Hijab Row: Those Unwilling To Follow Uniform Dress Code Can Explore Other Options, Says Karnataka Minister
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February 2022
• Girls
Being Denied Right to Education in Afghanistan, Pak, PoK: J&K Women
Protesters at UN Office
• Hijab-saffron
shawl controversy continues to linger in Karnataka colleges; two arrested for
carrying lethal weapons
• Iran
shuts down news website over image of decapitated woman in Ahvaz city
• 'Arbitrary'
dismissal of women employees in Saudi Arabia sparks outrage
• Forbes
list: Seven Emiratis among 50 most powerful businesswomen in Middle East
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Hijab row: Those unwilling to follow uniform dress
code can explore other options, says Karnataka minister
February 06, 2022
Students wearing hijab denied entry to Government PU
College in Karnataka's Kundapur. ANI
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Bengaluru: Amid the raging row over wearing 'Hijab'
in educational institutions in Karnataka, state Education Minister B C Nagesh
on Sunday said students who are unwilling to adhere to the uniform dress code
are at liberty to explore other options.
"Just as rules are followed in the military,
the same is to be done here (in educational institutions) as well. Options are
open for those who are not willing to follow it, which they can make use
of," Nagesh told reporters in Mysuru.
The minister appealed to the students not to become
'tools' in the hands of political parties. The Bommai government had on
Saturday issued a circular banning clothes which disturbed peace, harmony and,
law and order in the educational institutions across the state.
On the circular, Nagesh said the government felt the
need to clarify on this matter and issued a circular. He also clarified that
the students can to come to the school wearing Hijab, but inside the campus
they have to place it in their bags.
Wondering why the problem emerged all of a sudden
when students of all the faiths were coming to schools wearing uniform, he said
everyone was learning and playing together with a sense of equality but never
ever have religious differences cropped up.
According to Nagesh, trouble began in December when
some children in Udupi were instigated to wear Hijab saying 'Sharia' (Islamic
law) prescribes such dress code and they were duty-bound to abide by it.
The minister further claimed that many children were
asked to do so but a majority of them did not agree. "In Udupi school
where the incident occurred, out the 92 Muslim children only six girls came
wearing Hijab and succumbed to the 'poisonous seeds'. Other children came to the
school wearing their school uniform," he said.
Rejecting the Congress party's charge that the BJP
government does not want Muslim students to continue their studies, Nagesh
pointed out that the Karnataka Education Act was not brought by the BJP but
Congress, which had ruled for maximum years in the state.
The minister urged the grand old party not to create
divisions in the society for political gains. In December last year, some girl
students started coming to a government school in Udupi district wearing Hijab,
against the prescribed uniform norm.
In protest against the violation of dress code, a
section of Hindu students also started coming to classes wearing saffron
shawls.
Even before the matter could be resolved, the
hijab-saffron shawl controversy spread to more pre-university colleges in the
state.
In Kalaburagi district headquarters town, Muslim
girls led by the Congress MLA Kaneez Fathima staged a protest on Saturday
demanding permission to allow female students in the schools and pre-university
colleges to wear Hijab.
The issue took a political turn with the political
parties in the state indulging in mudslinging.
While the Congress backed the Muslim girls citing
constitutional rights guaranteed, the BJP stood against wearing of 'Hijab' in
classes with its state president saying the state government will not allow
Talibanisation of the education system.
The Karnataka High Court on February 8 will hear the
petitions filed by five girls studying in a Government Pre-university College
in Udupi, questioning hijab restriction in college.
Source: Firstpost
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Girls Being Denied Right to Education in
Afghanistan, Pak, PoK: J&K Women Protesters at UN Office
FEBRUARY 07, 2022
The memorandum said since the Taliban took over
Afghanistan, all schools and educational institutions for girls have been shut
down.
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Young girls and women protested at the United
Nations’ office in Srinagar on Monday, demanding the right to education for
Muslim women in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
In their memorandum to UN officials, the women said:
“Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, all schools and educational
institutions for girls have been shut down. The two decades of enforced peace
under an international mandate had provided a glimmer of hope to thousands of
girls and their families that Afghan girls could finally have access to
education without fear.”
