Rumana Islam, First Ever Female Commissioner of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange
09
May 2022
• Rumana Islam, First Ever Female Commissioner of
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange
• Ons Jabeur Sharpens Quest to Inspire More Arab Women
To Take Up Tennis
• A Woman Alone in Oman: Three Weeks along the Arabian
Coast
• Afghan Women Deplore Taliban’s New Order to Cover
Faces in Public
• Norway Slams Afghan Taliban Edict Demanding Women
Cover Up
• The US Special Representative Expressed Concern
about the Taliban’s Recent Policy on Women
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Rumana Islam, First Ever Female Commissioner Of
Bangladesh Securities And Exchange Commission
Rumana Islam
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Star Business Report
May 9, 2022
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission
(BSEC) gets Professor Rumana Islam as its first ever female commissioner today.
She joined in the post, which remained vacant for 13
months when Khondoker Kamaluzzaman left the office aas a commissioner in March
2021, according to the BSEC.
Rumana completed her bachelor's and master's degrees
in law from the University of Dhaka, She obtained her second master's degree in
International Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge, the UK in 2006.
Later in 2015, she accomplished her PhD in
International Investment Law from the University of Warwick, UK.
Rumana joined the Faculty of Law at the University of
Dhaka in 2008 as an assistant professor.
Source: The Daily Star
https://www.thedailystar.net/business/news/rumana-islam-first-ever-female-commissioner-bsec-3019581
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Ons Jabeur Sharpens Quest To Inspire More Arab Women
To Take Up Tennis
Ons Jabeur in action. -
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May 8, 2022
PARIS: Ons Jabeur's long-stated goal is that her
historic exploits on court lead to more Arab women taking up tennis -- becoming
the first Arab player to win a Grand Slam in next month's French Open final
would do wonders to achieve that.
The 27-year-old Tunisian became a front-rank contender
for tennis's greatest prize on clay with her gutsy three-set victory over
American Jessica Pegula in Madrid on Saturday.
In doing so the engaging and highly expressive Jabeur
wrote another piece of tennis history.
Her 7-5, 0-6, 6-2 victory made her the first Arab or
African woman to win a WTA 1000 title.
Her title in Birmingham last year was the first for an
Arab woman player on the circuit and she is the first Arab player -- man or
woman -- to crack the top 10.
Indeed she will return to her previous highest ranking
of seven on Monday.
With a tour-leading 12 victories on clay so far this
season -- and with Australia's world number one Ashleigh Barty having retired
-- the omens seem positive for her.
However, she has another glass ceiling to crack in
reaching the last four of a Grand Slam for the first time -- so she has two
quarter-finals to her credit in Australia in 2020 and Wimbledon last year.
Jabeur -- the junior champion at Roland Garros in 2011
-- is, though, armed with a powerful weapon apart from her strokeplay.
"Definitely all those matches I've won on clay
will give me a lot of confidence," she said as she absorbed her Madrid
victory.
"When you're confident like that and you win a
lot of matches, I think I should take this opportunity to go, like, really
forward and win."
Jabeur admits to not watching much tennis when she was
growing up and it was her husband Karim Kamoun who was more "obsessed by
Roland Garros."
Kamoun was on hand in Madrid -- he planted a kiss on
her cheek courtside after her triumph -- as were her siblings and the head of
the Tunisian tennis federation to see her momentous win.
Jabeur welcomes such attention but she would like to
see more company in the locker room on the tour as Arab female players have
been a rarity. Her compatriot Selima Sfar reached a career high of 75 in the
world in 2001 but there was little progress for other Arab women players until
Jabeur came on the scene.
"Being the only Arab is not easy to be on tour
right now," she said at Wimbledon last year.
"I just want to say if I did it (succeed on
tour), it's not impossible.
"Like I said before, I always try to inspire
other generations."
Jabeur's favourite player of all time is America's
three-time Wimbledon finalist and 2003 US Open champion Andy Roddick -- but it
is Morocco's four-time Grand Slam quarter-finalist Hicham Arazi who has been
her role model.
Jabeur said just as Arazi inspired her, so she hopes
she can do the same for Arab women.
"Honestly, he really inspired me, and I am trying
to do the same here," she said.
"I like to see how French people are together (on
tour), Americans, Australians, and I feel like I want to see this, you know,
with my country.
"It doesn't matter, Tunisia or Egypt or Morocco,
I really want to see more and more players."
Even before her great run at Wimbledon last year,
Jabeur's force of personality and talent had already convinced others,
including American legend Venus Williams, that she will achieve her goal.
"You're gonna see a whole other generation of
women from North Africa coming into tennis," said Williams.
"It's going to be all owed to her."
Source: Times Of India
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A Woman Alone in Oman: Three Weeks along the Arabian
Coast
By Noa Avishag Schnall
May 9, 2022
I could barely tell where the salt ended and the sky
began.
I was on my way to Masirah, Oman’s largest island,
when the surrounding terrain turned into a massive salt flat. At its edge, near
the road, two Bangladeshi workers were up to their ankles in the mixture of
liquid and minerals, pushing the salt flakes into pyramid-shaped piles. I, too,
waded in, the horizon blurred by an orange-pink haze.
