its finest hours until the day i nearly vanished starts to lie 18 on d w. the . so this is the, the news advocates coming up from the program kenya is protest. as far as presidents were, you and we were to, into a major, climbed down to miles to pressure from the streets and withdraws a controversial bill. the proposed punitive taxes on the nation. but with many dead will this be enough to appease the young disillusion protest of i couldn't see and therefore i would not sign the trinity trinity for finance bill. and it should subsequently be withdrawn. also coming up on the show. they survived the west of prostitutes against the done

. now refugees in chad. we have the painstaking efforts of survivors trying to start over traffic court for that may be an l. g b to q community as a law banning set between man is lifted. and will this guarantee safety and freedoms for the career community? the i'm a just came on a welcome to the program. we begin in kenya, where the country is president william route to has announced the withdrawal of a controversial finance view of the sustained process against the legislation. now please open fire demonstrates us will storm the fall limits building and bunch government offices. at least $22.00 people died in the process, the mostly young protest as what we, with the proposed tax hikes of correspondence, phoenix, maureen got reports from a ruby. the tendency with

a morning to for an individual event kenya is parliamentarians have come to be the last respect the just travelers because on the, on the another protest, the next messiah day that we, i get from a maple. i'm exemplified by the police, the streets of nasal because nobody named images on the and avoiding or by indicating copy time. after weeks of logically peaceful protest flushes adopted between police and the people demanding that the government trumps from isolated has to be of the community. we've got on the to the young people are tired, they've seen new time has come in this bad governance and our tax is being used

wastefully. they take our taxes, but we can't see where the money goes up. a 20 is yes. and then the often with young we are experiencing, telling us we're having confidence in terms of peoples and everything. and we can schedule what instructors to me and at the end of the bill if it's brutal and then we'll talk about that. but listen, i think that government, but for now, executives that's been as m p 's while passing amended by sort of that being, protest does have broken into they came in. they said parts of the building on fire, forcing occasions, design for safety valve for testers, have been able to bring down for elementary. was they go to parliament and then that way we defend that's because miss and some of the got to lose their lives. there are conflicting reports about the exact number of deaths, hundreds of young people present in general, public and go like this is

a big change and can you better? most patients have traditionally been led by political parties led on the line to about the process for social media. young people like him being a driving force in this protest. the unity numbers, nobody paid us, there's no leader. there's nobody to faithful. anything god knows, even about the water to come outside. yeah. outside of the law and free will this protest i've seen the national and see if to see the i'm not keeping it as to having reclaimed the national narrative, brutal in his government. drone of the b, that's huge claim don't. and a huge risk. it's unclear that's enough to win over this new political force. the current and president who had on the a defied the protest as cold to reject the bill back, peddled on his position, say he now wants to work together with your citizens listening

to the people who have said loudly that they want nothing to do with these finance people 2024. i conceit and therefore i would not sign that printed, print the full finance bill and it should subsequently be withdrawn. and we can bring in jose and coming towards executive director of how to africa a kenya of civil society organization. he joins us now from ne ruby. so the saying rudo has said the fine us who is history. this means the protest as have one haven't a not quite sure the participants have one because we've lost lives . of hundreds actually injured. it wasn't really about winning, like more about, you know, standing up for just, just finding out for the country,

standing up for the resources piece mission. so while it's a big step forward, but the struggle continues. president, for to didn't say around that together with parliament tried to use the military to suppress the protest. and then we saw the judiciary restrict to that. what does this mean full kind of institutions and this democracy? i think 1st of all, it shows that as a country we have a priority to song. clearly you can be deploying the military and then at the same time, during the same week, you are deploying police officers to another country. i mean, why deployed the military and send our police officers to another country? it doesn't make sense. but it also means that the judiciary, the institutions mandated by the constitution to deliver on the monday it's actually steadfast. they have us to try me with the people of kenya, and they have defended the constitution at no time. should the executive deployed the military without the problem is approval and they just shut or announced itself

