Yemeni authorities must take swift action to protect economic, social, and cultural rights, and to end violations in the face of the country’s dire humanitarian situation.
Mwatana for Human Rights reminds of the torment innocent women and children endure as this Eid approaches, with the feeling of missing their loved ones reignited, while the jailers go on enjoying their lives
France must investigate its role and that of its officials in regards to the violations and the war crimes allegedly committed by its allies in Yemen.
Mwatana said that all parties to the conflict in Yemen must urgently release all arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared persons, in light of the risks arising from the spread of Covid-19 pandemic in Yemen.
This report focuses on unofficial detention sites. Unoffiical detention sites provoke particular concern given access to independent observers and families is almost always limited to non-existent, torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment are particularly prevalent, and many of these sites are used to disappear people.
(Houthi) group must immediately rescind the newly introduced and discriminatory implementing regulations to the Zakat Law. The new regulations impose a “khumus” or “one-fifth” levy in one of the chapters, stating the revenues are to be distributed to those belonging to “Bani Hashem” and their poor.
. We are writing to urge you to reconsider your decisions to de-list the Saudi-led coalition for killing and maiming children in Yemen, and the Tatmadaw for recruiting and using children in Myanmar.
Hundreds of children gaze at their doors every day whenever someone knocks. You can give them a chance to rejoice; the joy that they have missed very much. We call for the freedom of all arbitrarily detainees and forcibly disappeared to make it a happy Eid.
We are writing to strongly urge you to re-list the coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for attacks on schools and hospitals – in addition to continuing to list other perpetrators in the conflict, including the Houthis / Ansar Allah – in the annexes of your forthcoming annual report on children and armed conflict.
Recent UN calls for a ceasefire in Yemen to curb the spread of Covid-19 may be absent from front pages in the UK, but their significance for the prospects of bringing an end to Yemen’s catastrophic war will not be lost on Yemenis.
