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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 women fear the war will turn into a frozen conflict, like the yearslong fight against Russian-backed separatists in the east. To stop that from happening, U.S. aid is crucial, they said ...
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.
Even before the 2022 invasion started, women and girls living in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine bordering Russia have not felt safe – neither in public nor at home – since the war in Donbas broke out in 2014. The situation was worsened by devastating social and economic crises, access to weaponry, and trauma created by the ongoing armed ...
In its first month, FAR became "one of Russia’s fastest-growing anti-war campaigns", attracting more than 26,000 followers on Telegram. [4] On 23 December 2022, the Russia's Ministry of Justice added the movement to the so-called list of "foreign agent". [5] In April 2024, the movement was labeled as an "undesirable organization". [6]
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]
Given the large number of women who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian army in February 2022, the ArmWomenNow social initiative was created. The next step was to study the international experience of the world and obtain samples of women's military uniforms from these countries.
Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s ombudsman for human rights, said she has documented around two dozen cases of women and teens raped in Bucha, a Kyiv suburb that Russian troops withdrew from.