a 60 minutes pon dw, the wood to us. that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. the island. queens how women named geneva south keep the peace in that community. to death. do you pods fly? tying the note to remains popular in the philippines dislike to ban on divorce and taking the limelight. women in saudi arabia, a revelling in you freedoms, the,

this is saudi arabia. and so is this wasn't this the country with strict rules about sacrificing men and women? what concepts, what's a bit and then public spaces? i've heard and never imagine something like this. what's happened with me. it has, you know, wherever we were a very conservative country. and your statement was something dollars looks down on . i think i'm a typical saudi woman in the sense that i am strong and resilient and you can tell me who i am and who i am not. so how do you tell me this is so skin. so skin is at the j name. it means sunshine, diamond, that's fine, that's fine. i'll hug around the so will. how are you today? good. how are you?

the so it's good. how's the day drop? as a magazine editor during the week, she works and 3 out the saudi capital. i'm an anxious person, not a i get nervous. so i figure if i can at least get as much done beforehand that i can relax and enjoy and actually go with the flow. so right now i'm just taking my song, taking the vibe that i think like did or with enjoy. and this is the office to be performing with tonight, sorta who used to work in human resources for a pharmaceutical company. the 7 months ago i referred to my job and i 5 job writing paper where the family lives in jetta. she needs to re add on her right. just a few years ago, this would have been unimaginable women what mr. to live alone. i'm

a relative help to be part of the household. now that works for an audio visual production company. she also teach at night saudi women performing his d j's. some people hes still find disappeared on usual, but he's in shocking. but that doesn't all the data. she wants to encourage others to follow their dreams. i know and they are, and it's not about me being a woman or it's not about me being psychology. it's about showing that, you know, that's altitude. and i just want to be a part of the inspiration to let people know that you can do whatever you want. if you feel like it via radia is a kingdom in 2015, solomon been as still as ease was crowned king. and his son mohammed been sewn, mount o m b s for sold, the prince again, lights a m b s,

announced the vision 20 sachi project, a reform intended to strengthen the economy. saudi arabia was to become a strategic hub between the middle east and the rest of the well, the line itself more closely with the international community that will 7 take a cultural shift, including integrating women into the workforce and grunting them will pass new freedoms. but music d, jason policies only existed before vision 20 thought to the underground seems very much was a very intimate was in people's house of things kind of are literally hidden because it had to be cousin. if you had speakers in your trunk, it could be arrested. you know, what are you doing for making the music industry is also a positive position. 2030 struck today suddenly now is just, you know, here is more opportunity. here's funding. here's, here's education, because we are as a society, we kind of decided like a governmental the place and we've decided that art in particular is something to be invested in today was still in school when the country began to change. it

was very fast, phase 2 and 2016. we weren't able to drive. and then 2017. i see my classmates driving themselves to their classes having this freedom to hear about for our lives. now just a few years later, she's looking forward to her set tonight and she'll also be paid for it the same to opens up so many doors. not just for me to be in the music industry, but for me to discover myself as discover, you know, other communities as i relate to and obviously it's very empower that i can make money out of this. you know, something that i want to tell you. my, my children, my grandchildren, with all these new freedoms accessible to all saudi women. officially,

women the no longer falls to a headscarf space covering all the long roads known as the maya. the female employment rate has doubled. a many rules concerning mail, guardianship has been eliminated. and yet the result is a contradictory people who raise that voice to demand equal rights for women a liable to be locked up. both silenced more than 2 thirds of saudi arabia as population is under the age of 30. and young people are embracing new entertainments, experiences like the sound storm festival, a 3 day electronic music event, the features international and local office in jewels a crowd of about 200000 each day. i couldn't imagine us. all feelings is coming to such a place like 5 years ago. we are just such a thing going to have been and i really like the, the don't here, like everyone is included to be. this goes like they can express themselves to fashion may cause nothing with the saudi arabia is no

longer as closed as it used to be. and while the mindset of the general public may not be changing as fast as the growing music industry, the opportunities that have arisen have already changed lives, at least for sol scan under best practice tonight. the, i don't know how you would define a sally all, but i'm pretty sure and she looks like me. she looks like that. and other is by like would that by end of the call, that is also a typical saudi woman. we are all of that. everything in between, i know that we're resilience, that we can find a way. so in that sense i think i'd, i'd be honored to calm myself. so the woman that i want to be the one on maybe open

g a phone in love guessing gauge to get married and then live happily ever off to me. it's not being like that for decades since the 19 seventy's. there's been a general rise in divorce rates worldwide. the with considerable regional differences. most countries permit divorce next, but not whole mass wedding on a grand scale. in march 2023, 2023 couples exchanged marriage files on one day. the city of buffalo during the philippine island of nicholas made it easy for couples to tie the knot. capitals

