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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]
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 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 .
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.
General Union of Yemeni Women (GUYW) was a women's organization in South Yemen, founded in 1968. It belonged to the National Liberation Front (South Yemen) (NLF) during the regime of People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. The GUYW had its predecessor in the Adeni Women's Club, which started the women's movement in Yemen. When the People's ...
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 ...
During the Yemeni civil war, Saudi Arabia led an Arab coalition of nine nations from the Middle East and parts of Africa in response to calls from the internationally recognized pro-Saudi [1] president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support after he was ousted by the Houthi movement due to economic and political grievances, and fled to Saudi Arabia.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States conducted five self-defense strikes in areas of Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, U.S. Central Command said on Sunday. It said it ...