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Map of the Federation and the Protectorate of South Arabia. Military event held in the Fadhli Sultanate to celebrate the new Federation. The Federation of South Arabia (FSA; Arabic: اتحاد الجنوب العربي Ittiḥād al-Janūb al-‘Arabī) was a federal state under British protection in what would become South Yemen.
The Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia (Arabic: اتحاد إمارات الجنوب العربي Ittiḥād ʾImārāt al-Janūb al-ʿArabiyy) was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen. The Federation of six states was inaugurated in the British Colony of Aden on 11 February ...
South Arabia (Arabic: جنوب الجزيرة العربية), or Greater Yemen, is a historical region that consists of the southern region of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia, mainly centered in what is now the Republic of Yemen, yet it has also historically included Najran, Jizan, Al-Bahah, and 'Asir, which are presently in Saudi Arabia, and Dhofar of present-day Oman.
Disestablishments in the Federation of South Arabia by year (1 C) E. Establishments in the Federation of South Arabia by year (3 C) T.
Federation of South African Women (FSAW) – a women's group active in protesting discriminatory pass laws aimed at restricting movement of coloured women. African National Congress Women's League ( ANCWL ) [ 30 ] – initially established in 1948 [ 1 ] and re-established in the 1990s, aimed at organising women politically and within the ...
Women in oil-rich Gulf countries have made some of the biggest educational leaps in recent decades. Compared to women in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, young Muslim women in Mali have shown significantly fewer years of schooling. [83] In Arab countries, the first modern schools were opened in Egypt (1829), Lebanon (1835) and Iraq (1898). [84]
A decision by the United Nations to appoint Saudi Arabia as the chair of the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women has been criticized by women’s rights advocates.
In response the British were able to convince the feuding Emirs to merge into the Federation of South Arabia. [1] In the federation the Aden Trade Union Congress had a large influence in the new assembly and, to prevent it seizing control of the Federation, the Colony of Aden joined the Federation in 1962 so that Aden's pro-British assembly ...