Simple ways to support Yemen from abroad

This Article is taken from Woman from Yemen blog http://womanfromyemen.blogspot.com

Here are few ideas for how you can help Yemen from abroad. These are very broad and general ideas, but any efforts is helpful and much appreciated. Once the Support Yemen website is running, it will include more detailed information regarding each point.

• Read more about Yemen, understand it, and talk to your friends about it. (ask us for book recommendations if you like).
• Know that it's ok to say I don't understand Yemen, after all it's a VERY complicated country.
• For people on twitter, don't RT information on numbers of deaths or injuries without a source, because that could unintentionally contribute to misinformation which could be harmful to the cause. 
• Show a film about Yemen and hold a discussion after wards. You can invite activists to speak via skype. 
• Write about Yemen in your blog, website or on your facebook wall.
• Add a book on Yemen to be read and discussed in your book club.
• Hold a march to support Yemen and pass out leaflets and information about the events in the country.
• Circulate information from various parts of Yemen, not just the capital. 
• Circulate local blogs.
• Lobby your government using reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Yemen.  In addition, to reports by local human rights groups and independent coalitions. 
• Link Yemeni revolution to broader issues of social equality, freedom, and justice throughout the world.
• Circulate information about the humanitarian situation, daily life, power outages, increase in prices, and economic disaster. 
•  Circulate as many videos and photographs as possible. 
• Help us consolidate all websites on the Yemeni Revolution.
• Help raise funds for local humanitarian organizations to help alleviate ongoing crisis. 
• Help set up a photography exhibit on the Yemeni Revolution. 
• Help raise funds for Yemeni activists to come speak at an event in your school, organization, or community.
• Create a supportYemen group in your community and join the Support Yemen campaign.  People in Yemen can provide the information, videos, photographs, and people abroad can do awareness raising, hold events, and campaign for Yemen.  (website coming soon: http://supportyemen.org/)

Support Yemen-Break the Silence

Videos:Celebrations and Marches

the protesters were celebrating and dancing because of the departure of the president Ali to Saudi Arabia, and expecting that he will not come back to Yemen after the attempt of assassination. 

In addition, they organized marches close to the vice president's house, and demanding the formation of a transition council to handover the authority. 

How is life in Yemen?

  Yemen lives in continuous crises never end. It has been begun with Alhouthis issue in Sadaa in the far north of Yemen, and the Southern Movement in the south of Yemen and AlQaeda. Jihadist groups Suspected to be AlQaeda are trying to control Zanjibar, the capital of Abyan governorate, so a heavy clashes between them and the Yemeni troops caused death among the civilians. Many families fled from Abyan to Aden, and took some schools as their homes.

In Taiz, Yemen's second largest city, clashes between the demonstrators and the security forces. The freedom Square had been occupied by the security forces, and that led to kill more than 200 persons. Thus, the tribes of Sharab arrived to the city to support the protesters, and it was the first time for Taiz to be full of armed civilians trying to retrieve their square from the security forces.

Raping a Child by the Central Security Soldiers in Sana'a

A child at age of 16 years old subjected to a brutal rape by soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Central Security upon his leaving this evening from the Change square(the area of the demonstrations in Sana'a). he was found by soldiers from the First Armored Division Forces, and he was unconscious in a place close to landfill near the Change square 

He said  that he was intercepted by soldiers from the Central Security after he left the Change square.he was severely beaten by them, before being taken to a room  belong to the Central Security, and they raped him

 The 16 year old child is a member in the Coalition Youth Revolution of 3rd February. The child was taken to the Field hospital in Change Square, and he is suffering from fatigue because of the rape and beating.

Translated from 

http://marebpress.taiz-press.net/news_details.php?sid=34367&lng=arabic

Note: In Yemen, the rape victims can not  mention their names because of the fear from the stigma

نصائح أثناء القصف

1- عندما تسمع اصوات الانفجارات والقصف الرجاء الابتعاد عن النوافذ

2- عدم الصعود للاسطح في البنايات للتصوير او للتفرج على منظر الانفجارات بسبب قوة وصول الشظايا التى ممكن ان تودي بحياتك

3- عدم ايواء اي طرف من الاطراف المتناحرة

4- على جميع الاهالي القربين من موقع الاحداث او وسطها رفع اعلام بيضاء على النوافد او الخروج من المنزل والذهاب الى منطقة اخرى واثناء الخروج ارفع العلم الابيض على الشارع والذهاب الى الدرج او السلالم والانبطاح هناك لكي لاتصيبك رصاصة او شظية طائشة.

منقول

Distributing Aid for Al-hasaba's residents

More than 3000 water bottles distributed by the Coordinating Council of the Yemeni Youth Revolution for Change (CCYRC) and the international humanitarian organization "Save the Children" to the victims of Hasabah area