Transformation. But first we had to india to learn more about young girls and marriage in which romance reading plays a role. Forced marriages can be nothing short of devastating for the young girls involved early marriage frequently means early motherhood and that often means dropping out of school this form of human rights abuse is not limited to a few countries either its a global issue in fact around seven hundred million women and girls alive today were married off before they were eighteen. And more than a third when i was even fifteen. The world leader when it comes to child brides is india the un estimates that nearly half of all indian women a married off before their eighteen. This is a man near khan at work in a Womens Center in hyderabad she tells us shes nineteen but doesnt know exactly when she was born. Near was only eleven years old when her parents sold her for fifty thousand rupees the equivalent of eight hundred euros. No one asked me my relatives came together and decided to marry me off to a seventy five year old man from amman they only told me on the day of the wedding when i saw the old man all i could do was cry i tried to persia estan said im far too young. Hes got me. India outlawed Child Marriage in two thousand and six but in munir is case as with many other women here the marriage broker used falsified documents corrupt him on precisely did over the wedding ceremony near i was forced to go with the old man for three weeks he sexually abused her in a hotel in hyderabad then he disappeared when the man was informed that munir was pregnant he divorced her over the phone from oman that was eight years ago until recently the muslim practice of instant divorce was legal in india the nearest door to moshe khan has never seen her father. That i have suffered a great deal whenever i think about it it still upsets me mentally i dont want to cry here in front of my daughter. Can shouldnt have to ask why her mother isnt happy that would upset her too much. To me but to go. Near it takes us to her parents she had no choice pregnant and still a child herself than a single mother monera had to move back home. Her mother refuge have big tells us how much she has also suffered because of the story but she means had daughters divorce she still doesnt see anything wrong with the marriage itself she only wanted her daughter to have a better life in the United Arab Emirates and says she had no idea the old man was only off to sex. With the our neighbors also married off their daughter to a shake and she got a new house and a small fortune. I was hoping for the same from neera thats why we married her off is what. Were near is family lives in a poor muslim area many people here believe that selling their daughters off to the emirates will be their salvation. The womens rights group shaheen says that this happens in every third family here. Every day desperate girls show up at the Womens Center not all of them are about to be sold off abroad often they come because of every day problems. Jameela in the shot is the founder of shaheen she doesnt accept poverty as an excuse she says the problem is that many muslim families few women as property its not just. Because it was poverty a it also but greed is one of the things and especially as the girl was married many gave a giving so much of it still money supposing she is married one day she may get fifty thousand sick and of the fifty thousand and if she is a good looking shes the one who lacks. Authorities in hyderabad have recently started to crack down on the trafficking of women and girls earlier this year Police Arrested numerous people including indian Marriage Brokers and men from the emirates seeking a child bride many of them are already married and wanted a second or third wife or just a quick thrill we meet the man who made the arrests possible haji khan himself spent years brokering illegal marriages to arab men he shows us the hotels that cooperated with him he warns us not to go that there would be trouble he tells us trafficking the women and girls is easy because until recently many indians didnt have official birth certificates or i. D. s. The girls now say they were eleven or twelve years old but thats not true in reality there were already eighteen i think all right maybe some were only fourteen or fifteen but only a few. In any case we just forced the paperwork to show there were twenty four or twenty five of. The shakes contacted this fire middlemen they then travel to india officially for medical treatment in a hospital then they married the girls. Most of them left the girls behind i knew the entire time that all this was illegal and i could end up in jail if the Police Caught me. At some point he says he started to feel guilty haji khan went to the police and helped them crack a trafficking ring. The story is confirmed by hyderabad assistant commissioner of police. He led the investigation and he still cant believe how parents are willing to sell off their children many of them under age. Five the law. Is this whole is happening ho ho the signal is. Going to the school not if hes not coming back at a given time. We were called to the principal know the girl is being sent to the country where you dont have. Many people in the slums of hyderabad are deeply religious the corrupt islamic clerics involved in trafficking child brides take advantage of their authority. The Indian Government gives