Stories about Women Activists Yemen
RV At 5: Witnessing The Rise Of Yemeni Women
One of the notable Rising Voices grantee project was “Empowerment of Yemeni Women Activists in New Media Techniques”, led by Ghaida'a Al Absi. She thought that the EWAMT project is...
EWAMT: The Goal of Teaching 200 Yemeni Women to Blog
Ghaida'a al-Absi of the Rising Voices grantee project Empowerment of Women Activists in Media Techniques - Yemen (EWAMT) reflects about the attained goal of training 200 Yemeni women about blogging...
EWAMT: Women In Protest
The recent wave of uprisings in the Middle East And North Africa has also hit Yemen. In January this year thousands of Yemenis started demonstrating in the capital Sanaa and...
Featured Blogger: Sara Abd Al-Maktari
Blogger Sara Abd Al-Maktari started as a participant in the first workshops offered by Rising Voices grantee Empowerment of Women Activists in Media Techniques (EWMAT) in Yemen. Since then, she...
EWAMT: The Start Of The 2nd Phase In Taizz City
The second phase of the ‘Empowerment of Women Activists in Media Techniques (EWAMT)‘ project started in Taizz city, a major city in Yemen located at the Southwestern highlands at an...
EWAMT: 112 Yemeni Women Received Citizen Media Training
The first phase of the project ‘Empowerment of Women Activists in Media Techniques‘ has been completed. In spite of technical challenges like frequent electricity outages and slow internet, the project...
EWAMT: Candle In The Dark – The Women Bloggers Of Yemen
Ghaida'a Al Absi says: “EWAMT project is like a candle with other candles, which are lighting up the darkness in Yemen.” We hope that with more blogs and more active...
Interview with Ghaida'a Al Absi
Ghaida'a al-Absi is the leader of Empowerment of Women Activists in Media Techniques in Yemen, which provides digital media training courses to Yemeni women activists.
EWAMT: Blogging And Social Networking Energize Women In Yemen
The Rising Voices grantee from Yemen ‘Empowerment of Women Activists in Media Techniques (EWAMT) conducted its seventh workshop recently. The energetic participants learned about blogging and social media techniques and...
EWAMT: Joining The Global Conversation
The Yemeni society is very conservative and there are a lot of challenges for women who want to come out in the open and claim their equal share among the...
EWAMT: Learning To Blog To Serve The Community
Rising Voices grantee Empowerment of Yemeni Women Activists in New Media Techniques (EWAMT) has organized two more workshops in June. Apart from teaching the participants how to blog they were...
EWAMT-Yemen: First Workshop On Blogging Completed
Last month we introduced Ghaida'a Al Absi's project Empowerment of Yemeni Women Activists in New Media Techniques which will train a number of women activists of Yemen in collaboration with...
