Ten out of 62 discriminating articles to be amended [Archives:2007/1075/Local News]
SANA'A, Aug 8 ) Under the patronage of his Excellency Dr. Ali Mugawar, the Council of Ministers has approved last Tuesday the amendments projects of ten laws out of 62 laws concerning the Yemeni woman as a step to eradicate legislative discrimination. The amendment projects for ten laws were forwarded to the parliament to start the debate and complete constitutional procedures.
These Laws include the Pleadings and Civil Implementation Law, Diplomatic Law, Personal Status Law, Labor Law, Police and the Organization of Prisons Law, Insurance, Pension, and Social Insurance Laws, Civil Laws, and the Crime and Penalty Law. The articles that are in the amendment project are:
– Article No (97) of Law No (40) for 2002 for the Pleadings and Civil Implementation.
– Article No (90) of Law No (2) for 1991, on the Diplomatic and consular corps.
– Article No (7), (11), (12), (14), (76), (87), (262) of Law No (20) for 1992, on the Personal Status Law.
– Article No (45) and No (47) of Law No (5) for 1995, on the Labor Law.
– Article No (158) of Law No (15) for 2000, on Police Authority.
– Article No (32) of Law No (48) for 1991, on the Organization of prisons.
– Article No (20) of Law No (25) for 1991, on Insurance and Pensions.
– Article No (2) and Item No (1) paragraph (A) of Article No (57) of Law No (26) for 1991, on Social Insurance.
– Article No (61) of Law (14) for 2002, on Civil Law.
– Article No (42), (232), and (278) of Law No (12) for 1994, on Crimes and Penalties.
Amal Al-Basha, Chairwoman of the Sisters Arab Forum for Human Rights (SAF), stated exclusively to the Yemen Times that we should first evaluate how these 10 articles will affect women's lives. She added “however, approving 10 articles out of 62, shows how uncommitted the government is to eradicate discrimination against women, which is also a clear breach to the President's Program which had many promises for women to be met in its first year of implementation”.
The Women National Committee (WNC) which is the governmental body that is concerned with women's issues expressed their appreciation to this positive step. Hooria Mashour, Vice-Chairwoman of WNC stated to Yemen Times that this is a positive step that is appreciated by the WNC. She further added “however, we expected that the whole package of the 62 that the WNC presented to the Council would have been approved, additionally, we hope that the parliament assent and approve the 10 laws that were forwarded to them. She also expressed the WNC's determination to work on approving the other remaining laws.
It is important to note that important amendments to the laws of Nationality, as well as, the determination of Marriage Age, and the Quota system in the election law and political parties formation laws which are set to make major improvements in the development of Yemeni women were not approved.
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