hello welcome this is equal india with a wedding special edition as we celebrate international women's day around the world we want to raise a toast to all the women who are working relentlessly to make sure we are able to step into a cleaner greener and a more sustainable tomorrow i'm son with our group coming to you from mumbai in india over the next thirty minutes let's see how a small village just conquered celebrates when a girl child is born how a group of women with very little formal education are trying to scientifically understand the mangroves to give him a ticket and why the world needs more women entrepreneurs. let's stop today is that possible with some good news there's a village in the north indian state of raw just concourse b. plumtree the plants one hundred eleven trees every time a girl child is born now this is extremely significant not only because the

villagers are envisioning a greener planet but also because it august on has been one of the worst performing states in the country when it comes to child sex ratio of the number of girls compared to every thousand boys how does this mindset change let's take a closer look. at. these trees have a very special significance specifically in. assistance and all doctor in this village. the tree supercenter life and not a symbol of theirs to mission. a spot of the local community to. make. me make me yet.

us. thad let it go get a leg of a village have trees in their names but this is not the case in the rest of country . they were planted by my mother so they are very special to me i want to them every day. i tie a thread on my trees as i do with my brother to celebrate them brother sister festivity and how much never you could argue my trees are just like my brothers a man that cuba has a. chance of the poly while they can planting trees for cause after he lost his own daughter in two thousand and six when she was sixteen. her death illustrated to him how little a girl's life is what an indian saga sunstein.

this memorial is to my daughter karen who died of dehydration some of the. fear in her memory we started planting trees on her birding. i'm going with what they've got every time we see her memory and it gives you energy and inspiration to do good deeds. to the bought off used to be unveiled can use the girls were seen by their families as a financial burden primarily due to their traditional obligation to be a tory they were not suitable for walking in the fields very early sent to attend school and write instead write it off. years of india very tough infections and other illnesses someone cause was and is sconce because lehi. unlike today a shocking number of baby cause simply planty used to die under mysterious circumstances. mother remembers from clearly how can survive just a decade ago. times past the parents used to be unhappy even they had

a baby because girls could not study or get a job they would face problems they would be having this by their in-laws but now things have change to do the girls can stand on their own feet and refuse to be dictated to. and that was the mayor of his village when his daughter died his all to bring about widespread changes including in the mentality of his new house since then every new born baby girl has been given an account comprising donations and government grants and return the parents undertake to send their daughters to school to wait until they are over twenty before marrying them off and to plant one hundred eleven trees on unused land. if you plant this means the protection of our daughters water trees and wildlife

and we provide niger based employment to the villagers that will need. to do the barter for baby girl and preplan please consider it a blessing for the parents the village and for the environment. in other villages the notion of course attending school is far from normal a school teacher should personally tells us. why maybe obvious that somebody but i have seen in this village that the opportunities given to girls are immense the girls are given priority here and they participate in all kinds of activities read that in home or at school what i did by the big day was take me away. and the coming money to feed plant. an idea has become popular outside the planter smiles and has been adopted by hundred fifty villages in preventing local survivor three hundred thousand troops turning ground in london to a flourishing forest and owner of the village girls.

now for us today it's very clear that girls and boys and men and women are equal but when the universal declaration of human rights was adopted by the united nations general assembly in one thousand forty eight promising equality and freedom for everyone everywhere the principle of gender equality might not have been included without some women advocated for a declaration the first truly universal. universal declaration of human rights may well come the international magna carta out of order man everywhere in december one nine hundred forty eight former first lady of the united states eleanor roosevelt announced the un's adoption of the universal declaration of human rights for two years delegates from all over the world worked on formulating the charter and ensuring a stronger role for women indian equal opportunities activists handsome meta

ensured that the first article was changed to read all human beings are born free and equal rather than all men. from pakistan campaign for equal rights within marriage you have donkey or lova from belarus demanded equal pay for equal work. women from all over the world stood together and called for gender equality to be written into every article of the universal declaration of human rights they couldn't have imagined that seventy years on a lot of work would remain to be done on equal opportunities and that discrimination sexism and social exclusion would still be so widespread. to this day the un commission on the status of women meets once a year to reinforce calls for gender equality. now women in twenty nineteen i'm definitely all about setting an example to quash

