Turkish Boxer Buse Naz Çakıroğlu Eyes Olympic Gold Sweep In Paris
New Age Islam News Bureau
09 April 2024
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Turkish
Boxer Buse Naz Çakıroğlu Eyes Olympic Gold Sweep In Paris
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Afghan Girls
Demand Schools and Universities Reopening As Eid Approaches
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Judiciary
Chief Voices Concern Over 'Hijab and Chastity' in Iran
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Gender-Specific
Aid Sent To Women In Gaza By All-Female Charity Volunteers From Birmingham
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Intercollegiate
Athletics All But Bans Transgender Athletes From Women's Sports
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Women’s Economic
Participation In Afghanistan Ranks 178th In World Bank Report
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Turkish Boxer Buse Naz ÇakıroğluEyes Olympic Gold
Sweep In Paris
Turkish boxer Buse Naz
Çakıroğlu speaks during the press conference at the "Team Visa"
announcement ceremony, Istanbul, Türkiye, April 3, 2024. (AA Photo)
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APR 08, 2024
Turkish boxing star Buse Naz Çakıroğlu, boasting
European and world titles, is laser-focused on clinching Olympic gold in Paris
2024.
Despite her individual spotlight, she credits her team
for success, highlighting the surge of women's boxing post-Tokyo.
Anticipating a transformative impact, she believes
Turkish boxing will soar to new heights after Paris 2024.
Çakıroğlu, who represents Fenerbahçe Sports Club and
the national team, has achieved many successes so far.
Reflecting on her career, she expressed, "Winning
a world championship and securing a European championship was significant, but
my Olympic silver medal holds special meaning. It sparked a newfound awareness
and determination for future Olympics, making it a pivotal moment in my
journey."
She stressed that her career's sole missing accolade
is the Olympic gold medal, marking it as her next major objective.
"I am solely focused on winning gold in Paris.
While I may be in the limelight, victory is a collective effort. My team,
including my coach, psychologist, and physiotherapist, work tirelessly behind
the scenes. Our federation, president, and ministry, along with the national
Olympic committee, form a united front. When something is lacking, whoever is
closest fills the gap. This demonstrates the significance placed on us and
Turkish boxing," she said.
Çakıroğlu noted that Turkish boxing has been very
successful in recent years.
"Right now, everything is actually going as we
want. After the Tokyo Olympics, women's boxing has seen a significant rise.
Afterward, we became world champions as a team, and now we have a quota of four
women, and we want to complete it to 6. Turkish boxing will reach much higher
levels after the 2024 Paris Olympics. I think everyone is doing their
responsibilities, and maybe even more," she concluded.
Source: dailysabah.com
https://www.dailysabah.com/sports/turkish-boxer-buse-naz-cakiroglu-eyes-olympic-gold-sweep-in-paris/news
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Afghan Girls Demand Schools and Universities Reopening
As Eid Approaches
Photo: The Frontier Post
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APR 08, 2024
A number of girls, deprived of education, are once
again demanding their return to educational institutions on the eve of the Eid
al-Fitr.
They said that being deprived of education also makes
the celebration of Eid unpleasant for them.
Sanam, a 20-year-old who has been painting her dreams
on paper since the closure of universities, is demanding that the doors of
education be opened for girls.
She said that she often turns to painting to escape
the stress and challenges that torment her mind, and occasionally she also
draws her hopes on paper.
Sanam told TOLOnews: "It's been one and a half
years that we have been waiting for a second order; whatever decision they
have, they should make it as soon as possible because this kind of situation
has left girls in a dilemma as if we now do not know whether to continue or to
completely give up."
"For our Eid gift, we want the Islamic Emirate to
reopen the schools," said Farzana, a student.
"The country we live in has become strange to us;
we don't feel like we belong to this country anymore. My wish is once again the
reopening of universities and schools," said Lima, another student.
Meanwhile, the former president, in a meeting with the
Japan's ambassador in Kabul, once again emphasized the reopening of schools and
universities for girls.
