in from all there's always a website that's to be found at d, w dot com a. every day women's rights are under attack from seemingly meaningless misogynistic comments that the workplace to systematic government sponsored oppression. if you care to look for sure to find it international women's day as an occasion to highlight women's fight for a life of equal opportunity without discrimination and free of violence in any form in iran, this struggle has come at a heavy price. hundreds died and recent anti government protest demanding basic human rights. dozens remain behind bars. the heavy crack down succeeded in driving demonstrators off the streets. but women and girls continue to stand their ground with daily acts of defiance risking at all for their freedom. i'm nichol further kimberline and this is the day ah,

it is a very clear desire. and you know, this system of, you know, so might say gender apartheid was governments cracking down to love it to have been developing new technologies to be more efficient morality using surveillance technologies to arrest a ticket. women who don't wear proper job. you see a lot of cases of rate and say 2 levels that's happening inside the iranians are not just asking for reform. they are asking for the islamic republic to go also on the day will look at women who were once caught up on opposite sides of columbia's bloody conflict under now working together to build peace. we were recognized as victims of the armed conflict due to the disappearance of my brother

and my family's displacement. okay. although we feel like victims, we're also resilient because all we've been through apple, so we're eager to contribute to peace. ah, welcome to the show. there is no doubt about it. women's rights have come far since the inception of international women's day at the beginning of the 20th century. but despite all the progress of the past decades, systemic inequality persist. standing in the way of women around the globe living up to their full potential. that's why international women's day is not only an opportunity to celebrate women's contribution to society, but also a day to highlight the struggles women still face. in iran, women are denied basic freedoms. living under the watchful eye of the islamic republics notorious morality, police. but even in one of the world's most repressive countries for women, hard fought advances are slowly becoming visible. the faces of the people in the following report happened, blurred in order to protect their identity. this would have been impossible

just 6 months ago, walking distress of to her on, in your own choice of clothing. now it's not an uncommon sight any more. like does university student many women are taking theories, but it's still against the law. so to talk about it, we go inside crazy odd would a, there were many reactions to me not wearing that he job people looking at me pulling faces or even coming up and insulting me really ating me all very kindly and sentimentally advising me on what they consider right my but my biggest achievement from that period was that i became normal in the eyes of those around me. good bad, no, go hats off you on the hold on one of the show. here in von off to ron's pool shopping malls. it's plain to see women varying whatever they want in friendly

coexistence, refusing to be divided by to slammed republics ideology, no matter what they've chosen for themselves personally. many says, i'm going to do that. this is how i show my religious identity to people. i'm fine with this, i'm comfortable. but i think that if i don't fight for the individual, freedom of the person sitting next to me, i'm actually destroying freedom. has been about if someone who doesn't think like me or dress like me, doesn't have freedom, then i don't have freedom either. because freedom is not for anyone. if it's not for everyone, i also think about hm. and i wish of a history. and so in the past 5 months, many religious human have joined to protest as well as men not fighting against a job, but for freedom equality and the right to choose. it's to mandatory her job that they see as a tool for oppressing them and said, emma said you do all i personally,

i would not whether you just trucks. i drops out an image for them to joke. sad and i turned in my opinion, this practice of not wearing it doesn't just mean that we are now physically. freya also are hosting visits your in hall county. it's actually a form of resistance. and the issue of the he job has taken on a special meaning, korean war will not only cost you paid on quarter. my study as special meaning most people hearing to ron seem to either share or at least no longer mine, highlighting that the rift is not among iranians, but between dim and dear leaders. and we can now speak to an iranian woman for whom the job has for a very long time, had a special meaning 2018 as a young grovee was part of a group of protesters known as the girls of anger. love street. she express or rejection of the compulsory job by removing her scarf on top of an electricity

transformer box and waving it above her head. this is her. in the pictures we're seeing, she was arrested and authorities threatened to strip her of the custody of her child. she then left iran and now lives in exile in canada. to day, as i'm young, grovee is a woman's rights activist and paralegal. and i'm very pleased to welcome her on the dame as young girl. good to see and tell us about those protests in 2018 and your motivation to take to the streets. thank you for having me. in those days there was a big demonstration in iran, in them media laughter and that demonstrations, again, name, read on the law head, went on a utility box and furthest against mandatory a job after her movement bus. oh, so a symbol again as a special and,

and because of this and she became known as it gears of her and the love history after we dar, ah, now guess, or who seine and went on there and unit utility box and a half there. now i guess i over there in that phase in that it days or i fight or for everything. you know, i just, um, i was fighting for 5 years for my divorce. i was fighting for a 2 years for custody of my own daughter. you know, and m, m a because of these i involved in death politics and as social activities. and i was a, we're dad, our women's in iran and don't have any,

