is for in the policy hosanna, which a curry, a member of the george in parliament with the opposition for george, a party speaking to me earlier. you are watching did of the news coming up next? indeed of the news asia. why the you, when warned that online hate could reverse progress for women and the wrestling squad in india, training women at to dominate a sports all that and more coming up next with my colleagues melissa chant. of course one is analysis on our website to ac d w dot com. thanks so much for watching. ah, so i was just rescuing deducted from a farm this one this body job. i found it like this and i couldn't just leave it there. i should meet

with this was such a great burden. it was so dirty in cleaning a turn the entire bathroom went to madison. this is the water birds 1st as well. but one of the most beautiful moments i've ever experienced that a true woman can give you a donkey series about our complex relationship with animals. well, i think i will live long enough to witness the end of factory farming. the great debate this week on d. w or you're watching d, w news, asia coming up, women under siege on line. it's international women's day and the un says women's progress is at risk from online hate. we hear from an indian journalist about the chilling effects. every time i read, there's a barrage of the district,

a dean and ruling the ring in one of india's most conservative states parents encouraged their daughters to become wrestling stars. ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us and happy international women's day. it's a chance for celebration, but also reflection on the challenges facing women around the world will be taking a closer look at women in india, particularly how they experience and relate to technology and the online world. here's what the head of the u. n. organization on gender equality and women's empowerment sema, who's said at the security council meeting, the status of women is under siege. aspects of technology such as social media,

have ruled, insured in vital information and rallying support, and also in causing further harm through spreading this information. and fostering violence, massaging it is critical that governments and private companies work together to foster technology as an enabler and accelerator of pro. joining us as rana i, you, indian journalist and contributing opinion columnist with the washington post. thanks for coming on the program. so we just heard what the executive director of you and women, it said you have been a target on social media as simply for being a female journalist. i wonder, has your online experience gotten any better? thank you for having me. melissa national center for journalist has recently released a report called the chilling, where they basically analyzed 9000000 tweets to that me and most of the tweets read

abusive or they're threatening with dead threats and read threads. so i don't think the online presence has gotten any better if anything it has only got was in the last couple of months. just 2 weeks ago i filed a complaint with the mom by police where i live for a very crude, a gangly place that has been consistently given to me in my female family members on instagram. and i have had to limit my replies, the comments section on twitter, because every time i read there's a barrage of heat that is directed at me. i mean, the object is to basically silence an intimate to intimidate and in always lust shape, you discredit you to put more pictures of you are so unfortunately i. * wish it was an ideal boy, but it's not. and technology has made it even goes for journalists like me. how much do you think this kind of experience impacts the feminist movement in india?

i mean, in terms of intimidating many women who then choose to withdraw from the online global community. the many woman journalists in india who i know have been drawn from public space because not everybody as the emotional bandwidth are to deal with this kind of a traumatic affair. i mean, i, i still, i still think i'm all, i'm a journalist in a gossip organ city in bombay with public exposure. where i think of john listened to rural areas in places where to have for to be a journalist where they have thought to be in a public space. and, you know, and then when they are la cima assassinated, i think their, their 1st response is to be brought from the space to protect their son at the end, predicted galico. because in a country like in delaware of woman's got it, there's so much of premium placed in a woman's. got it bill, right. and then when you are slug, teamed up when your image is more than

a born video and so created, all your images, reaction is, did i do anything? right? and you start beating yourself for it. not everybody has the band with not everybody should have to face a style at most viewed like this. me and many other women, john, less like me, have paid up, you know, a heavy price for speaking up because each time you find yourself bending on to adult with the voice kind of allegations, with the worst kind of dissipating messages and photographs, are your images impulses to shut your phone and shut your slow to the noise. we're just out there to silence you. so i think it in a way it has silenced many women and have them draw from the public school. because this is not what they asked for what the jews and yet social media has been away for, for us women to rally together. do you feel

