Rabia Zakir, A Pakistani Woman First International Artist to Hold Solo Show in Madinah
New Age Islam News Bureau
11 March 2022
• Saudi Women Prove That ‘We Can Do It’ As Their
Participation In Military Grows
• Wives, Relatives of Diplomats in Riyadh Celebrate
Women’s Day
• Court Seeks End to Gender-Based Discrimination
against Bangladeshi Women in All Religions
• Tania Joya, First Lady of ISIS, Now ‘The Other
Woman’ Of US Rep, Got Lucky Unlike Many Others
• Saudi Forces Rescue 2 American Women Detained In
Sanaa
• Violence against Women in Pakistan Increased In
2021: Report
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Rabia Zakir, A Pakistani Woman First International
Artist to Hold Solo Show in Madinah
Rabia Zakir's described
her solo show in the kingdom as a “journey of faith,” was a sign of the
changing times.
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March 10, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani painter Rabia Zakir, who on
International Women’s Day this week became the first international artist to
hold a solo show in Madinah, has praised Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s
Vision 2030 reform plans for promoting arts and culture in Saudi Arabia.
Zakir is well known in diplomatic circles for her
portraits of Arab leaders, including the Saudi crown prince and members of the
royal families of the UAE and Bahrain. Her portraits and landscapes hang in 50
embassies in Pakistan, most prominently of Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia,
the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.
In an interview with Arab News via telephone from
Madinah, Zahir said she had seen a “clear change” in the arts and culture scene
in Saudi Arabia “due to the special interest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman under his Vision 2030.”
Her solo show in the Kingdom, which she described as a
“journey of faith,” was a sign of the changing times.
“I am feeling very proud to become the first female
artist from outside Saudi Arabia to present her work in the holy city of
Madinah,” Zahir said. “I don’t have words to explain my happiness.”
Zahir said her pieces on display include portraits of Saudi
leaders and paintings depicting Islamic holy places.
“It has landscape paintings of Haram, Masjid Nabawi,
different places in Makkah and Madinah that Muslims visit during their
pilgrimage of Hajj and Umrah,” Zakir added.
The artist said she had been approached by the Saudi
Arabian Society for Culture and Arts around six months ago after officials
noticed her work on social media.
“They offered to present my work to the Saudi public
by organizing a solo exhibition,” she said, adding that the government of
Pakistan was not involved in the exhibition, which was a wholly Saudi
initiative.
Zakir has also been presented with an award by the
Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts for “strengthening Pak-Saudi ties”
and will be holding a training workshop for young Saudi artists.
Fatma Ragab, the organizer of the exhibition from the
society, said the body welcomed intellectuals and creators from all over the
world.
“Zakir’s exhibition, which includes 27 artistic
paintings, was a great success and achieved remarkable attendance and
admiration from notable personalities, artists, and intellectuals,” she told
Arab News in a statement.
“It is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for Saudi nationals
to get acquainted closely with the fine art movement in Pakistan and their rich
artistic experiences.”
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2040266/saudi-arabia
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Saudi Women Prove That ‘We Can Do It’ As Their
Participation in Military Grows
Female participation at
World Defence Show in Riyadh was noticeable (AN photo: Abdullah Aljaber)
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March 10, 2022
RIYADH/DUBAI: Saudi women are breaking stereotypes and
establishing successful businesses in the defense and security sector through
the Kingdom’s strategy to localize more than 50 percent of its military
spending by 2030.
One of the biggest defense spenders in the world,
Saudi Arabia plans to invest over $20 billion in its domestic military industry
over the next decade, requiring greater participation from its local men and
women as the country wants to become self-reliant in the area of national
security.
The country’s ambitious Vision 2030 has been a driving
force behind providing wings to the aspirations of many such young Saudi women
who otherwise would have not thought of venturing into the male-dominated
defense sector.
“Now, for the first time, we’re making history, and
there are more women in the [defense] sector, and finally, we’re talking,” said
Reem Abukhaled, partnership relations officer at Leonardo, an
Italy-headquartered defense firm with a strong presence in Saudi Arabia, on the
sidelines of World Defense Show in Riyadh.
