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to have kids to look at why ah, by british manager, welcome to did up the news asia, glad you could join us. the urine has asked of gonzales taliban rulers to provide details about the whereabouts, a well known education campaigner matthew love, vis up versa, who runs the education and do ben boff was allegedly picked up by the taliban in kabul on monday. he is respected for his efforts towards educating afghanistan's children, including dulls since the taliban band, secondary education for them. it's a ban that's drained all hopes of a future for goals and left them with very few options. ah, these girls are learning the crown in him atrocity in kabul, the taliban, his band girls at their age from going to a normal school. so for most,

this is all there is some welcome the opportunity to meet friends outside of the home. and again, be part of a group with a common purpose, but they know it's no substitute for real education. they're not their selfish connect them address a cannot help me to become a doctor because that's done through school. and unfortunately, schools are closed on from us, but still them address. it is good. it's good for increasing our religious knowledge. and it's a good place to enhance our abilities today. but other than as if you had to hold a more flood ownership, the girls also know that they will not be going to university. after the taliban decreed that only men are allowed to study at such a high level. but what are the downsides of excluding women and girls in this way?

on this women's hospital in kabul, one problem is already coming in to view health care is strictly segregated by sex in afghanistan. that means that if no female doctors are available than more women will simply be left to die. that you like the mother of this woman birth father, i didn't know her richard. good to my daughter. didn't she done? from the doctor? i've decided to reach. i have to become a doctor, come seek the telephones, restrictions on women, also damaging the economy and any prospects for future growth. according to the world bank. the taliban point to women only shopping centers like this one in the eastern city of herat. as part of the way forward,

but such statements are empty of meaning. when millions of women and girls remain barred from playing an active role in life in afghanistan. first on the renee as director of the non profit lamb and joined me from berkeley in massachusetts. mister rani, are older of gone girls, a tall being able to access education in folly bundled of got a son right now and no one has done when it comes to public schools. the younger one has done east 13th eating, can not access any schooling, although their 1st to keep them getting access to education. i'm by different entities and jeer. secret schools are activists. but the government itself, or the de facto regina has not put any effort towards their education. you talking about the efforts by india to keep the education going and also of secret schools.

how many of these schools are there and how many girls are they being able to serve? and actually people to care, to even talk to each other around the schools. i'm preschool and i'm scared to tell anyone how many students they have. where do i have them the fingers to anyone? i know people who run it in here, i've been call and my god in different cities of fun. but i think everyone is scared because it's a secret school, illegal in a country where learning is bad right now. from grade 70 and going on. and the same goes for like, you know, there's no work for the teachers who are working. there's also a very dire situation right now, given what you're saying, what are the prospects for con girls in their own country? now, i'm mostly there and i'm to be honest and be very open about it right now. there's no constitution to no right to work. no right to was no right to go and grading

parliament for politics. no. right to be leadership position. no right to be in, in the economics, not being public office. so i'm looking there. i'm a prospect and it to me thing to see this to the girls of a home phone and young parents to believe that girls should be in school and they should be learning even if there is no profit for them. the un security council has recently called for an independent assessment of how to deal with the taliban and refusal to reinstate women education. in addition to other challenges, what hope is there? you think, if the international community itself is running out of ideas? honestly i send me your new at the spring relief laughable because i was talking to the precinct leadership at the you went and that was the week i saw this one me personnel getting so vicky did back plastic bag and when i talked to her,

she told me, we have to talk at work with them. we have to work with apollo. right. and for me to make yeah, it's easy for you to say given that you are sitting in new york and it's hard for us to imagine because they haven't been good on any of the promises that they promised they meet. and they're still killing people and they're still abusing human rights, and they're still using young teenage girls. so for me, i personally do think it should be entertaining the international and international community. very few people camera, 100. now when i leave it there for the time being, unfortunately, if it's so much for joining us today based on other ronnie, thank you so much. thank you for having the idea this from japanese prime minister from york issued a pledge to make it possible for some 85 percent of fathers to take better to leave from their jobs by 2030. the incentive is aimed at tackling the falling birthrate.

