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Muna Luqman is a Yemeni activist, peace builder, founder of the organization Food4Humanity and co-founder of the Women in Solidarity Network.. Luqman's career includes social work in the areas of health care, water projects and demining with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency.
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 rights activists (16 P) F. Feminism in Yemen (1 C) V. ... Pages in category "Women's rights in Yemen" The following 8 pages are in this category, out ...
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]
Samia is a journalist and human rights activist in Yemen. In 2007 she wrote an article that criticised President Ali Abdullah Saleh decision to run for another term. In response a pro-government newspaper published a story accusing her of having illicit relationship with foreign men. She sued the newspaper and won. [5]
Amatalrauf "Raufa Hassan" al-Sharki (Arabic: رؤوفة حسن; 1958 – April 27, 2011) was an educator, feminist [1] and human rights activist from Yemen.She was a professor of mass media and the director of a Women's Studies Center at the University of Sana'a. [2]
Hind Al-Eryani (Arabic: هند الإرياني) is a Yemeni activist and journalist. She advocates for women's rights, LGBTQ+ including gender minorities, [1] and peace in Yemen, and has written many articles in support of the topics. [2] [3] [4] She has also fought against khat, a drug-like substance. [2]
Born in Egypt, Al-Eryani was brought up in Sanaa.After gaining a degree in digital film and television from Limkokwing University, she returned to Yemen in 2012.In April 2013 Al-Eryani founded the Yemeni Feminist Movement, a project on Facebook and Twitter, and has subsequently faced threats for her promotion of women's rights.