Ayesha Jannat Mohona Associated with Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, was in India for 3 Years Before Settling in Bangladesh
New Age Islam News Bureau
20
Jul 2020
• Turkish
Secret Service Trade Over ISIS Women in Syria
• Lauded as
First Malaysian Woman to Be Oxford Don, Dr Masliza Says Actually Second to Dr
Phaik
• Delhi Riots:
Investigate Allegation Of 'Sexual Violence' Against Police, Minority Commission
Says
• Saudi Arabia
Was Ranked as The Middle East’s Best Country for Women. This Is How People
Reacted
• 'Under the Abaya':
Why Female Empowerment Is Ushering In A New Era Of Saudi Arabian Fashion
• Women Form
27.5% Of the Labour Market; 391 Saudi Women Given Leadership Training
• Mob of Women
Attack Nigerian Footballer in Dubai After He Rejects Massage
• Over 30,000 Turkish
Women Filed Domestic Violence Complaints Over App
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Ayesha Jannat
Mohona Associated with Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, was in India for 3
Years Before Settling in Bangladesh
19th July 2020
Ayesha Jannat
Mohona alias Pragya Debnath (Photo | www.dhakatribune.com)
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KOLKATA:
Fugitive Ayesha Jannat Mohona spent three years in India and last one year in
Bangladesh before she was arrested in Dhaka on Friday on the charges of
recruiting youths and raising funds for Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB),
said an official of the central intelligence wing in India.
The
25-year-old woman with Hindu origin from Kolkata’s adjoining Hooghly district
who changed her religion to Islam joined JMB, an outlawed terror outfit in
Bangladesh.
The sleuths of
the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB), the central intelligence wing, are
looking for leads to track Ayesha’s footprint in West Bengal and other parts of
the country since she had left home four years ago.
"Bangladesh
police are interrogating her. We have been told that they would share her
activities in India before she settled in Bangladesh with us. Now our prime
concern is what Ayesha did for three years in India after leaving home,"
said a SIB officer.
The daughter
of daily wage earner Pradip Debnath, who named her Pragya, left home in
September 2016 saying she was going to Kolkata. "She never returned home.
On the day she left home, we kept calling my daughter but her cellphone kept
ringing. At night, her cell phone was not reachable. In December, she called
and told that she changed her religion to Islam. We were shocked. That was the
last time I heard my daughter’s voice," recounted Pradip.
Ayesha’s
family members were stunned when they were searching for her photographs to
lodge a missing diary on the day she had left home. "She destroyed all her
photographs, including those which were clicked during her childhood, and took
away all the documents related to her education," said Pradip.
The SIB
sleuths came to know Ayesha had changed her religion in 2009 when she was
studying in school. "She disclosed it to her family three months after
leaving home in 2016. She started visiting Bangladesh from 2016 but started living
there from August 19 in 2019 in the garb of a teacher at a religious institute.
She first rented house at Keranigaj and then shifted to Fatullah,’’ said a SIB
officer.
The central
agency came to know Ayesha had 13 Facebook accounts using different names."She
used to communicate using the messenger call facility of the social web portal.
We are waiting for the information that Bangladesh police will share with
us," said the officer.
Ayesha’s
mother Geeta said she never imagined her daughter would become an active member
of a terror outfit. "We tried our best to provide her education. I want
her to be punished for her actions," the mother said.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/jul/19/bengal-woman-associated-with-terror-group-was-in-india-for-3-years-before-settling-in-bangladesh-2171967.html
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Turkish secret
service trade over ISIS women in Syria
19 Jul 2020
One of the two
detained French women who fled the Islamic State’s last pocket in Syria speaks
to a AFP reporter at al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria on Feb. 17. (Bulent
Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
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CAIRO – 19
July 2020: Turkey has openly admitted that its secret service MIT is taking
ISIS members out of the Hol Camp in northeast Syria.
