Democratic Yemen

South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (Arabic: جمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية الشعبية‎ Jumhūriyat al-Yaman ad-Dīmuqrāṭīyah ash-Sha'bīyah), also referred to as Democratic Yemen or Yemen (Aden), was a socialist country that existed from 1967 to 1990 as a state in the Middle East in the southern and eastern provinces of the present-day Republic of Yemen, including the island of Socotra. South Yemen's origins can be traced to 1874 with the creation of the British colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate, which consisted of two-thirds of the present-day Yemen. However, Aden became a province within British India in 1937. …

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TSAS: Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society · 24 May 2016 English

This paper argues that women have been neglected in analysis of the security sector in Yemen in a number of respects including their historic and varied roles in formal security …

Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by Democratic Yemen in 1984. 20 TSAS: Women in Security - Yemen


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