This brutal way of treating a group of Ethiopian and Yemeni immigrants inside Saudi territory, who were killed and tortured, is one of a series of violations against civilians in the border areas between Yemen and Saudi Arabia..
Mwatana for Human Rights won the Aachen Peace Prize 2022 along with the lawyer Holger Rothbauer, who is well-known for prosecuting cases against German arms deals in various parts of the world..
Before its untimely dissolution in 2021, the UN Group of Eminent Experts (GEE), established by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2017, recommended that UN member states refer the situation in Yemen to the International Criminal Court (ICC), support the establishment of a criminal-accountability-focused investigative mechanism, and stressed the need to realize victims’ right to reparation.
the persistent nature of enforced disappearance in Yemen, exacerbated by the impunity applied to all parties to the conflict, is underscored by the 31 undersigned local, regional, and international organizations, associations, and networks.
The spread of domestic violence indicates an imbalance in the social structure of the family as the first, solid protection for family members. It also constitutes a defect in societal values and norms, and a failing in the structure of the state, and its various laws and institutions, including the police and judicial institutions.
The main roads in and out of the city of Taizz have been closed since 2015 by Houthi forces, severely restricting freedom of movement for civilians and impeding the flow of essential goods, medicine, and humanitarian access to the city’s residents..
Amid Israel’s escalating attacks targeting their work, a group of more than 150 Palestinian, regional, and international organizations express our full solidarity with the designated seven leading Palestinian civil society organizations
We, the undersigned organisations, call on the Emirati authorities to quickly develop and implement a national plan to combat torture and to fully implement all the recommendations contained in the Committee’s Concluding Observations.
Two years on, the domestic investigation has stagnated with no progress sight. The Lebanese authorities have repeatedly obstructed the course of the domestic investigation into the explosion by shielding politicians and officials implicated in the explosion from questioning, prosecution, and arrest..
Faqih said the administration’s proposed plan to “replace” the independent UN body that had been investigating possible war crimes was deeply flawed..
