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Yemen - The Sana'a Manuscripts

The CDROM The Sanaa Manuscripts illustrates the evolution of Arabic calligraphy as evident in a set of rare manuscripts that belong to the Yemenite antiquities and manuscripts organization

Gulf States & Yemen

UNESCO and the European Union support youth employment through culture in Yemen

Gulf States & Yemen

Cluster Office for Bahrain Kuwait Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Yemen

February 4, 2022

Jobs for young people to restore heritage in Yemen

Yemens Old City of Sanaa a UNESCO World Heritage Site has been inhabited continuously for 2500 years A centre for the spread of Islam in the 7th and 8th centuries it is famous for its multistoried rammedearth towerhouses and other remarkable vestiges of Yemens ancient civilizations

January 19, 2022

Supporting Cultural Institutions’ Readiness in Emergencies in Yemen

December 12, 2021

Women at the Forefront of Preserving Culture Heritage in Yemen

November 28, 2021

Director-General denounces assassination of journalist Rasha Abdullah Al Harazi in Yemen

November 10, 2021

Seeing, hearing and telling the first signals of peace in Yemen

Aseell Sarih an awardwinning journalist from Sanaa Yemen took a historic photo in December 2018 showing the first public handshake since 2016 between representatives of the opposite parties in Yemens longrunning conflict in the Media Center at Johannesberg Castle Sweden

November 2, 2021

Enforcing Institutional Capacities of Yemeni Cultural Organizations

October 27, 2021

Enhancing ethical peace reporting in Yemen: the Peace Journalism Initiative

October 4, 2021

Countering hate speech in Yemen : Dakkah initiative

Dakkh was among the selected winners for the second My Solution competition launched in April 2021 by UNESCO GCC and Yemen office and RNW Media which invited young Yemenis to send their solutions to achieve peace in their country The 7 winning proposals were supported to realize their projects Dakkh an initiative launched under the umbrella of the Yemen Hub for Media Support was founded in January 2021 with the aim to counter hate speech discourses in the media and society Through its different activities the initiative works on finding alternative discourses that restore the unity in the community As part of the My Solution project Dakkh first launched an online survey aiming to study the spread of hate speech in the society and ways to confront it The survey which included multiple choice and openended questions measures the level of understanding of the participants on hate speech and its impacts and captures qualitatively their opinions on ways to address this issue The survey plans to collect around 500 responses from all Yemeni governorates Subsequently to the data collection the information will be studied and the indepth analysis will be publicly shared in the form of a report Based on the survey findings Dakkh hopes to make recommendations on the best ways to address hate speech in the Yemeni society

September 23, 2021