Majority Of Indian Muslim Women In Favour Of 21 Years As Legal Age For Marriage
New Age
Islam News Bureau
10 July 2023
• Majority Of Indian Muslim Women In
Favour Of 21 Years As Legal Age For Marriage
• British-Pakistani Journalist Saima
Mohsin Sues CNN For ‘Unfair Dismissal’
• Students Barred From Iranian Universities
For Refusing To Wear A Hijab
• Iran’s Women’s Football Team To Meet Russia
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Majority Of Indian Muslim Women In
Favour Of 21 Years As Legal Age For Marriage
Representational
image. News18
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July 10, 2023
Amid the row over the Uniform Civil
Code, News18 recently conducted India’s largest exclusive UCC survey. A total
of 8,035 Muslim women residing in 25 states and Union Territories across the
country were interviewed. The purpose of this survey was to understand their
opinions on the specific issues that the UCC is expected to address, focusing
solely on these topics rather than the proposed bill as a whole.
The seven key questions asked in this
survey did not make any mention of the UCC and were strictly limited to the
themes the UCC is likely to cover.
1. 67.2 per cent of Indian Muslim women
said yes when asked if they support a common law for marriage, divorce,
adoption and inheritance.
2. 6,320 of the 8,035 Muslim women
surveyed said 21 years should be the legal age for marriage both men and women.
3. 5,403 of the 8,035 Muslim women
surveyed support a common law for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance.
4. 82.04 per cent of the graduate plus
respondents agreed that the legal age of the marriage should be 21 years. More
than 80 per cent of the people belonging to age group 18-44 agreed for the
same. 73.06 per cent of people who are above 44 years of age agreed for the
same.
The survey was conducted in the
following states – Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh,
Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand,
Karnataka, Kerala, Ladakh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry,
Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West
Bengal.
Languages
The response languages were – Assamese,
Bengali, Bodo, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili,
Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, among
others.
Age group
Of the surveyed women, 18.8 per cent
were in the 18-24 age group, 32.9 per cent were aged 25-34, 26.6 per cent were
aged 35-44, 14.4 per cent were aged 45-54, 5.4 per cent were aged 55-64 and 1.9
per cent were 65 plus.
While 70.3 per cent were married, 24.1
per cent were unmarried, 2.9 per cent were widowed and 2.9 per cent divorced. A
total of 73.1 per cent of the respondents were Sunni, 13.3% Shia and 13.6 per
cent others.
Among the women surveyed, 10.8 per cent
were post-graduates, 27 per cent graduates, 20.8 per cent had studied up to
Class 12+, 13.8 per cent were Class 10+, 12.9 per cent had studied till Class
5-10, 4.4 per cent up to Class 5, 4.2 per cent were illiterate and 4.2 per cent
had basic literacy, with 1.9 per cent others.
Source: firstpost.com
https://www.firstpost.com/india/what-muslim-women-want-overwhelming-majority-in-favour-of-21-years-as-legal-age-for-marriage-12847852.html
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British-Pakistani Journalist Saima
Mohsin Sues CNN For ‘Unfair Dismissal’
Saima
Mohsin. — Photo courtesy: Twitter
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July 10, 2023
British-Pakistani reporter Saima Mohsin
is suing CNN for “unfair dismissal and discrimination” after she was severely
injured while on assignment, it emerged on Monday.
In a tweet, Mohsin said, “I was injured
on assignment for CNN. They fired me.
“We risk our lives in the field trusting
we’ll be taken care of,” she said, adding that she was suing the channel for
“unfair dismissal, disability and race discrimination”.
Mohsin also shared an article by The
Guardian which stated that she was left differently-abled after an accident
while reporting from Jerusalem on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
“Her cameraman ran over her foot in a
car, causing severe tissue damage that has left the British-Pakistani
journalist struggling to sit, stand and walk or return to work full-time,” the
report said.
In the article, Mohsin says that she
requested alternative duties and support for rehabilitation but CNN refused.
She also said that she asked CNN if she
could switch to a presenting role in order to reduce the amount of time spent
travelling but was told “you don’t have the look we are looking for,” the
report said, adding that her contract was terminated three years later.
Mohsin said that she had decided to file
the employment tribunal claim, which is due to be heard in London on Monday,
because the network had failed to support her after her injury.
“I worked hard to become an
international correspondent and loved my job with CNN. I risked my life many
times on assignment for CNN believing they would have my back. They did not,”
she was quoted as saying.
She also alleged race, gender pay gap
and disability discrimination, claiming that she was denied high-profile on-air
opportunities, with managers choosing to put white American correspondents on
air even when she was ready to go live on the ground, The Guardian said.
The publication said that CNN had
declined to comment on the matter and had opposed the charges on the grounds
that Mohsin could not file a case in London under the terms of her contract.
