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for doing. that. i mean there are some to walk up. to social networks have any social responsibility at all. the cleaners of your shadow industry storage units on g.w. . welcome to global 3000. this week we need to hinge a refugees who are facing huge obstacles when it comes to starting a new life abroad. in uganda we learn how startups are bringing about a transport revolution jaring the coronavirus lockdown. but 1st women in afghanistan fear that a return of the taliban could threaten their hard won freedoms.
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18 years after the islamist taliban were driven from power in afghanistan women in the country still face discrimination and hardship there's a lack of schools particularly for girls in 2018 as much as 90 percent of women had only attended primary school many are unable to read or write. after the taliban were ousted during a u.s. led military intervention in late 2001 women hoped their lives would change for the better but the western military alliance has gradually pulled out of afghanistan and many now fia return of the tarot and i say sion according to a survey by a us research consultancy gallup almost half of all afghan women would leave the country if they could have a summer determined to fight for their rights at home. working out his guys are young. ari's wife beating stress attacks occur on an almost daily basis in kabul
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where she lives it's a city in a constant state of emergency. guys he already works for afghanistan's government in the muslim countries male dominated society she's a woman in a position of leadership. and she's surrounded by a lot of toxicology she says. she comes to the gym to one wind. living in there a conflict zone in a country that is struggling so much in different layers i think if a strong woman and woman who are leading do not take care of themselves men tell lies at the center of physical wise i think there will not be capable of leading and managing their work like. a heads up an all male team whose job it is to reform the civil service the team investigates complaints relating to issues such as the awarding of positions and the sluggish bureaucracy. the afghan
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administration is rife with nepotism and corruption problems that the government has pledged to clamp down on. i think sometimes i'm jack just because i'm a woman and i'm very bald about my statements and a possible way. to use advocacy work out money in any meetings i think those. things in the commission are not received. yari leads an unconventional life she's unmarried and lives with her nieces and nephews as a child she was betrothed to a member of the taliban but later escaped to the us many men in her family were killed in the years of conflict but her brother survived. guys yari studied in the u.s. and returned to afghanistan where she belongs to a new generation of educated young women who insist on their rights she would even
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be willing to negotiate with the taliban whether group to return to power. 200 kilometers away in rural afghanistan life for women is much harder. tanya nori runs a restaurant it's a safe space for women she also belongs to a generation of afghan women who refused to be confined to their homes. under the taliban regime girls were barred from going to school young women couldn't study at university women weren't allowed to leave their homes unaccompanied only with their husbands they had to wear burkas we weren't even allowed to wear sandals then as well as working in the restaurant tania nori studies dentistry a considerable workload but she doesn't mind studying and running a restaurant wasn't what her family had planned for her. but she has her husband support. i want to be a role model for other women. i want to encourage them they should understand that
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women can stand on their own 2 feet. she employs many women. many of the customers come because they want to support the restaurant. on fridays guys who yari goes hiking with her family in the mountains outside kabul . her family take a liberal approach to gender roles that's unusual in this highly traditional country. guys yari believes in freedom for everyone for me i think freedom means. thinking freely making my choice freely walking freely. giving my ideas my opinions freely without any limitations. but what would she do if that freedom were denied her if that were the price of peace in afghanistan. that would be horrible i hope i hope
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the taliban will not take our freedom and we've fought very hard and the past 19 years i don't think afghan women already to lose this so. i will fight fight for herself and for the freedom of future generations of women in afghanistan . repression and discrimination are part of life and many women around the world not just in afghanistan on our facebook channel d.w. women you'll find stories about those taking a stand and inspiring others d.w. women gives a voice to women everywhere. to southeast asia now west and me in ma is home to the range of people according to the un that one of the world's most persecuted minority groups in mainly buddhist me and mock the
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predominantly muslim or hinge are not allowed to vote they have no access to higher education and their villages and places of worship are frequently attacked several 100 settlements have been set alight and many residents killed. many are hinge and have fled the country around 900000 now live in neighboring bangladesh others have sought refuge in india pakistan indonesia and malaysia but their host countries are often anything but welcoming. abu civics desperate journey began in 2014 over nice you had to flee his fishing village. together with thousands of other rohingya muslims he fled the military's brutal persecution in his home country of me and maher. all about it that they came to burn down our houses we ran for our lives then
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a fire engine came and we thought it would put out the fire instead it sprayed gasoline onto the fire and the entire village burst into flames and. eventually ended up in the malaysian capital of kuala lumpur many who traveled with him on the secret smuggling routes died along the way that liberty we lost everything of our homes our land our identity now we're stuck in our country and we know nothing about. i mean the north you know it's your money. nearly 180000 refugees and asylum seekers live in malaysia most of them are. for decades the country has refused to sign the un geneva convention of 951 for malaysia's refugees that means no recognised status no protection and no rights.
