Human Rights Ministry reviews plan to enhance women’s protection in emergency situations

SANAA, Dec. 11 (YPA) – The Ministry of Human Rights, in cooperation with the Women’s Protection Bloc and the United Nations Population Fund, organized on Monday an expanded meeting in Sanaa to review the national plan to enhance the protection and participation of women in emergency situations.

At the opening of the meeting, the Minister of Human Rights in the caretaker government, Ali Hussein Al-Dailami, noted the importance of having a national plan to enhance the protection and participation of Yemeni women, through which solutions can be put in place to overcome the effects that women are going through during nine years of aggression and siege.

Al-Dailami explained that the meeting comes within the framework of the 16-day campaign to combat violence against women and the UN resolution on security and women, in light of the severe suffering of Yemeni and Palestinian women.

“We focus in the UN resolution on the most dangerous aspect of women and the violations women are exposed to during wars, most notably targeting, torture, and rape, which requires integrated efforts for international criminal prosecution of perpetrators of crimes against women,” he said.

In turn, the Director General of Women at the Ministry of Human Rights and the meeting’s coordinator, Mona Al-Saqqaf, stated that the plan included the axes of prevention, protection, participation, relief, reconstruction, and empowering women to play their role in this aspect.

She stressed the importance of integrating the efforts of the relevant authorities to enhance the role of women, their protection, and their participation in emergency situations.

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