Saudi Arabia To Appoint Female Judges Soon: Official
New
Age Islam News Bureau
16
January 2021
• Sudan:
Women Protest Rape, Violence, and Sexual Harassment in Darfur
• Pakistan-
6 In 10 Women Face Restrictions When Accessing Internet: Study
• 'Love
Jihad' Law Seen Trampling Women's Hard-Earned Freedoms In India
• Afghan
Refugee Helping War Widows Escape Poverty Cycle
• Conference
Calls For Raising Women’s Capital in Saudi Industrial Sector
• Pakistan
Top Court Moves To Hear #Metoo Case Against Singer Zafar
• Hyderabad
Gymkhana To Organize Pakistan Women Squash Championship 2021
• Ankara,
UN Ink Pact To Help Women, Children
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by New Age Islam News Bureau
URL: https://www.newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/saudi-arabia-appoint-female-judges/d/124086
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Saudi
Arabia To Appoint Female Judges Soon: Official
Ismaeel
Naar
15
January 2021
Hind
al-Zahid, undersecretary for women’s empowerment at the Ministry of Human
Resources and Social Development, speaks to Al Arabiya.
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Saudi
women will soon be able to be appointed as judges in the Kingdom, according to
Saudi Arabia’s undersecretary for women’s empowerment at the Ministry of Human
Resources and Social Development.
“Today,
a normal legal career would see a person go through multiple stages before they
can be appointed as judges. What I can say is that a Saudi woman assuming the
position of judge is very soon. There are initiatives in place on several
levels,” Hind al-Zahid, undersecretary for women's empowerment the the
ministry, told Al Arabiya.
Al-Zahid
said the government of Saudi Arabia is very serious in supporting women
empowerment on several levels, from entering the labor market, their presence
in such market through a supportive environment, providing equal opportunities
and granting them access to leadership positions.
During
her interview on Al Arabiya’s "Direct Question" program on Friday,
al-Zahid said that the international indicators have proven the Kingdom's
progress in supporting the empowerment of women at all levels.
According
to the undersecretary, participation of Saudi women in the labor market
exceeded expectations and is predicted to increase by 25 percent in 2025.
“Their
participation rate today has reached 31 percent, and this is a very big
progress. As for the civil service sectors, the Saudi women's participation
rate has increased from 39 percent to 41 percent, and most of them are in the
education and health sectors in addition to other sectors,” al-Zahid said.
In
2020, Saudi Arabia’s economy made the biggest progress globally toward gender
equality since 2017, according to a World Bank report. The World Bank’s “Women,
Business and the Law 2020” study, which tracks how laws affect women in 190
economies, scored Saudi Arabia’s economy 70.6 points out of 100, a dramatic
increase from its previous score of 31.8 points.
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2021/01/16/Saudi-women-Saudi-Arabia-to-appoint-female-judges-soon-Official
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Sudan:
Women Protest Rape, Violence, and Sexual Harassment in Darfur
12
JANUARY 2021
Khartoum / El Fasher — Yesterday, the Sudanese Women's Revolution Initiative held a vigil in front of the Ministry of Justice in Khartoum to protest against rape, sexual harassment, and discrimination against women. Another vigil was held against gender-based violence (GBV) in front of the El Fasher Court in North Darfur.
They
handed a memorandum to the Ministry of Justice to call for the amendment of the
1991 Criminal Law on harassment and rape. They describe the current laws and
penalties as too unclear.
Rayan
Mohamed, one of the initiative's founders, pointed at the increase in incidents
of violence against women and the rape of young girls and boys. She explained
that women are victims of various types of crimes but are often unable to file
a report out of fear for public shaming.
She
also said that a young woman was molested and raped on New Year's Eve by a
group of about 20 men on Nile Street in Khartoum.
Members
of the Sudanese Women's Revolution
Initiativeprotest
violence against women
in El
Fasher (Social Media)
The
initiative also protested the continuing attacks of women in El Fasher, capital
of North Darfur.
In
cooperation with the Kafa Women Association, the initiative organised a vigil
in front of the El Fasher Court. The protestors carried banners calling for
"an immediate end to violence against women in all parts of Sudan and in Darfur
in particular".