A source
within the security forces has told ANF News about the background to the
abduction of female ISIS members from Hol Camp.
"We
learned a while ago that a group within MIT is trying to take ISIS women from
Hol and other camps. We have been investigating this and have arrested some
middlemen and ISIS women. Our research has shown that this group from MIT has
made contact with the relatives of foreign women and is kidnapping these women
for a high price and selling them to their families".
The security
source also added that, "A large proportion of ISIS members who were not
captured by the SDF are in Turkey and in areas occupied by the Turkish state
such as al-Bab, Jarablus, Azaz, Afrin, Idlib, Serekaniye and GireSpi in
northern Syria. Turkey kidnaps women and takes them to their husbands, which
makes them even more useful in the war of the Turkish state."
The SDF
arrested Syrian ISIS jihadist and human trafficker Shahab Ahmed al-Abdullatif
in June 2018. In his phone, detailed information was found about conversations
with ISIS members that MIT wanted to bring from Syria to Turkey.
The phone also
contained a list of names of ISIS women who wanted to be liberated from the
camps in Hol and Ain Issa.
According to
ANF, Al-Abdullatif has confessed that he was contacted by MIT in Urfa and then
arranged for the transfer of money to ISIS under the supervision of MIT and, at
MIT's request, smuggled mainly foreign ISIS jihadists into Turkey.
Further,
al-Abdullatif testified that when he met with MIT agents, he asked them how to
smuggle the ISIS members across the border.
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/89834/Turkish-secret-service-trade-over-ISIS-women-in-Syria
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Lauded as
First Malaysian Woman to Be Oxford Don, Dr Masliza Says Actually Second to Dr
Phaik
15 Jul 2020
BY RADZI RAZAK
Masliza is
currently a member of the Steering Committee of the British Society of
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Heart Failure Research Task Force. — Picture
via Facebook
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KUALA LUMPUR,
July 15 — Dr MaslizaMahmod has clarified that she is not, in fact, the first
Malaysian woman to be an associate professor at Oxford University.
In a Facebook
post on Monday, she clarified that she was preceded by another Malaysian woman
who reached the same position at the prestigious British institution four years
ago.
“Dear all, it
has come to my attention that Dr Phaik Yeong Cheah has been Associate Professor
in Bioethics and Engagement since 2016.
“Let us
congratulate her on being the first Malaysian woman to achieve this at Oxford
University.
“Together as
Malaysian women, we both will continue to keep Malaysia on the map.
Congratulations to her!” she wrote.
Dr Phaik, 46
is now the head of the Bioethics and Engagement Department at the Mahidol
Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok. She has been with Oxford
since 2005.
She works on
ethical issues arising from conducting research and working with vulnerable
populations such as children, pregnant women, migrants as well as other
disadvantaged and hard-to-reach populations.
On July 11,
national news agency Bernama reported Dr Maszliza as the first Malaysian woman
to become an associate professor at Oxford University, where she will teach
cardiovascular medicine.
This led to a
slew on congratulations to her, including one on Sunday from Yang
di-PertuanAgong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.
According to
an Instagram post from the Istana Negara, the Agong had expressed pride at was
then thought to be her pioneering feat for Malaysians at Oxford.
Others who
also congratulated her included Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham
Abdullah, who on Saturday lauded her brilliance as well as outstanding
achievements as a cardiologist.
Women, Family
and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rina Harun also released a poster
congratulating Dr Masliza the same day.
Despite
missing out on being the first Malaysian woman to be an associate professor at
Oxford, Dr Masliza still has various accolades to her name.
Dr Masliza
obtained her PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine from Oxford, in addition to her
Master's of Medicine from UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia, Membership of the
Royal Colleges of Physicians from the UK and primary medical degree from the
University of Otago, New Zealand.
She was
awarded the Young Investigator Fellowship for her work in hypertension at the
Malaysian Society of Hypertension in Kuala Lumpur in 2009.
