Indigo Pilot Syeda Salva Fatima’s Journey from Struggling to Pay Her Fees to Becoming Commercial Flight Pilot
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March 2023
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Lebanese Model Nour Arida Scoops Arab Women of the Year Award In London
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Saudi Arabia Ready to Host International Conference on Women in Islam: FM
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Experts Examine Successes, Challenges of Female Leadership in UAE
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Afghan Women’s Football Team Evacuated to UK May Include Fraudulent Non-Players
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Pakistan: Cyberbullying, digital violence worsens pains of working women
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Indigo
Pilot Syeda Salva Fatima’s Journey from Struggling to Pay Her Fees to Becoming
Commercial Flight Pilot
Indigo
Pilot Syeda Salva Fatima
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Sameer
Khan
17th
March 2023
Indigo
pilot Syeda Salva Fatima’s journey from struggling to pay her fees to becoming
one of the few Indian-Muslim commercial flight pilots is a source of
inspiration for many individuals. On March 18, the Indian American Forum is
conducting a zoom meet to discover details of her incredible journey.
Fatima
who hails from Moghalpura in the old city of Hyderabad is the first commercial
pilot from the city.
Family
background of Indigo pilot Syeda Salva Fatima
Her
father who worked at a local bakery struggled to make ends meet for his family.
However, it did not stop her from dreaming big.
At
one point of time during her schooling, she was on the verge of dropping out of
class as her fees were unpaid. However, her principal decided to help her.
During her intermediate, a botany professor paid her fees.
After
intermediate, she appeared at the EAMCET coaching at an institute. However,
when an instructor asked her ‘What will you like to become’, she replied, ‘a
pilot’.
Although
dismissed by many as a childish idea, Fatima’s determination to become a pilot
caught the attention of editor of the Siasat Urdu Daily Zahid Ali Khan. In
order to help her in realizing the dream, he offered moral and financial
support to her.
In
2013, she obtained a CPL and became one of the four Muslim women in India to
hold the license.
Underwent
multi-engine training in New Zealand, type-rating in Bahrain
However,
she faced a new obstacle when she needed a large amount of money to undergo
multi-engine training and type-rating. The Telangana government then announced
financial assistance of Rs 36 lakh for her training.
Fatima
underwent multi-engine training in New Zealand and type-rating in Bahrain.
Today, she is an Indigo pilot and an inspiration to many.
To
discover more details of the inspiring journey of Syeda Salva Fatima, the first
commercial pilot from Hyderabad, join the Indian American Forum’s Zoom meet on
March 18 at 8 am IST (10:30 EST).
Source:
Siasat Daily
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Lebanese
Model Nour Arida Scoops Arab Women Of The Year Award In London
Arida
wore a custom-made green figure-hugging velvet dress. (Instagram)
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March
17, 2023
DUBAI:
Lebanese model and influencer Nour Arida on Thursday received the Arab Women of
The Year award at an event that took place in London.
The
event, hosted by London Arabia Organization, recognizes the achievements of
Arab women across the globe.
“So
Grateful! Just been awarded the Arab Women of The Year Award in London,” Arida
wrote to her 11 million followers on Instagram, sharing a series of images from
the event.
“This
award for me is yet another promise that I will continue to lend my voice to
every woman undergoing any sort of violence and to do the best I can to help
fight for their rights.”
Arida,
who is signed with Elite Models Paris agency, wore a custom-made green
figure-hugging velvet dress with a plunging neckline by Lebanese designer
Karoline Lang.
For
her accessories, she wore jewelry from Parisian luxury label Chaumet.
Her
celebrity friends quickly took to Instagram to congratulate the star including
Lebanese actress Cynthia Samuel, Danish stylish and influencer Pernille
Teisbaek, Saudi social media star Alanoud Badr, Iraqi content creator Noor Stars
and more.
The
33-year-old Paris-based model and social media influencer has years of fashion
experience under her belt.
She
worked with international brands including French fine jewelry label Boucheron,
LVMH-owned French cosmetics brand Makeup Forever, British beauty label Rimmel
and much more.
The
blogger was appointed Boucheron’s global brand spokesperson in 2020. She joined
other international stars who have lent their faces to the high-end jewelry maison,
such as US actress Kate Winslet and French model Laetitia Cast, to front key
campaigns and act as a muse for future collections.
Arida,
who fronted a number of magazine covers, attended multiple fashion weeks in New
York, Milan, Paris and more. She also made head-turning appearances at film
festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival.