Talking to Arab News, she revealed that Leonardo Saudi
Arabia is looking to expand their workforce by hiring more Saudi women. “There
will be more Saudi females; that’s part of our plan,” she said.
The growing women workforce at the state-owned Saudi
Arabian Military Industries — known also as SAMI — is a testament to the
defense sector’s popularity among the young Saudis.
More than 22 percent of its current workforce
comprises women as the country’s premier defense firm has the policy to
maintain the representation of female employees at a minimum of 20 percent.
Young Rayan Al-Abdulkarim represents these
aspirational Saudi women who are ready to take on the mantle of protecting the
Kingdom’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
A software engineer, Al-Abdulkarim had the option of
picking up a conventional job after graduation but she chose to pursue her
career in the defense sector for its uniqueness and future growth prospects.
Currently employed with one of SAMI’s joint ventures, SAMINavantia, she played
an active role in the development of Saudi Arabia’s first Combat Management
System, HAZEM, becoming the first Saudi military software integrator.
Confident and empowered women like Al-Abdulkarim are
today willing to play an increasingly important role in achieving Saudi’s
localization goals under Vision 2030.
As foreign firms willing to work in Saudi’s defense
sector are mandated to spend in the domestic market in capacity building and
local talent development, the country’s young population has a wide array of
companies and opportunities to choose from if they pick the defense sector as
their career option.
Shatha Khamis is another talented female engineer who
chose to work with SAMI Advanced Electronics as she feels one of the best
things about her career is working on the latest technologies.
Khamis joined SAMI’s subsidiary as an associate
engineer soon after obtaining her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering.
But her passion to excel saw her getting promoted to an industrial engineer’s
position within just two years of joining. Khamis currently manages some of the
exciting projects in the area of defense and aerospace and cyber and national
security.
“Woman’s nature is to defend. They defend their kids,
family and everyone. So it’s important for us females to defend our country
because that’s our nature, we like to defend,” Abukhaled added.
Saudi’s series of recent legislative reforms continue
to create equal ground for women as they come forward to take part in the
country’s growing workforce.
SAMI, for instance, has implemented equal pay and
opportunity, a standard salary scale, promotions based on performance and
competency rather than time-in-grade, and international assignments without
gender or nationality considerations.
These initiatives are encouraging women to break the
stereotypes and take up any position or role as they feel confident to
establish a successful career in the Kingdom’s defense and security sector.
“In 2030, I see them handling all kinds of positions
because they can,” said Ghada M. Alnahdi, marketing and communications lead at
Worley.
In response to a question about the future of Saudi
women, Alnahdi advised young women to “always go ahead and achieve their goals
no matter what.”
She finds it inspiring “to see women representing the
country in the industry, and it’s the first time, so it’s honestly amazing.”
Abukhaled said the Saudi Vision 2030 initiatives are
empowering women. “I see women reaching high ranks not only in the future but
already today,” she explained.
With the Saudi Arabian military sector continuing to
grow, SAMI and other defense firms are expected to offer an array of exciting
and long-term career opportunities to the Kingdom’s youth, including women.
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2039986/business-economy
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Wives, relatives of diplomats in Riyadh celebrate
women’s day
RASHID HASSAN
March 10, 2022
RIYADH: The wives and relatives of foreign diplomats
based in the Saudi capital recently celebrated International Women’s Day.
The Wives of Heads of Mission Association organized a
special event on Wednesday at the Embassy of India auditorium in Riyadh.
Welcoming guests, association president, Farha Sayeed,
the wife of the Indian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, said:
“Gender equality is an issue of both human dignity and respect and greater
global prosperity. Sustainable development goals are not achievable if half of
the world’s population remains excluded.”
She lauded the Saudi leadership for its strong
political resolve to empower women, raise the level of their economic participation,
and build on their capacities and knowledge.
“It is reassuring to see that Saudi women are now
appointed as ministers, ambassadors, and cultural attaches,” she added.
