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Saudi Arabia to Launch First Women’s Football League

Saudi Arabia is set to launch a female football league, two years after women were first allowed into stadiums in the Gulf kingdom. The league will play its matches in the capital, Riyadh, and two other cities. The creation of the league is the latest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reforms in Saudi Arabia, which has long been seen as one of the world’s strictest societies. Campaigners say much more remains to be done for women’s rights. Officials say the aim of the latest move is to boost female participation in sport. “The launch of the [league] bolsters women’s participation in sports at the community level and will generate increased recognition for women’s sports achievements,” the government-run Saudi Sports for All Federation said. Saudi women were first allowed into a football stadium in January 2018 – the same year that the Gulf kingdom ended a decades-long ban on female…

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Betsy Devos Speaks On Need to Bring More Education Opportunities to America’s Children

“I want to tell everyone today you are either for children or against children when it comes to educational freedom and choice in education.” So said Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, who spoke Thursday with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at the Conservative Political Action Conference about the need to bring more education opportunities to America’s children. Conway said support for school choice is broad among the general public, yet a deep partisan divide exists on the issue, as the Trump administration has found. “There is no ‘but,’ there is no excuse, there is no talk of ‘But the teacher unions …,’” she told the CPAC crowd. “You are either helping these brown and black and rural children get more opportunities, or you’re not.” Choice in public education often is blocked by liberals at the state level who protect unions whose members work for badly run public schools, Conway…

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Africa News

KENYA: Azuri Technologies Encourages Rural Women to Use Solar Energy

Solar home systems provider Azuri Technologies has recently launched the “Brighter Lives” project in Nairobi, Kenya. The initiative aims to encourage rural women to turn to solar energy. It will also provide training and employment for 250 of them. In Kenya, training in the use of solar energy will soon be provided to rural women. This will be thanks to the “Brighter Lives” project which has been initiated in early February 2020 by the CEO of Azuri Technologies Simon Bransfield-Garth. It was during the first Women in Solar meeting held at the British Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. The solar home systems supplier Azuri Technologies, offers these women a “comprehensive” training programme at its regional training centres in Kenya. Among other things, they will be trained in finding new livelihoods and adapting technologies to their needs. The women will also be trained in the initial installation of solar-powered equipment, as well…

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Africa News

Afropop Singer Angélique Kidjo Wins ‘Best World Music’ Grammy Award

Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer emerges winner of the Best World Music Album, recently at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards 2020. Her emergence is hinged on her album ‘Celia,’ a music genre invented in New York by Caribbean immigrants, which pays tribute to the late Afro-Cuban singer Celia Cruz who became the “Queen” of salsa. Other nominees of the category are; Altin Gün (Gece), Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley (What Heat), Burna Boy (African Giant) and Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet (Fanm D’Ayiti). During her acceptance speech, Kidjo took some time to praise the wealth of new talent coming from the African continent. “The new generation of artists coming from Africa are going to take you by storm and the time has come,” she says. During the 62nd GRAMMYs Premiere Ceremony she also gave an audience-rousing performance of “Afrika”. The award marks Kidjo’s fourth win in the category and…

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Asia News

Taiwan’s TAITRA Seeks to Empower Women Entrepreneurs

In efforts to tap into the full potential of women entrepreneurs, Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is set to organize for the first time a trade promotion delegation exclusively composed of female entrepreneurs this year. The delegation is scheduled to visit Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia as part of TAITRA’s efforts to help women better explore foreign markets and gain a greater role in Taiwan’s foreign trade in line with the government’s policy and a World Trade Organization (WTO) declaration, TAITRA said. The three countries are covered by the government’s New Southbound Policy, which has been broached by the administration of President Tsai Ing-wen after she assumed office in May 2016, to boost two-way trade and investment with countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand. The reason why these countries were selected is simply because there have been relatively few promotions targeting them,…

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Middle East

Saudi Arabia’s Human Resources Development Fund Program Supports Over 2,500 Working Women

Saudi Arabia is still working rigorously towards integrating more women across the board, from supporting their appointment in top leadership positions and celebrating their achievements in all sectors, to proving safe and supportive environments for them at work through various initiatives. As part of its efforts, the country’s Human Resources Development Fund Program, also known as Hadaf or HRDF, established the Saudi Women Empowerment Program, which offers two core programs – Qurrat and Wusool – designed to encourage Saudi women to enter and remain in the workforce. Qurrat in particular is a key component in facilitating the lives of working mothers as it is a national childcare initiative supported by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development. Today, the results are in, to date, 2,514 women have benefitted from nurseries and daycare centers and services that have been set up in various regions of across the Kingdom. HRDF has also…

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Sri Lanka Mrs. World 2020 Makes Commitment to Less Privileged Children

Sri Lankan beauty queen and Mrs. World pageant titleholder Caroline Jurie, has pledged her support to the country’s less privileged children. She plans to use her new-found fame to inspire and empower children in the island nation. Caroline Jurie, a mother of a two-year-old girl, hailing from a middle-class family from Kandana, a suburb of capital Colombo, has always aspired to be a model, though she had never walked on a ramp, till she competed for the Mrs. Sri Lanka pageant. Jurie has also launched a social project called “Be You”, to help children suffering from mental illnesses. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency in Colombo, Jurie said that it is important to “always be you and not change yourself despite criticism”. “Always be who you are and don’t be afraid,” she said. She hopes that her life story can contribute to the social movement to encourage youth and children to…

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