Protestor
Ruaa Saleh told reporters in El Fasher that the vigil is a protest against the
continuing violence against women. She pointed to the recent killing of a young
woman in Um Kedada, the rape of a girl in eastern Sudan's El Gedaref, and the
gang-rape of a young woman in Khartoum on New Year's Eve.
She
also called for legal reforms.
Yesterday,
Radio Dabanga reported on the rape of a 9-year-old girl in Deribat in East
Jebel Locality, South Darfur. The girl was raped by a member of the South
Darfur Military Intelligence.
The
director of the Violence Against Women Unit in South Darfur, Selma John, said
that the rapist has been arrested by Military Intelligence. She demanded that
the authorities "impose the most severe penalty on the perpetrator, so
that it will be a lesson for others".
The
child has been transferred to Nyala in serious conditions to receive medical
and psychological care.
Last
year, the Women's Revolution Initiative also organised a vigil in front of the
Ministry of Justice against sexual violence and to demand legal reforms. The
vigil was organised in collaboration with the No to Women's Oppression
Initiative and Sudanese Women.
They
demanded the inclusion of the term 'sexual harassment' in the law with detailed
definitions, including harassment by touch, verbal harassment, stalking,
tracking, phone calls, and other aggressions.
They
also called for increased sentences for offenders "to reflect the harmful
and lasting effects on the victims".
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Dabanga's editorial independence means that we can continue to provide factual
updates about political developments to Sudanese and international actors,
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https://allafrica.com/stories/202101130087.html
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Pakistan-
6 in 10 women face restrictions when accessing internet: study
1/15/2021
PESHAWAR:
Six in ten women internet users who took part in a study face some kind of
restriction from their families when using the internet, a new study by Media
Matters for Democracy (MMfD) finds.
The
study titled "Women Disconnected: Feminist Case Studies on the Gender Digital
Divide Amidst COVID-19" examines the impact of gender digital divide on
women in Pakistan during the coronavirus pandemic. The research is based on a
survey with 215 women from across Pakistan and a series of in-depth interviews,
says a press release.
A
majority of the respondents of the survey said they are only allowed to use the
internet for attending online classes or talking to family via WhatsApp. More
than a third of those surveyed acknowledged higher restrictions on the use of
the internet for girls than boys, with 16% saying girls are not allowed to use
it at all.
Key
findings of the research indicate that 40% of the women surveyed use the
internet every day, with the usage becoming higher as family income rises. Half
of the respondents who use the internet daily, come from families with over
Rs60,000 monthly income while 7 in 10 of those who do not use the internet come
from families with below Rs30,0000 monthly income.
A
whopping 80% of the respondents who are unable to use the Internet are from
South Waziristan, one of the newly merged districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The
cost of the internet continues to be a concern with 76% of the respondents
saying that the Internet in Pakistan is expensive and more than a third saying
it was beyond the reach of an average person. Mobile appears to be the main
mode of connection for women who took part in the survey. 88% of the
respondents who use the internet said that they are accessing the internet
through their own devices and 78% of those using their own devices are using
mobile phones.
The
study indicates that the need for internet usage among respondents increased
with the COVID-19 pandemic, with 8 out of 10 respondents saying they felt the
need to use it more during lockdown. At the same time, a number of them lost
regular access to the internet due to the lockdown which barred them from using
the internet in workplaces, educational institutes and other places that they
had previously used to connect. Prior to the pandemic, many women accessed the Internet
outside their homes but their problems now include slow speed and reduced
access due to family members using the same connection or devices. The
respondents and interviewees also indicated that surveillance at home has
become stricter and threats of domestic violence more pronounced as men remain
in the house and many women are unable to step out to purchase mobile data.
The
research also finds evidence that women in the newly merged districts are
unable to connect to emergency health services in case of emergency due to lack
of connectivity. The lack of communication combined with lack of local
emergency health care has resulted in fatalities of women, including during
childbirth.
Researchers
say that the unavailability of official data about gender digital divide being
available by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) or local service
providers also posed challenges. Therefore, much of the research was based on
anecdotal evidence and reported incidents.
Commenting
on the research, Zoya Rehman, one of the researchers, says, "We were
trying to look at the lived experiences of Pakistani women and, of course,
there's no monolithic Pakistani woman either, which is also something we assert
in this research project. These experiences cannot be seen through one kind of
lens and you can't brush them with one stroke."
