Charges of some legal libel what impact will the trial have on journalism in the digital age in the philippines. The trial of journalist maria ressa on al jazeera. And im like a bill allen youre in the stream the sex trade is a nightmare for the millions of women and girls who fall into it but surviving is only half the battle and ram deafening is latest chapter of the comic book series previous shakti indias 1st woman super hero and rape survivor the chance to shed light on the challenges survivors face on trying to get back to a normal life today we meet the woman behind priya and the last goals. The series was born in the aftermath of the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in delhi in 2012 and sadly it doesnt seem like much has changed last week in the Southern City of hyderabad a group of men gang raped smothered to death and burned the body of a 27 year old woman alright p. Priyanka reddy is just one of the hashtags that indians are rallying around after the murder of the young woman in indias tellen ghana state and the country has been in the international spotlight since that 2012 gang rape actor akshay kumar tweets our moral fabric continues to be in pieces we need stricter laws this needs to stop while the suspects in this recent case were quickly arrested by the indian authorities renewed outrage erupted over the countrys handling of Sexual Violence some women online voiced their fears about gender based violence. Are we safe secure or are we suffocating others questioned what it will take to end the cycle of victim blaming heres what one person has to say about how authorities can better address gender based violence. Is a Cyber Security expert. Such a why learned and deliberate acts such heinous crimes should only be awarded to. Make these convictions key study the field of law and people but the more system borton point does. We have to be children to be responsible citizens from move very young gage there is no bandied quick fix solution for this kind of a problem so are the comic books and efforts like them enough to want to hear from you on this join us in our you tube chat and ill do my best to bring in as many of your comments into today so as i can before we get started todays program might be disturbing for some of you watching we will be discussing rape and sex trafficking joining the show in new york shanteau was into is a survivor of Human Trafficking and the founder of and c. E. O. Of mentality a survivor Mentorship Group in new delhi which. Is the founder of indias anti Sex Trafficking Organization apne app women worldwide and the latest chapter of the comic is based on what and here with us onset dip is an actress and playwright and cowriter of priya and the last girls ladies it is good to have you here let me start 1st of all by looking at this beautiful comic right here which here in this comic amazing scenes and testicle stories but these stories of based on real life this is a real life combining can you tell us how you went about finding the real stories that ended up informing what was in this book. 80 years ago i was a judge looking through the hills of when a human cross rules of religious. And of course as a journalist asked the question the goods and some of the villagers the city of the sun so. But the few who did so dont you know the and bobby bob it was 1400 kilometers of i just didnt understand how so many girls could be i followed the tree ended up in the back of the ball. And found that this would have existed in my generation in my lifetime in my country and my word of little girls who are being sexually exploited and sort of commotion you pretty day in and out i ended up making a documentary on the subject the setting of innocence and i won an emmy for it by. Telling the story it was not enough i wanted to do what it was like changing the kind of exploitation i saw inside the branches as a journalist a couple or a cup would mean i cup and hunger but id never seen this kind of exploitation by human beings by another so i could join the list and began this lifelong journey to fight the sex industry and Sexual Violence in the lives of young girls and young women. Chandra im just wondering what difference does it make to a young person or family who read Something Like this like this graphic novel. And how educated they are about how they should behave towards women and gals and they seem to walk. Yes they did perhaps they were actually students actually a Organization Also a comic book all in b. And b. Any it is but here we have. That we defeated it. Its form because of the you know that it hit the floor in the school because we distributed it and they get the book home and their family their old girl who read it even though there is no must x. In the book but that they were now they face them because thats really the book i think you know its often when we know. That the millet. That they got saw in the last day and i think it will be connected with the young and the families. Because its important then the answer to that and the great. Compensation education at home rule School System and also well. I think thats what youre what youre saying is why people online are saying its such a good thing its such a good vehicle for doing that so i wanted to share a common we got from someone watching live this is on you tube. I love the comic book and i think its a perfect vehicle to engage with younger children about difficult questions surrounding gender based violence and it is not the only one we also got a video comment from someone whose title little more more intimately to the project her or her song was views and one of the series of the comic her name is is shining talker of arts and shes a singer and songwriter based in the u. K. And heres what she told the stream hi thanks for having me on the shiny im an artist based in london a consciously sake that focuses on changing light conditions such as finance against women and Mental Health and so on. Well i love that prius is simply a shes still an relatable and so relevant in Todays Society because what shes done is shes taken such an experience such a negative experience and shes converted it into something positive by going out there and helping other people through her story and through her experience and we as a society that is so quick to victim blame to sit down and listen. So its a superhero who takes on sex trafficking it is not something you see every day how did you get involved with this project so i have a one woman plea on or confessions of a mumbai court a son were drowned they havent any whos the founder of the comic book series he saw the show in 2016 and then sometime in 2013 beginning he contacted me to see if i would be interested in sharing more about the characters and how i went about creating them from a show the show is about a Trafficking Victim who learns of having a child in the brothel and now the child has come of age so it was very close to home for you know this comic book and then finally we had a few conversations and he invited me to write the 3rd chapter which was supposed to be about rescuing