shot of the fateful day. this is due to be a news live from berlin up next a look at how women around the world are using social media platforms in their push work equal rights that's in the documentary digital warriors women changing the world go forget you can always get the latest news and information right here at interviewer website to have your dot com i'm brian thomas thanks very much. for first corning less of. yours grandma's arrives. joining me around your chain on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary tour of an orangutan returns home on the d w dot com the ring of tanks.

last hour. last. night as you look out i. could get out by that dialogue that lead off that this is the time for us all no one is an avenue to come up on the lowest possible for the last possible with the one side of. the outside. you know what and then when i was in that lead us i would like i mean it's impossible. i fight for peace because i understand the point six. and so for

a man found the fate of the monarch appear for war and. the people who have lost the family will never be able to recover from and. we will social media to tell our story too and ask him. over here three million go are correct. why is it done we are being silent. about the lives of these girls. there is a damien war in iran about my lifestyle. they have guns and bullets we have facebook treats her instagram and our social media they cannot keep those people silent that's something that i never news.

it's a punishable crime which are beyond veiled in public according to the laws sharia laws in iran you get lashes you get jailed and fined but more important than this you won't be allowed to get an education from the age of seven if you take off your head scarf you won't be allowed to get a job. you won't be allowed to live in your own country.

was. this great and i am going to come to a young child for i was afraid i'm getting asked that. again carol when. my campaign was born on the simple picture. there was a picture of me rolling in a beauty food streets in london it was a spring made the trees were full of blossoms and i wrote a caption on my picture that every time when i wrong in

a free country and i feel the wind through my hair it just reminds me of the time when my hair was like a hostage in the hands of the reigning government. i also women whether they want to share their pictures with me so the moment of freedom with me i was bombarded by pictures from women inside iran being gone very late. so i created my. page on facebook has more than a million followers on more than a million followers and it's all about. it's all about.

choice. and that's. all. after that's when you know i mean nothin

a lot the load all that off that they give me one good in the sequel was the last fight and their mother tongue in this the most you know couldn't be worth. a man's mission house when it then you're going to say science he thought they know you're going to be an indian who lives in a well thought up we're going to seal our own now anyhow imbecile want us to go away from the way i was the only mama yes i'm going to them to someone slow pilotless olympiad you for one thing we for this one i missed it shall sort it all in a moment to let my show you he said but at the one end in there i look up alice and come. in here go home and you don't want chilly you to tell me how much time and how much the business and i don't know what you see here even we don't but wish it

had. come out and they sell us and we're feeling now and those are your the indian couple look you know a fellow who's done call mom would wrestle tara does a software program to see will or no basis here if i should still hunt on to warn us of a bus that's still here what you know. if the person you're numerical most in over a trial know. whether or not they will meet only court absalom. but of here we're not curing groups. who use recording songs don't learn the trick about things so we are born again they look or for you and so we're going to go to them go where. people can read who do you think.

you know what i want on credit what a good boy. you can. share. i.e. . good nk is. it's always. been and. will be all the way this is the manning i'm in also the foil be gainsaid. laid out as i will and so much. more not with island but it will need a lot of mud. this will not knowing enough when i know him well you know almost dad

i'm quite as southside in that in seattle you have that on their own but as a guy and this woman. and this. i mean with the young boy i'm not going to let. him out of convener. friend and for me mall seem pretty. much the malls all that i see on it iow is i want to do both the sort it burned i left and then my lord. and we did ok we're going to move but his lease and i see now.

kid on top of the body there's no nexus no. no no no no everyone was looking. for. this is the house where the cutting happened. i remember that day like it was yesterday.

this house is where i went from being just a normal young girl to being a survivor of f.c. i. looked up to the only. female genital mutilation name is rampant we are the country with the second highest rate of girls and women who are caught between ninety six percent and ninety eight percent of all women and girls in guinea have cut the reason why fighting f.e.m. in the country is so difficult is that it crosses social barriers educated people according their children educated people according natural john poor people are cutting rich people are cutting christians are cutting muslims are cutting people who don't believe in any religion and i actually practicing and sion religion and also cut out. the girls are cut from one day

of born to about anywhere between ten and eleven sometimes if it's later it's twelve thirteen fourteen so it's the from one day i'm born usually from a week old to that age of adonis since the cut. there is no limits on the sion was started in two thousand and eight with my sister mariama when they come up with levitz and myself we started with one thousand dollars. so with eighteen dollars and the dream we knew that we wanted people to have dignity and to be able to help themselves so all of our programs are based in communities we work with locals and we do micro loans we give women and girls opportunity to have economic mobility to own their own

businesses to take care of themselves. that you know when you go to us it is not just about dropping the rate of g.m. it's about creating a new culture it's about creating a new tradition and a new norm in our society how american folk will never have a little model oh our messy our. what our social media i work with in d.c. . i actually use social media to connect with other sister activists around the world. and i fighting against sisters. from india from you know somalia all working in the old corner. and we use social media to the group to saturday to support one another.

