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Despite the almost miraculous development of effective vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020, the virus continued to spread and mutate throughout the last year.

After the birth of her son, Dalini Bhim decided to wait before having a second baby. The 32-year-old mother opted to use contraceptives.

The number of Haitians who have tried to migrate by unofficial channels to neighbouring countries by boat has increased dramatically in 2021.

Teams are intensifying their efforts across the globe to tackle COVID-19 and the latest variant: Omicron. They are also helping countries as they face multidimensional challenges like an increase in gender-based violence and political unrest.

Children returning to schools, workplaces re-opening, and vaccines all seemed to point to a return to normal but like 2020, 2021 has been a year of hope, loss, and uncertainty for people around the world. Stories of innovative ways to connect, protect our planet from climate change, and ways we, as a society, have joined forces to protect each other from the pandemic that has ravaged all our lives.  

During the pandemic, violence cases against women increased significantly in Honduras. The country has the highest femicide rate in the Latin American region.

“He told me he was in love with me and was planning to propose to me soon,” says Layla* about her relationship with the head of a company she worked for in Morocco. “I trusted him.” But mixed in with the declarations of love was coercion and violence...