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Part of my duty as a citizen journalist/ blogger, I realized that I have to get people's voice more heard than just reporting the reality under my personal views. Therefore, I am starting today, December 10th, 2012- the Human Rights Day- new series of videos I call "Human Rights Voices". A lot of people think this world is getting worse and worse with all the conflicts we are witnessing, the challenges we are facing, the climate change, the economic crisis, the increasing poverty rate etc.. It seems that the world is giving birth to more corrupt minds. However, I've been meeting everyday inspiring people who care about our planet and other people's well-being... people we think do not exist anymore but they are around if we just listen to their stories and give them a VOICE then we will be astonished with their perception of life. For that purpose, I will be committed to get the Human Rights Voices to be heard, till we realize that in fact, we all have the same

I dedicate this piece to the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign which runs from November 25 th to December 10 th ,2012 Published at WLUML We are people around the world that have different backgrounds, speak different languages, hold different nationalities but unfortunately as women we suffer from the same gender inequality and gender based-violence anywhere in the world. The violence starts when we were floating in our moms' womb because the dad, the family and community want a Boy till we grow up and find ourselves judged and punished by the society for the only reason we are “women”. Three days ago, I watched a documentary entitled “Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan”. It shows that even when people try to make women happy, they terrorize them! They call it funny tradition but it is not funny at all. In fact, Kyrgyzstan is a country that I’ve never visited and never met someone originally form there. However, as in Kyrgyzstan, a tiny count