Gender equality discourse in Yemini constitutions
The paper employs the methods of content analysis to discuss and compare provisions in all the Yemeni constitutions except the January 2015 draft, including the constitutions that were enacted in the south and north since the middle of the last century; from the colony of Aden’s laws between 1936 and 1958 to the constitutional amendment by the Republic of Yemen in 2001 (The Unity Constitution). The author reviews and discusses the constitutional provisions that set forth equality and non-discrimination based on gender or those providing for discrimination against women during the division of Yemen or the unification thereof in 1990.
The paper is divided into three chapters. The first chapter discusses equality and discrimination discourses in constitutional developments in southern Yemen, beginning with the British occupation and ending with the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen. In Chapter 2 the author discusses equality and discrimination discourses in the north. Chapter 3 discusses these discourses in Yemen’s Unity Constitution of 1990 and its two amendments. This is followed by a conclusion and list of recommendations.
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