Palestinian-American Model Bella Hadid: Injustice In Muslim Countries Deserves Same Level Of Outrage As Ukraine
06
March 2022
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Palestinian-American Model Bella Hadid: Injustice In Muslim Countries Deserves
Same Level Of Outrage As Ukraine
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Racket Game Padel Catches Saudi Women’s Interest
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‘More Women In Parliament, But Rise Not Even Across Globe’
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Official Figures Show Rise In Female University Graduates in Turkey
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Women's March In Regina Calls For More Awareness, Action On Women's Rights
Issues
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RSS Affiliate To Launch Nationwide Campaign For Raising Muslim Women's
Marriageable Age
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Nearly 100 Ukrainian Women, Children Arrive In Turkey's Kuşadası
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Palestinian-American
Model Bella Hadid: Injustice In Muslim Countries Deserves Same Level Of Outrage
As Ukraine
Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid
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06/March/2022
RAMALLAH,
Sunday, March 06, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid
criticized yesterday the double standards employed by Western officials and
media in their coverage of the crisis in Ukraine/Russia, saying that oppression
everywhere deserves the same level of backlash.
"Question
yourself, question how quietly you moved around other injustices, the footprint
we leave here will be the clearest one we've left in a long time," the
model said. "If this is your first time realizing a war in some years,
you're not of the world… War, along with the position we take during it, is
forever.”
Hadid
added that people “should always speak up when we feel encouraged to,” but she
believes “the most transformative speech comes from discomfort, when air has to
break to make room for your voice.” The model said in sarcasm that “if the
American president is defending a liberation movement, there's no risk in
joining that defense.”
She
talked about Ukraine saying “nothing should undermine the magnitude of their
suffering, of the violence against them but it's not just about justice, it's
also about who is at the receiving end of injustice.” She highlighted that “the
way we've failed to uphold it elsewhere dictates this. Our lack of tools here
is a result of our neglect elsewhere.”
“How
many Muslim nations aflame? Invasions by the west, merciless drone strikes,
executions, internment camps in China? How much of Palestine, how little of
Palestine left?" the model asked.
Source:
English.Wafa
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Racket Game Padel Catches Saudi Women’s Interest
Most players pick up the basics within half an hour, allowing them to enjoy the game. (Supplied)
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RAHAF
JAMBI
March
05, 2022
RIYADH:
The racket game padel is becoming popular in Saudi Arabia, with an increasing
number of women taking interest in the sport at the Padel Rush club at
Boulevard Riyadh City.
“Ever
since I moved back to Saudi two months ago, I have been looking for a padel
club, and I have now found Padel Rush. I’m just so happy to be playing, and
through padel I meet new people,” Al-Soleiman told Arab News.
“I
tried padel and instantly fell in love. It’s one of the games that can be
competitive and release stress, and is easy to learn,” Alshinifi said.
She
described how the club brings good vibes with a beautiful location, good
organization, and a friendly environment: “They are so welcoming, providing us
with everything we need.”
Alshinifi
said that she had registered for the Olympics. She wants to reach an
international level in padel and hopes to get nominated.
Padel
is a sport that blends enjoyment and social interaction with action. Most
players pick up the basics within half an hour, allowing them to enjoy the
game.
The
scoring and rules are similar to tennis, except that the serve in padel is
underarm, and balls can be shot off the walls like in squash, resulting in
longer rallies than in a tennis match.
“I’m
just so happy that they organize tournaments,” Al-Soleiman said. “There is a
big turnout for women who want to participate. For us, we are always down to
play matches and have the opportunity to not just play a match, but also to
make it a competitive thing, a tournament. Sometimes competitiveness is good
and necessary.”
“I’ve
been playing since I was a child back home in Spain and Padel Rush is a good
experience; the culture here is amazing, and the place is stunning. Sport is
important for your lifestyle, so nothing is better than enjoying sport. Padel
is extremely fun, and you can meet new people, and I think this is the most
important thing,” Liguori said.
“This
change to prompt people to practice more sport is amazing. I like this
initiative (Vision 2030) that the country is doing, especially with women being
able to participate and interact and play whatever they want,” Al-Soleiman
said.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2036736/sport
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‘More
women in parliament, but rise not even across globe’
Mar
6, 2022
Bathinda:
The global proportion of women parliamentarians rose by 0.6 percentage points
to reach 26.1 percent, according to the IPU’s latest ‘Women in Parliament in
2021’ report. This is in line with progress seen in the past two years. The increase
can be largely attributed to the critical role played by quotas for women.
In
the 48 countries that had parliamentary elections in 2021, women candidates won
28.6 per cent of the new seats, a cumulative improvement of 2.1 percentage
points compared to previous elections. Five countries now have gender parity or
a greater share of women in parliament, up from three in 2020 with Mexico and
Nicaragua joining Cuba, Rwanda and the United Arab Emirates, stated a release
issued on Friday by Inter-Parliamentary Union, a global organisation of
national parliaments. It said the progress, however, was not shared evenly
across the globe. While many countries, such as Cabo registered progress,
others like Algeria, saw a setback. In others such as Japan and Tonga, low
representation of women in parliament persisted. In two out of six regions,
countries holding elections in 2021 went backwards compared to previous
elections.