on that position. and be sure was that, you know, the reason independent the rest is not yet at the ideal situation, but definitely we must acknowledge and appreciate the positive steps that we are making as a country moving forward. and speaking of the plenty service at the start of the week, you tried to speak to the police about the team for testers. and then you will help yourself know, is this just one example of how the government can whip when i is the police service? i guess, democratic process he's as indeed i think we have made huge sites in ensuring independence of our various institutions in the country. but unfortunately, the police tend to be main. uh, you know, a tori, so used by the executive. the police have refused to change the police to remain largely a political to tools to be used and misused by politicians. and we feel that,

you know, more effort to, particularly in the dialogue, but that hopefully will be done in an open and transparent my not the police have to be put in check. we have very clear recording on the inspector general authorities to resign from his position. he has shown that he's the inefficient incompetent in dealing with these kinds of issues in kenya. and uh, you know, moving forward, the spotlight is on the police. so you want the inspector general and the leadership of the police to resign, but the young for testers want the president to go. so he met one of their demands . but how safe is he? well as the young for just to say the bone of contention was the finance be and you know that the tax is the just crazy. um yes. were clearly man the president. easy, know what situation bunch he has ever been. they the jury is the i was on, she's public, he's a, he's dealership,

and we still that the time has come for us to ask questions. i think 5 years, he's the very far ahead. but all the same, it's kenya until we decide the fate of the president. because you know, we're all governed by the constitution. at no time have we, you know, asked for anything and respects of the constitution patients. we recognize that she's in office as an elective. eda, but as canyons have spoken loudly, you know, the next few days will be crucial in determining the way for jose and connie, executive director of how to africa. thank you for your time. i thank you very much . now for more than a yeah, the student is army, has been fighting the paramilitary rapids support forces, or recess of the control of the country. the conflict has left thousands dead and displaced more than 10000000. many fled to neighboring chad rights. go see the r

assessment allied arab munitions have committed widespread killings, rapes and other prostitutes. possibly amounting to a general site in west or for that targeting people, one african ethnicity in particular. the mass of needs. there wasn't majority in the city of l janina in west of, for until the our assess, brutally attacked it, such as those last year. many said across the board to chad and a student living in audrey, or correspondents, mario will a travel of that and met survivors of sexual violence. it seems highly mccain. remember she has missed and can studies case people every time she thought she found safety. another attack happened. it was always the same perpetrators and their allies. she says the full much angel we administer now known as rapid support forces or as of today. and in june 2023, they attacked the area of age. and nina, where she left, i didn't get the 5th time, i saw how to get people to the 1st day when they attacked the killed many and ago.

and they fell down right in front of us. and then we'll go for them that they felt like it would never end me. and let me know, you can imagine that we've got a lima whose name was changed to protect her. she was living with a family at the side for the space people. when she heard the militants arrive from the motor bikes for the style and mean my room. 4 of them charging me with guns. windshields minus the others left the room. the one who stayed raped me, i fucked him a lot. i didn't want him to raped me, but i was so scared of his gun. and then i only felt pain to see when it was over. she ran away, stepping over 20 bodies lying on the road. then she stopped counting. after crossing the border to tried, lima felt safe, but couldn't find any medical help. 3 days later, the pain subsided,

but the memory store keep her from sleeping. she says the hour of iris f melissa, talk to her because she belongs to the muscle, lead an african in mississippi. we will set the spoke to more than a 1000 survivors of kings and sexual violence. all of them told us the attack is but specifically targeting muscle, each aiming to ethnic kitchens, african ethnic groups from the for, i shouldn't say is one of his mouth. and he ask, what's your try? i didn't send him all his muscle lead. i said on for trying, this is the thing you said. if your muscles are listed, your throat depends about next. some value that they said there won't be any land belonging to muscle anymore. this is there and they don't want muscle. it to own land. the survive of stories are backed up by human rights watch. it is documented numerous atrocities and want of a possible genocide against the muscle. people in west the 4 hours of did not respond are requests for comment power, whose name was also changed by