and rides to do oars to leave the country. and i'm you, you know, we don't have any rights to our leave. and after i protested against mandatory a job, i did, i was sentenced to a 2 years in prison and day wanted to deb. take away my daughter from me and it just for, for protesting against mandatory a job and it, but these days we can see women iranian women change every day. yeah. can i ask what the job means to you? what it symbolizes to you? i had, i was compulsory, and we don't have any roy to choose our, you know, this is compulsory and we are not

a free to choose what we want. and i can say to you, it's mandatory for almost 6 years have passed since you got up on that box and took off your he job. how is the situation of women in iran evolved in the meantime? as i said, they have changed every team. they are so brave and an from that days i think that be a started against mandatory a job. and we have seen a lot of brave woman. and also i have to as say and men support women to obtain date rights, you know. and in these day, as you have seen, a lot of your whiny a man fighting for women's rights. and it is not only for

women's ride, but also for you all you want in are fighting for the rise for changing the regime. you know, they don't want this long public off iran, they want to they just want for free and freedom and they just want in normal life. yeah. so elijah, backing from within the country, but up is the international community doing enough to support women and girls in iran. i'm actually, i'm eating international community and i have to support are you on. and because we need global attention and global attention can help us in some ways. and when you want to, and women and see that women and men see that

global and community on the international community and help them day, you know, they'd be a strong in that before. and they're actually out in there i'm, i'm my concern about a different things about ref. reggie is about internet shut down. you know, i'll, when we have a demonstration in iran, they shut down an hour in an internet and we need dpn international community have to am, have expressed to, you know, to peter per and we pin to iranian protestors and a brief reggie's. and we need some support, some support of such as at canada, the government of canada is started to help you,

whiny and protested, who are in danger. you know, we need a referral program of who, who are, is in danger. you know, do you think we'll live to see the day women and girls in iran are free to live as they please? i'm really optimistic and i think we can, we can change every teague but uh, we just saw that, you know, this is, and i, i think this is a marathon and it's a took a lot of time and i wish i some day i can back to my con 3 and death celebrates as a country without this luxury puppy coffee. we'll hope to be there to see you and your fellow rein in women crossed the finish line of this marathon awesome young

grove, uranian women's rights activists, living in exile in canada. thank you. so much for your time. thank you. thank you for having me. ah. columbia left as president gustavo petra was elected last year on a campaign based on his proposal of total peace, putting an end to the country's long running conflict by engaging with all of the many armed actors tormenting the country. first on his list was columbia's largest still active gorilla group, the e l and the national liberation army. peace talks between the government and the group are currently being held in mexico city. now the e l. n is classified by both the u. s. and the e. u. as a terrorist organization, nearly half a 1000000 people have been killed during columbia. 60 years of eternal conflict and hopes were high. after the country's leading gorilla group, the fark laid down their arms in 2016 women were a central part of the peace process. then, with the resulting agreement considered to be the 1st comprehensively gender

sensitive peace treaty in the world. our latin america correspondent, we call a, re, met a group of women outside of the capital bogota in neva. that's working on healing the wounds of the past, and there's to dream of a truly peaceful columbia. fake dreams often starts small in neva. they start with savory, achieve at biscuits, a specialty from the region, and full of women here, a symbol for peace. they have all been touched by war. some were thought of members . some were victims of columbus armed conflict. now they worked shoulder to shoulder. i've been in the beginning when we meet the victims for the 1st time. it's about understanding the pain that our our la life has inflicted on them in. and they said, i get a, get a, a in their last e lives about understanding and telling them that we are here for them. like when the fed and to acknowledge and work hand in hand if we're trying to make up one way

or the other. now what that am i made? i is look sad and vocal as a teenager, media at theda joined the father. they trained her as a nurse. she believed in the groups message of social justice. but over the years she came to support peace. she was a signatory of the 2016 p steel, as was the father of her 2 children. but he did not live to see the changes they had hoped for. you guys will only company in mad i'm, you know, to my partner. ramiro durand was killed 7 months ago. a it anita love, the idea link and he loved it. we are in these types of initiatives, but it's still yet. i'm wearing this as he needs at the you. it's unclear who was responsible for ammeter still now he's one of over 300 signatories who have been killed since the peace deal. some of those assassinations were carried out by active dissident groups. violence also continues as p and then get a yes. other arm factions and the state fight to control territory. meanwhile,

several initiatives, like the neva bakery are trying to help women touched by the conflict. those stigmatized by former getty a ties end, those who were victims, cut into a yet through huge family like millions in columbia, was displaced by fighting between the father and rider, clara militaries, where were recognized as victims of the armed conflict due to the disappearance or my brother and my family's displacement theme of although we feel like victims, we are also resilient because all we've been through apple, so we're eager to contribute to p 6. the women have begun business for their business. but little to start with the need money for new machines and workshops. their dream is to sell our tea to us on. we'll have to ride and grow like to make money and become a success story for reconciliation. her long columbia needs piece and it's region received by gig. we need to end this nightmare gig is that we don't want more

