Yemen

Sur la proposition de l’Internationale Socialiste en 1910, la journée internationale des femmes (le 8 mars) a été célébrée pour la première fois dans beaucoup de pays industriels. Elle demandait le droit de vote, le droit au travail, à la formation professionnelle et à la fin de la discrimination au travail. Depuis lors, cette journée [...]

We are pleased to bring you the good news that Walid Al-Saqaf, the developer of alkasir circumvention software, which was developed with the support of Mideast Youth, won the Democracy Prize for 2010 from the Swedish Örebro University for his work.
Bellow is the press release from the university:
Arab Scholar and Software Developer Wins Swedish Democracy [...]

Earlier this year, a newly-wed bride took a taxi to the West Court of Sana’a, Yemen and requested a divorce from the husband she was forced into marrying. Her husband, who was almost three times her age, raped and beat her on an almost daily basis, and the bride decided that she had had enough.
Although [...]

It’s not an award ceremony for distinguished students. It’s not a youth program. It’s not a library.
It’s a public discussion by civil society organisations in Yemen on child marriages, and the pictured girls (aged 8, 10 and 12) are child brides.
Child marriages occur worldwide, from Yemen to Mali to Nicaragua. While religions are frequently cited [...]

You might remember our previous posts calling for the unblocking of Yemeni websites, all of which remain blocked within the country to this day. But that is not all, owners and editors of the blocked websites have been threatened and harrassed, and at least one has been imprisoned without trial, a legitimate charge or any [...]

As a Palestinian and an Arab I was extremely proud to see such a large contingent of athletes from the Arab World participating in this year’s Olympics. Even though they are being held in Beijing, one of the most repressive nations in the world, the Chinese people themselves have a tremendous and rich culture and [...]

Friend and administrator of YemenPortal.net (which is blocked in Yemen), Walid Al-Saqaf, notifies us of this horrible news:
I’m afraid I am bringing you another sad development from Yemen. Fahd Al-Qarani, a popular singer and poet who was famous for his songs and activities promoting public awareness and involvement in the political process and for his [...]

In a precedent in Yemen, an eight-year-old girl filed a complaint against her father in court, for forcing her to marry a 30-year-old man.
The girl, whose identity should have been withheld for her protection, was subjected to sexual and domestic abuse by her rapist.
“My father beat me and told me that I must marry this [...]

Walid al-Saqaf, the creator of YemenPortal.net, whose ban in Yemen we are actively campaigning against, informed us that we have just been banned there. This is because Walid launched a circumventing software that would allow people in Yemen to access the site despite the ban, and we have allowed him to use this website in [...]

Walid Al-Saqaf, the administrator of YemenPortal.net which has been blocked in Yemen since January of this year, has just sent this very alarming news to his friends and colleagues:
This week, the government’s Minister of Information threatened to file lawsuits against news websites on the justification of ‘inciting hatred’ or ‘harming national interests’ and the other [...]