literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see herself as the kids find strength grow grow. might only objects of one era to share with a fine beautiful. she does leave books on youtube. you know. it's very important that we build solidarity beyond the border. i hope will remain to be able to be a good energy and feeling good for me. to live in and when we come together there's nothing to become a change. there

rebellious smart and they use the arts to do cry injustice they fight against sexual violence and for equal rights to market international women's day our correspondents represent women who impress them with their courage and creativity. in sometimes. delhi. berlin and nairobi but 1st to turkey. hi from istanbul this is a handy w.'s correspondent in turkey and i would like you to get to know a musician who is rebelling against the ordinary with her unique sound and her outspokenness on women's rights issues here in the country now meets turkey's psychedelic rock star guy aswat just.

a mini bus ride through a parallel universe and a woman. is in the driver's seat. she loves to bring together the traditions and modernity that sounds she revived psychedelic rock a sound that was lost. truly popular in turkey in the 1970 s. . guyon isn't cut on the asian side of istanbul. it's a district known for its many bars and clubs at least when there is no pandemic. this is where she grew up. some of them most of my childhood memories are about music and when i dreamt about my future the music was always there.

today the 36 year old writes composes and co produces most of her songs herself. the fans love the unique mix of turkish music rock and post-punk. and many search gaius abstract lyrics for messages about the situation and tacky. to. the whole country is a shishak of faith and we as suffocating in its smoke she sings and bottom is that tosh. left us all work and used it's really become more and more difficult to breathe in this country because there's a lack of justice and rule of law leave. that is deeply wounded the society. i feel very injured to. it's time for us to stand up for and support each other

here in turkey and elsewhere in the world. the. guy is most concerned about the situation of women in turkey right schools warned that domestic violence is on the rise and that the number of women murdered has dramatically increased in recent years. activists regularly organize protests although the turkish government bans most of them but guy is proud that women still dare to be loud and demand their rights. to the code. when we talk about women in turkey the word oppression automatically comes to mind . it's an uphill battle for every woman who wants to live according to her own ideas. but we won't be afraid we will stick together draw attention to ourselves

and organize organize all's although. for her fans guy is a role model in terms of self-determination and when it comes to speaking one's mind. i don't ask for anyone's permission i am who i always wanted to be she sings on her latest record the song is called it's young money festool saw rebellion money festival. and gal you can't wait to play her music life again after the pandemic in one of the clubs in her home city. music hall so if my music were a city it would definitely be istanbul the city has many sounds and forces it's a melting pot where everyone and everything comes together. so i really like to be compared to the city.

i'm a pretty touchy muddied obvious correspondent and demi using comics and graphic narratives impoundment that's what he found material tried dogs challenging convention forms of patriarchy let's meet this remarkable visual artist who's breaking barriers in india. i don't think think we if we mean us those often stop us this show on the jeannine peak and feeling fear inducing imagining what we can be called i think there's a good deal of conversations that need to be had and more being in this country this is the moves fit so the next big feature and o'grady if you make good social

structure of. your column go all over the city already did you or did you look at yahoo piece of it to be revealed to spank you would go to continuously having to type things and be with eyes for him because he. is working with the 2 best expresses ideas and her perspective on life. she's inspired by feminist leaders and people's movements this is reflected in her drawings and the issues on which she's chosen to focus. it does have to challenge gender stereotypes and attempts to stifle her voice even at art school art of course should you be rewarded these late professors who can who feel that you really you shout you down and they can just go down to you and

forgave dealing with asthma and on campus and all these issues that are happening but you know everybody wants this student was either 65 you're going to have to sit in creeping being afraid of our port is just insane. but in early twenty's either i was captivated but something entirely new what she called the magic of bringing text and images together to create powerful narratives like this book on an eco feminist who led a movement against the forestation in india that in it's meant often you were a city do being part of the story is something that i know i threw in one of the previews for this year's state of you know of it in i wanted to be a conversation. and that's why if you going to do with any. good comics and graphic narratives. that engages with women from marginalized communities. she's traveled to remote regions to day she saw the transformative

potential of art. before sanity said no no as theory has the room playing live. in cities soon for all faculty of the mentors in this community is to see if they can create a life there we be one. over there to see you know you need to you can express for your abs your dreams are just to do that is a 4 stage is really really important to feel to be able to have that chance to go on and think it's too easy that we can to get the look at what it means to be taking all of assets is as as a team us as people who are defying i did these last e-tail was drawn to a mass movement led by been in delhi. the shaheen bank sit in protest at

