Hijab Ban Isn't There Anymore: Karnataka Chief Minister
New Age
Islam News Bureau
23 December 2023
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Hijab Ban
Isn't There Anymore: Karnataka Chief Minister
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Saudi
Arabia Funds Education Program For Yemeni Female School Dropouts
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Iran Shutters
Bookshop Over Hijab Law Violation: Report
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Human
Rights Watch Warns Of UNAMA’s Potential Major Compromise In Afghan Girls’
Education
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Qalandar
Ebad: 150,000 Women Contribute to Health Sector of Afghanistan
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Black
Woman In US Dials 911 To Report Domestic Violence, Shot Dead By Cop
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Hijab Ban Isn't There Anymore: Karnataka
Chief Minister
Karnataka Hijab Row
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TOI News Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Dec
22, 2023
The Karnataka government on Friday said
it will withdraw the ban on wearing of hijab in educational institutions which
was imposed under the previous BJP rule.
Chief minister Siddaramaiah said that he
has directed officials to withdraw the order, saying that women are free to
wear hijab (head covering) and go anywhere.
"Hijab ban isn't there anymore.
(Women) can wear hijab and go anywhere
... How you dress and what you eat is your choice. Why should I obstruct
you?," the chief minister said during a gathering in Mysore.
He also lashed out at the BJP
government, accusing it of dividing people on the basis of clothes, dress and
caste.
The Congress government in Karnataka had
earlier hinted that it would withdraw the order after coming to power in May
this year.
The hijab row had erupted after six
students at the Government Pre-University College for Girls, Udupi, who were
not allowed to enter their classrooms wearing the hijab, began a protest in
December 2021.
The protests spread across the state,
vitiating educational campuses in coastal and Malnad districts.
The previous BJP government had issued a
circular prohibiting hijabs in schools and pre-university colleges in the
state.
The matter reached the Karnataka HC,
which upheld the decision of the state government.
The issue was later taken up in the
Supreme Court where a two-judge bench pronounced a split verdict. The Supreme
Court then said it would consider setting up a three-judge bench to adjudicate
the matter.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/no-more-hijab-ban-in-karnataka-announces-chief-minister-siddaramaiah/articleshow/106218721.cms?from=mdr
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Saudi Arabia Funds Education Program For
Yemeni Female School Dropouts
The director
of civil-military operations of the Joint Forces inaugurated alternative
classes as part of the project in Yemen. (SPA)
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December 22, 2023
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has been praised
for its role in providing education supplements for female students who drop
out of school in Yemen.
The Director of Civil-Military
Operations of the Joint Forces, Maj. Gen. Abdullah bin Dakhil Al-Hababi,
inaugurated alternative classes as part of the project, which is funded by the
Saudi aid agency KSrelief, and implemented by the Islamic World Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization in cooperation with the Al-Khair Coalition
for Humanitarian Relief, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday.
During the inauguration, Brig. Gen.
Mohammed Al-Mutairi, commander of the Support Force on Socotra Island, received
Al-Hababi in the presence of the governor of Socotra and other senior
officials.
Undersecretary of Socotra Governorate
Brig. Gen. Saleh Al-Socatri praised the Kingdom’ for supporting the education
sector in Yemen.
As part of the project, KSrelief will
supply office furniture and equipment to 21 schools along with 64 alternative
classrooms.
School bags will also be distributed to
19,000 female students and training programs will be implemented for 350
teachers.
Professional and vocational support will
be provided to heads of families of orphan girls, and awareness-raising
campaigns will be carried out to encourage girls’ enrolment in education.
Fahad Al-Osaimi, director of the
Emergency Relief Department at KSrelief, said that the Saudi aid agency will
continue implementing its plans on the island, especially in education, to
provide alternative classes for females.
Source: arabnews.com
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2430396/saudi-arabia
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Iran shutters bookshop over hijab law
violation: Report
Dec 22, 2023
The closure is part of punitive measures
by authorities over past year against women & businesses who fail to
observe the Islamic republic's strict dress code.
