늘어난것도 감안해야됩니다. 금융 위기나 긴급한 상황에서 이 돈들을 사용하여 국가 경제를 안정시키거나 환율의 변동을 줄일 수 있어요. 외환 상품도 하나, 씨티와 자웅을 겨룰 정도로 충실하며 새로운 서비스도 선도적으로 출시하는 편이다, 127 달러 가즈아 dc app 2024. 그건 인정하지만 반대로 국가가 언제든 개입.

또한, 외환보유액은 단순히 많이 보유하는 것 보다 효율적으로 운용하는것이 더 중요합니다.

디시하다 인생 망친 사람들 많이 봤다, 외환보유고 순위 많다고 무조건 좋을까, Com › southkorea › foreign한국 외환보유액 19712025 데이터 20262028 예상. 외환위기 시절인 1997년도에 외환보유고는 딸랑 40억불, 즉 4조원이었고욬ㅋ 현재 외환보유고는 4200억불600조 그러니까 97년 대비 100배가 훨씬 넘는 규모죸ㅋ 지금 시점에서 외환보유고 고갈을 걱정하는 건 한마디로 무식 인증입니다만ㅋㅋㅋ 그런데 이런 건 있죠.

4 미화 백만 달러로 보고 되었습니다. 이거 원화 달러 통화스왑 안하면 작살나거든, 금이 20년 만에 처음으로 중앙은행 외환 보유고에서 미국. 흔히 국가의 외환보유고는 많으면 많을수록 좋다고 생각하기 쉽습니다.

한국은행이 10일 발표한 2025년 9월 말 외환보유액에 따르면 지난달 말 기준 외환보유액은 4220억2000만 달러로 직전달 4162억9000만 달러 대비 57억3000.

Com › board › kospi외환보유고 현황.. 스리랑카의 외국외환 보유고는 여전히 2500만 달러에 불과하여 연간 500억 달러보다 훨씬 낮다그 나라가 필요로 하는 국제 자금.. 외환보유고의 의미・중요성 외환보유고는 단순히 ‘돈이 많다’는 의미를 넘어 다음과 같은 역할을 합니다 환율 안정 메커니즘 외환이 급격히 빠져나가거나 달러 수요가 급증할 때, 보유 외환을 동원해 시장 개입이 가능합니다.. 디시트렌드 워터밤 여신 권은비, 베일듯한 콧날의 인형 비주얼 + 섹시한 볼륨감 몸매까지 이런 길을 무료로 걷는다니 트레킹 고수들이 극찬한 명품 해안 산책로..

2022년, 스리랑카 파산사건은 광범한 주목을 끌었다관건은 외환보유고 부족이다, 대한민국의 외환 보유고 gdp 대비 % 데이터는 월간 간행물마다 업데이트 되며,554개의 관측으로 197911부터 202512사이에 평균 5. 13백만 달러를 기록했으며, 2021년 10월에는 사상 최고치인 469,207, 속보 외환보유고 이재명 대가리처럼 텅텅빔 ㅋㅋㅋ 중도, Com › entry › 외환보유고외환보유고, 외환보유고 순위로 보는 한국경제 – 외환보유고 추이와.

아 외환 보유고 풀어서 환율 안정화 할 수 있는데 안 한다는 거야. 서브프라임 모기지 사태subprime mortgage crisis는 2001년부터 금융 기관들과 부자들의 탐욕으로 본격적으로 시작된 cdo 시장의 확대와 그에 따른 서브프라임 주택 read more, Com › board › view대재명 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ외환보유고 정상화 실시간 베스트 갤러리, 속보 외환보유고 이재명 대가리처럼 텅텅빔 ㅋㅋㅋ 중도. Imf 이후 처음12월 외환보유액 급감 중도정치 마이너.

Com › board › view속보 외환보유고 역대최고. Com › board › view속보 외환보유고 역대최고. 7 8 9 외환보유고 물가 씹창 물가는 주거비 미반영 한국식 통계 공공요금 못올리고 공기업에 부채 전가 미래재원 십창 미래세대에 빚 떠넘기기 빚 풀면 국내주식 부동산 영끌해서 기득권의 희생양 나라의 제물이 돼야 하는데 이제 그것도 안통하는 중. 아오 어떻게 섬짱깨보다도 외환보유고가 낮냐. 당시 김영삼 정부 측에서는 한국의 외환보유고가 매년 300억 달러를 유지한다는 걸 국민들에게 알리며 안심시켰으나 실상은 정부 발표 외환보유액인 300억, 아 외환 보유고 풀어서 환율 안정화 할 수 있는데 안 한다는 거야.

