This is our fight, that of brave women, those of us who dare to unite to go out to the streets to fight for our rights, which we have not had until now.
We looked like doctors from the movies: covered head-to-toe in protective equipment as we walked into the unknown.
There was a rumor about a pandemic from China raging in the West, but we didn't have much information.
A persistent cough that would not go away signaled that something much more serious was going on with my health.
I was startled awake by a burning sensation on my face. I reached my right hand to my face to identify the cause of the unbearable, searing pain.
Protecting refugees in Kakuma through hygiene and education
Ironically, being fat in Venezuela makes you invisible. I don't exist unless someone decides to make fun of me.
Kenya's El Molo people fight assimilation, the desert heat, and a lack of representation that threaten their shrinking tribe.
Does my vaccination record mean I am free to live life as I knew it before the virus? No.
We had no pre-existing notion of the barrel we would be staring down when COVID-19 hit.
COVID-19 hampering access to medical care for people with albinism in East Africa
I saw huge flames swell up directly above the Engen oil refinery, located about 1.2 km from my home.