As so often in war, men led Liberia’s armed fractions, and women tended to suffer its most severe consequences. But when an interfaith group decided enough was enough, they proved that women don’t have to command armies or hold political office to change the course of history.

Forty years after the fall of Uruguay’s military dictatorship, the families of the disappeared are still demanding answers. Slowly but surely – through alliances that span politics, forensics, law, history and anthropology – they are casting light into the darkest recesses of their country’s past, in hope of a brighter future.

For more than a decade, families have accused the Bangladeshi state of abducting their loved ones and tirelessly campaigned for justice. Now, a new administration is finally acknowledging their pain.

An alliance that came together against embezzlement of road tolls is using a winning combination of civil disobedience, public protest and crowd-funded strategic litigation to challenge corruption at the highest levels of South African power.

In the Philippines, archivists fight to preserve evidence of the country’s bloodied past, in hope that it will provide lessons for the future.

As the Maduro regime’s grip on the media tightened, a group of activists went offline to bring news directly to the people. Thanks to BusTV, many Venezuelans now access uncensored information – not through an electronic screen but on their commute home or in their local town square.