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and i'll show you around, you know, beat. but for us, we ask, why would you need to testing is still so popular in south africa with that phone but gov aiden, with so many lands, only feel captain. and we'll meet a young de leon once to box. oh, wave to the top. let's dive right in. now being a woman, steal comes with so many painful experiences and some of them are unnecessary like virginia, detesting. it is still practiced in many communities across the world view and actually says it is painful, traumatic and humiliating. let's take a closer look at the fox. no examination can prove that a woman is a virgin. her janitor testing is performed in at least 20 countries around the world. in these communities, people believe that the practice can determine if

a girl oh walmart has had sex. this however, is a false belief or janitor testing involves inspecting and fema vagina to see whether or not her hyman is intact. communities that performed the janitor testing link, the worth of a go to have a genetic and reinforced the idea that girls and boys are not equal. testing is also often a painful, humiliating and traumatic experience. virginia is not a medical term. it is a social construct. there are many reasons a females, a hyman could be pierced, that have nothing to do with fix the u. n. and world health organization have condemned the virginia to testing as unscientific and the violation of the rights of women and girls. virginia to testing is based on false beliefs, and he's a harmful practice that must end

to take a closer look at what actually happens. we head over to south africa where the tradition is teal deeply rooted virginity testing is still practiced in the zulu culture. with certificates even awarded in ceremonies. now the 77 percent team attended one of these ceremonies in dublin to find out why the community and even young women still defend it. we are in durban, south africa, and the girls that you see behind me are just a small group of thousands of women will get tested to find out if they still a virgin. i feel important in the community because when you a virgin everyone loves and praises you. i was, i wasn't going, you are not a virgin. you're not allowed to be with other virgins because they are clean and you are dirty. i just was only for many respect this as

a cultural practice and others a find and degrading ability when they see lee on your back and open your legs when they put the fingers in to you, that this is not right. it did not feel right to me somehow for which ever side you're on a one thing is for sure, is that this community thinks that with dignity testing is the way to go and that i keep girls in chic ah, i am totally comfortable with it. i am proud of it because it's might people like it and this is our culture. you know, it has always been this way and traditions are good for us. so natalie or short flendal, i think turning 21 as a virgin is seen and celebrated as a big achievement and non dando has done exactly that. so she has received a hero's welcome here and her family. hello ma'am. hello. it's a traditional ceremony that marks the transition into womanhood for the girls in

south africa, no tando now ready to marry. and her father rewards her for sting, a virgin. like i'm so happy and the whole community as hobby for me because my daughter did maluso virginity. if a child is taken good care of the people here love this child, it gifts not only me and my homestead respect, but my daughter is also respected, or nicola virginity tests, however, and not always happy celebrations. in some cases, young girls are forced to take part and suffer horrendous consequences. a meet with nancy in so little. the 21 year old was expelled from her maidens club when she didn't pass her test. after that, nancy's life became an ordeal. as it does about valley, put a white dot on your forehead that shows if you a virgin or not wave itching or not. when you get out of the testing role and

joined the other girls outside of kill won't comment on madonica and really don't have to start. this means you are not a virgin. i took on philip after that, and my granny said she knew all along that i am just here to sully the name of the family laughing to look like. now every one in the village is laughing at our singing. i have written on thursday, i didn't mind la, but i was been insulted every day for something i didn't do. i. as in that i just wanted to kill myself. our vendor for now or comment is so sight. nancy flit her home village to johannesburg. some 800 kilometers away. we completely on her own. she finished school and started a face painting business. nancy's family broke old ties with her the law says that virginity tests are allowed under strict conditions. girls need to give their consent be at an age above 16, and that results must not be publicly disclosed back and durbin. i want to see how

this looks like. in reality. i, amelie said, didn't be spearheaded by google sylvia. each week she gets together with young goals to talk about sex, but also be important of remaining here. listening with alice clooney. finally, we must stay clean. when a boy comes with his penis and takes away your virginity, he will only leave you with h. i b and the baby will present while the girls undergo monthly virginity tests goggle, like other practitioners examines the vagina with her fingers, which she believes to physically change after having sex. although the practice is generally condemned by human rights organizations, it is tolerated in south africa. and the girls here are proud of this tradition. this like when i see older girls still taking care of themselves,

that shows me that i must also take care of myself too. i am older so that my parents can be proud of me, that i did not dishonor them or the community. i begin to compare still remains complex and controversal in south africa. what is unclear is what will happen to the ones who are excluded, just based on the fact that they no longer considered pure insur whittle, nancy tells us why she did not pass the test back. then. her uncle, a local chief, started to sexually abuse her at the age of 15. so one day when she came back from school, he was in her room a fellow, i thinking, i glean glen. he said, i must not try to scream because what he was about to do is not going to be nice to meet for, to the post. if he told me that if i would tell anyone about this, i'll be thrown out of school. that i will be the laughing stock in the village near

