Amal Suleiman – First Female Wedding Register in Muslim
Posted by Robi - 23/12/08 at 05:12:11 am
In a small town north of Cairo, Egypt; Amal Suleiman, an Egyptian woman has gently made history by becoming the first female marriage official (maazouna) in the Muslim world. The job is clerical rather than religious and not unlike a registrar in Western World. She says she’s no radical but that expanding career choices for Muslim women is simply a matter of common sense. Her appointment shocked many conservatives. However, it has given a ray of hope to young Muslim women who become frustrated by the lack of varieties in career choices offered to them.
Suleiman, who lived in the village of Enayat, wanted such a job befitting her education and skills. Her appointment broke a longstanding custom in Muslim World that Muslim marriage contracts must be recorded by a maazoun, a male registrar. But Suleiman added a new word to the Egyptian vocabulary as she became a maazouna, a female registrar as well as first female register in Arab World. Suleiman said, “I’m not only the first maazouna in Egypt, but in the Arab and even the Muslim world.” To say about getting the job she said, “In the very beginning, I was just looking for a suitable job for me as a wife and a mother, something to suit my time. And it came by mere accident that my husband’s uncle was the maazoun in this area. So my husband — it was his idea to start with — he said, ‘Why don’t you apply for it?’ ”
But she had studied law at college, including sharia (Islamic law), and she knew very well that there is no explicit prohibition against women marriage officers. So, she got her case to the head of the provincial family court and was accepted for the post, along with other 10 male applicants. But much to the surprise of the local maazouns, she was selected as the best qualified among the applicants, and her name was passed on to Cairo, in order to approve of the Ministry of Justice. Nonetheless, several months went by without any action. At last, a celebrated Egyptian columnist wrote an open letter to the justice minister, urging him in order to make a decision one way or the other. After that, one week later, her (Suleiman) appointment was announced.
Now Suleiman is astonished and rather amused to find people on the street greeting her like she is a cabinet minister or celebrity, particularly young women who are considering her as a role model. She says what started out as a simple job search turned into something she never would have predicted just one year ago.
Ban Ki-moon Welcome Bangladesh
Posted by Robi - 18/12/08 at 06:12:35 am
17 December Wednesday Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General extended his personal welcome to the withdrawal of the state of emergency in Bangladesh just before upcoming parliamentary elections in the December 29. He called on all political parties concerned make combined efforts to deal with the nation’s challenge collectively.
UN Secretary-General, through a statement issued by his representative, said that he “welcomes the lifting today of the state of emergency in Bangladesh as a positive step towards ensuring the right of all Bangladeshis to free, fair and credible parliamentary elections, which are scheduled for December 29, 2008.” According to the statement, Ban said, “He encourages all stakeholders, including the main political parties, to continue to address the nation’s challenges together, collaboratively and collegially.” the statement said, “The secretary-general reiterates the need for Bangladesh to achieve its full potential for democratic development through credible elections and a peaceful transition to a stronger democratic order following the elections.”
On the other hand, the statement added previously announced that the secretary-general’s high-level panel which headed by Francesc Vendrell, is scheduled to go back to the Asian country soon next week to assess along with report on the conduct of the final stages of the electoral process alongside developments in the immediate post-election period. It is noted that Caretaker Government of Bangladesh on Wednesday lifted, by an ordinance, its two-year-long state of emergency in the run-up to ensuing general elections on 29, December, 2008.
Pregnant Women Discrimination at Job field yet Today
Posted by Rajib - 02/12/08 at 07:12:17 am
When a woman finds out she is pregnant, there is no other best moment than it. Her initial urge is to shout the news from the nearest rooftop. It is the most remarkable moment of a woman life. But the cruel reality is that, even this is a blessed event but it doesn’t bring glad news to all of your life activities. Cause pregnant woman still face job discrimination.
However, pregnancy supposed to be an exciting and happy experience, but unfortunately, at work, many women gets unfair, unsafe and unlawful behaviors. In a statistic report it has been found that around 40% of all enquiries is added with pregnancy discrimination than any other issue, and over 1,000 women a year take legal action against their employer claiming they were sacked because of their pregnancy. With the enormous happiest news of women life, she also heard that she is sacked, refused jobs or bullied out of work for announcing her good news. Obviously, there are economic reasons why a firm might not want to hire a pregnant woman or not want to keep a pregnant woman. But they don’t think about reality, one time this woman gave so much for you. So it is needed to stand with him on his happiest moment.
You cannot reject to hire a woman because she is pregnant. You cannot fire her because she is pregnant. Even if you ask a woman about her child-rearing plans, and don’t do the same of your male job applicants or employees, that is also illegal. Pregnancy discrimination is definitely illegal. There is lots of hard law for pregnancy discrimination.
- Are you fired or discharge because you are pregnant?
- Are you not appointed because you are pregnant?
- Are you not being promoted because of your pregnancy?
- Are you not given benefits for pregnancy because you are not wedded?
So here is strong law for gaining your right. Here are some ways in which pregnant women are sheltered:
- A company cannot reject to hire somebody because she is pregnant or has a pregnancy associated situation.
- A company may not remain a pregnant woman from working or forbid a woman from returning to work after giving birth.
- An employer can’t submit to special procedures in order to determine whether she can perform her job duties except the employer needs all employees to submit to those procedures.
- Any company-provided health insurance plan must care for pregnancy related situation the same as other medical situation.
- An employer must care for a pregnant lady who can’t do her job owing to a medical condition associated to her pregnancy the same way he treats all temporarily disabled employees.