Quds al-Samarrai, an Arab Woman Behind Viral Qur’an Rescue Video Faces Danish Court
New Age
Islam News Bureau
01 August 2023
• Quds al-Samarrai, an Arab Woman Behind
Viral Qur’an Rescue Video Faces Danish Court
• Iran Unveils Law Targeting Hijab-Free
Celebrities
• Two Iranian Women Journalists, Saeedeh
Shafiei and Nasim Sultanbeigi, Handed Jail Terms
• Warming World ‘Brutalizes’ Women as
Heatwaves Deepen Gender Divide: US Based Research
• Lack of Women's Presence in Meetings
on Afghanistan Criticized
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Quds al-Samarrai, an Arab Woman Behind
Viral Qur’an Rescue Video Faces Danish Court
31 July 2023
Robert Carter
Press TV, Copenhagen
An Iraqi woman who went viral on social
media attempting to save a Qur'an from desecration in Denmark has been
identified.
Quds al-Samarrai says she suffered
injuries during the confrontation with two far right activists and was later
arrested on charges of theft. Press TV’s Robert Carter has travelled to Denmark
to meet with al-Samarrai and filed this report.
Source: presstv.ir
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/07/31/708093/Arab-woman-behind-viral-Quran-rescue-video-faces-Danish-court
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Iran Unveils Law Targeting Hijab-Free
Celebrities
Iranian
women walk down a street with their hair exposed despite the revival of the
morality police in Tehran, Iran.
Reuters/Majid Asgaripour/WANA
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July 30, 2023
Two weeks after announcing the return of
its infamous “morality police,” Tehran is reviewing harsh new legislation to
enforce the “modest dress” of both female and male Iranians – particularly
famous ones.
Drafted by the Iranian judiciary, the
Hijab and Chastity Bill would impose severe penalties for violations, including
5-10 years in prison and fines of up to 36 million tomans (US$750). It would
also ramp up gender segregation at universities, hospitals, educational and
administrative centers, parks, and tourist centers. But Article 43 – the
so-called “celebrity clause” – has attracted the most attention. It would
target actors, artists, and media personalities who declare solidarity with the
“Woman, Life, Freedom” protests linked to the in-custody death of Mahsa Amini.
Celebs could face fines of one-tenth of their wealth and be excluded from their
professional activities for a specific period.
Iranian leaders clearly hope to scare
celebrities into toeing the line, but after months of government leniency in
the wake of Amini’s death and protests, renewed attempts to crack down are more
likely to unveil more resistance and civil unrest.
Source: gzeromedia.com
https://www.gzeromedia.com/iran-unveils-law-targeting-hijab-free-celebrities
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Two Iranian Women Journalists, Saeedeh
Shafiei and Nasim Sultanbeigi, Handed Jail Terms
Saeeda
Shafiei
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JULY 31, 2023
Iranian journalists Saeedeh Shafiei and
Nasim Sultanbeigi have been sentenced to four years and three months in prison
on charges of "assembly and collusion" and propaganda against the
Islamic Republic.
According to the Telegram channel of the
Journalist Association of Tehran province, Shafiei’s husband, Hasan Homayoun,
said that Branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary Court also banned the two
journalists from traveling and being members of any groups for a period of two
years.
He said that a third woman journalist,
Mehrnoosh Zarei, was acquitted of all charges.
Shafiei and Sultanbeigi were arrested in
October 2022, along with a number of other journalists, in the wake of
widespread protests sparked by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa
Amini.
Iran ranked as the world’s worst jailer
of journalists in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) 2022 prison
census, which documented those behind bars as of December 1.
According to the New York-based media
freedom watchdog, the Islamic Republic has detained at least 95 journalists
during last year’s nationwide protests.
Many have been released on bail while
awaiting trial or summonses to serve multi-year sentences.
Source: iranwire.com
https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/119035-two-iranian-women-journalists-handed-jail-terms/
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Quds al-Samarrai, an Arab Woman Behind
Viral Qur’an Rescue Video Faces Danish Court
Monday, 31 July 2023
Robert Carter
Press TV, Copenhagen
An Iraqi woman who went viral on social
media attempting to save a Qur'an from desecration in Denmark has been
identified.
Quds al-Samarrai says she suffered
injuries during the confrontation with two far right activists and was later
arrested on charges of theft. Press TV’s Robert Carter has travelled to Denmark
to meet with al-Samarrai and filed this report.
Source: presstv.ir
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/07/31/708093/Arab-woman-behind-viral-Quran-rescue-video-faces-Danish-court
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Warming World ‘Brutalizes’ Women as
Heatwaves Deepen Gender Divide: US Based Research
August 01, 2023
MUMBAI/LAGOS/LONDON: Women will bear the
brunt of extreme heat as more frequent heatwaves on a warming planet pose a
growing threat to their work, earnings and lives; researchers have warned.
The impacts of rising heat are
disproportionately dangerous and costly to women — be it at home or on the job
— according to a report titled ‘The Scorching Divide’ by the Adrienne
Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Centre (Arsht-Rock).
The US-based non-profit’s research,
which analysed India, Nigeria and the United States, said that extreme heat
could kill 204,000 women annually across the three countries in hot years.
“Extreme heat is quietly but profoundly
brutalising women worldwide,” said Kathy Baughman McLeod, director of
Arsht-Rock. Heat creates a “double burden” for women, the report warned.
“Women are not only more susceptible to
physically getting sick from heat, they’re also disproportionately expected to
care for everyone else who’s sick from heat, whether that’s paid care or unpaid
care,” McLeod told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Heatwaves are breaking records around
the world and the continued release of planet-heating emissions — largely from
the use of coal, oil and gas — will push global temperatures into uncharted
territory in the coming years, scientists have said.
