Yemen
Kvinde i front i Yemens demokratiske udvikling
En pige demonstrerer i Yemens hovedstad Sana'a.
Foto: Tiny cc/SyriaFreedom
Fakta
Få et overblik over arbejdet med national dialog på National Dialogue Conferences website.
Her beskrives også de ni temaer, som konferencen arbejder med: The Southern Issue; the Sa'ada Issue; National Issues; State-Building; Good Governance; Military/Security; Special Entities; Rights/Freedoms; og Development.
Kvinders rettigheder bliver diskuteret under temaet Rights/Freedoms.
Se en figur over processen for national dialog i Yemen.
Se løbende opdateringer på Facebook (på arabisk).
Amal Al-Basha
Amal Al-Basha er uddannet i Internationale Udviklingsstudier og Køn fra Sussex University i England. Al-Basha er medstifter af Yemens Institute for Human Rights og har formandsposten i Sisters' Arab Forum for Human Rights.
Hendes aktive engagement har udløst en række priser, senest organisationen GR8 Women's Life Achievement-pris for 2013.
Læs Al-Bashas fulde biografi hos Human Dignity Forum (på engelsk).
Links
Se World Economic Forums Genderindex.
Se FNs udviklingsprogram om Yemen .
Læs interview med den yemenitiske nobelprisvinder Tawakkul Karman i WoMen Dialogue.
Læs mere om Tawakkul Karmans exit fra konferencen i Yemen Post.
”Jeg kan godt lide udtrykket ’det arabiske forår’. Selvom mange er døde undervejs i Yemens arabiske forår, så gælder det lige som for blomster: De spirer om foråret og sætter fine, farverige blomster, men visner og dør senere på sæsonen,” siger Amal Al-Basha med glødende engagement i både stemmen og de brune øjne.
Political Transformation in Post-Revolution Yemen
The Islah Party – the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood – has won greater success than other parties in engaging women in politics.
The Islah Party has experimented with nominating some of their female members as candidates for the elections. Still, it was a rare occurrence for one of them to actually win. Due to the event, the current Yemeni parliament has but a single, lone female member: Oras Naji.
Read more at Al Monitor.
Yemen Women Divided Over Rights Fight
Women in Aden are torn between the national dialogue and fighting for secession for winning freedoms.
Read more at Al Jazeera.
Yemen National Dialogue Conference Begins
UN-backed reconciliation talks have begun in Yemen aimed at drafting a new constitution and preparing for full democratic elections in February 2014.
More than 500 representatives of various political groups will take part in the discussions in Sanaa, which are expected to last six months.
Read more at BBC.
Yemeni child-bride gets behind the camera for hit documentary
It’s not often that a storyteller’s background becomes as compelling as the story itself. But such is Yemeni filmmakerKhadija Al Salami’s, whose film Al Sarka (The Scream) is one of 15 documentaries to be screened under the Muhr Arab category at this year’s Dubai International Film Festival.
Read more at albawaba.com
Golden Fingertips exhibition displays Yemeni women’s artistic stylings
An art exhibition that showcased pieces from a creative group of 30 Yemeni women artists was held last week at the house of Turkish ambassador to Yemen Fazli Corman. The exhibition aimed to reflect the diverse features of a Yemeni woman's life through the use of colors.
Read more at yementimes.com
After the Arab Spring, Yemen’s Women Are Left Behind
The Arab Spring gave Yemen’s women a public voice and a visible face. But the revolution has faded without changing anything for millions who are married too young and shut away in mud huts for the rest of their lives.
Read more at thedailybeast.com
Efforts continue to up number of rural area women teachers in Yemen
Ibhar Childhood and Creativity Foundation, in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Istijaba project, held the “My Teacher First Meeting” as a part of the My Teacher Project. In it’s current stage, the project is supporting a variety of activities to promote the increase in women teachers to reach 30 percent in rural Yemen.
Read more at yementimes.com
Four of five Yemeni women say their lives are harder since Saleh's downfall
Women in Yemen are worse off now than a year ago, when they played a significant part in the revolution that promised political and economic change, according to an international aid agency.
Read more at thenational.ae
Download the report at oxfam.org
New constitution to promote women’s rights in Yemen
The Yemeni human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Tawakkul Karman, finds that Yemen is heading towards a new constitution that could ensure better rights and participation for women at all levels in society. That appeared during a meeting on Sunday in the Yemeni capital Sana’a between Tawakkul Karman and head of KVINFO’s Middle East and North Africa Department, Lisbeth Pilegaard.
Tawakkul Karman is a member of the constitutional committee that has been established in the wake of the political changes caused by the Arab revolutions. As a representative for civil society and a political activist she plays a vital role regarding the promotion of women’s rights in the constitutional work.
Read an interview with Tawakkul Karman at womendialogue.org