Turkey’s First Lady Emine Erdoğan's Message To Industry Leaders: 'Let Women Lead'
New
Age Islam News Bureau
24
September 2023
• Turkey’s First Lady Emine Erdoğan's Message To
Industry Leaders: 'Let Women Lead'
• Wearing A Hijab Has Brought Muslim Women, Around The
World, Honour And Joy, But It's Also Attracted Abuse And Hate
• Intl Concerns Persist Over Women’s Situation in
Afghanistan
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Turkey’s First Lady Emine Erdoğan's Message To
Industry Leaders: 'Let Women Lead'
Devi E. Nampiaparampil, MD,
MS (left) and First Lady Emine Erdoğan (right).
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By Devi Nampiaparampil
September 23, 2023
NEW YORK - On Wednesday, September 20, Her Excellency
Emine Erdogan, the First Lady of Turkey, joined TIKAD, the Turkish Business
Women Association, at Rockefeller Center to address industry leaders about
methods for promoting peace and global justice.
The non-governmental organization debuted the music
video for "Let Women Lead," a song imbued with progressive ideas
aimed at elevating women’s status.
NiluferBalat, the President of TIKAD, described the
"spread of war and conflict… the deep global poverty that will lead to
unhealthy generations… [and] income inequality dividing societies."
In the garden atop Rockefeller Center overlooking
Fifth Avenue, women leaders in artificial intelligence, healthcare, law, music,
food, fashion, and politics discussed how they could collaborate to overcome
various obstacles.
DeryaTaskin, the CEO of Taskin Bakery, and Megan
Penick, a partner at Michelman& Robinson, LLP discussed the possibility of
making her private bakery in Paterson, NJ, public.
Lindsay Davis, a former Miss Ohio who now lives in New
York, talked to me about how we could help patients with heart conditions
predisposing them towards brain injuries.
Even if they have great ideas that they execute
effectively, and even if they network, people might not pay attention because
they haven't had the right platform for people to pay attention.
If the First Lady is promoting these New York women
entrepreneurs with her influence and helping them to make meaningful
connections, then it is much more realistic for those women’s great ideas to be
recognized.
Source: Fox5ny.Com
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/turkeys-first-lady-emine-erdogan-let-women-lead
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Wearing A Hijab Has Brought Muslim Women, Around The
World, Honour And Joy, But It's Also Attracted Abuse And Hate
Novakovich, pictured right,
eventually made the decision to remove the niqab she'd been wearing since she
was a child.(Supplied)
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By Zena Chamas
24-09-2023
The Islamic headscarf, also known as the hijab, is
often worn by Muslim women as a symbol of honour in their faith.
For the hundreds of thousands of Muslim women around
the world who wear the hijab, their religion is instantly identifiable. And as
a result, they often end up becoming flag-bearers for their faith in the West.
She was already a symbol of strength for Muslim women
around the world when in 2019 she became the first Nike running brand
ambassador to wear a hijab.
"[In mainstream media], you see a woman [wearing
the hijab] who is uneducated, you see a woman who's not approachable. You see a
woman who's boring and uncool.
Mariam Veiszadeh is the CEO of Media Diversity
Australia and the founder of the Islamophobia Register, a service collating
reports of anti-Muslim abuse from across Australia.
She doesn't challenge the validity of the hijab in
Islam. But she says there are unfair judgements made about how women wear it,
including by some men in the Muslim community.
She would often face criticism from Muslim men in her
community for not wearing her hijab "correctly". These included
getting angry messages from men if her neck was showing.
According to some interpretations within Islam, the
rules of hijab require women to wear clothing that covers their bodies,
including the neck and hair.
"Do you call out some of the bad within your own
community? Or do you overlook it because having that conversation publicly
plays into Islamophobia?" she says.
"The public just cannot have a nuanced
conversation about this. They see it in such a black-and-white way. If a Muslim
woman is calling something out, they see it as, 'Wow, you guys must be
oppressed'.
The Qu'ran prescribes that both men and women should
observe modesty while also instructing "there is no compulsion in
religion", meaning you can't force anybody to practise the rules of Islam.
For lawyer Aisha Nancy Novakovich, who wore the niqab
for eight years, wearing the face covering was about "doing something
extra" to express her spirituality.
Novakovich, who is also the founder of fashion company
Modest Fashion Australia, first wore the hijab at the age of 12. Two years
later, she covered her face by choice, despite criticism from her family.
She says by wearing the niqab she was "emulating
the lives of the Prophet Muhammed's wives", who were known to sometimes
cover their faces out of modesty, according to some narrations detailing their
lives.
But Novakovich was forced to unveil her face by an
abusive ex-partner, who felt uncomfortable about the Islamophobic comments she
received while wearing the niqab when out in public.
"Either I used to get sworn at or called Osama
bin Laden's wife [or] ninja, Ned Kelly, letterbox … I would get those comments
all the time," she says.
"Slowly your defences get worn down. And then you
go out for a little shopping trip to Coles and suddenly these comments start to
grate on you," she says.
She helps other Muslim women feel empowered about
their Islamic dress choices through her advocacy work and by designing stylish
and modest fashion for them.
"You read the biography of the Prophet's wife
[who often wore the niqab]. Was she not a leader? Was she not feisty? Was she
not an intellectual? Was she not a public figure?"
Source: Abc.Net.Au
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Intl Concerns Persist Over Women’s Situation in
Afghanistan
By Fatema Adeeb
24-09-2023
Speaking at a meeting titled “Combating Gender
Apartheid: The Situation of Women and Girls in Afghanistan” Amiri said: “When
we talk to the Taliban ... we say you are not going to move in a way that you
seek until you address these rights.”
In the meeting, the UN special rapporteur for
Afghanistan human rights, Richard Bennett, said that Afghan women and girls'
“trust deficit can only be bridged by concrete actions not just by future
declarations of sympathy or condemnation.”
The UN special rapporteur in the meeting expressed
concerns over Afghans' mental health and said that “recognition and
normalization by the international community of the situation in which women
and girls' rights have been decimated is now the greatest fear” for women and
girls.
Richard Bennett said that “Afghan women must be
meaningfully included with policy decisions ... made within Afghanistan or by
the international community.”
“Many in this room have helped to carry out, to call
this action forward investigating and documenting the systematic erasure of
women’s rights in Afghanistan. There have been reports submitted to the human
rights council. There have been pleas to the international criminal court to
explore gender apartheid-- does not the international community have an obligation
to uphold the human rights treaties which Afghanistan is a party and to pursue
accountability for the perpetrators?" asked MelanneVerveer, Executive
Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security.
The Chargé d'Affaires of the Afghanistan Permanent
Mission to the UN, Naseer Ahmad Faiq, in the meeting also criticized the
imposition of restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan.
“We are deeply concerned about the current situation
in my country, particularly the systematic erasure of women and girls in
society and violation of their fundamental human rights in Afghanistan. It is a
matter of far-reaching consequences not only for the individuals affected but
for the progress and prosperity of our entire society,” Faiq noted.
However, Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the
Islamic Emirate, said that there is no gender apartheid in Afghanistan and that
the Islamic Emirate is obliged to uphold women's rights.
"Apartheid does not exist here at all. There is
no gender discrimination in Islam. The Islamic Sharia has given rights to the
citizens of Afghanistan, whether male or female, the Islamic Emirate is obliged
to give these rights to the men and women of this country,” Mujahid said.
Earlier, a number of representatives of world countries
expressed their concern about imposing restrictions on women and girls in
Afghanistan at the meeting called " Global Solidarity with Afghan Women
and Girls" at the United Nations headquarters.
Source: Tolo News.Com
https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-185225
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