At the end of last year, the Russian journalist Taisia Bekbulatova was forced to flee her home. President Putin's government claimed that she was a "foreign agent" - because the magazine she runs was telling the truth about the invasion of Ukraine.

To escape arrest she now edits the magazine in Georgia, helped by other journalists who escaped Russia.  

Taisia is one of three women shortlisted for The Day's Person of the Year award. They are all amazing people who have helped to build a better world.

The US magazine Time came up with the idea of a Person of the Year in 1927. This year it chose Ukrainian president Volodymyr ZelenskyZelensky won more than 73% of the vote to become Ukrainian President in April 2019. Incredibly, he once starred in a satirical drama in which his character accidentally wins the Ukrainian presidency..

All the people on our shortlist are women. The reason? Because there were so many amazing women on the longlist.

Marie Christina Kolo is an environmental activist. In 2015 she organised the first climate-change protest march in her native MadagascarAn island country in the Indian Ocean. .

The following year she founded Green N Kool, which sells eco-friendly products and builds playgrounds from recycled materials. She also campaigns against sexism and ageism.

She has highlighted her country's problems by speaking at the UNUnited Nations. An intergovernmental organisation based in New York that aims to maintain international peace and security. and COP27The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as the Conference of the Parties (COP). .

Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in September. She had been arrested by Iran's religious police for not wearing the hijab properly.

The government said that she died naturally, of a heart attack. But her family said she had no heart problems. Witnesses reported that she had been brutally beaten.

Within hours of her death, protests against the government began to spread across Iran. They have continued ever since. The inscription on Mahsa's tomb reads: "Your name will become a rallying cry" - and so it has proved. 

Taisia Bekbulatova: It takes incredible bravery for anyone in Russia to stand up to the government. She personifies the spirit of independent journalism, and has shown huge determination in keeping her magazine Holod Media going.    

Marie Christina Kolo: Highlighting the effect of climate change on poorer countries is a vital part of the fight to save our planet. She has been a dauntless campaigner for the environment, women and old people.   

Mahsa Amini: Although she was not an activist herself, her death has had extraordinarily wide consequences. The protests are the biggest Iran has seen for years, and could spell the end of the current regime.