Women in prisons [Archives:2005/833/Local News]

By Fahmia Al-Fotih
For the Yemen Times
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is currently running a program for women detained in the five central prisons of Yemen (Hodeida, Dhamar, Mahweet, Amran and Aden) with the Yemeni Red Cross Society (YRCS) responsible for the implementation of the program.

In the frame of this program, the YRCS in cooperation with the ICRC, are organizing a workshop on “Women in Prisons”, which took place on 12 April and 13 April at Ramada Hadda Hotel, Sana'a.

Abass Zabara, the head of YRCS, in statement to Yemen Times said “Today's workshop is to think about what women volunteers can do for the women in prisons.

We invited four volunteers from different governorates from the YRCS branches.

These volunteers will keep visiting women in prisons regularly and teach them some skills that can help sustain them after their release.

Thus this will enable them to depend on themselves and serve their society.”

He further informed that the program has been running for 2 years.

“Today is the first stage of the project that is held in Sana'a.

Then we would like to implement it in other governorates.”

An exhibition of the crafts of ten detainees was also a part of the workshop.
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