Another
researcher, Hija Kamran, regretted that despite access to the internet being
acknowledged as a fundamental right, "many people continue to be
disconnected" in Pakistan, "Our study finds that the gender digital
divide is not merely an inconvenience, it, in fact, hinders growth and
opportunities, and is life-threatening for women who are not able to access the
internet because either there are infrastructural barriers, or it is unaffordable,
or due to patriarchal restrictions.'
"It
is the responsibility of the government to ensure every citizen has access to
open, affordable, and safe Internet in Pakistan," Kamran underlined.
https://menafn.com/1101438271/Pakistan-6-in-10-women-face-restrictions-when-accessing-internet-study
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'Love
jihad' law seen trampling women's hard-earned freedoms in India
15
January 2021
By
Roli Srivastava
MUMBAI,
Jan 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Mehak's parents found out she was
having a relationship with a Muslim man, they locked her in her bedroom, seized
her phone and bank cards and installed security cameras at their home in
northern India.
To
the 26-year-old's astonishment, when she managed to report her confinement to
local police, they took her parents' side and urged her to end the
relationship.
Mehak
is from Uttar Pradesh state, which recently criminalised forced religious
conversion, including by way of interfaith marriages - legislation critics fear
could be used to control women and stop them freely choosing who to marry.
"I
knew what I was doing wasn't illegal. It was my choice. I am educated, I have a
mind of my own ... would I jump into fire?" Mehak, a government employee,
told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
Eventually,
she left the state with her fiance, who she plans to marry soon.
But
far from planning their future together, the couple are in hiding and fear
reprisals from her parents or members of fringe Hindu nationalist groups that
have targeted interfaith couples since the anti-conversion law was passed in
November.
"I'm
scheduled to get married but my strongest emotion right now is not happiness
but fear for our lives," said Mehak, asking to use a pseudonym to protect
her identity.
Men
have been arrested and women forced into shelters in Uttar Pradesh under the
new law, which imposes prison terms for anyone convicted of compelling others
to change their faith or luring them to do so through marriage.
The
legislation followed a campaign by hardline Hindu groups against interfaith
marriages that they call "love jihad" - Muslim men engaging in a
conspiracy to turn Hindu women away from their religion by seducing them.
PROTECT
YOUNG WOMEN
Officials
in Uttar Pradesh, which is the country's most populous state, have said the law
will help prevent fraudulent religious conversions and aims to protect young
women.
Two
other states - Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh - have implemented varying
versions of anti-conversion laws with at least three other states - Haryana,
Karnataka and Assam - planning to bring in similar legislation.
But
critics say the measures - besides being directed at the country's Muslim
minority - are paternalistic and assume women need protection at the cost of
their right to make reasoned decisions about changing faith or choosing a
romantic partner.
"Adult
women are infantilised, placed under parental and community control, and denied
the right to take life decisions," wrote writer and editor Insiyah Vahanvaty
in The Indian Express last month.
Uttar
Pradesh's women and child department did not respond to questions about the
law's potential impact on women's rights.
Meanwhile,
support groups for interfaith couples in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have reported
a spike in the number of calls for help to navigate the new obstacles to
marriage.
Demonstrators
protesting "against the lies of love jihad" have held marches this
month, holding up posters depicting pioneering figures in India's women's
rights movement such as Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheikh.
"They
are not considering women as adults. They are allowed to vote, choose their
government, but cannot choose their life partner," said Akanksha Sharma,
joint secretary at non-profit Dhanak, which works with interfaith couples.
'LIKE
A BOY'
Interfaith
couples in India can marry under a 1954 law, which does not require them to
convert to the same faith but obliges them to give one-month's notice - during
which time objections to the union are invited by the marriage registrar.
In
some states including Uttar Pradesh, marriage registrar offices also send
notices to the addresses given in the couple's identity documents, which is
often their parents' address.
Since
many face parental resistance, social ostracism and in extreme cases violence,
many interfaith couples opt to wed under alternative marriage laws, lawyers
said.
"They
convert to another faith to register quickly under say Hindu or Muslim marriage
acts," said Flavia Agnes, activist and founder of Majlis Legal Centre in
Mumbai.