In 2005, her
research on newly diagnosed hypertensive won the Young Investigator Award at
the Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine.
She is
currently a member of the Steering Committee of the British Society of
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (BSCMR) Heart Failure Research Task Force.
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/07/15/lauded-as-first-malaysian-woman-to-be-oxford-don-dr-masliza-says-actually-s/1884645
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Delhi Riots:
Investigate Allegation Of 'Sexual Violence' Against Police, Minority Commission
Says
By Betwa
Sharma
20/07/2020
NEW DELHI —
The Delhi Minorities Commission, an independent statutory body of the Delhi
government, has called for an investigation into an allegation of “sexual
violence” against the Delhi Police, raised by a riot survivor, cited in its
fact-finding report released last week.
The commission
was set up by the Delhi government in 1999 to protect the interest of
minorities in the national capital.
The report
cites a complaint of a woman from Dayalpur, describing the Delhi Police busting
a sit-in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Chand Bagh,
which alleges, “Police pulled their pants down and pointed their genitals
towards the women stating that they wanted ‘freedom’ and they were there to
give them ‘freedom’ and that this was their ‘freedom.’”
The same
complaint alleges the Delhi Police dragged a 12-13 year-old girl at the
protest.
“While the
slogans of ‘Azadi’ (a cry for freedom from the discriminatory laws and
practices) were used by the protesters, the police used the same chants of ‘Azadi’
to sexually harass women and attack them, including at least one incident of a
police officer flashing his genitals in front of women protesters,” the report
said.
Citing other
complaints, testimonies and media
reports, the report says that while rioters sexually assaulted Muslim women and
attacked them with acid, the Delhi Police did not respond to calls begging them
for help.
The report
also cites testimony of a woman from Khajuri Khas, who said that some women
jumped off an 8 to 10 feet wall to save themselves.
“The
testimonies suggest that Muslim women were attacked on the basis of their
religious identity; their hijabs and burqas were pulled off,” it said.
The
nine-member fact finding committee recommends establishing “the full extent of
the complicity and abdication of duty by the Delhi Police” in the the violence,
and “engaging in direct acts of violence including sexual violence.”
It also
recommends establishing a team of 5-10 trial lawyers, who, in collaboration
with the Delhi State Legal Services, could assist women file complaints of
sexual violence against private individuals and public officials and help them
get effective legal representation.
DMC report
The Delhi
Minorities Commission’s report, released five months after more than 50 people
were killed in the riots in northeast Delhi, said that the violence “was
seemingly planned and directed to teach a lesson to a certain community which
dared to protest against a discriminatory law.”
A foreword
written by M.R. Shamshad, a Supreme Court advocate and the chairperson of the
fact finding team, said that a “biased” and “partisan” Delhi Police was
purposefully pinning the riots on the anti-CAA protesters and misdirecting the
investigation to support this narrative.
The report
questions why the Delhi Police, which reports to Home Minister Amit Shah, is
not investigating the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra who was
captured on video making an inflammatory speech in northeast Delhi a few hours
before the violence started on the night of 23 February.
The Delhi
Police in June said that it was carrying out an impartial investigation based
on forensic evidence, and had arrested around 620 Hindus and 683 Muslims, but
it is yet to explain why it has neither registered an FIR against Mishra —
despite a Delhi High Court directive to do so — nor investigated police
personnel whose complicity in some of the violence has been witnessed and
captured on video.
Furthermore,
in the chargesheets it has filed, the Delhi Police has laid out a narrative
linking the riots to the anti-CAA protests. One FIR, FIR 59, which has come to
be known as the “conspiracy FIR,” has invoked India’s anti-terrorism law
against anti-CAA protestors who the police accuse of masterminding the riots.
The Narendra
Modi government’s CAA, its critics say, alters the secular nature of the Indian
constitution by making religion the basis for granting citizenship to asylum
seekers.