your traditions of patriarchy and rigid gender rules on next story trains the spotlight on the women from a fishing community in the town of mingora and how despite a ready little formal education receiving and conserving their environmental headed to each and stepping out of what is traditionally expected of them take a look. every morning the coastal town of bengal otherwise quiet springs to life with the hustle bustle of the fishing community trying to sound the latest catch. but for two years now

a small group of women he's trying their hand at something new. believe that of me but i had never even dreamt of growing aborts the men in my family went to catch fish in the boats and really used to sell the catch in the local market. i would never really considered the possibility of growing a boat i love a lot and out of a. homemaker and fisherwoman so i saw that they could at least part of a ten member self-help group invent which conducts eco friendly boatwright's through the town's lush backwater. that is what i'm going to make that every family. everything else but i think this is significant because it is the first time women from the town's fishing community

who have very little formal education have come together to scientifically understand the mangroves to have inherited and create awareness about preserving them. that they were you know a very certain that we were incapable of doing this that if we would talk about the mangroves it leaves its flower fruit through we were told to identify that we have to practice a lot today you can ask any of us ten women about these mangroves we will be able to tell you about them in our sleep. eight species here and the size of. x. . years cylindrica these are some of them we can just look at the trees just feel them and identify the species by now but it's a lot of what i was and which of.

the prostrate a whole is idea to work towards turning ventura into an eco tourist destination very different from india's party which sits just a hundred kilometers south. of that. with the help of the united nations development program and the local mangrove. brought together nine women to be part of the first batch of two of guides under the swami self-help group. it fell upon a husband sufi surely a deep sea fisherman to teach the women to roll from scratch. with the remember sure they can do it but i give them the confidence and how to grow and how to steer the board. this amazing day. i told them i would drop in.

after fifteen days i said to them you know i would not accompany you have to go in the waters by yourself. if there is a problem just give me a call. confidently went with the boat and came back so. that made me very happy or that they deny there. are many with. which two boats and twenty life jackets the guides can accommodate twenty tourists the one hour ride costs less than two euros per person and offers a wealth of information about the local biodiversity.

but what the women are most proud of his how much in sync with nature their project is me. still intact engines we're all. that's why birds don't get scared and fly away when our boards come close to them. our ports don't make a lot of noise the birds are used to our presents we don't disturb them. the water remains clean too since we don't use more to fuel the fish too i see this is an eco tourism project it's sustainable. i'm surprised by. the boat to us however depend entirely on tourist inflow specially with my. groove biodiversity being such a mean interest. there are some days when there are no rides for fifteen

days at a stretch so to supplement his income our moments self-help group make spice mixes pickles sweets and savory's we deposit the money we receive from our rights in the bank and withdraw it at the end of the year and distribute it equally among ourselves are they say are the welcome here. journey from being afraid to rowing boats to being successful to a guy today hasn't been easy for these women. when the rates are low there were a lot more elderly when we started drawing our boards our neighbors used to say these women will work for days and on the ninth day when their bodies start to ache they refused to go because i was working while strength and packed. well and that the world even then when we went for the first time it's true our bodies hurt our

hands hurt but we were determined to be successful now those who speak against us feel proud of us i'm separate in their lives in the us where there is a as i want to go around are. the strong many women have ferried over two thousand five hundred tourists since i started out in twenty seventeen and they don't intend to stop any time soon. women can do anything and very easily people used to think that women don't amount to much today women are so far ahead that they can do anything i don't know i could draw a board so confidently but today i rob lot with so much ease my friends now tell me you should not think about flying a plane i see why not if i have the chance i will even fly a plane if you ever feel there is something you can't do don't pinkly. that just right out who wants nothing is impossible.

when i look at these driven women from being google up it reminds me of how you really need. puts it makes such a difference in communities around the world we spoke to some women startup founders in germany about this and what they had to say was i opening. up as a shield him eventually that i wish women were bolder in many situations. maybe direct less criticism and doubt at themselves and show determination. trust themselves and go out into the world and start something up that's a quote sophie chong from austria had the guts to do it and twenty fifteen she founded a health platform which supports patients around the globe in their search for the right doctor over four thousand inquiries come in every month so he chung regularly seeks out cooperation partners for have portal in hospitals most of her business

