i k. his are a mind and now of the top story tens of thousands of people of radical rallied around the world to mock international women's day there's been a special extra focus on the challenges posed by the pandemic the u.n. says women are facing more under paid work job losses and domestic violence. europe today the news africa is next. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update nineteen's. on t w. 2 children 2

continents. one giant problem and when you're going on the scene the 1st year you. denied it there's anything legally change until a few times a week. how will climate change affect us and our children. learn more w dot com slash water. the coronavirus has put inequality in the spotlight women misrepresented in many industries and the pandemics made that worse consultancy mckinsey says women are almost twice as likely as men to lose their job due to code it far fewer women work in science despite girls outpacing boys in school. women and needed lie. never

before as the covert death toll continues to rise. well the crisis has wrecked relationships families and lives it's put back progress on many social fronts including women's rights we sent out our reporters to find out how some women around the world view covert 90. 3 surely sadies that where they're marching on the sleeve so we should try to keep you on the view to see most of who don't is honest do you think you could really do any of you for me you see me as he pushes them what they say i was artistic would put them to eat molecules would suck would you do what i eat the musician is. who we know who is moving to my place and i most that knew about our home a building there are not transparent. their families and there would be and though they said we feel the place you'll see hung on for the latest to the.

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there's a secret ballot about the physical strain is enormous working in this kind of is exhausting but the psychological component plays a big role too we always have to take care of critically ill patients that's part of our job but now we have seriously ill patients can also endanger us and that is really stressful. stressful is also how to describe her last year she it works as a nurse in an old people's home and person in a pandemic made her job even harder and again the burden of caring for society's elderly was mainly on women. luckily men i increasingly interested in being and my husband does also but otherwise it's mainly women probably because of the pay if it were a male domain then women would also a very different set of aries on guns and ask for. more than 90 percent of the

people fighting the daily battles on the nursing front are women and they are up to 10 percent less than their male counterparts according to the german federation of trade unions the chances of promotion are slim and they often work nights hammon says she appreciated the gesture when people around germany stood at their windows at the beginning of the pandemic and applaud at the nation's nasa's and carers but it was no more than a gesture now she says women also need to play a role in changing how society treats them even if. my wish for women in this profession is that they stop putting themselves down and that people are aware of their contribution people need to understand that we're not just not as clean as the kitchen wives that the world only goes around when we all work together as a team and for that one of us can't get by without the doesn't i now for one and in

an ambush. the time bagenal is that too after what she likes to go for a walk in the woods to switch off to it is important to support people who work in kent when i would. come on and on. maybe here to stay and we need to develop strategies we need enough stuff enough equipment and whatever else it takes to help us do our jobs and as i had to stand con officers on us heels on the roof i told. both nice is greed these improvements have to come and they have to come soon. i spoke to to attend a ph d. candidate at the united nations university merits and must trick university and asked what the world is missing out on if women's voices in science and. yes the matter of life and death and that not only is this quote 90 affect people from their racial standpoint but also from

a gender standpoint and there is research that shows that quote 19 may actually affect women's bodies differently and also on their social effects that related to the disease than we actually impact women more than for women are the primary caregivers of their households so having to work from home and take care of the children may actually affect women here that it doesn't men tell me more about when you talk cooperation and teamwork when it comes to men and women working together in science to work on not only beating this crisis but also equality within the business. i'll give my example for if my collaborators weren't with john france one of us or if you know on a paper regarding the special effects of covert 19 in africa i think that their collaboration intrigued me as an equal i was allowed me to share my views as a woman and also to highlight the gender aspect of coven 1000 particularly on women in business and their careers and this actually helps out also to take out the

emotional turmoil that's associated with sexism within science and with good academic profession as well so i commend collaborators who treat women as equals mainly because they are actually doing the work related to combating sexism within science and in the academic field overall what else did you find. in how code nineteen's affecting the economy and female entrepreneurs in guyana. we found that . over 90 we found that in general women have less stable than men and the fact of their previous sales on their future sales affects men and women more than men and so we find that because women right now 3 of the condemned meek have to stand home and take care of their children their sales for the products that it's selling are really low and so this will then obviously impact their future business prospects

