The Freedom House Scale is 1-5, not 1-3
Saba the official news agency of Yemen:
On the other hand, an international report published by the Freedom House in United States talked about women rights in Middle East for the year 2005 praising the Yemeni women participation in elections and political area.
The report said, that the Yemeni performance was the best in the political life that made the Yemeni women non- governmental organizations able to participate and work in all stages of the local, parliamentary and presidential election processes.
It gifted Yemen 2.5 and 2.9 points from 3 points in terms of practicing the political rights, expression freedom, women rights respect and participation of the civil society organizations in the political arena.
The report also pointed out to the Yemeni elections law respecting women rights to be voters or candidates in all elections.
In the Freedom House report referrenced, the scale is 1-5 with one being the lowest score, not 1-3 like SABA says. Its actually a rather sharp assessment of women rights and participation in Yemen, not praising as SABA indicates. Some of the recommendations for improvement are good.
