87 Chibok Girls Still In Boko Haram Captivity
New
Age Islam News Bureau
17
December 2023
•
87 Chibok Girls Still In Boko Haram Captivity
•
Gujarat: Man Sues ‘Weekend Wife’, Seeks Restitution Of His Conjugal Rights
•
Women Survivors Of Gender-Based Violence Being Jailed By Taliban: UN Report
•
Israeli Forces Kill Two Christian Women In ‘Cold Blood’ Inside Gaza Church
•
Killing of Israeli hostages by the country's military alarms captives' families
Compiled
by New Age Islam News Bureau
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/chibok-girls-boko-haram/d/131327
-----
87
Chibok Girls Still In Boko Haram Captivity
FILE PHOTO: A screengrab taken on May 12, 2014, from
a video of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram obtained by AFP shows
girls, wearing the full-length hijab and praying
-----
17th
December 2023
Member
representing Chibok, Domboa and Gwoza Federal Constituency in the House of
Representatives, Ahmed Jaha, has said no fewer than 87 Chibok girls are still
in Boko Haram’s captivity.
Fifty-seven
of the schoolgirls escaped immediately after jumping from the trucks on which
they were being transported, while others were rescued by the military.
However,
Jaha, while commending the Federal Government for recovering some of the girls,
noted that 87 had yet to regain their freedom.
He
spoke at an event organised in Abuja on Saturday to showcase the Chibok culture
to children and youths of the community not privileged to witness such
following the activities of the terrorists.
Jaha
said, “I commend efforts being made to ensure peace returns to Chibok. We also have to commend the FG for recovering
some of the Chibok girls, but we still have 87 in captivity. We are happy with
the way and manner peace has returned to some parts of Chibok, but we are
begging the FG to provide security where they are not present.”
He
described the community as relatively safe, adding that some communities were
still being occupied by the terrorists.
Source:
Punchng.Com
https://punchng.com/87-chibok-girls-still-in-boko-haram-captivity-rep-2/
-----
Gujarat:
Man Sues ‘Weekend Wife’, Seeks Restitution Of His Conjugal Rights
Representative photo
----
Dec
17, 2023
AHMEDABAD:
A working woman has approached the Gujarat high court raising the issue whether
visiting her husband two weekends in a month amounts to fulfilling her conjugal
obligations or not. The woman approached the high court earlier this month
after the husband sued her in a family court in Surat last year invoking
section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act for restitution of conjugal rights by
seeking directions to his wife to come and live with him daily.
The
husband submitted before the family court that his wife does not live with him
on an everyday basis. After the birth of their son, she continued to live with
her parents on the pretext of her job.
The
husband submitted that he was also aggrieved by the fact that the wife visits
him only during the second and fourth weekends in a month, and lives at her
paternal house during the rest of the month.
The
husband also complained that his wife continued her job while ignoring the
son's health and depriving the husband of conjugal rights.
In
response, the wife filed an application in family court under Rule 7 Order 11
of the civil procedure code and urging the court to junk the husband's suit as
not maintainable. She said she visits the matrimonial home regularly, on two
weekends each month, and the husband's claim that she has abandoned him and
needs to be directed to live with him is thus wrong.
On
September 25, the family court rejected the wife's objection and said that the
claims made would need a full-fledged trial and the issue could not be decided
at the pre-trial stage.
Before
the HC, the woman's lawyer argued that Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act says
a person can be directed to fulfil conjugal obligation, if she has withdrawn
from the society of her spouse. In this case, the wife visits her matrimonial
home every second weekend and the husband cannot claim that she has withdrawn
from his society.
Justice
V D Nanavati inquired, "What is wrong if the husband asks his wife to come
and stay with him? Does he not have the right to sue?" The judge said the
issue requires consideration, and asked the husband to respond by January 25.
Source:
Times Of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshowprint/106055452.cms
-----
Women
Survivors Of Gender-Based Violence Being Jailed By Taliban: UN Report
Dec
17 2023
The
Taliban regime in Afghanistan is sending Afghan women to prison to protect them
from gender-based violence, Khaama Press reported, citing the Office of the
Deputy of the United Nations in Afghanistan.
The
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has stated that
gender-based violence against women and girls existed in Afghanistan even
before the dominance of the Taliban. However, with the advent of the new
regime, the social life of women has been limited, and family violence against
women, especially by their husbands, has increased.
The
UNAMA office added that before the re-establishment of the Taliban, there were
23 shelters for the protection of women survivors of gender-based violence in
the country, none of which are now active.
The
de facto Taliban regime has deemed protective shelters for women or 'safe
houses' as originating from Western culture and declared their existence
"unnecessary," Khaama Press reported.
The
officials of the Taliban administration have stated that they take commitments
from caretakers of violence-affected women to not harm them.
The
UN report also says that women are no longer working in the judiciary or law
enforcement, and are not allowed to deal with crimes of gender-based violence.
Women are only permitted to attend work when called upon by their male
supervisors.
"In
cases where women survivors of violence had no male relatives or there were
safety concerns, they were sent to prisons; similar to addicts and the
homeless," the report stated.
Meanwhile,
the 'Purple Saturday Movement', managed by a number of protesting women, has
expressed concern in a statement regarding the realities reflected in this
report, according to Khaama Press.
"Imprisoning
women who are themselves victims of gender-based violence is not only against
Islam and Sharia, but in reality, it is a horrific form of mental, emotional,
and physical abuse of women that must be stopped immediately," the statement
of the movement reads.
UNAMA
has further stated that since the Taliban came to power again on August 15,
2021, the handling of gender-based violence complaints has been unclear and
inconsistent.
