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tv   World Stories  Deutsche Welle  May 26, 2019 4:02am-4:15am CEST

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hard. on this edition of world story. refugees in jordan. and apps to prevent sexual violence in india but we begin in germany where article one of germany's basic law states that human dignity is inviolable dominant global believes a life lead in dignity means being able to wash even if your own less also. going to the toilet taking a shower there normal things for everyone but how can you do this when you're homeless it's not so simple. dominic clone lived on the streets for 10 years always on the move looking for something to eat somewhere to sleep he says it was a life without dignity.
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dominic was 16 when his mother threw him out the streets of st paoli became his home the red light district of hamburg. when we beat each other up for a sleeping bag it's a fight for survival and then there's a sadistic violence and contempt where people come in they don't treat you with dignity but like dirt on and on and get effect on that they pee on your sleeping bag or batter us something there might not be a tomorrow maybe someone will set me on fire beat me to death like you end up living just for the here and now and trying to stay alive. yet dominic's got his high school diploma and volunteered in a clothing to pay for refugees people even worse off than him. he sees this kind of
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thing all the time please wake up a sleeping homeless man and tell him to move on. this is also a question of dignity cool among us who sits down somewhere at lunchtime expects to be approached by 3 police officers and you see how they put on gloves because they're disgusted that's no way for people to treat each other. dominic is working to offer homeless people some dignity he's collecting donations to pay for a shower bath a bathroom on wheels with a dressing room full of clean clothes he learned what hygiene can means for person when he was living on the streets. body and soul go hand in hand at some point if you're physically dirty you turn inwards and feel in the end that you yourself are dirt has a lot to do with dignity and feelings of self-worth these are things that are lost on the streets i hope this bus can help taking showers to people who need them the
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call will. dominate got his life in order he's 30 now and for the 1st time his existence is fairly secure he has work he has goals. and he has friends most importantly he says it's helping the board i have an apartment and i appreciate what that means for me it's a luxury to be able to sleep in my boxer shorts or to wash myself whenever i feel like you know i need a shower but it's not. that many people have dignity and that's inviolable and that should apply to everyone washing is a large part of that. next we're going to jordan where over 2000000 palestinians live in refugee camps their situation is worse and considerably since the u.s.
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stopped all its funding to the united nations palestinian refugee agency. 27 year old ali implicitly roams the refugee camp or he was born and raised it was once his job to clean the streets here but now the garbage is left on collected she was one of around 40 senate taishan laborers employed by the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees were underway for short to keep the girish camp in jordan clean in 2018 the trump administration announced it would seize all funding to the agency so it has had to let employees go including senate ition laborers like. the u.n. agency was able to raise new funds from some 40 other countries but still needed to reduce its hold budget by $92000000.00 u.s. dollars last year. haile has asked us not to reveal his identity his refugee status doesn't allow him to work outside the camp his job was his only source of income to
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support his family of 6. there are now only 10 workers left to clean a camp with a population of $30000.00 as a result the camp is experiencing a garbage crisis. am the camp is lacking in everything the santa teresa jew ations very bad shit every day i have to clean the street myself. we knew of to a different camp because it is the largest refugee camp for palestinians in jordan with a population of over 100000 many families have been in the camp for generations here sanitation is not the only problem residents of houses with makeshift roofs like this one are especially vulnerable in the winter months. a father of 2 says he hoped would help with building expenses but they always cited a lack of funding he was forced to go into debt to pay for this metal cover.
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but i'm a grown up and i can handle this but i was worried for my children all night about carrying them from one room to the other so that the rain would not fall on their heads i had to put buckets all over the house i had no other solution to. get the solution he found is by no means sustainable water still gets through the house poses many health hazards and the children are at risk of electrocution from uncovered wires. says that when the summer months hit the roof will make temperatures inside the house unbearable he says he feels abandoned with no other option but to hope for a better future. india is considered the most dangerous country in the world for women over 100 rapes are reported here every day if you want to bring new orders from delhi have now developed an app to help protect women from sexual harassment and violence. figures of harassment
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on the faces who come forward with their stories over 4000 instances detailing sexual harassment of women have been shared on an online platform called safe city these experiences are marked on i'm up in this case in the heart of india's capital delhi it did happen to me. but to the north did not meet victor it never could. and you still i will always be. safe says he's founder elsa marine to silver hopes the platform will help educate women about their rights 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 are not alone in your experience but she wants more by
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highlighting how dangerous public spaces are for women the hope is that authorities will make cities safer studies say delhi is one of the most dangerous cities in the world for women by evening the streets are almost exclusively a male domain the roads are often dimly lit and there's little police presence of tauruses have commissioned a safety pin startup to list danger zones in the city employees evaluate hundreds of patients of photos the platform is also used in hanoi where as aims to make metro stations safer safety pin has developed 3 alps there's also my safety pin where users can race has safe they feel in a certain place. the areas are scored and they bring new comers to a city to determine which streets to avoid the company has also made an opp which allows users to have themselves tracked by g.p.s.
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. we are very clear that only a woman kid asked someone to track so nobody can take a decision to track someone very careful that we don't become a stalking. the apps are there and the technology behind them keeps improving but the real test boils down to how women feel walking india street. and our last stop is money. if you've got a locked door broken phone just take it to the cell phone market in the center of the capital bamako where an expert will fix it for you the markets creating jobs in the crisis ridden country. anyone looking to buy a cellphone in mali's capital bamako will likely head straight to the mushy agent telephone. no one knows exactly how many dealers and workshops there are here but it's somewhere around 2000 crowded together along the road. mamadou camera sells
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new smart phones at his stall he says the place isn't just full as it used to be the robot or the little girl on the crisis in the country is making our business worse people have less money and if they do have money they buy other things not phones but it wouldn't it be that would be why don't. molly is one of the poorest countries in the world but mobile network coverage reaches almost 100 percent of the population anyone who can afford one house a cell phone. opposite mama tos there's a stand for 2nd term phones business is better there. has already checked out a few dealers but hasn't found the right one yes. well not so and. i'm looking for a 2nd time phone 1st lady i don't have much money and secondly this street is the best place to get 2nd time resolves so what are the resources like. avraham haidar
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our no relation has a small range of things but mainly used i phones they're more expensive but they look impressive and they're a lot cheaper than the new ones across the way. for the i phones come from the us or france people often trade their old ones in so i buy them after they've been repaired. the repairs are done and one of the yards along the road it's where artemus see the bed has his workshop cracked screens and broken circuit boards even the most hopeless cases are brought back to life here a repair cost the equivalent of a she sends to $20.00 euro's depending on the job. to work tools and so my repair old brands samsung i phone android but it's only possible if i can get the replacement parts here in mali from oprah's school for 2. locked phones are also taken care of in the repair shops suliman see that it has programs that can get any
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phone up and running again. the mashie to telephone provides thousands of jobs and bamako and despite the country's crisis these jobs are relatively secure as africa's cell phone market is the fastest growing in the world. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have walked off the streets of many cantrips and then problems are almost the same 14 social inequality
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a lack of the freedom of the press. corruption who can afford to stay silent when it comes to the fence the humans on the scene the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny paris and i'm part of the. action packed life. anything's possible as long as up to coffee and his friends can dream just movie theater can just adopt refugee camp. his life story man grew into a. 27 years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for cinema to the stars may 27th on g.w. .

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