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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]
Despite long-term personnel shortages in the Russian Armed Forces ever since the 2008 Russian military reform, the Russian Ministry of Defence has made little effort to enlist women to fill the gaps, instead choosing to crack down on draft-evading men in order to increase its coverage levels from c. 70% in 2012 to c. 90–95% in 2020. [19]
The Russian military has faced severe personnel shortages after the 2008 Russian military reform, being only "manned" to c. 70% in 2012. [17] In response, the Ministry of Defence mounted an aggressive campaign against draft evasion amongst men to increase coverage levels to 90~95% by 2020, but 'made little apparent effort to enlist women' in ...
The president voices support for LGBTQ rights and backs away from the war in Yemen, but the U.S. military role is still unclear. Biden's first big foreign policy speech calls out Russia, limits ...
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]
Between 2000 and 2004 Al-Mutawakel worked for the National Commission for Women in Yemen, where she was responsible for public relations and women's participation in political processes. [ 8 ] In 2004 she began working on Yemeni human rights, initially with the Organisation for the Defence of Rights and Freedoms. [ 9 ]
Campbell, D'Ann. (2012) "Almost Integrated? American Servicewomen and Their International Sisters Since World War II" in A Companion to Women's Military History ed by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining pp 291–330; Carreiras, Helena. Gender and the military: women in the armed forces of Western democracies (New York: Routledge, 2006)
The first Saudi Arabian women have been recruited into the country's military service, Arab News reports. However, they will be stationed as privates as Passport Control departments on only border crossings. [130] It was announced that the Australian Defence Force would open all jobs in the military to women in 2013. [131]