The debilitating heat will take its toll
on women, forcing them to work longer hours — whether outdoors on a farm, for
example, or doing unpaid domestic work like cooking and cleaning at home — for
less money or no income at all, the report said.
“Women in poverty are being pushed
further into poverty, and women climbing out of poverty are being pulled back
in,” McLeod said.
LACK OF COOLING HITS WOMEN HARDEST
With the average number of heatwave days
projected to at least double by 2050 in India, Nigeria and the United States,
women from the poorest and marginalized communities will suffer the biggest
blow to their productivity, the report found.
Much of these heat-related productivity
losses — pegged at about $120 billion each year across the three countries —
are in the context of unpaid household work and linked to lack of access to
domestic cooling equipment, according to the research.
About 1.2 billion rural and urban poor
globally are expected to be living without cooling solutions by 2030, with 323
million of them in India alone, according to Sustainable Energy for All
(SEforALL), a UN-backed organization working on energy access.
These solutions range from domestic
air-conditioning to cold chains for farm produce.
Women spend almost twice as much time
than men working at home, taking care of children or older relatives and
managing the house — and those who cannot afford air-conditioning experience a
bigger hit to their productivity, the report found.
In nations such as Nigeria, where heat
exacerbates symptoms of tropical diseases from malaria to yellow fever, mothers
bear the “double burden” of looking after themselves and caring for sick family
members, amounting to hours of unpaid work.
Doctors in Nigeria, who experience
frequent power cuts, are calling for better-ventilated hospitals and say
pregnant women should take breaks of at least three hours if working outdoors.
“Pregnant women are at greater risk of
heat-related deaths as increasing temperature affects fetus growth and complicates
the overall health of an expectant mother,” said Samuel Adebayo, a
gynaecologist in Lagos.
Nigeria accounts for 20 percent of
global maternal deaths — 58,000 women per year — said the Arsht-Rock report,
citing World Health Organization (WHO) data, and heat adds yet another
complication.
In Britain, where women from Black
communities are nearly four times more likely than white women to die in
childbirth, climate change will only exacerbate the challenges they face,
according to Selvaseelan Selvarajah, a doctor in east London.
While the rich can afford
air-conditioning units and electricity costs, the poor cannot, Selvarajah said.
“In poor housing, even if the council
gave you air-conditioning, you’re paying hundreds of pounds a month for your
electricity — you’re not going to want to turn it on,” he said.
INVISIBLE LABOUR PUTS BIGGER BURDEN ON
WOMEN
Farm worker Savitri Devi, 40, soldiered
through the harsh summer in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh this
year, working in fields at temperatures as high as 44 degrees Celsius (111.2
degrees Fahrenheit) even as scores of people died during the heatwave in the
state in June.
Women in India lose nearly a fifth of
their paid working hours to heat, and extreme heat is pushing female wages
below the poverty line in sectors including agriculture, which accounts for 70
percent of total female employment, the report found.
“I obviously suffered working in the
sun. I fell ill, and my wages were cut for every hour lost due to the heat. But
what do I do? I have to work for money,” said Devi, who earns 250 rupees
($3.05) for eight hours of work per day.
Labour experts said rising heat has
compounded the problem — particularly for the rural poor. As droughts dent crop
harvests and fuel male migration from villages in search of alternative work,
women are left behind to take care of farms and families.
Benoy Peter, executive director of the
Center for Migration and Inclusive Development, a Kerala-based non-profit, said
most agricultural work in rural India consists of invisible labor by women —
who assume a bigger burden when men migrate to cities.
“So women do the farm work, take care of
older people and children. But if they fall ill, there is no one to take them
to a health facility,” he said.
McLeod of Arsht-Rock said people were
starting to understand the effects of heat — from a financial and health
perspective — and stressed the need to take urgent action on the issue.
“This crisis, given where our emissions
are ... it’s only getting worse,” she said. “No one has to die from heat. All
of these deaths and illness are preventable. We just hope that people pay
attention.”
Source: arabnews.com
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2347626/world
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Lack of Women's Presence in Meetings on
Afghanistan Criticized
Women have criticized the lack of female
presence in the meetings discussing the situation of Afghanistan.
Some of these women who were interviewed
by TOLOnews said that women’s representatives’ presence is necessary in the
meetings related to Afghan conditions.
“The women who are in Afghanistan should
be invited to this meeting because the main suffering of the women in
Afghanistan today is felt by these women. They feel the pain better than the
women abroad,” said Hamir Farhangyar, who has worked in the field of human
rights and female education for several decades.
Farhangyar stressed that the actions of
other countries toward the issues of women in Afghanistan have not been
beneficial.
Heather Barr, associate director of the
Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, referring to the meeting of the
US-Afghan interim government in Doha, said that the human rights issue should
be at the top of the agenda.
“It is urgently important that human
rights be at the top of the agenda for those meetings. Now we trust that would
be the case given that is the core mandate for Rina Amiri,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Emirate said that
there is no problem with the presence of women’s representatives in the general
meetings on Afghanistan.
“If it is a legal discussion, or a
discussion about women and their rights, under such conditions, we think about
how to facilitate a Sharia and Islamic environment. But we see that some of our
senior officials are meeting women again and again” said Zabiullah Mujahid,
Islamic Emirate’s spokesman.
“The women want a meeting in which the
decisive decisions should be taken for the destiny of women and people of
Afghanistan,” said Suraya Paikan, a female defender.
This comes as the UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres said on Twitter that women and girls “everywhere deserve to
live with dignity and respect.”
“We will never give up fighting to
ensure their fundamental human rights are upheld everywhere,” he said.
Source: tolonews.com
https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-184433
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