w.'s crime fighters are back with the africa's most successful radio drama series continues in the only preserves are available online and of course you can share and discuss on w africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighters to mean male. welcome to global 3000. women have been campaigning for that rights for more than 170 years but it wasn't until the 20th century that things started to change when for example the right to vote was introduced in several european countries. but we're still a long way from true equality and even today many countries have no laws and

regulations in place which discriminate against women and there are regular steps backwards to. but increasing numbers of women around the world standing up for themselves. the coronavirus pandemic has revealed just how big the task is research conducted by the international monetary fund revealed that recent lock downs have been particularly tough for women and that's partly because it's women who commonly work in social roles often as caregivers and in 2020 there were fewer job openings in these sectors. even in industrial countries it can be hard for women to find work in certain sectors it's even tougher when traditional ideals and beliefs are added into the mix some women in iran approving it is possible like those on the island of handgun in the persian gulf. for us patients is that the essence. of every day she waits patiently with her fishing line out on the

open sea her grandfather told her to fish as a child. i think i was in the 3rd grade when i 1st really wanted to learn how to fish i went out all the time back then and we cut many different kinds of fish. and you know. the woman at the helm is mother her own often comes along to. the caches aren't nearly as big as they were in the past but as i'm still gets excited about each and every one. yet. what we do here is very hard work it's not work that's usually associated with women but the women of the hanger island fish just like the men do their. lives in the persian gulf near the strait of hormuz the region is the world's most

important oil artery as well as a stage for international disputes including conflicts. global tensions that all affect the fishing community there. these circumstances all have an impact on us we all live with a sense of unease and you worry about what might happen tomorrow what will we come up against in the future i mean. where is that is on his island have lived from fishing for years a lack of fertile land means farming is not an option. only 500 people live on him so it's all hands on deck. says it doesn't matter if they are men or women she's one of the oldest fisher women on the island and she currently has a problem her engine is broken she says low quality fuel and sexist officials are responsible. as if i could buy something that i if your with my fishing license the

few i buy would be of better quality without a license i have to pay a lot more and it's just too expensive. according to her be no woman has ever had a fishing license she pays twice as much for gas as male fishes even though she's been doing the same work as them for more than 30 years. official saying we're not really fishers and that we're just doing it as a hobby so the women here are just fishing for fun oh you've seen yourself that fishing is our job here on hunger island. but things are starting to change tourists from the mainland have now discovered hang in and they come for dolphin watching and to take a breather. they're not only ignoring the corona pandemic but also many regulations imposed by the iranian government. the women on the island

are now selling their own crafts as well as a good deal of kitsch from china. as owner has understood for a while that tourism and fishing can go home don't have she runs a small restaurant and serves her fish to visitors. her grandmother looks after both of her children. what exactly her husband does remains unclear. the fact of the matter is that here everything is done by women. you don't know what the one hand it's not like this everywhere in iran many people still regard women as incapable we want to show them that men and women are equals we compliment each other we can do everything a man can do and we want to prove that to everyone and. this is going pretty well

as some profits from the local culture because for many on the mainland it seems exotic. and besides that the majority of iranians can no longer afford to travel outside the country. the dollar tells us that this persian gulf island is an affordable alternative she and her friends are backpacking and it's their 1st time here. ventral random. i really like it here especially the people they're so friendly and lively and i like that everything feels a bit more free here thank you but yeah at the end of the day the rules are still in place so it's all relative they're. ok there. we meet up with the again the fisher woman who spoke broke down. she set up a small drink stand on the beach right by the tourist trail. even though the stand

provides him with a stunning view of the sea she's still not totally happy with things. more than me i thank god i can earn my living like this but it's still not like it was when i was out at sea nothing can replace fishing it gives me a lot of peace and it just makes me feel complete. i was home schooled also continue to revolve around fishing regardless of how successful his business with tourists is. but the fact that the women on his island have built something of their own despite iran's weak economy will be valuable in the coming years. my goal is to make sure the next generation here can find work work leads to progress and if it also teaches foreigners more about our island yeah that's even better that the owner of the get on their family. as she says goodbye us and tells us that the sea has given her many gifts she hopes she'll never have to leave