That
way, notices about their marriage plans do not reach their families, said Renu
Mishra, executive director of women's rights non-profit Association for
Advocacy and Legal Initiative in Lucknow.
But
the new anti-conversion law scuttles that workaround - requiring couples to
give two months' notice to the district magistrate before they can convert.
Mishra
said it marked a setback for women's rights in the country of 1.3 billion,
where rising numbers of women are studying, pursuing careers, moving cities for
work and living alone.
Mehak,
the youngest of four sisters, said she was raised "like a boy". But
the freedom and encouragement she received from her parents to study and
advance her career as a government employee did not extend to her personal
life.
Even
in relatively liberal families, many parents are unwilling to let daughters
choose their partners freely.
"The
father is the custodian of the girls' chastity and sexuality and will give it
as a prized possession to someone he decides. The girl's consent does not
matter," Agnes said.
Mehak
said the new law - though aimed at stopping forced conversions - would end up
stoking social pressures over interfaith marriage and risked curbing women's
hard-earned freedom.
Her
fiance's family also objected to the marriage, but they came around after he
put his foot down.
"They
didn't want to lose their son. So there was no pressure on him," she said.
"Men have no such pressure."
https://news.trust.org/item/20210115112007-2avn3/
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Afghan
refugee helping war widows escape poverty cycle
January
16, 2021
KABUL:
When Hanan Habibzai became a refugee in 2008, he left Afghanistan with a sense
of responsibility toward all those left behind, especially widows and orphaned
children.
As he
made the UK his new home and managed to establish himself, Habibzai founded
Helping Orphans in 2016, a charity that gives vocational training and literacy
courses to women and children.
Helping
Orphans estimates that there are as many as 3.5 million widows and 2.6 million
orphans in Afghanistan today. Often uneducated, the women face few options if
their husbands die, while children end up working out of necessity and never
receive an education.
“What
will happen to these children when they grow up? Their parents are taken away
and they are left alone in poverty and hardship, and they have never been in
school,” Habibzai told Arab News.
“What
can we expect from these children when they grow and take control of their
communities except problems? So, I established this charity to help vulnerable
children and orphans join school. These are the exact reasons as to why I
established Helping Orphans.”
As
his family was displaced by the Afghan-Soviet war of the 1980s, Habibzai knows
from his own experience what hunger and poverty mean. The situation in the
country has become even worse now, he said, after the US-led invasion to oust
the Taliban in 2001.
Before
he left Afghanistan, Habibzai worked as a journalist, traveling across the
country’s provinces, witnessing hopelessness and despair.
“Within
the Afghan poverty-stricken and war-torn nation, I see displaced families, a
refugee going through many difficulties, a 10-year-old orphan becoming
responsible for feeding his family, or a woman who has lost her husband and now
has to look after her children while she has nothing,” he said.
“Today
I live in the UK. I have everything here. My family and I have three full meals
a day. But back in Afghanistan, there are many people who do not even have a
single meal a day and are facing severe poverty and hardship.”
The
latest survey by the UN indicates that 18 million people in Afghanistan — half
of the country’s population — are in need of emergency aid.
In
the beginning, through donations from individuals, Helping Orphans provided
direct relief in the form of food and cash, but in June last year Habibzai
realized that more sustainable efforts were needed.
In
Kabul, the charity now enrolls children in school while their mothers take part
in three-month courses to become tailors, allowing them to be self-reliant.
About 20 women have completed the first training courses. One of them is
Shamila, who lost her husband, a commando soldier, and was left alone with a
young son about two years ago.
“The
world had come to an end for me with the death of his father when my child
wept,” she told Arab News.
“I
joined the workshop of the charity, learned tailoring and it has been a big
change both mentally and financially,” she added. “I am a tailor at home now. I
earn money this way and have been able to stand on my feet.”
The
charity is now planning to open more courses and teach other professions, like
hairdressing, to help women provide for themselves.
“We
want the aid to have a long-term impact on the lives of people, so
beneficiaries can learn a profession,” said Helping Orphans Director Abdul
Fatah Tayeb.
“We
want them to learn how to fish rather than giving them a fish. The fundamental
goal is to make people self-sufficient.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1793451/world
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Conference
Calls For Raising Women’s Capital in Saudi Industrial Sector
15
January, 2021
A
conference for industrialists in Riyadh on Thursday called for increasing
women’s participation in industrial activities and boosting their investments.