"Our patience has run out; we do not have weapons
and we do not protest; please lead us towards positivity," said
FazilaSoroush, a women's rights activist.
While officials of the Islamic Emirate have always
spoken of efforts to reopen schools and universities for girls, no action has
been taken in this regard so far.
Source: tolonews.com
https://tolonews.com/afghanistan/provincial-188209
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Judiciary Chief Voices Concern Over 'Hijab and
Chastity' in Iran
APRIL 8, 2024
The Islamic Republic's judiciary chief, Gholam-Hossein
Mohseni-Eje'i, expressed concern about the current state of "hijab and
chastity" in the country.
This comes less than a week after Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei reaffirmed the country's mandatory hijab rule.
Mohseni-Eje'i believes existing laws can improve the
situation until a new bill is passed.
He also linked the decline in "psychological
security" to the hijab issue, suggesting that opponents were
"disrupting social order."
Mohseni-Eje'i comments are not new. He previously
called for stricter enforcement using existing laws while the "Chastity
and Hijab" bill was debated.
Mohseni-Eje'i views opponents of the hijab as
"playing into enemy hands" and advocates legal action against them.
His statements have been linked to harsher treatment
of women and stricter hijab enforcement within institutions.
The news coincides with the "Chastity and
Hijab" bill nearing its final reform stage.
The Guardian Council, a vetting body, previously
identified flaws and returned the bill to parliament for revisions.
The main issue appears to be classifying violations as
crimes or offenses. A resolution is expected soon.
The bill, which the government of Ebrahim Raisi
presented to parliament on May 24 last year, outlines severe penalties for
women who violate mandatory headscarf rules.
Non-compliance with the Islamic Republic's strict
dress code is deemed as "nudity."
Offenders could face fines of up to 8 million tomans
($150), which could double if not paid within a month, job loss, and a one-year
ban from social media activities.
Repeat offenders would face imprisonment for six
months to three years.
The "Chastity and Hijab" bill has gained
support from some officials of the Islamic Republic who consider the hijab a
"red line."
All women in Iran are required to wear a headscarf and
loose-fitting trousers under their coats in public.
But a growing number of women have appeared in public
without a headscarf since months-long protests erupted in September 2022
following the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in police custody.
Amini had been arrested in Tehran for allegedly
wearing her headscarf "improperly."
Source: iranwire.com
https://iranwire.com/en/women/127179-judiciary-chief-voices-concern-over-hijab-and-chastity-in-iran/
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Gender-Specific Aid Sent To Women In Gaza By All-Female
Charity Volunteers From Birmingham
April 9, 2024
Andrew Dawkins
An all-female group of charity volunteers from
Birmingham have sent gender-specific products to women in Gaza to help those in
the region.
The eight women spent last week in a warehouse in
Egypt packing and loading about 3,000 hygiene kits on to a lorry, which is due
to be driven across the Rafah border into Gaza.
Each kit includes five packets of sanitary towels, two
tubes of toothpaste, a toothbrush, body lotion, hand sanitiser, packets of wet
wipes and shampoo.
The eight women have been working with the charity
ISRA-UK.
Saraya Hussain, from Birmingham, who led the project,
said handwritten messages of "love, peace and hope" were included.
Seeing the lorry ready to go was emotional for many of
the volunteers, she said.
"One of the team described it as bittersweet, in
that she felt proud that she was able to do something but it equally felt like
it was so little.
"The products will be beneficial to everyone,
including women, to help them keep clean and give them a little bit of dignity
as best as we can."
Ms Hussain said she had seen reports emerging from
Gaza where women were "really suffering with their periods" and using
"old rags" and "chopping up old tents" to cope.
"It's not nice for anybody to have to do
something like that, so here we are," she said.
'Persevere' with trip
The all-female team at ISRA-UK embarked on a similar
deployment to Turkey last year following the earthquakes in the region.
"What we learnt from that was that largely in
conflict and disaster areas, women's needs, their gender-specific needs, are
really often overlooked," Ms Hussain said.
She has previously told how the group had decided to
"persevere" with their trip despite the news of an Israeli air strike
killing seven World Central Kitchen aid workers on 1 April.
