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differently. welcome to a special edition of. it's good to have you with us it's an institution steeped in tradition obligations and expectations and it's changing. process is change sometimes organic sometimes forced. marriage across. pakistan where some desperate families push their daughters and sisters to chinese men for money but once in china many brides are cruelly abused and despite rights

groups raising the alarm pakistani officials to crack down on the trade and. traced over 600 pakistani brides sold to china over the last 2 yes and for many. turns out to be a nightmare. back with family but broken inside this is somehow david she was trafficked to china and married off to a stranger after just 2 months she returned to pakistan deathly ill. she what also modern others ready ready ready laureate are guarding. hide and rid. of the very. forcefully. a month later she was dead. sammi a story is not unique and is part of a disturbing wider trend in human trafficking. chinese men seeking brides are

fueling an illegal but lucrative cross border practice that targets girls and women often from pakistan's impoverished christian minority. word by the promise of a better life and money for their parents they're told they're going to marry wealthy chinese christians. more often than not they end up in some of china's poorest and conservative areas where its one child policy has led to too many men and not enough women. once across the border young brides are at the mercy of their new husbands. and they've been. fighting a star from the in pregnant. there are a lot of spiders because my role behind my room is my i don't want a spider as i hear. i'm no one trailing. he's not listening.

you don't know you're crazy and. other women have described coercive behavior physical abuse and even forced prostitution. whatever the chinese grooms want to do with them they can no one is there to see what happens to the girl it's the height of cruelty. but also a profitable business that's practiced openly in china although beijing says it has 0 tolerance for any illegal cross border marriage behavior a pakistani investigation into the trafficking networks led to a number of arrests last year but efforts to bring the traffickers to justice have stalled investigators say they've come under pressure from government officials to curtail their work for fear of damaging pakistan's increasingly close economic ties to beijing. and as long as pakistan turns

a blind eye to lucrative and distressing trade of brides to china will continue. joining me now for more on this story is. she is the co-chair of the human rights commission of pakistan is there any welcome why is our government officials so hesitant to crack down on a bride to cross into china. unfortunately but ever since these cases have been altered. government's response has been lax master and what people are saying is i mean just as you know the chinese are way. konami. and the apple writing is not of 8 the form of this. past military so all these factors acting coming into the picture and these cases and not being at best has a false trafficking and the government is not responding in kind of

a coward many of these girls and families are reaching out for help so that looks like a grim prognosis does that mean that these cases we will see more off in the future and so far the 21000 through the travel documents. will ensure investigation to be $629.00 cases were reported documented and. even gender gamey and their numbers must have gone up because no action had been taken so obviously if the government just going to look the other way. because we'll continue reporting and doing there's a lot of the. making money the local authorities in the center the local community get involved in these type of thing is big but the benefit changed so we have. local let me just. some of the churches in small

areas so it's christian population that is being targeted and the community. why exactly are all communities all these my not to communities. i guess the minor is being the poorest obviously but poverty is one of the reasons that parents agreed to send their daughters. but if. you really. think it was right. who are you know then by good muslim i mean most. rights. activists behind. it also write better reliever thank you so much for joining us on the rani ok.

in may of last year same sex couples in taiwan one legally allowed to matter here after the government elected a special law for same sex marriage this despite several protests and referendums what a large majority rejected same sex unions for taiwan's as a beauty community though the changes what a long time coming. a short walk down the aisle but a giant step toward equality these women made history last year among the 1st same sex couples to tie the knot in taiwan. in may the island became the 1st place in asia to legalize gay marriage for the l.g. bt community it was the culmination of a decades long struggle for recognition. was and a huge pools for jubilation. it doesn't that's why me about fashion sense

a jacket never imagine this happening and this is. i'm very emotional. i feel taiwan cares for human rights which is very good. but the issue has polarized society highlighting deep divisions on an island that remains staunchly conservative opponents say the bill ignores only a referendum rejecting same sex unions. despite that time one is becoming increasingly progressive and the capital taipei is home to a thriving gay community. at the city's 1st prime parade since the ruling revelers had plenty to celebrate. by one. i think that's the one post there for us. happy that. there was. a bold step to taiwan's l g b

t community hopes the rest of the region will soon follow. after this in taiwan but not so much in india because a great big indian wedding is being slimmed down by a poorly performing economy that is consumer spending in india has dropped and that among other factors is having an impact on how much couples are willing to shell out for their big day in a country where it's not unheard of having 25000 guests at a matter that means deep cuts to the invite list and celebrations that often last at least a week now manage with just a couple of days it's heartbreaking i know when the purse strings up tight the budgeting has to begin. to be punchy meyer thought she'd already picked her dream dress and after taking a closer look at that budget can have fiance decided to make some savings meaning

another trip to the clothes rack. bunch of being the markets and i did write nowadays are you going to say show me your eyes or a week on function doing this starting. to function see you try to start going on the course by effective need to encourage you to say. indian weddings are renowned for being lavish glitzy affairs with hundreds or even thousands of gas partying for days on end but despite being seen as recession proof the industry has also fallen victim to india's slumping economy only it used to be a week long weddings has now been converted to just one a one an r.v. already in the entire family has been dreaming about the day when they when my and my tailor would get married and they've been saving things for the day this sector has had a major setback the wedding favor tools to be 2000 people out when the deal fell now 70800. scaling back on the big day can impact friendships and social

standing people who normally make the guest list now find themselves left off it for another bride to be a man veto khurana it's a real worry. if all the businesses you know look anybody in and out i don't saw you knowing that it really affects each and every fan meet it doesn't only affect the bride in the room it also affects the siblings and around that a little is that don't because then what happens we start you know putting the cars down the picture perfect wedding maybe getting the slimmed down but it's still sure to be full of all the color and emotion that's the whole mark of any marriage in india. that is a must and that's it the day it was just from the mosque in the wedding in the islamic republic of pakistan the local council raised funds to cover the costs of the top of them $70.00 otherwise i'll just reach for many families thank you for

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