Source: dawn.com
https://www.dawn.com/news/1763961/british-pakistani-journalist-saima-mohsin-sues-cnn-for-unfair-dismissal
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Students barred from Iranian
universities for refusing to wear a hijab
Mon 10 Jul 2023
At least 60 female students in Iran have
reportedly been barred from university for flouting the country’s mandatory
hijab law.
Videos recently shared by citizen
journalists show the harassment of women and girls in subways, streets and
university campuses by disciplinary committees and pro-regime civilians. In
defiance, female university students across the country have been recording
themselves without headscarves.
Several female activists have told the
Guardian that detentions and arrests of young women are on rise. They said they
have been warned of serious consequences if they fail to adhere to the
mandatory hijab law.
The Guardian spoke to nine suspended
students who fear their plans to study further are unclear after they were
given suspensions and banned from their campuses.
“We’re being mass banned from the campus
for refusing to wear a hijab, and in the past few days there has been a violent
crackdown on us for peacefully sitting in protest,” said one student from a
university in Tehran. She said security officials “violently threw us out of
the classrooms”.
The student said their professors had
been attacked and banned from the campus for supporting them.
The students’ council of Iranian
universities has said that at least 40 female students were “conditionally
suspended” from classes for failing “to fully observe” hijab rules. However,
the NGO The Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) say that at least 64 students
have been suspended and three expelled.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a
student from the north-eastern city of Mashhad said: “I have been slapped with
repeated temporary suspensions for protesting on the 40th day of Mahsa Amini’s
death. Considering that I will be suspended again next semester, I will fall
behind a whole year. I dream of studying abroad, but unfortunately, given the
current situation, my future is dark.”
Students have also said the university
security teams are violently raiding dormitories and kicking students out for
sharing social media posts in support of protesters and those sentenced to
death.
“Three days after I shared a post about
death sentences, the university security team confiscated my phone after
raiding our residence hall,” said a student from Tehran. “They also collected
protest posters or anything related to the ongoing revolution and warned us of
worse consequences.
“I doubt the officers barging into our
dormitories are from the university’s security team. I’ve never seen them
before. The next day, I was temporarily suspended along with three of my
friends.”
The student was also warned that their
course grades would be marked as zero.
Another student in Tehran said: “The
university administration is acting like an extended arm of the Islamic
Republic. I was preparing my applications for a master’s in the EU, but I fear
I’ll neither receive a recommendation letter, nor will I receive the relevant
grades necessary for my application. I’ve been warned by my university’s administration
that I’ll get zero grades if I don’t apologise and retract my social media
posts in support of the revolution.”
Head shot of ParastouForhouar, an
Iranian artist living in Germany, and Shiva Amini, an Iranian futsal coach
living in Italy
The women forced out of Iran: ‘Every act
of resistance is a spark of hope’
Jasmin Ramsey, deputy director of the
non-profit Centre for Human Rights in Iran, said the Iranian government had a
well-documented history of persecuting university students who were accused of
participating in peaceful protests.
“Recent developments have revealed that
university disciplinary committees in Iran have conducted sham ‘hearings’ where
students and professors are treated as guilty without any opportunity to prove
their innocence,” she said.
Another student said court-like trials
were being held in universities, with women given a verdict based on the
accusations and then suspended. However, she was stoical about her treatment
saying: “There are those who lost their eyes; there are those who were
murdered. Compared with what they’ve suffered for the freedom of Iran, my
suspension is nothing.”
Source: theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/10/students-barred-from-iranian-universities-for-refusing-to-wear-a-hijab
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Iran’s women’s football team to meet
Russia
Jul 9, 2023
TEHRAN, Jul. 09 (MNA) – Iran’s women’s
football team is scheduled to play two friendly matches with Russia, slated for
July 14 and 18.
The Iranian team will travel to Russia
on Wednesday.
Maryam Azmoon’s team will face the
Russian team on July 14 in Kazan and meet them four days later in Moscow.
“Russia are 32nd in FIFA ranking and
will help us to test our team ahead of the Olympics qualification. These two
matches will help us prepare ourselves for the tournament,” Azmoon said in an
interview with Iran football federation’s website.
Team Melli prepare for the Olympic
Tournament Paris 2024 qualification, where the Persians are drawn along with
Australia, Chinese Taipei and the Philippines in Group A.
The competition Round 2 is scheduled for
Oct. 23 to Nov. 1. The three group winners and the best-ranked runners-up –
progress to Round 3 to play two pairs of home and away matches, slated for Feb.
24 and 28, 2024, with the eventual winners taking the two spots reserved for
Asia in the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024.
Source: en.mehrnews.com
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/203023/Iran-s-women-s-football-team-to-meet-Russia
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