a, you know, or this channel we are not afraid to capture and delicate because population is growing. and young people clearly have the solution. the future belongs to the 77 percent every weekend on d w this is the dublin years, africa coming up on the program, the wounds of war. and if the o, p with sexual violence used as a weapon of war, we hear the harrowing testimony of a 16 year old girl who was raped, she says, fine ethiopian soldier. also coming up, taking matters into her own hands. one woman in northern garner has chosen what

seemed there as a man's trade bricklaying here how she's a building her future. and that of her family plus special honors in the german capital, berlin for one woman's efforts in fighting against discrimination. we speak to her right here at the meeting is africa and blow by blow. how a box and cape bird is helping other women stand up for themselves. ah, i've told me or lady, boy, it's good to have you with us. the war in northern is yoga, has been one of the deadliest conflicts in recent times. the african union envoy, lucia abbas on joey said as many as 600000 people may have been killed in the 2

years of fighting between if you'll be in troops, antique ryan forces, you em investigators say rape and sexual violence were used as weapons of war and essentially mounted to war crimes will cease, fire agreed, more and more stories of the atrocities i merging the 2nd of november 2022. just a few hours before the warranty gray was declared over a war. the devastated millions of people's lives. but for had us, the worst was yet to come. on that day, the 16 year old was at home with her mother near the town of edward in t cray. when any theo pin soldier demanded to be let in. for her protection, we have changed her name. i know the hadn't he entered the house alone. he carried a stick with him. there was another soldier with the gun waiting outside. he tried to take me to the bush, but i refused. he told me he had a knife and a hand gun,

and then he beat me with the stick with a little girl. she started screaming. neighbors tried to save her, but the soldiers threatened them. well, i mean a hidden ha! i was crying and begging him leave me alone. i am only 14 years old. but he gagged me and he asked me for my age, i told him i was 14, but he said you are a liar. you have breasts the whole and my mother started crying to, i don't know her, she still has nightmares of what happened next. over the course of several hours, he raped her multiple times. the attack left her bleeding heavily. she managed to get some basic care at a nearby hospital, but desperately needs psychological care to. she says, she also feels anger. rebecca. hi, go. they should be held accountable. they should be held accountable, not only for me, but for all the victims of rape. cut that into gross capital michela. this

doctor and hospital director has been struggling to provide care for patients like her does. for the past 2 years. we don't have any medication is emergency medication. if they don't have any 20 medications, we can only provide 10 or 20 percent of the medication as these patients need. he had hopes that things would quickly change after your p. s. government and the to ground forces signed the peace deal in november. it's been almost 4 months since the agreement has been signed and i would expect these things to be, to be provided and patient. they cannot wait their day and every day and they're having for many complications, every day. preventables deaths, people will make it here adjust the tip of the iceberg because only few can afford the transport cause. they were so overwhelmed at nearby either referral hospital that he had to open a new unit to treat the victims of sexual violence. there were so many gun grips

there were so many for a month for alice inserted into the gen italia without the exaggeration of literally quite writing some of the stories. and it's really worrisome to see the span of kid has a medical doctor and i'm of the same time of the initiatives. and as any human being they have treated over 500 rape cases here since the beginning of the war. he says, the victim, say perpetrators, european and retreat and soldiers as well as local militia. and the nurses at either referral hospital have confirmed that they saw numerous cases of sexual violence. well, after the war was declared over and dw news africa reached out to these european government communication service or comment. but they did not respond to our request. we are now joined by terry.

could get our to director of the g o. p and human rights commission. welcome to the dublin is africa. and now we just had in our report from had us. she says she still has might miss falling her ordeal. and she's angry. what is being done to help survivors like her? thank you told me me. it's happened to rescue mission with with issue job are plenty class reports including the one with the when you read the commission that joined in but sufficient for us who commissioned since the fact of the war that's covering the period up to the time when they took it and as not defend forces we through from, from the, to dr. region. and we have documented several incidents of violations of abuses of human human rights who monetary law and refugee law. and we've indicated that some of these incidents constitutes crimes against humanity and even war crime

