In anticipation of International Workers’ Day, NDC members at Sana’a’s Movenpick Hotel expressed feelings of solidarity with Yemen’s laborers, underemployed and unemployed.

The protesters demanded that all worker demands be addressed, with a special emphasis placed on ending economic and social discrimination.

In the lobby of the Movenpick Hotel, the protesters held up placards with such slogans as ‘No to discrimination against workers’, ‘Create jobs for the jobless’, and ‘Improve workers’ conditions for a prosperous country’.

Furthermore, they demanded that textile factories and cooperatives be restored, and that workers who were wrongfully terminated following the 1994 war be reinstated.

In a separate protest, NDC members spoke out against insecurity in certain Yemeni governorates, including Hadhramout, where the Chief Intelligence Officer was killed earlier this week.

Other protesters called for an end to the marginalization of capable Hadhrami citizens and for actions to be taken to promote freedom of expression in Yemen.