Speak Truth to Power Project

My Speak Truth to Power Defender was Sonita Alizadeth. She is an Islamic women who's parents tried to sell her into marriage at the ages of fourteen and sixteen because that's was is known in their country. Instead of listening to her family and being bought into marriage Sonita fought against it. She did everything she could to escape her country and come to America where she would be safe. Sonita succeeded, she made it to the United States and attends college and also speaks out about child marriage. This project was very enjoyable. I was able to learn new things about Human Rights that I never knew before. I learned that there are a number of Human Rights Defenders all over the United States and even in other countries around the world. These Defenders are trying to speak out about their human rights that are being violated where they live. I learned that defenders can be as young as my defender was. When she started speaking out against child marriage and child labor she was just fourteen years old. I believe this project was very successful because we were able to capture each defenders story into a video for everyone in our class to witness. Overall I learned that if there is something you feel isn't right then fight for it. I believe that certain things shouldn't just go unspoken, if something isn't right I believe it should be changed. I think any person in any country should be able to speak out about certain things that they deem not right or unconstitutional.