Reacting to
the DMC report, Public Relations Officer Anil Mehta said the Delhi Police was
carrying out a professional investigation, and over 400 of the 752 FIRs lodged
were based on complaints of the minority community.
There have
been at least ten other fact finding report on the riots in February, produced
by the lawyers, doctors, human rights activists, and one by a group of
“intellectual and academicians” who pinned the riots on the “Urban Naxal Jihadi
network” and submitted it to Home Minister Amit Shah.
The Delhi
Minority Commission’s report is the only one produced by a quasi judicial body
possessing some powers of a civil court.
On Saturday,
The Tribune reported that the DMC’s chairman Zafrul Islam Khan had submitted
its report to the Delhi Government. Citing sources, the Chandigarh-based
newspaper reported that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, “may consider some of
the recommendations of the committee.”
Khan, who was
appointed by the AamAadmi Party government in 2017, was booked for sedition and
promoting enmity over a social media post thanking Kuwait for sticking up for
Indian Muslims, posted on 28 April. The 72-year-old man later apologised for
it. The Delhi High Court has granted him protection against arrest. Last week,
two days before the report was released on Thursday, the Delhi Police issued a
notice asking him to join the investigation.
Report says
pogrom
In his
forward, Shamshad, chairperson of the fact finding committee, says the Delhi
Police has changed the narrative to communal violence on both sides, but what
actually happened in the last week February was a pogrom.
A pogrom
refers to the organised killing of a group of people because of their race or
religion.
“This is a
serious issue of changing public perception by attributing the riots to CAA
protestors in general and Muslims in particular. This reflects injustice and
partisan bias in the system which is neither good for a democratic system nor
for our nation as whole,” he wrote.
The widely
cited death toll, including by the Delhi Police in its chargesheets, is 53. In
April, HuffPost India reported that the Delhi Police had informed the Home
Ministry of 52 deaths. This fact-finding report names 55 dead people.
In March, of
the 52 names of the deceased published by Polis Project, 39 or 75% are Muslim.
In the list compiled by the Delhi Minorities Commission, at least 65% are
Muslim.
This
fact-finding report identifies 17 religious places, including 11 mosques, four
madrassas, one shrine and one cemetery, which were attacked during the riots. The
Delhi Waqf Board says 19 mosques were damaged.
A Right To Information reply from the Delhi Police, published by the
Quint, says eleven places of worship including eight mosques, two shrines and
one madrassa, were damaged. This report says the fact-finding team visited
seven Hindu temples in Muslim dominated localities and found them untouched.
The Delhi Police’s RTI reply said two temples were damaged.
The fact
finding report concluded that “the violence followed an organised and
systematic pattern” against Muslims and their properties, and the “police were
also complicit and abetted the attack.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/delhi-riots-police-sexual-violence-allegation-minorities-commission-fact-finding-report_in_5f14f4b8c5b6cec246c45ad6
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Saudi Arabia
was ranked as the Middle East’s best country for women. This is how people
reacted
By Nadda Osman
30 June 2020
Saudi Arabia
has been ranked as the Middle East’s best country for women, coming at 89th
position globally, in a report released by a New York-based online business
magazine.
The article by
CEO World, which has been widely shared, has drawn a range of reactions, many
of which express surprise at the ranking.
The report
states that various factors are considered in the ranking, such as gender
equality, the percentage of legislative seats held by women, sense of security,
income equality, human rights, women's empowerment, inclusion in society,
education and paid work.
The magazine
ranks Sweden as the best country in the world for women and the Central African
Republic as the worst, coming in at 156th place, based on a survey of 256,700
women around the world.
Oman was
ranked as the second-best country in the Middle East for women, coming in at
91st position globally.
Many social
media users have used the article to shed light on the number of female human
rights activists who have been detained in the kingdom in recent years.
Many prominent
female activists remain behind bars in Saudi Arabia, including Loujain
al-Hathloul, Aziza al-Yousef, Eman al-Nafjan, Nouf Abdelaziz, Mayaa al-Zahrani,
Hatoon al-Fassi, Samar Badawi, Nassema al-Sadah, and Amal al-Harbi.
