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December 28 2006

DHAMAR

– Discovering rock cemetery

An ancient cemetery was discovered in Dhamar about 11 meters underground. The cemetery is made of two rooms and has an opening of around 90cms. The rock cemetery was created in a natural cave. Yemeni authorities are now working to find the historic details of the cemetery.

SANA'A

– A study on preventing child abuse

University of Sana'a has conducted recently a study on how to prevent violence against children and solutions for child abuse in Yemen. The Gender Development and Research Center at the University, which will launch the results in a public event, conducted the study.

AL-BAIDHA

– Live musical concert in Rada'

The culture office in Al-Arsh district of Al-Baidha governorate carried out a live musical concert as the last event among 2006 festivities. The event included a poetry session and a dance performance of the traditional dances in the governorate.

SHABWA

– First commercial and trade exhibition

The first exhibition of its kind was concluded on the 26th of this month in Shabwa. It contained food stuff, domestic items and other goods for sale. The exhibition was organized by the Yemeni exhibition establishment in cooperation with the Dutch technical support project.

ADEN

– Seminar on human rights in national and international laws

The Faculty of Law of Aden University conducted a scientific seminar on human rights in the national and international laws. The seminar included working papers on protecting human rights, freedom of speech and the role of lawyers syndicate in protecting these rights.

LAHJ

– Disability education training

A training for teachers around Lahj governorate on disability education was carried out by the special needs association in the governorate and funded by save the Children-Sweden (Rada Barnen). Fifty teachers participated in the training and were informed on how to deal with special needs students and how to overcome their disability in learning.

HAJJA

– Training for illiteracy teachers

Sixty female illiteracy eradication teachers in Hajja were given training on how best practices of adult education in order to improve their performance. The workshop targeted female teachers in order to help reduce the high illiteracy among women in the governorate.
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