With the support of Safer World Organization, Safe Streets launched on 2nd November, 2013 the first conference against
sexual harassment in streets of Yemen within a campaign designed to
break the silence around this phenomena, which worsened off in recent
years and affected thousands women and children
The conference was an opportunity to tackle the roots of the problem through presenting working papers tackling the issue of sexual harassment from Social, religious, and cultural lances
The conference was opened by Minister of Legal Affairs, Dr. Mohammed Almakhlafi, and confirmed that there must be decisive decisions of not tolerating with this issue
The Safe Streets Campaign was launched in 16th of August 2011, to highlight sexual harassment in the streets and break the silence in talking about this issue that 98.9% Yemeni women suffer from especially in the capital Sana’a. The campaign aims to break the silence of men and women through providing the needed platform to share their experiences, and look for solutions. The project was implemented in partnership with Development House and Funded by Tactical Technology Collective
Activities
Art Exhibition for young artists presenting through their paintings the sexual harassment that Yemeni women suffer from in the streets
Production of a short film presents the issue from the point of “as you condemns you condemned”, the film talk about a young man harass a girl in the street then when he go home sleeps and have a nightmare about him being harassed by other young men and then he wake up scared and realize the feeling of women when they are harassed
Electronic map to report sexual harassment cases, this map considers the first map of its kind and the target is to observe actual sexual harassment cases
Publishing a book called “Happening in the street’’ which documented a collection of real stories of women face sexual harassment in the streets
One of the main partners in the sexual harassment week 18 – 24 March 2012 and there was over 70 campaign from 21 countries participated in this event, link to the event
Establishing a Safe Streets blog to write about sexual harassment and to be a free platform to anybody want to write about sexual harassment or publish a story about some people experienced sexual harassment in streets
Empowering Women Activists in Media Techniques (EWAMT) is a project designed in 2009 to build the capacity of 200 female activists on social media, and Blogging in particular. The project aimed to equip the targeted activist with the technical tools to amplify their voices, and supporting social issues through Internet
The project was implemented in two phases in the capital of Sana’a with the financial support of Global Voices
