A transport revolution jaring the coronavirus lockdown. But fast women in afghanistan fear that a return of the taliban could threaten their hard won freedoms. 18 years after the islamist taliban were driven from power in afghanistan women in the country still face discrimination and hardship theres an arc of schools particularly for girls in 2018 as much as 90 percent of women had only attended Primary School many iran able to read or write. After the taliban were ousted during a u. S. Led military intervention in late 2001 women hoped their lives would change for the better but the western military alliance has gradually pulled out of afghanistan and many now fia return of the tarot and i say sion according to a survey by a us Research Consultancy gallup poll. Most heart of all afghan women would leave the country if they could have a son my determined to fight for their rights at home. Working out his guys you yardies wave beating stress attacks occur on an almost daily basis in kabul where she lives its a city in a constant state of emergency. Ari works for afghanistans government in the muslim countries male dominated society shes a woman in a position of leadership. And shes surrounded by a lot of toxicology she says. She comes to the gym to one wind. Living in a conflict zone in a country that is struggling so much in different layers i think if a strong woman and woman who are leading do not take care of themselves mental wise at the center of physical what is the thing they will not be capable of leading and managing their work. Heads up an all male team whose job it is to reform the Civil Service the Team Investigates complaints relating to issues such as the awarding of positions and the sluggish bureaucracy. The Afghan Administration is rife with nepotism and corruption problems that the government has pledged to clamp down on. I think sometimes im jazzed because im a woman and im very bold about my statements in any way possible way. To use advocacy without money in any meetings i think those. Things in the commission are not received. Yari leads an unconventional life shes unmarried and lives with her nieces and nephews as a child she was betrothed to a member of the taliban but later escaped to the u. S. Many men in her family were killed in the years of conflict but her brother survived. Guys yari studied in the u. S. And returned to afghanistan where she belongs to a new generation of educated young women who insist on the rights she would even be willing to negotiate with the taliban whether group to return to power. 200 kilometers away in grow afghanistan life for women is much harder. Tanya nori runs a restaurant its a safe space for women she also belongs to a generation of afghan women who refused to be confined to their homes. Im on it but under the taliban regime girls were barred from going to school young women couldnt study at University Women werent allowed to leave their homes unaccompanied only with their husbands and they had to wear burkas we werent even allowed to wear sandals with them as well as working in the restaurant tania nori studies dentistry a considerable workload but she doesnt mind. Studying and running a restaurant wasnt what her family had planned for her. But she has her husband support. I want to be a role model for other women i want to encourage them they should understand that women can stand on their own 2 feet. She employs mainly women. Many of the customers come because they want to support the restaurant. On fridays guys who yari goes hiking with her family in the mountains outside kabul. Her family take a liberal approach to gender roles thats unusual in this highly traditional country. Guys yari believes in freedom for everyone for me i think freedom means. Thinking freely making my choice freely walking freely. Giving my ideas my opinions freely with without any limitations. But what would she do if that freedom were denied her if that were the price of peace in afghanistan. That would be horrible i hope i hope the taliban will not take our freedom away and we have fought very hard in the past 19 years i dont think afghan women already to lose this so. I will fight fight for herself and for the freedom of future generations of women in afghanistan. Repression and discrimination are part of life for many women around the world not just in afghanistan on our Facebook Channel d. W. Women youll find stories about those taking a stand and inspiring others d. W. Women gives a voice to women everywhere. To Southeast Asia now west and me in ma is home to the range of people according to the un that one of the worlds most persecuted minority groups in may need to just me and mom the predominantly muslim or hinge are not allowed to vote they have no access to Higher Education and their villages and places of worship are frequently attacked several 100 settlements have been set alight and many residents killed. Many written just have fled the country around 900000 now live in neighboring bangladesh others have sought refuge in India Pakistan indonesia and malaysia but their host countries are often anything but welcoming. Abu civics desperate journey began in 2014 over nice you had to flee his fishing village. Together with thousands of other Rohingya Muslims he fled the militarys brutal persecution in his home country of me and maher. A lot about it thats why they came to burn down our houses we ran for our lives then a fire engine came and we thought it would put out the fire instead its pretty gasoline onto the fire and the entire village burst into flames. Eventually obtuse addict ended up in the malaysian capital of kuala lumpur many who travelled with him on the secret smuggling routes died along the way you know level that we lost everything