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Table 5

Magazines and publications during 1998-2002

Name of magazine	Particulars	Total monthly print runs
Al-Hudhud	Self-funded publication/Abdul Rahman Mutahhar	5 000
Waddah	Ministry of Culture	10 000
Al-Tufulah	Self-financed publication/Najibah Haddad	10 000
Usamah	The Reform Association	20 000
Al-Jawharah	Published by Al-Mar’ah magazine/ Sayyidah Al-Haylamah	5 000
Al-Muthaqqaf al-Saghir	Published by Al-Jumhuriyah newspaper/ Sheba Press	5 000
Family and children’s supplements	Al-Thawrah, October/Al-Yamaniyah	20 000 weekly
Publications	Particulars	Number
Zannat al-Id	Ali Al-Asadi	5 000
Lu’bati	Najibah Haddad	5 000
Sariq al-Asal	Najibah Haddad	5 000
Tahish al-Juban		5 000
Majmu’at Tarjamat	Abul Qasab Al-Shalal	5 000
Nasihat Himar	Abdul Rahman Muhammad	5 000
Azif al-Nay	I’tidal Dayriyah	5 000
Al-Tifl wal-Bi’ah	Children’s free libraries	5 000
Haqqi min Itifaqiyat	The Children’s Library	5 000
Huquq al-Tifl
Books of children’s paintings, Huququna and workshops on child rights		5 000
Al-Ard	Dar al-Aytam	5 000
Bilqis Malikat Saba’		5 000
Risalat Waddah	Najibah Haddad	5 000
Maymun	Ali Al-Asadi	5 000
Hikayat Waraqah	Najibah Haddad	5 000
Al-Khabar lil-Jami’	Ali Al-Asadi	5 000
Others in the remaining governorates		-

Source: Ministry of Culture.

91. An average of 30 drama productions are staged each year at school theatres throughout all governorates of the Republic. In many cases, the productions are staged at adult theatres. The first children’s theatre attached to the Ministry of Culture is shortly due to be opened in the capital, San’a. A number of children’s productions are also staged at theatres in cultural centres throughout all governorates of the Republic and, in some places, at theatres belonging to civilsociety institutions, as well as at the television theatre for Channels 1 and 2.

D. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

92. Article 42 of the Constitution guarantees freedom of thought for all citizens and children are citizens with the same rights. In fact, their rights are even greater and their obligations fewer by virtue of their need for care and services and the fact that, being under legal age, they are not bound by obligations. Children are able to express their ideas through a variety of literary and artistic media; painting exhibitions, song performances and theatre pieces are staged in schools throughout every governorate on the occasion of various national and international events which take place during the year.

93. Such events are covered by the media, in which connection it can be said that the product of children’s ideas is taken on board at two levels: in the school and family environment and in the wider environment of the society at large. In the school and family environment, children express their ideas through media with a limited reach, namely school radio stations, wall magazines and school competitions.

94. The second level offers much wider scope in that it enables children’s ideas and views to become known through media which highlight children’s activities and during festivals and special occasions, thereby conveying what children want to say to the society at large. Examples include the television programme entitled the Friends’ Club, which is presented by children, has a direct telephone link to its child audience and discusses subjects of interest to children, such as articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. As for radio, there are two programmes: one entitled Children’s Corner and another entitled Birds Across the Ether, both of which have child presenters and cover issues of interest to children. These programmes mentioned as an example do not represent all programmes of interest to children, but are instances of programmes which give children the opportunity to exercise the right to express themselves and their ideas.