the countrys Muslim Minority the right to issue its own marriage certificates morag. The islamic clerics who conduct the marriage ceremonies tell parents its all in accordance with the Quran Munira Khan has paid a better price for the cynicism as a divorced single mother she will have a hard time ever getting remarried. I made a comment but i want to share my story with everyone i dont want more girls to be sold off but the girls should be made aware of whats in store for them. Or that. Most of the women at the Shopping Center have been traumatized here or at least theyre provided with Safety Support and care and given the chance to regain control over their line. Was. Around six hundred fifty Million People around the world own a gun almost half of these private individuals from the us the rights to bear arms is firmly anchored in the american constitution but it remains a controversial topic in two thousand and fourteen firearms were responsible for the deaths of thirty four thousand people in the u. S. Two thirds of them were suicides. Who exactly decides to go out and buy a gun the survey says nearly a third of all u. S. Households have admitted to owning a pistol or rifle the large majority of us gun owners are white eighty one percent and almost three quarters are men but that may be about to change. These women are learning how to shoot their housewives similar mothers and pensioners the middle class a most of them have never held a gun before. My name is mark. Simone ive been teaching for about a year happening outside of the military right. Washingtons courses cater to africanamerican women who workshops across the country are always. Well you booked less than one Safety Training with a gun yes it may look like fun but the participants take it very seriously i have never shot a gun before but with the way things are going now its really necessary that we all learn how to protect their sales meetings and after the incident a few weeks ago in charlottes mail it just occurred to me that we cant totally depend on Law Enforcement to protect us to be there for us. The white supremacist rally in virginia this summer confirm for many that open racism remains widespread in the u. S. Its a factor cited by many of the women flocking to martial washingtons courses. Once theyre at the shooting range the first step is learning how to load a gun. The next step is far and with live ammunition its not as easy as marshall makes it look. At least. This participant got off to a good start after her very first go the target figure is riddled with holes. Everyone gets ten shots and encouragement as well as leaders. These arent going to use us like theyre women who are afraid. You know getting back that. Thats right here in this right here that means a loser collapse. So how do participants feel. How slow they are serious only a few. That i. Find i think. But its. Just i. Dont know its all smiles for the souvenir photo. None of the women are great shots yet but they do feel more confident. Washington belongs to the national africanamerican going to. The first group of its current africanamericans. The Atlanta Branch alone has grown from five hundred to one thousand members within two years and six hundred of them are women. On the industry is happy to supply them gun stores now also stock products specially designed for women. And shopping time the pension im asked. She wants advice and a handgun to bring along to the next far on this course. But can the ever growing number of weapons really help in the fight against racism. Years especially minorities we can be easy targets because a lot of us dont have firearms education so i think with firearms education we can learn how to legally defend ourselves and we wont be targets of hate crimes like we are now. Lives in rural georgia the women attending the gun classes say that in the Southern States of the us racism has never really gone away it was just less visible. They fear the trumpet ministration is empowering the wrong people and the racism is even becoming acceptable again. Mass youre still remembers the segregation era as a child she wasnt allowed to cross these train tracks because the other side was an all white community. Now at the age of sixty five she feels she needs a gun. But that one man assesses calla a state a large portion of their. Jets again with the culture changing we cant say that. Status quo. Meets up with their sisters none of them have been subjected to actual physical attacks but they feel threatened by unpleasant remarks. The past has left a deep legacy of fear. You will be booking a place on the next concourse and bring some friends with. Oh yes im taking you to my church im gonna put a bow on tonight we have a couple of. Lands women that we me often so i want to. This week on global ideas we go to Mauritania National park an undeniable paradise for. Nowhere else in west africa can you find so many different varieties of in such a small area the pump is located at the border between my tenure and senegal around the senegal river delta the region is highly vulnerable to Climate Change already hotel junia henry waxman went to find out more. Year for year the sea level here has been rising as locals can see with their own eyes a growing number of them are having to leave their homes along the beach the older generation still remembers what it used to look like here. What you didnt have the village to be