a safety survived similar attack. she says and ours f i to into the home on june 8th, 2023. and let us to the he loaded his gun to shoot my mom and he's charging for me . i'm not sure the bulletin i said shooting me instead of the 2 said i won't kill you. i killed your brothers outside. he went and shot a 20 year old cousin. then she heard her mother and i go to the good and he beat me to hold for when i go with a, with a stick on the wall to contain, i have seen this morning on the line. you can give, then threw me on the bed and started to raise me she bled heavily. the days later she was able to find a hospital where she needed stitches. she still sometimes feels pain when she walks . of these women now and safety in charge of many here live in deplorable

conditions and that comes lacking medical support. food for to and basic shelter. the un as cold as the largest displacement crisis in the world with move in 10000000 people forced to see that homes almost 600000. so denise refugees now living and neighboring chat. but 8 organizations say massive funding shortages mean they are unable to cope with their needs and become a group of refugee women have created a safe space where survivors can talk openly and without stigma about what happened to them and the hopes for the future. and the signal communication and my hope is to complete my studies and economics one stuff and i hope to work in a bank as an accountant or as a business administrator. oh great. that it's, i'm not for the kind of the situation improves that want to go to university. i'm

advice, but i want to learn to be a doctor. they say all they want is to get their lives back. they're hoping for peace. so they can finally move on so how widespread is sexual violence in so done? that's the question i put to primula patton, the united nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict. it's, it's always very hard to get up to a data on an active battlefield and sexual violence remains. the dramatic of the under reported cry and you do many factors including shame and stigma, but feel reprisal and lack of access to the services or reporting. and it is nearly impossible in the context of the car industry days to get up to a data because you want i'm the joey deal going to last or after. so i've had to leave the country and the work of civil society is also hampered by rent, bunting,

security, and switch. but we do have some indications of the gravity and the brutality of sexual violence. the annual report of the secular general for 2023 documented cases of wave dang, rape, attempted rape, abduction and trafficking perpetrated against 98 women. aging goes one man and one boy and in a single attack. as many as 20 women were reported the way there is also information movies of that we have received about the abduction of over 160 women and girls held in captivity. including reports of these women being great and kept in slavery like conditions when we have we, boards of women and goes up to the cartoon state who would take her to other parts of da for allegedly even change in the back of trucks and or lose you know, lose all these cases are as of elements. oh, i see data made

a show where implicated. right? so because that would be because if you're going to do the rest of the because they've introduced the rest of, i just want to jump in there because i know that you didn't speak to the need a shape of a acknowledged, told the rates that are happening there and if so, do they plan to do anything about these atrocities? to what seems to start with the conflict in april 2023. i gave you both bodies, i c, f and are, is that on the 1st of august of 2023, i had a meeting with general abdur rahim de got the deputy commander of the of the iris center and i raise we see him all these we both reports that i had at the time, reports of sexual violence in called to mend off will reports of at the increasing the number of abducted women in goes reports about the targeting of medical infrastructure and personal giving support to victims of sexual violence. and also who would probably do something about the existence of slave markets in industrial

. we women and goes being sold, including into sexual slavery or helpful ransom. and i urge team to issue the full no undertaking of the full amount that you need actual community condemning sexual violence and committing to effective measures to prevent of the address such violations. including fluid time bound into my dish and blog as well as combined order as a degree as your daughter when's with sexual buttons as part of upholding military disappearing? he acknowledged, i must say the gravity of sexual bought into the context of conflict. he agreed to issue both, so you need to communicate and the command order is declaring 0. darwin's was sexual guidance and you do so after. so shortly after, after the meeting. but unfortunately, i must say that's up to now i do not see any discernible behavioral change on the ground because we believe continue to pull in about atrocities being perpetrated by

