A return of the taliban could threaten their hard won freedoms. 18 years after the islamist taliban were driven from power in afghanistan women in the country still face discrimination and hardship theres a lack of schools particularly for girls in 2018 as much as 90 percent of women had only attended Primary School many are unable to read or write. After the taliban were ousted during a u. S. Led military intervention in late 2001 women hoped their lives would change for the better but the western military alliance has gradually pulled out of afghanistan and many now fee a return of the tarot and i say sion according to a survey by a us Research Consultancy gallup almost half of all afghan women would leave the country if they could however some are determined to fight for their rights at home. Working out as. Guys yardies wife beating stress attacks occur on an almost daily basis in kabul where she lives its a city in a constant state of emergency. Go see ari works for afghanistans government in the muslim countries male dominated society shes a woman in a position of leadership. And shes surrounded by a lot of toxicology she says. She comes to the gym to one wind. Living in their conflict zone in a country that is struggling so much in different layers i think if a strong woman who men who are leading do not take care of themselves men tell lies at the center of physical what is the thing there will not be capable of leading and managing their work like. A heads up an all male team whose job it is to reform the Civil Service the Team Investigates complaints relating to issues such as the awarding of positions and the sluggish bureaucracy. The Afghan Administration is rife with nepotism and corruption problems that the government has pledged to clamp down on. I think sometimes im jazzed because im a woman and im very bold about my statements in any way possible a right to use advocacy account money and meetings i think those. Things in the commission are not received. Yari leads an unconventional life shes unmarried and lives with her nieces and nephews as a child she was betrothed to a member of the taliban but later escaped to the u. S. Many men in her family were killed in the years of conflict but her brother survived. Guys yari studied in the u. S. And returned to afghanistan where she belongs to a new generation of educated young women who insist on their rights she would even be willing to negotiate with the taliban whether group to return to power. 200 kilometers away in rural afghanistan life for women is much harder. Tanya nori runs a restaurant its a safe space for women she also belongs to a generation of afghan women who refuse to be confined to their homes. Im on it with under the taliban regime girls were barred from going to school young women couldnt study at University Women werent allowed to leave their homes unaccompanied only with their husbands and they had to wear burkas we werent even allowed to wear sandals then as well as working in the restaurant tania nori studies dentistry a considerable workload but she doesnt mind. Studying and running a restaurant wasnt what her family had planned for her. But she has her husband support. I want to be a role model for other women i want to encourage them they should understand that women can stand on their own 2 feet. She employs mainly women. Many of the customers come because they want to support the restaurant. Midnight on fridays guys who yari goes hiking with her family in the mountains outside kabul. Her family take a liberal approach to gender roles thats unusual in this highly traditional country. Guys yari believes in freedom for everyone for me i think freedom means. Thinking freely making my choice really walking freely. Giving my ideas my opinions freely with without any limitations. But what would she do if that freedom were denied her if that were the price of peace in afghanistan. That would be horrible i hope i hope the taliban will not take our freedom away i think we have fought very hard and the past 19 years i dont think afghan women already to lose this so. I will fight fight for herself and for the freedom of future generations of women in afghanistan. Repression and discrimination are part of life for many women around the world not just in afghanistan on our Facebook Channel d. W. Women youll find stories about those taking a stand and inspiring others d. W. Women gives a voice to women everywhere. To Southeast Asia now west and me in ma is home to the range of people according to the un that one of the worlds most persecuted minority groups in mainly buddhist me and mom the predominantly muslim or hinge are not allowed to vote they have no access to Higher Education and their villages and places of worship are frequently attacked several 100 settlements have been set alight and many residents killed. Many are hidden gem have fled the country around 900000 now live in neighboring bangladesh this absolute refuge in India Pakistan indonesia and malaysia but that host countries are often anything but welcoming. Abu civics desperate journey began in 2014 over nice you had to flee his fishing village. Together with thousands of other Rohingya Muslims he fled the militarys brutal persecution in his home country of me and maher. All about it and they came to burn down our houses we ran for our lives then a fire engine came and we thought it would put out the fire instead it sprayed gasoline onto the fire and the entire village burst into flames. Eventually ended up in the malaysian capital of kuala lumpur many who traveled with him on the secret smuggling routes died along the way you look at it we lost everything and our homes our land our identity now were stuck in a country and we know nothing about. I mean the north you know its your money. Nearly 180000 refugees and Asylum Seekers live in malaysia most of the. My rowing go for decades the country has refused to sign the Un Geneva Convention of 951 for malaysias refugees that means no recognised