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  2. Gap year - Wikipedia

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    A gap year is described as “a semester or year of experiential learning, typically taken after high school, and prior to career or post-secondary education, in order to deepen one’s practical, professional, and personal awareness”. [6] During this time, students engage in various educational, work-related, and developmental activities [7 ...

  3. Timeline of Yemeni history - Wikipedia

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    Yemen abstains from UN Security Council resolutions authorizing military action against Iraq (as a result of its invasion of Kuwait). As a result, 800,000 Yemeni workers are expelled from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. 1994: May 5: Southern Yemen attempts to secede, sparking a civil war, which is brought to an end in July when northern forces capture ...

  4. Women in Yemen - Wikipedia

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    In the World Economic Forum's 2014 Gender Gap Report, out of the 142 countries included in the report, Yemen ranked last, and has continued to do so since 2007. While women have the legal rights to ownership and use of property, many women in Yemen give administrative rights to male members of their family because they are not aware of their ...

  5. Yemeni civil war (2014–present) - Wikipedia

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    In June 2020, the UNHCR said that following more than five years of war in Yemen, more than 3.6 million people have been forced to flee their homes, while 24 million are in dire need of aid. The group also informed that a significant gap in funding has been recorded with only US$63 million received thus far, while at least US$211.9 million is ...

  6. South Yemen - Wikipedia

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    ISO 3166-3 = YDYE. South Yemen, [c] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, [d] officially abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, [e] [f] was a state that existed from 1967 to 1990 as the only communist state in the Middle East and the Arab world. [7] It was made up of the southern and eastern governorates of the present-day Republic of ...

  7. Ages of consent by country - Wikipedia

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    Retrieved on November 4, 2014. "Florida [ ... ]A child under 16 years of age cannot consent to sexual activity, regardless of the age of the defendant. [189] A child who is at least 16 years of age and less than 18 years of age cannot consent to sexual activity if the defendant is 24 years of age or older."

  8. North Yemen civil war - Wikipedia

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    Politics portal. v. t. e. The North Yemen civil war ( Arabic: ثورة 26 سبتمبر, romanized : Thawra 26 Sabtambar, lit. '26 September Revolution') was a civil war fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between partisans of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and supporters of the Yemen Arab Republic. The war began with a coup d'état carried out ...

  9. Timeline of the Yemeni humanitarian crisis - Wikipedia

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    On 25 April, the Yemen Public Telecommunications Corporation warned that unless the fuel crisis was resolved, telecommunication services (mobile phones, internet, and land lines) would shut down within a week. The disruption in communication was affecting information flow on humanitarian needs and operations.