Female Activists hold seminar on women's role in mitigating effects of war

A seminar on "the role of Yemeni women in mitigating the effects of conflict" hold in Marib on Wednesday.

In the opening of the seminar organized by the General Department for Women Development in cooperation with civil society organizations, the Deputy Governor of Marib ,Abdullah Al-Bakri, pointed out the challenges Yemeni women face, and their ongoing struggle and suffering during the war caused by Houthi militia’s cou

A female Yemeni activist has appealed for the international community to take action to save Yemeni women from Houthi abuses in in different parts of the country.

Fandah al-Ammari the Director of the Department of Women Development in Marib said in a meeting with local CSOs the
Houthis have caused killed, injured and displaced thousands of women since the rebel militia's coup in September 2014. The militants, in their areas of control, continue to arbitrarily detain and disappear women and commit other abuses against them.

She called on the international community to intervene to follow up on the disappeared, end the abuses and secure their release.