she does party b l d p has also proposed forgiving student loans for people who get married or have a baby issue that said, and i caught in the 2013 the young population in japan will decline at twice the current rate. the next 6 to 7 years will be the last chance to turn around the declining birthrate. generate alpha moral. this is the doesn't use a shuttle. bought a michelle, a stock, or michelle walker given what prime minister from your kid. she just said it would appear that the student debt forgiveness idea is a good thing, right? it might sound like that, especially if we look at japanese tuition rates. they have gone up 40 times since $972.00. and also in that period, there's been wage stagnation and tax hikes. so families have less disposable income to pay for their children's education. and more young people have to take up student loans if they want to go to college. but this proposal has had a raw nerve, especially amongst women. some see it as social engineering to make them baby

making machines when they think they might find fulfillment and other ways in life . and especially if you look at the way it's formulated some think it's discriminatory. you know, what about women who can have babies or don't want to have babies? why not cut tuition fees across the board? and i spoke to a woman. her name is anna. it's a pseudonym, actually she's active in the japanese feminist space. and during our interview, she didn't want to show her face on camera. but she read out a tweet. that was her reaction to this proposal and we'll play it for you right now, and that's her voice. you're gonna hear right now on the street instead of actually listening to the women in the people for what they want, they incentivize birth with money. meanwhile, childbirth is still not covered by the national health insurance or the counter pills are unavailable. abortion pills are not approved. male parental leave rate minimal. so even if the l d p government wants to increase mail

parental leave, it's not necessarily true that men are going to take it and there's a whole host of other things that women have asked for that they feel like the government isn't listening to and needs to listen to women, so what do women want? so there are a bunch of disincentives baked into the japanese system that make it a daunting choice for women to decide to have a baby. first of all, many of them have a regular contracts. that means they have to be renewed, there's an end date to them. and so there's job and security. women want more job security. so if they have a baby or get married, they aren't hearing losing their job. they also want reform to the tax system that penalize is to income earners. they also want more affordable child care, especially in big metropolises like to pan. there's just a lack of child care spaces. and also women want help from the men in their lives. women survey suggest that japanese women do 7 times the amount of household chores that men do. and also when it comes to child rearing. they're the ones that need to

go to the school meetings that are often during the work day, a little finicky things, like they have to put tags and all their children's clothes. they have to keep a diary for their children, a whole huge mental load for women, and they feel like the men in their life just aren't there. in fact, anna said to me, during an interview, we're having to be both the mom and the dad. and the dad is nowhere to be seen. speaking of dads, japanese been also face challenges if they want to become stronger, they do. and even if they want to be more involved, there is a societal pressure that men should be the breadwinner. and that means men have to participate in a hard core work culture in japan that demands long hours in the office and also socializing after work. and again, if we talk about those contracts more people have irregular contracts than the lifelong contracts. and so there's a certain job insecurity. and that can make men seem like not an attractive marriage partner. and there's a game in japan called the hellish of life. and if you don't land on the spot that

gives you one of these long term lifelong contracts, the rest of the game is hellish. now it's just a game, but it's derived from, from some truth in life, as crew to reserve from minister to she does in the p party, might be trying to get to try and boost her birthdate. none of that would matter really, unless societal values, the society pressure that you talked about changes. you know, there's a lot of men and women in japan who want to embrace these traditional gender roles . who do want to see the man is the main bread winner who want to see the women at her. but the pressure, the economic pressure on couples make it. so the numbers just don't add up any more . and anna was saying to me, there's something that really symbolizes the base that she sees women in. and that's going on the subway in tokyo. and we see a mother bring her baby on the subway. she has to take the baby out, take all the bags off, load herself up, hold the carriage together, and take up as little space as possible and kind of do it with grace and ease. and

this to her symbolizes the burdens that women in japan feel like they have to bear . and right now, you know, the l d p is making some proposals. things need to change, but a lot of what to say. they're not listening to what women want. and unless they do, women are going to take themselves and continue to take themselves out of the equation. thanks very much for bringing that perspective. michelle sort that doesn't put up a bit more now. website. good. see you tomorrow with star species conservation, the panda. but what about animals that are less cuddly? they often find themselves on the sidelines. researchers want to change all that and call for more courage to be ugly. step aside and

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