Leaderships of the Women National Committee discussing with other political activists and journalists during the meeting held at the WNC center in Sana’a. A large group of women reunited on Monday, August 11, around a table at the Women National Committee (WNC) offices in Sana’a, the technical committee of the government’s Supreme Council for Women Affairs. Their objectives were to discuss a common strategy to defend their demand to reserve 15 percent of Parliament seats for women (“women’s quota”) and to approve a communiqué on the issue of women’s political participation, to serve as a response to the fatwa recently issued by the Vice and Virtue Committee (VVC) against the women’s quota, which they plan to send to all major political figures of the country in the coming days.
---Yemen Observer
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