TO THE REAL HEROS; 10TH DECEMBER, INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

August 15 is the day I remember I was at home. Since then, it is very difficult to feel home anywhere. I am 25 years old, but I am bearing the weight of 125-year-old woman with pains of losing a generation, losing a homeland, losing identity, losing career and every single thing you would have naturally and as a human being. I am writing because nobody wants to listen, nobody wants to act and all we do is sit at a corner silently, condemn and feel sorry. Is this enough?

When I sleep, I hear back to back explosions very close to my head, my mind and my ears, my head explodes of thinking about women and girls, children and all the innocent people paying for the war that they never planned for. Each day, Kabul witnesses’ back-to-back blasts that is taking lives of innocent people who go out there to earn some food for their families, I was one of them just four months ago. Every religion speaks about humanity, about helping each other, caring for each other, about valuing human lives, then who kills? Who burns and stones the women and girls for being seen in a different outfit, with different thoughts and different believes? Who allows one human being to kill another human being? Who has written these lines of right and wrong for us?

All over the world 10th December is celebrated as HUMAN RIGHTS DAY. Thought I am disappointed, I am broken and I have lost hope over symbolic celebrations of Human Rights, Women and Girl’s rights, Equality and Justice but you know what I am also a human rights activist sitting in one of the refugee camps somewhere in the middle of no where in Netherlands writing my thoughts, my pains and my pleas to world influencers and people who can make a difference in people’s lives to not only celebrate this but also shout out to the world with more courage and power that “ HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BEING VOILATED IN AFGHANSISTAN. HUMAN LIVES ARE UNDER DANGER OF DEATH, WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE LEFT BETWEEN THE WALLS AND NOBODY CARES. REFUGEES OF WAR AND CONFLICT WHO HAVE LOST EVERYTHING BUT FEW BREATHS REMAIN ARE LOSING THEIR HOPE FOR LIFE IN CORNER OF THE CAMPS.”

I celebrate every moment I have spent in remote villages of Afghanistan to listen the problems and pains of women who have scar of losing their loved ones in blasts and conflict, who were having no choice but to sell their daughter to have few days food to remain alive, who believe they are only 16 years old though they are 60, because time is too slow for them. I celebrate every human rights activist who are champions, front liners, and value their prophecy in making a difference in people’s lives.

If you think there are people that need your support, that you can make their lives peaceful and beautiful, and you can work for human rights, you are absolutely the one to take an action and start talking about it.  Why should we wait for the special occasions to help each other, why don’t we make every day special by helping each other out.