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Yemen: Women Abuse

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Yemen, Human Rights, Women & Gender

Jane Novak links [1] to an article which states that 70 per cent of Yemeni women are abused. “More than 87 percent of those surveyed said that families are responsible for abuse and violence against women, as 191 of the registered cases, accounting for 35.9 percent of the total sample, complained that they are abused by their husbands while 186 of the registered cases (34.9) told that they are mistreated by their fathers,” said the study.