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Xiuhtezcatl had a lot planned for 2020, including a nationwide tour for his new album, and continuing his environmental justice work. Like most of us, he hadn’t planned on a global pandemic bringing everything to a halt. In the final episode of our ‘20 in 2020’ series, we hear from the indigenous organizer on how this summer's anti-racism protests and the relationships he made during isolation impacted his year.

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Xiuhtezcatl (@xiuhtezcatl), musician and activist.

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Jeremiah Thoronka has faced many difficult challenges — from Sierra Leone's civil war, the Ebola outbreak, the passing of family members, and now facing the coronavirus pandemic far from home. But at just 20 years old, the UN fellow and budding scientist has turned trash into clean energy, and has learned how to confront the challenges of a distressing year to work for a better tomorrow.

This is the fourth episode in our ‘20 in 2020’ series — a snapshot of a global generation coming of age in an unprecedented year.

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Jeremiah Thoronka, Sierra Leonean student in Kigali, Rwanda, and United Nations Millennium Fellow.

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It’s a story you may have not heard: the eternal conflict of an indigenous nation fighting against government and industry for recognition and rights. This year, the ongoing land struggle between the Chilean government and the Mapuche nation has become more violent than ever before, and the path to de-escalation is muddy and fraught.

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Lucia Newman (@lucianewman), Al Jazeera correspondent in Chile.

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Kajetan Chlipalski says 2020 is his year of emotional changes. He’s lived through some formative moments in his life this year, but many of them alone, from home. He’s also taking part in the biggest protests his country has seen in decades. We're talking to the 20-year-old student on what he's learned about people during this isolating year.

This episode is the third in our series, ‘20 in 2020’ — a snapshot of a global generation coming of age in an unprecedented year.

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Kajetan Chlipalski, Polish student, feminist, and activist

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We keep hearing about the first COVID-19 vaccines being distributed in the United Kingdom and United States — but what about everyone else? When will the rest of the world be vaccinated? We check in with Al Jazeera correspondents from Baghdad to Beijing on when people there will start vaccinating, and what can be done to get more vaccines distributed.

In this episode:

Zain Rizvi, law and policy researcher for Public Citizen; Al Jazeera journalists Manuel Rapalo in Mexico City; Elizabeth Puranam in Delhi; Jessica Washington in Jakarta; Malcolm Webb in Nairobi; Katrina Yu in Beijing; Charles Stratford in Baghdad; and Dr. Zaher Sahloul, President of MedGlobal.

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Bangladesh has relocated more than 1,700 Rohingya refugees from crowded camps in the country's southeast to Bhasan Char, an island prone to flooding — and they intend to relocate thousands more. The Bangladeshi government says the relocations are voluntary, though human rights groups say people are being coerced to move to an island where the conditions are so poor it may lead to a new crisis. It has been difficult to gain access to the island, so we’re speaking with an Al Jazeera correspondent who has been covering, and keeping in touch with the Rohingya.

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Mohammed Jamjoom (@MIJamjoom), Al Jazeera Senior Correspondent

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Ahed Tamimi was just 16 when she slapped an Israeli soldier in her village in the Occupied West Bank. She served eight months in Israeli prison and became an icon of Palestinian resistance to some, and a troublemaker and provocateur to others. Now she is almost 20, and rather than being out at university or protesting with her village, she’s been stuck inside four walls at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. And outside Palestine, a lot has changed, as Arab countries continue to normalize relations with Israel.

This episode is the second in our series, 20 in 2020 — a snapshot of a global generation coming of age in an unprecedented year.

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Ahed Tamimi, Palestinian activist

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Ahed Tamimi: Palestine's freedom fighter | AJ+

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