more than 300000000 people are seeking with the wine because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah, this is did of the nearest asia coming up to date suffering into longer. the collapse of the country's economy is threatening the lives and the livelihoods of millions of people. we hear from one fishing community that is being devastated by the crisis and id cards without photos. that's what this group of bunger, they should women want. what are the chances the courts will agreed? ah,

i'm british manager, welcome to d w. news asia get your could join us. international rights groups are urging the sri lankan government to investigate the shooting dead by police of a protest her earlier this week. human rights watch in new york sees the 42 year old man was killed after police used what they called excessive force, including life ammunition to disperse an anti government demonstration in the town of rumble, khana, at least 30 others were injured. lisa, the protest as ignored warnings to move on, tens of thousands of she lumpkins have been taken to the streets across the nation in the last 2 weeks to protest against the government handling of the west downturn in 70 years. acute shortages are food and fuel and other basics are causing white spreads suffering and anger. mini mesa president and also payment is then also a member so bottom and leave it down and stop this. my alan,

don't disturb, but don't disturb b, but because people last operate with because make ends meet. we have no electricity . we don't have gas. the price of rice has skyrocketed yet, so we have no choice but to go out on to the streets, trying 3 an entire lot in the way we park in the dilemma. we won't fuel at a reasonable price. we can't live with these prices. those who drive took took tanks is caught make a living that will be earned is not enough for 3 meals a day. i will up under my dad and the lack of fear. one is also impacting sri lanka as fishing communities, fear will, shortages means a few or fishing boats head out to see which means rich rather means fishermen are losing access to income. did have the correspond, monitor audrey reports every day for the last 40 years. jude has headed out to sea to fish to on money and to feed his family of 7. dude

says not so long ago, the fish business here in the gumble known as the fishing town of she lanka was good. people were making a decent living. but the industry has been hit hard by the konami crisis. and most of all the fuel shortage. there is not enough fuel any more for every one to put out to sea regularly. are thy mercy at her. we've lost about 80 percent of her income on europe al, in this village we have around 2000 bellagio, which is to head out regularly yagami. but now only 500 boats are able to go to see on any given day to fish, a more like because of a lack of fuel, as well as jamari that a america gum line. not totally fishing. and as she plays an important role in, she'll anchors economy and many communities depend on it. their boards need anywhere from 20 to 60 liter the fuel a deep. since the crisis hit fishermen have to wait for hours every day for fuel.

when dick could be spending that time at sea fishing, what you see behind me right now is a long you of people, many of whom are fishermen who have been standing here outside a few, a shop for over 4 hours now, waiting to get kerosene. this is the situation in all the fuel shops across the country right now. the gamble has a tight knit fishing community. there are those who go out to fish doors who clean and cook, the fish, and those who sell them all have been impacted by the food shortage. under aneesha fernando has been a fishmonger for nearly 4 decades. she says her business has never been this bad. monumental fisher also expensive, now it got on and it's hard to sell them. if we didn't have this crisis. hm. all our boats could go out to fish and get enough to meet the demand. prices would go down, business would be smoother. and we'd have food back home, they go on a lot. thunderbolt with the crisis is having a knock on effect. lendy pockets mean fishermen are not getting enough ice to keep

that suppression. and a lack of fuel also means the con, transport, big catch on time to the markets. dude says the fisherman took to the streets, demanding a solution to the fuel crisis from the government. it has yet to respond. we long abbernackey and the luxury and i'm ashamed to admit that sometimes we're able to afford only one decent meal italian. they're almost a new to me and it's not just me and my family are are going through. this is nikki . there are many families in the fishing community in that room who are in the same boat trickery law to give you the man, i mean, is it. jude does not see a solution any time soon, but he still more turns out to see than he can. after all, fishing is all he knows. he has spent the entire life doing just that a group of most of them, women and bung. others are demanding national id cards without their photos on them

