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.
오늘은 남자들이 좋아하는 여자향수에 대해말하고자해요. 남자들의 취향을 저격할 수 있는 치명적인 여자 향수을 꼽았다. 그리고 그런여자 찾는다해도 이미 한국의 사회적 분위기가 각종 매체서 피해의식 심어두는게 디폴트임. 오늘은 남자들이 좋아하는 여자향수에 대해말하고자해요.
피지컬 좋고 잘생기고 쿨한 선망의 대상 같은 주인공. 보통 남성향, 여성향은 남성, 여성적 선호에 의해 형성된다. 로맨스, 로맨스 판타지, 비엘 여성향 장르는 여성 독자들을 타깃으로 하는 소설들을 말한다 했다, 러브코미디는 쉽게 말해 남성향 로맨스, 순정작품 남성향 버전 애초에 여덕이 더 많은 작품보다는 남성향 작품들 위주로 추천. 이 경우, 여러 히로인들을 소개할 수 있으면서도 패배한 히로인 문제가 없다는 것이 장점이다.| 러브코미디는 쉽게 말해 남성향 로맨스, 순정작품 남성향 버전 애초에 여덕이 더 많은 작품보다는 남성향 작품들 위주로 추천. | 성별에 따라 좋아하는 장르가 다르다는 기준점으로서의 성별과, 액션을 좋아하는 것을 ‘남성적인 속성’으로, 멜로를 좋아하는 것을 ‘여성적인 속성’으로 재생산하는 통로가 그것이다. | 보통 남성향, 여성향은 남성, 여성적 선호에 의해 형성된다. |
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| 오늘은 남자들이 좋아하는 여자향수에 대해말하고자해요. | 웹툰에 여성향과 남성향이라고 이름 붙이고 성별로 범주화하는 것이 시대착오적 또는 ‘정치적으로 올바르지 않은’ 분류 방법이라는 지적은 수. | 남자들이 자기들끼리 행님행님 하고 축구선수 좋아하고 박지성 좋아하는 건 이상하게 생각 안하면서, 여자들이 김혜수나 여자 연예인 좋아하는 거 보면서 왜 여자가 여자 좋아해. |
| 남자 작가들은 남성향 소설만 써야 한다는 식의 말이 돌기도 했다. | 남성 중심적 사회니 여성에 대한 인식이니때문이라기보단. | 여러가지 키워드로 풀어본 의외의 여자 이상형 함께 보러 가시죠. |
향수의 종류를 골고루 써보고, 남자들의 반응이 있잖아요.. 영화 캐시미어처럼 포근한 향여자마다 호감이 가는 향이 다르겠지만, 개인적으로 우디한 계열의 향보다는 안기고 싶은 비누향이나 포근한 분위기의 향이 좋다.. 여자들이 매력적으로 느끼는 남자의 향을 물었다.. 고을은 인생의절반을 걸어왔기때문에, 향수를 몇십년동안 써봤습니다..
모든 이야기의 시작, daum 카페 맨날 냄져가 쳐 주인공하면서 모험하고 냄져동료들끼리 우정.. Ts물에서의 남아니 여주인공은 절대로 여성들이 추구하는 욕망을 연출하지 않는다.. 남자 작가들은 남성향 소설만 써야 한다는 식의 말이 돌기도 했다..
그리고 그런여자 찾는다해도 이미 한국의 사회적 분위기가 각종 매체서 피해의식 심어두는게 디폴트임. 피지컬 좋고 잘생기고 쿨한 선망의 대상 같은 주인공. 거기 찢는다한 그 후보를 페미지지한다고 몰표던진 2030여성 투표결과 꼭 보고. ‘남자’ 웹툰과 ‘여자’ 웹툰이 있다면, 무엇이 어떠한 웹툰을 여자로 또는 남자로 만드는 것일까. 이 경우, 여러 히로인들을 소개할 수 있으면서도 패배한 히로인 문제가 없다는 것이 장점이다.
웹소설의 장르에 대해 여성향과 남성향의 차이 안녕하세요, 웹소설 쓰는. 여성향 만화에서 보통 나오는 테마인 연예계,동성애bl 등등 이런건 특정층만 공감하는 폐쇄적인 문화와 정서임. ‘남자’ 웹툰과 ‘여자’ 웹툰이 있다면, 무엇이 어떠한 웹툰을 여자로 또는 남자로 만드는 것일까, 로맨스, 로맨스 판타지, 비엘 여성향 장르는 여성 독자들을 타깃으로 하는 소설들을 말한다 했다, 향수의 종류를 골고루 써보고, 남자들의 반응이 있잖아요.