An interactive panel discussion was organized on the
theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, “Gender Equality Today for a
Sustainable Tomorrow.” It was moderated by the Italian envoy’s wife Tania
Mehanna, with participation from Reema Al-Ruwaysan, the chief executive officer
of Molhimah Group, and Muneera Al-Dossary, head of asset management and chief
investment officer at HSBC Saudi Arabia.
The event’s colorful cultural program included a show
of costumes from Japan, India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, the Philippines, Vietnam,
and Sri Lanka, and a song and dance performance involving artists from France,
India, Sri Lanka, and Guinea.
An international art and craft exhibition was also
held along with a bazaar, and display of world cuisines.
The event was attended by a large number of diplomats,
citizens, and members of the international community in Riyadh.
Hoang Phuong, spouse of Vietnam Ambassador Vu Viet
Dung, told Arab News: “We are very pleased to be part of this International
Women’s Day event. It is a good get-together with spouses of diplomats of other
countries as well as an opportunity for the diplomatic community to meet Saudi
friends and members of the community and to honor all the women in the world on
this occasion.”
Habiba Hossain, wife of the Bangladeshi envoy to the
Kingdom, Mohammad Javed Patwary, told Arab News: “I am glad to be part of such
an enjoyable celebration. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, things have been
closed, but thankfully everything is back to normal. I am feeling a lot of joy
on this occasion with so much diversity, celebrating different types of
culture, foods, and crafts.”
International Women’s Day grew out of the labor
movement to become an annual event recognized by the UN, and celebrates the
cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements of women.
The seeds were planted in 1908, when 15,000 women
marched through New York demanding shorter working hours, better pay, and the
right to vote.
International Women’s Day was first held in 1911, in
Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland, and was made official in 1975 when
the UN designated March 8 for annual celebrations.
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2040136/saudi-arabia
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Court Seeks End to Gender-Based Discrimination against
Bangladeshi Women in All Religions
By Stephan Uttom
March 11, 2022
A Catholic official has welcomed a ruling from
Bangladesh’s top court that seeks to end gender-based discrimination against
women in all religions in the socially conservative country.
On International Women’s Day on March 8, a High Court
bench of Justice Mohammad Rais Uddin issued a suo moto ruling questioning the
discrimination against women in social status, jobs and inheritance. A suo moto
ruling refers to actions by a judge taken without a prior motion or request.
The court asked the government to explain within four
weeks why inequality between sons and daughters, males and females, in terms of
social status, jobs and inheritance in all religions should not be declared
illegal.
The Cabinet Division secretary and secretaries to the
ministries of law, women and children affairs, and religious affairs have been
made respondents to the rule, the Daily Star newspaper reported on March 9.
Father Albert Thomas Rozario, a Supreme Court lawyer
and member of the Catholic bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission, hailed the
ruling as “groundbreaking.”
“I think empowerment as well as equal rights for women
in Bangladesh is possible only when people of all religions can accord equal
rights or dignity to women from their respective places. In this case, I think
this rule of the High Court is groundbreaking,” Father Rozario told UCA News.
The priest said the Catholic Church offers equal
rights to men and women including inheritance rights. He, however, admitted
that women still lag behind in empowerment, decision making and social status.
“The Church is working on it to improve the situation,” he added.
In Bangladesh, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and
Christians have separate laws regulating personal affairs such as marriage,
family maintenance and inheritance, which is a legacy of British colonial era.
In Muslim personal law, women inherit half of a
property in a family. Hindu laws dictate that women are not entitled to inherit
family property. In the absence of a personal law, Buddhists are covered by
Hindu family laws. The Christian Succession Act stipulates Christian women are
entitled to an equal share of a property from their husbands and fathers.
Bangladesh's government formulated the National Women
Development Policy in 2010 seeking to end all forms of discrimination against
women of all religions in all places as well as equal rights to succession.
However, the policy was put on hold following strong opposition and street
protests by Islamic hardliners.
For years, rights groups and women activists have
called for an end to discrimination against Hindu women in terms of inheritance
through amendments to Hindu family laws. Thaat also met with stiff protests
from radical Hindu organizations.
Pratima Rani, 23, a student from the University of
Dhaka in the national capital, decried that without equal rights Hindu women
cannot live with dignity .
