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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.
Genevieve Fiore (1912–2002) – American women's rights and peace activist; Jane Fonda (born 1937) – American anti-war protester, actress; Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – American suffragist, civil rights activist and pacifist; Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – Russian/American activist imprisoned in the U.S. for opposition to World War I
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 ...
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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 .
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.