Hi guys and welcome back to 2021 on our podcast.

So it's a new year.

We have some high expectations for this year.

And we're just glad to be out of 2020s.

So we all hope that you had a great New Year's Eve and come into the New Year, safe and well.

So just to start off, we might introduce ourselves.

So my name's Emily, I'm calling in from Denmark.

And with me today, I have Nicholas. Say hi.

Hello.

Calling in from Germany. also have Dagny hello also

coming in from Germany we also have beer hi another one from Germany and last but but not least, we also have Amira.

Hi, I'm from, well I'm calling in from France at the moment.

So it should be an exciting podcast.

We're going to take a little review of 2020.

We're going to set some expectations and also some hopes for the new year. So I would like to start off with talking about women's rights, just a little overview of 2020.

So in 2020, we have worked a lot on abortion laws, both in Poland and Slovakia,

as both countries wanted to change the abortion law to a lot of was very restrictive and

endangering the help of many, many women and girls while violating their human rights.

So for example, in Slovakia, they wanted to increase the waiting period at extra consultations

and also gain information that was not medically needed.

In Poland, they just wanted to further restrict the abortion law, which is already the most

tough abortion law in Europe, which means that it would be almost impossible to actually

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