. women at the helm when it comes to many important issues too like freedom and equality or our climate emergency women have made important discoveries or a space pioneers they've dedicated their lives to animal protection or have risked their lives to fight racism and hatred despite centuries of discrimination and women have often played a huge part in history and they continue to do so with passion humanity and courage . you know when people tell me that they hated the most of the don't like dogs of the guns. you don't know what your missing forget about innocence or loved ones of our families and our rooms all over this transaction but this is one relationship between human beings and animals but

there's non-profits. that offer human and animal rights has made her famous throughout india in 2012 she set up this animal sanctuary near delhi. at all creatures great and small she and her team look after some 800 animals. from cattle to dogs guinea pigs to parakeets each one finds a new home with angelica. one of the elements of come to us in the accident cases we had closed down illegal circus so some of the dogs and the horses came from there. so of course some horses were abandoned and we got them full of wounds and you know things like that bull bull is one of them she arrived as a mere 3 months old at a couple months sanctuary severely injured and deeply traumatized she was

a victim of a feud between 2 villages in which someone put her eyes out and an act of revenge. so i realized that we had to change. the way she associated what you associated with human beings we had to change it denied so that all everyone who came to visit or anyone enter was here every day someone would be to her those who could sing i would ask them to sing after about 45 months you started coming outside and then after 6 months she allowed us to tertiary allowed anyone to go in and then we allowed it out. and animal sanctuary wasn't always part of the. agenda the 63 year old is founder and director of naz india a charity which mainly supports young people who are hiv positive and aids sufferers. for me the frightening

aspect was that this was something that wasn't being spoken about which is why it was frightening i saw them friction going from men to men to women and children. it was very clear to me. but no one wanted to address that or talk about it so took a lot of work to make that happen. nance has been active for over 25 years isn't it since adopted the further aim of gaining legal recognition for the l g b t community now set up the 1st orphanage for children with hiv and aids in delhi along with a program for empowering young women and decriminalizing homosexuality. that program prompted a long march through the courts to the supreme court itself the judge actually said something as ridiculous as. we're about these gay people we had a minuscule minority so i'm like going what is your definition of minuscule amount

of b because we're going to forget about 10 percent of the one percent of the population look at prevention numbers what it is. but for. there's still an awful lot left to do members of the l g b t community still don't have the same basic rights as the rest of the population. that leaves are wishing for one thing in particular. i would like to see all of us come together. because. when you come together the in battlefield voice is amplified. we are really interested in how people live in different countries today we need to couple in kenya. and we are in winter.

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carter will take. to. get on to best tell you sometimes because we are very much busy. we are looking after a couple of sheeps and as well as comments close i have come on our own here so most of the time we are told this type of site so but today they even eat our lunch time as only we time we can also comment on what state t.v. we want to hear what's going on in our country. this is to be i would add a new song but even if put the bees we need to give that and they do behind

peace. corps ahead means when they say they. are. equality in politics education health and earnings there's still a long road ahead if we continue to move it our current pace it will take another 100 years before we attain real equality between the genders that's according to the 2020 global gender gap report in many countries there's still a big divide when it comes to politics and the economy but there are some nations leading the way among them sweden finland norway and top of the bunch is iceland with almost 88 percent equality women there have key roles in all areas of society and they have a decisive influence on the country's climate and environmental policies.

what better place to save the planet from global warming then iceland it has energy to spare everywhere the ground is in motion. scientists call it an act of volcanic area. icelanders have long realized that the country's hot springs can serve as much more than just tourist attractions. a half hour's drive east of the capital reykjavik lies the headley the power station it's been generating electricity and heat from steam since 2006 it's become one of the world's biggest geothermal power plants but there's another reason why scientists entrepreneurs and reporters are now flocking here. they want to meet with a dirtier c.e.o. of a company called carb fix it's working to reverse the greenhouse effect albeit on

a small scale. basically what's happening is that we are stuck in the office fair through this machine and the c o 2 sticks to a specific chemical within. this unit and so what comes out of the back is so much clean their office here with with what's nowhere near the ground that. they began using this kind of vacuum cleaner for carbon dioxide 8 years ago supported in part by e.u. research funds it can now suck up several 1000 tons of the gas in one of the pumping stations out of dirtier explains what then happens to the c o 2 so here we have our own on the ground 5 transforming. this year 2 that was kept track of the kupchak want and it is all the water and this is done what we inject into the subsurface 700 meters underground. the c o 2 then reacts with the basalt rock and is captured and stored there permanently

