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Samia is a journalist and human rights activist in Yemen. In 2007 she wrote an article that criticised President Ali Abdullah Saleh decision to run for another term. In response a pro-government newspaper published a story accusing her of having illicit relationship with foreign men. She sued the newspaper and won. [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.
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.
Yemeni women's rights activists (16 P) Pages in category "Yemeni human rights activists" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Ali Raja grew up in Taiz, in a family of seven children.Her father encouraged her and her three sisters to break with taboos and appear in public unveiled. After some education in Yemen, she followed her sisters aged 14 to study at a North Carolina high school, and on to study political science at Southwest Missouri State and broadcast journalism at the University of Kansas.
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]
Amatalrauf "Raufa Hassan" al-Sharki (Arabic: رؤوفة حسن; 1958 – April 27, 2011) was an educator, feminist [1] and human rights activist from Yemen.She was a professor of mass media and the director of a Women's Studies Center at the University of Sana'a. [2]