a village of sex Trafficking Victims. Did she can you tell us some of the stories that are in this book because they are true stories is depicted in a fantastic a way. Its not necessarily. Masculinity that you see when you do see this scary monster that is there so youve kind of bowed down to sort of metaphor but the Actual Stories that you see in the book can you help us understand what they are so one of the things that i grew up seeing were women being womens worst enemies mother sitting their daughters how they should cover their bodies up they should stay safe they should let a man protect them they should their only job is to grow up and get mad and have children things like that but also that you do not associate with bad women there are storms like to women meaning a woman of the market a woman whos going to sell herself things like that and those were so deeply disturbing for me and then once women were caught in the sex trade whether it was because of trafficking or whether it was because of any reason poverty or whatever you may have it then coming out for them was a huge problem so even if they were rescued society would not give them a place to stand that they would not give them jobs why because but we cannot have our daughters associate with them our women associate with them so a lot of that informs the book youll see you know women talking about were see if you we need to keep us safe we need patriarchy to keep us safe and the fact when when we start telling women that you need to be kept safe were already telling them youre weak and you need somebody whos going to give you that protection and keeping that bubble i mean we just talked about the hype about it in the aftermath of that there are some rules that the government is proposing and one of them being that women should not be made to do night duties but these things that all kind of like you know just get convoluted and used against women some stories of these women in the book that you read in the last girls about how they got there and now how do you associate the. Shared identity with their abuser and they now dont trust the world outside they think this is safe and thats a big problem so some of the stories came about like that and youre a right i wanted to stay away from villain izing and pointing fingers and i wanted to portray like the evil energy of like the false sense of masculinity power lust believe those kind of things so he created a love a monster who represents all of and one of the why not this one of the things i do remember. She was developing the script for owner and then when she began to work on the last girl was the experiences that i had seen talking to the women when trying to help them get out of systems and prostitution many types of women didnt want to get out because they just understood the sci fi of patriarchy the safety of corporation and began to almost a whole from Something Like the stockholm syndrome where you didnt go into like that because they didnt understand the world out and begin to order histories of that weve been on our website dispatches which the women bring out every month or so talking about their experiences and that there are so on this became the cumulative experience of the terms of sex trafficking and prostitution who are now in this fantastic comic book to educate people that how crossed it usually is an absence of choice and prostitution is a manifestation of. Which is so pervasive that in prisons women 1st as girls inside the hall then as young aides and then finally the slope is so slippery that the absence of choice is to examine so graphically and then they dont see any exit out so you mentioned honor and i want to share with our audience what that looks like of course that your work up before i do i want to share whats behind this comic you can see it here from. Showed it a little bit earlier priya in the last girl so i am going to show you how its done it is featuring augmented reality and that looks a little Something Like this you hold your youre still on your i pad whatever you have your device and you see flowing a lot of that there are lots of content animations things that really make this comic come to life it also includes a clip from deep to solo show that tackles the sex trade have a look at that you arent to hear it in my story. My. Beam when im 13 years will he bring me to bomb b b i has to stevies a friend a father a few is a big mess. And he. Says if you tell us whats behind that clip. So thats a story of the woman who gets trafficked unfortunate who gets sold by her own father to a pimp because the father is poor and needs to you know fetch for the family and the younger kids so shes sacrificed by the family but shes also told that she should never return home because if she returns home and that brings shame to the family and that cannot be accepted so she learns of being in this brothel and she finds some kind of we do exist here and survive and has a daughter when she has a daughter she takes in order her own hands but again still stuck with the social construct that has now put her in this brothel so when their daughter comes of age there arent many choices so she just wants to give her daughter a better life but still in the confines of the brothel. Talking about tools and ways to discuss activities and gender based violence which is really hard to even talk about but they. Plays in productions and also via comics but you also. I have experienced this i know one of things that you are really keen on doing is so lets discuss how do we fix this rather than just keep telling stories but you have a certain amount of authority because if people are watching this show and thinking this would never happen to me you were trafficked on the way to go in for a job and i just want people to understand that it could happen to anybody would you mind just retelling that little that little part about how you even got caught up in this world this 38 but important question for me you just. Missed understanding all the good will is there that you have only in my life the calm you need there for actually not sat there thinking hard and who i think. It was a woman who got on well i am also led off than stand and its a typical only so all in a situation i think its a little bit even because of i cant go out the family but because of the false nominees so i end up so ill and you know so you thought you were going for a new job and the person who met you at the airport and this was in the United States but youre the airport had sold you multiple times and then you were stuck in this web of being sold being trafficked. How did you get it its i think its a little big give them that the situation will get this great that you were in the car and that iran has me at so i any notice the look of the ad you know upon it. And i said i guess we could. Sell or. Not i think lest it because of they think with a debt regulation of my own if they dont i could bake but if they us and us dollars the big debate the peak comes 2nd that it can be solved by a certain things in one basket already that were going to get