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Women were at the heart of protests, demanding and protesting for a better political life. [28] Then in 2014, women represented more than one quarter of the participants in the National Dialogue Conference (NDC). [29] Through that, women of Yemen achieved important agreements, including the 30% quota for women's political participation. [28]
The Iranian-backed Houthis, who have been engaged in a civil war with Yemen’s internationally recognized government since 2014, have said they launched the attacks with the aim of ending Israel ...
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.
A Saudi Arabian-led military intervention in Yemen began in 2015, in an attempt to influence the outcome of the Yemeni Civil War.Saudi Arabia, spearheading a coalition of nine Arab states, began carrying out airstrikes [1] in neighbouring Yemen and imposing an aerial and naval blockade on 26 March 2015, heralding a military intervention code-named Operation Decisive Storm [2] (Arabic ...
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 ...
The United Nations alleged that the Saudi-led coalition had violated international humanitarian law [7] because the bombing was a 'double tap' attack, or a type of airstrike where the first bombing is followed by a second one soon after, with the aim of targeting the wounded, aid workers, and medical personnel tending to them. The UN report ...
Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.. On 16 February 2021, the Biden administration removed Ansar Allah, the formal political and military organization of the Houthi movement, from the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) blacklist, [21] due to concerns that the designation would impede the delivery of humanitarian aid amid Yemen's worsening political and ...
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 ...