“I fully support the ruling given by the High Court
and I want it not to be limited to just rules but to be implemented. We want to
come out of our patriarchal society and live with dignity,” Rani told UCA News.
Rita Roselin Costa, convener of the women's desk at
the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh, pointed out some common forms
of discrimination against women in all religions in the country.
“Whether a girl is of marriageable age or not, the
family thinks that she needs to get married as soon as possible and get a good
husband. They are apprehensive about what will happen after she finishes
education. Many such discriminatory thoughts are made about women in every religion
in the country,” Costa told UCA News.
Although in Christian law a daughter get an equal
share of her father's property, our women do not know much about it as there
have been few efforts to publicize the law, she said.
“From an early age, our societies have given women the
thought that if we take our fathers' property, then our relationship with our
brothers will be severed. So even though many daughters are in dire need, they
do not take the property just to sustain the relationship,” Costa added.
Law Minister Anisul Huq said gender discrimination
cannot be resolved by laws alone.
“Gender discrimination is being removed and demands
are being raised for equal distribution of properties as Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina's government is trying to remove discrimination,” the minister said
during his speech as the chief guest at a program by the National Human Rights
Commission in Dhaka on International Women's Day.
Source: UCA News
https://www.ucanews.com/news/court-seeks-end-to-discrimination-against-bangladeshi-women/96461
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Tania Joya, First Lady of ISIS, Now ‘The Other Woman’
Of US Rep, Got Lucky Unlike Many Others
Vandana Menon
11 March, 2022
The question of repatriating erstwhile members of ISIS
looms large — but if Tania Joya’s story is anything to go by, there was never a
bomb under her Burqa.
‘ISIS bride’, ‘First Lady of ISIS’, and now ‘the other
woman’ of a Texan Republican — she has known many names. Joya, who was notably
married to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s top-ranking leader of American
origin, Yahya al-Bahrumi, is back in American news. This time, as a willing
participant in a seven-month-long political sex scandal with a Republican
congressman — Representative Van Taylor. Somewhat unpredictably, she was her
own whistle-blower and had contacted Taylor’s opponent to talk about the
affair. Her motive, she said, was to call out his hypocrisy.
Like Joya, a lot of women have found themselves wedded
to the Islamic State. Unlike her, however, they aren’t always given the
opportunity to reinvent themselves and reintegrate into society.
Tens of thousands of ‘ISIS brides’ and children are
currently languishing in captivity in camps like the Al-Hol camp in Syria. In
2021, the United Nations urged 57 countries to repatriate over 64,000 women and
children from such camps. But repatriation poses a risk: what if those
returning are still radicalised? There are at least four Indian women who
joined ISIS and now want to come back home — and the Indian government still
hasn’t decided what to do. The women were being held in a prison in Afghanistan
after surrendering to Afghan forces, and there was a glimmer of hope for their
repatriation when the Taliban broke open jails in Kabul in August 2021.
“I see everyone praying for the safe return of
children from war-torn Ukraine,” said Bindu Sampath, a Malayali mother whose
daughter joined ISIS in 2016. “I, too, pray for the safe return of my child,”
she said.
From London to the Levant
Tania Joya was one of the lucky ones.
Her story begins in a small suburb of London. The
daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, Joya reportedly had a difficult childhood,
which she blames on her “upbringing within a conservative Bangladeshi-British
family”.
She befriended a group of ultra-conservative students
as a teenager and began to wear a Jilbab and study the Quran. While her family
hated it, she began to feel like she’d found her place in society — ironically,
she was becoming more isolated with her increasing radicalisation.
When she was 19, she met an 18-year-old American
convert to Islam: John Georgelas. The couple married in 2003 and moved to
Texas, where she experienced living as a conservative Muslim in the American
South. She found a stronger community here and put down more roots when her
husband was briefly imprisoned for accessing passwords and plotting to hack the
website of a pro-Israel lobby — this was also when she began watching TV and
‘wearing colourful headscarves, form-fitting clothes, three-quarter-length
sleeves’.
