Yemeni Women's Union

The Yemeni Women's Union (YWU; Arabic: اتحاد نساء اليمن, romanized: Ittiḥād Nisāʼ al-Yaman) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1990.

[2] Each branch offers women microcredit projects, literacy, health care and vocational training programs.

"[6] The YWU runs shelters with undisclosed locations to protect women who have fled from violent or abusive family situations.

[7] The YWU also runs a hotline which allows women to report domestic abuse so that they can be "transferred to a safe house and assigned an attorney.

[10] YWU also helped change a law which did not allow women to be released from prison unless they were "collected by a male guardian.