and these are things that we need to look at to in terms of the condemned make in that there's not only health effects this is also the social effects that mean necessarily disadvantage female entrepreneur as compared to male intrapreneur this is not only the particularly in the ghana case or to entrepreneurship this also translates to just women who are working from home and who was a careers have been affected by the pandemic so a to know what advice would you give to young women who aspire to pursuing a career in science say. i would say that align yourself with people who want you to do well if you're in a situation where it is to mess sexism and your voice is not heard and people don't want you to succeed i would advise you to find ways of getting out of a situation if you can always find. your success find mentors who want you to do well work in the labs with people who want well i don't want that it's not easy

because this is a male dominated field and they are some women and men as well who actually want to help women do well in their careers you know tip from time to thank you very much for being on the show today thank you very much. science correspondent derrick williams has been looking into your questions on the corona virus this one coming from an anonymous feel or. does the vaccine make you in for trial. since the start of the pandemic we've seen one corona virus meth after another so it's no wonder that vaccines have spawned many more this one of those bet that m.r. in a vaccines cause infertility in women is especially worrisome i think because it appears to be having a real impact on vaccine uptake among younger women. like

a lot of fake news that gains traction the infertility myth uses science to distort rather than to clarify in this case it twists the scientific fact that m.r.i. in a vaccine strain the immune system to recognize the structure on the outer surface of the corona virus called the spike protein this information campaigns build on that with the claim that the spike protein resembles a protein found in the placenta that protects and nurtures a developing fetus that means the claim continues that an immune system primed to detect spike proteins in order to attack and destroy the corona virus can also mistakenly attack and destroy a placenta causing women to either be infertile or to miscarriage this is not

true for a couple of fundamental reasons 1st the defense in the immune system react in a highly specific way to the pro teams that they've been programmed to detect they have to because proteins are only made up of 20 different molecular building blocks called amino acids but our bodies can produce at least 20000 different proteins from them and possibly a whole lot more so of course there can be structural molecular overlap in many different proteins which is why. the immune system has to be so specific and 2nd is the fact that the placenta protein in question turns out not even to be very similar in molecular terms to the viruses by protein so short and sweet there is 0 evidence that being vaccinated against cope at 19 affects a woman's fertility in any way and actually

a growing mound of evidence that it doesn't. and we leave you with protests pictures from book arrest around 3000 demonstrators of marched on parliament in the romanian capital against the copa backseat they held up battles declaring freedom and down with the mosques restrictions are in place for the next 2 weeks due to high daily case numbers. thanks for watching join us next time here on the tell me. they are fleeing poverty only to end up in germany brothel women from eastern europe forced into sexual slavery. for them help is hard to come by but in the southern german city of mannheim there is even support from a committed women's rights activist exploiting the form closer.

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escape poverty instead they fell prey to sex traffickers. i resisted and cried and told him i didn't want to do that as well then came the threats and the brutality he said he'd tell everything to my family to. sold into slavery treated as a commodity they sell sex well less than a pack of cigarettes and some women in our district a so-called they charge just for your eyes for sex. germany is seen by many as europe's brothel we meet a woman who's looking to change that. yulia

v. it is a lifeline to them sasha and allie escaped out of sex slavery fence to her help neighbors from bulgaria they grew up in impoverished conditions in the countryside and each fell in love with a man who promised them a life in wealthy germany it was only when sasha arrived here that she realized she'd have to do sex work. all for us but us and the best obviously i refused. the but he threatened to kill me and said no one would know where i was so how could he help me captive for 2 or 3 days and then he put me to work so i got off at the castle but i'm convinced now that he had actually planned it all along got told to look but when you're in love you just blind to everything else and you don't realize it just as of. the boyfriend model is

a common method used by sex traffickers once they've got control over the woman they beat her into submission. i had to serve at least 15 or 20 clients a day the dog is 40 so you can reckon around 50 euros per client. in the car but at the end of the month i was only given 2 or $300.00 euros he took everything else is to everything she says to his emotion. 20 clients a day 20 men that she was forced to have sex with every day and unimaginable trauma . not to before but of the one woman but all as soon as the man comes into the room you switch your brain off just to trust in the sense that you're not there when it happens in those 15 to 20 minutes just like that but that's true enough there in that place. that's like a protection for your mind. to. sasha has

a one year old child an early supporter younger siblings back. involved area boys now have cleaning jobs money is tight but at least they're no longer in sex work they say without yuliya they would never have escaped. to meet. is an advice and support center for women in sex work in the city of mannheim it runs on public funds and private donations usually a vega set it up herself 7 years ago at the time she faced stiff opposition because sex workers in germany don't have lobby groups to represent their interests to begin the 1st there were very few people who saw any point in emily is in how many couldn't understand why sex workers would need help i think people are more willing to part with their money when it's children or animals in distress off commonly