the land. over 3 years, nancy was brutally raped by her uncle because he was a powerful man in the community. no one in the family wanted to face the truth. he didn't know, i still believe. even now i believe that i am a virgin because i didn't break my bridge. unity willingly. for now. it wasn't me, cynthia, and i wasn't ready to lose it. and i will take over which and there's no doubt that fix education is needed in this country. but is vitality testing the right framework forward? there's so many girls who are rejected in the greatest time of need and i'm asking myself, shouldn't this practice evolve towards helping these young girls as opposed to judging them? i'll put that question to you. my name is with local messages. i'm in so way. so south africa.

thank you. silly. i am surrounded by good dresses. these sculptures of the day are metronome interpreted to mean the great mother statues like vis was dug up right here in born. now across the african continent, we have a higher from there. santa people, we have bust protected egyptian mothers. we have your maya, they are reuben, could this, i could go on and on. and if this is our history, why do we still have humiliating practices against our gulf and women? a certain relationship expert has, has some was for the people that think vis unnecessary virginity is not a medical. it's a social construct. how many times do we have to say this?

in order for it to think into the mind, the double age of the patriarchy, allow me to explain this further clarification. a social construct is an idea, has been created and accepted by society at large a social construct, no backing. they are a product of human definition shaped by cultural and historical context. and it's got the women are tired of being shane tired of being shrunk. part of people only valuing them by virtue of their sexuality. but let's get real specific and 0 in on virginity testing in the south africa, like many other african countries, the largest country and southern africa in the spotlight because young girls continue to be physically and emotionally violated by family members in order to control their body. and use them as a form of currency. what about so many wave young girls and violently experiencing their sexual abuse? but instead of focusing on how prevalent family sexual violence and possibly targeting the perpetrator,

we are victim blaming and making sure girls remain pure before marriage. why dear africa are we like to? why do we feel the need to control women's body? how can we collectively help put some of these violence african practices direct one and for all, please drop a comment and let us know. indeed, how can we help put some of these powerful practices to rest? well, thank you. have, i'm glad you asked. our next to watch was exactly how to do that, while still retaining the essence of the ritual. let's head over to kenya where ma, side golf pill, forced to under go see no genital mutilation. s g n. however, since a slowly changing as communities find new ways, the so called al tentative rites of passage that celebrate gauss becoming women in kenya's, messiah lands, countless generations of girls have been subjected to female genital mutilation,

or f t. m. it's a longstanding tradition and messiah communities, and it's usually performed at the onset of puberty. but the practice is inherently harmful. a survivors like grace fell and there can attest. the 26 year old mother of 3 from o. e t village underwent the cart when she was just 10 years old, where square 7 girls from our neighbors. my cousins, we are all brought together. put in one place, my mother's house. there my there was going to do that. so it was very prayer prepared. girls on 6 out of the morning, many women who have undergone to suffer from heavy bleeding and infections as well as complications during pregnancy. but after you could soon become a thing of the cost here of $400.00 girls in this community in colorado county had come together to undertake the so called alternative rite of passage without f t. m

. then gala guy from india rest, who was messiah himself has the community will adopt his ritual permanently. the community said yeah, ready for community lead. i senate the right. so i think you passed both the through or the steps which they normally follow in time would, would they do this? i don't know, but we tell them let's do all these beautiful cultural things. and we do when we celebrate our god passage into woman who but to live out there can even lower the price. this is our lord. the risk of these girls being forced to undergo f t m. it's still very real. they're encouraged to report any threats of incidence when they go back home. when i go back home, i will tell my peers to reject f t m and early marriages. but if the girls also learn about the risks of an early marriage,

teenage pregnancy and children right as they embark on their past, a woman who didn't say lights, candles as they look forward to a brighter future. indeed, future as bright as that of captains who, who are tough. she is the 1st woman to be a post god captain, in so many land in just a few years. she is reason through the ranks, keeping the water thief and 14 a new pass for other young women like her captain. so will you look is happiest at sea, specifically steering the somali land coast guard, the largest vessel in the gulf of arden calling, not taking any challenges with the thought we out on the mission because i lost my country. my

supervisor is the 1st woman to join the somali land coast guard, and in just 4 years, the 26 year old has already risen to the rank of captain. we're going totally capable, she's going to be on the gun and she can tear whatever we do and she can do it to a fall. i'm going to have captain. so under crew must contend with the civil war, raging and neighboring yemen, and the somalia bit islamic extremist group. i'll show bob now done a my goal in this is the government institutions in yemen, coll loved, and our neighbor malia also belong to weapons fish illegally shot, the humans legally, some ugly white life. so our biggest challenge is coming from you know what i like to feel. i'm going to go noble, but a young lawyer earlier this year lead a successful operation against illegal fishing for now the waters off faith. but