“A lot of propaganda is carried out across the
United Nations and other multilateral platforms about the human rights
situation in Jammu and Kashmir. The proponents and buyers of this propaganda
conveniently ignore the wide gap in the educational opportunities afforded to
the girls of J&K in comparison with their sisters in those parts of J&K
which are illegally under foreign occupation. Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and
Gilgit-Baltistan today have been sadly left behind on the education front,
depriving our sisters of the right to modern and secular education,” it said.
The memorandum stated that over the years, the
Pakistani leadership has resorted to spreading religious conservatism as a
means of political domination.
“A vast majority of Pakistan’s population only have
access to religious education through a flourishing chain of Madrassas.
Education cannot be fettered by dogmatic ideas and students have a right to the
vast expanse of knowledge that exists. Absence of modern schools and colleges
in PoK and G-B has deprived our sisters the opportunity that we have come to
take for granted in India. Not just in J&K, we have access to any
institution of our choice anywhere in India. It is our fervent appeal that the
United Nations take note of the deplorable condition of girls’ education, a
right that has been cruelly and forcibly snatched away from them for reasons of
history, for which they are not responsible nor should they be made to pay the
price for it,” it stated.
The memorandum stated that madrassas offering free
education have mushroomed in Balochistan. The poor and unemployed families of
one of the most richly endowed Provinces have no choice but to send their
children to these Madrassas, where their “fragile minds are poisoned with
retrogressive ideas and information”.
It stated: “The situation is no better in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa where all moderate and progressive political forces have been
sacrificed. The Province has seen a level of Talibanization that is not there even
in Afghanistan. The educational prospects of the girl child in KP can be
described in two words: Malala Yusufzai. Our sisters in KP face as bleak a
future as those in Afghanistan. Unless the rot is stemmed, very soon most of
our Pakistani sisters, barring the rich and powerful, would be subject to the
same future.”
Source: News18
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Hijab-saffron shawl controversy continues to linger
in Karnataka colleges; two arrested for carrying lethal weapons
February 07, 2022
India's hijab row. PTI
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The hijab-saffron shawl row in the junior colleges
at Kundapur in Karnataka's Udupi district continued on Monday, with students in
two junior colleges trying to defy the government order mandating uniforms
stipulated by the state government or respective managements of the
institutions.
The state education department had issued the order
on 5 February, 2022.
Two people have also been arrested in Kundapur in
Karnataka's Udupi district for allegedly carrying lethal weapons during a
protest at a government college over students' right to wear a hijab in
classrooms.
A group of students studying at Venkataramana
College in Kundapur came in a procession to the college on Monday wearing
saffron shawls. They were prevented from entering the premises by the college
principal and the police personnel present there.
The students said they will wear the shawls if
hijab-wearing girls were allowed in classes. They agreed to enter the classes
removing their shawls only after the principal assured them that no hijab-wearing
students will be allowed to enter classrooms.
At the Government PU College in Kundapur under Udupi
district also, the principal talked to Muslim girl students who came wearing
hijabs and explained to them the government's order.
As the students continued to insist on wearing the
headscarves, they were asked to go to a separate room arranged for them.
The protests are over the alleged denial of entry to
students wearing hijabs to a college in the Kundapur area of Udupi on 4
February, 2022.
The protests have triggered a political row with the
Congress and the BJP attacking each other over the issue.
According to an ANI report, two people were
arrested, on Monday, for allegedly carrying lethal weapons near Government PU
College where students are protesting against disallowing hijab in educational
institutions, informed local police.
According to police officers, out of five men
carrying weapons, three managed to flee from the spot.
Police told NDTV one of the accused is from a nearby
village. Police also said they were searching for the other three accused. It
is unclear at this time if they have any political affiliations.
The two arrested have been identified as Haji Abdul
Majid and Rajjab who hail from Gangolli, a village near Kundapur.
There was widespread criticism against the way the
girls were made to protest outside the college gate last week.
Source: Firstpost
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Iran shuts down news website over image of
decapitated woman in Ahvaz city
07 February ,2022
Iran has shut down a news website after it published
an image of a man holding what was said to be the head of his wife in his hand,
the state-run IRAN newspaper reported on Monday.
According to the report, a media supervisory board
on Sunday decided to close Rokna website because of its continuing to “publish
images and issues that violate public decency.”
Authorities have arrested the man who is accused of
killing his wife on Saturday in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.
