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i've been expanded, you're welcome to the dublin use asia. it's a normal thing for most of us get on a bus and travel to work. but for many women in pakistan, this utterly simple and mundane act involves getting harassed, groped and stared at by men. it sounds overblown, but in a country where many women have to fight to be allowed to leave the house alone, taking public transport is a big step to make this decision easier, karachi has introduced new pink buses and exclusive women's only service did a report of a nice job, it was on one to find out what women make of it. this is how most women in karachi commute, a small lemon only section is often occupied by men. shoving and pushing are common

a very uncomfortable and unsafe expedients for millions of women. but these new women only being buses on the door of could archie, utter relief for many the buses have better safety systems such as an emergency exit lights installed and old. so security cameras and a one wave fear of less than a court due to for udall is affordable for most women. one of the best singers is 2080 to a pharmacist accept or now commutes to her workplace on the ping buses. like o van, you are going in this bus, you don't have to worry about, you know, taking care of yourself or your clothes or your things up. and you are, you know, a stress free sometimes when you are doing the long chip and you would end and you have to, you know, there is some anxiety in your head dead or something might happen to you in

a reading when you're going into regular, both as a bit of this one here, you don't have to worry about the same. many of the women commuting on the bus have experienced harassment on public transport. my back again became a little while i was sitting on a bus. and a man sitting behind me was touching me when i called him out, but no one there took a stand for me. at reed section, sunshine of the men, enter the women's section. if the buses are overcrowded, this is one women experience shoving and pushing by men who do it intentionally, taking advantage of it. but the initiative is still too small. there are only 19 big buses put a city a foot on 20000000 people. and sexual harassment is a white spread structure problem. critic, faith, the government should make efforts to change the attitude of men to words women the

lawyers there. um uh, we just need to somehow encourage people to enforce or to head the government and for the law by lodging, the complained unfortunately because of the social impression that the bull ah, that was his idea digest toward a most people are reluctant, glad to report such matters whitefish instant discontinue. many of them in belief that being pathetic, least of 1st positive step at keeping them safer. and it over the thought of it is javert file distorted from garage enjoys be. now a saw more context. finish. welcome. it sounds utterly basic, but why is discussing a new bus service for women such an important story which i think it is an important study because most to women and pakistan do not have the luxury of faith . public transport for many women and method are many areas and markets and we are public transport is not even available. and if it is available, it is

a very difficult expedient for women. women complain of being groped dutch had asked by men. are they complain of facing luge remarks by men and not only by mail passengers, but also by diverse and conduct us? one of the woman who was on this being bused when i was in karachi, she told me that one 3rd conductor gave her his number to her, and he was expecting her to call him. and if i talk about my experience, every time i go to pakistan and if i have to take a take a taxi, almost always i have to take delta taxi driver to not stared at me from them at it . and decks is something that most women in park is i'm still kind of foot, so they rely on public transport. and i looked also share my experience of using public transport many years ago when i was a bachelor student, i was coming back from islam about to my home and i've been b. and i, i wanted to take a bus which was the back of which is full of men back with men. and then i thought

that maybe i could take a seat with the driver and maybe it will, i will feel more safe, comfortable. but the entire 45 minutes to one hour their driver kept standing at me, made me really uncomfortable. and when the bus stop game, i took a taxi to go to my home and when i paid the taxi driver, he literally grabbed my hand. it was a horrible day for me. so we are distorted is important because sexual harassment on public transport is an issue that affects 1000000 for me and on a daily basis of this. and given what you're saying, i mean, to what extent are families reluctant to let their daughters and sisters travel alone? so in an average household in pakistan on there is associated with women. and then there is a level of an order degree of protection that are on that has to be protected and because of public transport, if so unsafe, it's out of question for most women and young girls to take public transport on