Before
becoming a successful fashion blogger and designer, Arida worked as a buyer and
brand manager for a number of prestigious fashion labels, including Rag &
Bone, Zimmermann, Theory, Vince, J-Brand and Frame Denim, among others.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2270301/lifestyle
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Saudi
Arabia ready to host international conference on Women in Islam: FM
March
16, 2023
NOUAKCHOTT
— Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan has declared the Kingdom's
desire to host the international conference on Women in Islam in order to
demonstrate their rights guaranteed by Shariah and to affirm their active role
in society.
Prince
Faisal participated on Thursday in the 49th session of the Council of Foreign
Ministers of the OIC Member States in Mauritania, under the theme:
"Centrism and moderation: The valve of security and stability".
He
affirmed that the attempts to attack Islamic sanctities necessitate solidarity
against them.
The
Saudi foreign minister pointed out that Riyadh supports the developmental and
social issues of the Islamic world amid its belief in the bonds that unite
Muslim countries.
“Our
meeting comes after the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, which raises
awareness of the dangers of intolerance against Islam. However, attempts to
attack religious sanctities, burn the Holy Qur’an, and stir up hatred toward
Muslim minorities necessitate that we assert the need to respect the values of
moderation, respect for others and coexistence with them,” Prince Faisal said.
He
added: “The Kingdom has devoted its resources to serve the causes of our Islamic
world, and it believes in the importance of the Organization in consolidating
Islamic solidarity and protecting common interests."
Saudi
minister expressed the Kingdom’s solidarity and sympathy to the brothers in
Syria and Turkey following the human and material losses left by the
devastating earthquake.
“The
Kingdom has made efforts to mitigate the consequences of this affliction by
sending urgent aid, and has organized a popular campaign for the benefit of
those affected,” he said.
Prince
Faisal said the Kingdom supports the Palestinian people's struggle to restore
their legitimate rights. He called on the international community to play its
role in putting an end to the violations of the Israeli occupation forces
against the Palestinian people, undermining the chances of reviving the peace
process.
On
Yemen, the Saudi foreign minister said, “The Kingdom renews its support for
peace in Yemen and the efforts of the UN envoy to Yemen aimed at reaching a
complete and permanent ceasefire, and the start of the political process
between the Yemeni government and the Houthis.”
He
affirmed the support of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council to implement
effective policies and initiatives that will achieve security and stability in
Yemen and end the crisis.
The
Kingdom continues its support for the humanitarian and development needs of the
Islamic world, he said, citing the Saudi grant of $30 million to the
Afghanistan Humanitarian Trust Fund.
The
Kingdom stressed the importance of ensuring security and stability in
Afghanistan, while condemning terrorism in all its forms and manifestations,
the prince said. He urged the Afghan authorities to accommodate various Afghan
factions, taking into account international covenants and norms, and respecting
the basic rights guaranteed by the principles of Islamic law.
Source:
Saudi Gazette
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Experts
examine successes, challenges of female leadership in UAE
TAMARA
TURKI
March
16, 2023
LONDON:
A group dedicated to promoting relations between the UAE and the UK recently
hosted a seminar to examine the successes and challenges of female leadership
in the Emirates.
The
Emirates Society session on Wednesday was held against the backdrop of
increased UAE government efforts to place gender equality at the forefront of
the country’s growth plans.
Legislative
reform has been at the center of the changes taking place, with initiatives
including a 30 percent increase in maternity leave, and private-sector policies
such as imposing a quota of one woman per listed company board.
Diana
Wilde, one of the discussion panel experts, noted that a recent shift in
attitudes toward women in the workforce had been driven as much by communities
as by political will.
A
co-founder of Aurora50, a UAE-based social enterprise supporting organizations
to improve their internal management to better foster a culture of inclusion,
Wilde said: “Whilst there is progress, we are working at the very largest most
influential companies who have understood the value of diversity of thought
quite early on and have been working at this for some time already.
“That
is not a reflection of everybody within the UAE and this does need to trickle
down into those smaller organizations as well.
“Even
within these big companies, the reality is we need to have a much larger women
pipeline for filling these C-suite roles,” she added.
Apart
from overcoming systemic barriers such as unconscious bias training, Wilde
called for support structures that addressed the social challenges faced by
women, such as family pressures.
She
said: “If people are falling out of the system, for reasons not to do with
their capabilities or skills, then we do not have the very best talent to
choose from.”
Fatema
Al-Nuaimi, executive vice president of downstream business management at the
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., told delegates that gender balance in the workplace
was not a social responsibility but critical to maximizing the success of a
business.
She
said: “When you have more diversity within your team, this is when you get the
best out of the talent that you have.”
In
2016, ADNOC implemented a gender balance strategy which began with placing key
performance indicators. Although Al-Nuaimi was initially opposed to the idea,
she pointed out that setting quantifiable targets was an important step toward
driving change as it forced an organization to look harder for talent.
