The Youth Leadership Development Foundation, in partnership with Oxfam, concluded last Saturday evening the second phase of the Women Leaders Program, which was held for six days in the city of Aden.

The program aims to ensure the achievement of the process of building effective, gender-sensitive civil societies in Yemen that are able to communicate and represent the needs and voices of women affected by conflict to all levels, local, national and international.

The program included many activities; Most notably, 20 granddaughters from Hafeddat Balqis were trained, and many youth initiatives from the governorate of Aden were trained on Security Council Resolution 1325 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women "CEDAW", as well as negotiation skills, and their roles in building communities. It includes many topics related to security and women.

The organizers of the program indicated that its outputs have led to the consolidation of gender concepts, which means the roles and responsibilities of men and women in society, which differ according to the environment surrounding them in addition to the convention, the international legitimacy of human rights, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.