One day in a class, I researched people's lives in different countries, I was horrified at how women, LGBTQ+ people, kids, people of different racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, and impoverished people are treated.
In Zimbabwe, women are forced to marry if they have premarital sex. In Mauritania, LGBTQ+ people face the death penalty just for being who they are. In Iran, Ethnic minorities, including Ahwazi Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Baluchis, Kurds and Turkmen, faced widespread discrimination, curtailing their access to education, employment, adequate housing and political office. In India, kids face early marriage, domestic abuse, sexual violence, violence at home and in school, trafficking, online violence, child labor and bullying. In Turkey, Kurds, Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Jews, among other groups, have all suffered from persecution in recent years. In Kenya, impoverished people have limited access to basic necessities such as food, clean water, and health care.
If things don't change now, people will die. People will get attacked on the street, people will starve, kids will have severe depression, everyone will suffer. If things do change now, people will thrive. People will get to be themselves, people will get help with finding food, people will get help with mental issues, including kids, everyone will thrive and learn to live happily.
