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The YWU also helped establish the country's first detention center run exclusively by women in 2005 and helped release 450 women from police custody in 2004 and 2005. YWU also helped change a law which did not allow women to be released from prison unless they were "collected by a male guardian."
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called an attempt by the STC to replace independent institutions with STC-affiliated entities. On 23 June, the STC allowed YWU staff to return to their offices, but demanded that they provide half of the building space to the SRC-affiliated South Women's Union, and also demanded that 'Yemen' be
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before independence. The project to merge these groups was supposed to take two months, but instead, it took nearly a year to merge into the Yemeni Women's Union. Some of the difficulties in unifying the groups was due to political differences: the southern branch was
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programs. Branches have also conducted legal workshops for women on commercial and tax laws. Other workshops have covered amendments to marriage laws and custody rights for women.
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