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Child labor is one of the biggest issues around the world because it puts children in danger, separates  them of an education. It is widespread and it’s often hidden or invisible especially in agriculture, big industries and mines especially in poor countries. Usually child labour exist if the county is really poor, because the employment rate is very low and those who are employed are not paid good.

It is not pleasing for someone to see a child working like grown ups. But we cannot help every child to get good education and get well paid. There might be millions of kids working with different kinds of problems they face. Orphans can be a part of child labor because no one is there to look after but him or herself. It also depends from the family they come from, if there are lots of kids for their parents to look after. Most of the parents end up sending their kids to work under someone or make them go for works so that they can help earn some money for the family.

Child labor is morally intolerable; it is very risky to make a child work under great pressure. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimated approximately 250 million children between the ages of five and fourteen. Child labor appeared in earlier ages in agricultures societies, but during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th. Child labor first appeared with the development of domestic systems.

It might sound a little awkward writing about child labor and relating this to my own stories. In Bhutan, we do not force child labor but we have kids working in our houses. I have seen many of them working under different landlord or owners and the workload depends on the masters.  Most of the boys they wash dishes or look after the cattle and the girls do the household chores like cleaning, cooking or babysitting.  The salary they received is taken by their parent in order to buy home supplies. Child working under someone could actually help support their family, but it is not a pleasant thing to see. You pity them, but we have to make sure to treat them like our own kids.

But in some other countries, child labor is a very big issue. Children working in mines are faced with so many difficulties.  They are being paid less but have to work under worst conditions, most of them die very young because the dust they breathe in are very harmful for their lungs. Or mines are said to be very dangerous, it can just collapse and kill people. Either way round, people should have decent jobs for children.

I am sure human rights laws should be passed in those countries who violets the child  laws. Everyone has the right to be treated properly, especially kids. Why not educated them and make a better person.

The Indian caste system is a huge problem in India. Still today the values of the caste system are held strongly. There are five different levels of the system: Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, shudra, and Harijans. They have distinct roles in the society. Though the system worked well for Indian people but it still has major issues in modern India. The low castes are treated quite harshly and the high castes are treated better in the society.

In the hindu religion, Brahman is the eternal and transcendent reality which is the divine ground of all matters. They are treated likes gods in the society. In the other hand they are respected highly in the society. Then comes the Kshatriya, they are mostly ruler, warrior and landowner.  They are right below the Brahmans and the importance to the community is they are farmers and is a main source of food. Then after Kshatriya is Vishya caste.  The vaishya casters are mostly shopkeepers and sell products, unlike the Shudra who sell services.  Later it is followed by Shudra caste, potters are part of this caste.  Under this caster there are many different groups. The second last caste is Harijans. Some of Harijians used to known as the untouchables because people belived that they ere dirty and were not fit for the higher castes to touch them. Harijan’s jobs are dirty work. Harijians or untouchables are treated badly in India.

Untouchables feature in the caste system is one of the cruelest freatures of the caste system. Many as one of the racist in the world see it. In India people can be distinguished by their look, if you are untouchables you will be doing unclean works. The untouchables does not have no rights in the society facing a great racist discrimination. The harsh climate of India and the ill treatment from the other castes were intolerable.  How does it feel if ones cannot touch other people? The untouchables were not allowed to touch people from the four Varnas. They were not allowed to enter houses of higher caste or were not allowed to enter temples. They were not allowed to use same wells, and in public occasions they were made to sit away from other castes.

If Varnas happen have a physical contact or an accident, he or she had to wash himself with water to be purified. Even if untouchables enter Varan’s house they clean everywhere where the untouchables touched and stepped. Most of the higher caste people were so racist that when they go out for walks in the streets, their servants would go and see if the street is free from untouchables.

If you cut peoples body, blood with ooze out. Whether untouchables or Bhramans, there won’t be any distinct blood flowing. So, I feel it is the same and we are humans with almost same body parts. There should not be any race discrimination, but we still see people suffering from it. Lets try eradicate this caste system, but modern India has changed a lot comparing to early decades.