Eventually, when her husband was released from prison
and done with his probation, he took their family of five to Egypt, just in
time for the Arab Spring. From there, the family found themselves in Syria,
which is where Joya drew the final line. Her husband dropped her off at the
border of Syria and Turkey and handed her and their children to a human trafficker
smuggling refugees.
At that time, Joya had three sons and was six months
pregnant with her fourth child. She weighed 43 kg. Somehow, the family went
from Istanbul to London and then finally to Texas. Joya maintained that she
didn’t want to be in Syria because of how she was being treated — jihad was no
longer about “academics, theory, and dreaming,” and she didn’t want to be
involved.
“They believed their religion would deliver them
justice — so they went with an idea of Islamic utopia,” said Dr Anne Speckhard,
director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, told
ThePrint.
In Joya’s version of the story, she only knew her
husband was networking with various militants. But reports point to a far more
insidious truth: Yahya al-Bahrumi was the Islamic State’s main producer of
English-language propaganda, laying the blueprint for what would become a
highly successful propaganda machine. He is believed to have died in 2017.
Radicalisation and reinvention
Joya’s story didn’t end there. Ever since she left
both her husband and Syria in 2013, she has pivoted to focus on “reprogramming”
extremists and helping them reintegrate into society — something she feels
equipped to do as a “former Islamic jihadist”.
She divorced her husband in 2015, split the custody of
her four sons with her parents-in-law, and started a new life. Her dating
profile divulged that her “husband had gone off to be the next Osama bin
Laden”. She met and married Craig Burma and began to explore Christianity — by
2019, she was exploring Judaism too.
That brings us back to the present day. Joya, who has
been profiled by the international press multiple times and is fixated upon by
British tabloids, found herself in a situation poised for political sabotage.
The affair between her and Rep. Van Taylor took place
between October 2020 and June 2021. Joya met him through her de-radicalisation
work, and the two hit it off. She describes herself as “pathetic and lovesick”,
and says she was planning a future with him.
At one point, Taylor reportedly tried to end things
with her by saying he wanted to see other Indian women. Joya, whose family is
from Bangladesh, found the comment “extremely offensive”. Towards the end of
the affair, he paid her $5,000 to keep quiet about it.
She went public when she saw that he’d called out a
rival politician for having an affair and decided she wanted to expose his
hypocrisy. There on, Joya contacted a candidate opposing Taylor, Suzanne Harp,
in the hope that she would confront him privately and get him to resign from
Congress. Instead, the story was leaked to the press on 1 March, complete with
scandalous screenshots.
Taylor is considered a RINO — Republican in Name Only
— by far-Right conservatives because he supported President Joe Biden’s
election victory. The sex scandal gave more conservative Republicans what they
were looking for: an excuse to attack Taylor’s morality.
And it worked. The next day, Taylor ended his
re-election campaign to the House of Representatives after admitting to having
an extramarital affair with Joya without mentioning her by name. Headlines,
however, zeroed in on Joya’s past life as a woman married to a terrorist. She’s
still being judged for her choices.
The agency of women joining ISIS has been called into
question over and over. Even if women join ISIS voluntarily, the extent of
their participation isn’t always known — most women are homemakers.
“My daughter was fully forced into joining ISIS. I
raised her myself — I know this was not her choice,” said Bindu Kamath. “It has
been 2,198 days since I’ve seen my daughter.”
ISIS’s propaganda was also effective at getting people
on the ground, even if it was misleading them. “In most cases, there’s complete
agency to travel,” said Dr Anne Speckhard. “But the understanding of what they
were going into – for both men and women – might have been missing.”
The issue of integration
“We have lots of success stories, but we also have
cautionary tales,” Dr Anne Speckhard told ThePrint. “And what the cautionary
tales teach us is that we need to have good intelligence.”
She pointed to the recent case of Jennifer Wenisch, a
German ISIS returnee who claimed innocence to evade the legal system. However,
she later confessed her crimes to an intelligence agent posing as a fellow ISIS
supporter online and admitted that she was a member of ISIS’s morality police.
Had she not been caught by intelligence agencies, she would have travelled back
to the terrorist group.
