Almotamar.net - Yemen's parliament on Monday reviewed a report submitted by the parliament's Public Health and Population Committee on a draft law on safe motherhood and contains a text stipulating to give the working woman a childbirth leave with full salary for 60 days after birth giving. It also allows the woman permission of a two-hour rest at work daily to feed her child extending for two years.
The draft law banned the woman from desisting from breastfeeding her child without a medical reason along with instructing concerned authorities to issue a decision providing suitable rooms for children at government and private sector work places where suckling mothers work.
The law also prohibited any deformation of the female genitals, punishing who practices that for utmost six months imprisonment or a fine defined in the executive bill of the law.
According to the proposed motherhood law those who write marriage contracts must be certain of the man and the woman obtaining a medical certificate from specialised medical authorities showing their being subject to necessary checking. The draft law also gives the woman the right to postpone the first pregnancy in accord with the husband and to leave a period of two and three years between one pregnancy and the next beside granting her and her child the right to receive free of charge health care during pregnancy and birth giving and afterward from any public health institution, the ministry of health is obliged to provide vaccines, vitamins and salts.
Meanwhile, a number of MPs from the Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah) party parliamentary bloc rejected the draft law, demanding to return it to the health and carrying out the religious law committees for redrafting it and cancel some phrases bruising modesty, in an indication to phrases mentioning about deformation of the female genitals (circumcision).
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.
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.
Islah MPs reject a law granting childbirth leave to women
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.