Introduction According to estimates issued for 2023, the number of Internet users in Yemen had reached over 9 million users, effectively more than a quarter of the country’s population. While such tremendous development of access to the internet has expanded opportunities for connection and communication, it has also come to pose significant risks in traditional or conservative societies like the one in Yemen. Indeed, this can be seen in the phenomenal increase in the rate of cybercrimes in Yemen, where a growing number of women have become the targets of blackmail and defamation through social media. The lack of clear legislation to curb this epidemic in a country already in the midst of a civil war has made it difficult to create deterrents or administer punishments commensurate with the seriousness of these crimes against women and their consequences on society as a whole. Yemeni legislation on cybercrime1″الابتزاز الإلكتروني في اليمن… تقاعس وخلل تشريعي”، موقع “بلقيس”، ٢٧ شباط/فبراير ٢٠٢٣، متاح على https://belqees.net/reports/الابتزاز-الالكتروني-في-اليمن-تقاعس-وخلل-تشريعي is largely limited to the protection of banking operations, specifically Law No. 40 on payment systems and electronic financial and banking operations, issued in 2006 by the Yemeni Legislature. This new legislation was based on a number of articles in the 1994 Crimes and Penalties Law, which refers to assaults on personal freedom or threats to broadcast private secrets, as well as other articles from sections criminalizing wrongful injury, violation of privacy, and blackmail.2“”مطالب بإيجاد تشريعات لمواجهة خطر الجريمة الإلكترونية في اليمن”، المركز الوطني للمعلومات، متاح على https://yemen-nic.info/news/detail.php?ID=16071 In most cases of cybercrime, therefore, these latter articles, in addition to Law No. 13 of the Criminal Procedures Legislation, are applied as a kind of partial remedy. The lack of a comprehensive legal framework is coupled with a lack of adequate capacity to deal with the growing scourge of cybercrime. … Continue reading Cybercrime against Women in Yemen: Legal frameworks and social change