02 May 2024
PASS Foundation and UNDP are discuss gender-responsive pl...
PASS Foundation - Peace for Sustainable Societies and the United Nations Development Program - UNDP Conducted a meeting on the Gender-Responsive plans in the targeted Police Centers.
In the presence of the international expert, Ms. Etemad Matar, the national expert, Ms. Abeer Noman, the advisor to the Director of Aden Security, Mr. Abdul Salam Al-Dhali, and the Director of the Protection Department.
Family and Women Police, Colonel Wazira Abdel Latif, Director of Oversight and Inspection, Brigadier General Abdel Salam Al-Qubati, Director of Information Management, Colonel Wahid Abdel Wali, and Director of
Personnel Affairs, Colonel Ali Thabet, within the national plan for the women, peace and security agenda - WPS.
Under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour
24 April 2024
Ms/ Bahia Hassan Al-Sakkaf, participated in the meeting t...
Ms. Bahia Hassan Al-Sakkaf, Chairwoman of PASS Foundation - Peace for Sustainable Societies, participated in a meeting to discuss the role of civil society organizations in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals,
organized by the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation in Aden.
The meeting addressed the first voluntary national report on sustainable development goals 2024, as well as a presentation on the role of civil society organizations in achieving sustainable development goals.
At the opening, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation for the Sector of Economic Studies and Prospects, Dr. Mohamed Al-Hawri, noted the contribution of civil society organizations in aspects of sustainable development and raising community awareness of issues related to society. Advocate the importance of civil society organizations in networking, complementarity and synergy with government and private sector efforts in achieving sustainable development goals and contributing to the use of their resources to fight poverty, hunger and access to community services to target groups.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Security and Police Services Sector, Major General/ Mohammed Musaeid Emeer, reviewed the economic and political challenges facing the country and the damage caused by the war on infrastructure and state resources and its impact on the development process, Confirmed the importance of redoubling efforts in the service of the nation and confronting challenges to the process of progress and development.
03 April 2024
NOON feminist coalition`s Outcome Harvest meeting for "Es...
The Results Harvesting Meeting for the NOON feminist coalition`s Project "Combating Cyber Extortion Crimes"
The PASS Foundation - Peace for Sustainable Societies and the NOON Feminist Coalition held a result harvesting meeting for the project "Establishing a Unit to Combat Cyber Extortion Crimes" at the Public Prosecution Office, as part of the second phase of the project "Change in Resource Allocation: Supporting Women's Rights Organizations (WORs) and Women's Networks/Collectives in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCAS)" in Aden Governorate.
The meeting was attended by the First Attorney General, Mr. Fawzi Ali Saif, Ms. Bahia Al-Sakkaf the chairwomen of the PASS Foundation, Ms. Ather Ali, the Chief Executive Officer - CEO
of the Foundation, members of the NOON Feminist Coalition, and a number of prosecutors and judges. The project comes because of the increasing incidence of cyber extortion and fraud crimes and the high rate of victims at the national level.
The session was moderated by the facilitator, Walid Saleh Al-Hamri - a trainer and consultant in the administrative and marketing fields. The participants were divided into four working groups, where each group reviewed the positives and negatives of the project, in addition to presenting the main project outputs and discussing success stories and lessons learned. The participants recommended a number of outputs, proposals, and recommendations for future projects
31 March 2024
Cyber Extortion A Moral Crime before a Criminal One
Afra`a Hariri
The moral decline in society is increasing day by day, amid the suspicious silence of the responsible authorities, and here the family is one of the most important of these authorities. With the development of the Internet and social media, which are accessible to everyone, morals are collapsing more and more, and what exacerbates the expansion of its scope is the absence of a law specific to it. We are still demanding that the deterrent law for other crimes prevail without the electronic ones, despite its antiquity. Cyber-crime in the form of cyber extortion surrounds us, which has emerged to destroy what remains of the system of morals that we have always boasted of as a conservative society.
It is the crime that makes its victims shackled with fear, confusion, and isolation, and may push them to commit other crimes, compared to those crimes that are not related to the World Wide Web, especially in light of the openness that society is witnessing towards electronics, even in the presence of a weak and intermittent Internet network compared to networks at the regional and global level. The development of modern technology and the dissemination of personal data are the most important factors for falling into the trap of extortion, at a time when the lack of supervision exacerbates the problem, and matters become more complex when girls become the most vulnerable easy victims to such complex crimes. This reality, which is hidden from for the sake of the hour and honor, requires more talk and chatter about it, as well as the publication of protection methods and strengthening society on the one hand, and on the other hand, tightening penalties, by issuing legislation or a law urgently, such as a (presidential decree with the force of law) without waiting for the House of Representatives, which has be behind the time , and reality confirms that ignorance of the use of modern technology has The proverb "turned from a blessing into a curse and there are many risks due to rushing behind unreliable links such as dating sites and letters or video games and winning prizes, and applying for jobs of unknown source and obtaining donations from international hacking links.