Iranian police on Friday closed a major
bookshop in the centre of the capital Tehran for allowing unveiled women to
enter the premises without a compulsory headscarf, a newspaper reported.
The closure is part of punitive measures
by authorities over the past year against women and businesses who fail to
observe the Islamic republic's strict dress code.
"Today, at around noon (0830 GMT),
police officers went to the central Tehran branch of Shahr-e-Ketab (book city
in Farsi) and closed it," reformist Shargh daily said on its website.
Shargh cited the reasons for the closure
as "the non-observance of trade union regulations and the orders of the
interior ministry" as well as "the presence of customers without
veils".
The bookshop confirmed its closure by
authorities in a brief statement on its official Instagram account without
elaborating.
Covering the head and the neck has been
compulsory for women in Iran since 1983, following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Women in Iran have increasingly defied
the dress code since mass protests triggered by the September 16 death in
police custody last year of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd, who was
arrested for allegedly flouting the dress rules.
During the months-long demonstrations,
several hundred people were killed, including dozens of security forces, and
thousands were arrested.
As part of efforts to enforce the ban
over the past year, authorities have closed several businesses for not respecting
the dress code and installed surveillance cameras in public places to monitor
violations.
State media reported in July increased
police patrols aimed at catching those ignoring the law and in September,
parliament voted in favour of a bill that would toughen penalties on those who
breach the dress code.
Source: hindustantimes.com
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/iran-shutters-bookshop-over-hijab-law-violation-report-101703264813834.html
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Human Rights Watch warns of UNAMA’s
potential major compromise in Afghan girls’ education
Fidel Rahmati
December 22, 2023
The head of the Women’s Rights Division
at Human Rights Watch reacted to reports about the education of girls in
religious schools, stating that these schools are not an ‘acceptable
substitute’ for public schools.
Heather Barr said it seems Roza
Otunbayeva is ‘ready for a major and deeply harmful compromise’ in the absence
of Afghan girls.
This senior Human Rights Watch official
added on the social media platform X that for a country whose children learn
only ‘extremist teachings,’ there is no future.
Previously, Roza Otunbayeva, the United
Nations Special Representative in Afghanistan, had said that she had received
‘more evidence’ showing that more girls are being educated in religious
schools.
Otunbayeva said on Thursday afternoon
this week at a United Nations Security Council meeting that the organization is
investigating reports about the education of girls in religious schools
controlled by the Taliban.
She added that ‘the Taliban do not allow
any monitoring of these schools and we do not know what is being taught there.’
However, Heather Barr criticized Roza
Otunbayeva, saying it seems she is ‘ready for a major compromise’ with the
Taliban.
Heather Barr described this compromise,
which she said is happening in the absence of Afghan girls, as ‘impossible and
deeply harmful.’
She said that Afghan experts repeatedly
talk about replacing religious schools with public schools for the education of
both girls and boys. Heather Barr asked, ‘Does the United Nations listen to
these theories?’
She added that the United Nations is
verifying reports that the Taliban allow girls to study in religious schools.
Meanwhile, this United Nations official
said that the lack of a sufficiently modern curriculum with equal access for
girls and boys will make the Taliban’s self-sufficiency economic plan
impossible.
Previously, Human Rights Watch had
reported earlier this month that the Taliban’s ‘abusive’ educational policies
are harming both boys and girls.
According to the report, the Taliban’s
actions, such as firing female teachers, corporal punishment of students, and
regressive changes in the curriculum, have also led to the failure of boys’
schools.
At the same time, since the Taliban have
fired all female teachers from boys’ schools, many boys are being taught by
unqualified individuals or are in classes that have no teachers at all.
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/human-rights-watch-warns-of-unamas-potential-major-compromise-in-afghan-girls-education/
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Qalandar Ebad: 150,000 Women Contribute
to Health Sector of Afghanistan
December 22, 2023
The acting minister of public health of
the Islamic Emirate said that 150,000 women are currently employed in the
health sector in Afghanistan and that experienced women have been given jobs.
