When workers are exploited or indigenous land rights are threatened, lawyer Alejandra Ancheita doesn’t hesitate to bring mining and energy giants before international accountability mechanisms.

Around the world, women are campaigning against inequality and the abuse of power to achieve more democracy and freedom for all. Yet many of their successes go largely unnoticed.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban are systematically banishing women from the public sphere while the world looks on. Human-rights expert Selmin Çalışkan discusses creative activism and international solidarity – and how women in Afghanistan are fighting back.