here there were even houses on this very spot before it was all flooded there are probably remains of houses on the seabed over there. Under. The village in south mauritania as bordered by a river on one side and the ocean on the other. Theres very little infrastructure. But where are local supposed to move to. A dean works in the nearby de walling National Park he confirms the gravity of the situation. Did speak to. You much more spoke to an old man who told me that in the one nine hundred eighty s. The. She was two kilometers further. Now look at the damage the sea has done. The government is trying to ensure that people are relocated to a safer area. But the older generation refuses and says this is where our ancestors live were not going anywhere. Living from farming alone is increasingly difficult land is in short supply due to the ground becoming oversalted with their livelihoods destroyed people are having to move inland but the National Park twelve kilometers away provides alternative sources of income a few years ago it was home to far fewer animals today its a breeding ground for over three hundred species of birds including flamingoes crocodiles live here too. The warthog population is flourishing because the animals are not hunted here. Theres both fresh water and salt water in the senegal river delta. Nature conservation makes sense here protecting the ecosystem also creates jobs. So that is the goal of the park is to restore the ecosystem and fight public. Policy in this region. Because the local population does traditional work. They harvest whatever nature provides. The local economy is based on fishing and farming. Yet if there is no more water there will be nothing left. Locally caught is hung out to dry in the open air. Many villages have no electricity let alone refrigerators fishermen sell their fish across the country and even in neighboring senegal. And in the past people lived here from farming to. But really fishing makes most sense we can make a living from fishing all year round and they benefit from the lock in the basin there are lots of fish here. The abundance of fish is a recent development thirty years ago the region was left ravaged by this dam built in the one nine hundred eighty s. To supply mauritania senegal gambia and mali with fresh water. It devastated the natural environment. Because it was time. That the construction of the dom completely destabilized the ecosystem it was destroyed. The Natural Balance was destroyed the balance between sold water and fresh water. Wasnt fresh water was blocked and couldnt reach the National Park. Years later the problem was addressed with the construction of these locks built with the help of the german k F W Development bank and the German Development agency. As. These guys can be what it does is imitate ebb and flow salt water and fresh water are combined here so its a perfect habitat for fish to spawn in perfect and. Its a protected area because these are three flood basins. So its a perfect spot for resting and breeding not only for this but also for birds. That. The Park Authority has demarcated fishing zones and make sure the fishermen respect spawning seasons. For fresh water in the basin has helped revive the local fauna to. Lotuss have begun thriving again. Local women spend two to three hours a day in the water collecting seeds from the lotus stalks. Then the. Sort them shell and dry them and over a period of several weeks turn them into cous cous. After the dam was built until last year we couldnt harvest anything but now nature has started to recover the lotuses have returned and we can collect the seeds again since. They harvested some six hundred kilos last year and have to feed their families for months and sell the excess another successful venture made possible by the park local craft traditions have also made a comeback these women make jewelry theyre planning to sell the Raw Materials come from the National Park service and. These are tiny beads that they make from tree resin. Boy on the interest of his and we help them to extract the resin without destroying the trees. Back in the delta biologist but dean is out on the water almost every day taking a look at the nesting sites in. Jail and theres was hope i love these birds theyre my favorite animals. They have beautiful and theyre also proof that the environment is in good shape for the if theyre here then we know theres no environmental damage. And they dont make anything dirty. I love them. To do well in National Park is home to the greatest concentration of birds in west africa and in addition to rescuing animal habitats in the region the conservation zone has also helped to secure human livelihoods. Now its time to meet the battling Global People from the mound the welds hes made the gem and capital theyre heading. For live in five years now they may grow in the vibrant metropolis that we tell their stories everywhere. Stay on our Facebook Page. Society. Today all that and libel comes from say living in. Tokyo heartland people. Im looking for a was a. Lump. Of coal its basically you making sure that the people have a good time when you take them to pubs and various bars and with us we also take you to the club at the end. So its like a guided tour of the life like for little which i know many berliners frown upon but i think they should get a chance at least once. 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