Transcripts For DW Global 3000 - The Globalization Program 2

A stand against widespread violence. Violence against women is a global problem a study ranks the u. S. Is the tenth most dangerous country for women primarily when it comes to Sexual Violence in the other nine Human Trafficking misfortune istic traditions more health care and discrimination also cost a shadow over daily life in india tops that list over one hundred rapes are reported every day still to be just a tiny fraction of the actual number. Sometimes actions speak louder than words and the wave of Sexual Violence in india needs a response to sharma and her fellow School Teachers are here not just for their own selfdefense later theyll also be training their pupils before meeting. Its important for women to learn how to defend themselves. There are so many assaults on buses and subways so its good for women to attend these classes to learn selfdefense i doubt about it quite a lot of men dont engage with the issue and they just do what they want. Some Police Forces in india are now offering a variety of training courses a culture of Sexual Violence is widespread in this country its clear to instructor uganda data that women need to know how to protect themselves because. Women are particularly at risk after dark thats when most rapes happen and kidnappings too. We launched this Training Program to enable women to feel stronger and more confident. These videos posted online illustrate every day harassment in the first a man presses up against a woman in the crowd only when he notices the camera to see disappear. The perpetrators include police officers. Them are all in this case the man pretended to be asleep while molesting a woman model the model witnesses challenge him. He was later dismissed from the police force. Among the victims whose lives have been shattered by Sexual Violence is shoved naam. At the age of seventeen she was raped by ten men. Her family has stood by her which is not the case for many other women and girls in india rape is widely seen as a stigma you know september it was in september i came into town from my village to visit my grandmother they grabbed me from behind drag me away. And then called the others. With no end to the problem of male violence inside selfdefense classes for women have been growing in demand in recent years. Theyve even been introduced to the curriculum and taught at girls schools across the country. Yeah i think that morning to go. Back to pull it off that im like some people. Say oh it was importing yes i think very confident of a strong enmity depending on by the luck of those i fit into. Teacher and selfdefense coach covey to sharma takes the bus to and from work every day as well as being hot and stuffy it can be extremely cramped on board and its in crowds where the male perpetrators feel especially confident about molesting women. Ive had some really nasty experiences is exhausting having to think about it. Its not my fault. When we break the men they insult us they touch us everywhere it makes me want to cry. But he will move us like you. All too frequently the police prefer to ignore or even suppress complaints of harassment and assault rather than take action but a growing number of indians have had enough a lot of taxes in delhi now bear stickers calling for an end to the violence and more support for women. Hard. To go to work in order to make a living but now im even afraid for my childrens safety when i leave them at home and before that im not even safe there so even at work. Which is why she holds an afternoon selfdefense class for her daughter and other local children on the roofs. Her home. Skills like these will help make young women more confident and less vulnerable. What about the role of women in politics well why just a handful of women hold top political positions very few countries have a female head of government globally speaking only twenty four percent of parliamentary seats are filled by women but in the state of panama were still finding talented and committed women. Have arrived they now share a parliamentary seat in the brazilian state of pan am boko joins us translates us together was mine. The group is made up of film a music producer lino. Say lima the first trans lawyer and the region. Street trader conti. Literature student joy mark cobb law. And Elementary School teacher. The right to run collectively for Political Office is new in brazil the five met each other during grassroots political work only one of them can physically occupy the seat of course their greed that joke of a county would do that but should all share Everything Else from the salary to the political projects involved. We will all members of the socialism a Liberty Party a little considered running individual efore office. But in the end we have the revolutionary idea to bond together. The joint us want to show that. While policymaking is traditionally top down it doesnt have to be that way. Of people say theyre sick of politics as usual and they dont feel like participating. But politics rules our lives if you get on the bus to ride into the city youre encountering politics i think that getting people involved in making political decisions is extremely important. To a group also want to push the issue of womens rights in twenty fourteen women occupy just ten and a half percent of the seats in all of brazils parliaments that number crept up to fifteen percent last year. The. Idea to set up a collective feminist candidacy and take on a position of power was our desire to improve the lot of women. Home because when life improves for women especially for black women it is when Childcare Services get better when you dont have to fear leaving your house anymore when children get the chance to go to a good school and a woman gets to decide what happens to her own body all those things dont just make life better for women they improve society as a whole. The group won forty thousand