BBC 100 Women marks 10th year with focus on progress

A front-line medic successful Ukraine and an anonymous Iranian protester are among those recognised successful the BBC 100 Women 2022 list.

The play features the pistillate faces that person dominated planetary headlines, including Ukrainian archetypal woman Olena Zelenska and Iranian climber Elnaz Rekab, who competed without a headscarf amid protests against the mandatory hijab successful her location country.

US singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and Indian histrion and shaper Priyanka Chopra Jonas are among the high-profile names connected the list, which celebrates the achievements of women internationally - from grassroots volunteers to planetary leaders.

The 100 Women list was founded aft the Delhi pack rapes of 2012 to amended sum of women's stories successful the media.

Now successful its 10th year, the taxable of the 2022 play is "progress" and it volition bespeak connected the changes of the past decade. It includes a week of interviews, documentaries, features and integer contented crossed the BBC's UK and planetary TV and vigor services, BBC iPlayer and online.

In summation to the interrogation with Eilish, BBC 100 Women person besides exclusively spoken with Chopra Jonas, histrion and disablement activistic Selma Blair and Hollywood icon Rita Moreno. These interviews volition beryllium disposable to ticker connected the BBC iPlayer, BBC World News, and the 100 Women website.

The play besides includes documentaries looking astatine past and contiguous challenges to women's reproductive rights; from the ungraded surrounding attempts to power births successful the Inuit colonisation successful Greenland, to the emergence of achromatic marketplace termination pills successful Honduras.

For the archetypal time, erstwhile 100 Women laureates were asked to marque nominations for members of this year's list.

Nobel Peace Prize victor Malala Yousafzai, for example, nominated Alice Pataxó, a clime campaigner, writer and influencer from Brazil.

BBC Director General Tim Davie said: "The women connected this year's database are each singular successful what they person achieved and contributed to their communities and society, and I americium arrogant that the BBC continues to bash captious enactment by shining a spotlight connected them and sharing their stories astir the satellite done our first-class journalism and storytelling."

BBC 100 Women names 100 inspiring and influential women astir the satellite each year. Follow BBC 100 Women connected Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Join the speech utilizing #BBC100Women.