In a year where the world was ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic and many of us were forced to stay at home, women and LGBTIQ people refused to give up the fight for equal rights. Here are some of the stories that were most inspired by feminist resistance in 2020.
As women and their allies took to the streets in Poland to protest the adoption of a law that would severely limit access to abortion, in Argentina pro-choice protesters known as the “green wave” were finally able to celebrate a win after a two-year-long fight: its senate legalised abortion up to 14 weeks.
Women also took the street to demand action against murder, rape and sexual abuse. Protesters in Namibia defied tear gas to demand a state of emergency, while in Mexico 80.000 people took to the streets on the international day for women to call on their government to take notice of the country’s horrific femicides.
