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100 Women (BBC)
''100 Women'' is a BBC multi-format series established in 2013. The annual series examines the role of women in the 21st century and has included events in London and Mexico. Announcement of the list is the start of an international "BBC's women season", lasting three weeks including broadcast, online reports, debates and journalism on the topic of women. Women around the world are encouraged to participate via Twitter and comment on the list, as well as on the interviews and debates that follow release of the list. History After the 2012 Delhi gang rape, then BBC Controller Liliane Landor, BBC editor Fiona Crack and other journalists, were inspired to create a series focusing on the issues and achievements of women in society today. They felt that many of the issues women faced were not getting in-depth coverage, and in March 2013 a "flood of feedback from female listeners" was received by the BBC to the effect that the corporation should provide more "content from and about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Zelenska
Olena Volodymyrivna Zelenska (;russian: Елена Владимировна Зеленская, , Elena Vladimirovna Zelenskaya, born 6 February 1978) is a Ukrainian architect and screenwriter who is the current First Lady of Ukraine as the wife of President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Early life and career Olena Kiyashko was born in Kryvyi Rih on 6 February 1978. Her mother was the head engineer of a factory and her father taught construction at a technical university. Zelenska studied architecture at Kryvyi Rih National University. In 2003, she became a scriptwriter for Kvartal 95 Studio, Kvartal 95, working as part of a team drafting comedy sketches that her future husband and other cast members would perform. First Lady of Ukraine On 20 May 2019, Zelenska became the First Lady of Ukraine. On 18 November, she appeared on the cover of the December issue of the Ukrainian edition of ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue''. In an interview with the magazine, she spoke abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatima Amiri
Fāṭima bint Muḥammad ( ar, فَاطِمَة ٱبْنَت مُحَمَّد}, 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija. Fatima's husband was Ali, the fourth of the Rashidun Caliphs and the first Shia Imam. Fatima's sons were Hasan and Husayn, the second and third Shia Imams, respectively. Fatima has been compared to Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Shia Islam. Muhammad is said to have regarded her as the best of women and the dearest person to him. She is often viewed as an ultimate archetype for Muslim women and an example of compassion, generosity, and enduring suffering. It is through Fatima that Muhammad's family line has survived to this date. Her name and her epithets remain popular choices for Muslim girls. When Muhammad died in 632, Fatima and her husband Ali refused to acknowledge the authority of the first caliph, Abu Bakr. The couple and their supporters held that Ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Zahra Amir Ebrahimi ( fa, زهرا اميرابراهيمی; born July 9, 1981) known professionally as Zar Amir Ebrahimi (), is an Iranian-French actress, producer and director. She is best known for her performance as journalist Arezoo Rahimi in the crime thriller ''Holy Spider'' (2022), for which she won the Best Actress award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. She is also a producer and host for the BBC and oversees a cultural program for the Persian branch of BBC World. In 2022, Amir Ebrahimi appeared on BBC's '' 100 Women'' list as one of the world's inspiring and influential women of the year. Early life Zahra Amir Ebrahimi was born on July 9, 1981 in Tehran, Iran. She studied theater in Azad University and started her professional career by making short films. She speaks Persian, Pashto, English and French fluently, and knows basic Arabic, German and Italian. Career 1999–2004: Career beginnings Amir Ebrahimi started her career by directing her first short film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maeen Al-Obaidi
Maeen Al-Obaidi is a Yemeni lawyer, who acts as a mediator in the city of Taiz in the context of the Yemeni civil war (2014–present), Yemeni civil war. She was honored as one of the 100 Women (BBC), BBC 100 Women in 2022. Biography Maeen Al-Obaidi practiced law in the city of Taiz Taiz ( ar, تَعِزّ, Taʿizz) is a city in southwestern Yemen. It is located in the Yemeni Highlands, near the port city of Mocha, Yemen, Mocha on the Red Sea, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is the capital of Taiz Governorate. W ... , until the beginning of the Yemeni civil war (2014–present), civil war in Yemen in 2014. In this conflict, women suffered from arrests, sexual violence, displacement and forced recruitment of their children. She started working for peace through mediation, with the aim of facilitating prisoner exchanges so that combatants could return to their homes alive or their bodies would be returned to their families. Al-Obaidi volunteered with the Yemen Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dima Aktaa
Dima Aktaa (; born 1994) is a Syrian athlete and fundraiser, who was named one the BBC's 100 Women list in 2022. As of 2022 Aktaa was in training to compete in the 100m at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Biography Aktaa was born in 1994 in Syria. In August 2012 her home in Salqin, near Idlib, was bombed and her leg was removed in the subsequent explosion. The family left Syria for Lebanon, where they lived for a number of years, before coming the United Kingdom as refugees in 2017. She and her family were settled in Bedfordshire in 2018. After receiving asylum and receiving a prosthetic leg, Aktaa took up running again, a sport she had been passionate about prior to losing her leg. During the COVID-19 pandemic she was part of a walking initiative that raised over £70,000 to support vaccination schemes in refugee camps. As of 2022 Aktaa was in training to compete in the 100m at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Recognition Aktaa's contributions to sport and disability awareness wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulimar Rojas