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children are the worst affected malaysia hinders their access to an education 2 thirds of the children do not go to school at all the rest attend informal learning centers such as the future school. deborah henry founded the private school in 2009 it's funded by donations many of the children here are traumatised. i remember when i 1st started working for the students we did this activity i gave them pieces of paper and crayons and i said to them just draw something you know your family and your favorite things and the pages remained black and what caused that why why were they not able to dream and to and to create and to think outside of the box and i think they've gone through so much that he just couldn't they couldn't see beyond now what do you do to like story someone's imagination to get them dreaming and. the children learn english and math at the
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future in school and they're encouraged to develop self-confidence and a sense of personal responsibility when they're ready to put in the effort they can achieve a lot that's the message that founder deborah henry wants to send was to. try to find you know if i. find. that. deborah henry began working as a fashion model when she was 15 she became one of the most famous beauty queen. malaysia but then she had the idea to put her fame to good use to fight for refugees rights.
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with this movement i posted a documentary that i visited these refugees out means living 20 minutes from a beautiful twin towers and i couldn't believe that they were here in malaysia in my home and they were going to school and i think that was a big turning point for a kid in this well today without an education or setting them up to fail. after fleeing me in march abu sidique struggled for 6 years to survive in malaysia . 6 years in which he had no legal work permit and was forced to do odd jobs to feed himself and his family. 6 years in which they received no medical care.
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i mean we miss our homeland very much we ask the international community to find justice for us we want to go home if we can we can't bear living as refugees in a foreign country we hope that the international community will help end the conflict so that my country can be of peace and we can return to our homeland god willing. to digges journey is not over yet the united states approved his asylum application a few weeks ago he his wife and their 2 children will be resettled in the midwest 2nd you beginning. something hundreds of thousands of others in malaysia can only dream about many refugees here feel abandoned by the government without an official status and opportunities they've been silenced and
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marginalized. the average malaysian will live life and never meet a refugee and so why should a refugee matter to them how is this going to affect their life how do we tell that story of what it means to be a refugee the fact that is anyone can be a refugee it's not a function of your wealth your education and privilege anyone can be a refugee just like that and so what then what role do you play when you're in a position where you are born into a safe country where you don't have conflict of war how can you then lend a hand to someone else and. with her a few gee school deborah henry has made it possible for $400.00 refugee children to receive an education and she will continue to fight for refugee rights in malaysia . by the end of this century the u.n. estimates there will be just under 11000000000 people living on our planets in
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order to accommodate them all an additional 2000000000 new homes will need to be built by 20 $100.00 and nightmare for the environment as most buildings a made from concrete which is made from cement by the middle of the century the demand for cement is set to rise by 25 percent a year cement production uses a lot of energy and creates huge amounts of climate damaging c o 2 so we need building materials which and don't contain cement and which are affordable all. to men with one vision. and 2 bowed one to transform the construction industry with cement free. concrete with support from businesses they're constructing a display house it's their 1st attempt to use the material in their impishness project a significant step toward their goal it's kind of an amazing feeling we didn't
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think much of this this week it's good to think. because there was a lot of. we are quite happy to see there in. london are spent years researching cement free building materials at the swiss federal institute of technology in zurich cement is responsible for 8 percent of worldwide carbon emissions a more sustainable building material is long overdue lundell founded on construction sites where every year millions of tons of clay based excavation materials are disposed of but when they're mixed with a naturally occurring mineral and water they result in a construction material that's more environmentally friendly than standard concrete with a cement free of concrete is up to 90 percent. c o 2 production done compared to commission of concrete and the. advantage is that
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we'd all. like primary role much to you have come from a place in the crowd from inside and. inside in some areas in the war but we use construction waste the landfill most of the time and. they are much as cheap to access therefore like and reduce the price of the material but this earth concrete can be processed more or less like standard concrete but it currently around half the cost. yes the landreau was inspired by building practices in his home country he grew up in togo where clay or earth houses are calm. insite in many countries in africa cement this. kind of wall inside and therefore you need to have a ventilation cooling system and stuff like this where are you going to sit in the
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get. together with his colleague. he's founded a start up. there was a shortage of housing all over the world these days the construction industry is under pressure not to waste resources there's a demand for the cement free concrete in industrialized nations but also in countries where affordability is a priority including in parts of africa where millions of new homes need to be built in the upcoming years. we have plans for. who is to meet that we need to build houses for 2000000000 people by 2015 and. most of these houses need to be built in country where like that they. don't like they're building material costs more down and they let some time.
