Fags
Homosexuality is illegal in Yemen, with punishment ranging from flogging to death. However, the wall is already beginning to crumble, and much of the fag agenda is being pursued in Yemen via internet. See http://globalgayz.com/country/Yemen/view/YEM/gay-yemen-news-and-reports
Divorce
A recent article appearing in the Yemen Times bore the following title: Destroying Family Roots: Divorce on the Rise in Yemen. That article included these observations:
“Recently, Yemen has witnessed more divorce cases than usual. Marrying for wrong reasons is the root of this crisis.
“Even though Yemen’s divorce rate is far lower than that of other countries in the region, it has increased dramatically in the past five years. According to sources, Yemen’s divorce rate has nearly doubled compared to figures from the late 1990s. Reasons for divorce vary from one person to another. “It’s not the divorce that’s scary, it’s the outcomes of it,” Ali Khalid said. “Usually children are left with no guardian to teach them what is right and wrong, thereby destroying the life of the future generation,” he added.
“In a national survey last year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 55 percent of marriages occurring in 2004 ended in divorce before the end of the first year. This tragic number is after only one year. Imagining the outcomes of these marriages after five year would be horrifying and unpredictable.”
Of course, one wonders how bad divorce really is in light of numerous documented cases of families giving their 8, 9 and 10-year old daughters in “marriage” to men 20-30 years their senior. Just last year, for example, this story appeared on BBC news outlets:
“A Yemeni court has annulled an eight-year-old girl's marriage to a man in his 20s, after she filed for divorce.
The girl, Nojoud Mohammed Ali, took a taxi to a judge’s office on her own, after running away from her husband.
Lawyer Shatha Nasser told the BBC she heard about Nojoud by chance and instantly decided to represent her.
"Child brides are common in parts of Yemen, but this case received wider attention because it reached court," she said.
Yemen is one of the world's poorest countries.
Although it has no legal minimum age for marriage, the wife is only allowed to live with her husband once she has reached puberty.
Nojoud's unemployed father and husband were also present at the hearing.
The courtroom was packed with members of the press and human rights activists, who are using the case to highlight the need for more child protection in Yemen.
Nojoud told the court she had signed the marriage contract two-and-a-half months ago on the understanding she would stay in her parents' house until she was 18.
"But a week after signing, my mother and father forced me to go and live with him."”
Abortion
Despite legal and religious restrictions against abortion in much of the Arab world, including Yemen, changing social values and economic realities as well as demographic shifts have contributed to an increase in the number of the procedures in the Middle East. The thinking in Yemen was reflected in the following quote appearing in a June, 2008 article in the Los Angeles Times entitled “Number of Abortions Rising in Middle East, Experts say”:
“"Most families can't afford a sixth or seventh or 10th or 11th child," said the family planning expert in Yemen. "All the women who resort to an abortion already have as many children as they can manage."”
Is it just me, or does that sound a lot like Beast Obama announcing to the world that a baby is a “punishment” instead of a blessing?
Sexual trafficking (report from http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2008/105386.htm)
Yemen is a country of origin for children, mostly boys, trafficked for forced begging, forced unskilled labor, or forced street vending. Yemeni children are trafficked across the northern border into Saudi Arabia or to the Yemeni cities of Aden and Sana’a for forced work, primarily as beggars. Unconfirmed estimates suggest that 10 Yemeni children are trafficked into Saudi Arabia per day, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor. Some of these children may be sexually exploited in transit or once they arrive in Saudi Arabia. To a lesser extent, Yemen is also a source country for women and girls trafficked internally and possibly to Saudi Arabia for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, as well as a possible destination country for women from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and the Philippines. Yemeni girls are trafficked within the country for commercial sexual exploitation; one study by ILO-IPEC indicates that girls as young as 15-yearsold are exploited for commercial sex in hotels, casinos, and bars in the governorates of Mahweet, Aden, and Taiz. In addition, street children are vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation.
