what secrets lie behind. find. ourselves experience and explain to us unaided cultural heritage sonic's. w world heritage. this is africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes i'm issuing the perpetrators of rape in. the victims of these atrocities go unnamed seeking justice on the hawks have today gone before the un security council seeking a resolution to combat sexual violence. and making amputees in south sudan

prosthetics giving victims of the country's conflicts a new lease on life. they have been taking conservation to the costume in africa's villages we have a report on if it's just save the endangered wild dog in zimbabwe. i'm christi paul come to africa i'm glad you and the issue of sexual violence against women has taken center stage at the united nations today germany as chair of the un security council and several of the countries pushed a draft resolution combat the use off rape in conflict zones to. raise awareness about the issue morag that is a woman who was kept as a sex slave in syria by the so-called islamic states and. he is

a gynecologist from congo who's treated women who've suffered injuries after being raped in the d.r. see rape and sexual abuse have been used as weapons of war in several african countries for example celts have done the democratic republic of congo the central african republic and mali or countries torn by years of conflict now when it comes to rape in conflicts impunity is still the norm the perpetrators of those who carry out and direct violence usually escape justice or even sanction i'm now joined by dr chu say to me being gay she's an author and specialist on gender based violence and she's based at the university of stanford in the united states while come to you dr what do you perpetrate is it all rather i want to begin by asking you that we we've often observed sexual violence be used as as a weapon of war as a tactic in the war in conflict zones in africa what in what ways do we see this

being manifested. there you undefined sexual violence in conflict as rape forced marriage forced prostitution forced abortion forced sterilization. and any type of sexual violence of comparing comparable gravity looking for example at their own to conflict i think the definition that came out of the u.n. tribunal prosecuting genocide in rwanda well that sexual violence doesn't even have to include touching so for example don't want to play a few ironic male with convicted essential as the crime against humanity in one instance he forced women to strip naked and to parade in front of a mock that was defined essential items again in that context one of the recurring feature of sexual violence congress actual and it's forced marriage around we've seen fourth marriage limited cases in northern uganda that the action of girls from schools in chicago curled in nigeria the direction of growth and in syria on with

their revolution it is for a united front of women girls right these women and girls are forced into relationships which parody african managed and within will forced marriages you have sexual violence you have great you have forced the forced abortions so you can see just how egregious social violence is an armed conflict on our continent and we're seeing and i'm understanding from what you're saying that there is there is there is there is sort of a methodology to this in some cases way when these militias go into areas that they are attacked and they are using sexual violence but what do they hope to achieve by doing this and what is the result perhaps. well it's a major strategy and the mission strategy is different wings the unfit so in the case of tender nneka which we saw just this past year probably the tank and you can the democratic republic of congo the strategy with him to to terrorize communities

you have to do bad while communities read a movement from different ethnic groups in a conflict such as southern sudan what you have is forced displacement sexual violence being used to force communities to flee in order that you can capture resources on a territory and you're also have more commonly political violence and conflict you have people who are detained experiencing special what share genital torture genital mutilation and we saw that in berlin after the election violence will feel like an election environment in kenya divonne guinea political opposition and their family members and their own supporters being experienced both essential violence and why is it so important that this draft resolution is passed at the u.n. security council. the draft resolution in sight o. and jenny should be commended and it's vital when we look at nigeria nigeria has been attempted to prosecute member the book on her arm and that terrorism not

convicted over one hundred about one hundred twenty. one members but none of these people have been charged with the crime of sexual violence despite the fact that it's well known that sexual violence is a key strategy of their military strategy of their militant their militia strategy right so the resolution by germany is stating that cease we reckon right that you national governments are failing to take full responsibility for any in the culture of impunity and that such items must be elevated to the level of the security council at the highest political level in order to be enforced and monitored ok doctor to say. author and specialist on gender based violence a stanford university thank you thank you for five years of civil war in south sudan has left possibly tens of thousands of people without limbs some directly as a result of armed conflict of this have lost on the lake simply through

