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Ali Raja grew up in Taiz, in a family of seven children.Her father encouraged her and her three sisters to break with taboos and appear in public unveiled. After some education in Yemen, she followed her sisters aged 14 to study at a North Carolina high school, and on to study political science at Southwest Missouri State and broadcast journalism at the University of Kansas.
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 .
Pages in category "Yemeni women's rights activists" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Estrid Hein (1873–1956) – Danish ophthalmologist, women's rights activist and pacifist; Ellen Hørup (1871–1953) – Danish writer, pacifist and women's rights activist; Johanne Meyer (1838–1915) – pioneering Danish suffragist, pacifist and journal editor; Eva Moltesen (1871–1934) – Finnish-Danish writer and peace activist
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 ]
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 ...
Linda Malnati (1855–1921) – women's rights activist, trade unionist, suffragist, pacifist and writer; Anna Maria Mozzoni (1837–1920) – pioneering women's rights activist and suffragist; Eugenia Rasponi Murat (1873–1958) – women's rights activist and open lesbian who fought for civil protections.
Maria Al-Masani (born 1984) is a Yemeni and Canadian fashion designer [1] and public relations executive who co-founded the Yemen Rights Monitor, a blog to record human rights violations. In 2012, she was named as one of eight 'agents of change' by CNN 's Inside the Middle East .