then from all there is a wes out website that's to be found at d. w dot com. ah, every day women's rights are under attack from seemingly meaningless misogynistic comments at the workplace to systematic government sponsored oppression. if you care to look for sure to find it international women's day is 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 continued to stand their ground with daily acts of defiance risking at all for their freedom. i'm nickle further kimberline and this is the day ah,

it is a very clear desire and you know, this system of, you know, some might say gender apartheid governments really cracking down to pull of it to have been developing new technologies to be more efficient morality using surveillance technologies to arrest and ticket women who don't wear proper job. you've seen a lot of cases of freight to levels that's happening inside reason. 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 on the way were recognized as victims of the armed conflict is due to the disappearance of my brother and my family's displacement. although we feel like victims,

we are 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 the go inside peggy's eod would, there were many reactions to me not wearing that he job people looking at me pulling faces or even coming up and insulting me. you're merely ating me all very kindly and sentimental. he 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 in what didn't go hats off you on a hold on one of the show here in von of to transpose shopping malls. it's playing to see women very well to where they bombed 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 them. 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 him and i wish about history. and so in the past 5 months, many religious women have joined to protest as well as men not fighting against a job, but for freedom equality and to white to choose. it's to mandatory her job that they see as a tool for oppressing them and said, emma said you had you all i personally would not whether you just i just had 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 halls any. it's actually a form of resistance. and the issue of the job has taken on a special meaning crazy. broad will not enter your cost super don't corner my study . as special meaning most people hearing to hon seem to either share or at least no longer mine. highlighting that the rift is not among iranians, but we to be 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 he 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 are we 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 a girl named read on the la heads went on the utility box and furthest that against mandatory her job after her movement bus. oh, so a symbol again as a special and her mom because of this and

she became known as a gears of her and the love history after we die, ah, now i guess all who say me and went on there and unit utility box and a half there now i guess i over there in that phase in that a days or i a 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 them, and i, because of these, i involved in death politics and as social activities. and i was a, we're dads, our women's in iran and don't have any,

and rides to d wars to leave the country. and i'm you, you know, you don't have any rights to all lee. and after i purchased it against mandatory job, i did, i was sentenced to 2 years in prison and they wanted to 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, or we don't have any roy to choose our, you know i, 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 hinge up. how is the situation of women in iran evolved? in the meantime? as i said, they have changed every tea they are so brave and ann from dad days, i think that via started against mandatory a job and we have seen a lot of brave woman. and also i have to say, and men support women to obtain date rights, you know, and in these day, as you have seen, a lot of iranian men 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 road. you know, they don't want this long keep up like 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 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 community

on the international community and help them day, you know, day be a stronger than before. and they're actually up in there i'm, i'm my concern about and different things about the ref. reggie is about intern a child don, you know, i'll, when we have a demonstration in iran, they shut down and an hour and internet and we need dpn. international community have to am, have expressed to, you know, to p per and we pin to iranian protestors. and a refrigerator, and we need some support, some support of such as a con, under the government of canada. it started to have you whiny and protested,

who are in danger. you know, we need them. refugee program of 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 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, sri and death celebrates as a country we doubt this. loving to pump you coffee. yeah, 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 and 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 correspondence we call a rece, met a group of women outside of the capitol bogota in neva. that's working on healing the wounds of the past, and there is to dream of a truly peaceful columbia baked dreams often starts small in neva. they start with savory, ucita 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 columbia's 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, in that i got together a and then that last e lives about understanding and telling them that we are here for them at a corner fair 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 an look sad and vocal as a teenager, media out of the law joined the father. they trained her as the 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 peace deal. 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 companion mad. i'm renewed at my martin, her ramiro durand was killed 7 months ago. a it on media love the idea link and he loves that. we are in these types of initiatives, but it's still yet i'm when is that the news yet? 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 espia then get a yes. other armed 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 giddy yet eyes and those who were victims cut into a yet through hideous family like millions in columbia was displaced by fighting between the father and drive her clara militaries. on the way were recognized as victims of the armed conflict. due to the disappearance or my brother and my families displacement, 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 r t to us on worldwide, and throw 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 if there's a lottery. lenovo chain, no k, m a been my who 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 lead violence in the past and focus on a peaceable 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 piece and the country? yes, thank you so much for having made such an honor. yes. columbia to lead, you know, it's an emblematic case following the 1325 us lucian, and during the low, the columbia government and the a, the park,

a date for this armed revolutionaries called the columbia 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 work on that home. women crowns in joining arm groups a way to escape or protect themselves from a that gender based violence. so this is caution with gender of the very, very all 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 work either of these field being one of them, the major obstacle for women in the implementation of the peace process for victims

as well as former members of the fark. oh, well, and the peace agreement did not receive support from the previous government, which were also the most pre, because years for implementation, that's not something that i'm saying. the data of you that you, i'm very patient commission and all the court on are going to stations that are following the limitation of aim of the peace agreement, like show data about this. and there is out worry some believe where women in land restitution the limitation of hill educational i'm household now for rural areas and the seclusion of a crop. but personally, i would say the biggest obstacle is that the army currently is just the last expression of inequality. so columbia has important experience a ending a conflict,

but not that much pain because, you know sci fi, it's in the very, very pat recall. yeah, very how big of a big ma is there surrounding the women who are ones part of the farm? because this is a huge societal effort, right? to bring these ones warring parties together. yeah. one thing my multiple people to 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 think we're going to kind like that there is money for can difference between individual and collective right? integration, individual integration. 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 degrade into life alone and move off a here, talking habit school, etc. so every gratian or we call it rain corporation is part of the agreement. they can collectively range the great society of people. to heidi, i asked that group and bill of economic, socio political nisha if that went through their lives conditions 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 a very few problems, you know, like they, we like to day a march 8th. there are

a lot of reports that show the very high level over key unemployment rates and a gender be by just last year, 2000000 women were to hold to gender bait based violence. and of course, we definitely have not record a recovery 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, who is that? we place a very important role, you know, like leman, who are trying to a lead, deferring these that are, you know, like a, getting to places to represent their communities. they are usually to not only a harassment, like all the difficulties that all women are in different parts of the world. but they also have faith are the violence and the are usually the threat because they

are either cheat. and that's the capacity institute joining us tonight from crockett. i thank you so much for this very interesting insights. thank you. the 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, if passed, it would limit free speech and mark a shift toward authoritarianism. on tuesday, 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 say tramples 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 boat was backed by the georgia dream party, and her run for office, went against a government and expressed her support for the protesters. speaking during a state visited the us, she said that demonstrators represent a free georgia which sees that future in europe are and will not allow anyone to take away their future. roamed out one islam of on the

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 nicole underscore buddy for now though, from myself and the entire team here on the day, thank you so much for spending part of your international wednesday with

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