Women are still the most vulnerable to various violations due to wars, conflicts or various crises, including the economic crisis, and women who have lost their husbands suffer in our societies multiple violations of deprivation, destitution and a deficient social outlook.
In Yemen, as in Syria or Iraq, Libya, Palestine and other conflict areas, the number of widowed women has increased and the suffering of widowed women has increased.
On the International Day of Widows, which falls on June 23
The United Nations has made this day an occasion to recall the suffering of widowed women to find international solidarity against the neglect, cruelty, and suffering that surrounds widowed women. There are approximately 258 million widows around the world.
One-tenth of them live in extreme poverty, and their actual number is likely to be much more than that and may have even increased as the Covid-19 virus continues to spread and its public health impacts. Although widows have specific needs, the absence of their cases from policymakers’ offices often affects their livelihoods.
