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Ali Al Bukhaiti (born 1976), Yemeni politician, journalist, and writer; Saba Hamzah, poet and scholar; Ramziya al-Iryani, novelist, diplomat and women's rights activist. Amal al-Shami (1956–2001), writer; Sumaya Ali Raja, journalist and first woman presidential candidate for post-revolution Yemen. Zahra Rahmat Allah, short story writer and ...
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]
Yemeni filmmaker Khadija al-Salami highlighted the role that women played in the Yemen uprising in her 2012 documentary film The Scream, in which Tawakkol Karman is interviewed. Al-Salami presents three individual portraits - a journalist, an activist, and a poet - in the documentary.
It includes women activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Yemeni women activists" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Yemeni women (2 C) H. History of women in Yemen (3 C) O. Women's organizations based in Yemen (6 P) R. Women's rights in Yemen (4 C, 8 P) S. Women's sport in Yemen (1 ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Yemeni This category exists only as a container for other categories of Yemeni women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
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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 .