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welcome to. it's good to have you with us we begin today in hong kong a city skyscrapers sky high property prices and increasingly. domestic workers more than three hundred seventy thousand that's roughly five percent of the population and many of them are women many of them who come from the philippines women like baby. the single mother of five. and she's been fired from her job because of it that's right. after she was diagnosed with stage three. in february maybe. i.r.s.

has been focused on getting her job back why because in hong kong as a foreign worker you stop receiving free medical care from the government after being sacked from your job. baby jane alice moved to hong kong with her health intact and a job in the bag a year on she's fighting for her life and her livelihood i won't complain if. i don't. have. this. i think. she was fired for being diagnosed with cervical cancer a temptation let's a states that's left her devastated and without access to health care i cannot play. like.

this i don't need the money. only my employers ok. but here's our larry. it's ok. because i think i mean. what's my third need. on my thing. with the help of her sister she's created a crowd fund to help pay the bills baby jane is one of thousands of invisible helpers who keep hong kong's households running and one of many who say they're being mistreated from being forced to sleep in storage cupboards going hungry. so. bloated or you've got only two cups. but. we are we are. both.

not any more determined baby jane no gives voice to the cruel hardship of domestic workers. and joining us for more is do double correspondent. good to see you how common is this situation that baby finds itself in. you know the rash cases of domestic worker abuse are well documented and sadly very common case of missing baby jane yes really in the streets for us the multiple layers of discrimination and abuse that domestic workers are subjected to we have to remember miss out as also complained of maltreatment against her employer the same employer who heartlessly terminated her upon finding out that she had stage three cervical cancer leaving yes i'm able to access the free health services in

hong kong this despite the fact that there's a hong kong ordinance that says it's illegal to discriminate against someone and basis of disability what recourse do domestic workers learn. have in hong kong what support does the philippines government for example provide to these domestic workers when faced with situations like these in terms of health care i couldn't share with you one example the philippine labor office in hong kong last november set up free medical check ups for its migrant workers this was in response to the over two hundred complaints of mostly health and medical illnesses that they had received now here actually i think this shows us that why the philippine government is law for its three more in deploying its migrant workers and also protecting them at their days destination countries now where we fall short is really in foreseeing redress mechanisms and making sure that the monitoring of of

certain laws are in place so is it basically a case of just the implementation of that and if that is the case why are these laws implemented. the philippine government says it you know as migrant workers and as foreign workers in another country they're always subjected to or constrained by the laws of the destination country but i think this should just be a challenge to step up and pressure these leverage these destination country in a pool of being there already existing labor laws. dollars reporting for us from manila thank you very much paula. next where the convenience of plastic is taking its toll on they'd bought about our growing economy means plastic waste is on the increase but coupled with inadequate waste management the problem has virtually become an epidemic. laos is drowning in

plastic it litters the roads it blocks canals which can cause flash flooding and residents in the camp still beyond here and say the problems getting was. helpless . more than six hundred tonnes of plastic waste is produced in every day. to the office that takes care of waste management in the city says only forty to fifty percent is disposed of in the landfill outside the city. to get less than the rest is either burned or there is littering that creates messy areas to power. but there is a small army of private plastic collectors now who make their living by taking waste to be recycled. and a lot still up there but we don't collect colusa waste from the garbage. that we

usually collected from different offices and restaurants near the city center especially near the morning market. and they contact me once they have enough to sell. out the recycling centers where they take the plastics to be sorted admit though that what they do barely scratches the problem surface. you know. we work as a middleman for both parties sellers and buyers. although it does help the community we only collect about one percent of the total waste out here and it's better than doing nothing at all. in. and very we collect approximately one ton of plastic but we can only sell about six hundred to seven hundred kilos. given. east asia is producing wasted a faster rate than any other region in the world that's making businesses in laos

take a stand like this popular hang out in the end. of the earth is a small restaurant we give out perhaps one hundred bamboo straws every day and if you think there are three hundred sixty five days in the year well that's a lot of straws then something else that we do is we use for take away containers instead of using styrofoam containers we use containers that are made of sugar cane and biodegrade quickly. campaigners say there's an urgent need for more awareness in laos of how to dispose of plastic waste safely and for more legislative action to keep laos clean. to pakistan now in the remote but utterly stunning valley situated in the north of the country it's bordered by the majestic bridge it's a place where patriarchal structures and customs of provided for centuries and for the young women that has bent

a lack of access to opportunities but thanks to the efforts of the development organizers and the training it provides things are changing. we're at the top of the world in the color carone mine ten range in pakistan. it's a journey through a region where few stepped up their traditional gender roles. but there are exceptions like this carpenter's workshop run by women. here they do something rare in character room they work and earn money. some years their people i really agree with you and you have a lot of questions from them in this is this is not for women's role so stop this. but that didn't stop a key lead bano i was at the workshop a women's project was born the only one of its kind in pakistan.

in the ancient manton settlement tons or gender roles are clearly defined while the men gambled the women care for the children but starting up the old force a small revolution has been playing ace two years ago scientists wanted to reconstruct the forts walls and they hired young people from poor families to help they give us a small opportunity young girls and boys who marginalized in our trip were and i am one of them and therefore this sport is very important for me because this sport is a change my life in positive. ways was hard work they were. built the walls using traditional techniques developed by their ancestors to help prevent damage from earthquakes but by. using the knowledge they had gained the character on women then built a restaurant here they serve traditional dishes but they're facing the same old

resistance from some locals. if one of the woman she is house housewife is completely doing the same job at home it's good for all because she she didn't get some picture here she is she is earning my new. big huge step again we are fighting with those people who are questioning us but these women will not be discouraged hoping the next generation will benefit from their independence. many more such stories of independence on our website. on facebook as well. remover now with these pictures from tokyo where fans of i me from across the globe are gathering to indulge from the cost play. play as a reserve extra about. the

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