Wounds or a cut heals in no time, but the memories or the mark still continues to remain. The anger can be fresh within certain times but later you tend to distress yourself because you have to carry on living your life. So, far we have seen or heard many stories telling you about the genocide and genital mutilation of children. Killing or injuring tens and thousands of people, but people refuses to acknowledge it. The bombs or bullets least affect those people who are killing or torturing people.  But the rest are innocent victims. Why are people turning their backs, those violators knows that it is not a right thing to do. At the end no one is going to get anything good in return but have to fight for it for his or her rest of his or her lives. Why not ignore the torture and violence and live peacefully underneath the sun.

For instance the Genocide in Rwanda was the 1994 mass killing of an estimated 800,000 people over 100 days. A huge civil war between Tutsi and Hutus was going on.  Where bloody hand could not deny the war and are washed away by genocide. And the history hides the lies of our civil wars. Angry at each other and both the countries tried to colonize and hurt each other’s citizens in return. When the big nations like the US remained silent and denied to call it as genocide, it makes me angry even to think about the past.

You see armed soldiers running the streets, killing and raping people. US were busy arguing about what was really happening instead of helping them send US soldiers. “So far people have explained the U.S. failure to respond to the Rwandan genocide by claiming that the United States didn’t know what was happening, that it knew but didn’t care, or that regardless of what it knew there was nothing useful to be done.” However, the U.S tried to send more peacekeepers and made them aware of what was happening in between those two enemies. This is not to say that the U.S. had no power. The U.S could have sent more troops and could have stopped the genocide, but they turned their blind eye, and left everything as it was. When people talk about this nowadays, the whole world still shows how angry they were at the US. Not only that, people from Hutu and Tutsi were the worst people ever to exist in human history, they failed to communicate but went on killing. We intend not have any sort of genocide in future, because we are trying to educate people in a way that they know how dehumanizing it is. There are lots of activist now trying not to let the genocide happen again. There are social changes taking place so that what was being violated helped change the society in a better way promising it not to let it happen.

In most of the cultures, genital mutilation is considered to be very important for girls under the age of seven or eight. It is the practice of removal of female genitalia and left with a small opening just for urination and menstruation.  It is done to keep their marriages clean and pure. The author of “ Born in the Big Rains,” called Fadumo Korn, faces with many difficulties in her life. Fadumo undergoes FGM at the age of seven.  Fadumo is effected emotionally and mentally about the FGM, which gave her strength and courage to fight and later became and anti-FGM activist.

“ In Born in the Big rains, Fadumo Korn also calls what was done to her torture.” It was a torture for her to go under FGM because it is so painful and traumatizing. You will never forget how painful it was when you had them.  Girls have the right to blame the culture and show anger at it for violating human rights. As a reader, I feel so frustrated and angry for what they have to go through. It makes me believe that one day I can be an activist and help those poor girls to get out of these brutal cuttings. Fadumo knows the pain and sufferings that girls have to face for the rest of her lives. The only way to help them was to stand forward and fight against it. There are lots unheard voices, Fadumo thought that the silent eyes shouldn’t remain blindfolded because no one is going to feel sorry for you and help you unfold them. The sorrow of yesterday troubled her thoughts, even though in her happiness she saw herself being circumcised. That sorrow and anger now has helped Fudamo to become an anti-FGM activist.

There are a lot of people who suffered and now their anger has become like a weapon to fight against all the violence that other people face. Those victims talk about the past pain and the memories have become aggressive again which they helped “ alchemically transformed into social change.”