status no protection and no rights. Children are the worst affected malaysia hinders their access to an education 2 thirds of the children do not go to school at all the rest attend informal learning centers such as the Future School. Deborah henry founded the private school in 2009 its funded by donations many of the children here are traumatised. I remember when i 1st started working with the students we did this activity i gave them pieces of paper and crayons and i said to them just draw something you know your family and your favorite things and the pages remained black and what caused that why why were they not able to dream and to and to create and to think outside of the box and i think theyve gone through so much that you just couldnt they couldnt see beyond now what do you do to like stories someones imagination to get them dreaming and. d d the children learn english unmount the Future School and theyre encouraged to develop selfconfidence in the sense of personal responsibility d when theyre ready to put in the effort they can achieve a loss thats the message that founder Deborah Henry wants to send. d you know one thing. On mind. That. Deborah henry began working as a fashion model when she was 15 she became one of the most famous beauty. Queens of malaysia but then she had the idea to put her fame to good use to fight for refugees rights. With this moment when i posted a documentary that i visited these refugees out was living 20 minutes from our beautiful twin towers and i couldnt believe that they were here in malaysia in my home and they were going to school and i think that was a big turning point for a kid in this well today without an education or setting up ultimatum. After fleeing me in march abu sidique struggled for 6 years to survive in malaysia. 6 years in which he had no legal work promise and was forced to do odd jobs to feed himself and his family. 6 years in which they received no medical care. We miss our homeland very much we ask the International Community to find justice for us we want to go home if we can we cant bear living as refugees in a foreign country we hope that the International Community will help end the conflict so that my country can be of peace and we can return to our homeland god willing. There is no peace on the. Journey is not over yet the United States approved his asylum application a few weeks ago. His wife and their 2 children will be resettled in the midwest a 2nd you beginning. Something hundreds of thousands of others in malaysia can only dream about many refugees here feel abandoned by the government without an official status and opportunities theyve been silenced and marginalized. The average malaysian will live life and never meet a refugee and so why should a refugee matter to them how is this going to affect their life how do we tell that story of what it means to be a refugee the fact that is anyone can be a refugee its not a function of your wealth your education and privilege anyone can be a refugee just like that and so what then what role do you play when youre in a position where you are born into a safe country where you dont have conflict and war how can you then lend a hand to someone else and me. With her a few gee school Deborah Henry has made it possible for 400. 00 refugee children to receive an education and she will continue to fight for Refugee Rights in malaysia. By the end of this century the un estimates there will be just under 11000000000 People Living on our planets in order to accommodate the mole an additional 2000000000 new homes will need to be built by 20 100. 00 and nightmare for the environment has most buildings a main from concrete which is made from cement by the middle of the century the demand for cement is set to rise by 25 percent a year cement production uses a lot of energy and creates huge amounts of climate damaging c o 2 so we need Building Materials which and dont contain cement and which are affordable. To men with one vision. We want to transform the Construction Industry with cement. 3 concrete with support from businesses theyre constructing a display house its their 1st attempt to use the material in their impishness project a significant step toward their goal its kind of an amazing feeling we didnt need but. This week its good to think. Because there was a lot of and we are quite happy to see the city londoner spent years researching cement free Building Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology in zurich cement is responsible for 80 percent of worldwide Carbon Emissions a more sustainable Building Material is long overdue landfill founded on construction sites where every year millions of tons of clay based excavation materials are disposed of but when theyre mixed with a naturally occurring mineral and water they result in a Construction Material thats more environmentally friendly than standard concrete or the corporate cement free of concrete is up to 90 percent. C o 2 production the computer conventional concrete and there are advantages that wed all. Like primary role much to have that come from a place in gravel and sand. In some areas in the war but we use construction Waste Landfill most of the time and. They are much as cheap to access therefore like and reduce the price of the material. On this earth concrete can be processed more or less like standard concrete. But it currently around half the cost. And yeah the landreau was inspired by building practices in his home country he grew up in togo where clay or earth houses are a common sight in many countries in africa cement housing this. Kind of wall therefore you need to have ventilation system and stuff like this where other stuff you dont need sitting. Together with his colleague. Hes founded a start up there was a shortage of housing all over the world these days the Construction Industry is under pressure not to Waste Resources theres a demand for the cement free concrete in industrialized nations but also in countries where affordability is a