can miss passionate hatred of a people, the explained a gold hon. go. a history of anti semitism is a history of stigmatization and exclusion of religious and political power struggles. it's a history of slander of hatred and violence, or even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. a history that you semitism this week on d. w ah hello and welcome to a new edition of the 77 percent. the show for africa's youth. my name is wendy camara and i'm delighted to be your host with i am presenting this short for the women's museum

right here in bonn, germany, and i'll show you around in a beat. but for us, we ask why virginity testing is still so popular in south africa? with that full the gap of aiden with so many months, only female captain. and with a neat, a young de leon once to box how way 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 virginity testing. 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 no examination can prove that a woman is a virgin. virginia testing is performed in at least 20 countries around the world. and these community is people believed that the practice can determine if a girl,

oh woman has had sex. this however, is a false belief. virginia testing evolves inspecting if fema vagina to see whether or not a hyman is intact. communities that performed the janitor testing link the worth of a goal to have a janitor 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 6. 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 is 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, a 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. but it was only for many respects, this as

a cultural practice and as a find a degrading ability when they see lee on your back, open your legs when they put the fingers into you, like this is not right. it did not feel right to me somehow for to which if the 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 it keeps girls in chick 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 george langdon, i turning $21.00 as a virgin is seen and celebrated as a big achievement, and non dando has done exactly that. so she has received a heroes welcome here and her family member law as 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 i am so happy and the whole community as her before 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 and meet with nancy in so little, but 21 year old was expelled from her maiden's 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,

joined the other girls outside a killer won't comment on madonica and really don't have to start. this means you are not a virgin article graham, 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've been 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 in durban. i want to see how

this looks like in reality. i think amelia literacy spearheaded by google sophie each week. she gets together with young goals to talk about sex, but also be important of remaining here. listening with clue environment. 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 who presents. while the girls undergo monthly virginity tests goggle, like other practitioners examines the vagina with her fingers. what 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 beginning gaskin remains complex and controversial 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 way in sorento. and 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 in one day, when she came back from school, he was in her room a fowler. i thinking i can lean glen, he said i must not try to scream because what he was about to do is not going to be nice to meet 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

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 that even now i believe that i am a virgin because i didn't break my virginity with me for now long. it wasn't me cindy and i wasn't ready to do with it. and i was looking for coverage and there's no doubt that fix education is needed in this country, but it's paternity testing the right framework for it. there's so many girls are they who are rejected in the greatest time of need? and i'm asking myself, shouldn't this practice evolves towards helping these young girls as opposed to judging them? i'll put that question to you. my name is what's the local messages i'm in so way to south africa.

thank you. i am surrounded by good. this is these us cultures of the day on my trauma into put it to mean the great mother statues like this 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 year maia, they are reuben good, this, i could go on and on. and if this is our history, why do we still have humiliating practices against the gulf and women? our 2nd relationship experts has, has some, was for the people that think vis. unnecessary. virginity is not a medical tab. 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. large a social construct, no backing. they are a product of human definition shaped by cultural and historical context, and it's exhausting. 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 south africa, like many other african countries, the largest country in southern africa is 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 violently experiencing their sexual abuse? but instead of focusing on how prevalent family sexual violence and possibly targeting the perpetrators,

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 a glad you asked. our next report was exactly how to do that. well, still retaining the essence of the ritual. let's head over to can now where mosse. i go to forced to undergo female genital mutilation, s g n. however, i think slowly changing as communities find new ways the so called a kind of tv right of passage that celebrate goth becoming women in kenya. miss silence. countless generations of girls have been subjected to female

genital mutilation, or f t m. it's a long standing tradition and my side communities, and it's usually performed at the onset of puberty. but the practice is inherently harmful. a survivors like race cell and that can test the 26 year old mother of 3 from village underwent the cost when she was just 10 years old. we are 7 gas from a bad. my cousin. we are all together in one place, my mother's house, the mother was going to do that so that perhaps the bed girls on 6 out of the morning. many women who have undergone t. m. suffer from heavy bleeding and infections as well as complications during pregnancy. but if you could soon become a thing of the past year of a full 100 gulf in this messiah community, encourage jato county have come together to undertake the so called alternative rite of passage without f t. m. then gave a guy from the rest, who is mas himself,