a benefits of social media has ultimately, nevertheless outweighed the costs for women? well, melissa, i can give you an example of a country like india, where the mainstream media are the steep captured media. i mean, everybody here is being censored, india, and i'm on the 150, a position in the one to breast freedom index. ran that when there's a lack of any mainstream media platform, your option then is to amplify your voice and your stories and your journalism to social media platforms. and one has to concede that platforms like little half head amplify the wars of independent journalist. i've had had to get sorted down be from like minded journalists or would the would. so there are certain rules to it but, but on b, as in india. so in absence of any option to do your jones, i'm in the mainstream set up and the lack of solidarity in the indian domestics

phase one looks at door and other social media platforms to get that kind of fun data to, to get that kind of space in absence of any gatekeepers in up or for lack of censorship. in that sense, widow used to be a great platform, but the weight of you know, recently removed the length of a b b c documentary on which is critical of the movie government. so i feel like there, there has been who is trying to says sensitive, so it's been a country like india, and it was a great opportunity for many of us john list. and we see that opportunity dawn into a space where we are being relentlessly a run. i you thank you so much for joining us. thanks. in india, female athletes at the top of their game are not immune to the pressure and violence. many women face, some of the country's top wrestler, say sexual misconduct from officials is rampant. in january, they staged

a 3 day sit in in delhi, along with hundreds of supporters. they accused several coaches of sexually harassing female wrestlers, and also accused the wrestling found federation president, who is a member of india's willing battery to, to not to party of the same. the government promised to investigate the claims and now an oversight committee is expected to submit. it's report to soon. the protest was led by vinnish po, got a 3 time commonwealth games champion. she has accused the federation president of quotes, mentally harassing and torturing her. but it's, i'm just like, i say this with shame that in a country like india, if girls like me have to face this, then we can easily conclude that no woman in india is safe. it makes me feel that no daughters should be born in this country. you make me presently. that was finished. forgot. she's part of

a family who became national celebrities following the release of the film dangle in 2016. it's based on 2 of the daughters who broke through wrestling, gender barrier and meddled in the commonwealth games. ah. obviously you said, what did you do? i did it took a look. i'm never going go to gp, my son a died or miss ellen teach at the ruling. major excess of the po got sisters, has inspired more girls to take up the sport. parents are on board to the because home state of haryana, one of india's most conservative, has become a women's wrestling hub. but some families may be motivated by more than female empowerment. the wrestling pit is also way to make money and athlete daughters,

a potential ticket to financial security. he w a deal bought has this report. every morning, these 30 girls frame at the you'd read rustling academy in the town of sony buck. they have to rear training gear and keep this year short like the boys in the village. all of them how to go through all was of rigorous, warmer exercises, experienced wrestler rubashaw the year is leading the training session 5 years ago . the bosh off decision was not easy. summer for family and naples criticized her. but her parents did not bow to social pressure. mid naval hagi. i am the 1st female wrestler ever in my family and the village. if and women's track on more than men, as male wrestlers are supported by their families meal this look, i'm what comes at my family, wants me to live and independent life,

and also live alive on my own term. so girl like her, every student who enters the academy has the same ambition, winning an olympic medal for this. their families are investing their hard on savings for their training. up to day the girls are getting ready to watch a wrestling match. i say i'm a sema crop, is the court giving final instructions to the girls before the action starts? and i guess it's a close the fought contest. the 2 girls in the bit put up their best white. i'm not again equal to more girls from high yana adjoining wrestling of these girls and now abandoning the custom of varying illegal and some i even leaving home like you wrestling is giving voice to these young girls and providing them with job opportunities for them or not i mean, they're like, you're good. all the girls here are from the northern state of her yana,

one of india's most guns over 2 and 50 arca regions. the girls are breaking studio types and challenging social taboos. however, some of the recent sexual harassment allegations involving senior officials of the national wrestling federation have shaken the faith of families in the system. aladdin, like social activist, scenes jog alarms and says, but again, he's yesterday to address the concerns. i mean bell one on his own because of the rise in sexual harassment cases. if a lot of girls from this village are discouraged in their families and no longer keen that they pursue this sport as a career discipline in the hopes of many exec i have been dashti and they hadn't me bhaskar. but back at the academy, these young female wrestlers are not ready to abandon their dreams. they still practice for hours. dear night wrestling has become their way to

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