Yemenis Feel Their Lives Have Been Worsening

In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 photo, a veiled Yemeni woman, center, walks at Souq al-Melh marketplace 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.

In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 photo, an elderly Yemeni woman walks on a street Bab al-Yemen in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen. <AP/NEWSis>

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