partners are male the world view. of course it's frustrating to see that there's still an equality between men and women i think the way that i've opened up is my contribution to changing that. i wish that there were more women doctors who can aspire to a career a professorship or to become director of a hospital. that i think i gather and if you think i don't i'm steve according to a current reports in a magazine startup monitor only fifteen percent of balance startups were founded by women there are presently around three thousand startups in the german capital they are young companies with innovative ideas promising growth one success story is the ready school of digital integration founded by danish national and kerry share at the reading school also offers women only courses. the most important thing for us

in the women's course this is really about empowerment and that's where we can see the biggest difference women maybe coming in that little bit shy or maybe they're coming in with their friend and after just a three month course we can really see that they're standing on stage they're proud and we've even seen that some of these women just after three months of course have actually become real jobs. lisa lange has also founded a successful startup in berlin a fashion tech label and electro couture it combines digital technology with selling a five figure prices as a founder lisa benefits from her experience working in various i.t. found. actually where electrical to start it was the point of frustration while i was working in a tech environment surrounded by boys and there was a uniform. in t. shirts i never and t. shirts that. i love to acknowledge and that was the point where i got really really

frustrated like why can't i look smart and pretty at the same time. women such as lisa long reach out and sophie chong other living proof that female founders can succeed in a mile dominated saying it takes good ideas guts and a decent network that's not going to definitive and there's definitely a lack of role models i see that with myself there are hardly any successful women that i personally can look up to as an example the research has shown that in the age group between sixteen and twenty a lot of women are told maybe it's not a good idea to start up it's a little bit risky maybe you should consider something that is more safe and i think it's an incredibly important that we need more role models we need young women to really see that of course that confound it's not something that only men can do successful female tech entrepreneurs like these can inspire more women to set up their own businesses. now so for you they're brought up

a really interesting point about a lack of access to the wattles for women to develop into better leaders hakim caught up with somebody dissolute to try and bridge that gap and also has been urging women across the group to speak up about sexual harassment she believes that making abuse risible will disrupt the culture of silence and impunity. there was no good i. believe me and i'll give them get out from a life. because this is a one kind of cause a. few women have found the courage to say such things in public let alone go to the police to report sexual

abuse countless women suffer in silence many there not go out alone anymore. for years also marie de silva felt deeply ashamed when she was fourteen a stranger touched her on a train she later endured further incidents of inappropriate behavior as a result going on a trip would trigger a sense of unease and anxiety growing up in a. particularly difficult. in december two thousand and twelve we had a horrific gang people for a young woman on a boston. it was an inflection point in the country. where for the first time in my opinion. it brought into the public domain the conversations on sexual violence all my friends started talking about

a story that they had experienced it reminded me of my own stories as well which i had suppressed growing up and i realized that if everyone had a story to share then this is a much larger problem. the problem is evidently much greater than official statistics would suggest to some of the seize the initiative and set up safe city a platform that crowd sources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces girls are attacked on their way to school can be so scared they want to stay home and women harassed on a bus or train can develop a fear of going to work sexual violence and the fear it in genders can jeopardize opportunities for education and work and women sense of autonomy and self worth. having a platform where you can anonymously share your story can be liberating also when you read another woman's story that's solidarity and there's resonance because you

suddenly realize you're not alone in your attic speed. and there are many more women around you who have similar experiences say city goes far beyond collecting stories the data are aggregated as hotspots on a map indicating trends at a local level that should help individuals communities dentists already used to identify factors that lead to violent behavior and work on solutions the platform now operates internationally personal stories can be submitted anonymously but some women choose to identify themselves and it's that did by shaking hands. i remember myself mumbling constantly stop it stop it stop it. i did open the door it did happen to me. but to the north did not meet the victim it never could. still. be

and. no matter how much it haunts me. no matter how. good i am even now. i still have the guts to feel as though wasn't tell them that this happened to me and yet be unfazed because now we know it was not before. these young women are really confident because they can stand up for themselves they know their rights it makes me feel really proud that i've been part of creating the space for dialogue on this issue and bringing confidence to these women so that they don't feel afraid to access their rights or access opportunities and these young women are going to change the world because of their confident.

now last year was the year of coverage and bravery for women around the world with the meat to movement gone having more and more strength every day and it's people like somebody who are inspiring us to speak our truth we'll be back next week with many more sub stories but back. even if. they. are.

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