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In modern day Yemen, women are subject to tribal and patriarchal traditions that keep them from advancing. Combined with illiteracy and poverty, this has led to women in Yemen being deprived of their rights as citizens. Due to the ongoing armed conflict in Yemen since the end of March 2015, Yemen is undergoing a humanitarian crisis worldwide ...
Human rights in Yemen are seen as problematic. The security forces have been responsible for torture, inhumane treatment and even extrajudicial executions. [1] In recent years there has been some improvement, with the government signing several international human rights treaties, and even appointing a woman, Dr. Wahiba Fara’a, to the role of Minister of the State of Human Rights.
North Yemen Civil War: 188: 9 April 1964 9–0–2 (abstentions: United Kingdom and the United States) British attacks in Yemen and airspace violation of Federation of South Arabia: 243: 12 December 1967 Unanimous Admission of Democratic Yemen: 924: 1 June 1994 Unanimous 1994 civil war in Yemen: 931: 29 June 1994 Unanimous 1994 civil war in ...
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 ...
The Houthis' treatment of women and their restrictions on the arts has been subject of debate. On one side, the movement has stated that it defends women's rights to vote and take public offices, [180] and some feminists have fled from government-held areas into Houthi territories as the latter at least disempower more radical jihadists. [171]
Houthi rebels in Yemen used satellite data provided by Russia to target and attack commercial ships in the Red Sea, The Wall Street Journal reported. The outlet cited three unnamed sources ...
In an address to her people, a Russian woman appeared in a video announcing her decision of joining the Free Syrian Army. [158] The first female Afghan National Army noncommissioned officers graduated from Regional Military Training Center-West. [159] [160] Captain Jannatul Ferdous became Bangladesh Army's first female paratrooper. [161]
In Yemen, abortions are only “permitted to save the life of a pregnant woman”, making it one of the strictest abortion laws in the Middle East and the world. [1] Abortion is not widely accepted in Yemeni society. [2] However, because of the recent conflict in Yemen, rape, honor killings, and unsafe abortions have increased in Yemen. [2]