“These
KPIs are no longer there but have become part of the norm,” she added, citing a
doubling in the number of women in leadership positions throughout ADNOC.
Dr.
Sara Chehab, a senior research fellow at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy,
said the path to achieving gender balance in the diplomatic arena had been a
slow burner.
Author
of the 2023 Women in Diplomacy Index, she noted that women continued to be
under-represented in ambassadorship roles globally, with only 20.54 percent of
all envoys representing the 193 UN member states being women.
However,
she highlighted a recent rise of around 5 percent in female ambassadors in the
UAE and Saudi Arabia as evidence of progress in the region.
Chehab
also pointed out that 49.5 percent of employees at the UAE Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and International Cooperation were women, indicating that measures were
already in place and that it was only a matter of time before women began to
ascend the country’s diplomatic ranks.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2270026/middle-east
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Afghan
women’s football team evacuated to UK may include fraudulent non-players
March
16, 2023
LONDON:
A number of women evacuated from Afghanistan to the UK may not have been the
elite football players they claimed to be, an investigation has found.
Thirty-five
women who made up the Afghan national women’s team and an additional 95
relatives arrived in the UK in November 2021 after the fall of Afghanistan to
the Taliban two months earlier.
A
BBC investigation has since learned that up to 13 players who claimed to be
part of the national team may have lied on their visa applications, which were
all approved by the Home Office.
The
allegations concern players who claimed to be members of Afghanistan’s Herat
youth team. Najibullah Nowroozi, the team’s former coach, told the BBC’s
“Newsnight” program: “I have seen people in the list (of evacuees) who have not
even worn a football strip in Herat.”
The
national team’s captain, Sabriah Nawrouzi, said that she only met some of her
supposed teammates for the first time while awaiting evacuation in Pakistan.
Nawrouzi
added that when the team arrived in the UK, she had to separate the players
into two teams “because one team couldn’t play football.”
The
Taliban banned female participation in sport after it retook power in
Afghanistan — and there is resentment among other top-tier female footballers
who were unable to escape the country that some may have lied about their
ability in order to secure safe passage.
One
anonymous female footballer still in Afghanistan told the BBC: “The Taliban
have banned sports for women and girls. We are left behind in Afghanistan with
no future. It just makes me feel very neglected and very sad because we are the
real players and not some of those that got evacuated.”
Siu
Anne Gill, a campaigner whose organization the Rokit Foundation was involved in
the evacuation, said the Home Office relied on credentials supplied by former
Afghan international player Khalida Popal.
“Khalida
Popal personally had been including more names and more names and more names,”
Gill told the BBC. “We asked Khalida, ‘Did you check that these are
footballers?’ She said, ‘Yes, they’re definitely footballers.’”
Popal,
who heads a nonprofit called Girl Power, told the BBC in a statement: “I
categorically deny the allegations directed at me. I have repeatedly provided
extensive evidence and explanations about why any suggestion that I had any
formal role in verification and/or knowingly misled anyone about the identities
of those evacuated is wrong.”
The
Home Office said in a statement: “Their love of football put these women and
girls at risk from the Taliban. We are proud that members of the Afghan Girls
Development Squad and their family members were brought to safety in the UK.”
A
spokesperson added: “We worked with a number of organizations who identified
and referred the group to us, undertaking security checks as part of the
process. Should there be evidence that the information provided was incorrect,
the Home Office will investigate.”
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2269841/world
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Pakistan:
Cyberbullying, digital violence worsens pains of working women
March
16, 2023
There
is no denying that women and girls are some of the worst impacted by digital
violence worldwide, particularly in South Asia. On the Internet, they are
especially susceptible to threats of rape and death, hate speech, and sexual
harassment. Women are assaulted, threatened, or defamed on online social media
platforms every single day, The Friday Times reported.
The
United Nations defines gender-based violence as "violence that is intended
against a woman because she is a woman or that disproportionately impacts
women."
This
includes harm to one's body, sex, or emotions. Cyberstalking, cyberharassment,
and cyberbullying are examples of gender-based cybercrimes. Avoiding hate
speech, sending unpleasant online messages, and making lewd and abusive
approaches on social networking sites have all been characterised as these
offences.
According
to a report in The Friday Times, for those who are affected, the rising tide of
misogynist hate and violence is terrible. Yet internet corporations and
legislators continue to disregard it, giving copyright more importance and
protection than they give people and our online rights.
So
when did cyberviolence start to spread in Pakistan? Why did it take place? Who
should be held accountable? Many stories, including those of journalists Asma
Shirazi and Gharida Farooqi, include countless responses to all of these
concerns in various forms. When will digital violence end is a crucial issue
that needs to be asked. Can it be stopped? And will someone have the fortitude
to put an end to it? Exists a complaint resolution process?
