Almotamar.net - Social Affairs and Labour Undersecretary Ali Saleh Abdullah said Monday the number of woman organisations in Yemen amounted to 600 according to the latest statistic registered in the mid of the year 2008. These organisations work directly with women and specialised in woman issues that occupy 50% of their activity.
Undersecretary Abdullah added, in a party of inauguration programme of human rights of the rural woman, organised by Mada Foundation in cooperation with the French Fund for Social development and the French embassy in Sana'a, that 170 woman organisations work in Yemen in the field of woman work and the rest gives part of their activity to woman affairs.
He pointed out that Yemen has signed a big number of agreements in the field of general freedoms, rights of work and woman's rights. He also pointed out there people's and official effort for bringing amendments in some laws pertaining to the woman. He said the government stance regarding non-governmental organisations is a supportive one and considers them a basic partner despite the existence of weakness in some matters at some organisations.
On her part the executive manager of Mada organisation Sultana al-Jiham reviewed the essential components of the project of the programme of human rights of the rural woman and her empowerment economically.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
In Yemen 600 organisations interested in the woman issues
