6 October 2011 – The United Nations women’s fund for gender equality on Sunday invited organizations and government agencies to apply for grants, adding that first phase of its 2011� funding cycle will give priority to proposals that seek to empower women and their communities in Arab countries.“UN Women supports […]
Dubai: Russian women in the UAE have launched a social group aimed at extending support to female expatriates facing difficulities. Rossiyanke, which held its first gathering at the Mina Al Salam hotel in Dubai on Wednesday night, is the first social group for Russian women in the UAE. Read […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Maha Mostafa Akeel, managing editor of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Journal, celebrated the release of her first book, “Saudi Women in the Media,” at Jeddah’s Virgin Megastore in Roshana Mall on Tuesday. Maha’s friends, colleagues, relatives and prominent media personalities, including broadcaster and author […]
Doha: Yemen’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Karman said the UN must act “immediately and decisively” to halt a deadly government crackdown on protesters calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign. Tawakul urged the United Nations “to take immediate and decisive action to stop the massacres and hold the […]
Riyadh: Some 500 securitywomen have been hired to help women pilgrims and prevent crimes such as pickpocketing and theft at women’s prayer areas during the current Haj season. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Maj. Gen. Nasir Al Arfaj, commander of Haj Security Forces, said that their duties also include serving […]
By Sabrina M. Peterson Staff Editor October 17, 2011 On September 25, 2011, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, effective in 2015. His newfound generosity did not stop there: starting in 2012, Saudi women will be eligible for appointment […]
MUSCAT – The Majlis A’Shura 7th Term elections saw only one out of 77 women candidates being elected to the 84-seat council. The previous term did not have any woman representative. Read more
Indian, Pakistani and Filipino women are afraid to speak about their suffering marriages in public due to the social stigma related to divorce. They feel they lack credibility in comparison to men. Mahira Tahir, a 38-year-old Indian living in Jeddah, told Arab News, “My first fear is that I will […]
Majlis Al Shura elections in Oman will be a turning point today as more than half-a-million citizens exercise their franchise in a decisive vote to choose 84 members. MUSCAT – Majlis Al Shura elections in the Sultanate of Oman will be a turning point today as more than half-a-million citizens […]
courtesy: NY TIMES By RICK GLADSTONE Published: September 23, 2011 While Bangladesh’s prime minister has been attending the United Nations this week, stock market investors back home rioted over steep losses, the police arrested hundreds of Islamist protesters and the main political opposition party threatened a general strike for Saturday, […]
Courtesy: Associated Press By JULHAS ALAM, Associated Press – Oct 3, 2011 DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A senior leader from Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party was charged Monday with war crimes for allegedly leading groups that took part in killing, looting, arson and rape during the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan. […]
The world has become a smaller place and information flows in breath-taking quantities. Yet there is a paucity of conversations between people of different nations. Relying by and large on media reports of the “other,” our understanding of nations and their people is scarily lopsided. Even as citizens in a […]
The Jakarta Post Myanmar women prisoners walk outside Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar Wednesday after they were released. Myanmar has begun releasing more then 6,300 prisoners but has held back on freeing some prominent political prisoners. The releases began around the country Wednesday morning after President Thein Sein issued an […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Vice President of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s industrial committee Ulfat Gabbani has urged more women to enter the industrial sector, which she said was the second-highest contributor to national income after petrol. In a working paper titled “Women’s Industrial Investment … a Promising […]
By NADIA AL-FAWAZ | ARAB NEWS Published: Oct 9, 2011 23:48 Updated: Oct 10, 2011 00:10 ABHA: A debate is going on whether Saudi women who spend most of their time in malls and markets during the weekends are simply trying to alleviate their boredom or they are seriously addicted […]
Press TV: Riyadh has been saying that it will allow women to take part in politics but at the same time these same women if they are candidates for municipal office for instance, they must present a written authorization from their husbands, women’s votes must be accompanied by their male […]
Riyadh: A Saudi woman broke down as she told members of the Shura Council how she had unsuccessfully searched for a job for the past 15 years. read more
SOURCE: DAILY TIMES PAKISTAN NEW YORK: The American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) announced the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality (WISE) Conference to be held from October 14 to October 17 in Istanbul, Turkey. “Soon the world will witness how Muslim women activists, scholars, politicians jurists and poets have assumed […]
By ARAB NEWS To start with, it is strange to have such a name, Amah, which means ‘slave woman’. Why would anyone call his daughter that? Yet the Arabs at the time used very strange names. Perhaps because of this she was better known by her nickname, ‘Umm Khalid.’ Her […]
Source / Courtesy: MSN.com Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian peace activist and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s authoritarian regime won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their work to secure women’s rights, which the prize committee described as fundamental to advancing world peace. The 10 million […]