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therefore having much like. it's really important it's. our dream and. so. being able to implement the clothes you have in the africa will be a huge achievement for us so all enable people to have. affordable safe decent and. same time sustainable accommodation. the display home is one step closer to fulfilling that dream the good drawing walls will undergo further tests as the 2 scientists work to optimize their earth concrete. one day they hope it will be a bedrock of the construction industry. this weekend label ideas we find out about a potential shift towards climate friendly methods of transport our reporter julie
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a small gambler hopped on a motorcycle and rode around uganda's capital kampala due to the coronavirus crisis the normally chaotic roads are empty and the city could become the starting point for a transport revolution across the whole nation. compiling coronavirus smoke down. the streets of never been empty but francis archaea is allowed to believe very same shows and something else is different for us this is one of the few people in uganda driving an electric motor bike. he sees a lot of advantages to it number one it is salient number 2 doesn't question fuel at all. number 3. claims very well. ok as for deliveries being eagerly awaited play a pregnant customer. since the sims and few well he can charge less than his
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competitors. he's actually very cheap to buy them in the end. i think. they go there that people are doubling their praise so literally it is inconvenient for me. images from just weeks ago. in kampala alone there are about 830000 motorcycles oh border borders. the masses of motorized fake cause generate a huge amount of air pollution and c o 2 emissions. that is why the united nations environment program the unit provides advice and financial support for electric mobility in eastern africa. we need the media response we need intermediary interventions and electric mobility is one of those because. i'm not going to infrastructure
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needs they don't need so you can have your computer. and go on. development part. path requires pioneers make been located korea and he wouldn't be. the graduates of arkin university in germany had a problem article a dear take feel ready existing fuel motorbikes income and transfer them into electric bikes. so all we remove is the petrol powered train. petrol driven culture we poured on the electric. same bike fuel trying to empty of course of. what we put inside mainly a controller in the electrical solar electric more thought. a battery as a source of power replacing a fuel tank. some digital controls of throttle lithium ion batteries
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become an old laptops are assembled into rechargeable battery units for the bike and the recycling gloop continues even when the batteries become too weak to use in the e-books so what we do get in your batteries use it for your mobility. after that when they lose a bit of power we either put it we put it in storage systems like our. power resolves one loses again our we go through tortures another small obligations before it goes through to be disposed. delivery month france is still clear it's one of the 20 drivers testing be transformed bikes. on average he has to return to bordeaux walk twice a day to recharge. he rents the batteries for the evening to have less than 3 euros
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a day. all in all these things kind of he's operating costs by half but there is still one thing that bothers him. one place where we where we swap it but. i think that he said even to get the feedback but we are getting from the border guys as also also because. it doubles their income saw families will freeze we see kids being brought from the village that are now schooling in kampala because the writers have more money. this right days johnny johnny had done nutria. he had worked for solar energy company for several years before he decided to try to make a company as motorbikes cleena. with his startup zimbo he now imports cutting edge electric motor bikes from china. each one sells for about a 1000 euros that's quite a bit of money that the drivers can pay over
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a period of 2 years. and the bikes are tailored to their specific needs here our driving is different than chinese person commuting to work here we really look into productive he was hundreds of kilometers every day. there is still a long way to go through all right if you. only committed if you. only live very this start up a slow 20 bikes so far. and they expect a to more within the next 2 months. zain boys are already creating employment sorrow tabel couldn't find a job for 2 years now she's in charge of marketing actually it makes me feel very very proud of myself that i'm contributing a lot to be part of the great team which is actually pretty beauty. to
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immobility for a small fee of just over half a euro is embodied jiver can exchange and into botching woefully challenged $1.00. this is important like some new green system electricity comes from the solar energy ari on top of the company's beauty. for more solar charging points are planned in kampala soon. energy is generated within the country not like hewitt which is imported from outside. so this has a huge impact on the environment. and we were briefed here in kampala i see even 10 years you know if you want to psych assault anymore in the world market it's an outdated technology these green technology behind francis appears deliveries is a sign of hope in 2 ways providing for people's needs in the local town and for
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clean the country once the pandemic is over. that's all from us at global 3000 this week as you know we love hearing from you so write to us at global 3000 at d w dot com and check out our facebook page d w women see you next time.
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you. describe this as it seems. to. me to take a closer. to the mall she. touched. in the
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looks for signs of nature the biggest city of delhi. there's plenty of loose. and little environmental consciousness. but the angio delhi greens wants to change that . it aims to raise awareness with small eco friendly projects. will its efforts bear fruit. to be. 90 minutes on g.w. . literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see some of the kids find the strength and growing up. to share work afraid. to give me books on you to.
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those rumors are always a. symbol of a long conflict in the philippines. between the muslims and the christian population. the front lines fighters occupied the city center. president to church. was told. by the children will never again will hold a movie above. the reconquest turned into tragedy. this is not the kind of freedom that we want a how did we become a gateway to islamist terror until now the same story got under more significant initial and exclusive reports from a destroyed city in the philippines in the. start you may 20th long t.w. .
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place . this is feed every news live from thailand across europe nations grapple easing coronavirus restrictions in france commuters at one train station in the capital received mosques as they had to work with the 1st time in 88 weeks most shops and businesses are reopening but many limitations remain in place. at least in hong kong are based more than 200 people in anti-government protest is the 1st time such demonstrations have taken place since the current fires break. along with the pandemic east.

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