Kerry Cullinan - openDemocracy (Page 2)

The people locked down and locked out in the cold during the pandemic

Millions are unable to survive the pandemic or the rules to contain it. Their stories make a compelling case for a universal basic income grant. #HumansofCOVID19

By Kerry Cullinan

/ 6 Aug 2020

The people locked down and locked out in the cold during the pandemic

A pandemia é mais um teste para as mulheres defensoras dos direitos humanos na Colômbia

A execução extrajudicial do meu filho estourou a bolha em que eu vivia. A pandemia é mais um teste para a nossa força de continuar a luta pelos necessitados. #HumansofCOVID19

por Kerry Cullinan

/ 30 Jul 2020

A pandemia é mais um teste para as mulheres defensoras dos direitos humanos na Colômbia

The Chinese government must let us cry for our dead

My social media posts have been censored many times, especially when I said that “we don’t have the right to cry when we wish to" - but I plan to keep speaking out #HumansofCOVID19

By Kerry Cullinan

/ 9 Jul 2020

The Chinese government must let us cry for our dead

La red de trabajadoras sexuales que armamos nos está salvando durante el COVID-19

Soy una trabajadora sexual en Argentina. No puedo trabajar y no tengo apoyo del gobierno, pero las redes con nuestras compañeras estamos pudiendo sobrevivir. English

por Kerry Cullinan

/ 29 Jun 2020

La red de trabajadoras sexuales que armamos nos está salvando durante el COVID-19

The sex work network we have been building is saving us during COVID-19

I’m a sex worker in Argentina. I can’t work and I have no support from the government, but our grassroots network is helping us survive. #HumansofCOVID19 Español

By Kerry Cullinan

/ 29 Jun 2020

The sex work network we have been building is saving us during COVID-19

Infant formula companies are ‘exploiting’ COVID-19 pandemic

Companies are accused of using COVID-19 to push their products, including targeting parents’ ‘fears of infection’.

By Kerry Cullinan

/ 25 Jun 2020

Infant formula companies are ‘exploiting’ COVID-19 pandemic

Sex workers abandoned as COVID crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts

Controlling COVID-19 is worsening Africa’s HIV epidemic and destroying HIV services, with sex workers facing hardship, illness and death.

By Lydia Namubiru, Kerry Cullinan and Soita Khatondi Wepukhulu

/ 5 Jun 2020

Sex workers abandoned as COVID crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts

Now, I have to take whatever clients offer for sex

I’m a sex worker in South Africa. Sex usually costs 70 Rand (about $5), but now I have to accept almost half that, just to have food. #HumansofCOVID19

By Kerry Cullinan

/ 4 Jun 2020

Now, I have to take whatever clients offer for sex

South Africa doctors fear spike in non-COVID-19 deaths

Health workers are worried that the focus on coronavirus will result in more deaths from the country’s usual killers – TB, HIV and diabetes.

By Kerry Cullinan

/ 25 May 2020

South Africa doctors fear spike in non-COVID-19 deaths

‘Anticipatory anxiety’: Africa on the cusp of pandemic

How will African health facilities cope with a flood of people with COVID-19? How can those living close together practise social distancing? Does Ebola offer any lessons?

By Kerry Cullinan

/ 25 Mar 2020