priority including in parts of africa where millions of new homes need to be built in the upcoming years. We have plans for. We need to build houses for 2000000000 people. And. Most of these. To be built in country where. Theyre building. Therefore. Its really important its. Our dream and. Being able to implement. Africa a huge achievement. And. Sustainable accommodation. The display home is one step closer to fulfilling that dream but drawing walls will undergo further tests as the 2 scientists work to optimize their furth concrete one day they hope it will be a bedrock of the Construction Industry. This week global ideas we find out about a potential shift towards Climate Friendly methods of transport. Hopped on a motorcycle and rode around ugandas capital kampala due to the Coronavirus Crisis the normally chaotic roads are empty and the city could become the starting point for a transport revolution across the whole nation. Virus down. The streets of never been so empty but francis archaea is loud she delivers a shows and Something Else is different francis is one of the few people in uganda driving an electric motor bike and he sees a lot of advantages to it and i wanted to silent now but to doesnt question fuit at all. Number 3. Claims very well. Or key as food deliveries being eagerly awaited play pregnant customer. Since he serves them few well he can charge less than his competitors. Hes actually very cheap to buy them in the end. I think. They dont there that people are doubling their praise so literally just been convenient for me. Images from just weeks ago. In kampala alone there are about 830000 motorcycles oh border borders. The masses of motorized fake cause generate a huge amount of air pollution and c o 2 emissions. That is why the United NationsEnvironment Program the unit provides advice and Financial Support for electric mobility in eastern africa. We need the media response we need intermediary interventions and electric mobility is one of those because its. Not a structure the needs they dont need so you can have it. And. Development part. Path requires pioneers like been located korea and. The graduates of arkin university in germany how do. You take your ready existing fuel motorbikes in kampala and transform them into electric bikes. So all we remove is what you call the petrol powered train. Petrol driven. And weve poured an electric train so as you can see its the same bike fuel tank is empty of course. And what we put inside is mainly a controller and the electrical. Electric more thought. About tree as a source of power replacing the fuel tank and some digital controls of throttle lithium ion batteries become an old laptops are assembled into Rechargeable Battery units for the bike and the recycling continues even when the batteries become too weak to use in the e. Bikes so what we do get in your batteries use it for your mobility. After that when they lose a bit of power we either put it we put it in Storage Systems like our. Power resolves one loses again our we go through tortures another small hour before it goes through to be disposed. Delivery month francis is one of the 20 drivers testing the transformed bikes. On average he has to return to board a walk twice a day to recharge. He rents the batteries for the evening to fleece them 3 euros a day. Only knows these sounds kind hes operating costs by half but there is still one thing that bothers him. World of one place where we where we are there but. That is that he said even to get the feedback about all we are getting from the boat are geysers also also because. It doubles their income saw families. We see kids being brought from the village that are now schooling income because the writers have more money. This right days Johnny Johnny had done you dream. He had worked for a Solar Energy Company for several years before he decided to try to make a company as motorbikes cleena. With his startup zimbo he now imports cutting edge electric motor bikes from china. Each one sells for about a 1000 euros thats quite a bit of money but the drivers can be over a period of 2 years. And the bikes are tailored to their specific needs here our driving mode is different chinese person commuting to work here we really look and productive he was hundreds of kilometers every day. There is still a long way to go all right if it was. Only when it was you. Or the livery this startup i sold 20 bikes so far. And they expect 18 more within the next 2 months. Zain boys are already creating employment sorrow tabel couldnt find a job for 2 years now shes in charge of marketing actually it makes me feel very very proud of myself that im contributing a lot to be part of the great team which is actually prince of beauty. To immobility for a small fee of just over half a euro is imber driver can exchange and into botching for a fully charged 1. 00. This important likes of live green since the electricity comes from the solar energy arre on top of the companys beauty. Formosa like charging points or planting people in a small. Energy generated within the country not like hewitt which is imported from outside. So this has a huge impact on the environment. And we were briefed here in kampala i see even 10 years you know if you want to psych assault anymore in the world market its an Outdated Technology these Green Technology behind francis of g. S. Deliveries is a sign of hope in 2 ways providing for peoples needs in the local down and for clean the country was the pandemic is over. Thats all from us a global 3000 this week as you know we love hearing from you so write to us at global 3000 at d w dot com and check out our Facebook Page d w women see you next time. A lifeline a connector for. The religious beliefs that protects us. Along economy and. The ever so much natural law but. The current government has big plans to develop. The food to the horrors of environmental conditions people so close off the boats to double. Africa. 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