More than 40,000 Houthi violations against Yemeni women in a decade.

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The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation (YWEF) announced that women in Yemen have been victims of a wide range of violations committed by the Iranian-backed Houthi group over the past ten years, with the number of these violations exceeding 40,000 documented cases in the governorates under the group's control and elsewhere, during the period from 2015 to November 2025. According to the foundation's report, 1,901 cases of arrest and abduction of women and girls were recorded, including enforced disappearance and various methods of torture and degrading treatment. The report also recorded another 2,940 cases of arrest, including 39 cases in which the group issued death sentences, imprisonment, confiscation, or fines. According to the report, indiscriminate attacks with missiles, shells, and heavy weapons resulted in the deaths of 2,720 women, while 375 others were injured by direct sniper fire, in addition to 605 injuries caused by landmines and improvised explosive devices planted without maps and randomly. The report also documented 169 cases of murder targeting female relatives up to the fourth degree, within the framework of a pattern of domestic violence with a religiously inciting character. It also recorded 42 confirmed cases of rape, committed either inside detention facilities or during raids and displacement. The foundation pointed out that about 4 million women and girls have been displaced during the years of the war, while more than 9.6 million women face severe food insecurity and care services due to starvation and siege policies. Regarding job rights, the report revealed 16,451 cases of arbitrary dismissal of women from public jobs, along with 14,800 cases of job replacement in which female employees were replaced by elements loyal to the group. The foundation affirmed that the figures provided represent only a part of the reality, given the difficulty of documenting violations in many areas, noting that these practices are carried out within an organized approach aimed at subjugating society, excluding women from their natural role, and reshaping administrative and social structures. The Yemeni Women Empowerment Foundation called on the United Nations and the international community to establish an independent international mechanism to investigate violations against women, impose sanctions on the group's leaders responsible for them, in addition to providing protection for women and girls, lifting restrictions on their movement and work, and strengthening empowerment programs, and psychological and legal support for victims.