and returned to the concrete and glass jungle. the result. first. coming up on the program. the shocking story of the. six hundred tons of plastic growing.

welcome to. it's good to have you with us we begin today in hong kong a city of skyscrapers sky high property prices and increasingly a city of foreign domestic workers more than three hundred seventy thousand of them that's roughly five percent of the population and many of them are women many of them who come from the philippines women like thirty year old baby jane the single mother of five has stage three and she's been fired from her job because of it that's right our employer fired office she was diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer since the time the nation in february made. i os 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 asked of being sacked from your job. baby jane alice moved to hong kong with our health and tucked and a job in the bag a year on she's fighting for her life and her livelihood i want to make both i don't want. i have children. i am going to monitor. this laptop and that there are many here. i fear that. she was fired for being diagnosed with cervical cancer nation letter states which left her devastated and without access to health care i cannot play. like.

this no i don't need the money. only my employers ok. but. i think. what my thirty minutes. on my think. thirty minutes. 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. because my mate my employer or you all need two cups of rice because only four people in what. we have here are private say the have what you need to go

over to cover the cost you can go not any more determined baby jane no gives voice to the cruel hardship of domestic workers. and joining us for more is did a correspondent and toss in a manila good to see you how common is this situation that baby journalist finds herself in you know the rush traces of domestic worker abuse are well documented and sadly very common case of missing baby jane yes really in the streets for us but multiple layers of discrimination and abuse that domestic workers are subjected to you have to remember miss out is 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 that's obvious i'm able to access the free health services in hong kong this despite the fact that

there is a hong kong ordinance that says it's illegal to discriminate against someone under basis of disability what recourse do domestic workers large. 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 have received now the russian i think this shows us that why the philippine government is law for its free market in deploying its migrant workers and also protecting them at their davis destination countries now where we fall short is really in for seeing 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 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. daws reporting for us from manila thank you very much for the. next where the convenience of plastic is taking its toll on the bottom want a 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 sylviane t.n. say the problems getting was. helpless. more than six hundred tonnes of plastic waste is produced in every day. 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 to make their living by taking waste to be recycled. and. if the men 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. they contact me once they have enough to sell. out the recycling centers where they take the plastics to be sorted and me though that what they do barely scratches the problem surface. when you 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 it's better than doing nothing at all. in. very we collect approximately one tonne of plastic but we can only sell about six hundred to seven hundred kilos. in 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 straw 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. the campaign is 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 have prevented for centuries and for the young women that has bent

a lack of access to opportunities but thanks to the efforts of a development organizer and the training it provides things changing. where at the top of the world in the care of her own mind and range in pakistan. it's a journey through a region where few step up their traditional gender roles. but there are exceptions like this carpenter's workshop run by women. here they do something rare in character realm they work under earn money. some years big people who radiate risk and we have a lot of questions from games and this is this is not for women's all so stop this . but that didn't stop a key no 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 small opportunity young girls and boys who marginalized in our trip poor and i am one of them and therefore this sport is very important for me because this sport is a changed my life in positive way it was hard work they were. built the walls using traditional techniques developed by their ancestors to help prevent damage from earthquakes. but. 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's house housewife is completely doing the same job at home it's good for all because she she didn't get some money but here she is she is earning my new high. huge step like this again we are fighting with 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. or. on facebook as well. really there now with these pictures from tokyo where fans of i me from across the globe are gathering to indulge their passion for cost play. next i'm about.

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