it's a method that works especially well in the volcanic rock here this is a piece of yourself according to see the seal to both really base within within the cross off the fractures but also on the force so gradually this all of these these still on course could feel locked with monopolists you too depending on how much reenter. the technology is still very expensive it also consumes a lot of water and can only be used in specific terrain still car fix is convinced that this technology will eventually help to reduce the amount of c o 2 in the atmosphere worldwide. few countries in the world are feeling the effects of climate change as acutely as iceland it's once mighty glaciers are shrinking continually scientists believe these ice rivers which grew throughout the millennia

will have disappeared within a mere 150 years. so iceland's environment minister is taking action reykjavik aims to make the country c o 2 neutral by 2040 they're turning to new technologies and a belief in ancient stock us. we have these stories in iceland thought trolls became storms when they're if they were exposed to sun. we can say that we are trying to. turn c o 2 into stone where our stroll sware turned into a storm and the matheson. but that alone won't be enough since iceland's colonize ation 95 percent of its forests have been lost millions of euros are to be invested in reforesting large expanses of the island nation something which should also help the c o 2 atmospheric balance sheet icelanders know they can't save the planet on their own but they're developing technologies that other countries can also employ in the

future and the idea that believing in elves and trolls can also help well we need all the assistance we can get. in this week's global ideas we go to south africa to learn how tax breaks and promotes nature conservation something that's easier than it sounds south africa is famous for its wildlife for a vast areas of almost untouched land now an ngo there is working to turn much of that into nature reserves we met up with 2 of its teams in the can do in the east of the country and chemist grown in the west. no plantations no crops no combine harvesters 88 percent of land in south africa is not suitable for agriculture it's too rugged too dry and too on

even. but everywhere you look you see life in abundance the country boasts rich biodiversity but how best to preserve it in south africa environmental protection is chronically under financed. that's where candace stephens comes in she's a tech specialist at the n.-g. o. wilderness foundation africa she wants to encourage landowners to turn their holdings into nature reserves the government offers a tax incentive to do so. what you're doing here is looking off to south africa's natural wealth in the public good and so there's this unique tax incentive to benefit that biodiversity so even as you plow money time if an energy into looking after the sun farm is may think

you're not getting any and not only is a special tax incentive just to give a little bit back this man has already converted his land into a protected area he can write off the cost of the purchase over 25 year period that extra cash and pocket he would be able to to give a little bit more financial sustainability in managing this incur bitchy rich and so that you could put a little bit more interest which would be your decision and you know what needs to happen on the side of photographer cost fund of and purchased the land 5 years ago and has taken countless pictures of the area since then it rarely rains here but when it does the landscape is transformed into a pageant of color. another special feature about this area of land is that it could act as a corridor for wild animals since it's located between 2 different protected areas

. we standing around about on the northern border of it. to the west and east or south stretching down the macro national park and then to the north east look up. and you can see the proposed corridor linking the 2 protected. once upon a time this area was farmland this was going back for a long time since the 17th hundreds. with the settlers the pioneers that that formed here with a high rainfall that time but due to global warming and the rainfall diminished quite a bit and it just became impossible for these people to to make a living with cattle and agriculture and eventually there to sell and that's why we bought in the farms for conservation with climate change threatening biodiversity candace stevens has not found it difficult to persuade other landowners to follow

suit tax is not everybody's favorite subject and when tax season rolls around it's not like everybody. so my experience with is that they understand that there are implications to tax and financial and so they want to fully understand what the texas. dozens of landowners have signed up to the scheme her 1st experience of implementing the program was in the kwazulu-natal province in order to protect the locals introduced a herd of cattle. the animals serve an important function keeping the grass short helps prevent wildfires in the dry season but it's just the start we want you for a time when the whole nature reserve will be fenced a minute that will slowly introduce. starting with the plains game which will be

easier. springbrook. vulgar pierce and those type of animals and then once they are established slow to the couple will be removed the animals will be free to run on the whole nature reserve. the chance rebates that candace stevens has been promoting have gone some way towards addressing the shortage of funding for environmental protection in south africa and in the future she's hopeful of further progress in this development. conservation work can become the mainstream and become something that's part of everyday life and not something that's separate and with additional finance that's sustainable it means that we're protecting biodiversity on a scale that we haven't done before and if we can also that global challenge with all the resources that we have at our disposal we might just have

a chance of saving the world around us. that's all from us this week on global 3000 we hope you enjoyed the show tell us what you thought right to global 3000 d.w. dot com and check us out on facebook to d.w. global ideas see you next week take a. mood .

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