Sana'a (Debriefer) - The Houthi group has issued no decree denying Yemeni women the right to work, the Houthi deputy foreign minister tweeted on Saturday.
"There is no decision preventing women from taking jobs," Hussein al-Ezzi added, calling for authenticity in reporting such information.
Individual acts are committed by some of the group's affiliates, the Houthi official said, but these acts "weakly reflect Wahhabi culture, which the rivals sought to implant in the recent decades."
On Friday, the Amnesty International dismissed the Houthi decision preventing women from work in restaurants as shameful and discriminatory.
During a campaign in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, the Houthi group has prevented women from work at restaurants and forced the owners to sign pledges to replace female staff with men, social media activists in Yemen reported.
Yemen has been racked by an armed conflict that broke out after the Iranian-backed Houthis ousted the internationally-recognized government late in 2014.
Yemen 6-year-old war has triggered what the UN calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with most of the population in need for a type of humanitarian aid and immediate protection.
