NOD Yemen

NOD participates in Al-Doha Meeting on Combat trafficking in human beings.

National Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development (NOD) has invited by Qatar Foundation for Combat trafficking of Human Beings to participate in Al-Doha meeting titled ; The Arab initiative to build national capacities to combat trafficking in human beings. The Conference will be held in Al-Doha during March 22-23,2010 under the auspices of Sheikha Mozah Bint Al-Mosnad First Lady of Qatar.

Chairman of NCHRDD, Gamal Al-Awadhi declared that the center is preparing for a training program for Journalists, civil society organizations and political parties on nonviolent actions or civil resistance . The program aims to meet the increasing violence between civil society and the security forces and call for non-violence to achieve human rights demands.

Government is prepared to hold dialogue with southern leaderships: Senior Yemeni offi
SANA’A, March 03 (Saba)- A senior Yemeni official has said that the Yemeni government is prepared to hold a dialogue with the southern leaderships, including those living outside the country and calling for secession from Yemen.

Hard tasks ahead as Yemen truce holds

SANAA-AFP: Almost three weeks after agreeing to a ceasefire ending a fierce war between the Yemeni army and northern rebels, the harder tasks lie ahead, with some 250,000 displaced people to return to their homes and civilian and military captives to be released.

Thousands of demonstrators in southern Yemen protested to demand the release of the detainees. The Yemeni security forces have arrested a number of demonstrators who are demanding to separate south from north of Yemen yesterday, Wednesday. South Yemen is witnessing acts of violence by security forces as well as the protesters , which resulted in deaths and injuries on both sides .

National Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development NCHRDD or NOD is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization founded in 1999 by a group of human right activists in Yemen. It works to enhance democracy with protecting and promote the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of citizen from an international human rights perspective. NOD aims to promote training, studies, researches, and other activities in the area of democracy and human rights in various cultural, political and economic fields. It seeks to spread the modern civil culture and to raise the awareness of people to the importance of democracy & Human Rights. It works to strengthen and enhance these principles by people and the government.

Flavia Panseiri - Former UN Resident Coordinator-Yemen

By :Flavia Panseiri- UN Resident Coordinator-Yemen

It is the hallmark of a free and democratic society to have the presence of an active engaged and independent civil society movement, Comprising a variety of organization able to engage constructively in an open dialogue on national issues and priorities, to act effectively at the national or at the local level, and ready to pursue their goals in a pro-active manner within the framework of the country’s legal and institutional parameters.