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Yemen: Female politicians targeted on social media
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Yemen: Female politicians targeted on social media
Qantara.de
With more than two hundred thousand followers on Facebook and about 54 thousand followers on Twitter, I am one of the most prominent Yemeni politicians on the ground and online. Yet not a day passes without me having to fight in the virtual world...
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Monday, June 01, 2020
Yemen’s first responders are women peace builders
Forbes
Since 2015 Food4Humanity Foundation, one of Yemen’s first women-led Civil Society Organization (CSO) non-profits, has engaged Yemeni women volunteers to work in areas most affected by poverty, famine, lack of humanitarian aid while also promoting...
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Friday, May 03, 2019
Yemeni women: Making the most of the space available
Afrah Nasser Blog
(...) In the country’s modern history, three major events have influenced these struggles and women’s political rights: 1) the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990, 2) Yemen’s uprising in 2011, and 3) the war that has been ongoing since 2015...
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when is the time yemen
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Multimedia
Yemen: When in the time?
Belquis Al Lahabi was a leading voice in Sanaa’s Change Square. In this conservative country -- dubbed the worst in the world for women -- the revolution offered feminists like Belquis a faint glimmer of hope. But as the country descends into war,...
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Monday, June 06, 2016
Multimedia
Yemen #WeAreHere
This short documentary is among a series of documentary films, produced by UN Women, titled “We Are Here” that highlight the political, social, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution work of women living in challenging environments across the Arab...
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Yemeni Women Leading Change
Since ancient times, Yemeni women have been linked with political life and have had a distinct role. This historical legacy makes Yemen one of the few countries where women have gained balanced roles in public life in political history and enjoyed...
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Yemeni Women
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Yemeni women fight for greater representation
Photo-Al Jazeera After years of activism, Amal Basha's demands for guarantees of greater representation for women in the political system has finally edged closer to reality. "Women have been fighting for it for a long time," said the prominent...
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Monday, October 21, 2013
Yemen's quota: Success for international community or Yemeni Women?
On September 15, Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi wrote his first-ever op-ed in hopes of reassuring the Yemeni people of the current political transition’s progress. The article, published in the Yemen Times and available only in English,...
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Yemen's women make their voices heard from revolution to constitution
Yemeni women are some of the fiercest women I have ever met. Through conflicts and famine, many have had to struggle for the survival of their families. The abject poverty afflicts Yemeni women in particularly harsh ways, yet they carry on and...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Yemen women divided over rights fight
Before Yemen's unification and the bloody civil war that followed, women in the southern port city of Aden say they were educated professionals with rights not experienced by those in the conservative north. Yemen's unification in 1990 curbed those...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Yemeni Women Sign Up To Fight Terror
Thirteen Yemeni women will follow their male colleagues on house raids and search any women they encounter. For more information, please visit http://news.bbc.co.uk
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Yemen: Threat to Legislation Outlawing Child Marriage
Although Yemen's parliament has agreed to set the minimum age for marriage at 17, there are concerns the decision may be rescinded as some members of parliament (MPs) say the amendments violate Sharia (Islamic) law. To read the full...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Yemen: International Praise of Yemen’s Progress in Human Rights and Democracy
Delegation of Yemen, led by Minister for Human Rights Dr Huda al-Ban, taking part in Yemen report presented to UN’s Human Rights Council held in Geneva discussed the report of the Yemeni Republic. It reviewed the role that Yemen is playing in the...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Yemen: WNC, UNIFEM train female candidates for parliamentary election
A training course on the legal procedures for female candidates in the parliamentary election kicked off in Sana'a on Saturday.The training course is organized by Women National Committee (WNC) in collaboration with the United Nations Development...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Yemen: Female demonstrators lash out at defamation campaign
Yemeni women activists are responding combatively to the media war waged by state outlets this week aimed at denouncing female participation in protests sweeping the nation. Sparking the row, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Yemen: Yemen protests - Women take centre stage
When anti-government demonstrations first began in Yemen three months ago, many predicted that they were likely to fail because - unlike Tunisia or Egypt - Yemen would not be able to mobilise half of its population. The sceptics could not...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Yemen: Youth Ready to Confront Gender Roles
Despite being at the forefront of sweeping changes taking place in the country, the lives of the majority of Yemeni women are restricted to early marriage, motherhood and serving husbands, according to a new study by Women Without Borders (...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
YEMEN: Presidential Elections, 21 Feb 2012
  Description of government structure: Chief of State: President Abd al-Rab Mansur AL-HADI * Head of Government: Prime Minister Ali Muhammad MUJAWWAR Assembly: Yemen has a bicameral Parliament (Majlis) consisting of the Shura Council (Majlis...
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