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Today, many Yemeni activist women believe that Shari'a can be interpreted to further include women in the social, political, economic, and cultural life of the country. [19] Many of the discriminatory policies restrict familial rights of women. Women in Yemen cannot marry a non-Yemeni without approval from both her family and the state. [5]
Code Pink activists protest Democratic senators who supported Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, December 2017.. Code Pink was founded on November 17, 2002, by a group of American anti-war activists, including Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, in the lead-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq (which the organization opposed).
Yemeni Women's Association (YWA) was a women's organization in North Yemen. Founded in 1965, as part of the emergence of the women's movement in North Yemen, it merged in 1990 with South Yemen's General Union of Yemeni Women (established 1968) to form the Yemeni Women's Union .
Yemeni men may have been tricked into fighting in Ukraine after promises of Russian citizenship. Russia is increasingly bringing in soldiers from other countries to help it fight in Ukraine.
General Union of Yemeni Women (GUYW) was a women's organization in South Yemen, founded in 1968. It belonged to the National Liberation Front (South Yemen) (NLF) during the regime of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. The GUYW had its predecessor in the Adeni Women's Club, which started the women's movement in Yemen. When the People's ...
The president voices support for LGBTQ rights and backs away from the war in Yemen, but the U.S. military role is still unclear. Biden's first big foreign policy speech calls out Russia, limits ...
During the protests, Karman was part of a large number of women activists—up to 30 percent of the protestors—demanding change in Yemen. [56] On 16 October, government snipers in Taiz shot and killed Aziza Othman Kaleb, CNN reported she was the first woman to have been killed during the Yemen protests but could not verify this claim. [57]
During the Yemeni civil war, Saudi Arabia led an Arab coalition of nine nations from the Middle East and parts of Africa in response to calls from the internationally recognized pro-Saudi [1] president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support after he was ousted by the Houthi movement due to economic and political grievances, and fled to Saudi Arabia.