votes to gain their seat many of their supporters are involved in unions or human rights work the Business Community and evangelical churches generally prefer to support established politicians. But we dont expect them to welcome us in parliament with open arms were prepared for confrontation but its not its an everyday part of life for us and. You know. They were number fifty one hundred eighty on the ballot paper on the campaign trail their commitment to working together with everyday people was clear to see. We spoke to people personally and we discovered that it made a huge difference otherwise the only place people see a parliamentarian this behind the desk theres no personal dialogue in the its in the op but with this approach you build bridges between the people in the politicians in other words were trying to communicate more directly. We want to approach people and show them that were there for them to serve them and build something together with them. Up there isnt in fact is were now part of a parliament thats mostly made up of white men. So through our presence alone were already making a political statement its almost all the. Brazils newly elected right wing government has already announced plans to cut funding for Health Education and social services. So the chontosh will have a lot on their plates in the weeks and months to come. We will support each other through the dark phase that is possibly awaiting us one where they want to take away more and more from us what we will fight it together every morning we open the paper and ask ourselves which of all rights of theyve taken away since yesterday. According to the World Health Organization one point three billion people around the world are in some way recently in hand for those who cannot see well or a blind participating in society can be very difficult almost two thirds of the thirty six million blind people worldwide. Cite problems are often age related industrialized countries whereas in developing countries and emerging economies women and girls have less access to Proper Health care. And little support from the state but in peru we met a woman whos none the less pursuing her jerry. Lewis is not one to give up easily training on sand in thirty degree celsius heat is extra strenuous she specializes in the one hundred and two hundred metre sprint disciplines norris has the athletic talent but need someone to guide her because shes blind. In himachal style was really tough at first i would only run a short distance and i was already tired i just wasnt in shape but now my body is used to it and. Now shes training with some of the best disabled athletes in peru under the strenuous watch of her coach she trains for four hours a day six days a week by the end of the session everyones exhausted but happy with what theyve achieved. Many of the children here are afraid to integrate into society because they feel inferior. Ones to realize they can do the same things that others without disabilities can do it gives them a sense of affirmation to use as athletes but also as human beings have not put us on. The training forges team spirit its also their own little haven here a disability is nothing out of the ordinary unlike elsewhere in the peruvian capital there isnt much in the way of signals ramps or railings to help visually impaired people lima is a city of ten million with massive traffic congestion. But bus drivers often just ignore law has two buses go by before one finally stops to let iran. Last im lucky to get a c. Today people dont always give up their seat for me there are days when i have to stand or someone beats me to a seat. Its complicated if. Lord its lost her sight when she was fourteen she was taking powerful medication for an auto immune disease an overdose destroyed her optic nerve and one morning she woke up blind that was thirteen years ago. I got really depressed i just couldnt accept it the illness was already bad enough and then i was suddenly blind to. All i wondered what else would go wrong. I noticed gradually felt her way back into her new life at home everything has its fixed place but outside life is more of a battle lord has a College Degree thanks only to huge help from her mother. I read all the books that she needed i read them out loud and recorded myself. That way she was able to listen to the recordings and learn what she needed to know. I must have recorded more than fifty books the dolla i read them at night or early in the morning so that she could study and its the. But for all the progress there are setbacks lotus has applied for numerous jobs with newspapers and agencies but to no avail. They dont even say ok ill give you a chance to show what you can do with if you can write well or not as soon as they see the word disability they just say you know i cant employ you but it isnt the person that got us here in peru blind people dont get any direct help from the state but the government does Fund Associations like ceci is a center that helps the visually impaired to find their place in society. Anyway so once they gain their independence they start asking ok what can i do should i go to high school or look for a job do i want to be an artist or musician and. This is got involved in a Theatre Project and neutral class of us has headed up the initiative for the past nine years hes a well known actor in peru. He says the work has totally changed his perspective. I know. When i first started they would ask me for selfies and i thought at that line people want to go wow and it was a moment that inspired me the entire day im glad i discovered that because i started to think ok keep it here they tell us blind people can do almost everything they just do it differently you. Know this is like why its not allowing her blindness to hold her back and also the last year i was able to represent my country in sport in colombia and it was the first time id been in a plane and the first time id left