We
must all work together to find the answers to these problems.
We
used to claim that there were thousands of comparable cases of online
aggression and violence in Pakistan several months ago, but now that there are
millions of examples, it is difficult to pick out the ones that are noteworthy.
According
to The Friday Times, online harassment against women journalists in Pakistan,
including trolling, cyberbullying, intimidation, and doxxing, is still on the
rise. More than ever, it is crucial that media organisations, unions, and other
stakeholders collaborate to raise awareness of the problems encountered by
media professionals and provide assistance for female journalists who
experience harassment and other forms of abuse.
The
Economist Intelligence Unit reports that 85 per cent of all online abuse
against women occurs globally. The proportion of women who reported online
harassment and violence threats from their personal and professional networks
is fascinating in this survey. Women reported being victims of other women at a
rate of 65 per cent, whereas 35 per cent of women said they had specific
encounters with online abuse. According to this survey, the victims of digital
abuse are primarily women who work in some kind of vocation.
A
renowned Pakistan journalist Gharida Farooqi shared her experience of the
global epidemic of online harassment with The Washington Post, as cited by The
Friday Times.
For
the victims of these harassment situations, the price is far lower regarding
loss and reduced status. Thousands of female intelligence officers from all
over the world have had their voices muffled and, in some cases, completely
ignored. They still have to work hard to maintain their positions.
As
she is observing the iddah time, intelligencer Javeria Siddique, the late
journalist Arshad Sharif's widow, too broke her silence by writing a piece on
the disdainful trolling and social media crusade. Javeria claims that the
harassment campaign by pixies and political activists is punishment for
supporting her spouse. She said, "My spouse is no longer with us, but I
am; yet, some people want to bury me alive."
Like
in Pakistan, the question is whether Javeria will still be equally accountable
to fulfil her domestic duties and journalistic obligations in this society in
the same way that she did when her spouse was by her side.
A study
by the Economist Intelligence Unit, cited by The Friday Times, found that 78
per cent of women lack access to a reliable organisation to report internet
abuse. The survey found that 62 per cent of women experience feelings of
helplessness despite having veritable plenty of options for addressing this
issue.
Journalist
Tanzeela Mazhar repeatedly brought a case of online abuse to court in 2017,
pleading shrilly for justice. There was a case of harassment against a PTV
employee that was repeatedly successful. PTV is controlled by the government.
Even
so, imputation panels are in operation, but women are still unsure of their
ability to receive justice inside the confines of their institutions. Gharida
compared online harassment to digital violence in an interview, saying that she
had been harassed, pursued, and threatened with rape and murder. Her bogus
prints have consistently been shown on social media and pornographic websites.
Similar incidents of mistreatment of female journalists are reported everywhere.
After all, why are women more likely to become victims of online harassment?
The absence of justice in Pakistan is one of the key causes of this. Women
cannot knock on the door of justice due to the court system's complexity.
Women
are discouraged from filing formal complaints because they are required to
visit the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Office and provide their CNIC
number, phone number, and father's name.
Based
on real-world experiences and examples, the issues of online harassment and violence
are highlighted in this report. Women have been struggling with the
consequences of online assault for years while looking for relief in a variety
of ways. The campaigns and initiatives to increase women's accessibility on
digital platforms need to come to an end.
A
journalist from central Punjab named Saddia Mazhar has suffered from mental
illness for numerous years as a result of cyberbullying. In a phone chat, she
said that a fake Facebook ID with her images and personal information had been
uploaded online.
Saddia,
on the other hand, protested to the FIA Office in Islamabad, stating that
"The complaint subject was that I want the IP address of this false
Facebook account so that I can be watchful and careful of this individual in
the future." After almost a year, the FIA acknowledged in an email that
they lacked the technology necessary to identify a bogus Facebook account's IP
address.
After
pestering institutions for more than a year and a half, Saddia eventually
received information from their pals and denounced the false profile to
Facebook authorities. And within three to four days of the complaint, all of
her information was removed from the fictitious Facebook account.
Despite
all the precautions, warnings, and consequences, there is just one basic piece
of advice she gives to everyone: while allowing their kids access to the
internet, parents should teach and train them about the morals of using social
media.
Finally,
we need strong, concrete, and harsh rules - of course with strict enforcement -
regarding the use of false and dual accounts for cyberbullying of any type
against anyone. Institutions should take action against criminals in addition
to creating legislation to deal with cyber violence. If the nation's security
agencies fail to stop this horrible crime, they must be appropriately punished,
The Friday Times reported.
Source:
Business Standard
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