like mikey and john, facing the mid twenties to whom the wedding was free of charge. like many here, they couldn't have afforded the stone many other wives. joined in my tea set, this was the most important day of the lights. the more lavish the ceremony, the best to the elaborate mess wedding is a huge celebration to mock a decision that's for life. because the now at least who is nursing option in the philippines when marriage is housing very high regard. finally, we're officially a couple i'm happy that i can now take his name. getting married is easy, guessing. divorced, impossible. april teddy also would like nothing more than to get divorced. but the

news prohibits since. the 41 year old has to provide for her daughter, one henry of the husband left to use a guy. since then, juliana has hardly seen her father and her memory of him is fading. a few photos in the family. alba. not all that remains since he went to seek walk abroad a so many do hit the lights, i broke off the contracts. no divorce means no requirement to pay child support begins on a freight that i won't be able to give her everything she needs. when she asked me for something, i say, be patient because we can't afford it at the moment. we don't have any money right now. she understands that. then she says, mommy, that's okay. but fortunately,

my daughter is very kind. so we don't have any problems with each other so what god has joins together, let no one separate. this phrase from the bible is enshrined and lower in early 2 countries worldwide. the vatican and the philippines. father jerome says savannah says the voice is not the only way to solve relationship problems. he sees the philippines as a beacon in the darkness, mazda of in a country that's trailing others and its development. the circumstances are deeper in front of these gone police compared to ours, so we don't need to be like them. so i guess we should even be proud that here we are sticking to it. now that, that the 3 are protecting marriages, that needs to be shown. so in other words, the only way out excepted by the church and the state is an enrollment where the marriage is treated as having never existed. but it's a lengthy process the any,

the well, so you can afford that happy many attempts that reform in the past, but all have food and filed of this. then opinions complicated political system better and you will make it so lockman often champions the cause of the disadvantage and has put forward a bill that permits divorce in certain cases. she's confident it will eventually become a little why not married? yes, i suppose to be so nice. it had been many uh, probably to have because of human frailty. and uh, because of this maybe of, uh, into finding a, uh, a good be more but to create a abused women and they've been, we've been, we would have to give a liked like to do this comp, what's in distress,

april patios, and what she can from babysitting, struggles to make ends meet. it's been 8 years now since her husband left. he doesn't support so that goes to. but the little still states she must remain married to him. thankfully when things get really bad, she does at least have relatives who help out the sound for those. i finally want to get away from their ex partners, but can, because they're still married on paper funding, wherever you go to, whose name goes with you and to get more funding. but when i found out there's a chance that i might be able to divorce in the future, i felt hope again, that got an hold up on that one day. i will be able to file the papers and then we will be separated for good and so with that and you will end up with i am. so john

and mikey guessing married means they can start a new independent life together. the philippines is quite a conservative country with the values that the catholic church is still cherished by many. if i don't like divorce, you need to take the time and be fully sure about your partner before you get married for you. if you're not sure, then don't get married. it's as simple as that. for a 2nd. okay, laugh, i think divorced is okay. even if you've known someone for a long time, you don't always know what they're thinking and what's going on inside them. and you can predict what the future home should say one day, no longer be so happy together. it's possible they won't have to stay together any longer. and they want to the,

this woman is royalty, even if it doesn't appear. so at 1st loans is making them is working hard to en money for her family that she can sell aquino of oysters for about 3 years. one day she will be queen, but exactly when that's a secret kept by the women of the wrong got out of the union as being leave. you have to go to several rituals. it being that i realize that their secrets, she's the, who's that adams, you have to know the traditions and know exactly how to prepare the shells for the sacred ceremonial, for example, that we see them said yet a. but that was, if it's the women who hold the power among the be saga. people living on this island far off the coast of guinea be so they all at the head of the family and bought them all the queens. at the moment they were all 3. as dictated by tradition,

they also says as priestess. so they make all the important decisions on the items, such as when to sew and harvest, and when to hold religious ceremonies. many women are allowed inside the round top . every problem is discussed with names on the we help people with their marriage problems. we know about everyone's problems here on a run go. it's a couple is arguing and they don't come to us. we'll hear about it from their neighbors. i'm internet to do that, and then we'll help them find a solution at the moment i. but when you say, i know women may have the power here, but they also do most of the work. they build the houses and do the housework. and they also own all the property. some of the oysters that in this and they cannot connect to this morning of being cooked for the families, lunch. the people on the wrong go live modestly relying on what nature has provided

. the men go out to fish, but they don't do much other work. instead, i have a lot of leisure time. give no one questions, this division of labor. specifically the women are per to, to stay a strong role. and i use the same data. midland methodology as in, i mean i don't have to say and then defied. unlike the women on the mainland, where independence, their level of capitalism, i yeah, well we scale or we don't wait for them to get at least gotta be rude. we suppose we don't have to bag them for money store shopping. we can decide for ourselves what to spend the money on the front of me if you need any other defense. i don't know, but let's get some 3000 people live on a run. go most of them in the village of 80 koga. few women decide who they want to marry. the parents then of the parents of the chosen partner to agree to the marriage. the men are allowed to have several why?

