LAGOS - Nigerian women have been told to go for elective positions as they had achieved the 35 per cent affirmative appointive positions in line with UN recommendation.
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.
Whenever she's asked why she chose to study something as terrible as war, Joana Cook's response is always the same: Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding.
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.
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The image of women and their activism is negatively portrayed in the Yemeni media, while their success stories are hidden from the society.
Thirteen Yemeni women will follow their male colleagues on house raids and search any women they encounter.
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In a study on “Understanding Leadership in Muslim Countries,” the American School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont examined Yemen and five other Muslim countries to evaluate how Islamic communities understand leadership for both males and females, with a focus on the latter.
At this point, it has been made clear that Yemeni women wouldn’t succeed in their political participation as candidates unless there is a constitution or law ensuring their suffrage to stand in the elections as candidates, like the way they were ensured the right to vote.