in our homes our land our identity now were stuck in our country and we know nothing about. I mean and also you know with your money. Nearly 180000 refugees and Asylum Seekers live in malaysia most of the. My rowing go for decades the country has refused to sign the Un Geneva Convention of 951 for malaysias refugees that means no recognised status no protection and no rights. Children are the worst affected malaysia hinders their access to an education 2 thirds of the children do not go to school at all the rest attend informal learning centers such as the Future School. Deborah henry founded the private school in 2009 its funded by donations many of the children here are traumatised. I remember when i 1st started working with the students we did this activity i gave them pieces of paper and crayons and i said to them just draw something you know your family and your favorite things in their pages remained black and what caused that why why were they not able to dream and to and to create and to think outside of the box and i think theyve gone through so much that he just couldnt they couldnt see beyond now what do you do to like stories someones imagination to get them dreaming and. d d d the children learn english and math at the future to school and theyre encouraged to develop selfconfidence and a sense of personal responsibility d when theyre ready to put in the effort they can achieve a loss thats the message that founder Deborah Henry wants to send d to. My designs you know if i. Find. That. Debra henry began working as a fashion model when she was 15 she became one of the most famous beauty. Queens of malaysia but then she had the idea to put her fame to good use to fight for refugees rights. With this moment i posted a documentary that i visited these refugees out is living 20 minutes from our beautiful twin towers and i couldnt believe that they were here in malaysia in my home and they werent going to school and i think that was a big turning point for a kid in this well today without an education or setting them up to fail. After fleeing me in march of 2 sidique struggled for 6 years to survive in malaysia. 6 years in which he had no legal work promised and was forced to do odd jobs to feed himself and his family. 6 years in which they received no medical care. We miss our homeland very much we ask the International Community to find justice for us we want to go home if we can we cant bear living as refugees in a foreign country we hope that the International Community will help end the conflict so that my country can be at peace and we can me turn to our homeland god willing. To dicks journey is not over yet the United States approved his asylum application a few weeks ago. His wife and their 2 children will be resettled in the midwest 2nd you beginning. Something hundreds of thousands of others in malaysia can only dream about many refugees here feel abandoned by the government without an official status and opportunities they have been silenced and marginalized. The average malaysian will live life and never meet a refugee and so why should a refugee matter to them how is this going to affect their life how do we tell that story of what it means to be a refugee the fact that is anyone can be a refugee its not a function of your wealth your education and privilege anyone can be a refugee just like that and so what then what role do you play when youre in a position where you are born into a safe country where you dont have conflict and war how can you then lend a hand to someone else in need. With her Future SchoolDeborah Henry has made it possible for 400. 00 refugee children to receive an education and she will continue to fight for Refugee Rights in malaysia. By the end of this century the u. N. Estimates there will be just under 11000000000 People Living on our planets in order to accommodate the mole an additional 2000000000 new homes will need to be built by 20 100. 00 and nightmare for the environment as most buildings a made from concretes which is made from cement by the middle of the century the demand for cement is set to rise by 25 percent a year cement production uses a lot of energy and creates huge amounts of climate damaging c o 2 so we need Building Materials which dont contain cement and which are affordable football. To men with one vision. And 2 bode want to transform the Construction Industry with cement. Free concrete with support from businesses theyre constructing a display house its their 1st attempt to use the material in their impishness project a significant step toward their goal its kind of an amazing feeling we didnt need but this week its good to. See. Because there was a lot of and we are quite happy to see there in. London spent years researching cement free Building Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology in zurich cement is responsible for 80 percent of worldwide Carbon Emissions a more sustainable Building Material is long overdue lundell founded on construction sites where every year millions of tons of clay based excavation materials are disposed of but when theyre mixed with a naturally occurring mineral and water they result in a Construction Material thats more environmentally friendly than standard concrete of them come with a clean and free of concrete is up to 90 percent. C o 2 production compared to conventional concrete and the other advantage is that we dong moves. Like primary role matter to you but come from a place in like crap on the inside and. In some areas in the war but we use construction Waste Landfill most of the time and. They are much as cheap to access therefore like and reduce the price of the confession material. This earth concrete can be processed more or less like standard concrete. But it currently