The State of the World’s Children 2007 report looks at the discrimination and disempowerment faced by women throughout their lives, also it laid down few points that might become instrumental in eradicating gender discrimination and empowers women and girls.
The United Nations Children’s Fund in Yemen initiated the program’s 2007 annual report in Sana’a in the presence of Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Amat Al-Razaq Hummad, and representatives from NGOs, the private sector and the media.
The call for equal rights evolved into a quest for gender equality when a distinction was made between gender and sex.
As the occasion was on its way, some Yemeni Artists presented the contemporary society through a skit. Where a 12-year-old girl was fighting for her right to study only with a single support of her mother since it was against her father’s will thus, the group encouraged audience to educate their girls and not let traditions stand in the way of women’s empowerment.
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