Hosted
by Saudi Arabia, “Women in Industry 2020” concluded with several
recommendations designed to achieve comprehensive and sustainable economic
development.
The
recommendations included encouraging industrial enterprises to provide
appropriate workplace environments for women and to promote their economic
contribution to the sector, in line with the goals of the Saudi Vision 2030.
For
its part, the Saudi Organization for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones
(MODON), the organizer of the virtual conference, called on its partners in the
public and private sectors to work to empower women’s work, benefit from their
rich potential, and enhance their participation in the industrial sector.
MODON
signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Saudi Council of Engineers in the
field of training and entrepreneurship with the aim to contribute to the
localization of engineering professions in the industrial sector.
MODON
Director-General Eng. Khaled Al Salem, affirmed keenness to build partnerships
with government and official agencies and the public and private sectors to
enhance the investor experience and develop work procedures in an integrated
industrial environment, in line with the organization’s strategy to empower the
industry and contribute to increasing local content within the framework of the
Kingdom’s Vision 2030.
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2743151/conference-calls-raising-women%E2%80%99s-capital-saudi-industrial-sector
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Pakistan
top court moves to hear #MeToo case against singer Zafar
By
Hafsa Adil
15
Jan 2021
Activists
and lawyers have hailed a recent move by Pakistan’s top court to hear on merit
a high-profile sexual harassment case that launched the country’s #MeToo
movement, caused a stir on social media, and polarised public opinion.
Earlier
this week, the Supreme Court agreed to deliberate on whether prominent singer
and actress Meesha Shafi’s allegations against another singer and actor, Ali
Zafar, fall under the country’s Protection Against Harassment of Women at the
Workplace Act of 2010.
In
April 2018, at the height of the global #MeToo movement, Shafi had accused
Zafar on social media of sexual harassment of a physical nature on multiple
occasions.
The
following day, Zafar responded to the allegations via his social media
accounts, rejecting Shafi’s claims and vowing to take the case “through the
courts of law”.
Shafi’s
appeal was rejected earlier by the Lahore High Court on technical claims that
her allegations did not fall under the workplace harassment law.
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However,
the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday means the case will now move forward.
“The
Supreme Court will now hear the case in detail and decide which categories of
persons are protected under the law,” a member of Shafi’s legal team at the
Supreme Court told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity.
Last
September, Shafi and eight other women were charged by police for criminal
defamation after Zafar filed a suit against them.
Leena
Ghani, a makeup artist and women’s rights activist, was one of the nine served
the legal notice. On Wednesday, she filed a defamation case against Zafar in
the provincial Sindh High Court.
Ghani’s
case also details several instances where she alleges Zafar sexually harassed
her since 2014. She is seeking 50 million rupees ($311,720) in damages.
“After
living in fear and facing threats for over two years, I decided to come forward
and fight,” Ghani told Al Jazeera.
She
said that due to a lack of laws protecting women against sexual harassment,
filing the defamation case was “the last option for me to fight back”.
“I
have brought the details out in the open so people can’t say that women don’t
come forward and talk,” she added.
Ghani
also welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision, terming it “a huge success for
women facing sexual harassment in Pakistan”.
Meanwhile,
Zafar’s lawyer Muhammad Omar Tariq claimed on local media that when Ghani
appeared before the court for defamation charge hearings last year, she
insisted she “never alleged Zafar of sexually harassing her and was merely
stating her opinion on social media”.
In
response, Ghani said she “[appeared] in court as a character witness in
Meesha’s case and therefore chose not to divulge details of my own experience
of harassment”.
She
added that she has received rape and death threats on social media from online
trolls.
“If
someone as famous as Meesha can be ridiculed and tortured for two years, what
chances do women of less agency have?” she asked.
“When
our cases are heard, it’s mostly men sitting on the bench [in the court]. When
we go to courts, they are full of men. Men are not conditioned to understand
verbal or physical harassment unless it’s a crime as heinous as rape.”
Last
August, Zafar was awarded the Pride of Performance, the highest civilian award,
by the Pakistani government. He said he was deeply honoured and “forever
indebted to my fans and supporters” for receiving the award.
