We specifically write to ask you to build on recent positive steps by using your authority and influence to help ensure the release of all those arbitrarily detained, an end to enforced disappearances, torture and other ill-treatment, the improvement of conditions of detention.
I inspected the destruction of the Dhamar Community College buildings that were transformed by the Ansar Allah armed group (Houthis) into a place of detention. I saw horrifying, heart-wrenching scenes, bodies shredded and scattered throughout the college yard.
"little is said about Yemen. Everybody should be shocked by stories such as Alanoud’s. Yet, it seems we are all looking the other way and this tragic war has been allowed to fester for over four years.” Actor Catherine Deneuve
After more than a year and a half of investigations, the Italian Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rome, instead of carrying out a complete assessment of the role of Italy and an Italian weapons manufacturer’s potential role in crimes in Yemen, has decided to request a dismissal of the case.
We believe taking up the GEE’s recommendations would be in line with the Council’s responsibility to address situations of human rights violations, including gross and systematic violations, to advance accountability, and to prevent further human rights violations and abuses.
Mwatana for Human Rights participates in the events of the 42nd session of Human Rights Council during September 2019 held in Geneva, and discusses the importance of strengthening the mandate of GEE.
Mwatana calls for a transparent and independent international investigation into this and other awful attacks, with an aim towards holding those responsible to account, and to providing appropriate redress to victims.
Joint statement for Mwatana and Global Legal Action Network.
Mwatana releases its annual report 2018 which documents the violations committed by all parties to the conflict. Mwatana conducted 2065 interviews with victims, relatives, eyewitnesses, and medical and humanitarian workers.
The warring parties’ practices undermined civilian life in Yemen for the fifth year in a row, while steps to deter or call perpetrators to account remained woefully lacking, Mwatana for Human Rights said today while launching its 2018 annual report.
