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Published in: openJustice: OpinionI gave birth during coronavirus as an asylum seeker
The doctors were good to me but my circumstances caused problems during the birth and beyond. I came to the UK for...
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Published in: 50.50The Chinese government must let us cry for our deadMy social media posts have been censored many times, especially when I said that “we don’t have the right to cry...
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Published in: 50.50The sex work network we have been building is saving us during COVID-19I’m a sex worker in Argentina. I can’t work and I have no support from the government, but our grassroots network is...
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Published in: 50.50With little food or money, we tried to get home after India’s lockdownI knew I had to get my pregnant wife back to our village, but the journey was over 1,000 kilometres and we had to...
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Published in: 50.50While the world is busy with the virus, Israel is annexing the West BankForeign volunteers are not allowed into Palestine and we have few donations, so it is very difficult to run my...
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Published in: 50.50Now, I have to take whatever clients offer for sexI’m a sex worker in South Africa. Sex usually costs 70 Rand (about $5), but now I have to accept almost half that,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK“The government gives me £35 a week to buy food… During the lockdown, my kids do not receive free school meals”As a refugee and single mother, lockdown in the UK is hard. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in: 50.50I used to support my family, but now I can't even afford to buy breadI’m an informal market trader in South Africa and the breadwinner in our family of four. But now rely on handouts to...
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Published in: 50.50A homebirth seemed like the only option
I have just given birth to my second child – but at home instead of in hospital. There wasn’t a hair on my head that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion"There's rules that apply to them, and there's rules that apply to you"
The Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in the UK has been hit hard by the crisis. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in: 50.50I'm a new wife in a foreign country, unable to go out and make friendsI was sent to Iran to be married. My family in Afghanistan ask me how Iranians treat me. How would I know? I’ve...
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Published in: 50.50If I sit back and do nothing, my family won’t surviveI invested all my savings in a tourist shop and café that was due to open in April. Now I deliver desserts to feed...
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Published in: 50.50I’m more afraid of Albania’s police than the virusI collect trash to survive but the curfew makes it hard to go out. They demolished our market, and I’m afraid my...
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Published in: 50.50Stuck in a foreign land with no passport or workI support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport - and my cleaning work has...
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Published in: 50.50I am lonely and miss talks with neighbours
How can I be afraid of the pandemic? I’m living without any means and I’m still alive! I don’t even die. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPandemic poverty: "I can't afford to live on £94 a week"Four women in the UK explain how the British government's coronavirus support scheme has let them slip through the...
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Published in: 50.50We are cheap labour to fight COVID-19I was put on the frontline against the coronavirus. I’m a medical resident. We have no tests, protection or...
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Published in: 50.50Isolated in a toxic relationshipI am in lockdown with my husband who drinks and shouts and breaks things. We live on social grants. My kids are...
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Published in: 50.50Family offers no solace when it's the source of painHow can LGBTIQ people find solace in family or religion when these are the sources of our pain? #HumansofCOVID19