that out so i think if not its not a night that so i decided were escott many kinds but difficult and end up in the main so i dont doubt the 2nd run but and i think that i was alive but in this equation i know that the but the woman there in the past people shared that asked me the carping marable if i repeat so i thought that not likely and not that there could be an outside that week for me when i asked so i just looked at it again since i learned some of the finance so i guess what you know all youre saying the rest of it so i think its important also that we at the meeting of all the movement got us to be able to finance this equation. And this is the mists in finding a general nest understanding why. Ringback yet china i have a question for you i know you visited the guns and gun could show how salute was your story to the stories of the girls in calcutta is it a universal experience thats when i was a trafficking house. The story yes this is everything i love is saying way of the study in the book in the comic book but yet in my spine you need x. That he ends. Yes lance and it is not a look theres a saying theres a sense of a silence that we have and shares are not a lot its so interesting because its such a web because you just mentioned that you jumped out of the 2nd floor window and then you called the number that someone gave you and you trusted this person and it happened to be another trafficker so its kind of like they are working off of their basically breaking you so now you Never Trust Anyone else and that yet and it happened in brooklyn and people tell me this is not a 1st world problem and its just take are you kidding me it is a difficult essay we need. For all of. Us are saying that this is let me go get this is a good sales lady. Gaga has it sort of this s. On. Health. Care you know what i mean. To actually one of the stinky the b. 2 d. Normal. Social exploitation. Because what happens is that we see its all over for good to be prostitution and to be deceived and therefore we allow people to begin to think that its all right to sexually exploit to exploit limited and this culture then becomes the culture of. All the other countries in the United States. In the world and also i feel like its important to understand right like that reapers hardly ever about sex its all about power and control so i feel like this conversation perfectly leads into what other Solutions Like i feel. Children as without their gender biases and gender specific roles would be one of the ways we could maybe break free of that when you guys think about that but i feel like were so pink and blue everywhere the world not just in india i mean india has its own problems at all the patriarch otos have the problem but its so pink and blue and then when they grow. Up its like oh you this is your role in this the Auto Industry protect a woman and your role is to be a. Dealer did that of course you have to be. A boyish. Good to learn how to see know and for boys how to. Know all this. Because can you imagine how much more fun 6 would be if you enjoyed it but if you tried to eat up another was yeah well that i did. That and see. If you know how t. V. Serious mistakes advice i will definitely be watching now what. You want to take us next will you all raise such important things and i want to pick up on just 2 of them the people in our Community Join us here says that often victims endure concept pressure from men who know of their play and that speaking to what you were saying earlier shondra these men then make it difficult for traffic victims to see the good in themselves but that is why we have other people in our community saying this comic will how that so this is been for many kids in the last girls will be their 1st brush with topics like sexism Sexual Violence crimes against women as a comic book is a carrier of this hard hitting message it will help bring conversations around uncomfortable topics to the dinner table so deep to get this one to you because i know that you have a 55 and a half year old daughter are you talking about these things with her how do you even begin to approach that so she knows about the comic book she doesnt understand the concept as you know shes going to 5 if you ask her she says 5 and half. But i do tell her that there are bad people or rather i refrain from using the term bad people but i tell her that there are people who think bad actions and do bad things to other people unfortunately this is how it is so you know i try to educate her in some ways i tell her how if somebody touches you inappropriately you know if you see for a 5 year old you understand somebody touches you. Then its not ok and used to come down mommy or daddy you know so i try to interview her about those things because things start to happen very early on and you know mean silly. Ladies i just some of that happened as we were getting ready for this show and this was that appalling rape that happened in india another one and we were thinking as we were talking about how extraordinary this piece of work is and the work that all of you do how how is it helping. When women are being murdered and brutally raped me right now its not helping i hear and i just i just want to hear that because im thinking if this isnt this isnt enough surely this is not enough ive i think personally and im an artist and i have a romantic heart and i want to change it all right now but i think what the the the magnitude of the problem is so massive its beyond this shocking beyond theres any yawned beyond each individual but we all have to come together collectively as a society the work that digitizing the work that we will think you guys are doing we all need to come together collectively i think we need to propose a 2 prong solution strict laws self defense all those things but until this is like putting bandaid on the gang in grave danger our job didnt cause a. Headline read it quickly at the end of the show because we are talking about strict laws i want to mention there was defies belief surety of but richmond is more important than the city if you will. And. Were working on the ground im not for the Death Penalty india did impose the Death Penalty but if you just you know and it has not worked well how will it only the problems i had to go look at people how did good people. In the last year and yet it did not deter these 4 men from going green radio that really so glad. I did likely to change the culture of gas could have saved that for a 2nd crime and our leadership the leadership in the country right now is sending messages that you have to straighten your chest out you have to impose Death Penalty. To be on balance of openness limited. So the messaging trumped up to the ship. And then all. The ladies all has here ladies already i literally ran up this conversation for now but just for now its a cultural conversation not just about in drive up globally very important but thank you so much to achieve and chandra and to you for watching the stream where you work always finally can i online see you next time. 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