Yemeni Government Inaction on Gender Equality Speaks Louder than Words

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Yemeni women at a university in Yemen's city of Taiz, December 15, 2022. © 2022 Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP via Getty Images By a Research Assistant, Middle East and North Africa DivisionOn November 23, Yemen’s President Rashad al-Alimi stated in a cabinet meeting that “it is unacceptable for the Yemeni government to remain without a single ministerial portfolio led by a woman in a country where women make up more than half of the population.” Al-Alimi added that women “possess the expertise and competence that make their absence a legal and institutional flaw that must be…

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