Finally I reached the ferry and, after more than an
hour at sea, arrived at Masirah. I began driving down the west coast of the
bowtie-shaped island, hoping to make it to its southern point by sundown, a
distance of some 40 miles. The farther I got from the port, the fewer people I
saw — until, pulling onto the sand of Bu Rasas Beach, there was no one. With
the trunk of my S.U.V. open to the sea, emitting the only light for miles, I
could hear the small shore creatures scuttling near the water’s edge.
Source: Nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/travel/oman-road-trip.html
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Afghan Women Deplore Taliban’s New Order to Cover
Faces in Public
By Ruchi Kumar
8 May 2022
The Taliban has issued yet another decree imposing
further restrictions on Afghan women, and criminalising their clothing.
While the Taliban have always imposed restrictions to
govern the bodies of Afghan women, the decree is the first for this regime
where criminal punishment is assigned for violation of the dress code for
women.
The Taliban’s recently reinstated Ministry for the
Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice announced on Saturday that it is
“required for all respectable Afghan women to wear a hijab”, or headscarf.
The ministry, in a statement, identified the chadori
(the blue-coloured Afghan burqa or full-body veil) as the “best hijab” of
choice.
The ministry statement provided a description: “Any
garment covering the body of a woman is considered a hijab, provided that it is
not too tight to represent the body parts nor is it thin enough to reveal the
body.”
Punishment was also detailed: Male guardians of
offending women will receive a warning, and for repeated offences they will be
imprisoned.
“If a woman is caught without a hijab, her Mahram (a
male guardian) will be warned. The second time, the guardian will be summoned
[by Taliban officials], and after repeated summons, her guardian will be
imprisoned for three days,” according to the statement.
The new decree is the latest in a series of edicts
restricting women’s freedoms imposed since the Taliban seized power in
Afghanistan last summer. News of the decree was received with widespread condemnation
and outrage by Afghan women and activists.
“Why have they reduced women to [an] object that is
being sexualised?” asked Marzia, a 50-year-old university professor from Kabul.
Source: Aljazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/8/taliban-make-burqa-mandatory-for-afghan-women
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Norway slams Afghan Taliban edict demanding women
cover up
May 9, 2022
COPENHAGEN (DENMARK): Norway has slammed the latest
Afghan Taliban edict demanding women cover up head to toe in public and warned
that Afghanistan's new rulers are "steering the country toward a
humanitarian, economic and human rights catastrophe".
The Taliban decree, announced on Saturday, ordered all
Afghan women to wear all-covering clothing in public, the traditional burqa,
and threatened to punish their male relatives in cases of noncompliance. It
evoked similar restrictions on women and other hardline measures imposed by the
Taliban during their previous, 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan.
Earlier this year, the Taliban decided against
reopening schools to girls above grade six, reneging on an earlier promise and
opting to appease their hardline base. That decision has drawn international
condemnation and disrupted efforts by the Taliban, who seized power in
Afghanistan last August, to win recognition from potential international donors
at a time when the country is mired in a worsening humanitarian crisis.
"I am outraged by the announcement that warns
that women in Afghanistan must cover their faces in public, cannot drive a car
and only leave home when necessary," a statement from Henrik Thune,
Norway's deputy foreign minister, said Sunday.
Thune said the edict is "completely
unacceptable" and stressed that although the Taliban are in power,
"they are still an isolated and non-representative government".
"The Taliban's policies continue to oppress women
and girls, instead of addressing the economic crisis and the need for an
inclusive government," he said.
Norway hosted three days of talks in January among the
Taliban, Western diplomats and other delegates at closed-door meetings in the
snow-capped mountains above the Norwegian capital of Oslo.
The talks - the first in Europe since the Taliban
takeover - focused on humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and human rights. The
Taliban-appointed foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said the discussions
"went very well." The talks also included discussions between the
Taliban and members of Afghan civil society.
Thune said it was necessary to pursue dialogue,
"even if the Taliban have values that are far from ours" and added
that without dialogue, "we also have no opportunity to influence those in
power."
He urged the Taliban to "once again to keep their
promises to Afghan women and girls".
"Afghanistan's women and girls are waiting for
the right to a full life and can't be excluded from society," he said.
Source: times of india
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The US Special Representative Expressed Concern About
the Taliban’s Recent Policy on Women
By Saqalain Eqbal
09 May 2022
Thomas West, the US Special Representative for
Afghanistan, has expressed concern over the Taliban’s recent policies on women,
warning that the Taliban’s measures may undermine their relationship with the
international community.
The US special representative also wrote that he,
along with Afghans, express deep concern regarding the Taliban’s recent measures that impede the
rights of women and girls.
At the same time, Tomas Niklasson, the EU Special
Representative for Afghanistan, stated in separate meetings with the Taliban’s
foreign and education ministers that he was concerned about the imposition of
the hijab in Afghanistan.
Niklasson tweeted today that full face covering veils
for women is contrary to the Afghan
culture and tradition in many parts of the country.
Following the Taliban’s restrictions on women, the
Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice made hijab
mandatory for women and girls, and warned that parents of women who did not
wear hijab would be punished and imprisoned.
The Taliban’s preference of blue burqa (Chadari) in
its statement aroused strong objections inside the region.
Source: khaama Press
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