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of the program. the world's marking international women's day at a time when the pandemic has placed extra burden on many of them the united nations commission says the global health emergency has force women to take on more housework home schooling and caring in many cases they've lost their jobs and the isolation and stress of lockdowns has led to a global spike in domestic violence which again mainly affects women. when they lose taking a look at how the pandemic is that impacting the lives and economic status of women around the world and undermining gender equality let's start by listening to what

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or cannot lead by women. and. women she joins us from new york welcome to day. to the u.n. says. decades of progress towards gender equality so how do we build. thank you so much for having me let me just 1st state that this is the most discriminating pandemic crisis in there it just proportionately

affects women who are people people of color. in job losses for instance so if the jobs have been lost a women. if a letter gives a ring is you have just said 6 women gayle's children who have not gone back to school the majority of them i guess. this is because there has always been these underlying problems so building back better is building back but is building big also gender responsive by addressing these underlying. area if and poignant for example women who have lost so many jobs because they tend to be jobs that are unprotected they cannot enforce contracts do not have savings who look to look if put them. into context then how do you know when you hear interventions

like this current stimulus they're not take it it's enough to them so we have to we may dissent stops we cannot expect that we mean in pencil dogs in. their food be able to go to go back to coop and they need economy to get right into it that they previous status quo is not good enough so who needs to do what but in fact before you are you are outlined a few of those do you see anywhere around the world where where women have less badly in this pandemic. basically what we see is that the pepsin. in all countries obviously sometimes is worse off but we we're not seeing countries that have done better. but let me just see i can choose this have court

underlying strong systems cause the usual suspect they're not dicks. the social systems are much stronger in. the sharing of unpaid care work. the difference between men and women is not as. we look at the next generation of women if you like and what sort of lasting effects is this pandemic likely to have on the lives and prospects of young women unless your points are addressed. certainly education is in trouble is you know in developing countries one of the areas of progress in the last 2 to kids especially has been gills is a key issue and really to be devastating for us to lose all those is because they're very hard to achieve in of course we men out said to leave all my kids

in a era with even the little jobs. in the new skills that's how it played out for the for the economies of the future and the jobs of the future this is that will do not if it means that to really be getting into it you know where it will most police was it all something that we need to say let it out through policy intentions the training lawfully men and the petals of a ary of right we thank you for joining us undersecretary undersecretary general. from un women. they've cute now it's been 3 years since me to became a global movement but only a couple of months since a public outcry over sexual abuse and harassment of women in the balkans started so d.w. has been to the serbian capital belgrade to talk to women finding new ways to press

for equality. seriously now he's getting set to get pretty loud that's the name of the band he joined in 2015. i am allowed against early marriages and i am allowed for women's rights pretty loud is an all roma girl band it wants to give women of the significant minority in subiaco voice. still be around messages to equality and justice on behalf of the woman and her community brought to me and i see our responsibility is that true our songs and the root lyrics but we write this woman who don't have support to feel the support from us and to stand up and to have. to have to have more self-confidence and to fight for what they want. in roma communities here

getting married at 16 or even younger is considered normal not for sylvia and her band though. they are rehearsing new moves and new songs to perform life and help empower others as soon as the pandemic is over their practiced several times a week to get their message across singing for equal rights and against any form of abuse by man this role my band is striking a chord among so many women as to balkan region is currently experiencing its own hashtag me to moment women off very different backgrounds across to be coming forward now to speak up actress 1000000 out of the law which is one of the faces of this movement from pages a fool for allegations that her former teacher. raped to allegations he denies it sparked a discussion of women's rights across the balkans the issue generates mixed reactions from men it's simple this is the ball can be

a different from europeans. affect society and women need to talk about this a lot but you know country no matter how great something seems to be in reality women have less rights than it seems we deserve as americans starting with just among a problem you want to go to each has been writing about women's rights long before the recent discussion began but it's different this time she says there is this little seed or universal female unity and female solidarity among women regardless of ethnicity class we had the hashtag you are not alone because none of those women or none of us is alone because you will hardly find a woman that has never been through some thought or meant or abused for sylvia and her group the current momentum is helping them raise awareness on mall. to prove fronts about being women and being roma in syria but it's not just up to

them they want existing laws in subiaco that support women to be better in forced helping make their country a safer place to live. on official reporting well as part of the w.'s coverage of international women's day you'll find a special program on our you tube channel merkel's air at the women of power takes a look at the leading women in the political sphere the 1st episode features the belarussian opposition leader svetlana to come off sky. high allies and i and all delicacy in women who took to the streets have proven their resilience their strong character to the ballerina scenes won't have any doubt that a woman can become the future president of the republic of belarus because women have shown that they can do it they are just as strong as men sometimes even stronger i can do everything i proved it to the whole world i'm not afraid do you think i can take a leadership position. well you can find full interview d.w.

news channel on you tube britain's prince harry and his wife meghan have spoken on t.v. about their exit from royal life speaking with oprah winfrey american who has a white father and black mother revealed that while she was pregnant member of the royal family voiced concerns over their son's skin color and that the intense pressure drove her to suicidal thoughts prince harry's that the royal family has cut them off financially and that he feels let down by his father prince charles. let's go to the u.k. capital then where we join d.w. correspondent charlotte chelsea a welcome charlotte so how are people reacting to this interview there in the u.k. . well so over godless of your views on the royal family there is absolutely no doubt that this interview is explosive it's not flutie a gripping conversation here in the front pages as i'm sure you can imagine of all

of the newspapers this softer all is an insight into the royal family that people here people around the world simply own used to the royal family's mantra generally a is to is to remain quiet never complain never explain we have the literal opposite from harry and meghan last night very public and publicly airing some family feuds revelations that harry for example isn't talking will hasn't been talking about areas points to his father prince charles and those revelations that you mentioned regarding regarding race which were particularly inflammatory now there is some anger aimed at harry and meghan for doing this interview among royal supporters something it's insensitive to do this interview to get this published see while harry's grandfather the queen's husband he's in hospital that's caused a considerable amount of i guess some people as well saying that the suffixes

hereon meghan all time to have their cake and eat it essentially trying to step back from the royal family but still try and remain in the limelight and essentially trade on a rural family name then there are those particularly across the atlantic in the u.s. and headlines and reactions that we've seen that you really do sympathize for the couple who say essentially this is history repeating itself that this is not a woman who is married into the royal family after of course harry's mother princess diana who was being treated extruding they 'd badly i think a lot of the public they were goddess of where they sit on this debate do you feel a sense of sadness that this is playing out this way i mean a lot of people were very fond of prince harry they remember him as the little boy who followed his mother's coffin after she passed away when he. very young that he didn't have this fairy tale wedding a lot of people very sad that that now has become so clearly acrimonious right let's pick up those 2. revelations we'll start with the racism on

1st just. who is saying what about whom overwhelmed. i mean that was a very shocking allegation made by both the harry and mike in saying a member of the royal family household had been in meccans was raised concerns how to conduct had conversations about how dark the color of her unborn child's skin would be of course that is the the the line from the interview that is causing so much outrage understandably now with the couple did not name who in the royal household made those comments which of course of the even more damaging to the world family because many and now essentially tongue tarnishes all of them rather than just one individual in particular the oprah winfrey has recently in the last few hours come out to say that it wasn't the queen or her husband prince philip who made those claims but clearly a lot of questions to be honest we didn't know from prince harry.