Some people are born to change the world for better and some for destruction. They go in hand to hand, if not what are the good or the bad people going to do. We have issues and war because we have to learn the ways of our lives and fight in order to complete our humanity. People are more experienced because those people who went under many circumstances understand the situation better. Whether you come from a bad or from a good family background, there is always a way to fight for your fears or try to submerge yourself into different subjects matter. You can be a role model, an activist, a suicide bomber or any sorts of other personal interest depending on how you are brought up and taught. I personally feel that you tend to follow a foot step of who you admire or feel is the right way to do because he or she has a good reputation in the society. I feel it is good to be a part of society and help people with their problems.

For instance, Ishmeal wrote a book called “ A Long Way Gone,”  it is about his life as a child solider. He came from a family that never knew what it would like to lose a family or see bloods sputtering all over the place.  Though his family members were not educated, but Ishmeal wanted to know more about what is happening outside his country. He learned rap songs even before he knew how to read and write.

Ishmael goes through one of the most challenging period of his like, the life he never expected to happen. The dreams he had within him could not even embrace him with love and joy. The flashing lights, sounds of the gunshots, painful cries and empty bodies slowly start to creep upon him. He would dream about his own death. Those frightful memories of killing people at the very young age was traumatizing for him. Before became a child soldier there was much to see what was real, the childhood days with his parents. There was no time to look back, but to grab whatever came his way. The situation was out of control and Ishmael as a small boy killed several people. Likewise, Ishmeal was lucky enough to be under a good care from UNICEF and was able to rediscover himself as a child again.

Ishmeal was traumatized by what he has been through. He was one of the child soldiers who killed thousand of people but he was forced to. Most of the child soldiers may not change but most of them did, those who stayed as child soldiers went on killing many more. Likewise, Ishmeal now is an activist and now Ishmeal is appointed as United Nations Children’s Fund, and Advocate for children’s war. Ishmeal speacks on behalf of young people around whose childhoods have been through the same stages as Ishmeal. Ishmeal went through same sufferings and now uses his previous example as a child soldiers and helps those who are now suffering.

It is not that everyone who suffered should be an activist or work for social justice, it is up to himself or herself. Some people do not want to share everything that had been so painful even to think of. The violence, deprivation and other violations might make them more depresses thinking about it. Some victims just want to shut it down forever and never open it again. But if you are brave enough to share you past experience and live with it, I am sure it would encourage a lot of people who went through the same. You can at least help talk to those victims or help them with medical care. If your dreams are too high, you can actually help eradicate some of the unworthy acts people are implying on each other. Like Child Soldiers, women’s role in the society, civil war or who knows you might be able to recruit so may people that you might be able to stoop the war that has been there for a long time.

So ones should be able to understand the situation and how they come from if they really want to see some change.

There are women in the world that would not remain silent. The role of women in society has been greatly overseen in the last few decades. In early decades women were seen as wives who were intended to cook, clean and take care of kids. The responsibilities were different comparing to men; women are always seen as a weak competitor. Soon enough it caught on that women should have a bigger role than what other people thought women should have.  Women would have to walk forward and show that the world is too small for them to be scared.  It is difficult for a woman to show their strength or power, and society is also a lot more diverse as a woman’s opinion is like no other. As women we face lot of discrimination, like race. Sometimes role of women in the society depends from where they come from, depending on their race. Most of the women in the world are not allowed to speak in public because they are not given any authority.  But nowadays women are educated, speaking for their rights through books have helped a lot of other women who cannot. For example Malalai Joya and Shirin Ebadi are the authors, who stood forward and fought for their rights.  Both of them were educated women and they saw world through the eyes of poor and helpless women.

Malalai Joya became a women’s right activist, and took on the new regime as an MP. She wrote a book called “ A Woman Among Warlords,” and she did not stop exposing ugly truths about Afghanistan. Malalai Joya’s life was in great danger. She said, “ I am not sure how many more days I will be alive.”  The warlords made up new democratic government in Afghanistan and killing people.  Her illiterate mother tired to keep her family safe but Joya’s mother did not receive any education. But Joya’s father was an educated man, which made Joya more aware of education and its importance.