Ms Hussain said: "To lose their lives... and
leave behind multiple families that are mourning and grieving for them in some
of the worst circumstances ever is really quite worrying."
The products in the hygiene kits for women in Gaza
were purchased in Egypt with money raised from public donations and fundraisers
organised by volunteers in the UK.
Source: bbc.com
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpek3pekk7vo
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Intercollegiate Athletics All But Bans Transgender
Athletes From Women's Sports
April 8, 2024
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing
in women's sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the country.
The NAIA Council of Presidents approved the policy in
a 20-0 vote at its annual convention in Kansas City, Missouri. The NAIA, which
oversees some 83,000 athletes competing in more than 25 sports, is believed to
be the first college sports organization to take such a step.
According to the transgender participation policy,
which goes into effect in August, all athletes may participate in
NAIA-sponsored male sports but only athletes whose biological sex assigned at
birth is female and have not begun hormone therapy will be allowed to
participate in women’s sports.
A student who has begun hormone therapy may
participate in activities such as workouts, practices and team activities, but
not in intercollegiate competition.
NAIA programs in competitive cheer and competitive
dance are open to all students. The NAIA policy notes every other sport
“includes some combination of strength, speed and stamina, providing
competitive advantages for male student-athletes.”
NAIA President and CEO Jim Carr said in an interview
with The Associated Press he understands the policy will generate controversy
but that it was deemed best for member schools for competitive reasons.
“We know there are a lot of opinions, and a lot of people
have a very emotional reaction to this, and we want to be respectful of all
that,” Carr said. “But we feel like our primary responsibility is fairness in
competition, so we are following that path. And we've tried as best we could to
allow for some participation by all."
The NAIA's 2023-24 policy did not bar transgender and
nonbinary athletes from competing in the division of their choice in the
regular season. In the postseason, and with some exceptions for those who have
had hormone therapy, athletes had to compete in the division of their birth
sex.
There is no known number of transgender athletes at
the high school and college levels, though it is believed to be small. The
topic has become a hot-button issue among conservative groups and others who
believe transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete on girls’ and
women’s sports teams.
Shiwali Patel, senior counsel at the National Women’s
Law Center, said her organization was outraged by the NAIA policy.
“This is unacceptable and blatant discrimination that
not only harms trans, nonbinary and intersex individuals, but limits the
potential of all athletes,” Patel said in a statement. “It’s important to
recognize that these discriminatory policies don’t enhance fairness in
competition. Instead, they send a message of exclusion and reinforce dangerous
stereotypes that harm all women.”
Last month, more than a dozen current and former
college athletes filed a federal lawsuit against the NCAA, accusing the sports
governing body for more than 500,000 athletes of violating their rights by
allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports.
Hours after the NAIA announcement, the NCAA released a
statement: “College sports are the premier stage for women’s sports in America
and the NCAA will continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments
in women’s sports and ensure fair competition for all student-athletes in all
NCAA championships.”
At least 24 states have laws barring transgender women
and girls from competing in certain women’s or girls sports competitions.
The Biden administration originally planned to release
a new federal Title IX rule — the law forbids discrimination based on sex in
education — addressing both campus sexual assault and transgender athletes.
Earlier this year, the department decided to split them into separate rules,
and the athletics rule now remains in limbo.
“It’s similar to the NIL stuff with all these
different state laws," said Kasey Havekost, a former Division I athlete
who is now a higher education attorney at Bricker Graydon. “The NCAA kind of
does something but nothing really happens, and they look to the federal
government, and the federal government is slow to put something in place and
then we’re left with all these different state laws.”
Havekost expects lawsuits will follow and challenge
the NAIA policy on the basis of Title IX laws.
“I feel like at some point, it will have to be
addressed," she said. "It’s a really complex issue. It might take a
Supreme Court ruling.”
About 190 of the 241 NAIA schools are private, and
about 125 of those have religious affiliations of varying degrees, Carr said.