peru. That it was like a dream come true to represent peru and competition. And so she keeps up the training constantly pushing the boundaries whatever life throws at her this is a woman whos determined to reach her full potential. For. This weeks global team comes from southeast asia. Ok let me change. My name is grace gambrell and i live in bangkok thailand. So i am half new Zealand Australia and how to tie. It provides a lot of schedule to my life and also it builds a really Great Community and gives me things to do in my free time and find out what i like and what i enjoy. Like play volleyball do art and play piano. I like thai pop music and korean pop music. Theres a lot more call acoustic type of music while korean pop a lot more dance and more kind of. Personally in terms of my future job future goals i hope to either major in architecture or psychology or both but realistically what i really want to have in the future is happy and. I think the entire environmental problem and overpopulation problem is one of the biggest that we probably have to deal with pretty quickly the garbage is in the oceans are only getting bigger there are not many famous solutions that are happening right now so its kind of worrying to see those issues getting bigger and bigger are not seeing as much action as wed hoped. Best image suggests that the population of africa could well double over the next thirty years from one point two to two point five billion rwanda already has more than twelve million inhabitants making it one of the most densely populated countries on the continent. In this weeks global ideas. Page a visit to the Volcanoes National calm and use when deforestation is posing a huge threat to local wildlife if the. They can only be found in the mountains and even here only in a few forests golden monkeys. Every day ranger show visitors around Volcanoes National park where they can observe the monkeys in the wild and photograph them. Golden monkeys are endangered their habitat is shrinking rapidly so conservationists are especially keen to preserve this forest and people overall is one of the. Key elements we need to make sure about today is the park. Before voiding poaching the problems we have many people used to go for cutting trees like a bomb with trees can be used for how to craft. A fast growing eucalyptus trees have crowded out indigenous vegetation all over the park. The Rwandan Environment Management Authority says eighty percent of all households in the country use wood for cooking fuel. Gets off to an early start on her walk to where she collects wood by the time she gets home shell be tired and her back will take. She can no longer carry so much wood now that shes had a baby so instead claudine frequently that. Cooking on a traditional three stone fireplace wastes a lot of warrant it takes hours for the mother of four to prepare a meal as most of the heat disappears into the room and the acrid smoke pollutes the air. My eyes and not good at all sometimes i cant see anything anymore because of all the smoke in my eyes. I have to cook for my children so i have no choice you know i cant let my family starve just because. I am really worried about them and. About eighteen months ago her neighbor plough de niro border terry got a new stove she only had to pay part of the cost but even that is an affordable for most people here. With the new stove cooking takes only half as long and there is less smoke pollution. But when. My new stove my health is improved my eyes dont water any more when i cook. My cough is gone and i no longer get dizzy. Dean got her new stove from an Austrian Firm called li cano. Soon the Company Wants to equip even more communities around the National Park with these cookers. The plan is to supply fifty thousand households all together. A contributing to delay doctrine of carbon so we have those critics. Again buying this dough from the fact. The cookers are produced in the capital kigali in a large factory about ten kilometers from the City Center One of the key elements in the stove is made from a local waste product. This is coffee husk residue which can be purchased cheaply from local farmers coffee is a key export product in rwanda the husks are mixed with locally sourced clay to form an insulating material. That is then used to create clay cylinders like these which are placed inside the stove an element like this can withstand heat of Thirteen Hundred degrees celcius from its walkies to insulate they take to the floor and then create jimminy effect which is needed for Efficient Running of the few or so in the to where it is going to reduce on this smoke on the other products or combustion ones which are not healthy to the user. To the end right on. The clay cylinder is surrounded with another heat insulating layer of clay. That stops the cooker from losing heat. And keeps it stable. The producer guarantees the stove for at least seven years. The Economy Company developed the design together with the women who use the cookers. Scientists from neighboring have tested how much would they can save with it. We men. On the workshop we are finding. Sixty. Used to spend seven euro zone week on firewood now she only spends a third of that. She has already bought five sheep with the money she saved they provide the family with wool and meat. And her two school aged sons can use their time to study and do homework as they no longer have to help gather firewood. For danes spends her afternoons in the womens club there she and other villagers create handicrafts together another money making venture. What theyre making here gets sold to tourists who come through the village on their way to Volcanoes National park which is just four hundred metres away. The reduction in wood consumption is also relieving the pressure on the remaining primeval forests an important step in preserving the habitat of the endangered golden monkeys. 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