Delhi Police Takes Note of Complaint Over Rape, Murder Threat on Social Media Against Muslim Women
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March 2022
• Taliban’s Ban On Girls’ Education Will Not Last, Says Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai
• Taliban's Latest Diktat: Women Without Male
Companions Barred From Entering Flights
• First Muslim Woman Wins Direct Election To Post Of
Civic Body Head In Odisha
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Delhi Police Takes Note of Complaint Over Rape, Murder Threat on Social Media Against Muslim Women
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MARCH 27, 2022
In her tweet posted on Friday, the woman claimed that
a man named Vipul Singh was posting rape and murder threats to Muslim women on
social media.
The Delhi Police on Saturday said action will be taken
against the person who took to social media to allegedly threaten women from a
minority community with rape and murder. The police’s comments came after
taking cognizance of a woman’s complaint through Twitter.
In her tweet posted on Friday, the woman claimed that
a man named Vipul Singh was posting rape and murder threats to Muslim women on
social media.
She also claimed that the man was from the Najafgarh
area. The Delhi Police replied, ”The matter has been taken cognizance of and
officials concerned have been directed to take appropriate action.”
Source: News18
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Taliban’s Ban On Girls’ Education Will Not Last, Says
Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai (L),
Pakistani activist for female education and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate,
talking to member of Afghan Girls Robotics Team Florance Pouya (R) at the Doha
Forum in Qatar's capital on Saturday. | AFP-JIJI
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26 Mar 2022
The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education will not last
forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has said, emphasising that Afghan
women now know what it is to be “empowered”.
The armed group, now ruling Afghanistan, closed girls’
secondary schools just hours after reopening them this week, prompting a small
protest by women and girls in the capital Kabul.
“I think it was much easier for the Taliban [to
enforce] a ban on girls’ education back in 1996,” Yousafzai, who won the 2014
Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for all children’s right to education, told the
Doha Forum in Qatar on Saturday.
“It is much harder this time – that is because women
have seen what it means to be educated, what it means to be empowered. This
time is going to be much harder for the Taliban to maintain the ban on girls’
education. This ban will not last forever.”
The Taliban stopped girls from attending school during
its rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, when it was removed by the US-led
invasion.
It returned to power as US forces withdrew in August
last year. The United States said on Friday it had cancelled planned talks in
Doha with the Taliban after the schools were shut this week.
“On Tuesday, we joined millions of Afghan families in
expressing our deep disappointment with the Taliban’s decision to not allow
women and girls to return to secondary school,” a State Department spokesperson
said on Friday.
“We have cancelled some of our engagements, including
planned meetings in Doha [Qatar’s capital] around the Doha Forum, and made
clear that we see this decision as a potential turning point in our
engagement.”
Yousafzai, who survived a Pakistani Taliban
assassination attempt when she was 15, said girls’ schooling should be a
condition of diplomatic recognition for the Taliban.
“Open the schools! Justice, justice!” chanted
protesters on Saturday, some carrying schoolbooks as they gathered at a city
square in Kabul.
They held banners that said “Education is our
fundamental right, not a political plan”, as they marched for a short distance
and later dispersed as Taliban fighters arrived at the scene.
Fawzia Koofi, former chairperson of the Afghanistan’s
Women, Civil Society and Human Rights Commission, told the forum: “It’s
basically a genocide of a generation.”
“How could anyone in this world in the 21st century…
ban girls from education? I don’t think the rest of the world, especially the
Muslim world, should accept,” she said.
Source: Aljazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/26/girls-education-ban-wont-last-nobel-laureate-malala
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Taliban's latest diktat: Women without male companions
barred from entering flights
Reported by: AP
March 26, 2022
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens
of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were
travelling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said Saturday.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity for
fear of repercussions from the Taliban, said dozens of women who arrived at
Kabul's international airport Friday to board domestic and international
flights were told they couldn't do so without a male guardian.
Some of the women were dual nationals returning to
their homes overseas, including some from Canada, according to one of the
officials. Women were denied boarding on flights to Islamabad, Dubai and Turkey
on Kam Air and the state-owned Ariana Airline, said the officials.
By Saturday, some women travelling alone were given
permission to board an Ariana Airlines flight to western Herat province, the
official said.
