ALT Ngaire Woods, founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, with a quote which says: "On International Women's Day, while we celebrate and shine a light on the seismic achievements of women around the world, we must also look carefully at where these are threatened. One urgent area for concern, in a year of so many elections, is the rising intensity and violence of threats being faced by women political leaders. In a year of elections, we must protect women's freedom to run and represent, or we will risk a backsliding of democracy."