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i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us it's a vicious type of assault meant to maine scar and even kill i'm talking about acid attacks and hear about them happening in many places by one estimate over fifteen hundred reported incidents take place around the world every year and women are often the targets in more than eighty percent of all cases and again that's only what gets reported it's a crime india's been trying to addressed through stricter chemical regulations and tougher punishments but that can't erase the scars the survivors of such attacks will carry their whole lives carmen meyer met one woman in india who took her tragedy and transformed it into empowerment. comic with an

unconventional heroine the story of a young woman who has been attacked. she transforms from being a victim to being a super heroine her mission is to hope the survivors of acid attacks. videos of the comic show readers behind the story lux me. who suffered a real life attack in twenty five. then the day. after i refused his advances he and his younger brother's girlfriend turned up with acid in a beer bottle and they poured the acid into a glass and threw it on to my face. i think they would if i fainted and when i came to again it felt as if i'd been burnt alive or. anything we did in the. blacksmith he was only fifteen when she was attacked by a man seventeen years her senior she had refused his advances so in

a cruel act of revenge he attacked her and changed her life for ever hundreds of acid attacks like the one suffered by laxmi are reported in india every year in the dead dad didn't kill me he attacked me so that i would have to live my life in agony only knew that society would accept him and that is same society would reject and victimize me was a victim i. refused to be a victim and became an activist she's part of a campaign called stop the sale acid she's helped make great changes in india the sale of acid is now regulated and prosecutions of acid attacks have been made easier but she wants a complete ban her comic book focuses on male and female equality worldwide she hopes children will learn about the topic in classrooms lakshmi is a mystic of girls including her own daughter a different image of the world she's also a single mother which is far from the norm in india you see make believe legal my

dream hasn't yet come true but there has been a huge change these last few years. and that shows me that equality and the changes we're all talking about now will happen until they were teens. laxmi wants to see an end to all violence against women and their future generations from the suffering she and others have endured how will she do it while the super heroine can help make it happen. joining me now is ron devon any one of the publishers of the comic book you just saw in the report so ron how has the story of laxmi of the acid attack been received oh it's been universally received very positively we had enormous amount of readership for that for this issue and then of course the month of press attention that lecture me then

and many of the other acid attack survivors has been really important because at the core of it we want to get their faces and their stories out. tell us about the other comic books you've produced there's previous shock to that is the series what else has the superhero been up to short with the first one army character priya that came out of a result of the december two thousand and twelve gang grief that happened on a bus in delhi which was covered all over the world and from there we've produced the second chapter prius meer which continues a previous adventures and there she beats of a group of acid attack survivors which she don't at the core of the comic book series and previous mission is about country fear and one of the things that i discovered what creating this and researching it is that acid attack survivors and great survivors save face the same cultural stigma and the fear that comes from it

and the cool of the project is to break that fear. on our program we have been a looking a lot at india and violence against women there's certainly been a lot of coverage on india from around the world do you think india nat's this focus is it truly particularly bad. i don't know if it's particularly bad it's there's there's degrees to do it you can see it all over in many countries in fact in the us that has an enormous amount of crime specially rate when ecologists so it it varies but what i think is unique about india it's a country of over one point five billion people and the biggest democracy in the world and it's a country that's going to dramatic changes and one of these changes that it has to sort of go it's a hurdle that it's to overcome is the picture of views that used to exist in the past and it exists to an extent now and i think that transformation is why so many

people around the world and of course the media pay attention to it. from devon any thank you thank you for having me. moving on to pakistan where in some regions camel wrestling is a popular pastime but it is illegal in the country though fans will point out it's been a tradition for more than a thousand years yet as you'll see and if you don't approve of animal fighting you may not want to people carry on with it right out in the open. entrance fit for a prize fighter. the champions arrive with loud music and fleshy robes. after strutting around the arena the belt can begin. camel wrestling is banned in pakistan but this event in law still pulls a big crowd. many spectators argue that it's

a proud display of culture. we're happy that this festival is being arranged it's a cultural fair and people came here with passion and zeal. are brought my children of my friends also came. you can see the excitement. here. but for others camel fighting is not culture but simple cruelty. the camels grunting pain as they wrestle and bite and more rights groups want to get serious about blood sports. i don't believe. any kind of animal fights illegal. and beautified doing and. being looked unfired clearly. need more amendment and implement. back in like the referee declares a winner the owner will take home prize money of a hundred thousand rupees he finds really fighting in just fifty rupees it's little

wonder that events like this still going strong. turning now to the waters off southeast asia which as you can see behind me shelters a rich a ray of marine life along its coastal reefs but looks can be deceiving and cambodia they are now raising the alarm over a fall off in the number of large fish in coastal waters saying it has to do with overfishing and pollution international squad of scientists is trying to determine if you are a large fish is having a cascading effect and in danger in the future of cambodia's reefs or a shimmering spectacle rich with color greets divers here off the coast of kut stay or king island but this marine hangout may be missing some former regulars though we do see areas with a lot of coral cover and everything is very alive down there but we do see

fewer and what seems like fewer and fewer large fish and things like turtles and marine mammals. where did they go. locals have fished these coastal waters for generations. they blame larger often illegal boats from across the gulf of thailand for overfishing and that may have knock on consequences. a team of international scientists is on the case. and our ongoing studies we have to find empirical information and evidence to say that the fishery is healthy or if it's improving or if it's decreasing and so that is what our long term goals are here with the surveys is to establish the facts about the situation. over the side and under the water for answers. there are big question does fewer fish affect the circle of life in the regions reefs are fewer nipples could mean more algae growth

which can smother coral reefs or. they'll also test samples for microscopic clues the bacteria carried along by algae that kills coral larva and disturbing finds clear to the naked eye. but plastic pollution. occasionally will you will have big soups of actually trash and plastic floating in the ocean this is obviously. very bad for the environment. all the things we will see quite often is discarded fishing nets sitting on the reef and smothering the reef. the data will be compared to a study done six years ago assessing the health of the ocean. today's observations done and a bit of cleanup to. along the quest to determine what's going on underneath the

surface. or. for. that story and more on our website that's dot com ford slash asia and you can check us out on facebook as well we'll leave you now with a look at some pretty cool week matter rays gathering for lunch time at this singapore aquarium the see you next time good bye.

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