climate change. people. want to use today the future of. mega city. this is the dr news asia coming up a special edition ahead of international women's day on sunday today on the program a plan that women. divides the country goes forward and goes against at the heart of the food has to be the role of women. for the tragedy they didn't cause enough issues tiger overdose to face social

stigma off of their husbands in the forest. and south korea's 1st female anchor we look at how drunk is breaking barriers and also why it took so long to do so. welcome to. an all special episode on the challenges that women in asia face as such their place in rapidly changing societies we begin in pakistan where the planned march by women on the sunday has gone into fiasco opposition from most rightwing and islamic groups one of these groups is being blamed for defacing a vis painted on the wall of a house in the capital islamabad the mood was blackened allegedly by seminary students linked to a radical fraud. ferric based in the capital the women's march or ordered mobs as

it's known locally is also generating furious debate online this street that we put up on the wall from one of the march organizers she says women's bodies are seen as objects and for centuries women have been advertised objectified violated bunt mudda raped and maimed it's hard to accept that they're not yours another user reflects the view of many conservatives that it's all the work of the liberal troublemakers i assure you that neglected women in interior parts of the country have nothing to do with this march and why is it always the n.g.o.s that are against institutions armed forces and mother saw his street ending with a hostile we reject mirror just maybe but that's a phrase in order to which has become the slogan for this year's women's march here you see women at the law press club chanting made out just made my body my choice.

for more i'm joined by donna from did. she is it good to see you mayor just made my body my choice why this particular slogan. well british in pakistan the attitude of people mostly to words women is that they are precious something to be guarded something to be protected and that's why women have been told for centuries how to stand how to walk how to talk how many children they should have who should they should marry and women are saying that we are fed up with this enough is enough we want to take charge of our bodies and that is why this slogan strikes at the heart of patriarchy religious believes that people are brought up a bit and they feel rattled because if it's an attack on the stablish norms in

order but so much opposition was so much opposition to it well what we're seeing this is opposition from religious clerics. for example in his name of which is known for connection to the jihad these and preaching in extreme view of islam and other political parties coming out to say that we are going to stop this woman's march it happened last year it was tolerated it happened year before that it was tolerated but this year the situation is tense and the administration is trying to make sure that there is no more violence there is there's no harassment but i think the religious lobby is representing an overall overall conservative view of many pakistanis who believe that this is a veteran conspiracy this is a. security evolution of sorts that women are calling for greater freedom and that's why they are opposing it are women getting any support from the government of pakistan. individual ministers have come out saying david supported

the opposition leader but those are dotty has said he supports it but for the most part people are staying quiet because this is now being seen as a very divisive issue now remember pakistan is one of those countries where women are not safe they are attacked for marrying of their joy is. just thrown on their face if did if you was a proposal but it's also a country which produces the 1st female prime minister of muslim world being as he put oh it's a country which has produced manalo use of and other icons like. because these women are courageous and did they are often not afraid to stand up even when men chicken out because of authoritarianism or because of control so that is why this is being increasingly seen as a threat by the stablished order shows thanks very much for that. the world's largest mangrove forests to. support not just the rich diversity of

plants and animals but also the livelihoods of some $4000000.00 people but each year while working in the forest some for the apex predator pops the bengal tiger for the families particularly for the widowed women. it means being ostracized by the village called type of videos they are viewed as the cause of their partner's death and excluded from social contact for the supposed that bad luck they bring. rejected by her family branded as a witch. her husband a honey hunter was killed by a tiger. everybody stays away nobody even asks what's happening not even the village chief. women like

her are ostracized and roll bangladesh. so-called tiger widows are blamed for their husband's misfortune and become pariahs just when they need help the most. and i worked as a maid and fished in the river to raise my children after my husband's death. i received some money after he died. i used to build this hearts but the cycle and took it away again. and when i don't know what i'll do what the. poverty drives men into the sunderbans forest in search of honey wood and fish. and right into the path of hungry tigers. predators now competing with humans for space as climate change and development shrink their natural habitat. on average 50

people are killed by tigers each year a stroke of bad luck that haunts the families left behind. by people often say i am a bad cursed woman. turned. around the fact that they say my husband was killed because i bad mouth somebody. they keep blaming me for his death. a local charity works to reintegrate. back into society. but change is slow and the sunderbans. close by and superstition dies hard. has been described as the worst country in the world to be a woman roughly 2 thirds of girls out of school and. forced to draw but for those

who are different life for themselves the obstacles never stops. with every customer soraya shahidi takes a huge risk afghanistan's 1st female tattoo artist has faced death threats because of hard job. but she refuses to let the intimidation stop prologue of drawing on people skin. my ex waiting to to use is my profession and it's a profession i love it doesn't matter if my client is male or female i'll do tattoos for them. for afghanistan's mostly conservative society our profession is a red flag men and women aren't supposed to even touch each other unless they're related on marriage and strict moved limbs consider tattoos a new under islamic law. you go to a court answering his vain and forbid it doesn't make young people any more attractive it just brings them disgrace it has no benefit whatsoever for the. male

to 2 artists toothpastes rights. they have even threatened beat me with burn my shot him and i told them that is fine. with them burn my shop do whatever you can. just because of threats i won't flee from my country. it is my homeland. is just as defiant she sees her art as a way to challenge afghanistan's social order one to a time she's proud of her independence as a divorced woman and single mother even though the political future of afghanistan is uncertain value of all return of the taliban interrupts our work or restricts the freedom of women then i will be the 1st woman to stand against them armed with a needle and courage sariah shahidi is trying to redraw social rules in

a modern afghanistan. they're standing in her studio in south korea's 1st main. family and news anchor of you have again south korea's 1st main female news anchor in a country with the world's largest economy it's taken 7 decades for a referent journalist like lisa jong to be promoted to the main news anchor's role it's a landmark development in a traditional and conservative society and it's making headline news. stepping into the spotlight and pushing through the glass ceiling besides breaking news journalist lisa genome is also breaking boundaries becoming south korea's 1st ever female main news anchor so the country is transformed itself into a modern economic powerhouse culturally it's still often a man's world. so you don't want to go there or you know traditionally the main news anchor would be an older experienced man and beside him

there would be a young female announcer who is pretty like a flower. and starts on you know. lee is no newcomer to the business the award winning reporter has been with public broadcasting k.b.'s since 2003 but even she thought this top job would be out of reach. without realizing i myself was thinking it would be impossible for that to be a female main anchor at any time before i retired. luckily for her she was wrong now she hopes her trail blazing will make it easier for the women who follow the oil going in their big. soon i hope people will no longer be interested in whether the anchor is a woman or a man. but i'll try to stop defining myself as a female journalist i'm

a journalist and a news anchor. a local story she hopes that will soon stop the news where they. supported the news articles make news that's as much of it we need without school girls in india for voting for them off and off this plane flying to mash women's day on sunday we're back next week will see that for us. what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 get maps now. earth home to millions of species

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