Yemen
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Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Red Sea to the west, and the Indian Ocean to the south, sharing maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia across the Horn of Africa. Yemen is the second largest country on the Arabian Peninsula, covering roughly 528,000 square kilometers (203,861 square miles), with a coastline of approximately 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles). Sanaa is its constitutional capital and largest city. Yemen's estimated population is 34.7 million, mostly Arab Muslims. It is a member of the Arab League, the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Yemen has been at the crossroads of many civilizations for over 7,000 years due to its geographic location. In 1200 BCE, the Sabaeans formed a thriving commercial kingdom that included parts of modern Ethiopia and Eritrea. In 275 CE, it was succeeded by the Himyarite Kingdom, which spanned much of Yemen's present-day territory and was heavily influenced by Judaism. Christianity arrived in the fourth century, followed by the rapid spread of Islam in the seventh century. Yemenite troops played a crucial role in early Islamic conquests. Various dynasties emerged between the 9th and 16th centuries. During the 19th century, the country was divided between the Ottoman and British empires. After World War I, the Kingdom of Yemen was established, and in 1962, it became the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) following a coup. In 1967, the British Aden Protectorate became the independent People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen), the first and only officially socialist state in the Arab world. In 1990, the two Yemeni states united to form the modern Republic of Yemen. Ali Abdullah Saleh was the first president until his resignation in 2012 after the Arab Spring.
Since 2011, Yemen has been enduring a political crisis, marked by street protests against poverty, unemployment, corruption, and President Saleh's plan to amend Yemen's constitution and eliminate the presidential term limit. By 2015, the country became engulfed by an ongoing civil war with multiple entities vying for governance, including the Presidential Leadership Council of the internationally recognized government and the Houthi movement's Supreme Political Council. This conflict, which has escalated to involve various foreign powers, has led to a severe humanitarian crisis.
Yemen is one of the least developed countries in the world, facing significant obstacles to sustainable development, and is one of the poorest countries in the Middle East and North Africa. In 2019, the United Nations reported that Yemen had the highest number of people needing humanitarian aid, amounting to about 24 million individuals, or nearly 75% of its population. As of 2020, Yemen ranked highest on the Fragile States Index and second-worst on the Global Hunger Index, surpassed only by the Central African Republic. Additionally, it has the lowest Human Development Index out of all non-African countries.
Spanking and Spanking Art in Yemen
In the 20th century, school corporal punishment fell out of fashion and was gradually banned in many countries, a trend that continues until the present day.
As of May 2008, Yemen prohibits corporal punishment in schools.
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YEMEN: JCP from Corpun.com
Yemen is next door to Saudi Arabia. Like its larger neighbor, it is governed by Islamic (Shari'a) law, though slightly less strict in certain respects. Flogging was said to be a commonplace judicial penalty until recently. This was sometimes, or possibly always, carried out in public, often it seems with little or no media publicity. There have been some suggestions that JCP has been reduced or possibly even stopped altogether, but GPTEVAC says it was still on the statute book in 2019. A video clip of what appears to be an official flogging came to hand in 2011.
Amnesty reported in May 1997 that two local journalists had been sentenced to 80 lashes each for libel. The report adds that flogging, previously limited to the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), became applicable to unified Yemen following enacting a new Penal Code in 1994.
A news item reported on an 80-stroke public flogging for selling and drinking alcohol.
Prostitution in Yemen
- Prostitution in Yemen ↗ on Wikipedia
External links
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Yemen ]
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