Almotamar.net - The National Committee for Woman (NCW) is preparing to participate with national and international organisations with a large media presence in celebrating the Woman World Day on Saturday 8 March. The celebration is scheduled to be held at the cultural Centre in Sana'a and to be attended by high ranking government representatives and organisations from all governorates of Yemen.
A statement issued by the NCW, a copy of which received by almotamar.net, mentioned that the event is to cast light on the draft legal amendments, under deliberation at the parliament, and the significance of approving them to ensure full rights to the woman in the light of the Islamic Sharia(law) in the private and public life after the parliament has actually approved a group of legal texts, especially those pertaining to the laws of work, securities, salaries, social securities that have been recently discussed and approved by committee of workforce and social affairs at the parliament.
The question of implementing the quota system in the upcoming parliamentary elections will be given great interest. The quota system was at the top of the president of the republic's attention in his initiative for the political reform by representing the woman with 15% at the parliament.
The National Committee of the Woman said the last year has seen positive steps towards enhancement of the woman role at the positions of decision-making as the movement of appointments at government institutions included women here and there in a wise direction for opening larger horizons for the women in assuming leading posts in the process of shouldering the responsibility for development in Yemen.
NCW prepares for Woman World Day celebration
In 2007 the opposition Yemen Congregation for Reform (Islah) Islamic oriented Party maintained its having political and media sway over the Joint meeting Parties (JMP) block, also consisting of Yemen Socialist Party and the Nasserite Unionist Organisation. 
Yemen is practically a cool green paradise, with crisp mountain air, enormous acacia trees, pristine coral reefs and verdant fields bursting with khat, a psychoactive plant that induces mild euphoria. 
Sana'a: Yemen will not be able to combat terror without regional and international cooperation, said a Yemeni official, who warned of the ramifications of letting Yemen fight terrorism alone.
Many journalists covered the funeral of the murdered Minister, Pierre Gemayel, the latest victim in a string of political assassinations in Lebanon.
Doctors use the word “crisis” to describe the point at which a patient either starts to recover or dies. President George W. Bush’s Iraqi patient now seems to have reached that point. Most commentators appear to think that Bush’s latest prescription – a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad – will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq. Yet as “Battle of Baghdad” begins, factors beyond Bush’s control and not of his making (at least not intentionally) may just save Iraq from its doom.