MONTGERON, France: The UAE Embassy in Paris has backed the inauguration of a new shelter to protect vulnerable women and children by French charity Léa Solidarité Femmes.
“I am proud of the UAE Embassy’s support to Léa Solidarité Femmes to protect women and children living in vulnerable conditions,” Hind Manea Saeed Al-Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador to France, was cited as saying by the Emirates News Agency on Friday.
The charity inaugurated the first shelter of its network, Maison Solidarité Femmes 91, with the support of the UAE Embassy and the Île-de-France Region Departmental Council.
The event was attended by Al-Otaiba, Mayor of Montgeron Sylvie Carillon, President of the Departmental Council of Essonne François Durovray and French officials and representatives involved in the project.
The shelter will offer comprehensive support to women and children subjected to domestic violence to facilitate their extrication from vulnerable situations and enable them to rebuild their lives in a protected environment.
Al Otaiba said: “Empowering women in various fields is one of the UAE’s priorities and the focus of its leadership, as the UAE plays a regional and international role in empowering women.”
Léa Solidarité Femmes has assisted over 2,900 women and children, including 721 women and 904 children in 2021, since its inception 10 years ago.
The charity’s President Patricia Rouff said the missions of the Maison Solidarité Femmes 91 respond to a large number of needs identified over the last 10 years by its experts.
“It is thanks to the unfailing support of benefactors such as the UAE Embassy in Paris and Ile-de-France Region that Léa Solidarité Femmes can continue to take in and support women and their children who are victims of domestic violence,” she said.
UAE supports new shelter by charity fighting domestic violence in France
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UAE supports new shelter by charity fighting domestic violence in France
- UAE ambassador ‘proud’ of embassy’s support for charity to protect vulnerable women, children
- French charity accommodates women and children who are victims of domestic violence
Iran temporarily closes airspace to most flights
WASHINGTON: Iran temporarily closed its airspace to all flights except international ones to and from Iran with official permission at 5:15 p.m. ET on Wednesday, according to a notice posted on the Federal Aviation Administration’s website. The prohibition is set to last for more than two hours until 7:30 p.m. ET, or 0030 GMT, but could be extended, the notice said. The United States was withdrawing some personnel from bases in the Middle East, a US official said on Wednesday, after a senior Iranian official said Tehran had warned neighbors it would hit American bases if Washington strikes. Missile and drone barrages in a growing number of conflict zones represent a high risk to airline traffic. India’s largest airline, IndiGo said some of its international flights would be impacted by Iran’s sudden airspace closure. A flight by Russia’s Aeroflot bound for Tehran returned to Moscow after the closure, according to tracking data from Flightradar24. Earlier on Wednesday, Germany issued a new directive cautioning the country’s airlines from entering Iranian airspace, shortly after Lufthansa rejigged its flight operations across the Middle East amid escalating tensions in the region.
The United States already prohibits all US commercial flights from overflying Iran and there are no direct flights between the countries. Airline operators like flydubai and Turkish Airlines have canceled multiple flights to Iran in the past week. “Several airlines have already reduced or suspended services, and most carriers are avoiding Iranian airspace,” said Safe Airspace, a website run by OPSGROUP, a membership-based organization that shares flight risk information. “The situation may signal further security or military activity, including the risk of missile launches or heightened air defense, increasing the risk of misidentification of civil traffic.” Lufthansa said on Wednesday that it would bypass Iranian and Iraqi airspace until further notice while it would only operate day flights to Tel Aviv and Amman from Wednesday until Monday next week so that crew would not have to stay overnight. Some flights could also be canceled as a result of these actions, it added in a statement. Italian carrier ITA Airways, in which Lufthansa Group is now a major shareholder, said that it would similarly suspend night flights to Tel Aviv until Tuesday next week.
