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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 .
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]
In South Yemen the General Union of Yemeni Women (GUYW) was established in 1968, continuing the role of the Arab Women's Club and the Aden Women's Association before independence. [3] The project to merge these groups was supposed to take two months, but instead, it took nearly a year to merge into the Yemeni Women's Union. [15]
The committee has branches in all the governorates of the Yemen, and each governorate selects its own female coordinator. [2] These coordinators play a key role in identifying the challenges to women in their respective regions, which thereby allows the committee to develop policies based on regional needs as opposed to blanket nationwide programs.
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.
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 ]
South Yemen independence activists (4 P) T. Yemeni trade unionists (1 P) W. Yemeni women's rights activists (16 P)
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.