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Woman's Hour: Women protest in India over hijab bans, Comedian, Isabelle Farah, Parents attacked by their children,

17/02/2022

Women protest in India over hijab bans, Comedian, Isabelle Farah, Parents attacked by their children,

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Women protest in India over hijab bans, Comedian, Isabelle Farah, Parents attacked by their children,

Women protestors in India condemn proposal to ban hijabs in classrooms in Karnataka.

Women have marched in solidarity in cities across India as the Karnataka state government consider banning women from wearing hijabs in the classroom.

Schools in the Indian state of Karnataka reopened yesterday after protests broke out in response to the state government trying to ban women wearing the hijab in classrooms. The issue gained widespread attention after videos and images of girls wearing hijab getting heckled while being denied entry to school went viral. Protestors took to the streets to condemn the decision, and women have marched in solidarity in cities across India. Divya Arya, BBC woman’s affairs journalist and Sumayyah Khan, a law student at the Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh join Krupa Padhy.

It's been announced that children aged between 5 and 11  in all four nations of the UK are to be offered a low dose of the covid vaccine. Children are at a much lower risk of becoming severely ill from a Covid infection, so the health benefits of vaccinating them are smaller than in other age-groups. Also, many will have some protection from already having caught the virus.   The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises governments across the UK, have been weighing up the evidence for immunising five to 11-year-olds. It concluded vaccination should go ahead to prevent a "very small number of children from serious illness and hospitalisation" in a future wave of Covid.  Dr Elizabeth Mann, an immunologist at the Lydia Becker Institute at the University of Manchester and Naomi Grimley, BBC Global Health Correspondent discuss.

Isabelle Farah is a British Lebanese actor, comedian, and writer. Following an undergraduate degree in French and Film Studies, she trained as a classical actress. She started doing stand up comedy in 2017 and has since gigged across the UK and internationally. Her one woman comedy show, Ellipsis, about grief, authenticity and punchlines, enjoyed a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe last summer, and is currently on at the Pleasance Theatre in London. She explains the personal event that inspired it.

New research funded by the Home Office has found that a tenth of domestic abuse cases involve parents being attacked by their children. These findings are based on almost 67,000 reports investigated by Lancashire police, of which 7,171 involved a child over 16 abusing a parent or parental figure. The reports show that abuse was more likely to be intimidating or coercive behaviour than outright violence and the age of the abuser averaged at 27 years old. Nicola Graham-Kevan is a professor of criminal justice psychology at the University of Central Lancashire and led the research. Kat Wilson is a senior support worker at Woman's Aid.


Presenter: Krupa Padhy
Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Dr Elizabeth Mann
Interviewed Guest: Naomi Grimley
Interviewed Guest: Divya Arya
Interviewed Guest: Summayyah Khan
Interviewed Guest: Isabelle Farah
Interviewed Guest: Nicola Graham-Kevan
Interviewed Guest: Kat Wilson

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