The report has
left social media users guessing whether the ranking was a joke, with many
people responding to the article with sarcastic comments.
Saudi Arabia
has come under considerable scrutiny from human rights organisations in recent
years, particularly following the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal
Khashoggi in 2018 and the Saudi-led coalition at war in Yemen, which has been
accused of carrying out unlawful air strikes and blockades.
Saudi Arabia
recognised the right of women to drive in 2017, finally issuing licences to
women in 2018, making it the last country in the world to do so.
However, the
move came amidst an intense crackdown on activists who campaigned for the
change.
Earlier this
year, a Black Saudi female artist faced prosecution after posting a video of
herself rapping about being from Mecca, which authorities claimed was
“offensive” to the customs and traditions of the holy city.
The incident
has caused many to question the Saudi government's tolerance of women
expressing themselves in the kingdom.
Human Rights
Watch has previously called out Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women in the
kingdom, citing the discriminatory male guardianship system which remains in
place, despite reforms made in 2019 amid calls to abolish it altogether.
Under this
system, adult women must obtain permission from a male guardian to marry,
access healthcare, work or be discharged from prison. The reforms made it
easier for women to obtain passports for travel without permission.
In recent
years, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has attempted to implement a number of
social reforms in Saudi Arabia, including creating an entertainment industry in
the conservative kingdom.
This has
included inviting globally renowned artists like Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj
to perform there - a first for the kingdom. Minaj, however, pulled out citing
her support for the rights of women and the LGBT community.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-women-best-country-middle-east-ranking-reactions
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'Under the
Abaya': Why female empowerment is ushering in a new era of Saudi Arabian
fashion
Hafsa Lodi
June 30, 2020
Typical
#Saudigirlproblems of the past included getting your abaya caught in the wheels
of a chair or stuck in the door of the car, according to Marriam Mossalli,
founder of luxury communications consultancy, Niche Arabia. But the roles of
women are evolving in the kingdom, making room for a more empowered female
population and with it, more practical, versatile wardrobes that are still
every bit stylish.
When it comes
to women's clothing in Saudi Arabia, Mossalli is something of an expert. Two
years ago, she published the first edition of Under the Abaya: Street Style
from Saudi Arabia, a collection of images displaying the sartorial styles of
women in the kingdom.
The second
volume of the book was released last week, and while fashion trends have not
witnessed any dramatic changes since 2018, domestic policies – specifically
those relating to females – have undergone some progressive reforms, which have
influenced how Saudi Arabian women use fashion to express their identities.
The kingdom
has announced a number of initiatives to encourage women to enter the workforce
as part of its Vision 2030 goals – most notably, allowing them to obtain
driving licences. This landmark ruling inspired the book’s release date –
volume two of Under The Abaya launched on June 24, exactly two years after the
historic decision to lift the ban on female drivers.
Many of the
photographs in the new edition aptly feature some trailblazing women in the
driver's seats of their cars. Popular niqab-wearing influencer Amy Roko, who
also starred in a Benefit cosmetics campaign earlier this year, is pictured in
the new book, along with race car drivers Reema Juffali and Aseel Al Hamad, and
motorbike racer Dania Akeel.
In total, more
than 300 Saudi women appear on the 330 pages of Under the Abaya, in a variety
of outfits that include everything from on-trend mum jeans and denim jackets to
sleek sportswear and a variety of abayas.
Mossalli tells
The National that the kingdom’s reforms have been instrumental in influencing
new fashion requirements among the country's women.
“It has
definitely encouraged a more versatile lifestyle, and what I’ve noticed is that
it has reflected in their wardrobe choices,” she says. “In the past we used to
have these very decadent, heavy pieces of abayas as our outerwear because that
was reflective of our lifestyle. We were going to dinners, we were sitting down
with our friends and women who lunch and all of that, but with the entry of
women in the workforce, we are seeing clothing that is a little more
work-friendly.”
