Activist “Misk Al-Maqrami” has a project that she puts in the priorities for the next stage. she is arranging to subject a group of “marginalized” girls, the category to which she belongs to, to high qualification and training programs in the field of human and human rights activity, and it has decided to name this batch “the brown mediators of peace.”
Despite to the discrimination and underestimation of the marginalized in Yemen in general;
However, all these pressures did not stop the prospective black women mediators;
They are, at least, supported by the presence of the inspiring role model, “Misk”, who left the margins to the front page of the first “Peace Builders” travel page in the city of Taiz (256 km south of Sana’a) “Al-
Maqrami” completed her secondary and university education in the Al-Turbah area in the countryside of Taiz, and when she moved to the city, she was shocked by the reality of the “marginalized” dark-skinned citizens there.
As a first step to change this reality, in 2014, an association called “Enough” was launched.
Through her, she began with self-effort and limited support, to implement activiti
es that raise the awareness of marginalized women and empower them economically, and later expanded her interest to include other women as well.
As soon as the war bells rang out in 2015, Misk Al-Maqramy, Vice President of the National Union for the Development of the Marginalized in Yemen devoted her efforts to relief and humanitarian work.
I started working in charitable work targeting marginalized and non-marginalized citizens. I worked in the food, water and health fields. The Food for Humanity Foundation supports me
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In parallel with the relief work, the consequences and conditions of the war required “Misk” to resume her human rights activities to confront the high rate of violations against the marginalized and others,
especially with the absence of relevant government institutions.
After a number of experiments, her name became known as one of the most capable people in the city to resolve civil disputes/conflicts, including disputes that could not be resolved in official facilities, and others that were qualified to have a bloody end. as she expressed.
Citizens drifting in this way behind the voices coming from among them when it comes to resolving their differences, an idea that has been brewing for some time in the mind of “Al-Maqrami”, who is also the vice-president of the “Women for Peace” association, asks, “Why can’t I make more than Musk?”
“Through the Awareness and Development Center, which it runs and with the support of an international organization,
it implemented the “Civil Participation” project to train twenty young men and women to solve societal disputes and find solutions.
Societal disputes and finding solutions.
She explains, “We formed committees of male and female trainees to monitor and resolve societal disputes after sharing them with me.
They play the role of the first mediator, and they achieve great success in their tasks, except for complex disputes, which they assign to me to solve.”
Along the way, “Al-Maqramy” was keen to integrate the socially marginalized.
In the Al-Dabaa neighborhood in which she lives, she is credited with limiting the differentiation based on color, as the residents there get water from one tank, and they resort to resolving their differences to the mayor of the white and brown neighborhoods alike.
With a quiver full of goals and ambitions, Al-Maqrami is moving forward towards defending the cause of her social group in Taiz and Yemen in general
. In addition, she is now focusing her attention on the issue of the absence of women and youth from the peace negotiations.
She asserts, “It is necessary for those who were harmed by the war to participate in peace and not those who caused it.
The marginalized, women and youth groups who have suffered greatly,
so they must be given the opportunity to express the harm they have received by including them in any peace negotiations or consultations..
This report is published simultaneously and within the framework of the “peace builders” activity, in cooperation between the “Human of Taiz platform” and my 30 platforms.