Spending most of her life in refugee camps, she later finished her education.  Joya being an educated woman stood up for those women who are suffering and have no voice, those women who mostly live in the countryside. The media ignored them, too.  Many unheard voices of those fearful women can be heard or read in her talks or in her books. Joya after became popular after writing books, media called her for interviews a perfect time for her to expose Afghanistan. Joya believes in setting Afghanistan free and give a joyful life for her people in democratic and just society.  Joya knows the importance of education, and if only girls gets the education would help the country.  Joya set up a secret underground school for girls, so that later they can fight for their rights.  Joya became successful in many ways; she helped a lot of people with her education.  I truly believe that education is the key way to success. Joys started off with scratch, she first taught herself how to read and write. Later when the time favored her, she taught her family and some older women. Now she has changed the peoples view for the whole world through her books.

In the other hand, Shirin Ebadi is the first Iranian to have been awared the Nobel Peace prize. She was well educated and an outspoken person and had campaigns for human rights and democracy in her own country of Iran. Shirin graduated from Tehran University and became the first femal judge. But was forced to resign, as women were no longer allowed to serve as judges. She wrote lots of books and articles on issues of human right. Shirin established two non-governmental organizations in Iran, the Iranian Society for protecting the Rights of the child and the Centre for the Defence of Human Rights.

One of Shirin’s book called “Iran Awakening,” talks about her life and the problems in Iran. Mixed with both good and bad memories, but she succeeded in what she always wanted to do. After she got married, there were small problems that bothered her. For example, Shirin’s husbands wanted her to wear a scarf in her head.  She replies by saying “ I have never worn a head scarf in my life and it would be hypocritical to start now.” Shirini’s husband was afraid about the situation in Iran, but she refuses to wear it. She said, “ Yesh, But I don’t want to pretend to be something I am not.”  In this case Shirin knows what is good and bad for her. In the other hand if she agrees on what her husband said, she won’t be able to be strong and fight against the antis. But to stick on one thought and teach women not to let anything take away your freedom.

Shirin was outspoken and her work for human rights in Iran have won her admiration and respect from humanitarian bodies across the globe. However, Iran being a conservative country, she could not promote human rights issues well.  But she was a popular figure outside her country and words of education-helped spread the truth about Iraq to the rest of the world.

In every rose you will have thrones, in the same way both Ebadi and Shirin had problems other than spreading word of peace. Both the authors brought up the ugly truth about ones country. But the government and their enemies showed anger and agression against them. They did know when they were going to die, because most of their enemies tired to threaten them.  It was also very risky for their families. Their education also dehumanized a lot of people who were not in a favor of their words. But at least they were able to help a lot of people and saved so many lives. At the end what matters is how helpful their education was and the ways to eradicate war.

Women’s rights for the purdah practices and the problem faced by them. Purdah meaning curtain, is the practice of preventing women from seeing men
This takes two forms: physical segregation of the sexes and requiring women to cover their bodies so as to cover their skin and conceal their form.

They think that purdah is honor and protects women. It protects the dignity and the honor of the women. They greatly respects their culture and won’t mind following it. Though to some it will look different and weird. But it is a part of their culture and religion. It makes sure that women will be honored and respected for the character.

To some it would be a pressure for them to be isolated from worldly events. In this new evolution, the risk of women being neglected is getting lower because they are more aware of their importance and now they stand for the rights. Education being the most important part of their life and they think that their scarification is too much. Though covering up their body is for their own protection and to serve their god.
I do not think that it is necessary for women to cover themselves completely, certainly not from the top of their head to their toes, but I think the system was developed in order to preserve the honor of the family. In Islamic customs, the women are the sole representatives of the family’s honor and thus, the patriarchal society attempts to control and limit them as much as possible. The purdah system is one manifestation of such limitations.

