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In her Vice News report "The Women Fighting to Protect Yemen", she interviewed female fighters, child brides, domestic abuse victims, widows of the conflict and female protestors, and chewed khat with government officials from the Yemeni Interior Ministry; their takes on the country's problems related to gender discrimination, gender violence ...
Iana (Yana) Zhdanova (Ukrainian: Яна Жданова; born () 28 February 1988) is a Ukrainian feminist and social activist who since the 2000s has been a leading member of the radical feminist protest group FEMEN.
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]
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 ...
Even before the 2022 invasion started, women and girls living in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine bordering Russia have not felt safe – neither in public nor at home – since the war in Donbas broke out in 2014. The situation was worsened by devastating social and economic crises, access to weaponry, and trauma created by the ongoing armed ...
Given the large number of women who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian army in February 2022, the ArmWomenNow social initiative was created. The next step was to study the international experience of the world and obtain samples of women's military uniforms from these countries.
DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — All over the Donetsk region, close to the front lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Nataliia Voronkova turns up at Ukrainian field positions and hospitals wearing high ...
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 ...