Well as documentary and the cultural political scene here is addressing me to quite directly certainly at the opening of the berlin i lay and also at the touch of film prize the awards commentators and also the presenters and the government ministers who spoke very specifically addressed me too and times up and said its a big part of their agenda to make sure that this doesnt fade away ok so a relatively Seismic Shift in the us i suppose we can say me too of course started off as a protest of well to do Hollywood Stars but very quickly achieved global dimension and across multiple industries how relevant was it in your country or vastly butalia because im thinking Women In India are also looking to some other moments in history as as perhaps more seismic you know for us actually what you are now calling the me to moment in the west wasnt what you addressed in your introduction a Ripple Effect to whats happening in the United States it goes much though you know i respect what the United States is doing in many respects but its not the
center of the world from where things ripple out and there are things going on in other parts of the world which are born of the local histories so for us actually it was in the early ninetys that the process of giving a name to this really widespread problem began and it began because of the history of our poor village woman who performing her task as a Government Functionary was draped in the village where she was working by foreman and they raped her because they didnt like her trying to stop Child Marriage and it led to a huge debate inside the Womens Movement about what comprises the workplace for women is it just the four walls up an office space or is it Out In The Fields inside a domestic space and so on and so forth and thus began the battle and we filed a petition with the Government Of India to bring in place a law on Sexual Harassment in the workplace that king. In twenty thirteen after
which it has become mandatory for all businesses universities educational institutions everybody who has more than ten employees to have committees in place and to deal with the subject and that has coincided with a sort of expansion in which women who are coming out into the public space and facing discrimination and seeing how male bias operates in the public space they are speaking out more and more and demanding change so its a very live subject its everywhere of course it is and will course yes a lot of a lot of women to address the subject yes and the the momentum is in the articulation of it is of course with electorate and overnights women who can speak out and who have access but its not to say that for all Women In India im not complaining of the lack of safety and lack of security in in working so its said to be a Big Movement Lets See what happens ok and its very rooted in the culture of the
home being the women space and the public space belonging to men ok thank you russia for that lets come over to you tomorrow were talking about Five Hundred MillionWomen In India and quite a much smaller number in lebanon how relevant was me too in lebanon and has it has it had an impact tangible and well i personally didnt feel of real impact obviously there has been people talking about it but to tell you the truth. Even though i know that healing starts with breaking the silence this is the first most important step in any culture in any problem but. We still lack the courage to address this issue and a very. Open way i mean i know that a Sexual Harassment is widespread that sexual intimidation is widespread as. Well
at work because you know have rassmann its a very broad word what does it mean doesnt mean my boss trying to intimidate me into doing something just because im afraid to lose my job which happens a lot and many times and in my country and in other countries or does it only need you know touching someone or you know its about power its a power play the fact that you say it makes it easier for others to say it as well but unfortunately it always takes a famous person to say it in order to a lot of well theres another element of shame is a similar like a Waitress Being harassed by a bar owner and in a small american town we wouldnt have heard about it maybe as much as we did because of who Harvey Weinstein is and who the actresses are yours exactly. Going to come over to you because the reaction in france initially in france
a rather uncomfortable Backlash Insoles about yes it was candor of description see between the reaction that you could see on social media among the Younger Generation of feminists and the generation of the most Famous French actresses yes there was so there was there was a journalist in most on home you know who started the ball which was the global translation of the Media Movement but there was also a column that was written by several actually see including get in the nerve and many of the many other i mean youre getting. Some other leading french women who were saying that there who were rather supportive to men and saying that they were defending the freedom of bothering of annoying women in the Public Spaces so i was quite difficult because they have a wide echo our friends so it was difficult for us french feminist who said we. You
know there was not an anonymous voice against me too in france but i have to say that before to Me Two Of Making Friends at the have been got a first wave of reaction related to something that happened to a woman it was in Two Thousand And Eleven when the diminish was canned yes for i was running for. Father french presidency was you know involved in a rape in new york that was something that really had. A core in france that made us understand that many that there was a much sort of that sort of verity between some men that for standing with the meanings but to me it was the start of you know a new generation of feminists to rez and to be to go public and they need to movement finally make people make people able to say and to prevent home and pronounce cue for for example hosting a very prestigious ceremony or in cinema exactly what you mentioned obviously famous people need to speak up in france of course we also just saw the process the
protest a very high profile women in film and black actresses also took advantage of the Cannes Film Festival to stage a protest which was also widely reported. Do you think need to as we see it become more and more inclusive can be leveraged for more change in terms of women of color women and women of color being taken seriously in terms of as artists as as creative agents is it helpful i think that to me to movement is attached to celebrities. Yes it means that there are some women who do work on the ground at the Grassroots Level and who are not and managed by you know the media and we really need to choose to say and to tell that its thanks to them that were here today and the need to movement can really inspire a very diverse type of women to kind of. Tackle their very specific position as being. You know women whether they get whether theyre women of color or you