around half the cost. Yeah the landreau was inspired by building practices in his home country he grew up in togo where clay or earth houses are a common sight in many countries in africa cement housing this. Kind of wall therefore you need to have ventilation system and stuff like this where other stuff you dont i think that. Together with his colleague. Hes founded a start up. There was a shortage of housing all over the world these days the Construction Industry is under pressure not to Waste Resources theres a demand for the cement free concrete in industrialized nations but also in countries where affordability is a priority including in parts of africa where millions of new homes need to be built in the upcoming years. We have plans for. We need to build houses for 2000000000 people. In country where. The Building Material costs more. Therefore. Its really important its. Our dream and of not. Being able to implement. A huge achievement. And. Sustainable accommodation. The display home is one step closer to fulfilling that dream but drawing walls will undergo further tests as the 2 scientists work to optimize their earth concrete one day they hope it will be a bedrock of the Construction Industry. This weekend global ideas we find out about a potential shift towards Climate Friendly methods of transport our reporter julie hopped on a motorcycle and rode around ugandas capital kampala due to the Coronavirus Crisis the normally chaotic roads and the city could become the starting point for transport revolution across the whole nation. Coronavirus look down. The streets of never been so empty but francis of his loudest to deliver a say shows and Something Else is different francis is one of the few people in uganda driving an electric motor bike. He sees a lot of advantages to it and i wanted to silent now but to doesnt question few it at all. Number 3. Claims very aware. Ok as for deliveries being eagerly awaited play pregnant customer. Since he serves them few well he can charge less than his competitors. Hes actually very cheap to buy them in the end. I think. They go there that people are doubling their praise so literally inconvenient for me. Images from just weeks ago. In kampala alone there are about 830000 motorcycles oh border borders. The masses of motorized play cause generate a huge amount of air pollution and c o 2 emissions. That is why the United NationsEnvironment Program the unit provides advice and Financial Support for electric mobility in eastern africa. We need the media response you need intermediary interventions and electric mobility is one of those because its. Not a structure they need they dont need so you can have it. And. Development part of that path requires pioneers like korea and. The graduates of arkan university in germany had a problematic idea take your riddick system fuel motorbikes in kampala and transform them into electric bikes. So all we remove is what you call the petrol powered train. Petrol driven. And we poured an electric. Can see its the same bike fuel truck just empty of course. And what we put inside is mainly a controller and the electrical. An electric motor or a battery as a source of power replacing the fuel tank and some digital controls of throttle lithium ion batteries recovered old laptops are assembled into Rechargeable Battery units for the bike and the recycling loop continues even when the batteries become too weak to use in the e. Bikes so what we do get in your batteries use it for your mobility. After that when they lose a bit of power we either put it we put it in Storage Systems like our. Power resolves one loses a good bit of power we go through tortures another small hour before it goes through to be disposed. Delivery month francis is one of the 20 drivers testing the transformed bikes. On average he has to return to board a walk twice a day to recharge. He rents the patches for the evening to have less than 3 euros a day. All in all these is kind of his operating costs by half but there is still one thing that bothers him. World of one place where we where we swap it but. That is that he said even to get the feedback about all we are getting from the boat are geysers also also because. It doubles their income saw family is full fee we see kids being brought from the village that are now schooling income because the writers have more money. This right days Johnny Johnny had done. He had worked for a Solar Energy Company for several years before he decided to try to make company as motorbikes cleena. With his startup zimbo he now imports cutting edge electric motor bikes from china. Each one sells for about a 1000 euros thats quite a bit of money but the drivers can be over a period of 2 years. And the bikes are tailored to their specific needs here. Driving is different than chinese person commuting to work here we really look into productive he was hundreds of kilometers every day. There is still a long way to go through all right if. Only because you. Only live very this start up a slow 20 bikes so far. And they expect a to more within the next 2 months. Zain boys are already creating employment sarra tabel couldnt find a job for 2 years now shes in charge of marketing actually it makes me feel very very proud of myself that im contributing a lot to be part of the great team which is actually pretty beauty. To eat mobility for a small fee of just over half a euro is embodied driver can exchange to batching playfully charged 1. 00. This important like some little grain since the electricity comes from the solar energy on top of the companys beauty. Formosa like charging points or planting compile a small. Energy generated within the country not like you which is imported from outside. So this has a huge impact on the envir