gives out food assists women in dealing with your thora to use arranges emergency accommodation and helps those who want to exit the sex trade. sandra comes here nearly every day she loves to cook today she's preparing a dish from her homeland jamaica here she feels accepted. so i've been asked that time since the 1st day i walked in here and i arrived with plastic bags and had nowhere to go to me and ever since then it's been like a miracle honestly. wish they take you in here and treat you like you're nothing other than the person that she was our image that abused. out on the street she says men only see one thing in her. sandra herself was born out of ripe she was conceived when her own grandfather abused her mother later he raped sandra too. when

a person is raped their soul is raped too it came to gap that i struggled with myself for a long time whether i was good enough to be loved or whether i was only here for this one thing. because i get to know people but then they use me then so it always feels like prostitution again. prostitute. wolfgang haida is a gynecologist from the neighboring city of heidelberg he works for me once a week on a voluntary basis sandra only does sex work occasionally now when she's especially short of money she asks wolfgang hider to give her a routine check up most of the school clothes everything's fine that's quite unusual. game hiatuses many of the sex workers he sees suffer from bleeding pain and infections and then there are the emotional wounds. these are these women are

very wounded they're carrying a huge burden even if they appear normal and greet you cheerfully there's a part of them that's deeply sad. they suffer lifelong nightmares it's like something's broken inside is they're no longer willing to commit to a relationship if they don't trust anyone and certainly not men it's a destruction of the female soul. he believes it's not just the sex traffickers who are to blame but also those who pay for the woman services. as a friend of mine was wonderful i think you have to approach the clients so that they realize what they're doing you know that if they go to these places they think about the emotional wrecks they leave behind these women aren't machines it's not just a bit of fun you're inflicting damage and it's not voluntary they're basically allowing themselves to be raised for money good to go to.

the mannheim district of necker start vest is home 223000 people from 160 nations many of them prefer to leave there are hardly any jobs many apartments are rundown and overpriced sex work is actually banned in this district but it still goes on. you live very near spends a lot of time out in the neighborhood seeking to win the women's trust but it's not easy. they have certain preconceptions from their home countries like that you have to bribe the police that the police won't help you they're also not familiar with social work so it's very difficult it can sometimes take months or even years for a woman to develop trust in us and really believe i can trust and that they will help me he kind of struck home to his.

sitter check here runs a cafe in the neighborhood trust us who we are and to the work she does he's not in this area for 40 years when his daughter was born he moved his home elsewhere he says a year ago someone was murdered right outside his cafe and the sex workers continued despite the ban for this district. if. that was true i think it's all just a bit more private now that you have in the past it was official now they do it illegally that's the only difference is all that business as usual it's all still possible when they're out on the street or in hotels or private apartments no problem if this. monster coronavirus pandemic has made a difference a few streets further on man holmes red light district feels like

a ghost town. all the brothels have been forced to close some owners are taking the opportunity to renovate there also if you are clients available for the women held in slavery so many pimps have trafficked them back to their home countries. such as romania here prices are lower than in germany but the 6 trade has been less impacted by the pandemic 6 work is illegal but many police officers just look the other way or even earn from the training themselves romania is one of the most corrupt countries in europe. but here too there are people and organizations committed to helping the women are

us for example gives out face masks temp on send condoms. they may rely has come to stock up she's afraid of getting coated 19 she says many clients still insist on having unprotected sex is 32 she tells us she's been doing this job for 10 years and every day and every evening. i just can't find a job anywhere i've tried to find employment but it's useless you know like come to an interview they say we're calling you to morrow we'll get back to you mike but they never do that when i'm still on the street. i have nothing to live on otherwise i have to pay rent and other necessities food clothes there's no way out for me i have no other income if you want to. know alternative to sex work dan popescu from hard us says poverty amongst women is

a much bigger problem here in romania then in western europe and if the women get sent back here there's no one to help them because sex work is still a to do in romania he says. the european union needs to take action to support the victims. if they get sent home they land right back in the place they left to escape poverty and germany are you after all they didn't leave because things were ok. so they'll go to countries where sex work is better paid by germany switzerland. or france or wherever their pimp takes them. where there is demand for their services and opportunity to carry them out. 60 percent of sex workers in europe come from romania and bulgaria and nearly half

of them are minors i. was still a child when she fell into the hands of a sex trafficker her mother started a new relationship and gave her to a man who offered her and other girls to people traffickers. now. the term lined us up. in the middle of the street there were 13 or 14 of us i don't remember exactly we stood there like chickens. and he asked the guy which one do you want. and the other guy pointed to me. i was a minor a minor they sort i was about 17 but i wasn't even 14. he had a passport made for me with my signature all that would have needed my parents' signature. i was taken to italy.