그리고 그런여자 찾는다해도 이미 한국의 사회적 분위기가 각종 매체서 피해의식 심어두는게 디폴트임, Com › storyem › 223014206108여성향은 뭐고 남성향은 뭘까. 비혈연 육아물은 주인공의 친자식이 아닌 아이들이 주인공을 따르는 과정이 중심이기에 남자아이와 여자아이의 각각 다른 개성을 살리기 위함으로 추정된다.
군인 ㅇㄹ 트위터 그러나 실제로는 퀴어, 반대 성향과 관련된 성향 장르군도 있다. 여자들이 주 독자층이기 때문에, 주 작가층도 여자가 많다. 반면 여성향은 ‘로맨스’를 중심으로 이야기가 흘러갑니다. 영화 캐시미어처럼 포근한 향여자마다 호감이 가는 향이 다르겠지만, 개인적으로 우디한 계열의 향보다는 안기고 싶은 비누향이나 포근한 분위기의 향이 좋다. 거리고 등장하는 여성캐리터는 모두 남주의 썸녀에 코르셋 오지게 조이는거 어린나이였지만 이유모르게 불편하면서도 그냥 만화구나 멋모르고 소비했다가 이런 여성취향 반영된 만화를 보고 깨달음 아. 귀국여친 디시
귀여운 이브이 일러스트 영화 캐시미어처럼 포근한 향여자마다 호감이 가는 향이 다르겠지만, 개인적으로 우디한 계열의 향보다는 안기고 싶은 비누향이나 포근한 분위기의 향이 좋다. 거리고 등장하는 여성캐리터는 모두 남주의 썸녀에 코르셋 오지게 조이는거 어린나이였지만 이유모르게 불편하면서도 그냥 만화구나 멋모르고 소비했다가 이런 여성취향 반영된 만화를 보고 깨달음 아. 좋은 향만으로도 호감을 얻을 수 있다. 좋은 향만으로도 호감을 얻을 수 있다. Ts물에서의 남아니 여주인공은 절대로 여성들이 추구하는 욕망을 연출하지 않는다. 곤장 맞는 만화
광주 인아웃 말 많은 여자친구의 이야기를 반쯤 멍때리면서 들으면서 여자의 얼굴을 보고 여자의 목소리를 듣는 것 자체만으로도 남자는 자기가 살아있음을 느끼고. 남자들이 자기들끼리 행님행님 하고 축구선수 좋아하고 박지성 좋아하는 건 이상하게 생각 안하면서, 여자들이 김혜수나 여자 연예인 좋아하는 거 보면서 왜 여자가 여자 좋아해. 모든 이야기의 시작, daum 카페 맨날 냄져가 쳐 주인공하면서 모험하고 냄져동료들끼리 우정. 비혈연 육아물은 주인공의 친자식이 아닌 아이들이 주인공을 따르는 과정이 중심이기에 남자아이와 여자아이의 각각 다른 개성을 살리기 위함으로 추정된다. 너를 너무너무너무너무 좋아하는 100명의 그녀 나 그녀도 여친 같은 작품이 대표적이다. 곽혈수 변호사
구매하신 용품은 테스트가 가능하답니다 로맨스, 로맨스 판타지, 비엘 여성향 장르는 여성 독자들을 타깃으로 하는 소설들을 말한다 했다. 러브코미디는 쉽게 말해 남성향 로맨스, 순정작품 남성향 버전 애초에 여덕이 더 많은 작품보다는 남성향 작품들 위주로 추천. 알파남 제가 현대판타지 소설에서 가장 좋아하는 주인공은 필드의 고인물 용두, 홈플레이트빌런 홍빈, 필드의 괴물 러닝백의 주인공 같은 알파남입니다. 영화 캐시미어처럼 포근한 향여자마다 호감이 가는 향이 다르겠지만, 개인적으로 우디한 계열의 향보다는 안기고 싶은 비누향이나 포근한 분위기의 향이 좋다. ‘남자’ 웹툰과 ‘여자’ 웹툰이 있다면, 무엇이 어떠한 웹툰을 여자로 또는 남자로 만드는 것일까.
귀두 드라이오르가즘 0000 인트로 0031 오프닝 0145. 저는 하렘물을 꽤 좋아하는 여자덕후입니다 하도 남성향애니도 잘보고 여캐릭터를 좋아하다보니 가끔 남자. 저는 하렘물을 꽤 좋아하는 여자덕후입니다 하도 남성향애니도 잘보고 여캐릭터를 좋아하다보니 가끔 남자. 여성향 만화에서 보통 나오는 테마인 연예계,동성애bl 등등 이런건 특정층만 공감하는 폐쇄적인 문화와 정서임. 피지컬 좋고 잘생기고 쿨한 선망의 대상 같은 주인공.
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.
남자 작가들은 남성향 소설만 써야 한다는 식의 말이 돌기도 했다., Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.