What is Your Story?

The BBC World Service is giving YOU a platform to tell Your Story.

Is there a news story or an issue that you think is important? Do you have a unique perspective on a particular topic that you think we should be reporting on? Do you just want to record your opinion on a current news story?

You can contribute in a number of different ways ...

• Record your opinions and thoughts as a short video and send it to us, using the form on the Your Story homepage.

• Take photos

• Write a few short lines about you and your story idea, with a contact email so that we can talk about it some more.

Here are some ideas of what we've done before - for inspiration ...

• 19 year old Ricardo lives in the City of God favela in Brazil. He told us what it was like to live there by recording a video.

• Sarah - a trainee doctor from Iraq told us what life was like for her - in photos and she recorded her voice.

• Teenage mums from the UK recorded each other talking about contraception.

You've sent something in, what happens next?

I will get in touch with you if your story needs developing. You may see your contribution on this website and it could also be broadcast across BBC World Service Radio.

Please, please keep in mind the following ..

Be careful ! We ask you not to risk your own personal safety or that of anyone else in order to get material for submission to the BBC Your Story project.

This is a citizen journalism project so you have to make this clear to who ever you might interview - don't pretend to be a professional reporter, the beauty of being an ordinary person is that you have thoughts and feelings and can wear your heart on your sleeve. The pieces you do, are as much about you as they are about your subject.

Tell people who you might interview - clearly - what you are doing and that their voices might be broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Try not to exaggerate and definitely don't distort facts.

Please, no flaming or trolling. Flaming means posting something angry and mean-spirited - the online equivalent of losing your temper. Trolls say deliberately provocative things just to stir up trouble. This is not polite, so please do not do it.

We lay down the law when it comes to anything that is libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, or harms minors in any way; Don't even think about it and definitely do not upload anything that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability. And no abusive language!

Links to unsuitable websites will be removed.

If anything you report on turns out to be wrong, be prepared to to apologise in full.

No infringing of any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or make available content that they do not have a right to make available under any law

We do not want software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment, and no advertising any illegal services, or the sale of any items - the sale of which is prohibited or restricted by applicable law.

COPYRIGHT
If you submit an image or audio, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions. In contributing to BBC World Service you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide. This may include the transmission of the material by our overseas partners; these are all reputable foreign news broadcasters who are prohibited from altering the material in any way or making it available to other UK broadcasters or to the print media.

For full details of the BBC's terms and conditions please click here