Street sexual harassment: breaking the silence in Yemen

Ghaidaa al-Absi. 23 July 2012

Young women’s rights activists are using new media to give a voice to the 90% of Yemeni women who face street sexual harassment. Yet support for the campaign has been far from unanimous; it has come face to face with a new form of patriarchy in the media, says Ghaidaa al-Absi. (Also in Arabic.)

التحرش الجنسي في الشوارع: كسر حاجز الصمت في اليمن

Ghaidaa al-Absi. 23 July 2012

حوالي 90% من النساء اليمنيات يتعرضن للتحرش الجنسي في الشوارع يوميا. مجموعة من الناشطات الشابات  في مجال حقوق النساء يستخدمن وسائل الإعلام الجديدة لإعطاء المرأة والرجل مساحه للتعبير وجمع البيانات لتعبئة صناع القرار ورجال الشرطة لتشكيل قانون لمعاقبة المتحرشين. الدعم للحملة لم يكن بالإجماع، بل واجه وجها لوجه شكل جديد من أشكال السلطة الأبوية في وسائل الإعلام، وتقول غيداء العبسي.

The struggle for security and against terrorism in Yemen: in whose interests?

Helen Lackner 20 July 2012

People perceive that cash and support are available for military and security costs but not for development or humanitarian needs which affect the vast majority of the population on a daily basis. 

Yemen’s transition: a model to be followed?

Helen Lackner 19 June 2012

What is actually happening in Yemen?  It is either presented as a ‘solution’ which could be a model for Syria, or as a ‘phoney’ change that only conceals continuation of the previous regime

Interview with Galal Maktari, founder of the Independent Yemen Group

Filippo Dionigi 1 April 2012

Filippo Dionigi met Galal Maktari, founder member of the newly established Independent Yemen Group, to discuss with him the events taking place in Yemen during the last two dramatic years, and the non-violence that has given way to factionalism.

Yemen after Saleh: between uncertainties and divisions

Maria Serra 6 February 2012
After nearly nine months of protests, more than 900 deaths and approximately 25,000 wounded, the President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh has transferred power to his deputy, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi.

Is the GCC deal democracy for Yemen?

Abubakr Al-Shamahi 5 December 2011
The GCC deal presents possibly the most realistic short term resolution to the Yemeni quagmire. It lessens the chance of civil war that would set Yemen back by decades. Nevertheless, it does not meet the demands of the vast majority of those who started the revolution.

The United States and Pakistan – beyond the verbal division

Humayun Saleem 5 October 2011
The United States and Pakistan engage in a war of words. Iraq to strengthen air sovereignty with the acquisition of 18 F-16 jets. Protests continue in Andhra Pradesh as demands increase for Telangana state. Unguarded weapons depots in Libya cause concerns. Anwar al-Awlaki is killed, but his legacy remains. All this in today’s briefing…

The Arab 1989 revisited

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen and David Held 27 September 2011
The establishment and deepening of a democratic culture is a long-term project and is intergenerational. As divisions open up between the elites and the street as well as within the elites, the events of 2011 across the Middle East and North Africa represent a powerful first step in a larger process of transformation.

Day long siege of the United States Embassy and Nato command in central Kabul brought to an end

Humayun Saleem 15 September 2011
Afghan forces, aided by ISAF have managed to end the attack on the US embassy, Nato headquarters and police buildings in Kabul. A bomb planted on a military bus in Iraq has killed 15 Iraqi soldiers and wounded 20 others. Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh has authorized his deputy to negotiate a power transfer. Turkey insists its warships will escort aid vessels to Gaza as it also requests US to base predator drones on its territory.

They called us crazy

Dyab Abou Jahjah 31 August 2011
Thoughts on the Arab revolution from an Arab nationalist.

Yemen: a kidnapped revolution

Olga Aymerich 19 July 2011
Bypassing the civil society that started the revolution leads to two options for Yemen's future, and neither bodes well for stability.

Drone warfare: cost and challenge

Paul Rogers 23 June 2011

The repositioning of the United States’s military strategy includes a great expansion in the use of armed-drones to attack targets in Pakistan and Yemen. But this development raises profound legal and ethical questions that are now entering the public arena.

Yemen on the verge of collapse

Oliver Scanlan

On Friday, heavy fighting continued in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Street protests that erupted in January against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh have escalated to the point where the capital has been divided between those forces loyal to the President and rival tribal militias. The fighting has killed at least 135 people in the last ten days. Street combat between government and tribal forces has also led to the temporary grounding of flights at Yemen’s main airport.

Is al-Qaeda establishing a small Shari’a emirates in Yemen?

Murad Batal Al-Shishani 19 May 2011
Al Qaeda are trying to make up for the Arab spring in several areas, including Yemen.

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