Yulimar Rojas Rodríguez (Venezuelan ; also known as Yolimar Rojas; born 21 October 1995) is a Venezuelan athlete who holds the world record for women's triple jump, at . She is the current Olympic champion, a three-time World Champion ( 2017 London, 2019 Doha and 2022 Eugene), and three-time World Indoor Champion ( 2016 Portland, 2018 Birmingham and 2022 Belgrade); she is nicknamed – queen of the triple jump. Since 2014 she has held, and continued to beat, Venezuelan national records in triple jump and long jump. She is a recipient of the Venezuelan Order of José Félix Ribas – First Class. Raised in a deprived area of Venezuela, Rojas was successful in other sports as a teenager but struggled to practice due to lack of resources. Encouraged to move into athletics, she excelled in high jump and sprinting before developing an affinity for the triple jump. She moved to Guadalajara, Spain, in 2015 to continue her athletics training under coach Iván Pedroso, and became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elnaz Rekabi
Elnaz Rekabi ( fa, الناز رکابی, born 20 August 1989) is an Iranian Sport climbing, sport climber. She participated at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships, being awarded the bronze medal in the IFSC Climbing World Championships#Women's Results, women's combined event. Rekabi has also finished on the podium three times at the IFSC Climbing Asian Championships, with one silver and two bronze medals. She made global headlines in 2022 when she violated Hijab in Iran, Iran's mandatory hijab rule while participating in the 2022 IFSC Climbing Asian Championships in Seoul, South Korea. Occurring during the Mahsa Amini protests, it was widely interpreted as an intentional violation to signal support for the protests. Hijab controversy In 2022, she participated in the 2022 IFSC Climbing Asian Championships in Seoul, South Korea, where she finished fourth. Notably, she appeared without Hijab by country#Iran, Iran's mandatory hijab. The event occurred during the ongoing Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Pugacheva
Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, ) (born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day, even though she has retired from performing. For her "clear mezzo-soprano and a full display of sincere emotions", she enjoys an iconic status across the former Soviet Union as the most successful Soviet performer in terms of record sales and popularity. Pugacheva's repertoire includes over 500 songs in Russian, English, German, French, Kazakh, Hebrew, Finnish, Ukrainian, and her discography has more than 100 records, CDs and DVDs. In addition to Russia and the former Soviet Union, Pugacheva's albums were released in Japan, Korea, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In total, Pugacheva has sold more than 250 million records. She became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1991, a Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1995, and was decorated as a Chevalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Abu Akleh
Lina Abu Akleh is a Armenia–Palestine relations, Palestinian-Armenian human rights advocate who was named as one of the 100 Women (BBC), BBC's 100 Women in 2022. She was also listed as one of the Time 100, TIME100 Next List for 2022. Her inclusion on the TIME100 list was as a result of her "publicly demanding scrutiny of Israel's treatment of Palestinians". As the niece of Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist shot dead by Israeli forces in 2022, Lina Abu Akleh has campaigned for justice for her aunt, and for issues affecting Palestinians more generally. This has included petitioning the United States Government to open its own investigation into the death of her aunt, as well as meeting Secretary of state (U.S. state government), Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In October 2022 she met with Pope Francis at a memorial mass for her aunt. Abu Akleh grew up in Jerusalem; her father is Palestinians, Palestinian and her mother is Armenians, Armenian. She has a BA in Political Studies from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Blair
Selma Blair Beitner (born June 23, 1972) is an American actress. She played a number of roles in films and on television before obtaining recognition for her leading role in the film '' Brown's Requiem'' (1998). Her breakthrough came when she starred as Zoe Bean on the WB sitcom ''Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane'' (1999–2000), and as Cecile Caldwell in the cult film ''Cruel Intentions'' (1999). She continued to find success with the comedies ''Legally Blonde'' (2001) and ''The Sweetest Thing'' (2002), and achieved international fame with her portrayal of Liz Sherman in the big-budget fantasy films ''Hellboy'' (2004) and '' Hellboy II: The Golden Army'' (2008). Her other notable film credits include ''Storytelling'' (2001), ''A Guy Thing'' (2003), ''A Dirty Shame'' (2004), ''The Fog'' (2005), ''WΔZ'' (2007), ''Feast of Love'' (2007), ''The Poker House'' (2008), ''Dark Horse'' (2011), ''In Their Skin'' (2012), '' Ordinary World'' (2016), '' Mothers and Daughters'' (2016), '' Mom an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
