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Whether it’s new legislation or the accomplishments of female world leaders, we investigate the light and the dark in hard news. We break down what policy changes mean for our readers, while exploring how the world can be a better place.

Natalia Oelsner is a Bolivian journalist specialising in Latin American affairs. She has worked in countries including Bolivia, El Salvador and France and reported for international media outlets such as CNN and Euronews. She is currently based in Lyon, France, where she works as a multimedia journalist for the pan-European news channel Euronews. You can follow her on Twitter here.
Sarah Copland is a United Nations staffer, former Beirut resident and Isaac Oehlers' mother. Sarah sat down with our Editor-in-Chief Hannah Diviney to discuss the explosion, the aftermath and her fight for justice for Isaac.
Cassandra Ashcroft is a frontline worker at Wayside Chapel, a Sydney community-based organisation that has been providing unconditional love, care and support for people experiencing homelessness in Sydney since 1964. Its Aboriginal Cultural Centre provides counselling, advocacy, referrals and other forms of support, as well as cultural activities and ‘mob lunches’. Donate to Wayside’s Winter Appeal today.
Roya Musawi is a journalist, public communicator, and writer with extensive experience in advocacy, and public relations. For the past 8 years, she has served in different national and international organizations  in support of human rights, women’s rights, youth, gender equality, IDPs, and returnees. Names in this article have been changed to protect anonymity.
Shoi Sengupta is a climate activist and member of the Tomorrow Movement. She was part of the protests this week at Parliament House in Australia.
The following opinion piece is based on real documentation of events. To protect our writer's name and identity, the piece is published anonymously. TW: Discussions of suicide and violence
An alarming new survey, gathering data from twenty nations and published by the  UN Women’s Unstereotype Alliance has found that antiquated views of gender have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic – and that young men are the ones who are lagging behind. 
Anita Pouchard Serra is a French-Argentinian photojournalist and visual storyteller, based in Buenos Aires and working in Latin America. She is a National Geographic Emergency Fund Recipient and a Pulitzer Center grantee (2020), a We, Women grantee by Photoville and Women Photograph (2019-2020), a Moving Walls fellow by Open Society Foundations (2018-2020), and an International Women’s Media Foundation grantee and fellow (2017, 2018, 2020).

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