and. i do and we do it so we social media is critical it's critical to everything that we do. my father's captain in the thing he was an army officer who lost his life during

the cargo boy on sixth august one thing. a boy really wanted to be a day ever since i was twelve i knew that i wanted to write this book. it's called small acts of freedom it's a family of three it's a memoir a story about three generations of single women who've left play from their own home i don't since sort of but the memories that i have of my father. he comes back sleeping in a wooden box with a bandage on his chest on the same spot where he used to lean my tiny head against him sleep listening to the rhythm of his heartbeat. my father is finally home.

i don't understand how he can sleep amidst all this noise and crying. people are taking his name over and over again but he does not become. a real. classic fears or even in this utensil market. it was the first time i saw woman in a book and because i was stored that muslims are responsible for the death of my father but fuck athon is responsible for that of my father i took a knife that was there and i left to. go to. in stab. my mother just caught on to me as he saw me coming she had no idea what i was going

to do but when she noticed i think that trying to realize how much hatred i had been having in my own heart. to. push me there has been this territory that both countries have been fighting the world but it's just the style you need a flat and it's divided us to such a great extent that we have to face so much violence and damages and that so many people like me and so many young girls like me are paying the price for this kind of hatred on both sides of the water i. i i i.

just think it seems that when he happens every day where soldiers from the pakistani binges and the soldiers from the indian side they shake hands and then there's this demonstration no far on who's more powerful. i just to be. across the gate the crowd look the same to my ears but the same color speaking the same language i. believe that me as such as us human beings can do is and is the hatred that's in our heart and cross that fire metaphorically. am.

i grew up around small villages which is close to cusp and see. what i get homesick the only thing that makes me feel home and happy is just going to nature climbing the tree going to mountain are walking the c.s.i. just reminds me of home. our kitchen in the village are designed for women it's shorter because women are shorter than men so. i remember i used to say to my brother i know this is short for you but there is a chair said down and washed the dishes so that shows that i started my feminist movements my feminist revolution from my kitchen. that is important for women we

have to start. being a rebel. in our house. in our village we didn't have toilets in our house we had outhouse. and in the darkness we had to go out. my mother used to say that the darkness is a monster a shapeless black demon that feeds on your fear. if you're scared of it then the shadow grows bigger and it will envelop you and swallow you whole. open your eyes wide as wide as possible me when i was a young girl stare into the darkness and the shadows will disappear never be afraid of the darkness but stare down. my father

he has stopped talking to me he doesn't support me the things that i'm against islam i'm against my own country and the chain my country but i think these are all happening just because you know the governor really brainwashed. people like my father otherwise my father loves me. it was just a week before the controversial election two thousand and nine my car got the wind allies in iraq and out two of my journalistic car was under my vehicle be on so that was a message for me that you know it's going to happen to you as was so i decided just leave the country. now i am here and i'm not going to keep silent.

this is the room that i was living in when i was cut. way. so i heard conversations and some good. men that. i'll just have all this thing it is really close to. it's really close to really vertical still. be you know why. there would be. a path. so i wanted to run away. but they come when i walk outside to accord. and then we line up with my cousins and others. and i would take that long walk.

i can't see what they're doing but then there's this moment where in that movement where i just you know i've. put. in a. i describe it like. imagine when you're opening up because of. that slowness of opening as a person. and. i feel like coons. off.

and then. i go through. my must go to watch of liquor so i know. i'm. not eating my. i mean my. poor quality no two to if he only thinks he's it because you said who tried to have a family more times he asked son te amo stuff is in my interest to let you know support practice may kill so. less. and less yourself. a girl who are.

these of the dissonances. who was at the today. do b.m. pool who is all songs on the long. bus who the good outcome be nice is even if. it. doesn't stop it from. the closest cause to my heart was always end up like a fun so i would write blog and i would write story then i would interact with people and just slowly have a came out of these into fog and slowly have became part of the online movement in forums. social media is that from what i can beat out the people who

oppose death so many people i'm writing from you get knowledge and i'm strange and look at numbers i'm quite surprised but i also understand it's a lot of responsibility. and we thought that camping in somebody was

