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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Yemen

Faten Plassmann

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
April 2015

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 10 December 2024

Subject(s):
Political violence — Women, rights — Insurgents and insurrection — Terrorism — Armed conflict, non-international — Amnesty

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1The Republic of Yemen, commonly known as The Yemen or simply Yemen, is one of the oldest civilizations in the Middle East. The Republic of Yemen is located in Western Asia, in the southern half of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen has a land area of 555,000 square kilometres and a population of about 23.8 million. The Yemen borders Saudi Arabia in the north, Oman in the east, the Gulf of Aden in the south, and the Red Sea in the west. 2Its capital and largest city is Sana’a in the northern part of the country. Yemen’s territory includes over 200 islands. The Yemenite...
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