Aid in Gaza has always been essential and yet inadequate, a problem the ongoing war has greatly exaggerated as women in Gaza continue to face a shortage of critical aid in the form of menstrual products amid the Israel-Hamas War.

2021 saw a notable increase in national movements advancing reproductive freedoms. At the forefront of the year’s victories are young activists from East Asia and Latin America.

Women have been a leading force in the pro-democracy protests raging throughout Minsk since Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s inauguration in September 2020.

Migrant workers have been excluded from consideration in economic reform, exacerbating gender inequality in the face of the country’s financial meltdown.

Police must address and reconcile with their history of not believing survivors and specifically targeting sex workers and undocumented migrants because of their criminalized identities.