Will I live another day to tell my story?
I want to share my voice today, because I don’t know if I’ll be alive another day to tell my story. My name is Samah Atif, I’m 24 years old and I live in Gaza. I was studying English literature, but the war
I collect data about Palestinian detainees, soon I might be one of them
My name is Mohamad, I’m 38 years old and I live in Ramallah, in the West Bank. I’m a volunteer for the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club, an organization that documents the cases of Palestinians who got detained by Israeli authorities. In my work,
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My full name is Baraa’h Qandeel. I’m 24 years old. I like to call myself a “multipotentialite”, that means I’m interested in many different things, and I try to do them all. What I have is passion, passion for what life can offer,
Nobody is safe
DAY 29 – We are breathing dust Once again, we woke up screaming. Yesterday Israelis bombed the building next to us. Our door crashed on the ground. The night before they hit two buildings in our street. Missiles are dropping on us from
I was a combination of everything that you shouldn’t be
My name is Marlon, I’m 37, but fighting for justice and freedom has been something that has been growing with me since I was a child. My parents participated in the revolution in the 70s. They were fighting against a dynasty in power,
Two months changed my life forever
When I started rapping was 2008, in Guinea. My first song was called ‘Bembo’, the lyrics said that everything we earn in life is for our belly. We work the land in the countryside to help the family eat, to be full. We
For certain reasons I cannot show my face, but I can use my voice
I’m Miko, I’m journalist from Myanmar, but currently based in Bangkok, in Thailand. One year after I got my diploma in journalism the military coup happened. Since then, collaborating with my teacher, I publish many articles for Thai, French other international media outlets,
We have been fighting this for 10 years
We have been fighting this for 10 years. This anti-gay bill. It condemns us to life in prison and even death just because of who we love and want to be with. We thought this because of all of the international pressure, because
In Gaza There Is Only One Story To Tell
I can’t tell my kids it’s fireworks anymore. They are older now, my daughter is 15, my sons are 12, 6, and 3. Each time it happens, I can’t believe that we survived. This last Israeli bombing campaign, it shook the walls of
The other side of the “Wall of Shame”
My name is Alfonso Tapujima, I have been living in a settlement along the ‘wall of shame’ for 18 years. We don’t have water, we don’t have sewage, even though we live only 40-50 minutes away from the center of Lima. There is