know these are Balloon Women no other kind of womens im just wondering if their thoughts on why the time was right was so right now for this to just take off the way that we had house yeah but before that i would like to say one thing because you mentioned that i was saying that more famous people should have the guts to speak up and i was actually saying the opposite we should pay more attention to regular people speaking up i think thats why theyre media is very important unfortunately they seek without generalizing the sensational part of any story so an actress a famous actor saying that this producer have asked me or rape me is way more sellable than a regular person a regular woman saying that while it happens every day to regular women and they do try to speak up but no one is listening so its very important for us to learn to listen and not just link give importance to those who are famous to the shiny part
of any story because its also deprives it of its strength and so you know depth i mean of course they have suffered i mean all these actresses have suffered but in a way and im going to be the bad woman saying that they also have waited all these years in order to speak up while it would have been a way better to many others should just say you know like earlier young im not i dont want to blame the victim but i have to speak about a certain responsibility thank you very much for that comment. Around of the boys to back to me to obviously was all about speaking up and jumana very early on in long before me too as well you were breaking taboos and bringing the body and issues of womens sexuality into the conversation in the arab world not an easy task lets have a quick look at this. Shattering
taboos in the arab world the art magazine just side celebrates the female body and female sexuality. Your mother had done is founder of the provocative magazine and is demanding selfdetermination for women she says womens power lies in their femininity and iraq misses them in her books puts an end to the traditional arab image of women she says i kill a share of the malleable playmate and want emancipated combative women and angry reckoning with patriarchy revolutionary in the arab world. And the mess of the Silent Submissive Arab Killing show heroes trying to create a new model what reactions did you get to work at the well obviously which was very much expected i had. The haters and you know the threat mares and i had the
supporters i mean its because i mean these issues were not only for me about out challenging my own society and what they have been telling me to be or say or do since my Early Childhood because this was i think depriving me of one of my most basic and sacred rights which is my freedom but it was also about challenging that the stereotypes and the wests you know and not all arab women are submissive or oppressed or veiled or i Didnt Park My Camel Outside of it you know all these images and you do you think that its a joke but some people still think this way about arab women until now i mean this is unfortunately why you need to have a healthy kind of. And why the media is important its important to you for the media. Not just seek the story of the woman who has been abused by her husband and
has been stoned to death because poor veiled woman she was as she dared to love someone else but also a successful arab woman and there are lots of them out there lots of them its interesting looking back at just sad that one of the biggest Scriber Groups that you had was from saudi arabia obviously a country where big big changes have been happening for women and that was of course cause for great optimism in recent months the driving ban for women supposed to be lifted on the twenty fourth of this month and then very surprisingly in the past weeks really harsh crackdown on prominent saudi women are yes multiple arrests and leading to an expanded troubling and contradicting situation we actually have a saudi viewer in our in our audience im coming back to you as a model but im going to go over to her and just introduce her for a second and a fact lets get you to stand up and get around the backyard. Arafat allegedly from
saudi arabia id like to know what you what are your thoughts on the developments in saudi arabia and how hopeful are you for real change for women in that country because of the last. Month that havent answered our congress is supporting women now and we are so happy about that because if the rules come from so say t. And a cultural change if its come from them to it will not have in saudi arabia im talking about my country because the system in my country working like this it is very difficult to make move from down to should he come from up to down on the other hand it looks like he thought things were going just a little too quickly with all the crackdowns and arrests of saudi Women Activists so what does that tell us obviously people with and i dont think it will stop anything it will continue. Liberation is the opening literally and i
and i think after a few days as a very clear action to prove to all the wall that the change and so do i but its real ok so obviously optimism on your part part out of that thank you very much for for contributing magic youd like to come back to your issue my. What are your thoughts on Whats Going On in saudi arabia and how hopeful are you i mean youre looking at the arab world. A different a different view on the arab world a different arab country in love and im not hopeful at all right off no because we are witnessing a times where religious radicalism as on the rise its you know its like a graph its up and down and now its up and you cannot mix religion with governance and expect good things you cannot i mean this is
a luxury that i cannot afford ive been disappointed too many times and the arab world and most arab countries are very far from the separation nowadays and i mean i do im im glad that finally a Women In Saudi Arabia can that can be and the Twentieth Century theyre still not in Two Thousand And Eighteen but im glad theyre at least able to to drive cars can you imagine that we are applauding a country just because it allows people something so absurd and theyre only allowed women as as to drive a car why should we i mean they should have done this a long time ago i mean at least allow women to decide for themselves going to china was a want to do how they when they want to travel how they want to lay it and i think that its very important that women owned their marriage too because what we can see in france for example is that there is a movement to force muslim women not to wear the he job and i fink that was really
next point ok im going to head back to. The Bill Liberation or suppression what do you think and what to our International Guests a part two of the debate next week on arts twenty one the controversy about religion sexuality need to end the question whats next. As a woman you should be free to do whatever you want to do with your body if you want to wear hijab you should be free to wear it so even if you try whatever you can it is the men who are. What price. To you and times up movement was generated by celebrity but theres really millions of people empowered so white woman lead movement and that women are for rocking the fact that arab women have disappeared from if you want to join us next week you out thank you