Of the 20 presidents who voted, 17 are from schools affiliated with Christian
denominations.
“People have certain views of the world, and even
though I believe all our Council of Presidents members are trying to think
what’s best for the NAIA, they certainly come to these kinds of issues with
their own beliefs and the missions of their institutions in mind,” Carr said.
“I would think that had some impact.”
Patel said the NAIA ban, along with the state laws,
“emphasizes the urgency in having clear Title IX rules that expressly prohibit
this type of sex-based discrimination, and ensure the rights of all students,
including transgender, nonbinary, and intersex athletes, are safeguarded. Trans
athletes deserve a chance to play.”
The NCAA has had a policy for transgender athlete
participation in place since 2010, which called for one year of testosterone
suppression treatment and documented testosterone levels submitted before
championship competitions. In 2022, the NCAA revised its policies on transgender
athlete participation in an attempt to align with national sport governing
bodies, following the lead of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
The three-phase implementation of the policy included
a continuation of the 2010 policy, requiring transgender women to be on hormone
replacement therapy for at least one year, plus the submission of a
hormone-level test before the start of both the regular season and championship
events.
The third phase adds national and international sport
governing body standards to the NCAA’s policy and — after a delay — is
scheduled to be implemented for the 2024-25 school year on Aug. 1.
There are some 15.3 million public high school
students in the United States and a 2019 study by the CDC estimated 1.8% of
them — about 275,000 — are transgender. The number of athletes within that
group is much smaller; a 2017 survey by Human Rights Campaign suggested fewer
than 15% of all transgender boys and transgender girls play sports.
The number of NAIA transgender athletes would be far
smaller.
Source: abcnews.go.com
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/naia-approves-transgender-policy-limiting-womens-sports-athletes-109004164
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Women’s economic participation in Afghanistan ranks
178th in World Bank report
Fidel Rahmati
April 9, 2024
The World Bank, in its latest report on the status of
women in the economy and business, has declared that women’s economic
participation in Afghanistan ranks higher than in countries such as Iran,
Yemen, and Palestine, placing at 178th position.
The 182-page report recently published by the World
Bank assesses women’s economic participation in 190 countries.
The World Bank has not provided clarity on the
methodology used in their survey or how they arrived at their conclusion. This
is particularly concerning given that women in Afghanistan face numerous
oppressive policies, with over 90 restrictions that deprive them of
opportunities for employment, education, and free movement.
Titled “Women, Business and the Law 2024,” the World
Bank report’s main focus is to evaluate women’s status in three areas: legal
frameworks, policymaking, and implementation of laws and policies.
Key indicators such as mobility, workplace situation,
wage and ownership rights, maternity rights, entrepreneurship, investment, childcare,
security, marriage, and retirement rights are used to assess the status of
women in this report.
In this ranking, Afghanistan has scored only 20 points
out of 100 in the legal frameworks section and 13.3 points out of 100 in the
policymaking section.
The country also ranks 187th, with a slight difference
from Iranian women, in policymaking and legal frameworks.
According to the World Bank report, Iran with a score
of 31.3 is in 188th position after Afghanistan, Yemen at 189th, and Palestine
due to deadly conflicts and famine in the last position, which is 190th.
Meanwhile, Belgium, Canada, and Denmark top the World
Bank report’s rankings.
Over the past two years, following the suspension of
education and work for women in Afghanistan, there has been an increased
interest among women in the private sector and business.
At the same time, female investors in Afghanistan have
consistently advocated for greater support for female entrepreneurs in the
country.
SediqaTufan, in charge of one of the handicraft shops,
explained in an interview with Khaama Press that the reason for the increase in
demand for jobs in handicraft workshops is the lack of employment opportunities
and deprivation of education among girls.
According to Ms. Tufan, her market has seen good
growth lately, and about 300 women are working indirectly with her in various
country provinces.
Previously, the United Nations and several
international organizations have emphasized supporting the private sector for
women to ensure meaningful participation of women in all aspects of public
life.
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/womens-economic-participation-in-afghanistan-ranks-178th-in-world-bank-report/
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