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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]
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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]
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 .
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]
Belquis Al Lahabi (Arabic: بلقيس الذهبي; b. 1972) is a Yemeni civil and feminist political activist, organizer, and figure in the Yemeni revolution. [1] Throughout her life, she became increasingly involved with political and activist organizations, mostly in the realm of women's rights, human rights, and political freedom.
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 ...