New investigation documents how the Saudi-Emirati-led Coalition, Yemeni government, and Ansar Allah armed group (Houthis) have decimated Yemen’s health system, inflicted widespread death, and likely committed war crimes
This research report, produced by Mwatana for Human Rights (Mwatana) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), examines attacks on medical facilities and personnel by parties to the Yemen conflict that took place between March 2015 and December 2018.
In Dhubab, people lose their relatives, belongings, vehicles, cattle and everything related to their life. Likewise, humanitarian and official bodies lose their humanity as they look at the machinery of death permanently claiming lives while keeping silent towards such a bloody scene.
Given the civilian harm intrinsic to conflict, the single most important thing the warring parties and their supporters could do to increase civilian protection would be to take concrete steps towards peace.
There is nothing new in this regard except the waiting agonies of medical patients, some of whom have changed their flights to the graves after they lost hope to fly for medical care outside the country.
Regional States and the international community must ensure that the rights of the Palestinian people are upheld in any peace negotiation, and reject the Trump administration’s deal as a transparent effort to negate Palestinian rights.
We just want to live, just like you, and it is a profound sense of disappointment that we find ourselves compelled to defer our dreams year after year, hopefully that they may be fulfilled! They must be fulfilled! All World, Happy New Year!
Mwatana for Human Rights released a study on detention places in Yemen, covering the period 2015-2018 and seven Yemeni Governorates: the Capital Sana’a, Al Hudaydah, Aden, Hadhramaut, Taiz, Ibb, Ma'rib
War torn Yemen suffers from what the UN calls “the worst humanitarian crisis of our times.” Thousands of civilians have been killed and wounded during fighting, and millions more suffer from hunger and disease. We believe that all parties to the armed conflict are responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law.
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Mwatana for Human Rights, Amnesty International, the Campaign Against Arms Trade, Centre Delàs and Rete Disarmo call upon the OTP to investigate the legal responsibility of corporate and political actors from Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK.
