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Child soldiers violates the rights to liberty, education and the right to standard of living. Examples of this can be found in the Middle East, children being persuaded by Islamic State propaganda to fight. Child soldiers can occur when children living in war zones are are influenced or persuaded to fight for a cause that they are unaware of, all due to being young and vulnerable and not being educated on the matter. These rights are protected by the United Nations and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Child soldiers could be prevented by not allowing wars around civilian population and educate people about child soldiers.

The government believes that Islam allows you to do whatever you want to do, no matter if you are a man of woman. Therefore meaning that Saba had the right do what ever she wanted and when she wanted to get married to Qaiser a man of a lower status then her. This made me confused as the reason why the father and uncle tried to kill Saba in the first place was because she brought dishonour to the family but the decision to get married was up to her. Honouring the family is not in the Quran, neither is killing in general, and that Islam should protect the rights of all human beings.

Saba forgiving her father and uncle was another thing that truly confused me as to why would you forgive someone who tried to kill you especially a family member who knows you well enough to get to you and possibly try to harm you again, in order to reagin honour. However I do see the reason and that she forgave her father as he was the one looking after her mother and two sisters.

Slavery is an idea said to have been abolished about two centuries ago. However, there is still slavery occurring in powerful countries including Russia, India and China. Countries such as India formerly part of the British Empire, who later abolished slavery in 1833, have about 14.3 million modern slaves. It concerns me that countries these days who agreed that slavery should no longer be continued, have slaves of their own but do nothing to bring an end to it. Slavery is not commonly heard about on the media as there is a lack of reported cases and / or evidence. The idea of something so old and so brutal still being practised today is a reason why I find that this is a very important issue but nonetheless very disturbing yet interesting.

There are indeed positives with popular culture but there also some negatives. Most of the time people are divided. Divided between large things such as politics, religion and race, and sometimes smaller things such as kind of sport is best or what music is good. Popular culture more or less pushes all those differences aside and brings everyone together through comedy or other sources of entertainment. Popular culture can create friend groups and said in the Impact of Pop Culture on Society article that pop culture can convince you to become more positive. Although all the things stated above are positive popular culture can have some negatives. Popular culture mainly affect the younger members of a society which means that the younger members are influenced by messages from famous people such as Jay-Z, messages such as greed, consumption and many more listed in the article We are what we consume. Sometimes popular culture does not always bring people together but can sometimes create social divide and could reduce free thinking.