This video, produced for Yemeni TV as part of Saferworld's 'Strengthening Women's Voices' project, looks at the social barriers to women's engagement in the security sector in Yemen and how they can be addressed.

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“It reached the point to where my brothers and I didn't talk to each other for four years because I joined the security sector.”

First Lieutenant Samira Ahmed Abbas, Director of Family Protection Department at the Ministry of Interior