Yemen-Group+A

**Part I- A Look at the Nation**
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**__Geography[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Yemen_landscape_05.jpg width="327" height="199" align="right"]]__**

 * Climate: Mostly desert, hot, humid along the west coast, temperate in western mountain.**
 * Terrain: Narrow coastal plain, flat topped hills, rugged mountains, disected upland desert plains.**
 * Natural Hazards: Sandstorms, duststorms, limited fresh water.**
 * ([|www.cia.gov])**

__Economic Resources__

 * Imports: Foods, livestock, and machinery**
 * Exports: Crude oil, gas, coffee, seafood**
 * Jobs: Manly argiculture and herding, but also consturction and industry**
 * ([|www.cia.gov])**

**__Demographics__**

 * Median age: 18 years old**
 * Population: Approximatly 23 million[[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRmNzGTaQ_HvdxwJGUJxOY4ECME0w-z43HoMLRLd7XoqkTw1b-9Sw width="284" height="213" align="right"]]**
 * Percentage: 35% females and 73% males**
 * Religion: Islamic ( 52% Sunni, 46% Shi'a, Less than 2% non-Muslium)**
 * Ethnicity: Arab**

**__Political Structure__**

 * Government Type: Republic**
 * Age: Have to be 18 years or older to vote**
 * Elections are held often, the president usually has a 7-year term.**
 * ([|www.cia.gov])**


 * Part II-Timeline**
 * 1934- Imam Yahya signs treaties with Britain and Saudi Arabia establishing the borders of the Yemeni state in the south and the north respectively. **
 * 1962- Army officers overthrow Imam al-Badr and establish the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR). Colonel Abdullah Sallal becomes president. **
 * 1967- The British pull out of Aden and southern Yemen is formed. Southern Yemen is later named the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY). **
 * 1990- In May, the YAR in the north and the PDRY in the south unite to form the Republic of Yemen. **
 * 1994-Only four years after unity, civil war breaks out between the northern and southern parts of Yemen. **

= __**Long Existence**__ =
 * Part III-Legitimacy and the Current Leader & Government**
 * The government has been around for a long time with the president since 1990, the vice-president 1994, and the prime minister 2007. Seeing this the government is legit, for long existence.**

= __**Symbol**__ =
 * Yemen has a flag, as their symbol. The flag has three equal horizontal bands of red, white, and black; the band colors come from the Arab Liberation flag and represent oppression (black), overcome through bloody struggle (red), to be replaced by a bright future (white).**
 * (cia.gov)**

= __**Representation**__ = = __5 Purposes of Government__ =
 * The people have a say because they can vote, but if they were fully heard by their government their wouldn't be protests and fights raging everywhere and deaths and injuries.**

**__Protection of Rights__ (#4)**
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 * ====**Security forces use:**====
 * -Torture**
 * -Inhumane treatment**
 * **Freedom of speech is restricted**
 * **Women's right's are limited**
 * -Fewer right's then men**
 * -Right to divorce, is not equal between men and women**
 * -Having maternal health care is restricted**
 * -Men get lower punishment for violence against women then women for men**
 * The government isn't doing a really good job of protecting people's rights in Yemen.**

__**Keeping Order**__ **(#5)**

 * **Government security forces can't keep the protesters under control.**
 * -On March 18, 2011 their was a protest in which security forces and government supporters opened fire,**
 * and at least 50 people were killed and more than 100 injured.**
 * **On March April 28, 2011 their was an explosion at an abandoned government weapons factory killing at least 110 people.**
 * The government is really bad job of keeping order because their are shootings going on everywhere and hundreds of people are dying.**
 * ([|www.topics.nytimes.com])**

__**Good Economy**__ **(#3)**

 * **Poorest nation in Arabia**
 * **45% of the population are living under the poverty line**
 * **Population is under educated**
 * **Unemployment is 35%**
 * Yemen's economy isn't doing well and the people are suffering.**

**__Services__ (#1)**

 * **Their are not many jobs, because the unemplyoment is 35%**
 * **Their are military forces like: Navy, Yemen Air Force etc.**
 * **Government forces have abandoned their posts including** **areas where there are northern rebels and where Al Qaeda has been.**
 * **Although they have some military services they don't have a lot of sanitary services like garbage men.**
 * **55 airports in total**
 * Yemen has some services provided but other's neglected.**
 * ([|www.topics.nytimes.com])**

**__Solve Conflict__ (#2)**

 * **Most Yemen citizens want the president, Ali Adbullah Saleh, to leave,which he doesn't want to do, and** **he will** **not try to reason with the people and try to solve this conflict, which just leads to more protests, and problems.**
 * **Their is a court system, based on Islamic Law, but because of the lack of education and motivation of government employees, things like filings, regestrations of contracts, and regulation fees are not managed well. The courts aren't very organized and most are in a poor state. The courts are not good and they really don't help in solving conflict.**
 * Yemen has some sort of laws and ways to solve conflict but they are not good, and not well managed.**
 * ([|www.topics.nytimes.com])**

**The government in Yemen is not fully legit because it only almost passes 4 out of 5 of the requirements.**
Part IV-Current Uprising**
 * **Who Revolted?**
 * The people as a whole revolted. The people that revolted were against the government because they were tired of the governmet not governing well, not being legit, and not meeting the 5 purposes.**
 * **Why did they revolt?**
 * People in Yemen revolted because they are unhappy with the government, and especially with the president; Ali Adbullah Saleh, because they weren't providing them with the 5 purposes of government and weren't listening to them.**
 * **How did they organize?**
 * The revolt wasn't planned for a long time, it was spontaneous, people were just tired of their government and horrible economic state. Protests are still going on to this day, and people are getting hurt and killed.**
 * **How did the people overthrow the government?**
 * The people got in very large protest groups to overthrow the government. They had thousands of people to go against the government. Some of these protest days were called, "Day of rage" relating to the fact of the killings that happened during the protest.**
 * **How did the government respond?**
 * The leader (Ali Adbullah Saleh) didn't exactly give in peacefully but he did announce that he would not run for a re-election the next year, and would not pass his power down to his son.**