Either way the practice of purdah is looked at, whether in a negative or positive light, it stills remains an integral part of everyday life for some peoples and marks a part of their culture. Its hard to imagine what it might be like to live in purdah.But for women to be isolated from surroundings, avoiding certain men all of the time, staying in certain places, and so- on but these are rules that can be taught and learned. What is harder to imagine is how women learn the feelings that make it seen right to do these things. And that, of course is the question one has to ask about any code of conduct, in any family or group or society.

Sometimes when people move from their native country to some foreign place, it depends on how the society looks at you. One of my friend who lived in Afghanistan all her childhood and later, she came to the US. Forget about covering ones bodies, some they didn’t even have a piece of cloths in their bodies. Once she was in the subway, wearing her usual costume a lady sitting next to her said, ” this is America, take that shit out.” My friend went blank for a moment, and did not know what to say. When she finally gained the courage to say,  the lady got out the train in her next station. She was disrespected and it was a great insult to her religion. She walked away from it and embraced in what she felt good. But sometimes she would not mind wearing it, every time she wears it she feels like a child again back in Afghanistan.

People change and grow as the time flies. One day I hope to see better understanding for those women behind the curtain and respect for who they are.

Do you want to look glamours or murderer? How many of us are aware of how fur is made? Life is being taken away to make some beautiful cloths that you wear. Do we have any human rights laws protecting  this brutal killing of animals for pelt? Or is it legal to kill animals? Who wants to wear a dead animal’s skin making you feel good? I have so many question that I want to ask those people who thinks is good to kill animals for their fur. Everywhere we go, we see or hear people talking about their own problems or the war they just won. Not only that, people even don’t leave animals. Animals can not talk, they can not say if they are hurt, happy or sad. We the humans take advantage of poor animals. For the rest of my blog I will be talking about the killings of animals for fur.

You will see thousand of fur coats with branded names on it and it is made in China. China being one of the biggest producing country in any matter, you should know how each material are being made before they process it. China is said to be the largest supplier of fur, but people around the world wearing fur does not know how it is being made. Animals like fox, mink, raccoon and rabbits are being raised by China without any laws that are implied on them . Most of the Chinese have a huge farm where they raise these animals just for fur and sell them to foreign countries and earn a lot of money. Furs being one of the most important material in the fashion industries, they have a greater demand. So, greater the demand the rate of supply gradually increases. Resulting in killing of more and more animals.

I wish people can take at least three minutes and could watch this video and pray for those poor animals.  As you can see in the video, people they take them out of their cage and stomp them on the ground when they are still alive. Animals are being skinned and after they are peeled off completely, the will be still blinking and breathing. All you can see is flesh and blood, or just the skeleton. Animals lay helplessly on the ground with pain, the saddest part is they cannot even talk.

So, those of you, who are unaware of this what do you think you are doing? Basically you are murderer, for a nice and expensive fur coat you wear must have killed at-least two to three animals. Though people say that this product is made in Italy or France, the animals were likely raised and slaughtered elsewhere—possibly on an unregulated Chinese fur farm.

Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International toured fur farms in China, and it quickly became clear why outsiders are banned from visiting. Raising animals for fur is not being taken seriously by the government of China, no wonder every farmers owns a farm full of animals to kill for fur.

It is impossible for the fur industry to stop selling fur garments, but as a customer we can stop buying fur cloths. Certainly there will be less killing if we can stop buying them and let the animals live freely as they are supposed to be.

Look at the picture at the left. What is the first impression you get from it? Don’t you think it is so beautiful, so peaceful and  green. Well, it is all of what I have said before the outer geography of this place but know one knows what is going on there. The place in the image can be called as Hell on Earth, it is called Guntanamo. It is located in is a bay located in Guantanamo provience at the southeastern end of cuba.

It is operated by United States government and Force Guantanamo since 2002. It consists of camps for the prisoners, and they are treated no better than the prisoner in Abu Grahib.