back on land, captains and other women face a different back. the united nations reports the prevalence of gender inequality and violence against the women in somali land, many women and girls lack access to education and economic opportunities, or political representation at captains or who has home though, she's a hero, especially to his sister layla. well, well, she's a success story, not only for the family, but for the whole family, and with very proud you became a captain leader. he wanted to be even more successful in captain's who holds 3 degrees in international relations and is now i'm a masters degree in maritime law. ready so when i was younger, i was interesting to be part of the 2nd. i was wondering if i can be one of the higher ranks and still not in high rank officers. so handler at the moment down part of them. you know,

i can called she'd something which magic above all captain wants to serve her people despite the elements of some land society being opposed to women doing so called men's jobs. most of the people who change on who do a lot of things women. so now i believe if i'm lucky because they have a young guy with him in the country for now, captains of course, that's the standard for young women and looking to serve and somali land security force, or simply follow that training. what i mean hiring woman and in this museum i'm surrounded by history of women who had to fight for their rights to be who and what they want to be. well, our next story is very young site and i was, she is from ghana and she dreams of being ganawe's. next boxing queen. yes. our gov off mute reporter met up with her. take

a look. oh, this is brooke home. i've got plenty brookwood in gunners. capital across may need grades, boxes come from this area, but they are all men. that sports isn't popular among women and girls. now, one girl was teaching and i'm hearing boom, to meet her. my name is chosen in our cry and i hope you as excited as i am to me to my dad look who was to be the next vixen in boxing in ghana and then me training regularly here at the courts. paul local head. dad is here

a vis. koreen. he has strength mainly brig boxes. what's your goal? i want to be a case boxer. i'd be a champion and fairs, female, also one the only give me down on my dad's father who decided to support his girl child release her dream safe. she has all it takes to become the greatest guardian fema boxer in future. in basi will the muse or thoughts, we are all totally other softball, and got to softball. she was to live with me. i love t mobile. you can see that you're going to look awkward. you will never saw you come in different, different broadly. she has courses them, maintain a daily routine of and live in like in no market. a judge mom says it is important. jasa allowed to pull the dream with not just

isn't distracted. she's balance in his sports in dreams with her school way. like amy, i buy kid to believe that this would give her a drink that chose of rich in her boxing jeans. investor will keep an eye on that, but for now, let's meet a woman from a country we've had very little from in recent years. this woman is seeing more country from burundi of too much political upheaval, life in belgium. laura is back to normal and we asked more candy to please show us our own home town. and he is, she's. 2 a, what's up with the guy? my name is more now, was that kelly is that also known as mall kinsey? amberin jan. i'm a senior and i live in blue gym,

who rides that economy capital city of lindy, the name was changed from symbol read through june barbara after the independence of the country. and this place is called the plaza and the poles at the top. we have our hero, the one who fought for our independence in 1962, the prince louis worker saudi. come with me. i'm gonna show you around. i'm gonna take you through the cd. my favorite place is where i liked to ease how people leave. we're our leg to we leg with . i'm going to show you one of my favorite restaurants, which those local food called my my solo a will be speaking

with. this is the plate. this is i can say most of the food they make here. you can find plow can find me, you can find okay, and can only be found in our lake, the new cock, which is the 2nd deepest leak in the world after league. baker is really, really something so this is individual, we're a city market, also known as see your niche market. you can find everything you want to. it's one of the biggest markets in the city. what i like about this market is that it's well, oh, you can see that most of the vendors here, how we man,

so it's good to see we men entrepreneurs like the game in the other reason why i like this market is because it's connected to jingle that's why with 2 neighbors from suzanne. yeah. and the congo business people from there and customers meet in this market. oh, a d. c is kitty. the garden is a hotel and the rest of the rent, a luxury hotel and restaurant i liked to come to when i wanted glass of wine and good food. and when i want to see it's an amazing place like this one, you can see how beautiful it is. and we have a nice view of that city. let me just show you the screen during the

evening. it's just crazy. the view is just amazing. look, and i hope to see you soon in blue jeep grand hoping to like a movie. and i hope you enjoyed the tool. i have enjoyed the to and i hope we have also enjoyed the show as women, we have a lot to celebrate. but as we saw, they still so much to fight for. we'd love to hear your thoughts, so please write to us and share your comments. and if you're ever in born, make sure you visit the women's museum. for now i will enjoy this cup of tea, but don't worry because i leave you with some nice music from more. ah, let me see. okay. did you feel the key?

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