Can’t get enough of our posts on how feminist movements are changing the current quality of life for women and challenging sexist views and policies? Well, here’s another for you, this time with a global focus! Jina Moore details 15 successful international women’s activist movements across the world:

These women haven’t won Nobel Prizes or hit the speaking circuit. But they’re pushing boundaries, changing norms, saving lives, and speaking up — even where bad news dominates the headlines.

1. The Afghan Women’s Network pushes strong and smart for women’s rights

The Network was founded in 1995, the same year the Taliban rose to power. The Taliban eventually stripped women of many basic rights they’d enjoyed in Afghanitan. Today, the Afghan Women’s Network —and other active women’s groups like Equality for Peace and Development — is on the front lines of the fight to improve the status of women. Its members, all civil society groups, have helped enact a law to eliminate violence against women, overturn a legal provision threatening impunity for domestic violence, and tamp down a move to bring back stoning.