http://www.english.hadhramaut.info YMWF to organize workshop on women's demands in media [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 26/1/2009] Yemeni Media Women Forum (YMWF) is to organize on Tuesday a workshop on   pinpointing women's developmental demands in media . The workshop aims to form a clear vision on the information and development programs which promote women roles and highlight the obstacles that interrupt their developmental run. It also aims at pinpointing the features of the information and developmental projects adopted by YMWF during the upcoming years and finding joint thoughts for women future projects. In this regard, the YMWF is due to organize a training course for 30 female journalists from Sana'a, Aden , Taiz, Hodeidan, Ibb, Hadramout and Mareb governorates. The course will last for nine days and comes within the project of "Journalists for Human Rights" which is carried out in coordination with the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and aims to give journalists skills of reference and legal thinking in the issues related to the human rights, Deputy Head of YMWF Wedad al-Badawi made clear. Al-Badawi said that the course, which will be organized early next month, deals with three main issues; human rights through introducing related international laws and local reports, women rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and recognizing the appropriation level of international laws which were approved by our country with the local laws . Al-Badawi also added that the course will introduce the journalistic technical interaction with the human rights violations and provide journalists with all related laws and documents to be a reference for journalists when dealing with such issues . The journalists will work through their subjects on drawing attention to many social issues and women rights from a legal prospective using all appropriate journalistic forms to deal with such issues, al-Badawi concluded .