Your government has committed to take leadership and responsibility in initiating Council action when human rights criteria are met. Egypt meets these criteria and we strongly urge you to act now.
The arrival of male and female teachers to our small school, from outside the village, opened a window of awareness, and with this little radiation began to see how the world is bigger and wider than we imagine, and that there are vast areas behind the mountains that form the borders of the village.
the Italian government has taken the historic decision of permanently revoking the existing licenses to export missiles and aerial bombs to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The suspension of granting new licenses for the same materials to these countries remains in force.
“If Italy is serious about human rights, it should respect them. This case deserves a thorough investigation, and Yemeni victims accountability and redress. Governments like Italy that have sold weapons to Saudi Arabia.” says Radhya al-Mutawakel, chairperson of Mwatana for Human Rights.
“The parties to the conflict in Yemen have done serious harm to the current and future generations in Yemen by attacking, interfering with and fundamentally failing to respect the education ” said Radhya Al-Mutawakel, Chairperson of Mwatana for Human Rights.
Al-Khawaja continues to protest his arbitrary detention. Since his arrest, Al-Khawaja has undertaken six hunger strikes (of liquids only), including one lasting 110 days in 2012, to protest conditions in Jau Prison and his unjust imprisonment. Shortly after his arrest, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Al-Khawaja’s arrest is arbitrary, as it resulted from his exercise of the fundamental rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association, and called for his release.
Khaled remembered his school mates and teachers, as they stood saluting the Republican flag every school morning before they set out for classes. He tried to express all this with verses of poetry. A question knocked on his head: "If his displaced school mates ever return to their homes, where would they go to continue their education?!"
"There were people here, there was a folk here," says the driver. All the peripheral neighborhoods were almost empty, except for the sounds of shells and gunshots on an almost daily basis.
The year ended with a horrific attack on Aden International Airport on December 30, 2020, coinciding with the arrival of the new Yemeni government to the city. Dozens of civilians were killed or injured in the attack, including ICRC staff members and journalists. Mwatana is investigating the incident.
Yemeni men and women need accountability and redress now, before tomorrow.
