Women
Katherine Diaz, a surfer from El Salvador who had been training to compete for the Olympics, was struck and killed by lightning after entering the water to train on Friday Mar. 19.
Impact
Spain has become the fifth country in the world to approve a law to legalize euthanasia.
Cute
A young woman biker with thousands of Twitter followers has been revealed to be a 50-year-old man who uses FaceApp, a photo editing tool, to drastically change his appearance.
Activism
Ilmira Bagautdinova, a ballerina from the prestigious Mariinsky Theatre in Russia, danced on the frozen waters of the Gulf of Finland in a graceful protest against the construction of a port.
Activism
Tashnuva Anan Shishir, an activist and actor, has become the first transgender news anchor in Bangladesh after she delivered her first broadcast on a private TV channel on International Women’s Day.
Climate
China’s capital Beijing was hit by the worst sandstorm in a decade on Monday Mar. 15 that swept across northern China, leaving the city covered in an orange haze.
Politics
Russia’s main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, has been sent to a prison camp in the Vladimir region of Russia near Moscow, where he will be held for the next two and a half years.
Impact
Tanzania’s vice president Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in as the country’s first woman president following the death of her predecessor, John Magufuli.
world
The Tokyo Olympics has announced that international spectators will not be allowed into Japan for this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers said in a statement on Saturday Mar. 20.
Women
Tokyo Olympics’ creative director Hiroshi Sasaki has resigned after saying popular female Japanese comedian and plus-size fashion designer, Naomi Watanabe, could dress up as an “Olympig,” at the opening ceremony.
Impact
A Japanese district court has ruled that the country’s failure to recognize same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Almost Continue Reading [https://www.almostmag.co/japan-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/]
Women
Thousands of women in Australia took part in the March 4 Justice demonstrations across cities to protest against the mistreatment of women after several rape allegations involving members of the conservative government.