Yemen (MNN) — A new alert from UN Women last week calls attention to the plight of women and girls in Yemen. Recent ...

The authorities across Yemen are increasingly restricting women’s freedom of movement. The restrictions have harmed women’s ability to access work, education, and health care, and are a form ...

(Beirut) – Forces linked with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), which governs the southern Yemen city of Aden, seized an independent women’s shelter on May 26, 2024 ...

Despite this progress, however, women and marginalised groups are still largely excluded from international forums for peace negotiations. Gender inequality in Yemen did not begin with the conflict.

Female-headed households - like Umm Adel's - face the highest levels of food insecurity, as only a tiny percentage of women work outside their homes in Yemen. And yet the United Nations Population ...

Abs, in Yemen's northwestern governorate of Hajjah ... she represents less than 10 per cent of Yemeni women who have completed higher education. After enrolling in the UN Development Fund's ...

Women tend to be depressed because of the unstable situation and fear what’s coming next.” Having entered its seventh year of conflict, Yemen faces a multitude of humanitarian disasters. Price hikes, ...

In parts of Yemen, Houthi rebels have enforced a decree that allows women to travel only if accompanied by a male relative. The move is seen by many as a major setback to women's rights in the ...

“The men [in Yemen] were out and about, traveling, working as merchants and that sort of thing, and also as jewelry artisans, and the women filled the traditional role as homemakers,” she explain ...