1. Ghaidaa Motahar Alabsi has a master degree in Political Science from Warsaw University, Poland 2013.
Her Master thesis was on ‘’the Political participation of women between state and Islam in Yemen’’.
Ghaidaa is a gender specialist as she has experience working on gender and project management for 7
years with CSOs and international NGOs.
She startedhercareerin2009 workinginaprojectcalled“Legal protectionforwomenandchildrenfrom
physical and sexual violence” with sister’s Arab forum, her role was monitoring and documenting the
violence cases against women and children and link them with the psychological support services.
In the same year Ghaidaa fundraised a project on Empowering Yemeni women activists on new media,
and how they can use social media for advocacy and social change. Rising Voices
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/about/ funded the project, and 200 women activists benefitedfrom
the project and became able to design their advocacy campaign through using social media.
For more information on Ghaidaa and the project she fundraised and run, check out this link
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/category/rising-voices-projects/women-activists-yemen/.
She was interviewedtwice to give insightson gender situation in Yemen,and how EWAMT project was
needed for Yemeni women activists http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2009/12/11/interview-
with-ghaidaa-al-absi/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Cp4MS2e8A
In 2011, GhaidaaAlabsi found acampaigninYemenagainststreetssexualharassment,andthe campaign
was called “ Safe Streets”. The campaign received wide media attention locally and regionally, and the
followings are the main campaign’s activites :
1. Art Exhibition for young artists presenting through their paintings the sexual harassment
that Yemeni women suffer from in the streets, link to the paintings: http://ssg.kefaia.org
2. Production of a short film presents the issue from the point of “as you condemns you
condemned”, the film talk about a young man harass a girl in the street then when he go
home sleeps and have a nightmare about him being harassed by other young men and
then he wake up scared and realize the feeling of women when they are harassed, link to
the film:
http://goo.gl/JRZyl
3. Electronic map to report sexual harassment cases, this map considers the first map of its
kind and the target is to observe actual sexual harassment cases, link to the map:
http://www.thesafestreets.org/
4. Publishing a book about sexual harassment in Yemeni streets, titled Happening on the
Streets. Some of the stories are real and some inspired by real stories.

2. 5. One of the main partners in the sexual harassment week 18 – 24 March 2012 and there
was over 70 campaign from 21 countries participated in this event, link to the event:
http://www.meetusonthestreet.org/cosponsors/
6. Establishing a Safe Streets blog to write about sexual harassmentand to be a free platform
to anybody want to write about sexual harassment or publish a story about some people
experienced sexual harassment in streets, link to the blog: http://
ssb.kefaia.org/