The Safer has been stranded without maintenance off Yemen’s coast since 2015 and holds an estimated 1.14 million barrels of light crude oil – four times the amount of oil spilled from the Exxon Valdez and enough to make the Safer the fifth largest oil spill in history.
Since 2016, the Saudi and U.A.E.-led Coalition, as well as the internationally-recognized government of Yemen, have promised to provide monetary assistance to civilian victims of a tiny fraction of their airstrikes..
This submission focuses on the failure of the UAE to implement the Convention in the context..
For years, civilians in Yemen have sought to communicate the devastating impact that warring party abuse has had on them, their families, and their communities.
“Returned to Zero” is the first detailed report of the right of civilians to receive reparations and of the international legal obligations of state members of the Saudi/UAE-led Coalition, the Internationally Recognized Government of Yemen, and the Ansar Allah (Houthi) armed group to provide those reparations.
“Sometimes I would stop suddenly, not to rest because I was not tired but because it seemed to me that there was a wall standing in front of me and that I would bang on it if I kept going"..
The organizations are calling for the initiation of a criminal investigation into the arms companies Dassault Aviation, Thales, and MBDA France for their possible complicity in alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Yemen
Mwatana filed a witness statement by Radhya Al Mutawakel...
Any upcoming negotiations and agreements should include the creation of a credible international mechanism to ensure accountability for abuses by all parties to the conflict and should avoid endorsing any amnesties for serious international crimes.
Al-Katheeb area in the city of Hodeidah remained closed for more than three years after the attack by the Saudi/UAE-led coalition forces with the joint forces in 2018. After the recent withdrawal of the joint forces in November 2021,..
