Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate To Spearhead Apple TV Documentary On Afghan Women
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Age Islam News Bureau
13
April 2024
• Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate To Spearhead Apple TV Documentary On Afghan
Women
• Non-Muslim Women In Pakistan Vulnerable To Forced
Conversion, UN Experts Say
• Ten Years After ‘Bring Back Our Girls,’ Nigeria’s
Kidnappings Continue
• Juitah Laimin, From Sabah Seeks Help For
Pneumonia-Stricken Brother In S. Korea
• Old Video Of Pakistani Woman Being Groped Falsely
Shared As Sexual Harassment In BJP March
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Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate To Spearhead Apple TV Documentary On Afghan
Women
Malala Yousafzai, Nobel
Peace Prize winner has signed a deal with Apple TV+ that will see her produce
dramas and documentaries that focus on women and children. (AFP/File Photo)
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April 13, 2024
The film follows three women in real time as they
fight to recover their autonomy. According to Apple, the documentary offers a
powerful window into the seismic impact that the fall of Kabul to the Taliban
in 2021 had on women’s rights and livelihoods. Bread & Roses debuted at the
2023 Cannes Film Festival, and is set to premiere globally on Apple TV+ on June
21.
Shedding light on the issues explored by Bread &
Roses, director and producer Sahra Mani said, “Closing girls’ schools in
Afghanistan is not just a matter of feminist concern; rather, it is a matter of
international security. She went on to add, “The Taliban recognise that the
children of educated mothers are difficult to indoctrinate and are less
susceptible to becoming their future soldiers. Ensuring that girls’ schools
remain open in Afghanistan is crucial for the preservation and safety of our
entire world.”
Since its launch in November 2019, Apple TV+ has
become known for becoming the first all-original streaming service to launch
globally. The streaming service offers original compelling drama, comedy
series, feature films, and ground-breaking documentaries, and is home to the
award-winning comedy Ted Lasso.
Source: Tribune
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2462442/malala-to-spearhead-apple-tv-documentary-on-afghan-women
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Non-Muslim Women In Pakistan Vulnerable To Forced
Conversion, UN Experts Say
Hindu women continuously
face atrocities in Pakistan. Image Source: DNA India
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April 13, 2024
ISLAMABAD: United Nations (UN) human rights experts
have expressed dismay at the lack of protection for women and girls belonging
to non-Muslim communities in Pakistan, saying that they remained vulnerable to
forced marriages and conversions, Dawn.com reported.
“Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly
vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early
and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence,” the rights
experts said in a statement issued on Thursday in Geneva.
The experts included special rapporteur on
contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, Tomoya Obokata;
special rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children,
Siobhan Mullally; special rapporteur on minority issues, Nicolas Levrat;
special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Nazila Ghanea.
The chair of the working group on discrimination
against women and girls, Dorothy Estrada Tanck, and members of the working
group — Claudia Flores, Ivana Krstic, Haina Lu, and Laura Nyirinkindi — also
joined the experts in voicing concern on the situation.
The special rapporteurs are part of what is known as
the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council. Special procedures, the
largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the
general name of the council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring
mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues
in all parts of the world.
According to a Dawn.com report, the UN experts said:
“The exposure of young women and girls belonging to religious minority
communities to such heinous human rights violations and the impunity of such
crimes can no longer be tolerated or justified.”
They also expressed concern that forced marriages and
religious conversions of girls from religious minorities were “validated by the
courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their
abductors rather than allowing them to return them to their parents”.
The experts stressed that child, early and forced
marriages could not be justified on religious or cultural grounds. They
underscored that, under international law, consent was irrelevant when the
victim was a child under the age of 18.
“A woman’s right to choose a spouse and freely enter
into marriage is central to her life, dignity and equality as a human being and
must be protected and upheld by law,” the experts said.
They stressed the need for provisions to invalidate,
annul or dissolve marriages contracted under duress, with due consideration for
the women and girls concerned, and to ensure access to justice, remedy,
protection and adequate assistance for victims.
“Notwithstanding the right of children to freedom of
thought, conscience and religion in accordance with Article 14 of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, change of religion or belief in all circumstances
must be free, without coercion and undue inducements,” the UN experts said.
“The Pakistani authorities must enact and rigorously
enforce laws to ensure that marriages are contracted only with the free and
full consent of the intended spouses, and that the minimum age for marriage is
raised to 18, including for girls,” the experts said, adding that all women and
girls, including those belonging to the Christian and Hindu communities, must
be “treated without discrimination”.
They urged Pakistan to bring perpetrators to justice,
enforce existing legal protections against child, early and forced marriage,
abduction and trafficking of minority girls, and uphold the country’s international
human rights obligations.
Source: Dawn
https://www.dawn.com/news/1827111/non-muslim-women-vulnerable-to-forced-conversion-un-experts-say
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Ten years after ‘Bring Back Our Girls,’ Nigeria’s
kidnappings continue
12 Apr 2024
Since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300
students in 2014 at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok, abductions have
become a recurrent fixture in Nigeria, especially in the northern regions.
Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy and has one of the strongest military
forces on the continent, so why does the government still grapple with mass
kidnappings?
Source: Aljazeera
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JuitahLaimin, From Sabah Seeks Help For Pneumonia-Stricken
Brother In S. Korea
13 Apr 2024
KOTA KINABALU, April 13 — A family of farmers from the
interior of Keningau is seeking assistance for one of their members who was
diagnosed with pneumonia last month, and was admitted to a ward in a hospital
in South Korea.
The family also appeals to the government to help pay
the hospital bills, which have reached RM90,000, as they are unable to afford
it themselves.
JuitahLaimin, 35, who flew to South Korea on April 8
said her brother Eddy, 27, the eighth of 11 siblings, works as a welder in the
country.
“At first, we thought it was just a common lung
infection but after a week, the doctor told us it was more than that and that
Eddy had pneumonia,” she told Bernama.
Since then, she said they have been trying to raise
funds through social media to help settle the hospital bill, but it keeps
mounting because Eddy has to be hospitalised for treatment, and the doctors
would not release him until he is healthy enough to fly back to Malaysia.
Juitah said her brother’s case also caught the
attention of several non-governmental organisations including SolidaritiAnak
Sabah, which is based in Selangor, to help spread the news.
“A pastor in South Korea is also among those trying to
help him arrange things and raise funds,” she said, adding that they have
received over RM20,000 so far, including RM350 from the Keningau MP’s office.
When asked if Eddy received assistance from the
company where he works, Juitah said there has been no help from the company so
far.
Meanwhile, SolidaritiAnak Sabah president SemKulian
said the NGO tried to draw the attention of local leaders and ministers from
Sabah to help the family.
Source: Malay Mail
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Old Video Of Pakistani Woman Being Groped Falsely
Shared As Sexual Harassment In BJP March
By Kushel HM
13-04-2024
Newschecker ran a reverse image search of keyframes of
the video, which led us to this Youtube video, dated May 16, 2007, headlined,
“Sherry Rehman, Yousaf Raza Gilani, PPP Rally”. A similar video can be seen
here, confirming that it is not related to the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Taking a cue from this, we ran a relevant keyword
search, which led us to this Guardian feature on protests in Pakistan, dated
September 5, 2008, which references to “prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s
infamous apparent grope of information minister Sherry Rehman in a political
rally last year.” Similar write-ups mentioning the incident can be seen here
and here, further confirming that the video is not of a recent election-related
incident from India.
Source: News Checker
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