a right when most be picked up one five cards from my for deal to make a point that i am an anti national. human being and i have anti national tendencies because i asked for peace with pakistan. one of my headquarter young ladies freedom college was ignited a fiery debate on social media and beyond on nationalism and free speech or tried many at the time was the belief that whole debate lloyd did up giving leave to pakistan. she wants peace with pakistan and to get softer the whole thing became national news after van was on every single prime time and it was a very very very scary time my phone was hard because of a so many messages coming back to back and and the strangest thing is that when all messages of hate messages of. messages of how somebody would one to. post me. how somebody would go very very explicit messages of how one would one of my limbs

of five and how they would want to read me you know who these people are well did they call you up to threaten you i wasn't on social media you were bought and you have reported this to the police no it doesn't matter the whole coming to you when you think you do need it or maybe it's also if you read it or whether somebody's calling you. a despot i found out here these are true you're feeling good ladies because you don't see this on just one person saying it to you that you can go to the police and report it you are it's it's one hundred different account it's one hundred different people saying it to you and that gets to you i think even no matter how strong you are that kind of trend in that volume has has a way of getting into.

i launched myself the freedom but after three years it was everywhere so like the president of iran knew about it talked about it all the media around the war the media inside iran the rain in the state t.v. clerics and i thought oh my god now this is the time we have to shift all line movement to something off line these people need to identify each other so in two thousand and seventeen i decided to actually you know pick a day pick a color and help these people to identify each other in public. these women in the white space they are the only soldiers only warrior i called it a one person. because they. never have. permission to take this.

they will be shot they really be you know into prison they repeat torture but they are brave they found a way to protest against oppression. and listen to. them about timing most of. it on the. back end of this that you can see them of the dude in the sun about going to the show. she mocked i don't get what i don't accept that i'm going to enjoy you know i'm going to need to r.c. are. not motivated by.

money. this is the time men should get involved in women's movement so i created another campaign called the many. government don't want to control the society because they know that this generation is not going to keep signing. their rituals the way the. girls are being lined up when they're actually being cut those rituals come from the past. something that people are continuing.

to. watch. that.

when we are doing is to remove the secrecy around the cutting so we want people to be able to understand it so that they understand that one you know the cutting is not necessary so we are doing alternative rites of passage. what the community showed us was how do you use to celebrate the girls but then it will end with the cutting and what we are trying to do western is it teach them that you can still celebrate girls you can still celebrate your tradition but you don't need to do the kind of. what we're doing advance we use social media to tell people where we are going to be. the young people go. away

and talk about how we are talking about and decide. you know that's the moment. that i used to make go out on a. lot of. the our side you know. where we got lost and they. don't know so this. is one of them by me i get the oil by you know all where are they going to.

get to where. they had us. last fall and it's on. me more. than anything that they don't. want and. i am i had a community. when i lay there were. does that that i was that that me and i'm one of them. good morning and then got me knowing that.

most of. you do and a lot of these. knowing. what going to throw me to toss them but look at it this come on a set of people down. but i don't decided to articulate them in the. really funny but i'm. just. i've got. no question about you know what or yeah. that's what i was. so i don't honestly i was there you know it's other choose to believe by me it's not getting on someone because of your baggage fit. or you should have

a two door yard additionally your little jada shot realize this is a ball ok but then they come out i'm not the one caught it got a lot of them both want to say yes yes you know. this is a big show actually in this show i give the platform to women inside iraq i mean mostly women it's about you know people inside iran who can use their camera and be their own voices be they only media and send a video to me. i feel like i'm holding the whole iran you know they picked out from my country but they couldn't take iran out of me so now social media and this show is my window toward. the shop that does the show of course i am scared of receiving a lot of death threat especially when i see the government attack me through cyber army calling me prostitute calling me ugly the agent

a cia agent and my six this kind of things actually from the beginning it was kind of hurting me but not now not anymore. this is the you know i'm ready. maybe. ok so now. i. am i come here in my happy times to cry god for everything good that has happened but i was like i'm here whenever i'm sad whenever i need help in evidence feel so

hopeless that after reach out for something greater than me. life has changed a lot now i'm going to be a public figure people who know me by my face by my walk just give me strength that i can take this position of influence this was a scene where so many people are looking at me in this thing to what i have to say for you give me strength still so that i can give the best to the word the best to mankind. perhaps so many bad the biggest one is one day one many wrong

have the power to run the country. my dream is just to see what men are as equal just met. by the way you know that it's going to take you to get according to the order that they get in but i've. got the oath today that your joke goes that freedom might be worth that in that you. don't have to mean i was away you know well you know so many on our radio came down you know if he was seen in a way that he's not going to go out if i am going in time and it's.

just got hundreds of her asked for her recollection so it's on the actual count and i'm glad that she promised to me she swore to have the schumacher child again. padron is that women will be found. all over the world. that he would be ok to be a woman that we don't have to explain. the space the has to. one

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