The
Office of the Deputy of the United Nations has also emphasised that women who
have experienced violence are now afraid of seeking official justice for fear
of arrest, Khaama Press reported.
More
than two years have passed since the Taliban banned girls from studying beyond
sixth grade in Afghanistan and there is no sign of reopening the schools to
girls studying above sixth grade.
Since
the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, they have issued several
decrees that impose restrictions on women. Afghanistan's women have faced
numerous challenges since the Taliban returned to power. Girls and women in the
war-torn country have no access to education, employment and public spaces,
Khaama Press reported.
Source:
Www.Business-Standard.Com
-----
Israeli
forces kill two Christian women in ‘cold blood’ inside Gaza church
17
Dec 2023
Two
Christian women – an elderly mother and her daughter – were shot dead by an
Israeli soldier on the grounds of a Catholic church in Gaza City, the Latin
Patriarchate of Jerusalem has said.
“Around
noon [10:00 GMT] today … a sniper” of the Israeli army “murdered two Christian
women inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza” where Christian families have been
sheltering since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, the patriarchate said in a
statement on Saturday.
“Nahida
and her daughter Samar were shot and killed as they walked to the Sister’s
Convent. One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety,” it said.
The
patriarchate highlighted that no warning was given before the shooting started
and added that “they were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the Parish,
where there are no belligerents.”
“This
is a targeted death campaign during the Christmas season on the world’s oldest
Christian community,” Hammam Farah, Nahida and Samar’s family member, said in a
statement on X.
Reporting
from Rafah in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said the church, which
was accommodating Christians in Gaza, has been a target of direct Israeli
bombardment over the past few days.
In
its statement, the patriarchate said three projectiles fired by an Israeli tank
had also struck a convent of the Sisters of Mother Teresa charity, destroying
its generator and fuel supplies, and rendering a building housing 54 disabled
people uninhabitable.
“The
54 disabled persons are currently displaced and without access to the
respirators that some of them need to survive,” it added.
“The
800 remaining Christians in Gaza are on the verge of extinction. They’ve made
life very difficult for this community,” Mahmoud said.
However,
the number of Christians in Gaza has dwindled in recent years. Today there are
only approximately 1,000 left, a sharp drop from the 3,000 registered in 2007,
when Hamas assumed complete control over the enclave.
According
to KamelAyyad, a spokesperson for the Church of Saint Porphyrius, which was
recently bombed by Israel, the majority of the population is from Gaza itself.
The
rest arrived here after the creation of the state of Israel, which displaced
about 700,000 Palestinians – an event they refer to as the Nakba, or
“catastrophe”.
The
Israeli blockade of Gaza following Hamas’s rise to power in 2007 accelerated
the flight of Christians from the poverty-stricken enclave.
“It’s
become very difficult for people to live here,” said Ayyad. “Many of the Christians
left for the West Bank, for America, Canada or the Arab world, seeking better
education and health.”
While
most of Gaza’s Christians belong to the Greek Orthodox faith, smaller numbers
worship at the Catholic Holy Family Church and the Gaza Baptist Church.
After
Saturday’s church attack, Italy’s top diplomat Antonio Tajani issued a
“heartfelt appeal to the Israeli government and army to protect Christian
places of worship”.
Under
the recent Israeli bombardments, Christians and Muslims alike sought refuge at
several churches in Gaza like Saint Porphyrius.
But
after this church was bombed, they all moved to the nearby Holy Family Church,
located 400 metres (1,300 feet) away, which has also been bombed now.
But
living under siege, Christians in Gaza attest to a spirit of solidarity that
has united faiths in their struggle for survival and their dream of freedom.
Source:
Www.Aljazeera.Com
-----
Killing
of Israeli hostages by the country's military alarms captives' families
17
December 2023
Friends
and family mourn Samer Fouad Al-Talalka, a member of Israel's Bedouin Arab
minority who was mistakenly killed by the Israeli military while being held
hostage in Gaza by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at his funeral in Hura
village, so...
The
mistaken killings of three Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli
military on Friday was a nightmare come true for former hostages and for the
families of people still being held by Hamas.
Raz
Ben-Ami, a former Israeli hostage released by Hamas during a recent truce
between the two sides, told demonstrators in Tel Aviv, Israel, that she had
warned government officials during a meeting with Israel’s Cabinet that the
offensive could put ...
“I
begged the Cabinet, and we all warned that the fighting would likely harm the
hostages. Unfortunately, I was right,” said Ben-Ami, whose husband Ohad is
still being held captive in Gaza.
Hamas-led
fighters abducted more than 240 Israelis and foreign nationals — including
women, young children and older people — during their Oct. 7 surprise attack,
in which Palestinian assailants overran border communities near Gaza. Roughly
1,200 peo...
More
than 80 Israelis, all women and children, and 24 foreign nationals were freed
from Gaza as part of a temporary cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas
in late November. Roughly 240 Palestinian prisoners — all women and children —
were rele...
On
Friday, the Israeli military announced that its soldiers had killed the three
hostages — identified as Yotam Haim, AlonShamriz and SamerTalalka — in Shejaiye
in northern Gaza. Their deaths stunned the country and provided a stark
reminder of the...
For
AlaaTalalka, whose cousin Samer was killed Friday in Shajaiye, his relative’s
monthslong captivity and sudden killing were like “a bad dream that I keep
trying to wake up from,” he said. Palestinian militants abducted Samer from the
farm where h...
Israeli
leaders have said their operation has two goals: to topple Hamas and to free
the more than 120 hostages who remain captive in Gaza. Top officials, including
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have insisted that the twin
objectives go h...
Source:
Www.Deccanherald.Com
-----
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/chibok-girls-boko-haram/d/131327