One of the former prisoner of Guantanamo shares his painful experiences when he was held there. The torture was so extreme and harsh, the guards even felt his private parts.ERf stands for the Extreme Reaction Force and when they came the situation became even worst. Starting from spraying pepper on his eyes, poking his eyes with their finger, forced his head into the toiled pan and flushed, kicking and punching, they didn’t leave a single patch of his body untouched.

Later he talks about Dergoul, 28, Dergoul shares his experiences in Guantanamo. ” He said they included humiliation, prolonged exposure to intense heat and cold, sleep deprivation, being kept chained in painful positions, and the threat of ‘rendition’ to an Arab country where, his interrogators said, he would be subjected to full-blown torture.” It seems that the torture that the US government lays for the prisoner is the same. Most of the prisoners are half a dead.

Many former prisoners wrote letters to Goerge Bush stating that they suffered similar abusive treatment in Guantanamo, but the US military spokesmen denied their allegations, filming that they were false. In the same way many videos didn’t even leave the cell, it was made private so that the world would not fight against their own made up rules.

In the same same way, Dergoul, he had difficulty walking. His feet was frostbitten and had to pe amputated. His left arm is barley there, after two months he regained and now is being treated at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Dergoul suffered so much that he started to believe in Allah, which gave him strength to fight. Dergoul’s experiences have changed him forever, turning him into a devout and intensely political Muslim. At the end he said, ”But maybe now they’ll get their comeuppance. After what’s happened at Abu Ghraib, if I’d been the Americans I would have destroyed those videos. Let them be shown. Then the world will know I’m telling the truth.’

Abu Ghraib located in Iraq shows no sign of humanity, all the works that could be done in hell is being already  done in Abu Ghraib. Only a place on earth where no Human Rights laws can be implied. Torture, killing, rape and homicide are on publics eyes, there is nothing we can’t do anything to get rid of this brutal act. US soldiers are not going to get off the act, nor the US government going to stop this war.it is a very wide context to discuss about. Starting The images of Abu Ghraib are now widely being found in websites, so that people can have the image of how it looks like. Like wise  Ghost of Abu Ghraib, a documentary by Rory Kennedy shows the excessive torture of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers. Kennedy interviewed nine military police and military intelligence corpsmen and five Iraqi prisoners involved in the torture. Kennedy talks about her interviews taken with the detainees.

What was a typical day at Abu Ghraib for the Iraqi detainees you interviewed?

Kennedy talks about the geography of Abu Ghraib and how detainees are abused and humiliated. What are the main reasons for a man to totally get detached from humanhood and get one-selves involved into evil acts. Its sad to see the family members suffer, as being said by her, one man had to witness his brother being physically abused. He stands there helpless, there is no one you can cry onto. Guards or soldiers threats that if detainees family members visits them, they will be sexually abused or physically abused. Prisoners are treated with humiliation and with no respect. Women are also a part of this horrendous act, laughs at the prisoners taking shower.

Was the abuse at Abu Ghraib worse than you’d expected?

Until yesterday, Kennedy saw pictures and some videos  showing some parts of Abu Ghraib. When Kennedy interviewed on detainee, he talked about how his father was tortured by the soldiers until he became sick. His son begged medical help from Americans, but they denied him. After trying for several time, the soldiers pointed a gun at him and said, ” If you ask us again we’re going to kill you.” He saw no signs of aid and saw his father die in his arms.

Militaries  are the first one who messes up with the prisoners at the first place, so most of the pictures are from the very first stage of torture. Interrogators eats up most part of their brains. Before the sun rise, Grainer would bring five to six soldiers would start torturing all the prisoners. It like a party and they would hang the prisoners which is not bearable for five minutes. After an hour, they would all scream, and Grainer would walk out saying ” thats the music I would like to hear.”  This is the rough picture of Abu Ghraib and the torture and killing still continues. Here is the link you can listen to the whole conversation with Nick Flynn and Dick.

http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_978_Nick_Flynn.mp3/view

Young muslim boys are paining for fight or revenge, the war never seems to have an end. US should stop this in humane acts and embrace some laws from Human Rights.