Suicide of young woman in Yemen calls for new legislation on women’s rights

A young woman committed suicide in the al-Mahabsha district in Yemen’s Hajjah governorate late last week, after a court ordered she be returned from her family home to her husband’s, sparking national demands for legislative reforms to women’s rights, according to local media reports.

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