our assess. and it's of video to admit issue. and that is why even the context of my upcoming visit to try them both to the next month. i intend to re engage with the leadership of the r as a in order to bring to their attention all these reports, which i have mentioned, but also to remind them of their commitments and it'll be jason's under international. all right, well i thank you so much for your time coming up, attend the, the united facial special representative on sexual violence and conflict. thank you . now, hi, caught in a maybe a has struck down those criminalizing sexual acts between men. sex between women is not illegal in the media. the laws base it back to the 19 twenty's when the media was administered by south africa. and it's really the country's court said, banning same sex acts was unconstitutional. the ruling has been celebrated by

that may be his eligibility community. 2 for them, the decision marxist off to the new era the case was brought to my local act to base freedom, now's up with the support of an n g o in london from me, personality disorder, kidney, and sudden my life. when my legs are waiting on it never be a climb again. for the past, 50 is as well as the game and we've always been swimming now some deadlines really come day. their quarters declared jesus unconstitutionality below criminalizing states between men dated back to the colonial era. it was rarely enforced puts, it meant many game in lifting state of the rest. it's also fuse discrimination of the algebra community. i need all the beacon of hope because we are living in the climate. they'll see a from state sanctioned homophobia and hate speech. the judgement may represent a victory for gay man and the allies, but some fit could also cause a backlash will make is already pushing for legislation,

outgoing gay and lesbian. marriage and large segments of no baby and society remain deeply conservative. being a 3 she is in the use of both sides and it comes in all 43, she, i need to go into these these. so this step things, because we have to think about, if you don't fall to the is always going to have been seen it. you just do comes fortunately the back to this, the judges that even if a majority of them, it being held such views, this would not justify making sex between men crying. are we spoke to the active list? you saw in that report for the del sol, and i asked him if the overturning of the law would be enough to end discrimination and violence against the l. g. b to q community in the media? i only say, december 10th, was supposed to have gone 50 years ago. we still have discrimination in employment

and no express protection plus extra orientation employment law. while we still have a domestic violence a that it excludes things that's couples as a domestic relationship. and we have a whole lot of flaws when that i know protections. what has happened with the removal of this law from the legal system is, is really address uh the criminalizing. what we need now is protect definitely loss of employment in have in a sense of us including manage equality, right. so as i mentioned, the career community is to, doesn't enjoy some rights and protections. and we know that in a maybe a still criminalizes support promotion or even celebration of same sex unions. do you have any plans to challenge some of these laws as well? a little bit of correction um it is not criminalized. what is

a beautiful body and where we do need international support at the moment? is that department asked our last to? yeah. when the don't the side rights we have provided to the for any type most of number of medians. many in the country restrictions like jeremy need, uh or south africa. uh, able to get it on the side of it. uh uh, punishment is proposing to know that is uh, that is fair to both of us as a part of and, and there's no sitting with a precedent on that part of the law. same sex marriage. but we're also creating unless some sort of nice, some of things fixed maybe just in the media at the moment. uh, unfortunately it is not a crime, but we do need international support and press up to ensure that the slow does not come into effect. so for, i don't know, maybe it has now joined several countries in particularly south africa,

where we have people successfully litigated for their rights. do you think that this successful struggle in the media will inspire perhaps of the african countries on the continent or at least a home? uh and we, if you do read that maybe of this sort of new challenge, it is really happening that uh for example, uh the taxes on the pen out of so in fact, human rights of entity into my note, additional data cannot be left to the populace or the, or the majority, but it is the duty of the courts to ensure that big human rights of the weakest and their most by the, you know, community is protected by the quotes s and the constitution. and so we, we spend strongly on constitutional provisions. we hope that

a legal jurisdictions, but it's somebody you've got and guy and i did. yeah. i but they used to be the uh and, and various ending and a lot of quotes uh to come at a more humane, more just um and uh, a great outcomes for the challenges in those countries mentioned before for the dallas of joining us for the circle point in the media. thank you so much for your time. thank you. well, that's it for now. be sure to check out other stories on d, w dot com, forward slash africa, or on social media. thank you for watching the,

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