This is an unofficial translation of Yemen’s draft constitution that was finalized on 15 January 2015 by the Constitutional Drafting Committee. This unofficial translation was carried out by the United Nations and reviewed by International IDEA (www.idea.int). The draft includes 446 articles along 10 chapters, prepared by the Constitution Drafting Committee. The committee which was established via a republican decree on March 8, 2014, consisted of 17 members representing legal and political figures. The decree included that its work would lead to the drafting of a new constitution for Yemen as a federal state consisting of six regions, and would include the recommendations of the “Comprehensive National Dialogue Document”. A final constitutional text has not been agreed upon until today (January 2022).
Other resources you may be interested in:
Navigating post-conflict governance in Yemen: Decentralization, federalism, and the path to stability.
This journal article examines enhanced decentralization, federalism, and secession as alternative post-conflict governance models for Yemen and assesses their implications for stability and state-building. The study investigates what governance arrangements best align with Yemen’s political, social, and economic context; how institutional legitimacy and local autonomy can be balanced in a fragile, divided state; and what […]
From Local Governance to Constitution Building: Yemen after 10 Years of Conflict
This report analyzes Yemen’s legal and practical local governance arrangements after a decade of conflict, focusing on how the 2000 Local Authority Law, wartime fragmentation, and governorate-level realities shape future constitutional options. It includes a discussion of the main features of the Local Authority Law of 2000, as well as the draft 2015 constitution and […]
Law 4/2000 Concerning the Local Authority
The full text of the Local Authorities Law 4/2000 in English and Arabic.