. the women affiliated to a religious school to say islam forbids them from showing their faces to anyone outside of their family. the matter is down, the harcourt and the government, a national election body have been asked for their responses to the demand. a meeting of the muslim women's organization, my healer undermined the group, is demanding that women not be forced to use their pictures for bangladesh as national id cards. they say that violates their religious values. to me, what i want id cards without picture is so that we don't send, we want to follow the koran. nobody should have the activists say that fingerprints can be used as an alternative moment. if an integer almost up the, it's hard to identify someone beyond a doubt if they are twins or look similar, i need to like with finger printing. they never change here from childhood to old. ha, my and 0, one of will, but the hub in the group is now going to court their argument. women who refused to

be photographed and do not receive id cards are deprived of their rights by not being able to access government services. the government argues that photo ideas are needed for public security available for them. what if the woman commits the crime as a well then she has to be arrested of and put on trial of one of the how we supposed to identify huh. on the bottom, it's just not practical. behavioral, you have the finer bangladesh us government issued id cards, use a mix of photos, fingerprints, and i recognition technology. some experts say that while biometrics are easily processed by machines, human beings still rely on facial recognition. but it fingerprints are enough to detect or identify any one. 0, you can get it, but you can't get around the fact that pitches are an important biometric for identification in many situations. you know,

it will now be up to the court to decide whether the id card rules are changed to accommodate the objections. by some muslim women. and jeremy for more from talker is sarah who's saying she, the supreme court lawyer and the human rights activist. this was an, a legally speaking, are there any precedents and bunger others that allow for an exemption on religious grounds, from having photographs on a government id? is there nonsense exemptions available at the moment? and i'm not aware that right to this particular case and the mainland humans demand that anyone is actually requested back. and speaking of the, my law undermined itself. i mean, how much influence to their wheedled in bangladesh society my learning affiliated to a religious body or grocery verses, but it doesn't. it's not one that i ross in terms of i activism and we have

a very vibrant to women's movement in been very diverse. one women active from different religious groups, groups across language and cost and so on. but we haven't really seen this group being active in those particular spaces around women's rights. i mean women's rights and also human rights are things that you are actively yourself involved with. i wonder how you view this demand from my laundromat do demands like these. i mean, impact the police or women in bangladesh society. i mean, i think there are genuine issues and concerns around the right to privacy and so on . but i think that in, in, in the whole bung with issue women over the last 50 years, as i said across community class cost has to have been really fighting for ins, ensuring the policy and whether it's to do away with regressive practices and

customer practices. what is to do away with the discrimination that is inherent in many customary laws and also religious laws. the, the plight has been to move towards quality and not to move away from it. and the point is also been to move towards greater space in public and in private for women, for greater participation. so i think this to mind is, seems to me somewhat down to, to all of that. and he was on the issue of, you know, whether women can fail or not. that has not been as much of her overcome controversy in buying the should factor port. so high court has previously ruled that women can choose what to where they can choose whether they wish to rain or whether they wish not to be. and in the past where women have been penalized for not feeling, the court has been very clear that no one can be forced to veil. so i think we, we have that position on the right to choose the right to freedom of expression, the right to person liberty regarding what women, where and where they, where it's, i think we don't have a position. so we've been gone where the vaillant bang, just not with the question of seeing that the right to really should extend to not

allowing your photograph to be taken for who are national id to me does not seem like the logical argument. and i think there are clearly clearly issues there around security, around verification of identity, even beyond security in terms of access to government services, use the id card. this is used for us. i think that one text doesn't seem to me logical to mind, but or does this in somewhere catered, or at least prom section of society or, or at least reflective or for potentially we're thinking in a certain section of society and view things that is dangerous. i think it's a, it's you see me a very small section that i'm making this door and we do have many women in by of ish, we are out of country where the majority of the population on was slims and many people do where is certain can many women do where certain thank build somewhere a full only job but many, some he where as you can see, you know, i head covering like this. i'm and they don't,

they don't require their faces to be covered and the majority, women were oh, you know, from low income backgrounds were out in the streets, working don't avail their full face ever. that's not been i tradition. so i think in that sense, there isn't really an argument or tradition either. i think the argument in terms of law is, is problematic, that there is a right to privacy. but i think in this case there's also other, other counter issues in terms of as i said, security and also our issue getting access to ours to state service and so on. where i think it is full face, bailey is not. is not a clue here in demand and that wanted her house and relieve a bird for the time me when thank you so much for joining us under insuring your insights with us. thank you very much and that's it for today. be sure to check out the other stories on did epa dot com forward slash asia, or on facebook and twitter. i believe, you know, with images of ramadan celebrations from bangladesh and would see you back here on

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