a lack of medical treatment for other conditions as you're about to see in this next report the international red cross is now trying to fit prosthetics for as many people as possible. this is the consequence of a snakebite five year old mate all lost her leg in the war torn country of south sudan her mother couldn't get medical treatment for her in time so the infection worsened until no one could see from length. here she's trying her prosthetic limb for the first time. it's hard work but she knows she's not alone here. and the law we got as i was leaving my house on a rainy day to go to the field i got bitten by a snake. but i think i was taken home. but there was no car to transport me to a hospital right away. in addition to the physical

problems most patients are traumatized many have been injured by landmines or fighting during the civil war the red cross doctors have to counsel patients struggling to accept an artificial limb. is the first is provided until this is part and parcel of you is going to be part of your is going to let you walk get your back to the business us use of. that means manufacturing the artificial limbs to make them look this natural as possible. last year they treated hundreds of people in this center in juba but the need this much higher. south of the story of africa's wild which may not be as glamorous as some of the other species under threat but they're just as important in keeping ecosystems stable but their population has shrunk dramatically from off a million in the middle of the last century to only around six and

a half thousand now a project in zimbabwe a survey of river valley is aiming to put a horse to that decline. as the day cools down life in the bush in southeast zimbabwe begins to reawaken. leaving the african wild dogs spend the hottest part of the day sleeping in the shade. now in the late afternoon the pack comes together ready to go out hunting. it's the perfect time for jessica water maya to check up on them she heads a conservation project for wild dogs in the survey valley conservancy. it's a protected area covering three thousand square kilometers. but they are incredibly social pack animals so just the way that they interact with each other the way they take care of each other where they take care of the pepe's opec members pull together to look after each other and very different from other social convoys for example lion when wild dogs are to kill the adults when at the pepsi first they

will look off to the into they will take me back to the injured while dogs are among the most endangered carnivores in africa with population numbers of around seven thousand at most the savvy valley conservancy provides a large area for them to roam freely which is exactly what they need to survive. they prey on game such as in parlors. the southern valley conservancy was originally formed from an amalgamation of large private ranches that finances itself through tourism and controlled sustainable hunting. outside the conservancy little of the original bush remains the local population has grown on more and more land has gone over to farming leading to increased contact between wildlife and humans. rick took your bio of the african wildlife conservation fund is

responsible for the school based education program. whatever to do was buy a teaches the children about the food chain and explains what happens when one species dies out the idea is to help the children learn the importance of conservation was you know for woods example i think it's great to learn about protecting the animals no one no one to go no no i know that if poachers come i need to report it to the police or my teachers when you are going to go. to school we've never kid you. but african wild dogs are still exposed to danger even inside the park as we discover the next day two dogs got caught in a snare trap jessica water mine is at the scene when the ranger arrives. so we rest just soon as possible within twenty minutes of the report but i'm forty bucks. the

dogs had already struggled themselves and suffocated. it's a senseless killing the dogs won't even the poachers target the traps were set to catch antelopes. the dogs had tried to free themselves by biting through the wire but the copper was too tough still it's the alpha male that's been killed along with another adult dog the best hunters of the pack. wire snare traps are almost invisible in the dense bush and the area is vast but the rangers have still managed to find or around fifty of them. the rest of the pack will stick together until the juveniles are fully grown fortunately the alpha female wasn't lost otherwise the pack would have broken up but with her mate now gone hopes of gaining a new litter of puppies this year look slim. ok and that's why we needed.

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guard force or. model. is dangerous. floods and droughts climate change become the main driver of mass migration you could write any kind of peace not if you want to and probably most of them to come to. the club. scores of your thirtieth on t w. hello and welcome to arts and culture news and the united nations is currently debating a german led bid to step up efforts to combat sexual violence in war zones also this big coat instigated by hollywood star angelina jolie will be talking about that in the celebrity culture of getting involved in such political issues also

coming up. a huge street art exhibition with a fantastical backdrop has opened in western germany. and three d. printers and how they can help recycle plastic waste. in monday's washington post newspaper article appeared written by angelina jolie and the german foreign minister honeycomb us it was a cold to the international community to support survivors of sexual violence perpetrated in war zones and also to pump punish the perpetrators of such crimes it was written to coincide with the debate at the u.n. about this very subject to talk about this and the subject of celebrities getting involved in political issues i'm joined by my colleague david leavitt's david let's start.