The photograph, in which the man holds a large knife
in the other hand, has had tens of thousands of views on social media. The case
is under investigation. Rokna was started in 2016 and has more than 20,000
subscribers on Telegram, a free social instant messaging service that provides
video calling, file sharing and other features.
Iran has had a long history of closures of media
outlets. In 2020, authorities shut down Jahan-e Sanat newspaper after it quoted
a former member of the national coronavirus taskforce as saying that the
country’s death toll from the pandemic could be 20 times higher than officially
provided figures.
Source: Al Arabiya
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'Arbitrary' dismissal of women employees in Saudi
Arabia sparks outrage
06 February, 2022
A Saudi company has come under fire for dismissing
five women employees and appointing a "foreigner" instead, the Saudi
daily Al-Watan reported, without clarifying the gender or nationality of the
person who assumed their post.
The women, who worked for a health company in the
southwestern port city of Jizan, described the decision to sack them as
"arbitrary".
The women employees filed a complaint with three
local authorities and demanded an investigation over their dismissal and a
restoration of their work rights, as well holding the company accountable.
In their official complaint, the women said that
their place of employment committed nine violations, which include
"forcing [them] to to conclude a new work contract, and subjecting [them]
to a stressful experience, which violated Article 8 of the Labour and Human
Resources Regulations".
They said that they were also subjected to
violations of Article 20, which concerns work regulations abuses, coercion to
resign and harassment, and Article 46, which refers to favouring foreign
workers over Saudi ones, as well disrupting the workplace.
The women also accused the company of delaying their
salary payments and making them sign papers without knowing what they entailed.
The incident drew criticism from Saudi citizens
online, some describing it as "unreasonable". The Arabic hashtag
#Dismissal_of_Saudis_and_appointment_of foreigner also trended on Twitter.
Saudi Arabia once had one of the lowest female
employment rates in the world, however recent statistics showed that the
employment rate increased to 33% by the end of 2020.
Source: The New Arab
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/dismissal-women-employees-saudi-arabia-sparks-outrage
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Forbes list: Seven Emiratis among 50 most powerful
businesswomen in Middle East
Feb 7, 2022
Seven Emiratis have been named among Forbes’ 50 most
powerful businesswomen in the Middle East in 2021.
The UAE, along with Egypt, had the most entries in
the list of the Middle East and North Africa’s most influential and successful
female entrepreneurs.
Some are leaders of multinational companies, while
others helped their organisations achieve major milestones in 2021.
The list includes women of 19 nationalities working
in 17 sectors, with banking and financial services featured most.
Raja Easa Al Gurg, an Emirati who is the group
managing director and vice-chairwoman of Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group, ranks first
on the list.
Her organisation owns 27 companies that have been
operating for more than 60 years in retail, lifestyle, construction and real
estate.
Ms Al Gurg is also the president of the Dubai
Business Women Council and a member of the board of directors of Dubai
Chambers.
Hana Al Rostamani, an Emirati who is the group chief
executive of First Abu Dhabi Bank, ranks third on the Forbes list.
She is the first female chief executive of the bank,
which is the UAE’s largest, with total assets of $268 billion as of September
2021.
With more than 23 years of experience in banking and
financial services, Ms Al Rostamani is also a board member of her family
business AW Rostamani Group.
Women leading companies based in the UAE are also on
the list.
Renuka Jagtiani, chairwoman and chief executive of
the Landmark Group, was ranked in second place.
The Dubai-based organisation operates in 21
countries and has more than 50,000 employees working in more than 2,200
outlets.
The full list is available online.
Forbes also released a list of the top five Arab
women that made history in 2021. It included Emirati engineer Nora Al
Matrooshi, who is the first Arab female training to be an astronaut.
Emirati women on the list:
Raja Easa Al Gurg, group managing director and
vice-chairwoman of Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group
Hana Al Rostamani, group chief executive of First
Abu Dhabi Bank
Maryam Buti Al Suwaidi, chief executive of the
Securities and Commodities Authority
Huda Al Rostamani, managing director of AW Rostamani
Group
Saeeda Jaffar, senior vice president and GCC group
country manager of Visa
Najla Ahmed Al Midfa, chief executive of Sharjah
Entrepreneurship Centre
Rola Abu Manneh, chief executive of Standard
Chartered Bank in UAE
Source: The National News
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