captivating south. and central africa. despite their culture the state. only a promise to his son to leave the jungle return to the concrete and glass jungle of new york. the result reverse culture shock. the prize winning. song from the forest starts first on d w. hello welcome this is equal india with the wedding special edition as we celebrate international women's day around the world we want to resolve all the women who are working relentlessly to make sure we are able to step into a cleaner greener and

a more sustainable tomorrow. coming to you from mumbai in india over the next thirty minutes let's see how a small village in prague just celebrates when a girl child is born how a group of women with very little formal education are trying to scientifically understand the mangroves. and why the world needs more women entrepreneurs. let's stop today is that pursued 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. in this from. the tree supercenter life and not a symbol of guesstimation they are now held in a spot of the local community. make these for. me made me. want to be a. that how much they don't get laid by 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 die a tread on my trees as i do with my brother to celebrate them brother sister festivity and how much you could argue my trees are just like my brothers i went that cuba to. the pali wild because i'm planting trees for cause after he lost his own daughter in two thousand and six when she was sixteen. our debt illustrated to him how little a girl's life is what indians are just on street. this memorial to my daughter who died of dehydration some of them i'm not. in her memory we started planting trees on her birthday. every time we see her memory and it gives her energy and inspiration to do good deeds but that i felt

that i got. to the bottle for girl used to be good news the girls were seen by their families as a financial burden primarily due to the traditional obligation to be a dowry they were not suitable for walking in the fields rarely sent to attend school and write instead married off in years of india very tough infections and other illnesses among girls was and is sconce because lehi. unlike today a shocking number of baby causing people on three years to die under mysterious circumstances. mother remembers very clearly holkins for 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 changed too did 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 he has solved to bring about widespread changes including in the mentality of his new house since then every newborn 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 over twenty before night in their mouth and to plant one hundred eleven trees on unused land to. the people and this means the protection of our daughters water trees and wildlife and we provide nature based employment to the villagers that will need. today the birth of a baby girl and preplan please consider the blessing for the parents the village and for the environment. in other villages the notion of course attending school is far from normal a schoolteacher only tells us. why men have

a very obvious subsidy 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 whether in home or at school one will have to go back to work day was blue or take only a walk. and the commemorative tree planting idea has become popular outside the plant to spread and has been adopted by hundred fifty villages in people country local seven hundred three hundred towns and treats turning brown and one into a flourishing forest and owner of the village guards. now for us to be 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 become the international magna carta of the one man everywhere in december 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 hansal mehta 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 all over from

belarus demanded equal pay for equal work. women from all over the world stood together and calling 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. that to this day the un commission on the status of women meets once a year to reinforce calls for gender equality. the women in twenty nineteen are definitely all about setting an example to quash age old traditions of patriarchy and rigid gender rules our 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 here in receiving and conserving their environmental heritage 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 sell their latest catch. but for two years now a small group of women he's trying their hand at something new. for you buddy let me. i had never even dreamt of throwing a ball out 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 rowing a boat looking at a. homemaker and fish a woman so i saw that they could use part of a ten member self-help group an event which conducts eco friendly boatwright's through the towns backwaters. everything else but 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 have been edited and create awareness about preserving them. that they were very certain that we weren't capable of doing this that if we were taught about the mangroves its leaves

its flowers its fruits its root we would talk to identify that's what 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 you know sleep. eight species here in big rise or fall down . to gear cylindrica these are some of them we can just look at the trees just feel them and identify the species of. what is a lot of what i was and which of. the prostrate the whole is idea to. work towards turning into an eco tourist destination very different from india's party which sits just a hundred kilometers south.

with the help of the united nations development program and the local mangrove cell 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 sucky surely a deep sea fisherman to teach the women to row from scratch. their women to show they can do it but i gave them the confidence and taught them how to row and how to steer the boat. i told them i will teach you to grow not more than. after fifteen days i said to them you now are not a company you have to go in the waters by yourself. if there's a problem just give me a call they confidently went with the boat and came back. that made me

very happy. return. a medal what i. am. 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 that me here i don't have engine we're wrong. that's why birds don't get scared and

fly away when our boats 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 to our safety our this is an eco tourism project it's sustainable. i'm surprised by. the boat to us however depend entirely on tourist inflow especially with mangrove biodiversity being such a nice interest. there are some days when there are no rides for fifteen days at a stretch so to supplement this income our moments self-help group make spice mixes pickles sweets and savory's we deposit the money we receive from our rides in the bank and withdraw it at the end of the year. and distribute it equally among

ourselves they say are the word god in your. journey from being afraid to rowing boats to being successful to a guy today hasn't been easy for these women. when the words are low there are other words a lot more i learned when we started drawing our ports our neighbors used to say these women will work for days and on the ninth day when their bodies start to ache they would refuse to go because us working while strength and tact was that all get well and that the world even then when we went for the first time its true bodies hurt our hands hurt but we were determined to be successful now those who speak against us feel proud of us m that there is another there is a look at them one of. 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. as women can do anything and very easy 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 rule of thought 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 you if you ever feel there is something you can't do don't think like that just write out who wants nothing is impossible. when i look at these driven women from bring good luck it reminds me of how living in a sheryl sandberg puts it makes such a difference in communities around the world we spoke to some women startup

founders into. many about this and what they had to say was i will put it. as a very moving 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. sophie chong from austria had the guts to do it in 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 every turn regularly seeks out cooperation partners for portland hospitals most of our business partners are male the more you. 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 oh. yeah and if we were advocating title i'm steve according to our current reports in a magazine startup monitor only fifteen percent of balance startups were founded by women there are present day 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 a kerry share at the reading school also offers women only courses. the most important thing for us and the women of course this is really about empowerment and that's where we can see the biggest difference women maybe coming in a little bit shy or maybe they're coming in with their friend and after just a three months 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 that as electro could cure it combines digital technology with selling at five figure prices as a founder lisa benefits from her experience working in various i. actually wear electrical sat at west point of frustration while i was working in that tech environment surrounded by boys and there was a uniform and uniform. i never wear jeans and t. shirts back. i love technology and that was a point where i got really really frustrated like why i condo docs smart and pretty at the same time. women such as lisa lange and rechecked and sophie chong other living proof that female founders can succeed in a male dominated scene it takes great ideas guts and

a decent network as long as definitive 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 is showing 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 critically important that we need more role models we need young women to really see that of course they can found 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 avoid waddles for women to develop into better leaders caught up with somebody decided 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 him and him to get out from a life. there was this one kind of cause and. few women have found the courage to say such things and public let alone go to the police to report sexual abuse countless women suffer in silence many dare 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 the. particularly difficult a lot of young girls. in december two thousand and twelve we had a horrific gang rape of 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 section. 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 crown 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 past 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 there's solidarity and there's resonance because you suddenly realize you're not alone in your attic speed. there are many more women around you who have similar experiences safe city goes far beyond collecting stories the data are aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at

a local level that should help individuals communities and authorities 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 if that did by shaking hands. i remember myself mumbling constantly stop it stop it stop it. very i did open the door it did happen to me. but to the did not meet the victim it never could. still always be and. no matter how much it haunts me. no matter how. good i am even now. i still have the guts to face the while them 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 rightful access opportunities and these young women are going to change the world because of their confidence. last year was the year of coverage and bravery for women around the world with the meter gone to being more and more strength every day and it's people like somebody who are inspiring us to speak our troops we'll be back next week with many more

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