With women
taking on more active roles, ornately decorated abayas with superfluous fabrics
are no longer in vogue. “We went from having heavy abayas not suitable for work
to these very easy, shorter abayas that do not get caught in the wheels of your
office chair, or your car door, because now we are driving,” says Mossalli.
“Now, fashion
is not just for show, it is something that these girls can live in and be
active in,” she notes.
While it was
also announced in 2018 that abayas would no longer be legally enforced,
Mossalli explains that women in the kingdom – particularly millennials – are
not parting with the traditional garment just yet.
“Our youth are
very much like the Japanese back in the '90s, where you saw this influx of
youth culture getting back in touch with their cultural roots, and we saw that
in their fashion design as well and in the things they were creating, and the
same could be said for Saudi Arabia.
"We are
very proud of and conscious about our culture and heritage, and it’s important
for us to show that – the abaya is one way to do that. What we are seeing is
[the abaya] just kind of evolve,” she says, referencing the shorter lengths,
tailored silhouettes and range of colours now available among designers in the
Gulf.
With dress
code reforms having paved the way for more freedom of expression when it comes
to style in the public sphere, it’s an exciting time for Saudi fashion, and
Mossalli sees potential for Under the Abaya to become a more long-term project.
“I definitely see this book becoming an ongoing thing, who knows, maybe we can
make it a foundation one day, that’s my dream … but basically, as long as we
have the need for women empowerment, and that is not going to end soon, it’s an
ongoing journey,” she says.
The book's
editor says the Under The Abaya project is a non-profit one, and that all of
the money from its sale will go towards providing higher education for
underprivileged Saudi women.
“All of this
is to raise money for scholarships,” says Mossalli, “and with Covid and all of
these things that have happened to our economy, it is more important now than
ever.”
https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/under-the-abaya-why-female-empowerment-is-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-saudi-arabian-fashion-1.1041177
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Women Form
27.5% Of the Labour Market; 391 Saudi Women Given Leadership Training
July 10, 2020
RIYADH — The
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development has made big strides in
their Saudization drive and is continuing to localize several sectors and raise
the percentage of participation of Saudi men and women in the private sector
and the labor market, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said Thursday.
Meanwhile, the
ministry has narrowed the gap between the workforce of both sexes in the labor
market. In this regard, the ministry revealed a high indicator of women’s share
in the labor market from the workforce, for Q1 2020.
The target in
this quarter was 24 percent, while the index for increasing women's economic
participation in the labor market achieved an increase to reach 27.5 percent.
This is with
the objective of achieving the goals of the National Transformation Program
2020 (NTP 2020) and the Kingdom's Vision 2030, which emphasize the status and
role of the Saudi workforce — both men and women — in raising the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP).
The objective
also calls for contributing to further enhancing the Saudi economy and plans
for comprehensive and sustainable development, in addition to attaching great
importance to empowering women to work and take up leadership posts and reduce
unemployment among them.
Among the
positive indicators achieved by the Agency’s goals is the decrease in
unemployment rates during this quarter to the lowest levels since the second
half of 2016.
Another is the
rise in Saudization indicators in general, whether regional localization that
includes a number of sectors and commercial activities according to the nature
of each region, or general Saudization that includes commercial activities,
public sectors, and specific and specialized occupations.
This is in
addition to the clear impact of government agreements and partnerships with the
private sector that the ministry worked on during the previous two years, 2018
and 2019.
This
contributed to reducing the unemployment rate, from its peak of 12.9 percent in
2018 and drop to 11.8 percent during Q1 of 2020, in addition to the noticeable
increase in employment and Saudization rates.
One of the
goals of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, on which the
ministry was based, is to empower women and decrease unemployment.
