Almotamar.net - Conceding with the celebration of the World Women Day the 4th national conference is to be held in Sana’a on 7-8 March 2009.
The Woman National Committee in Yemen said in a statement the conference represents an important event for assessing the progress gained for upgrading the woman status and determining the gaps and challenge preventing the realization of the goals.
The statement added the conference is to discuss important working papers including a report on the woman status in Yemen for the year 2008. The report assesses the level in the implementation of the woman development strategy, the extent of achieving of the policies of woman development in the third 5-year plan for development and poverty alleviation. In addition, the report offers an assessment of the volume of financial revenues of the state devoted to needs of the social gender, allocated by the government and the donors with concentration on education, the sector receiving biggest attention of the government and partners of development and opportunities available for the Yemeni woman in the promising economic sectors.
The report also casts light on the woman political participation, renewing the call for applying the quota system, calling on all national forces in Yemen to enlist the question on the highest scale of their concerns and the call for specifying legal commitments in constitutional and legal amendments for the comprehensive political; reform.
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.
National conference for assessing the woman status in Yemen