However,
women’s rights activists in Pakistan slammed the government’s decision to
honour a person accused of sexual harassment.
A
joint statement from several rights organisations requested that government
defer the decision given the pending cases against Zafar.
“The
government must do more to lend its support to women so that all victims of
sexual harassment can talk about their experiences and fight their cases,” said
Ghani.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/15/pakistan-activists-hail-court-move-to-pursue-ali-zafar-case
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Hyderabad
Gymkhana To Organize Pakistan Women Squash Championship 2021
Muhammad
Rameez
15th
January 2021
HYDERABAD,
(APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Jan, 2021 ) :The Hyderabad
Gymkhana will organize three days long Pakistan Women Squash Championship 2021
here at its squash courts from January 17, 2021.
The
top 16 women squash players will take part in the championship which carries
cash prize of Rs. 0.1 million, informed Convener sports Hyderabad Gymkhana
Zulfiqar Yousufani here on Friday.
Zulfiqar
Yousufani who is acting the chairman of squash championship organizing
committee with Engr. Saad Baloch, secretary, informed that national top ranked
women squash players including Amna Fayaz (Army), Madiha Zafar (Army), Rushana
Mehboob (ZTBL), Noor-ul-Huda (SNGPL), Zunab Khan (Army), Anum Mustafa (Sindh),
Noorulain Ejaz (Punjab), Aiman Shahbaz (Punjab), Komal Khan (WAPDA), Kainat
Amir (KPK), Ilsa Imran (Sindh), Fehmida Asim (Sndh), Hira Aqeel (KPK), Maira
Hussain (KPK), Sibgha Arshad (Punjab) and Roshail Shaikh (Sindh) have confirmed
their participation in the championship.
These
top ranked players will receive the status of national celebrities and during
the championship, they will be taken to historical places, markets, museum,
bangle industry and other famous places of Hyderabad for visiti, Zulfiqar
Yousufani informed.
He
said Pakistan level championship is registered with the United Kingdom
Professional Squash Association, Pakistan Squash Federation and Sindh Squash
Association. The championship will be played on knocked out basis, he informed
and added that Sindh Secretary for Sports and Youth Affairs Syed Imtiaz Ali
Shah will inaugurate the championship on January 17 while the Commissioner
Hyderabad Muhammad Abbas Baloch will be the chief guest at the prize
distribution ceremony on January 19, 2021.
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/sports/hyderabad-gymkhana-to-organize-pakistan-women-1142163.html
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Ankara,
UN ink pact to help women, children
January
15 2021
Turkey’s
capital and the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) inked a cooperation protocol to
support women, children and young adults.
Ankara
Mayor Mansur Yavaş and UNFPA Turkey representative Hassan Mohtashami signed the
protocol to support health and protection services for women, children and
young adults with special needs, said a statement by the mayor’s office.
“The
only problem we have is that right now Family Life Centers cannot operate
actively due to the pandemic,” Yavaş said. “We are working to turn Ankara into
a city competing with world capitals.”
The
Support Center for Women and Young Adults, which will be opened in Altındağ
district, will provide career consultancy, psycho-social support, economical
reinforcement support and information regarding social cohesion, while mobile
health teams will create awareness in rural parts of the city.
The
center will also organize language courses for refugees, choirs and trips.
Mobile
teams will share information on health to raise awareness, while also detecting
people with a health risk and guide them to related institutions.
Yavaş
and Mohtashami said they aim at decreasing maternal mortality during
childbirth. “We aim for a healthy pregnancy and labor for women. I hope that we
will start with a center in Ankara with this protocol and expand the boundaries
and work together to provide services for women and young adults,” Mohtashami
said.
“This
is the beginning of a three-year-long process. We are proud to be working with
you,” he added.
The
Project for Supporting Social Cohesion and Participation in Employment for
Women and Young Adults will be run with financial support of the U.K. Embassy.
The
project aims to help Turkish or refugee women and young adults who live in
Ankara and are in a vulnerable position to adapt to the city and raise
awareness on access to protection and health services.
The
municipality and UNFPA will carry out joint studies to increase their
participation in employment and support their socio-economic status.
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ankara-un-ink-pact-to-help-women-children-161656
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