In this
regard, the ministry revealed that it exceeded some indicators in its goals in
terms of achievement, as the index of increasing women's economic participation
in the labor market achieved 25.9 percent, as mentioned in the Q1 2020 report.
The target
exceeded the required percentage for this year, as the target for this
indicator was 25 percent for the year 2020. Meanwhile, the ministry narrowed
the gap between the workforce of both sexes in the labor market.
In this
regard, the ministry revealed a high indicator for women’s share in the labor
market for Q1 2020, where the target was 24 percent, while the index achieved
an increase to reach 27.5 percent.
This reflects
the success of the Saudization and empowerment plans and the high awareness on
the importance of women's participation in the labor market and the role that
empowerment plays in economic indicators, in addition to reducing unemployment
rates among them.
With regard to
the Leadership Training and Mentoring Initiative through qualification and
training for women, the Ministry introduced the initiative, and trained 391
Saudi female trainees working in the private and government sectors, via
specialized training and mentoring programs, aimed at improving leadership
skills
This leads to
empowering women to take up leadership positions in the upper and middle levels
of management.
This
initiative has had many positive effects, like improving leadership skills to
match the job requirements for Saudi women managers and executives, and
increasing confidence in the ability of women to manage and lead the work teams
and their departments.
https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/595328
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Mob of women
attack Nigerian footballer in Dubai after he rejects massage
July 19, 2020
Ali Al Shouk
Dubai: A mob
of women attacked a Nigerian footballer in a Dubai street and bit his arm
before stealing his wallet after he rejected the offer of a massage from one of
them, a court heard on Sunday.
The
26-year-old victim was walking to his car in Naif at around 7pm in February of
this year when a woman from Uganda stopped him and offered him a massage as
well as sexual services.
When the
victim rejected these advances a group of women attacked him.
“I told her I
did’t want to have massage and she was angry and pushed me,” said the victim in
court records. “I was surprised when a group of about seven to 10 women
attacked me.
“One snatched
my Dh2,500 golden necklace and another bit me,” the victim added.
The women
stole Dh3,715 from his wallet and also took his expensive watch.
“I was afraid
and escaped, but returned with a friend and caught the defendant. I took her to
Naif Police station, reported the incident and went to Dubai hospital to get a medical
report,” the Nigerian victim added.
He claimed the
road was busy with people and that he suffered a cut in his left arm due to the
bite.
Dubai Police
arrested the woman but the others are still at large.
Dubai Public
Prosecution charged a 33-year-old woman with robbery, encouraging others to
commit sin and practicing prostitution.
The next
hearing is scheduled for August 16, until then the defendant remains in
custody.
https://gulfnews.com/uae/crime/mob-of-women-attack-nigerian-footballer-in-dubai-after-he-rejects-massage-1.72679011
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Over 30,000
Turkish Women Filed Domestic Violence Complaints Over App
July 20 2020
Some 30,601
women have filed complaints for domestic violence from early June 2020 via a
mobile application made specifically for this, according to Turkey’s interior
minister, daily Milliyet reported.
Responding to
a parliamentary question by main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)
Istanbul deputy Gamze Akkuşİlgezdi, Interior Minister SüleymanSoylu said that
some 453,012 people have downloaded the Women Immediate Support (KADES)
application since July 2.
Soylu said
that some 30,601 women filed complaints over the application.
The
application went into effect on March 24, 2018 and have been in use for the
past two years.
The minister
said that with the application, women who have been subjected to violence can
share their location via their mobile phones with “one button” in emergency
situations.
As a response
to Soylu, the CHP deputy said that 38 women, on a daily average, informed
authorities of violence they have been subjected to with a mobile app called
the “Panic Button.”
İlgezdi also
pointed out that the women who called for help over the applications were those
who had the necessary means, such as owning a smartphone.
“Meaning, the
data not unveiled are much higher and reveal a more poignant issue,” she said.
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/over-30-000-women-filed-domestic-violence-complaints-over-app-minister-156710
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