Here's some reporting about the draft in Russian controlled Ukraine. I think it's useful to report on the human element and not just the abstract theoretical issue because it helps to humanize the fact that real people are affected by these problems in real ways.
One thing you see with women's issues in the media is the suffering and viewpoints of real women are talked about. But you don't see this as much for men's issues.
Since the war started, we have heard little about life in two areas of Ukraine that were seized by Russian-backed proxies in 2014. But one resident in the city of Luhansk has told the BBC how it's very much like living in a powder keg.
It's especially risky for men because of the constant threat of being drafted into the local militia to fight for Russia against the Ukrainian army. "Total mobilisation is still happening – people call it mogilisation after the Russian word mogila which means grave," she says.
"Men have either stayed hiding in their homes for almost three months, or they go out and pretend not to care, because they simply have to get out to work as there are no other sources of income.
"There is an acute shortage of men - craftsmen, repairmen, salesmen and builders. You keep hearing the phrase 'I'll come when the war is over'. Fear is acute too: wives fear for their husbands, mothers for their sons.
"There are many dead and many funerals. At Easter and on May Day, they were going around drafting men direct from the cemetery."
Men who are drafted into the militia complain of being badly treated and she says they’re so badly equipped "they almost have to use their helmets to dig trenches; they’re badly fed, there aren’t enough uniforms and they aren’t allowed to call home".
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