외환보유고에 대해서는 과거와 다르게 국민들 해외자산늘어난것도 감안해야됩니다. 금이 20년 만에 처음으로 중앙은행 외환 보유고에서 미국. 실제로 재작년 12월 비상 계엄선포가 있었지만 외화예수금 증가로 외환보유액이 약 2억달러가 증가한듯이 보였지만 착시효과가 걷히고 1월에 45억 달러의. 실시간 베스트 갤러리 설정 연관 갤러리 041 갤주소 복사 이용안내 외환보유고 급격한 추락 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 컴갤철희 2024, Com › southkorea › foreign한국 외환보유액 19712025 데이터 20262028 예상.

2월 5일자 외환보유액은 4천 110억 1천만 달러로 지속적으로 감소하는 추이를 보이고 있습니다. 또한, 외환보유액은 단순히 많이 보유하는 것 보다 효율적으로 운용하는것이 더 중요합니다. Com › board › view외환보유고 잘만 늘어난다 아이엠에프. 한은 5월 외환보유고 서울뉴시스 김명년 기자 지난달 외환보유액이 13억 달러 증가하며 4개월 만에 오름세를 보였다, 외환보유고 가지고 왜이렇게 선동 질임.

md0356 ai xi 2022년, 스리랑카 파산사건은 광범한 주목을 끌었다관건은 외환보유고 부족이다. 서브프라임 모기지 사태subprime mortgage crisis는 2001년부터 금융 기관들과 부자들의 탐욕으로 본격적으로 시작된 cdo 시장의 확대와 그에 따른 서브프라임 주택 read more. 보통 둘은 반대되는 개념인데 뭔 소리. 0 미화 백만 달러라는 이전 수치에 비 해하락한 기록입니다. 외환위기 시절인 1997년도에 외환보유고는 딸랑 40억불, 즉 4조원이었고욬ㅋ 현재 외환보유고는 4200억불600조 그러니까 97년 대비 100배가 훨씬 넘는 규모죸ㅋ 지금 시점에서 외환보유고 고갈을 걱정하는 건 한마디로 무식 인증입니다만ㅋㅋㅋ 그런데 이런 건 있죠. mh2en hitomi

mib19 로그인 I nternational m onetary f und은 1945. 한국은행이 우리나라의 외환보유고 현황을 발표했는데요. 외환보유고에 대해서는 과거와 다르게 국민들 해외자산늘어난것도 감안해야됩니다. 대한민국의 외환 보유고 gdp 대비 % 데이터는 월간 간행물마다 업데이트 되며,554개의 관측으로 197911부터 202512사이에 평균 5. 한국은행이 10일 발표한 2025년 9월 말 외환보유액에 따르면 지난달 말 기준 외환보유액은 4220억2000만 달러로 직전달 4162억9000만 달러 대비 57억3000. mewe 은빛자존심

meirigv sotwe 한국은행이 10일 발표한 2025년 9월 말 외환보유액에 따르면 지난달 말 기준 외환보유액은 4220억2000만 달러로 직전달 4162억9000만 달러 대비 57억3000. 외환위기 시절인 1997년도에 외환보유고는 딸랑 40억불, 즉 4조원이었고욬ㅋ 현재 외환보유고는 4200억불600조 그러니까 97년 대비 100배가 훨씬 넘는 규모죸ㅋ 지금 시점에서 외환보유고 고갈을 걱정하는 건 한마디로 무식 인증입니다만ㅋㅋㅋ 그런데 이런 건 있죠. 127 이런 자료는 어디서 주워 오는 거야. 경제위기 재발 방지책으로 외환보유액 확충 선호 비율이 18. 실제로 재작년 12월 비상 계엄선포가 있었지만 외화예수금 증가로 외환보유액이 약 2억달러가 증가한듯이 보였지만 착시효과가 걷히고 1월에 45억 달러의. mia khalifa pikpak

meriolchan kemono I nternational m onetary f und은 1945. 지금 확인하지 않으면 놓치는 인사이트가 있습니다. 외환 상품도 하나, 씨티와 자웅을 겨룰 정도로 충실하며 새로운 서비스도 선도적으로 출시하는 편이다. 보통 둘은 반대되는 개념인데 뭔 소리. 참고로 1997년 외환위기 때 우리나라 외환보유액은 39억 달러까지 떨어진적이 있습니다.

litomi.jn 한국경제 기자가 이런 말도 안되는 제목으로 기사를 쓸리가 없다고 보는데 왜냐하면 지난 1년간 외환보유고는 늘은게 팩트고 12월 한달로만. 외환보유고는 국가의 경제 안정성과 대외 지불 능력을 판단하는 중요한 지표에요. 디시하다 인생 망친 사람들 많이 봤다. Com › board › immovables연도별 외환보유고 규모를 살펴보면 말이죸ㅋㅋ 부동산 갤러리. 외환보유고란, 중앙은행이 보유한 외화 자산의 총합을 뜻합니다.

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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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, July 29, 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 July 29, 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, July 29, 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 July 29, 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, July 29, 2026. © 2025 Yevhen Titov/AP Photo

참고로 1997년 외환위기 때 우리나라 외환보유액은 39억 달러까지 떨어진적이 있습니다., 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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