their own alone without being accompanied by their parents or father or better. so that's why most women and young girls end up being dependent on their brothers fathers to take them to maybe to a shopping mall, to a supermarket. and because it's so unfair, i can't imagine a teenage girl in pakistan being allowed to take public transport alone without being accompanied by a family member. yet when you spoke to the adviser to the chief minister in the province, her work, roger is the of which garage it is the capital a he put the honest on women to complain about the harassment that their face. i mean, is this even a realistic suggestion? i don't think it's a realistic suggestion and he also mentioned that talking about sexual harassment is at their booth topic. so are talking about complaining about sexual harassment is a very difficult conversation to have, especially in a society like pakistan. where if a woman speaks up and talks about a man,

you know, touching her, it has to go. she, she always has the fear that she would be blamed for it. and we also saw in the report that one young woman is saying that when a man was touching her from behind her seat seat and she called out there to him and she but nobody on the bus. i spoke up for her hour, which means that a certain level of acceptance that this is tolerable. so i think though, i'm expecting from women to speak up and i to talk about sexual harassment is not a very practical approach. i also think that access to a law enforcement agencies, if it's very it's, it's a very difficult process because police would not come to the bus to protect the woman if of if a woman has been had, as she would have to go to the police station to file a report and even the police as a patriarchal and a woman without a man going to

a police station is something where she would fear that maybe she would be had asked by the police. and if some women, hot mustard up got it and they talked about, did they fight the report? if you look at the conviction rate of such cases, it's almost negligible. and just based on what you're saying, i mean, the question really is, are women even able to participate fully in public life given the very so many of use restriction when it comes to just significant public transport? i think public spear 5th and pakistan are fit still largely dominated by men. it's difficult for women to claim a public spaces. and when women do not have access to public transport, their social lives are affected and very important issue. doctors the issue of employment. so women do not do not have access to employment when they do not have safe public transport. and statistics say that only 20 percent of women or women i worked for the

a part of the workforce of pakistan. and we also spoke to an expert about this and let's let have a listen to what she said, but a families, they want to educate her daughters when they're not able to because public transport options are so limited. so now we have a vast section of women and garage that are not educated and they weren't able to pursue that. so b r, when you do not have access to safe transport, then it means that you do not have access to schools. you can not have access to colleges, and she's talking about garage garages, the largest city of pakistan imagined the state of women and young girls in small towns and villages for them. it is impossible to even dream to have occurred again because they simply do not have the opportunities and do not have the access door, faith, public transport, where they can commute to their workplaces. so our services like this women's best service in karachi to be rolled out nationwide, is that the answer?

personally speaking, i like the project up. and most of the moment that i've actually, every woman that i spoke to her, she was ready. they were happy. there were they would appreciative of this project, but it's not a sustainable project. it's difficult to expand this project because the, and even now that are only 19 think buses for the city of almost 20000000 people. so majority of the women do not have access to a ping buses that are tree or being buses that now run in a city close by to get our g. but it's a very expensive project that requires millions of euros. so it's, i don't see for a country like pakistan that it's a very practical ah project. but unfortunately, i don't think that it's expandable, at least when we look at the economic situation of the country. now let's look at what a sustainable because providing a service is one thing, changing attitudes, societal attitudes, and particularly men's attitudes. is another any plans on that front from the

government. so when you see a dep robin says there are some government sponsored programs that him to support women's mobility. but when it comes to changing attitudes of men towards women that are hardly any effort. and i also think it's a system system systemic problem that exist in a pakistan. when we look at the liter at the very top positions in the country, even there are better article in that approach. you would listen to dedicated remarks by them about women. i give you an example, one politician from good archie, how his video is being circulated on social media and, and he's talking about politics. but in this, in his interview, his giving it, he gives an example and says that if you are being raped, enjoy it. so that kind of insensitivity exists among men. so i don't think there are any efforts being made to change, enter the hood of men because they are dominated, they are ruling the country even in the household,

even at public offices. and even if there are some movements to um, change attitude of men towards something they often get a lot of resistance from the site finish reliever. perfect. so much for coming in for this very important subject may come and that does it fit a? there is more on the website to, to you tomorrow, with someone else to the tv highlights. it's selected for you. you every week in your a box. subscribe. now. will you become a criminal? mm. pre climate. oh, ready?

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