Summary

Protection and Gender Status in Yemen: Yemeni society is a conservative society where it continues to hamper women's access to resources, including access to decision-making positions through many obstacles, and gender-based violence issues remain marginal and dominated by a culture of silence. Lack of awareness about cultural rights, services and standards, stigma, insecurity, armed clashes, lack of legal assistance, scarcity of protection services, and mistreatment of sexual violence by security personnel and health service providers is one of the factors that exacerbate the phenomenon of gender-based violence in Yemen.

The Challenge

In Yemen, about .......  girls are not enrolled in school. At the local level, one in three women will face gender-based violence in their lives. In remote provinces, one in seven girls married before her fifteenth birthday, with some brides aged 8 or 9. Every year, more than ..... women, 99 per cent of them in isolation and villages, die from pregnancy and childbirth. Complications.

The Opportunity

Women account for one-half of the potential human capital in any economy. More than half a billion women have joined the world’s work force over the past 30 years, and they make up 40 percent of the agriculture labor force. According to the World Bank, countries with greater gender equality are more prosperous and competitive.

Our Strategy

Progress cannot be delivered in a vacuum. For societies to thrive, women and girls must have access to education, healthcare, and technology. They must have control of resources, lands, and markets. And they must have equal rights and equal opportunities as breadwinners, peace-builders and leaders.