A Newly Wed Man in India Thrashed By Wife’s Relatives Demanding Triple Talaq
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November 2021
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Saudi Women To Examine How Reforms Have Enhanced Saudi Women’s Role In Society
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86-Year-Old Woman Named Israel’s ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’
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US Consulate, University of Iowa & EFE to train Saudi women on
entrepreneurship
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UAE Jobs: How New Labour Law Empowers Women; Equal Pay, Extended Maternity
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A Newly Wed Man in India Thrashed By Wife’s Relatives Demanding Triple Talaq
Nov
17, 2021
Triple Talaq Victim
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Kozhikode:
A newly wed 31-year-old youth was brutally beaten up by his wife’s relatives
demanding that he should divorce his wife by pronouncing triple Talaq at
Kottakkal in Malappuram district.
Kottakkal
police on Tuesday arrested six relatives of the woman, including her father,
uncles and cousins, in connection with the attack which took place on Monday.
Police identified the injured as Abdul Aseeb, hailing from Kottakkal who is
currently admitted to a hospital with multiple injuries, including a broken nose.
The
arrested are Cholappurath Majeed, 38, Abdul Jaleel, 34, Shafeeq 34,
Kizhakkeparamban Shamsudheen, 45, the father of the woman, Shafeer Ali, 31 and
Musthafa, 62. Police are looking for the remaining accused, Latheef, who is
absconding. They have been booked under IPC Section 308 (attempt to commit
culpable homicide), abduction, threatening, assault etc.
Kottakkal
inspector of police M K Shaji said that the accused barged into the RTO
consultancy office run by the Aseeb at Changuvetti and thrashed him and
forcibly dragged him into their car and took him to the woman’s house at
Othukkungal where they beat him up demanding divorce by pronouncing triple
talaq and asking him to give it in writing.
“Police
reached the spot within 30 minutes and we rescued him from the custody of the
accused. There were some issues between Aseeb and his wife and she didn’t want
to continue the relationship,” the inspector said.
The
nikah of the couple was held on April 5 and she was brought to Aseeb’s house in
August but following issues between them, the woman had returned to her house
in October.
Aseeb
said that his wife’s relatives had beaten him up with an iron rod and they
threatened him by placing a knife on his throat and threatened with acid attack
if he refused to pronounce triple talaq. He added that the attackers also
filmed the attack and they even had kept an ink pad read to affix his
fingerprint after getting triple talaq in writing on paper.
He
added that the attack happened even after he had agreed to amicably end the
marriage and a mediation talk was scheduled to be held on Wednesday.
Meanwhile,
the woman’s family and their lawyer said that Aseeb had been torturing her and
she even had to be admitted to a hospital recently.
The
Supreme Court had in 2017 declared the practice of instant triple talaq as
unconstitutional and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act
2019 had made the practice a criminal offence.
Source:
Times of India
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Saudi Women To Examine How Reforms Have Enhanced Saudi Women’s Role In Society
November
17, 2021
The three-day conference will shed light on
government projects and initiatives that support the empowerment of Saudi women
in various fields. (SPA)
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RIYADH:
Sixty participants representing several governmental and private sectors will
examine how reforms have enhanced Saudi women’s role in society in an upcoming
empowerment conference titled “Empowering women and their developmental role in
the era of King Salman.”
The
conference will take place at the Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University on
Tuesday, Nov. 23. Under the patronage of Princess Fahda bint Falah Al-Hithlain,
the conference aims to highlight how the legislative reforms in the era of King
Salman have helped empower women and enhance their role in achieving the goals
of Saudi Vision 2030.
The
three-day conference will also shed light on government projects and
initiatives that support the empowerment of Saudi women in various fields, the
role of modern media in promoting the empowerment of women, and raising their
profile in the development of society, especially in Saudi universities.
Other
themes will include how offering Saudi citizenship has strengthened women and
families, enhanced women’s participation in education and training, and how
this will prepare them to play a more prominent and influential role in
society.
