Malaysia 🇲🇾 “The Saudi law does not give the right to be a citizen even if you are born there”

Panama 🇵🇦 “My number means that I’m allowed to go outside between 4pm and 5:30pm”

Brazil 🇧🇷 “Our partners are mostly single women, mothers and entrepreneurs. It's a little space for us in this big and male chauvinist city”

Canada 🇨🇦 “I find it difficult and frustrating because I cannot spend time with my boyfriend. I see him but we cannot touch, we keep two meters distance”

Liberia 🇱🇷 “During the Ebola crisis, I lost a lot of people that were so dear to me”

Canada 🇨🇦 “It’s difficult to be away from them for so long”

Liberia 🇱🇷 “They said I would die because I spoke about a thing I had no business talking about”

Kenya 🇰🇪 “When I reflect, I think: “I am doing for them what somebody did for me.””

Bangladesh 🇧🇩 “Every night, the military used to come to villages to take away the men and young boys”

South Sudan 🇸🇩 “I was at school one day when I saw soldiers coming out of a truck”

United Kingdom 🇬🇧 “You could hear people being beaten up, and worse, knowing your turn is coming”

Uganda 🇺🇬 “I went from earning a living in South Sudan in a white collar job in the bank to being a hawker in the streets”

South Sudan 🇸🇸 “When I was going to school, my father would drop me there on a motorcycle”

Rwanda 🇷🇼 “I decided not to come and hide in the church where most of my neighbours were”

Canada 🇨🇦 “God willing, I can stand on my own two feet and keep a good income flowing for my family"

India 🇮🇳 “I do not get fired at but there are people who get fired at, younger than me”

Germany 🇩🇪 “We talked to a smuggler and he got us onto a rubber boat to Greece”

Canada 🇨🇦 “As bad as white supremacy is in the place that I live in, we have an alternative, we can live together, we can coexist”

Uganda 🇺🇬 “My children were killed in the conflict, one this year and another last year”

Uganda 🇺🇬 “To my utter shock, the rebel leader decided that I would be like a wife to him”

Liberia 🇱🇷 “Both my parents had been killed because my father, an ex-military man, has refused to join the army”

Uganda 🇺🇬“I lived with my mum and dad at home in South Sudan but my mum passed on”

Uganda 🇺🇬“When they return from war, like can be very difficult. Some have been injured, some are disfigured”

Korea “When I was thirteen years old, Japanese soldiers abducted me”

Peru 🇵🇪 “The fact that someone you don’t want is touching you is ugly”

Mexico 🇲🇽 “When I found a substance that toned things down, it was a welcome relief”

Kenya 🇰🇪 “I often paint my body in my performances”

USA 🇺🇸“Part of the art-making piece is the dream state and you being able to frame and reframe and create the world that you need”

Kenya 🇰🇪 “After the terrorist attack, I rushed to the hospital and bought food for the survivors”

USA 🇺🇸 “He’s the only person who would welcome two corny white boys”

USA 🇺🇸 “He said: “Do you want some sweet potato pie?””

India 🇮🇳 “It’s the daily wage labourers that are being hit hardest by the coronavirus”

Canada 🇨🇦“When I was younger I got into trouble a lot. I was kicked out of school”

Uganda 🇺🇬“We boarded the bus to go to Kampala for our performance. I showed up, looking super sleepy”

Ghana 🇬🇭 “They had these cold emotionless shark’s eyes”

USA 🇺🇸 “It was me, it was me there before. I can feel what they’re going through, because it was me.”

Canada 🇨🇦 “I realized that phrase “being the voice of the voiceless” is actually oppressive”

Kenya 🇰🇪 “I have a big dream and I don't know whether it will come true“

Kenya 🇰🇪 “I want to design colourful bags and shoes that compliment the outfits”

Canada 🇨🇦 “They were going to stop the treatment. I took my health into my own hands”

Canada 🇨🇦 “We have the same father but not the same mother. She was born and raised in Israel”

Brazil 🇧🇷 “I have too much faith and too many tattoos and all these tattoos represent a lot of things to me”

Uganda 🇺🇬 “I am a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo”

Mali 🇲🇱 “Before this president came into power, musicians had importance”