has the community will adopt this ritual permanently? the community paid. yeah. ready for community lead a senate the right. so i think you passed balls through all the steps which they normally follow in time. wouldn't, would they do this? i don't know, but we tell them let's do all these cultural things we do when we celebrate our passage improvement. but the live out there even lower the price. this is out lower. the risk of these girls being forced to undergo f t m is still very real. they're in cars to report any threats or incidents 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 did the girls also learn about the risks of an early married teenage pregnancy and

children's rights as they embark on their path to womanhood, they light candles as i look forward to a brighter future. indeed, as future is bright, is that of captain? so who are 5 in tat? 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 safe and forcing a new path for other young women like her captain. so of fatty motor is happiest at sea, specifically steering the somali land coast guards largest vessel in the gulf of arden mm. but slowly not taking any challenges or crimes now with the sizes and then we are on the mission. i like with phone calls. i learned a lot my kathy's my, our yuki so who 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. what about gollindo? she's totally capable. she's getting a b on the gun, she can tear the shield, whatever we do because she can do it to of ball. i'm wondering like a captain's of her. and her crew must contend with a civil war, raging and neighboring yemen, and the somalia based islamist extremist group al chabarise adamo. my goal in this is the government institutions in yemen, collapsed and our neighbors did. samaya also loved the smuggler, weapons fish illegally, also traffic humans, illegally smuggler white life of bob. so our biggest challenge is coming from year member. what, how long ago view you don't know about a young lawyer earlier this year is a lead, a successful operation against the legal fishing? well 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 women in somali land, many women and girls lack access to education and economic opportunity, or political representation at captains or who is 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. so i didn't high rank officers. so handler at the moment down part of them. and you know, i can call,

shoot something which magic above all captain circle wants to serve her people. despite elements of somal society being opposed to women doing so called men's jobs . most of the people who change on who do i think women? so now i believe if i'm lucky because they have a young female country and just for now, captains are who are set the standard for young women and looking to serve in some ali land security force, or simply follow their training. what i mean hiring woman and in this museum feronda bay 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 michael le neighborhood in gwinnett capital, i cra, may need grades. boxes come from vist area, but they are all men less sports isn't popular among women and girls. now, one girl was teaching and i'm here in brooklyn to meet her. my name is josie. in our cra, and i hope you are as excited as i am to meet my dad look who was to be the next victim in boxing in ghana. and then me training regularly here. i believe coach paul local head. dad is here putting a vis, careening, feeble, he has strength mainly brig boxes. what's your goal?

i want to be a case boxer. i'd be a champion and says female, also one. the only give me down on my dad's father who decided to support his guilt out. release her dream safe. she has all it takes to become the greatest guardian fema boxer in future. in boston, the muses thought you are auto log softball, and got to softball. she was to live with me. i love t mobile. you can see that you're going to look up what you will offer. so you come in different, different, broadly, courses them maintain a daily routine of and live in like in no market. i just, mom said it is important. yours are allowed to fully the i 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 in the future. 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 up more country from warranty of too much political upheaval. life in belgium, bora is back to normal and we asked more candy to please show us her on her home town. and he is, she's. 2 with what's up with the guy? my name is more now, was that penny is that also known as mackenzie amberin. diane, i'm a senior and i live in wu jim, who rides that economy,

capital city of monday. the name was changed from the symbol read through june gra, after the independence of the country, and this place is called plaza and the panels 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 going to take you through the c t. my favorite place is where i liked to eat 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 it. i can say most of the food they make here. you can find below can find me. you can find okay, and can only be found in our lake, the lakes, and they, me cock which is the 2nd deepest leak in the world after league. baker is really, really a villa . 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 the now so you can see that most of the vendors here, how we, man,

so it's good to see we men entrepreneurs like this guy. remember. the other reason why i like this market is because it's connected to a 2 neighbors from suzanne. yeah. and the congo business people from there and customers meet in this market. oh, a dcf kitty. the garden is a hotel and the rest of the rent, a luxury hotel and restaurant i liked to come to when i want a 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 voyager laura and hoping to like a movie. and i hope you enjoy the tool. i have enjoyed the 2 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 nice music from more. ah, my name is kate vicky. i'll tell you nobody would want to concur the word and what

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