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this week on the world story. why so many indian women commit suicide. he o.p.m. jews who want to immigrate to israel but we begin in chile where for weeks people have been taking to the streets to demonstrate for social justice as is often the case with such movements students are participating in high numbers we accompanied one of them for a few days. it's another busy day for belin. talks meetings roundtables chord in aiding mobilizations on the fly all before 3 pm that's when her campus is evacuated for security reasons every day the protests have turned life in upside down but don't go doesn't mind for her the revolt was long overdue. one more took they have more to call it 30 am phone calls for a long time people were afraid to protest because they couldn't foresee how badly
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they'd be repressed or what they could lose. but among my generation that fear is a lot smaller and we're willing to overcome that fear to achieve our goal profound changes to the system. reform. with a century long tradition of spearheading social uprisings student associations are a force to be reckoned with. gathered with national union representatives bilin exposes the students 3 fundamental demands a constitutional referendum a revitalization of the public education system and the immediate end to human rights violations at the hands of the country's riot police law enforcement agents are being accused of excessive use of force rape torture and even manslaughter in the context of the protests that i'm sure that. the police surely have protocols but i believe they dehumanised the protesters to the point that they're just the
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subjects of looters that need to be executed. but binmen refuses to be intimidated she's determined to keep protesting no matter how tired no matter how scared showing up in the street to her is what she owes to those who have lost their lives seeking a better future for chile. i don't rate fall to be living this moment in history. but i'm also frightened sad and nostalgic thinking about the fact that people have died for this that. what is it ok yes we should always remember them because they were part of a movement that's going to change chile. in a way it already has yellow. and all those fighting alongside her know what they're asking for a lot but driven by a newfound sense of community and the desire to change the course of history they don't seem likely to settle for anything less.
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women in india often face sexual violence and discrimination. one of the consequences is that a disproportionate number of women there commit suicide. sheetal bun finds cooking therapeutic. her life hasn't been easy. after putting up with years of sexual abuse as a child she taught tried to commit suicide as a teenager the scars never really healed and she tried to self harm many years later. studies have shown that attitudes towards female sexuality in india put sexual abuse survivors at greater risk of committing suicide. and then one woman's what in this is ip unfortunately that lives and it's come illegally to dived by
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those sort of incubation off just that is best stored upon home by these so-called you know keepers of of the modern you know stated and standards of the society you are either a goddess on your tomato or your report. there is no in-between. she tyler's not alone out of every 4 young women who die in india each year 3 a teenagers have committed suicide. and jolly chap priya is a leading psychiatry assistant a specialist in female psychiatric issues she says many social problems lead to women wanting to end their lives. there is sexual abuse that goes unnoticed at the world place you've been not you know that is still feeling which is that so vivid get depressed as
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a result of which it is depression that also hormonal problems which cause depression in women which go unnoticed tends to deal ignorance in our society and thanks to the stigma about it going to a bad little face. but abuse is not the only difficulty indian women face entrenched cultural norms in a country that is changing rapidly after the pressure you are expecting who a lot of things expected big expected to go because when you're expected to go to children with. your husband and. the husband usually never take from any of it other than to begin running your home so that's the fed up of being you know enough to feed us. back in her apartment she tallis busy with work she says friends and therapy have helped her to pull through she is one of the lucky ones.
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thousands of jews live in northern ethiopia. many of them hope to one day emigrate to israel but 43 opium says that's not easy. peasy european children play with the torah a part of the hebrew bible they are some of the g.o.p.'s last remaining jews about 4000 jewish ethiopians who call themselves better israel left here and under a small city in the north. the school teaches children about their jewish faith but also prepares them for a possible move to israel i was in the me that my if they learn hebrew an affair learn about their religion it'll help create regionalism and integrate within the society there and support one another you know masses of them that are better as well members want israel to give them a visit to immigrate but some of gondor have been waiting more than 20 years. under israeli law jews are allowed to move to the country but the israeli
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government doesn't view the better israel of gondor as jewish under strict religious law that's because the government says they are descendants of ethiopian jews who were forcibly converted to christianity in the distant past. many of them actually converted or their parents converted to christianity for various reasons and now they are in the wish to return to be part of the jewish people they are not considered as jews so that the already leave as jews but officially they're not yet converted so the noted jews i see that yes have a says this is discrimination. some say we're not jewish and there are no more jews here they say we're lying but we're just pretending so we can go there they think will make the religion impure but the only one to know the truth is the god that created us. many of the better community has family living in israel the israeli government has been gradually allowing its
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europeans remaining jews to emigrate understandably reunification laws but it's not clear when people will be allowed to go eating some family split for more than a decade working as i can to move to gunderson who starred with her husband and children after someone burns down their crops her life is tough but she's grateful her daughter can attend the town's hebrew school. with knowledge about her religion she will marry someone who has the same fate and follow the religious practice and. i hope she will one day live with her family and her people i really hope that my children. despite the struggle and wait hope is higher among gunter's jews that one day they will be allowed to leave they just. it's one of the darkest chapters in the history of east germany parents deemed disloyal to the state whose children were taken away from them. we met
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a woman in limbo who found her daughter decades later. 'd when evers of unit subfields despair she takes a walk in the forest during the past 35 years she's felt this way off the. top gave birth to 2 daughters in the former east germany in the 1980 s. but her joy was short lived a few years earlier she had tried to flee east germany but was caught and convicted reason enough for the youth welfare office to come to her house and take the children away. and in the 1st moment i stood there paralyzed then i ran out the door after them and yelled where are you tell you my daughter give me back my child the officer turned around pointed a finger at me and said if you don't quite down now i will call the police and you
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will have to go to jail. they have given me 3 years' probation so if i did anything i would go to prison i just stood there and asked myself whether i should protest or stay silent. and happy the least so. subnets have initially gave up but after the berlin wall came down she started gathering evidence. but just one year ago her younger daughter suddenly made contact that he had stopped was unable to cope. it's as it were not this i guess the 1st phone car i will never forget that i think of the neighbors heard everything but i didn't care. for and then on we talked on the phone every day and it kept growing from there
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than after more than 30 years of separation mother and daughter finally met. i have a history i thought my heart would burst. right before i couldn't handle the situation i was hugged and cuddles and i didn't know how to respond suddenly this person was standing there to what was related i think i only realized that part later on he got the section of and it was fairly easy to do immediately recognize her yeah you don't get your child's. but i guess the skin. now is of you know it's up can take walks in the forest with the youngest daughter and she has plans she will
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finally be able to need to have grandchildren and to make up for decades all through lost time. place . look closely. listen carefully. don't lose simply choose to be a good. place to discover the. place.
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