News Center — Educational and human rights circles have considered the compulsory demand for female teachers in Houthi-controlled areas to disclose their personal information a serious violation of their privacy and an attempt to impose a sectarian agenda that threatens the future of education in Yemen.

The Iran-backed Houthis have targeted female teachers in schools within their areas of influence by distributing an ideologized questionnaire with a sectarian nature, reflecting the group’s ideology modeled after the Iranian regime.

Activists on social media circulated a copy of the questionnaire, which was distributed to most public and private schools. It includes questions entirely unrelated to educational work or the learning process, instead focusing on political and ideological orientations. The questions begin by measuring teachers’ willingness to attend so-called “cultural courses” organized by the group.

Educational and legal circles described the questionnaire as a blatant violation of female teachers’ privacy, as it forces them to disclose personal data such as their name, residential address, school, and contact details, while restricting answers to “yes” or “no.”

The questionnaire also includes a dangerous sectarian question: “Would you like to open your home to hold Mawlids and religious gatherings?” Human rights organizations considered this an attempt to impose a sectarian agenda that could later be used as a pretext for violations against female teachers.

Yemeni reactions on social media warned of the consequences of this measure, which was issued by an official educational authority under Houthi control—the Education Office in the Capital Secretariat—after it was turned into a tool serving the group’s sectarian project, posing a direct threat to the future of the targeted female teachers.

It is worth noting that the Houthis continue to target the educational process and education workers in areas under their control, as part of their efforts to tighten control over the sector and exploit it to serve their sectarian project.