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Hi there, and first of all, thank anda all for participating in Fanpop's Human Rights Awareness Month. HRAM was declared back in November of this tahun and requested that everyone who participates link for the bulan of December to help spread Human Rights Awareness.

In addition to icon changes, I have created the Human Rights Advent Calendar, which will be in the form of this soapbox. Every day, throughout the bulan of December, I will add holiday themed Human Rights content to this spot and link to it in this article. In addition to that, I will also release one Human Rights Fact and one Human...

Listening to the Instant Karma CD, I started thinking about Darfur and how there were all kinds of Sudanese refugees all over Egypt, having been expelled from their country atau left it willingly for a variety of different reasons. I remember, a friend of mine went down to help them learn English every weekend as one of her many community service projects. And then that reminded me of going down to Mokattam to see the orphanage.

Mokattam, colloquially called “Garbage City” oleh everyone from residents of Mokattam to tour guides, is a place past the Cairo citadel where there are literally piles...