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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]
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]
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.
In a rare challenge to the Kremlin, a growing number of Russian women are fighting to bring home their husbands, brothers and sons who were drafted to fight in Ukraine.. They say the men have ...
Yemeni men were duped into fighting in the Ukraine war after traveling to Russia on the promise of high salaries and citizenship, according to a report in the Financial Times.
In the first few weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Independent TV reached out to a group of women who were trying to figure out how to survive the conflict. Victoria Bredikhina, Valeria ...
Women have played a significant role as journalists in the invasion. [108] [109] Lynn Elber of the Associated Press has stated that the "presence of women reporting in Ukraine is set against a backdrop of traditional roles and expectations" but that presence has "changed the nature of war reporting. They cover the tactics of war, but give equal ...
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 ...