Dr.
Nouf Bint Abdul Aali Al-Ajmi, the deputy rector of Imam Mohammad ibn Saud
Islamic University for Female Student Affairs, said that in the past few years,
the Kingdom had witnessed an expansion in the leadership role of Saudi women in
all sectors “as women have assumed leadership positions and proved themselves
after she had exercised limited executive roles,” she told Arab News.
Al-Ajmi,
who is also the university’s vice president and chairwoman of the conference’s
organizing committee, stressed the importance of the role of women as an
investment that will contribute to the achievement of sustainable development.
One of the Vision 2030 strategies is to increase women’s quota in leadership
positions through training and leadership guidance for female cadres.
“The
university seeks, in accordance with its strategic plan 2025, to enable women
to work creatively and innovatively,” she said. “Women should participate in
decision-making, in addition to creating equal opportunities with men in
assuming leadership positions, studying modern specializations, scholarship,
and training.”
Dr.
Nuwair Al-Shammari, deputy dean of the Faculty of Information and Communication
at the university and the conference’s media committee chairwoman, said the
indicators of the empowerment of women in the university had seen a qualitative
leap over the past three years. The indicators are in line with the directives
of King Salman in realizing the objectives of Vision 2030 under the leadership
of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
Al-Shammari
told Arab News that the university achieved a great leap through nine key
indicators in empowering women in university education. The most important of
these are increasing leadership positions, as the university has enabled 120
academies to hold essential and new leadership positions in the university.
In
addition, there is an upsurge in female academic participation in the
decision-making process, strategic planning, and university committees. There
has been an uptick in implementing quality training programs, which exceeded
3,000 that targeted all of its staff, including programs to qualify women
leaders, in addition to introducing new specializations for female students in
the media, medicine, and pharmacy. There has been an expansion of postgraduate
programs for female students through the introduction of 47 new programs, which
increased the proportion of female scholarship students continuing their
studies.
Dr.
Nasrin Al-Sayari, vice president of the conference’s organizing committee, said
that through its plans for the empowerment of women, the university worked to
develop King Abdullah City for Female Students, which has become a
distinguished academic and cultural landmark in the city of Riyadh.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1969486/saudi-arabia
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86-year-old
woman named Israel’s ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’
November
17, 2021
JERUSALEM:
An 86-year-old woman who survived mass roundups and massacres of Jews as a
child in Romania was crowned on Tuesday Israel’s “Miss Holocaust Survivor.”
Ten
women in their 80s and 90s took part in the special pageant, sponsored by a
local foundation and meant to bring members of Israel’s rapidly dwindling
population of Holocaust survivors some joy and recognition.
The
women were treated by professional makeup artists, hairdressers and stylists
throughout the day before the evening competition. A number of local
celebrities, including Miss Israel Noa Kochba, served as judges and provided
entertainment to the crowd before Selina Steinfeld was crowned the winner.
According
to the pageant organizers, Steinfeld moved to Israel in 1948, married and
raised three children. She also has seven grandchildren and 21
great-grandchildren.
“I
have no words to express my happiness,” said Steinfeld. She said she had
enjoyed the special day of pampering and that she hoped “to lead the people of
Israel to beauty and goodness.”
Israel
was established in 1948 in the wake of the Holocaust as a refuge for Jews from
around the world. The country is home to an aging population of some 175,000
people who survived the Holocaust, when an estimated 6 million Jews were killed
by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
The
pageant is sponsored by “Yad Ezer L’Haver,” or “Helping Hand,” a local
foundation that provides services to Holocaust survivors. It was the first time
the event was held since 2018. Last year, it was put on hold due to the
coronavirus pandemic.
“These
amazing women, Holocaust survivors, are already in their twilight years and
will not be here with us for much longer,” said Shimon Sabag, the group’s chief
executive. “Holocaust survivors are the true heroines of us all and thanks to
them, we are here today.”