Out of fear of scandal in our conservative societies, most of those who are subjected to extortion and threats do not seek help (because they may be exposed and victimized twice) - once by the extortionist and once by those who play the role of helper or savior, and then again by those who take charge of the investigation. They prefer to try to overcome this problem alone, which in turn leads to cases of suicide, self-harm, or severe psychological disorders in many cases.
Add to this the great calamity that the Yemeni legislator stopped at the year 1994 in the Penal Code and Crime Law, and neither the judicial nor the security authorities took the initiative to object or even express that society needs protection compared to the development of crime outside the virtual world, as it did not explicitly provide for a clear punishment for the crime of electronic extortion and left the outdated and dilapidated Penal Code to deal with the defendant.
If we want to define the crime of electronic extortion in the way that society understands it, it is the unauthorized access through one of the social media networks or the private means of communication of a person to threaten or extort him, in order to compel him to perform a certain act or refrain from it, even if performing this act or refraining from it is legitimate. Whereas the person in Sharia is respected in his self, money, honor, mind and religion, and these five are what is called the purposes of Islamic Sharia, and extortion in fact and reality constitutes a usurpation of human freedom in one of those five purposes, and constitutes a danger that threatens the security of the human being in his reputation, honor or himself and body, and all of that is prohibited by Sharia. Therefore, extortion is considered a moral crime, a deviant behavior, and a meanness of the soul, before it is a crime prohibited by Sharia.
08 March 2024
The Expanded Communal Meeting within the Activities of th...
The Noon Feminist Collective, in partnership with the PASS-Peace for Sustainable Communities Foundation and with the support of the Safer world organization, organized the "Expanded Community Gathering" within the activities of the "Advocacy Campaign" (Local Partners for the Rule of Law) under the second phase of the Resource Allocation Change project: Supporting Women's Rights Organizations (WORs) and Women's Networks/Collectives in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCAS) in Aden Governorate.
In the opening of the community gathering, Ms. Bahia Hassan Al-Sakkaf - President of the PASS-Peace for Sustainable Communities Foundation - welcomed all the attendees, each by name and capacity, from the districts of Aden Governorate. Explaining the importance of the community gathering, which coincides with the inauguration of the Electronic Extortion Department in the Public Prosecution in Aden. Adding to the importance of the advocacy campaign to raise awareness of electronic extortion crimes and the work mechanism of the Electronic Extortion Department, which was established through the efforts of the Noon Feminist Collective in partnership with the PASS-Peace for Sustainable Communities Foundation and with the support of the Safer world organization and the Office of the Attorney General in the Public Prosecution in Aden.
Al-Sakkaf added that the advocacy campaign would start with community, awareness-raising, radio and television meetings, flashes and newspaper articles in order to guide the community. praising Safer world organization and all those involved in the success of holding the community gathering, which will continue for a continuous month during the implementation of the advocacy campaign activities in Aden Governorate.
Judge Dr. Rawa’s Abdullah Mujahid - a member of the Noon Feminist Collective - presented a paper on the axes of electronic extortion, its risks, harms, and cybercrime. She pointed out that in any illegal behavior using electronic devices, the criminal ends up gaining material or moral benefits, while the victim suffers corresponding losses. The goal of these crimes is often piracy in order to steal or destroy information.
Judge "Rawa'a" highlighted topics in electronic extortion, which is the process of threatening and intimidating the victim by publishing photos, film materials, or leaking confidential information about the victim in exchange for financial payments, or exploiting the victim to carry out unlawful acts for the benefit of the extortionists, such as disclosing confidential information about the workplace or other illegal acts.
"Rawa'a" also discussed the risks and harms of electronic extortion, as well as the law on crimes and penalties, violation of privacy, threat of disclosure of private secrets, and extortion, in addition to the law on payment systems and electronic banking operations.
Ms. Afra'a Al-Hariri - the coordinator of the Noon Feminist Collective - discussed the axes of rights in combating electronic crimes and liability in electronic crimes. She also elaborated on the criminal responsibility, which is "a legal relationship that arises between the individual and the state, by which the individual is obligated to the public authority to answer for his act that violates the legal rule and to submit to the reaction resulting from the violation."
"Al-Hariri" noted that criminal responsibility differs from criminal capacity. She pointed out that criminal capacity is "the set of psychological factors, which in this sense is the qualification or the necessary to be available in the person so that the incident can be attributed to him as its perpetrator with awareness and will", or it is the suitability of the perpetrator of the crime to be held criminally responsible for it, and the person's potentials, in order to then judge the extent of the person's legal capacity for responsibility, as it is in this way a condition for the establishment of criminal responsibility, and the selection of it entails the selection of criminal responsibility.
The community meeting included the presentation of opinions and interventions by imams, academics, activists, and civil society organizations, resulting in proposals and recommendations that are part of the advocacy campaign activities.