she was passed from one country to another italy hungary romania years of horror. there were many terrible moments the worst moment was when a gun was put to my head. but it was equally awful when i was left alone when no one would have given a central me when i was beaten when i went to bed and then woke up being beaten. and when all those days he takes were allowed to touch me. i don't know what was worst in my life but at the same time all these experiences have made me stronger because i'm a human being with dignity i hold my head high and i won't bow to anyone. in the end liliana was freed by the police and found a place to live here at generac to u.-turn r r or the young generation it's a refuge that was set up by marianna peter cell 20 years ago offering protection

and a way out for sex slaves she tries to help them build a new life. what they get oh it's very very difficult for these girls. who try to start a normal life but they still carry a sense of shame like a stamp on their lives that says they were sold or are they still think i'm a prostitute or i'm this or that. it's been sent to them so often and they've been shamed and humiliated so many times that they believe it themselves. even though none of the things that happened to them for their fault that. she gets almost no support from the remaining government but she is getting help from an unexpected source in germany and also there's a former police chief who's now retired while in office he worked with our

assistance program and he also encouraged others to help us. and he still calls or several now and then got to find out how things are going. and jeff was. that police chief is munford palos even though he's retired he still travels to romania regularly to raise awareness of how sex work is often driven by poverty today he's meeting with the yulia vigor from me and marietta hogmanay from the human rights group salvati they discuss their experiences and plan new projects both in germany and abroad after all sex trafficking is a european problem yeah well i grew up since 2015 we've been going to eastern europe every year to spend a week travelling round schools and educating the children on what mike is mike in the golden west and in germany in particular. when we ask the students at the

beginning how many of them would like to go to germany or switzerland or austria once they finish school 70 percent raise their hand sequence and they no doubt and that's exactly what organized crime networks exploit people's willingness to migrate to escape poverty and a lack of prospects. of self i don't want to hire i met one woman who admitted to me in complete shock that she didn't know how terrible things are. if she said i thought because sex work is legal in germany it can't be anything terrible thriller but the reality was very different she was brutally raped repeatedly and then told what she had to do and i think. she seeing if they're caught in this red light subculture much of which is criminal and other laws apply it's very much like the mafia if you betrayed them it's considered the worst of all crimes so to tell others that you're not doing sex work willingly but were forced into it is one of

the worst forms of betrayal. that's why when you ask them they're all in the job voluntarily. they insist on it vehemently. he says 90 percent of sex workers in germany are forced into the trade because the law defines sex work as a voluntary service it's not a criminal act manfred palu says that makes it difficult to track down and prosecute those behind the human trafficking he says people in romania and bulgaria can't understand germany's approach. in all these recruiting countries people are now very aware of what happens to the women and girls here in germany under the rule of law they look at it with amazement if not contempt. and i don't think we can afford to continue this way long term and neither should we be used was. germany is seen as a paradise for pimps and sex traffickers you leave

a good end to the others here hope to counteract that by doing prevention work and raising awareness through posters like this one for example. the private business done by students at his school girls i think it's great the frost maybe it's an option for mankind mannheim female students wrote not to sail across their own far it's george tension to the problem of sex slavery and to show solidarity with girls their raging remaining and bog area the plan is to hang the posters on building site advertising boards no. money for it powerless only because it's romanian police officer dreadful adore you but because of the pandemic an online meeting must suffice they've been meeting for years and have become friends and that even though they need a translator to communicate. you have a lot of women come back to romania from germany the brothels here of all had to

close schools with well. yeah sitting at yes they have come back but they haven't been registered so there are no statistics and they don't know exactly how many have returned but they can see that the number of sex workers on the streets has increased in romania the inspector. who works for the national agency against human trafficking and browse of the agency has victims of trafficking to press charges and puts them in contact with aid groups he too believes the german system makes life easier for the traffickers. germany out of germany is a special case because sex work is legal there as a result many of these girls appear to be pursuing legal employment ata even though they're actually victims of human trafficking up alleged fed up but on the face of

