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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 ]
[92] Maria Silina of the Université du Québec à Montréal has stated that "the overwhelming majority of [anti-war protestors] were women, queer or trans — many of whom were rarely visible as political activists in Russia." [93] Women and gender minorities protesting against the war have been targeted with significant brutality by Russian ...
In modern day Yemen, women are subject to tribal and patriarchal traditions that keep them from advancing. Combined with illiteracy and poverty, this has led to women in Yemen being deprived of their rights as citizens. Due to the ongoing armed conflict in Yemen since the end of March 2015, Yemen is undergoing a humanitarian crisis worldwide ...
The women fear the war will turn into a frozen conflict, like the yearslong fight against Russian-backed separatists in the east. To stop that from happening, U.S. aid is crucial, they said ...
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – Russian/American activist imprisoned in the U.S. for opposition to World War I Amy Goodman (born 1957) – American journalist, host of Democracy Now! Alice Hamilton (1869–1970) – American physician, toxicologist, humanitarian and peace activist
On 4 June 2021, Matviichuk was nominated to the United Nations Committee against Torture [10] and made history as Ukraine's first female candidate to the UN treaty body. [11] She ran on a platform to limit violence against women in conflict. Between the Revolution of Dignity and 2022, she focused on documentation of war crimes during the war in ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has a new problem in Ukraine: Many of the war's supporters. Russia’s pro-war activists sour on the conflict as Ukraine’s battlefield success breeds panic Skip ...
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).