a major public highway was against the government's citizenship amendment act critics said the legislation was discriminatory against muslims. it was absolutely unbelievable to be on a public high really blocking backspaces by having really speaks so strong be up honesty it and so clearly about who are democratic they are and what citizenship meet the only reference i could express what they're hearing through in trying everything come back to my studio and me kristie is for stuff both in hindi and english. even sports isn't drawings on this piece where protests have now been compiled into a book. a powerful graphic narrative of women at the forefront of a mass movement. at the same time we see what the government of the state is doing to young women who speak out behind our voice to say so we've seen

these 2 kind of context so we've been being at the forefront of people's movement and a state that's kind of clashing in one big sheeny taking any. you're saying it is a moment that i would think we can see even me or these what we want. to. believe. and. this is a feel about it but he did have a news correspondent in to i'm going to present to a group of women that dances with witnesses in the streets of such adult to raise awareness of gender violence and the power goes at women to fight for their rights to meet the demands collective i look up which i wish i had to push ever has in a new jobs but international women's day. over 50 women have turned up. dominic.

eat up my for me the collective and dancing as part of a collective means liberation enjoyment pleasure friendship this is a space where i feel safe and i can be myself the name of the dons group is linked to the headgear so women fast dotted wearing balaclavas in hoods during demonstrations both to protect themselves from police tear gas and to ensure they want recognised they became a symbol a. unique. event can unite as one of the 4 women who founded by line up which i love and i but 2019 during the wave of protests against social inequality in chile. in that once a year and we don't want to conceal their identity but we do want to protect it because there's a lot of political persecution in chile that the long predates the uprising and we

wanted to form a collective and to present a common front that. and i protest i am not manali kind of a collective. it is the 1st time since the start of the fund that make and their related restrictions that they have matched to my house like this and i believe we are a feminist dance collective in term of the earth we want to make hard less a leader to bring down to the streets and to show that our body is our 1st territory of struggle we're not dancing for others but for ourselves but our choreography is always based on urban down styles such as dancehall work and hip hop last year on international women's day 300 members of the collective dance on the streets of sontag go where and read by the clubbers to man people in toto protested nationwide social inequality sparked an uprising against chile's near

liberal economic and social system in october 2019 it was feminist from the start. the walls of santiago tell the story of the protests of the struggle against patriarchy and machismo. the don's collective members want to draw attention to violence against women in that performances. religiously to me that's as soon as i leave my home i'm exposed to harass there's abuse during childbirth there are always forms of violence against women. at work in the health care system the family it's never ending. but i want to believe that it will be eradicated but it's a long process to. get it we are in the middle of a paradigm shift from you understand we. keep this collective is about so much more than don's it's about solidarity and mutual empowerment many say that

the group dancing on the protests have changed their lives. but in the end though if they mean more we're learning from feminism in the learning to love each other but you know not to compete against one another but to actually create a nucleus or we can express ourselves dominic says she has learned to accept her body through dancing in the kori. schake it cable. you can eat anything. and mean look i conceal that i've changed my way of showing myself to the world and to my environment and to myself keep on international women's day by like a bridge of my level one small be done sitting in the heart of santiago.

i needed can money coming to you from kenya's capital nairobi and despite the fact that the person we're about to meet was not actually born here she does thrive in creative institutes such as. the one that we're standing next to but it's actually hell literature that she hopes will be able to cut across boundaries reaching young girls across the continent and challenging young women such as i self. and other pins that really gets my goat. when i get referred to. black africa right that i'm like how why must i have business what you call it work or what i did i want to be a good writer zuki swire than or knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it

the south african after it was born in zambia and then studied and lived abroad for a long time today she lives in kenya and as a publisher editor and writer and children's author during the pandemic she has become the curator of a pan african on line literature festival combining well known names with new talent she wonders between worlds with boundless energy. the books she writes are always political in her 1st novel the madams which was published in 2006 she describes the lives of middle class women in south africa who are appalled between tradition and modernity between a career and being the perfect african mother. sensually prawle. who very proffer very pro women and i think generally comes out in my books what those 3 or have in common with about identity. i'm

writing for readers but more importantly i'm writing for people will say or reading is boring enough they are i've got a book for you finish once i finish one period and tell me about the boring her novels always carry a message she writes literature with an added to. this one of them is particularly committed to young readers and writers i don't want my generation to be the last generation of writers you know i always to myself to be able to hold on and bring younger generation of writers and give them voice and give them the platform in her writings to piece work than are uses all of the linguistic richness of the continent including street slang it had different dialects. my readers should be able to understand the context you know if they don't get the context then it means i have failed it's not that the language has failed i have failed as

