Rights of adultery suspects discussed [Archives:2005/807/Community]
Taiz Bureau
A special symposium concerning a woman suspected of adultery was held under the title “the suspect of adultery is between the hammer of justice institutions and the social forces.
The symposium was organized by the Yemeni Women Union in Taiz, under Mrs. Su'ad Al-Absi, and Al-S'aeed Foundation for Science and Culture (SFSC), and was supported by the British Organization OXFAM.
The symposium was run by Faisal Far'e, General Manager of the SFSC.
Mohammad Al-Haj Local Council Secretary General delivered a speech in which he pointed out that the Local Council has the intention to team up with the organizations, women unions and the charitable societies in order to build a special center for the sake of training the women and the targeted categories of street children.
He mentioned that there are numerous woman prisoners from the Horn of Africa in the central prison and other prisons. According to him this issue is in an urgent need of studies to be conducted in coordination with the prosecution and judiciary.
He hopped the symposium to come out with positive results and promised that he will carry out the recommendations as well as to change them into work programs.
The symposium was staged in two themes. On the first theme, Mohammad Al-Durrah Chairman of the Committee for Supporting Woman, forwarded a scientific research confirming that it is related to the issue of women rights and achieving quality between both sexes.
The research included that preventive measures should be taken against slandering the innocent women unless they are proved guilty.
The second theme included a paper by Dr. Akram Hijazi entitled “Rights of Adultery Suspect: results of field study”.
On her part, Mrs. Amal Al-Basha Head of Al-N'oman Sisters Forum mentioned that the majority of woman prisoners are illiterate coming from poor families and are in a persistent need of legal, economic and social reform in order to overcome corruption.
“Our society is also in an urgent need of a comprehensive reform and fair application of the law to include the different social layers as well as the influential persons.
If there was a crime, every member in the society should be held accountable for it according to the law, but we are living in a society where the survival is for the strongest”, Mrs. Al-Basha said.
Mrs Su'ad Al-Absi Head of Yemeni Women Union in Taiz stated that one of the most valuable outcomes of the symposium is assigning the tenth of January in every year a day of solidarity with woman prisoners. This day will remind us and draw our attention toward the issues of woman prisoners.
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