The
president of IPU Bureau of Women Parliamentarians, Lesia Vasylenko, said: “But
progress is still far too slow with half the world’s population still
under-represented. There is an urgent need to remedy this to strengthen
democracy everywhere.”
IPU
president, Duarte Pacheco, said: “If there is one success story that came
through clearly during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that women leaders were
very successful in mitigating the impact of the virus on people’s health and
lives. More women in parliaments means post-pandemic leadership will be more
attentive to all people.”
In
2021, 73 new speakers were elected across chambers around the world. Only 18 of
them, or 24.7 per cent, were women. Overall, on 1 January 2022, women accounted
for 22 per cent of speakers of Parliament up from 20.9 per cent a year ago,
stated the report.
The
IPU report shows that, while there are now women speakers in all regions, their
share varies greatly between regions. The Americas have the highest
representation of women at the speaker level, at 35.2 per cent, followed by
Europe with 28.6 per cent. In Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Pacific
regions, each region only has one woman speaker, a share of 4.2 per cent and
6.3 per cent respectively.
Source:
Times Of India
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Official
Figures Show Rise In Female University Graduates in Turkey
March
06 2022
In
its “Women in Statistics, 2021” report, TÜİK said the female population was
42,252,172, while the male population was 42,428,101 in 2021. In other words,
females constituted 49.9 percent and males constituted 50.1 percent of the
total population.
Between
the years 2008 and 2020, the proportion of those aged 25 and above and
completed at least one level of education in the total population increased
from 81.1 percent in 2008 to 92.9 percent in 2020.
The
rate has also risen in the proportion of the population aged 25 and over and
who were at least university graduates. Some 9.8 percent of the total
population were university graduates in 2008, while the percentage increased to
22.1 in 2020.
When
this proportion was analyzed based on sex, it was 7.6 percent for females and
12.1 percent for males in 2008. This proportion was 19.9 percent for females
and 24.4 percent for males in 2020.
The
results show that the female employment rate was less than half of the male employment
rate this year. The proportion of those over the age of 15 and in employment
was 42.8 in Turkey in 2020. Some 26.3 percent of this were females, while some
59.8 were males.
The
highest rate of women’s employment was seen in the Thracian region with 50.9
percent. The lowest was in the southeastern region with 26 percent.
The
rate of the women working part-time in employment was some 19.5 percent, while
some 63.5 percent of the employed females were satisfied with the time spent
while commuting.
The
rise in the number of female professors and ambassadors was easily detected.
While the proportion of female ambassadors was 11.9 percent in 2011, this
proportion was 26.5 percent in 2021.
The
proportion of female professors was 27.6 percent in the educational year of
2010-11. It increased to 32.4 percent in the educational year of 2020-21.
According
to marriage statistics, the average marriage age of females who officially made
their first marriage in 2021 was 25.4. It was 28.1 for males.
Source:
Hurriyet Daily News
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/official-figures-show-rise-in-female-university-graduates-171981
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Women's
March in Regina calls for more awareness, action on women's rights issues
Cory
Coleman
Mar
05, 2022
Though
it was a slightly scaled-back version, neither the snow nor wind could slow
this year's Women's March in Regina.
On
Saturday afternoon, a group of 40 to 50 people in Regina braved the blustering
snow to call for more awareness and action on women's rights during the annual
march.
The
movement has been happening every year in cities around the world since Jan.
21, 2017 — the day after Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president.
This
year's event in Regina was held on Saturday, in order to also commemorate
International Women's Day, on March 8.
Women's
March YQR and YWCA Regina usually organize the Women's March in Regina, but
moved most of their events online this year.
However,
they're also supporting smaller marches, like Saturday's, said Maya Rivera, one
of the organizers.
Speeches
were given, poems were shared, cheers could be heard and signs promoting gender
equality were in abundance as the group gathered in front of the Saskatchewan
Legislative Building, then walked the legislature grounds.
Rivera
told CBC News before the march that the goal was to "show that we aren't
going away. We're here. We're loud, we're proud."
"Equal
rights still have a far way to go, and we really need to focus on raising
everyone's voices."
The
group gathered in front of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building as speeches
were given, poems were shared and cheers could be heard. (Cory Coleman/CBC)
Rivera
said the theme of this year's march is "We Won't Back Down."
"Something
really important about this theme is intersectional feminism, which means
acknowledging and kind of recognizing the different degrees of oppression and
discrimination women face based on their sexuality, their race, their abilities
— different things like that."
As
part of that, Rivera said she wanted missing and murdered Indigenous women and
girls to be a focus of the march in Regina.
The
murder and disappearance of Indigenous women and girls is a systemic problem in
Canada and has been labelled a genocide by the National Inquiry into Missing
and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which released its final report in
June 2019.
