YGF exclusive insight with Sheffield’s first Yemeni woman Councillor Emily Haimeed Abtisam Mohamed is a newly elected Labour councillor in the Firth Park area of Sheffield. As the first Yemeni woman to hold the position, this is a ground-breaking achievement for her and the Yemeni diaspora. She has worked tirelessly to increase opportunities for the … Continue reading Exclusive insight with Yemeni Councillor Abtisam Mohamed
Yemen; improving a rock bottom status quo
Musty Kamal What makes this article difficult is that I cannot possibly throw around the term “ceteris paribus” given Yemen’s current volatile and muddled state. The term is one that allows economists to map out a linear path to growth whilst ignoring some factors that may be of secondary importance in relation to the predominant … Continue reading Yemen; improving a rock bottom status quo
International Women’s Day
This international women’s day we would like to draw attention to the issues currently faced by women in Yemen. Before the conflict, Yemen was ranked last out of 142 countries in the 2014 Gender Gap Index with only 50% of women in Yemen being literate, compared to 83% of men. Women in Yemen played a … Continue reading International Women’s Day
Welcome
‘Yemen, it’s complicated’ – a phrase that whirls around the tongues of most analysts and journalists. They forget its beauty, they forget the resilience of its people, they forget its history and its culture which spread to the rest of what we now know as the Arab world. They see a humanitarian crisis, they see … Continue reading Welcome
