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The girls' enrollment rate of Yemen is the lowest in Middle Eastern countries, and there is huge disparity between boys and girls, and between urban and rural areas. The low girls' participation in education is attributed to several socio-cultural factors.
Other studies have found that girls are usually more likely to drop out of school, than boys. For example, a study done in 2014 by Yemeni Ministry of Education, found that girls are 17% more likely to drop out of school at the primary school level, while 23% more likely than boys to drop out of school by the lower secondary level. [43]
Second, the committee hopes to increase girls’ enrollment in schools from 76 percent in 2008 to 95 percent by 2015. Despite the traditional rights to education granted by Islam, Yemen has a low literacy rate for women. [6] The illiteracy ratio for women in Yemen was at 60% in 2012. [6]
The organization manages over 10% of all literacy classes in Yemen and helps raise awareness about the importance of education for women. [ 9 ] The YWU also helped establish the country's first detention center run exclusively by women in 2005 and helped release 450 women from police custody in 2004 and 2005. [ 10 ]
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Nour Haidar was a twentieth-century pioneer of girl's education in Yemen.. Helped by her sister, Lola Haidar, Nour Haidar established a mi'lama (place of Islamic learning) for girls at her home: the school taught Qur'an and basic Arab literacy.
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The significant shifts in girls enrollment rates in compulsory schools were experienced by other countries in the MENA region. From 1960 to 1988, girls enrollment rates in Syria, Libya and Iraq have climbed correspondingly from 44 per cent to 94 per cent (Syria), from 26 to 90 per cent (Libya) and from 39 to 88 per cent (Iraq). [35]