. the central and gender based violence cases like the story, patrick, story of the us are some of the, the ad that's the not having be news does. so degrade anti humanize the victims and that they link up constitutes work war crime. but i would also like to say that the victims include men and boys. some persons with disabilities and people who were targeted because they had family members. 13 part to either side of the, of the conflict, or is this the main investigation going into each of these like for example, how does talking about being ripped by an if you open soldier. you the main, you know, the main source when it comes to these, these final reports. well,

certainly, we have talked to about 169 victims families of victims, witnesses and sources and other sources. but our reports constitute the most comprehensive documentation of these humorous nations. but the we certainly by no means claim to be the only sources but to me about what happens next. and this has, this has been the subject of our work since since the end of the conflict and the south of the peace agreement, the finding of the piece of dream once in in november. and even earlier, we've carried delta, about 13 consultations in the war affected areas, and we've listened to the victims like us and try to

understand and gather information about what they want to start to about 700 people, the men and women and indicated what they would like to see going forward, what justice for them has always insisted that he wants to carry out this investigation on its own without invest, without intervention from, from outside. but we've seen the un human rights chief essentially say this has to be carried out by an independent body, which we do see going, how independent are these these probes going on? the there is the using you and humorous council has established the international committee of experts on, on the few who have been given abroad mondays to carry out investigations and to collaborate with institutions in the region. and the country have been human rights commission. now,

all of the international committee itself has seen several changes of leadership, but in general, we were very happy to know that they have welcomed the transitional process to just know justice process and welcome the opportunity to, to offer support to this process. there will be an interactive dialogue at the council and i'm 21 march and the international committee of experts will be presenting of an oral updates session. so we will look forward to further insights on, on the next steps regarding that mandates and where it's at the session. ok to detach you. director of the p o. p and human rights commission.

thank you for speaking to us. thank you as well. thank you for having the world in ghana like in many parts of the world. some jobs are seen as gender specific, like bricklaying or vehicle repair. those are considered men's jobs while tailoring or head dressing would be for women. although as max also reports from time away in the north of the country, not everyone agrees with those norms. briette by briggs, i chaise determined to lay the foundations for her future. a lone woman bricklayer in the midst of a team of men. she is building a war for your clients. she purposefully chose brit lane as a carrier, i decided 6 was my way, which is different from i. there's no way that's why i chose. big city in kylie

breaking into building hasn't been easy. human brickley is occlusive 0 percent in often gonna even have family and friends were hostile. hey job near la costa and marriage as we talk. she gets emotional i nearly before because of this work. for now i have 2 kids. and i kind of what for them? i paid yes, goofy. now my, i was really slow waking. are able to feed them in a patriarchal society like dana asia is fighting in literally fight the idea of women being confined to the kitchen and child bearing to reasoning and indigenous communities to on is i don't i, shes career briefly in business is a trade blazing effort, so then it won't go like this,

engaging as well from this construction where it's very motivated and it's, it's, it felt bad about it. so many girls invent themselves or been assessing to discourse, such as is that able to keep a lot and improve their lives. despite the challenges she faces becoming a brittle ear has proven to be life changing. why her? because of this week, i'm able to save money and able to buy blood for myself and i'm planning the future . i'm planning to build a house in it. one day i can't sell a story. i shall, once she inspire and a young women so that you can start building your own stories. here in germany, the annual berlin women's award is handed to female personalities, described as having shown,

particular commitment and pioneering work on behalf of women and for gender equality. this year's recipient is the social entrepreneur, amal abass. she's been recognized for her efforts over the decades. fighting on behalf of women against discrimination miss abbas is of sudanese descent and the 1st woman of african heritage to receive the award. here's an impression of some of the miles work and the projects she's been involved in. hi, i'm a foreign but he can graduate from the crate onto my 15th. i went to a revision for the lady and told me you are not ukrainian so you can go back to the course of my passport and you couldn't yet. residents probably otherwise try to call the police. i don't agree, par, comply with hard. ringback ringback i believe

we need a lawyer in order to proceed from there. we can also deal with life and son because we have a lot of people here. we can give one. can i just wait . okay. yeah. but it's good to just don't get to know because you know, to try to come here trying to get to know people you put them to help you. i think it's important that the stories of what happened get told because we can't have a political campaign and play me. all right. if all of us suffer in silence, it's not my problem. routing the life of the

class from our organization office, a 24 hour service. so people work and shift because also at 2 am and at 3 pm, people stand in front of the street. sometimes the children sometimes is wor, injuries. a big part of my identity is how world sees me and how the world treat depending on what are present to, to move on to chase my reality the way and i was really, really for me, i german specifically mean we're being whatever other communities. this is for me extreme. healy seek, with less hesitation, with less worry. how's it going to be accepted? what i'm saying? or what is gonna be brought back me like emma don't get hers, you know?

