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A Yemeni teacher leads a class at a university in Yemen's third city of Taiz, on December 15, 2022. - Yemeni society, although deeply conservative, has traditionally allowed space for individual freedoms. But this is changing under the Huthi movement, which was founded with the aim of pushing for a theocracy. Recently the Huthis clamped down on women travelling without a "mahram" -- or male relative -- even within the country, while women in the rebels' northwestern stronghold of Saada are denied contraception if they don't have a prescription and their husband present. (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)