The airport's president and police chief, both from
the Taliban movement and both Islamic clerics, were meeting Saturday with
airline officials. “They are trying to solve it,” the official said.
It was still unclear whether the Taliban would exempt
air travel from an order issued months ago requiring women traveling more than
45 miles (72 kilometers) to be accompanied by a male relative.
This latest assault on women's rights in Taliban-run
Afghanistan comes just days after the all-male religiously driven government
broke its promise to allow girls to return to school after the sixth grade.
The move enraged the international community, which
has been reluctant to recognize the Taliban-run government since the Taliban
swept into power last August, fearing they would revert to their harsh rule of
the 1990s.
After the Taliban's ban on girls education beyond the
sixth grade, women's rights activist Mahbouba Seraj went on Afghanistan's TOLO
TV to ask: “How do we as a nation trust you with your words anymore? What
should we do to please you? Should we all die?”
An Afghan charity called PenPath, which runs dozens of
"secret' schools with thousands of volunteers, is planning to stage
countrywide protests to demand the Taliban reverse its order, said Matiullah
Wesa, PenPath founder.
On Saturday at the Doha Forum 2022 in Qatar, Roya
Mahboob, an Afghan businesswoman who founded an all-girl robotics team in
Afghanistan, was given the Forum Award for her work and commitment to girls
education..
In an interview after receiving the award, Mahboob
called on the many global leaders and policy makers attending the forum to
press the Taliban to open schools for all Afghan children.
The robotics team fled Afghanistan when the Taliban
returned to power but Mahboob said she still hoped a science and technology
center she had hoped to build in Afghanistan for girls could still be
constructed.
“I hope that the international community, the Muslim
communities (have not) forgotten about Afghanistan and (will) not abandon us,”
she said. "Afghanistan is a poor country. It doesn't have enough
resources. And if you take (away) our knowledge, I don't know what's going to
happen."
Source: India Tv News
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First Muslim woman wins direct election to post of
civic body head in Odisha
Satyasundar Barik
MARCH 27, 2022
The recently concluded civic body polls was a turning
point for minority community in Odisha’s poll history with with voters directly
electing a woman from the Muslim community as chairperson of any urban local
body for the first time.
The 31-year-old Gulmaki Dalawzi Habib, an independent
candidate, won the election to chairperson of Bhadrak Municipality by defeating
nearest rival Samita Mishra, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate, by 3,256 votes.
Ms. Habib, a graduate in Master in Business
Administration, was not active in politics though her husband and in-laws are
known in the local political circle. Her husband Seikh Jahid Habib was
vice-president of Bhadrak district BJDl.
There had been a demand for fielding a person from the
minority community as candidate for civic body chairperson in Bhadrak where a
Muslim community has a sizeable population. As the post was reserved for women,
Ms. Habib became the unanmous choice. However, she had to face the ire of the
ruling BJD.
“During my campaign, I had not come across any
reservation in minds of voters towards Muslim woman candidate. People treated
me like their daughter irrespecive of the community they belong to,” said Ms.
Habib who would soon be sworn as chairperson of Bhadrak Municipal Corporation.
Though Muslim women had won direct elections for post
of councillors or wardmembers, this is for the first time, a muslim woman was
first choice of voters for leading a town.
“In Odisha’s poll history, not a single woman has been
elected as MLA. Even Muslim communities are very reluctant to send woman
members to fight elections. After the Odisha government reserved seats for
women in three-tier panchayati raj institutions and civic bodies, Muslim women
are coming forward to fight elections,” said Mohammed Akbar Ali, who was
chairperson of Kendrapara Muncipality for six years from 1984 to 1990.
Muslim community constitutes less than 3% of Odisha’s
population. There have been very few representation of minority community in
the State’s politics, though members of Muslim community had gone on to become
Cabinet Ministers in the State.
Similarly, journalist-turned-politician Sulochana Das
became the first woman Mayor of Bhubaneswar. Prior to her election as first
citizen of Bhubaneswar, she was Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities.
“I want to give further push to development initiative
taken in Bhubaneswar. People would surely take pride for being citizen of the
capital city,” said Ms. Das after her victory.
Source: The Hindu
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