that will soon stop the news with the. right you're watching day w. news from berlin coming up next news africa with my colleague at the market junior and don't forget you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website at www dot com there's more news coming up at the top of the alpha now both from me and see how it on the rest of the team here in berlin thanks watching. my 1st boss i also sewing machine. where i come from women are bound by this ocean for. something as simple as none in home to write them by said those isn't. since i was a little girl i want to. take it off my head it took me as the month. finally

gave up invention by neon bicycles and returned because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more apt pro-create for those than writing and by. no i want to meet those woman back home plug phones by then and social norms and inform them of old dead basic rights my name is dave out of the homes and i'm more into. that the. best is the africa coming up on the program females in focus we look at the lives of different african women to mark international women's day this sunday will take you 1st to go and tell you about one woman's difficult fight for justice also coming out. kenyan mom carline song and find out how she. managed to turn her life around after

taking your job. and i wrote the lessons of that i think the most important. thing that i want to impart is that you always have a place at the table. even if someone doesn't make you feel like you know that there is power in standing in your. truth. some inspirational words from our ward winning filmmaker on stage and find out what else you have to say. the weekend is here your welcome to the program it's international women's day this sunday so we've decided to make this show all about women you're going to hear from a number of females all with a story to tell that include award winning if you've been a filmmaker met it's monday for all about child marriage has won many prizes will

be out and about in nairobi with carolina song who tells us how her job has turned her life around but we start in tokyo with a story of a woman trying to get justice after being attacked a state of use funny fresh i reports she's facing many challenges. outside her home she doesn't want her parents to know that she's telling us her story she was sexually abused by her brother in law he raped her at her sister's house when her sister was pregnant and needed help with the housework. i see the tree near me in a way that i cannot even tell you i cannot explain but i know myself if i had had a chance to react i might have stabbed him. she asked her family for help in bringing the man to justice but their response was just keep quiet and massive.

my sister a big me to withdraw a complaint and my parents also asked me to drop it because it will create division in the family. i did not receive the support i needed i felt abandoned neglected. it felt like a huge burden. to bear. walk too often into women are expected to remain silent tells me in a society dominated by men or women's rights group in law may encourage its victims like no willy to seek justice. here it's the man that say we're the boss of the family it's them who make all the decisions but i say that's not equality. though there are laws to protect women powerful culture barriers prevent them from being enforced but that's not in our culture there is fear that everything should be

worked out inside the family. people think that seeking justice is like jesse clothes in public. he finally decided to report the rape is due to family price. she withdrew perec using it but the trial continued without her as a witness the man was sentenced to one year in prison to vex him sentence for rape into this 10 years of imprisonment. the society doesn't take violence committed against women seriously. they rank men above women in islam. this is a culture doesn't encourage women to speak out for themselves. monk or women are simply afraid to talk plainly no will he had the courage to speak up yet

she feels that she has to remain silent in public for fear of repercussions. no one should be able to live in fear of speaking out. the transport industry is still very male dominated around the world including in africa but to my country like kenya more and more women are venturing into the transport business we met one of these women in nairobi who is braving the challenges and making a bold statement. for caroline our song the day begins at 5 am it's dark and her neighborhood is in the safest but her job demands an early start . to conduct on one of my robi's buses on my tattoos as a local. single mom the job pays the school fees for 2 sons and adopt a child and her sister. a lot because

in a minute. we're not taking away from one in 41 that we were going to do 15 i think who are only incidental. even my mother said what in that nasty. matter sector is tough the wages vary by the day and conductors like caroline are the lowest. when she started out she owned the equivalent of 6 euro's a day what's more touchy workers face daily harassment from the police their colleagues and the passengers while caroline of learn to stand up for herself she's often had to step in for other women and. there was a lady who sits next to a man and she wore a shirt that's not sure then the man was like is this this what i had gotten for out. then i started the money or what my bills like chinese live got going alone.

after several reports of sexual abuse and i wrote these buses a new law making sexual harassment punishable by 10 years in prison made the transport system safer. and n.g.o.s the flown initiative also supports women my caroline by encouraging transport workers associations to improve their working conditions. look at do they provide any customer service training if they don't want to provide the training they have in me awareness about sexual harassment we do sensitized training and we help them develop. well you see. how many women this has made. it's still a man's world but women are slowly finding their place. transparent and focused and like many women caroline hopes that she will one day be able to get her license and finally be in the driver's seat. well one

woman who's in the driver's seat as filmmaker merits mind she's an award winning if you're going to write a director producer and a film diffract won the audience award out of bed in a film festival in 2014 it's a true story about the female autonomy defending a 14 year old girl standing trial for killing them. if you. think. that i'm going to get shot. well as we celebrate african women we invited meretz man dreadful to our studio i 1st asked what kind of narratives you want to tell with her films. that women can be the source of their own solutions

that culture is that a barrier it can actually be a resource to shaping the future. and that africa is is here and present we're here and part of the contemporary world and i think has a very important role to play on the global stage right now i don't think i could've said it better but let's talk about challenges you've encountered as a female soon soon producer. you know i tend to not i think of challenges opportunities quite frankly because it's better to be underestimated or discounted than overestimated and i think that's always been my strategy like over deliver if you will. and so obviously the movie business is very male dominated but that hasn't been a hindrance i look at it as an opportunity because good stories are p.o.v needs and i think women have important perspective spring to the table well there's definitely. we talk about some produces filmmakers and i remember one interview of

yours you're talking about some sort of audience you've got a film should have walked out it's huge for the sort of the makeup of this every film is a small american you have to understand that it is a marathon not a sprint so you have to stick with it. i think that's the best advice i would give young filmmakers stick with it stick with it what kind of perseverance everyone is going to tell you know you know when we are making to fret we've got a 1000 knows about anything too ambitious that we wouldn't be able to make it you have to stick your you have to believe in your vision if you don't believe in your vision you won't be able to make your film you know you've already spoken about a kind of narrative you want to tell when when making your films what do you hope to achieve overall in the film industry well right now i'm very focused on the if you have been industry which is at the beginning in many ways it's not formalized or structured and i want to help in building up an ecosystem where. economy of that makes sense i think filmmaking and t.v.

can be a source of economic growth for if you're so i'm very involved in activities to make that happen going forward what kind of stories you actually want to tell it and why. the stories i tend to tell are about brave individuals and i'm usual circumstances who find a way to create something new i gravitate to stories to hard truths. and individuals who dare to tell them in their own set of circumstances so again examples would be stories lie stories like different you know at the center of that story is an amazing lawyer. and a better ash but amazing girl who both did very unexpected things for that time for women and they were kind of their own solutions if you will maz as actually now the president of our supreme court the 1st female president in supreme court so

it's also school now right before you go how do you talk about women in the industry we all know is the middle needs in this reviews talked about it a bit but what actually do you want to do to inspire women in this industry i think the most important lesson or the thing that i want to impart is that you always have a place at the table. even if someone doesn't make you feel like you do and that there is power in standing in your own voice on your own truth. is a very strong words i guess that is the rest of the holy thank you for being on her it's monday through i was winning film and television producer thank you for your time thank you. well that's a phone out from d.w. news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page so we leave you now with pictures of some of the continent's most successful woman on to the next i have a great weekend bye for now. 250

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