orphans just says hillary lyn. archie no k m a been my way to fund? well, the women here have high hopes for negotiations between the government and the yell and giddy yes. and that columbia as a whole, can meet violence in the past and focus on a peaceful future. and let's bring in vanessa tequita, although she works for a past the german columbia piece institute. she joins us from the city of florence yet in columbia. mosquito low welcome to the day. now women often bear the brunt of armed conflicts and the columbia peace treaty was the 1st to comprehensively include women in the solution of one what's their role and building peace and the country? yes, thank you so much for having me. it's such an honor. yes, columbia to lead, you know, it's an emblematic pace, following the 1325 us lucian. and during the loops the columbia government

and the a, the park a force and armed revolutionary called the colonial, created gender commission. because how the armed complete re for again, their system that reproduce violence against women and l g b to people. but also that this work and that's home women brown in joining arms groups a way to escape or protect themselves from a that can be based violence. so this caution would gender of the beer is temporary, all the agreement which had very violent a backlash from some conservative groups in columbia. and this conversation also made visible the pilot work of all women working either of you feel being current or what isn't a major obstacle for women in the implementation of the peace process for victims

as well as former members of the fark ah, well, and the peace agreement did not receive support from the us government, which were also the most 3 because year for implementation, that's not something that i'm saying. the data of you, the un verification commission and all the school are on, are going to stations that are following the limitation of a, of the big piece agreement like show data about this and very worried some believe where women in land restitution the limitation of hill educational and household now for rural areas, and this is a fictitious of a liquid crop. but certainly i would say the biggest obstacle is that the firm clinically is just the last expression of inequality. so colombia have important experience a ending a conflict, but not that much pain because, you know,

sci fi is in the very, very ethical. yeah. how much is there surrounding the women who are once part of the fart? because this is a huge societal effort, right? to bring these ones warring parties together. yeah. one thing my multiple take monitor a not only they want related to being an ex come back and you know, they usually come from impoverished and rationalized communities that put them in a level of their ability in which aren't viable was one of the option. but also i, it's important to highlight that there is an important difference between individual and collective writing to gratian, individual, to gratian. it's more like a humanitarian and strategy in the middle of war. in a war context, in which a combat and leave the group voluntarily or involuntarily,

and have to bring to great life alone and move off a here to talk to your school and the degree. sure. or we call it rain corporation, is part of a piece of priority in that situation. and this is their condition for women are a little bit better and that's the program that resulted from a dream. and they can collectively reign to great society people. friday i asked that group and bell economic solstio and political initiative that through their life completion and also the completion of the communities the are now powerful. now columbia was a pioneer when it came to the inclusion of women in the peace process. how does the country fair when it comes to gender equality in everyday life? well, there are, of course, many challenges,

like everywhere. and we have to see very few progress you know, like we like today the march 8th there, a lot of reports that show the very high level. so over the unemployment, grades and age gender b. by just last year, 2000000 women were exposed to gender b, b, the violence. and unfortunately, we definitely have not record a record from a lack of the damage in this matter. and how much is the ongoing violence and conflict holding back women's rights advances in columbia? oh, it don't make a very important role. you know, like we men who are trying to lead to these that are, you know, like a getting to places to represent their community. they are usually exposed to not only a harassment and like all the difficulties that all women are in different parts of

the world. but they also have to face are the violins and the are usually better because they are either cheap. and that's actually the capacitance to cheer joining us tonight from crocodile. thank you so much for this very interesting insights. thank you. for protesters have returned to the streets of the georgia capital tbilisi to voice their anger over a controversial new draft law. the legislation dubbed the foreign agent bill received initial backing from parliament earlier this week. opponent say of past it would limit free speech and mark a shift toward authoritarianism. and she was a police detained dozens of people protesting against the legislation. georgia at boiling point for these demonstrators, it's become a battle for the future direction of the country. and they're willing to fight for

it. the violent protests here in the capital tbilisi were sparked by george's parliament, giving the initial green light to a draft bill, which critic se tremples on press freedoms and basic civil rights. they claim it's a russian style law that would require n g o z and independent media who received more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to declare themselves. foreign agents scuffles broke out when it progressed with a clear majority in parliament this week. the ruling georgia dream party say it improves transparency in the country. mister south, georgia as president salah missouri. bish philly, who's an independent but was backed by the georgia dream party. and her run for office went against the government and expressed her support for the protesters.

speaking during a state visits at the u. s, she said that demonstrators represent a free georgia which sees it future in europe are, and will not allow anyone to take away their future. roamed out one islam of on e u foreign policy chief to set burrell warren, that the bill was incompatible with you. values and standards concerning words for georgians at a crucial time for their countries future. the european union is currently considering george's application to join the block and that's our time for today, but make sure to stay informed. stay engaged and to stay in touch. you can follow our team on twitter apps either way, news and myself at nickel and escort buddy for now though from myself and the entire team here on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your international women's day with

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