Another
issue Rivera said she wants to focus on is that many women have been
marginalized during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I
think it's shown over and over again how women, especially again, when it comes
to race and lower-income situations and things like that, they're just being
excluded and ignored and just unsupported by the political systems and
institutions that are in place in Saskatchewan," she said.
Regina
woman says she's going blind after being stigmatized for past drug use
"So
my goal is … to just draw attention to these issues and hope that changes can
be made to better support these women."
Rivera
also emphasized that gender equality and women's rights don't just affect
women.
"Equal
rights affect everyone," she said. "We need everyone involved — men,
women, children, everyone."
The
event was also supported by the social justice group Champions of Change and
the University of Regina Students' Union.
Source:
Cbc.Ca
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/regina-womens-march-2022-1.6374469
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RSS
affiliate to launch nationwide campaign for raising Muslim women's marriageable
age
05th
March 2022
By
PTI
NEW
DELHI: The RSS-linked Muslim Rashtriya Manch will roll out a nationwide
campaign to build a "mass movement" for amendment in the personal law
to raise the minimum age of marriage of Muslim women from the current age of
puberty.
Pitching
for reforms in the Sharia law for giving equal rights to women of the minority
community, the outfit's campaign will also seek to generate public opinion in
support of demand for creation of separate space in mosques to enable Muslim
women offer 'namaz' there, sources in the outfit said.
At
present, the minimum age for marriage of Muslim women is the age of puberty
under the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act.
Except
those from educated and progressive families, Muslim girls are married at a
very young age in the country as the Sharia law makes them eligible for it once
they attain the age of puberty, he said.
"Many
of the girls, specially in rural areas, are married at the tender age of 12-13
years, and by the time they attain the age of 20 years, they have five to six
children," he claimed.
The
minimum age of marriage of Muslim women needs to be raised to protect the girls
of the community from "the wrath of child marriage as well as physical and
mental torture they suffer after being married at a tender age", he said.
"The
Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) has decided to launch a massive campaign soon to
build a mass movement for amendment in Muslim personal law to raise the minimum
age of marriage from the current age of puberty and fix it," he said.
He
said the campaign will pitch for reforms in Sharia law and provide equal rights
to Muslim women and free them from the "shackles of orthodoxy", he
said.
As
part of the move, the campaign will also seek to build public opinion in favour
of demands for creation of separate spaces in mosques to enable Muslim women
offer 'namaz', he said.
"The
MRM is in the process of preparing its campaign strategy in consultation with
Muslim scholars, including muftis, maulanas, imams, doctors, professors, women,
students and others in the society," he said.
During
the Winter Session of parliament in December last year, the government had
introduced a bill in Lok Sabha that seeks to fix 21 years as the uniform age of
marriage for women and men, with Union minister Smriti Irani terming the move a
"decisive step" in the country's history.
The
Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was opposed by the
opposition after its introduction, also seeks to amend seven personal laws --
the Indian Christian Marriage Act; the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act; the
Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act; the Special Marriage Act; the
Hindu Marriage Act; and the Foreign Marriage Act.
Various
teams of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch had recently conducted a survey on the
issue of bringing reforms in Sharia law in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarkhand, and
collected feedback from the members of the minority community.
"During
the survey, it emerged that the community members want changes in the Sharia
law and practice, and raising of age of marriage of women...Muslim women want
equal rights," the MRM added.
Source:
New Indian Express
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Nearly
100 Ukrainian women, children arrive in Turkey's Kuşadası
March
06 2022
Some
100 Ukrainian women and children, who fled their country amid the war and took
refuge in Moldova, have been airlifted to the Kuşadası district in the western
Turkish province of Aydın on the Aegean coast.
Coordinated
by local non-governmental organizations, businesspeople and a tour operator in
the district, efforts were launched to help the Ukrainians affected by the war.
A
plane was arranged to airlift 97 Ukrainian women and children from Chisinau
International Airport. They arrived at Adnan Menderes Airport at 11 p.m. on
March 5 in the western province of İzmir. They were welcomed by officials of
the tour operator and transferred to Kuşadası on buses, where they settled in
hotels.
They
will stay in the district until life in their country returns to normal. The
local municipality will meet the food expenses of Ukrainian women and children
during their stay.
“I
still cannot believe we are in Turkey now. I am deeply grateful to those who
have helped us. Women and children are suffering the most in the ongoing war in
Ukraine,” 38-year-old Natali Vandysheva said.
Yulia
Parno, 29, who fled to Chisinau last week with her two-year-old daughter, said
she feels safe in Turkey but is concerned about the safety of her relatives who
are still in Kiev.
“We
want this war to cease immediately. Russia is killing people…soldiers and
civilians indiscriminately,” said Olena Burgaç, deputy head of the Kuşadası
Ukrainian Cultural Association, reiterating the Ukrainian people’s
determination to defend their countries.
Source:
Hurriyet Daily News
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