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1969521/lifestyle
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US
Consulate, University of Iowa & EFE to train Saudi women on
entrepreneurship
November
16, 2021
The
US Consulate General in Jeddah, the University of Iowa, and Education For
Employment, a nonprofit in the MENA region linking unemployed youth to job
opportunities, have launched a one-year project to train Saudi women from the
western region on entrepreneurship skills in new emerging sectors like IT, real
estate and e-commerce. This project will focus on fast-growing sectors in Saudi
Arabia, in line with Vision 2030 goals to support economic growth in the
Kingdom.
The
project will provide 50 young women with professional training and connections
to local and international mentors that are necessary to start their
businesses.
The
Western Saudi Arabia Venture School for Women project is designed to “put new
entrepreneurial tools into the hands of Saudi women,” said Dimy Doresca,
director of the Institute for International Business at the University of Iowa
Tippie College of Business. “With the guidance of Iowa professionals, we will
train aspiring innovators of business and social enterprise, through the
startup process using methods that reduce risk and encourage ongoing
innovation,” said Doresca. “We will nurture and empower women in Saudi Arabia
to become examples of social and economic success in their communities.”
The
women will participate in Venture School International, an entrepreneurial
educational program that guides students through the startup process by
teaching them how to identify a market need and build a business to meet it.
The university is partnering with the nonprofit Education For Employment to
teach the Venture School International training, which will be complemented by
contacts at local financing organizations, government officials, and business
support services. Doresca said Iowa women entrepreneurs will also work with the
Saudi women as mentors, providing support and encouragement while serving as
role models. As part of the program, university faculty and Iowa entrepreneurs
will travel to Saudi Arabia to provide training and help develop mentor
relationships.
“We
are very pleased to partner with the University of Iowa and the US Consulate to
enable young Saudi women reach their potential by empowering them with
cutting-edge skills to compete in growing sectors, especially in the digital
economy. The skills that these young women will acquire are based on a proven
model that has enabled EFE in Saudi to connect over 5,000 people to the world
of work, 52 percent of which are young Saudi women,” said EFE in Saudi CEO
Abdullah Al-Ghamdi.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1969266/corporate-news
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UAE
jobs: How new labour law empowers women; equal pay, extended maternity leaves
By
Sherouk Zakaria
17
Nov 2021
Extended
maternity leave, equal pay and anti-harassment provisions in the new labour law
are part of UAE’s efforts to empower women in the private sector.
Under
the Federal Decree Law No. 33 of 2021 regulating labour relations, to be
effective from February 2, 2022, employers are to provide women with an equal
pay for the same job performed by men, with the value to be determined by the
cabinet. Discrimination is also prohibited in terms of duties in the same
workplace.
The
new amendments in the law emphasize that all provisions regulating the
employment of workers shall apply without discrimination to working women. In
the anti-discrimination provisions, employers are prohibited to hire on the
basis of race, colour, sex, religion, nationality, or disability that would
weaken equal opportunity or impair equality in the workplace.
His
Excellency Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Awar, Minister of Human Resources and
Emiratisation, said the law aims to endorse equality in the workplace to
support the skills and abilities of workers in the private sector, and
ultimately increase labour market efficiency and productivity.
Extended
maternity leaves
The
new labour law extends maternity leave in the private sector to 60 days,
including 15 days on half wage.
In
cases of the mother or the newborn falling ill, the employee is eligible to
receive additional 45 days without pay once the initial maternity leave is
over, upon providing an official sick leave.
New
mothers of infants with special needs are entitled to a 30-day paid leave after
the completion of their initial maternity leave, renewable for another 30 days
with no pay. This provision applies upon providing a medical report of the
child’s case.
Anti-harassment
provisions
Article
14 of the new law expressively prohibits sexual harassment, bullying, or the
use of verbal, physical, or emotional violence against employees by the
employer, superiors or colleagues.
Under
the same article, the employer may not use any means of coercion or penalty
threat to force employees to perform a task against their will.
Source:
Khaleej Times
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