a writer. zoo piece were vanner is active on the international circuit in 2019 she was invited by the good institute to speak at the frankfurt book fair she's a citizen of the world with many contacts for the outspoken feminist this comes naturally i think i'm an itinerant by nature in a way i have always been an outsider looking in if you were but i also give a insider's perspective in 2022 piece one of than or was the 1st african woman to be awarded the good to medal making her a role model for an entire generation when you're an artist you want to be on just speaking to one people it means a lot where it can resonate with a with somebody in berlin or with somebody in munich with somebody in brazil but her main commitment is to her continent africa but maybe we need. more voices

that are more visible a lot of african countries are only going to 60 years from communism we're still growing we are still in. kenya has been battling the pandemic for more than a year and like everywhere else in the world it is women who have been hit particularly hard by the crisis zuki suave banner has a message for women but also for men this is a message we will up the sky may we get the recognition we deserve for old and suddenly we do. and maybe we and our allies and learned the pachuco habits that allow us to celebrate mediocre contributions by men or excellent contributions by women i wish you all a reflective and pardon 365 days this woman stays.

in. hi there karen homestead here reporting from berlin and i'd like you to meet unlike friends she's a polish artist and activist who now lives here in germany and she never misses a chance to fight for the rights of women in her home country and after poland's recent near total ban on abortion she now feels their voices more than ever need to be amplified well beyond their own borders oh you. are on the barricades. many feel their bodies have become a political battleground. a global scream expresses their collective outrage it's an initiative of honor kinds a tireless leader in the fight for women's reproductive rights and the stakes just

got higher things have changed as well because it's war now since last year in poland it's a war of women against the government. last october poland's constitutional court voted to clamp down even further on one of europe's most restrictive abortion laws the ruling from to tens of thousands to take to the streets in protest here in the capital warsaw. in late january 2021 the ruling was abruptly published into law abortion is now illegal even in the case of severe fetal defects amounting to a de facto ban in the predominantly catholic country. yeah they did in berlin and a krentz turned up the volume on behalf of her countrywomen. yeah. it's just an imperative you have to do something you cannot really sit on your sofa but that's why that's why we stand on the streets we think it's important we want to

show their solidarity with polish women we are polish women as well and we are angry at the same besides what happens in poland it also it has. influence on sings in other countries. and i came to berlin in 2002 in 2016 growing outrage over the proposed abortion bill in poland prompted her to found. an inclusive feminist collective that also advocates for l.g.b. t.q. rights. with fellow member teen she staking out a protest action for international women's day symbols are a vital part of her work whether graphic or performance. lace in general. very feminine material is very it can cover but it can also reveal things and if you talk about abortion exactly abortion this bill or the

regulation of abortion is one of the very few maybe only one which regulates your very private life your body deep in your body your heart soul whatever but it's very very private like the dress or with a curtain that covers you from the outside world but you can also look through it and you see the world differently. one of the. goals of our actions is that we can be the voice of polish women abroad. trance fields from poznan where she trained as an architect she later studied environmental design and now works mainly as a freelance graphic artist but currently activist causes are nearly all consuming. we cannot stop fighting we really have to keep fighting because it's not only about abortion. all of this happening in poland it happens on many other levels abortion

is one of them and it is very serious but we cannot stop because every day we see something else is really falling apart i think this country disappeared so we really have to still stand on the streets and never give up never give up. drawing and the urge to comment on the world through art remain a constant need. both my parents were artists they are now gone but both of them they did art and art was always present in our house it was like the most important thing the reality and daily things are not important art. for the time being or private art has had to take a back seat she's currently working on an activist diary a document the women of poland may 1 day look back on with gratitude.

but for now the battle continues. to stand together in the fight let's keep fighting perseverance stay strong stay safe. bridging women's courage and creativity on international women's day see you next time the police are rush home from the storm are long.

they're fighting against sexual assault in the congo. international doctor given the schneider. nobel peace prize winner didn't meet new claygate. are traveling to a country ravaged by sexual violence to support women in crisis. helping rape survivors in the deep are seen. in the sistine and ends w.

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a guy is given the rights and chances like before it's. time international women. and indeed w.-o. . by 2050 more than half the world will be living with limited water resources we haven't had to think about all the worry about. i think that era is over this is the crisis of our time it's a financial like any other financial we live in a competitive world it's just cold it's cool it's from cold war to used to be free but the world is changing the most important commodity stampeders. the board so her decision for commodity starts march 22nd on d. w.

. the be. this is news live from berlin pope francis visits are directly suited christians to endure the brutality of this one exchange john it's the pontiff has arrived in northern iraq and will visit the terrorist groups one time stronghold is rallying the country's christian minority after decades of war and instability also coming up protesters are out on the streets of miramar cities again this after reports of police raids in a number of arrests as authorities attempt to push back against opponents of last month's truth.