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Developments since 1990

Politics of Yemen - Wikipedia

Rumblings from a distant outbreak of democracy
The Guardian, 2 Jan 1992

International Crisis Group 
Recent reports on Yemen

Human rights in Yemen

National Democratic Institute 
Details of the Washington-based organisation's Yemen programme

Democracy Development Center 
(National Democratic Institute)

He who rides the lion
Authoritarian rule in a plural society. 
By Omar Daair, School of Oriental and African Studies, London (September 2001)

Yémen: l'Arabie heureuse en mouvement 
Report of a visit by French Senatorial Friendship Group, March 2001 (in French). Also background information and pictures

Avoiding elections
Middle East International, 1 September, 2000

Proposed amendments to constitution
August, 2000

Members of Parliament: a dismal attendance record
Article in the Yemen Times, 8 March, 1999

Emerging Democracies Forum
This conference, held in Sana'a in July 1999, was attended by 16 countries, including Yemen and Morocco from the Arab world:  

Contemporaneous reports by the Yemen Times
Transcripts
- National Democratic Institute
The Sana'a Declaration - full text
British-Yemeni Society - report on the conference


Political parties in Yemen

Law No 66 (1991) Concerning Parties and Political Organisations

Yemeni party law: a comparative perspective
by Ahmed A Saif

Yemeni electoral and party systems
by Ahmed A Saif

Commentary on the law of political parties

Law No 41 (1992) Concerning General Elections

Law No 27 (1996) Concerning General Elections

General People's Congress  
Official website of the ruling party ("under construction")

Yemeni Islah Party 
Official website (in Arabic)

Islah Party manifesto 
1997 parliamentary election

Yemen Socialist Party
Report of Fourth General Congress, 30 August, 2000


Elections in Yemen

Parliamentary elections, 2003  
(postponed from 2001)

Saleh wins again 
Middle East International, 2 May, 2003

Documents on the 2003 election 
National Democratic Institute


Local government elections, 2001

Contested elections  
Middle East International, 12 January, 2001

Opposition united  
Middle East International, 26 January, 2001

Elections marred  
Middle East International, 9 March, 2001


Parliamentary elections, 2001
(postponed to 2003)

National Democratic Institute
Statement of the pre-election delegation, 6 August, 2000

Avoiding elections
Middle East International, 1 September, 2000


Presidential election, 1999

See Yemen Gateway's election special


Parliamentary elections, 1997

Preparations:

Doves and eagles fight for votes (The Guardian, 24 April 1997)
Registration and voting, 1993-96
(table)
Parties contesting the 1997 election
(table)
Withdrawals of candidates
(table)
Pre-election statement by the NDI observer team

Hobson's choice of democracy
(The Guardian, 26 April 1997)

Polling day:

Sporadic unrest mars poll (The Guardian, 28 April 1997)
Election day in Aden
(report by Mark Katz)
Independent Yemeni observers
(table)

Results and assessment:

State of the parties (table)
Share of the total vote (table)
The geographical divide
(table)
Peek behind screen of Yemen's paranoid poll
(The Guardian, 3 May 1997)
Report by the Elections Monitoring Committee

Statement by British medium-term observers

Report by the Joint International Observer Group in Yemen

Preliminary assessment by the NDI observer team

US State Department statement on elections


Parliamentary elections, 1993

Election milestone  
Middle East International, 16 Apr 1993

Pre-election report  
by the International Republican Institute.

Elections and mass politics in Yemen  
by Sheila Carapico (Middle East Report, November-December 1993.

Campaign politics and coalition building: the 1993 parliamentary elections
by Sheila Carapico - Yemen Update 33 (1993: 37-39)

State of the parties (table)

The geographical divide, 1993 (table)

Post-election report  
by the International Republican Institute.

Three-party coalition  
Middle East International, 11 June 1993


Security in Yemen

Security incidents, 2000  
Previous reports: 1999, 1998, 1990-94

Kidnappings since 1996

Executions since 1998

Attack on the USS Cole
October 12, 2000

Osama bin Laden and Yemen

Abu Hamza and the Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan

     

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Books

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Civil Society in Yemen
The political economy of activism in modern Arabia, by Sheila Carapico. Purchase from amazon.com or www.amazon.co.uk

 
 
 
 


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