Afghan Women’s Writing Project | I Am Tired

Because I am a girl

They look at me like a slave

But what is the problem?

Why do they think that I am not capable

I do my job as well as them

I am a talented girl like others

Why do they compare me to others

Why do they want to kill my talent

Why do they want to make me upset

I am disappointed

Because they try to kill my passions

I should die before they kill me

Before they stone me with their words

I am tired of this world, this life

Is it my sin that I am a girl?

Please let me live in peace

Let me discover my true self

Let me help to build up the country

Let me to be free

I am the one of the children who grew up

Wanting to change the world

Why do they ignore me

Why don’t they want me here

I should die before they kill me

Before they throw stones at me

Or I should run away from here

I am tired

Tired of everything

Tired of all that they do

Against me… just because I am a girl

By Zahra H.

Source: Afghan Women’s Writing Project | I Am Tired

Latino Lawmakers Ask Rubio to Stop Blocking U.S. Envoy to Mexico

Latin American Herald Tribune: A total of 19 U.S. Latino lawmakers sent a letter to Republican presidential hopeful – and Florida senator – Marco Rubio asking him to stop blocking confirmation of the assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, Roberta Jacobson, as ambassador to Mexico, congressional officials reported Monday.

The legislators emphasized the U.S. government’s need to have a diplomatic representative in the capital of our southern neighbor as soon as possible, given that – after the exit of the man who had filled that post up until July, Tony Wayne – the post is vacant. Read more.

UN Discovery of secret detention centre, reopens all nightmares

Details of a secret detention center, where serious human rights abuses took place, deep inside the sprawling Tricomalee Naval base in the east of Sri Lanka are slowly emerging. The site is nothing new to those who were held there. In June this year the South Africa-based International Truth and Justice Project, Sri Lanka (ITJPSL) […]

Minority Sheet Metal Workers in New York Get Back Pay After Decades of Bias – The New York Times

The union’s white members have received more work and larger pensions, data show. In contrast, minority members, who have lagged for decades, often struggle to find steady jobs and to earn enough credit to retire on time with full pensions.Continue reading the main storyRelated Coverage Settlement in Bias Suit That Stalled for 37 YearsJAN. 16, 2008Last month, the union began paying the first installments of $12.7 million in back pay to hundreds of black and Hispanic members in a partial settlement of a bias lawsuit decades old — the oldest such case in the hands of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Source: Minority Sheet Metal Workers in New York Get Back Pay After Decades of Bias – The New York Times

Erdogan says Kurdish militants will be ‘annihilated’ – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East – Armenian Genocide Deja Vu – The Turkish Caliphate Sticks Again!

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Kurdish militants Dec. 15 that “you will be annihilated,” and pledged that Turkish security forces will continue their massive military assault on Kurdish towns in southeastern Turkey until they are “completely cleansed and a peaceful atmosphere established.”Metin Gurcan reports that the escalation in military operations in towns where Kurdish militants associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have taken hold has increased the possibility of a civil war.

Source: Erdogan says Kurdish militants will be ‘annihilated’ – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 51 ( Dec 14-20)

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  • Egypt to appoint international firm to review airport security. Monday
  • UK report recommends no ban of Muslim Brotherhood, but warns of possible extremist links. Thursday
  • Major general Moahmed Sharway will be replacing Major general Salah Hegazy as new head for National Security. Saturday
  • Egyptian court releases amateur photographer Israa al-Taweel for her health conditions. Saturday

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