they didn't have a problem with living in a matriarchy. there are advantages for them. and just like the women they're proud of their traditions. am i keep them from not going to be sort of programming and keep them from? are you ever since queen know kink upon the end? we've become famous for being the island where the women have all the power from like a gallery to say that we're planning company. so the data here problems are solved before they get bigger success in any that, that going to happen. and you may notice, and we have our queen up to thing for that community, but at the community could that for me to get a kink, a pump is redid, and around a head remains a kept here in this hutch into koga. it's become a safer place for people to visit she's known for leading the resistance against the portuguese colonial powers and for championing social reforms and women's rights until his death. in 19, ceci, today though, there is also a village, t caetano to pinion clean any pace in regular visits as his opinion is imposing too

. after all, the men should also have a voice. in this way, the women ensure that no problem is ignored and everyone feels into the government . the government in the capital be so seems to can little for the role of the women on the rank of it since it's decrees to katana, not the queens, but no one here pays that any mind. see the content of so say the government and be so could learn something from us. man, there the politicians don't listen to the women looking to move them here. on the other hand, everyone works together because of what it was. and that's why everyone in our village except some decisions that are made a little about the queen's hut is the center of power, says a 2 year old queen and a kid. the women carry on the tradition of a king cup pump. the doctor, the no, we all work together to get and we put a lot of effort into that. i mean, well 1st the men and women meet separately. then they made with one another,

one item. okay, well not allowed. once everything has been discussed, we queens have the last word. the. the islands may no longer be home to appear matriarchy, but it's definitely a contrast to the patriarchal power structures on the mainland. the occupant of go, it's positive, was never for the colonized that is allowed its democratic traditions to be largely preserved, making o'rando a place of peace. the when the rearrange things indigenous songs. another world opens up to her the soprano things into the picture. mistake in her own native language,

meet you. it's time for a sudden check for her show tonight. in mexico city. on a most atlanta miss venue, of course, we can speak spanish, but when we speak about native language, everything is different. our language is what shape our view of life and of the world. it's the basis of everything we put in. maria rena, left to a haka, the city where she grew up to study singing. she's fluent in spanish, but always dreamed of performing in nature. today, she thinks of the big stage are cheap performed in 14 indigenous languages. she's fighting, but they're not for go to some the she hopes to sing, you know, 68 of mexico was indigenous languages. language. they own languages that are in danger of extinction. some of disappearing. it is very sad because when

a language does a culture dies with what i show, my gosh tonight she's going to dedicate to some to her mother nature. oh cool man. when did you, when i return to my home village, everything is different because my parents don't speak spanish when i'm there. i speak mondays of language. i notice some 600 kilometers away lives. the mountain village apply, who told to pick people here with a modest life, a world apart from maria's glamorous life. but the conversations over the family kitchen table will always be familiar. maria's mother has lived here all her life, but she encouraged her daughter to see the world. so little they know my mom says she's proud that it's a good thing that other people get to hear all language link. loraina had to finance or sing studies with the site jobs as a made and the never the less or successful give hope to others. because when he

put those, i think the mostly special thing is to be an inspiration to other indigenous women who are pursuing their goals and dreams. cadence sully, usually socialist, when you'll see that in the senior will, shouldn't perform on stage in new york city. she wants to wear a traditional scarf showing where she comes from. it's important to her. but many mexicans turned their backs on their homeland when they moved to the us in search of a better life of the risk losing their native mutual language to delivery. irina says, music has brought her closer to the roots. she performs in traditional dress and says that it's part of our story telling, bundled almost uh when we go up into the mountains, there are many colors and flowers that we encounter on the way before it is shown by these years since the quotes back in mexico,

the reality is somewhat contradictory. well, indigenous cultures seem to be celebrated in public life with markets feel a fund the crafts, most indigenous people live in poverty neglected by the state. i but this, the see says don't give them yes. some aspects have been for gossen lucky glasses of yours. okay, but here's thanks to people like muddy at a know this is elizabeth so and that's all work is made visual by explain in the midst of the whole these days, maria rena is in a position to financially support her parents to give something back to them. she hopes of music will make a difference and give others the courage to follow her pi. oh, good god, i can't go without us. we sending seats to add. in my case,

it's with music. you'll come by singing in my native language. i want to inspire children and young people. i want to show them, but it can open door. see, i'm ready to come in. so if you don't mind you, it's almost night and i fear well ritual before maria rena leaves a village before everyone says their good byes. the family gathers to pray to mother s is i'm the going to improve why didn't help them? good. is this, bella? we asked mother, but nothing happens to maria the distance between and she's able to keep up. the 1st thing i'd like to see how the land that everything works out for her in the city, no bus and not placing the suit up. back in mexico city, maria ramos concert begins with a song dedicated to her mother. she thinks that while her mother is far away, she has her close to her heart. the. the audience doesn't need to be able to

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