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The disturbing world of Japan's junior idols where girls are marketed as stars from a very young age and perform for an audience made up mainly of middle-aged men. We also meet the Cameroonian businesswomen whose success has helped make their nation one of the top three African countries with the most female entrepreneurs. Plus the indigenous Ecuadoran leader whose struggle to save her ancestral lands has made her one of TIME's 100 people of influence.
In this edition, we turn our attention to Saudi Arabia, which this week hosted the Women 20 (W20) online summit, attended by some of the most powerful women from across the globe. However, there were also many missing faces. Among them were some of the conservative kingdom's most prominent activists, like Loujain al-Hathloul (pictured). According to rights groups, some of these women have faced abuse while imprisoned, including electric shocks, flogging and sexual assault. For more on this story, we speak to Hiba Zayadin, a Gulf researcher at Human Rights Watch.
With Lebanon still reeling from the fallout of that devastating explosion in Beirut and also from an ongoing economic crisis, we report on how access to women's healthcare services is becoming problematic. Also as the impact of Covid-19 threatens to derail women's progress around the world, we talk to Professor Linda Scott, author of 'The Double X Economy,' on the even more pressing need for female economic empowerment. Plus the young Vietnamese beauty queen who's using her popularity to become an advocate for girls' education.
This week, we bring you a special edition of the show, focusing on the #MeToo movement in the region. Firstly, we head to Iran where women have used social media to break their silence on sexual violence. We speak to one of the survivors who pioneered the online movement. Next, we see how people are increasingly speaking out against sexual violence and rape in Egypt. However, the women who raise their voices do so at their own risk.
During 2019, dozens of Yazidi women and their children arrived in France in small groups to start a new life in safety. In their home country of Iraq or Syria, the Yazidis were the prey of the Islamic State group and suffered massacres, kidnappings, rapes and sexual slavery. How to overcome such trauma? How to start again in a foreign country with an unfamiliar culture and language? FRANCE 24 followed the first steps in France of these women and children who have been to hell and back.
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