Im told the ball welcome to news africa were glad you could join us my jury has suffered the effects of a decade logged insurgency by the boko haram Jihadist Group part of the governments response apart from a military operation has been to offer an amnesty to repentant militants these fighters of then rehabilitated and steered back into society except they sometimes end up living alongside the very victims of their attacks as the correspondent funny has been finding out in the city of maiduguri in northeast nigeria. What come to my degree this sign existed long before the city gate negative notoriety for being the birthplace of boko haram in the past my degree was known as the manger Training Camp a decade into the jihadi. More than 2000000 people have been displaced some of them find refuge in this. At 1st sight not much has changed since we visited last year but this time we need to form a book or on militants who have also been assigned to this camp like. He learns how to repair sh
Today along with films comfort cautionary measures social distancing mandatory mask wearing and temperature taking. This podium we hope everything will go well we hope that this mosque can be fruitful we will be in with. It for easter and might see fewer hollywood stars in attendance but one Silver Lining is that the festival has done better in terms of gender parity 8 out of 18 films in competition directed by women. Actress Cate Blanchett leads the jerry. Was to the swinton receives a Lifetime Achievement award the competition runs for 11 days before we find out who will take home the series coveted golden lion. 8 out of 800 films by women directors and im joined by my colleague melissa horrid melissa some pretty impressive gender parity there for venice so finally we might say is there did dare we hope that the golden lion might be taken home by a woman well yes it could well be taken home by a woman couldnt i mean if we think about the comparison with great recent years this is a m
For organizing todays event, as well as kicking off a social Media Campaign as this years challenge. We want to encourage more women to vote, especially for this upcoming election. Well share more details later on in the program. You can learn more about the initiative on wchallenge. Org 100 women. Todays event will stream live on sfgovtv. Org youtube channel, as well as the citys facebook and twitter accounts. I want to thank our colleagues here from sfgov tv for working in the backgrounds and making this event as successful as possible for everyone. You can feel free to share the links and host a watch party if you want on your preferred social media platforms, because we will be having them on facebook and twitter. This session will be recorded for future references. So lets get started. Happy womens equality day. May i kindly ask the president of the commission on the status of women to join us, bree anna swat, to officially kickstart the celebration of todays event. Thank you. Tha
Question that i have, and then, i have a second question. So i see you richard has joined me. I didnt know that you were going to be there. I dont know if you had some comments that you were going to make. But i know that our Workforce Development is actively working on courses, and theyre not necessarily going to be in person. I think were trying to develop doing some zoom meetings and expanding what we can do even in this in this time of covid19. And you may have some things some specific courses that you want to talk about. Richard is working in our Course Development team, and do you mind making some comments . Hi, mark, can you unmute me . Yes, youre unmuted. Thank you. Greetin greetings, commissioners. My name is [inaudible], and we take work culture seriously because employees are empowered when they are taken seriously. First, we provide training fore communication with diverse teams. We provide special trainings for managers in respecting and respect in the workplace. We consu
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