In his interview with a Malaysian news
channel, Astro Awani, Qalandar Ebad said that the Islamic Emirate is not
against women’s rights in Afghanistan and they are trying to create a safe
environment for the education of girls above the sixth grade in the country.
“The number of women contributing to the
health sector is 150, 000 females working in health sector. Here is a huge
number, if you see these numbers in the ex-administration, you will never see
this number, because many of the females who have the experience in different
areas we have given them jobs in the health sector. And we have institutes for
nursing, for midwifery and also for the post-graduation in different programs.
Through this way, what we want to clarify is that we are not against the rights
of the women education, we have allowed and opened doors for all women,”
Qalandar Ebad said.
The acting minister of public health
added that the government of the Islamic Emirate has the support of the Afghan
people and it is time for the government to be recognized.
“In the last two years, we fulfilled all
the requirements of the recognition. The UN has its own rules and regulations
to recognize somebody or some country, and the international community they
have rules and regulations. Look, the first priority inside Afghanistan is the
peaceful condition. In last twenty years, there was not any peace inside
Afghanistan; on a daily basis, there was killings, war and terror, hundreds of
the people were killed at that time. But in the last two years, there has been
hundred percent peaceful situation inside Afghanistan, this is a main thing,”
Ebad noted.
“The remarks of the acting minister of
public health that they are interested in education, is beyond his authority,”
said Suraya Paikan, women’s rights activist.
This comes as more than 820 days have
passed since girls above the sixth grade have been banned from going to school.
Source: tolonews.com
https://tolonews.com/health-186613
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Black Woman In US Dials 911 To Report
Domestic Violence, Shot Dead By Cop
December 23, 2023
A black woman in Los Angeles dialled
911, the emergency helpline number in the US, on December 4, to report domestic
violence. The Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies responded to the distress
call and arrived at her house, but a confrontation at her house resulted in the
fatal killing of the black woman by the cop.
911 Distress Call
On the evening of December 4,
27-year-old Niani Finlayson dialled 911 to report a case of domestic violence
in which she alleged that her boyfriend "would not leave her alone and
then screaming and sounds of a struggle could be heard," the LA County
Sheriff's department said.
The LA County Sheriff's deputies arrived
at the apartment in East Avenue, Lancaster and heard people arguing and
yelling. The cops forced open the door and found the woman holding a large
kitchen knife. The cops claimed that the woman told them that she would stab
her boyfriend for pushing her nine-year-old daughter. She rushed inside the
apartment where her boyfriend was sitting and grabbed him while holding the
large eighth-inch blade knife. The confrontation resulted in the fatal shooting
and the woman received multiple gunshot wounds in front of her daughter.
The woman was taken to a hospital, where
she was declared dead. The homicide investigators responded to the incident and
an investigation is underway.
Family Contest Police's Claims
The woman dialled 911 and reported that
she was inside with her nine-year-old daughter and had been injured by her
ex-boyfriend and wanted him removed, the Guardian reported quoting the family's
attorney.
Sheriff's deputy Ty Shelton allegedly
killed a person under similar circumstances. In 2020, Ty Shelton, along with
other deputies, responded to a 911 call reporting domestic violence on West
Avenue. A confrontation between the deputy and the suspect, Michael Thomas,
resulted in the fatal shooting of the man, who "refused to cooperate with
the cops and tried to grab their gun while they were trying to handcuff
him."
"The police lied that my mom was
threatening them," Xaisha, her daughter, also a witness to her mother's
shooting, said at a press conference on Thursday alongside her grandparents,
calling for Shelton to be prosecuted. "She was my best friend. She was
always there for me. It's unbelievable that she's gone and she's not coming
back. I miss my mom," the nine-year-old said.
The girl said her two-year-old sister
continues to ask where their mother is and she doesn't know how to respond.
Her family filed a legal claim against
the county and sheriff's department alleging wrongful death, assault and civil
rights violations and have started a $30,000 fundraiser in her memory.
Source: ndtv.com
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/black-woman-shot-dead-by-us-cop-who-dialled-911-to-report-domestic-violence-4726384#pfrom=home-ndtvworld_us
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