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Worldwide there are 56 million abortions each year, of which an estimated 45 per cent are unsafe. Over the past year, there have been successes and setbacks in the fight for the right to safe abortion. Progressive abortion law reform has been enacted in countries such as Argentina, South Korea, Thailand and Ecuador, and telemedicine has been used to provide abortion pills in Ireland, Britain, France, during the pandemic. But in many places, the situation has become worse.

There is an urgent need to change the way in which the world produces and consumes food. In 2020, nearly one in three people did not have access to adequate food. After remaining relatively steady between 2014 and 2019, the number of people going hungry in 2020 shot up by 15% from 2019, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.