and i'm glad to say i'm all abbas joins me here in studio. welcome to detail the news, africa and congratulations on the award and on all your work or your chief mints that you've had so far. you've been recognized as having worked to fight for equality since the 1990 s. why is this issue so close to your heart? i grew up in dresden in germany, m and t m. b, i from their kindergarten onwards. i've been facing discrimination and, and yeah, racism, and so yet it's, it's something that i've been through live through and in that sense i understand the pain and difficulties associated with it for my own life. i. and with that you've, you've started to advocate for black women in germany,

tell me about that, that, that struggle. what are the main challenges that you're having to, to, to fight, i think, and the fact that and throughout my life in germany there has been a tendency to when you're not take the impact of racism serious. and for many years there was a tendency to kind of think, it's not that bad or even to kind of tell people that, you know, you imagine it or you're over sensitive. and the structural nature of the problem has many, many times been denied. because also there was no colonial a german colonial history being taught in schools. and many people are completely misinformed and, and have still this notion of superiority. that they walk around with,

from those colonial times. and where by the real nature of the black culture arts or history is, is, sin, is phil, as an unknown facts to many people in this country. and among the people you've advocated for black people who had to flee from ukraine during the war. what challenges of they faced here and then and how they coping m? yeah, their situation is still appalling because am the 1st or well not the 1st, but there was an appalling discrimination on the borders of even reaching white ukrainians that were allowed to go through. and black people who were asked to pay astronomical sums or were denied the journey that's happening right now. there is people are also with permanent residency ukraine,

people who lived there for more than 10 years who want to flee and are denied entry to poland. and 2 neighboring states, hungary and am slovakia and, and, and you know, that's something that, that's absolutely wrong because all people are affected by war should have a chance to flee and should then also be granted the same protection. we have article 24, and therefore it's not acceptable. why? there are so many places in this country that are pushing people into asylum cases that have absolutely no chance. my article 24. we signed this treaty as a, as a country and, and exactly and, and that, that does allow people to have this temporary protection. and it's not

understandable why we've had the 1st person being deported to nigeria. and when you look at medical students that are badly needed in this country, and people with teaching qualifications that we need, we have a shortage of 80000 teachers. we have a problem with racism in our schools. give people a chance, find ruth's roots to make sure they can contribute to, to this society. and these causes have led to us like the you quinn. we're talking about lead to the formation of the tubman network, which your part of kito was more about this this network. what exactly work do you do? the tab my network is a coalition of black organizations and individuals that kind of came together around the 28th of february in order to say, we feel like we need to put our hands together and to support our

brothers and sisters and who were at that time be literally freezing to death in the cold nights. and we've housed to date about 4000 people. and i'm telling you it's not enough. we do need more hosts. we do know more people that spend their time supporting people. and there is food shortages, ferris, or help with translation going to the various different or bureaucratic tools. and so there is, there were, there are acute needs yet when, when you want to gather together with 300 families and where do we go? where do we go, where i can be sure that and they're kind of racist remarks. and because

we, we come together are not being repeated. and a trauma doesn't continue. crash. i am ala bus. i will have to leave it there. but congratulations once again on your achievement and thank you for speaking to us . thank you as well. ah, to cape bird malware boxes is still a very male dominated sport. but a young champion, vanessa suarez, has set out to change that. she's pulling no punches and winning metals, though fighting stigma and prejudice is still her toughest opponent getting into boxing per vanessa. whereas in the ring, for her hardest fight against prejudice, it began 10 years ago when she was still at school. her hope was that by taking up her gloves,

she would be able to defend herself against abuse. she was suffering in the school yards. i met her as a girl. i had a horrible time at school when i was bullied a lot. and when i saw my brother in law boxing, i thought i'd maybe, if i learned boxing that my classmates would start treating me badly. boxing changed everything. she says it transformed her from a bleed girl into a confident young woman walked smoothing, agreed when i started boxing my self esteem hit at an all time high, low leeway, and its not come down since walked in for me. boxing everything its life, it must go. dish boxing is more than smaller than needed them from taking so many heads of aller interviews. trauma kinda, nothing can shake me a while. the origin can neither. once you go my long after a year and a half practicing boxing as an ammeter, vanessa suarez began taking part in local,

regional and finally national competitions. in 2015, she was runner up in cape fair days, women's boxing championship. in the 52 kilogram klaus, her career translated into a fist full of metals is una. vanessa only stopped competing when she had her 1st child, but even so she didn't abandon the sport. now she teaches boxing to women, hoping to instill them with the strength she fails by that. okay, but i started training women because i was often a victim of gender based violence performance. i want to put a stop to violence against women at any point we women are being killed and we've been through a lot of that. i think that if a woman learns a way to defend herself when she will know how to deal with a blow from her husband, the father just they mother say what you, why it's got that by now. it's a daily struggle. but every day, vanessa suarez is knocking the remaining mic, his mo, out of cape verde,

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