Mideast Yemen Women

September 28, 2012
In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 photo, an elderly Yemeni woman, center, walks on a street in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen. Women in Yemen are worse off now than a year ago, when they played a significant part in the country's revolution that promised political and economic change, an international aid agency has concluded. In a report released Monday, Oxfam International said four out of five Yemeni women claim their lives have worsened over the past 12 months. Faced with an intensifying humanitarian crisis, which has left a quarter of women between the ages of 15 and 49 acutely malnourished, they say they're struggling to feed their families and are unable to participate in the country's transition. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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