Repatriation includes charging and prosecuting ISIS
returnees and eventually rehabilitating them. More countries are beginning to
rise to the challenge: Belgium, Germany, and Denmark recently repatriated
several women and children.
The case of Shamima Begum, another British woman of
Bangladeshi descent, also generated international debate: the United Kingdom
cancelled her citizenship in 2019 amid questions over her decision to join ISIS
as a minor (she was 15).
“Every State is responding to this kind of thing in a
different manner. There’s no universal law on how this works — it’s political
and societal, and no one has clear answers,” said Kabir Taneja, a fellow at
Observer Research Foundation, who has also written about the policy challenge
this issue poses across the world.
Until there is some sort of answer, it’s nothing but a
long and lonely wait for the families of those who joined ISIS.
Source: The Print
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Saudi forces rescue 2 American women detained in Sanaa
Aziz Al-Ahmadi
11.03.2022
SANAA, Yemen
Saudi Arabia said Friday its forces rescued two
American women detained in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
In a statement by Saudi Defense Ministry spokesman
Turki Al-Maliki said a “special security operation” to rescue the women was
successfully conducted at the request of the US.
According to Al-Maliki, the two had been detained in
Sanaa during a family visit and “subjected to ill-treatment.”
While the statement stopped short at mentioning the
party behind the two women's detention, Sanaa is currently under the control of
the Houthi rebels.
"At the request of the US and through a special
security operation, the two young women were freed and transferred from Sanaa
to Aden (south) and then to the capital, Riyadh, by the Royal Saudi Air
Force," read the statement.
Al-Maliki noted that the operation is a testament to
the “strength of bilateral relations” between Washington and Riyadh as well as
the duo’s keenness to continue “military cooperation to serve common
interests."
Houthi rebels have yet to issue a comment on the
statement.
The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have been in
control of Sanaa and other regions since September 2014.
Coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia have been
supporting the government against the Houthis since March 2015.
Yemen has been engulfed by violence and instability
since 2014, when Iran-aligned Houthi rebels captured much of the country,
including Sanaa.
A Saudi-led coalition aimed at reinstating the Yemeni
government has worsened the situation.
Yemen is home to one of the world’s worst man-made
humanitarian crises, with nearly 80% of Yemenis, or about 30 million people,
needing humanitarian assistance and protection. More than 13 million are in
danger of starvation, according to UN estimates.
Source: Anadolu Agency
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/saudi-forces-rescue-2-american-women-detained-in-sanaa/2531574
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Violence against Women in Pakistan Increased In 2021:
Report
March 11, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Violence against women and children
increased in 2021 as compared to the previous year but only a limited number of
cases were highlighted in the media. There were 128 cases of violence against
women in Islamabad registered, however only 40 of these cases were covered by
the media.
Out of the 52,370 cases reported in 2021 only 8,719
received media coverage; about 27,273 cases involved violence against women.
Punjab, from among the provinces, was where the highest number of such cases
were registered but only a handful were covered by the media.
These statistics have been mentioned in a report
prepared by the Sustainable Social Development Organisation (SSDO) which was
launched at the National Press Club (NPC). The report is called ‘State of
Violence Against Women & Children in Pakistan: District Wise Analysis’.
National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC)
Chairperson Afshan Tehseen said it was unfortunate that a number of sensitive
cases related to violence against women and children often go unreported in the
media.
Furthermore, she said women need to be cognisant of
their basic human rights.
It was revealed at the launch that the report is
published bi-annually with data collected through media tracking of Pakistan’s
six most widely read newspapers including three published in Urdu and three
English.
There were 18,390 cases of kidnapping of women but
only 2,699 of these cases were highlighted in the media.
As many as 177 kidnapping cases (of women) were
registered in Islamabad with just 68 reported in the media.
“It leads to a colossal difference in the treatment of
cases in the media and official numbers, and also given the fact that Islamabad
hosts one of the largest media outlets, print and electronic likewise,” the
report stated.
Syed Kausar Abbas, executive director of SSDO said it
was the first report of its kind where data collection is not based on
estimates or projections but gathered from FIRs.
Source: Dawn
https://www.dawn.com/news/1679315/violence-against-women-increased-in-2021-report
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