it plays of a club. sex work is a lucrative business for organized crime human beings cost less than drugs or firearms and you can sell the not just once but repeatedly every day. marianna peter sellers constantly outs and if out today she's looking for a girl that was trafficked to germany but is now said to be back in romania we leave the city of tennis fans and head out into the countryside. i want to show you what it's like to grow up in a rural area here. so that you see how these children live in the countryside these girls and women. that so you can see how much

pressure there are here and why they choose to become dependent on tragic errors. and agreed to do these things and become a part of it project. romania and bulgaria are among the poorest countries in the european union and in the countryside especially the level of education is low and unemployment rates high women here in these rule areas have few prospects and in some cases that makes them easy prey for traffic to. the girl she's looking for is nowhere to be seen perhaps she's still in germany up to roll but marianna p. just want to give up even though it often feels. it's like a losing battle. back in germany at the support center our money they're giving out food today. to women who come

here or do sex work in the local area. we've had stuff donated you can take some with you if you want are you that the women come from countries like boag area romania albania and moldova europe's poor houses 90 percent of the sex workers in germany are migrants many of them work illegally have no apartment no health insurance and are not registered to living here has known some of them for years. here in happen here in our neighborhood we have a lot of women who work for extremely low prices for some of them it's still a lot of money but they have to serve a huge number of clients and there's a pillar of fire i've met some women who had up to 40 clients a day it's of high anti-god. cafes and bars normally serve as

a place to make contact with clients but even they are closed right now still business can continue online sandra knows all the relevant platforms like ladies sugar daddy or by me. meetings or even a ranged on facebook or whatsapp. in mind he often put on when you go on one of these platforms some people will write to ask can even see me do you have facebook or whatsapp can i see pictures of you and i am when you ask what kind of pictures they want to see you naked and things like that so you can then see who was interested in your photos and either they then write to you or you write to them. or do shows here. and so the sex work and in many cases the exploitation continues there's not much the police can do so they're changing tack trying to get into conversation with the

sex workers and win their trust with the help of common. this city's police chief comes to the center in person until he is to spend years investigating cases of sexual exploitation and understands the issues together they hope to persuade more women to exit the trade depend demick is an opportunity. if an astonished as he was on the ways that so many women a daring to quit now we're currently helping 13 women his realized they can't bear it anymore i want something new. to go on we have women wanting to stop who are also willing to talk about their experience it's important to me that they know they can trust us. we need their testimony to get to the traffickers who are earning a fortune out of their misery or because he's not in germany's prostitution act hasn't helped us. under german law sex workers are considered service

providers just like nurses shooting a says the change in law was well meant but he too says that legalizing the trade has made it more difficult to catch the criminals the 2 of them also agree that more focus needs to be placed on the role of the clients. obviously they're partly to blame for the women's plight. and we know that because the prices have plummeted because of all the women coming from abroad to services costs a little anyone can afford it i'm always amazed how many young men also use these services on the missing the store human we need to move more towards the scandinavian approach where clients are prosecuted if they're known to have visited sex workers that were coerced into the job or through your. just as previously it was their call to account and face criminal charges. in sweden paying for sex has been illegal for more than 20 years and has become increasingly unacceptable so showing the law there targets the clients but not the

sex workers in germany on the other hand sex work is legal and subject to social and health insurance contributions just like any other job that gives the impression of fair pay and protection for the workers but in reality 90 percent of the estimated $400000.00 sex workers in germany and not registered you living it has taken a stand against the sexual exploitation of women through the she's built up a network that can free women from sexual slavery and offer them a new life with a place to live and a job where they're not exploited. i'm going to miss going to dark i'm happy to get involved in areas where others prefer the other way. and when i see the women who have left the trade or those who come here with their children there are so many wonderful moments that proved to me it's worthwhile working in this part of mannheim and thinking every day of new ideas that i can put into practice and how i

can win over more supporters or make the best use of volunteers and if i'm going to the ends at thing that's important benefit of we've been able to do a lot over the last few years. as. such earned earlier just 2 of the beneficiaries thanks to amalie there was scope to life of slavery don't ever forget the trauma they experienced but at least they have their dignity back. momentum says the people at an early have shown me that women have rights too. and you can fight that and that you can seek help from others. british days most of them made me strong by showing me that they stand with me and has my back of. me and most.

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