Gender Quotas Database

Following the constitutional amendments of February 2009, elections to the House of Representatives, which were due on 27 April 2009, have been postponed to 27 April 2011. As a consequence, the House of Representatives approved exceptionally the extension of its current term by two years, until the new elections, without modifying the term of the House as indicated in the Constitution. The term was extended by two more years to 25 February 2014; then by another year to 23 February 2015. In January 2014, the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) further extended the term until the adoption of the new Constitution, which itself is expected to take place in the course of 2015. (IPU Parline)

"In the aftermath of the country's 2011 uprising, and over the course of the nation's 10-month National Dialogue Conference (NDC), Basha and other pro-quota NDC delegates were able to secure the endorsement of an article for the nation's new constitution - planned to be ratified later this year - recommending that at least 30 percent of those serving in government should be women. This quota, proponents have argued, could rectify Yemen's poor track record of female representation in politics and potentially chip away at negative stigmas of women holding positions of power" (Al Jazeera, 2014). In 2018, the constitution of Yemen still does not contain any regulation of gender quotas.