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.
The database’s release demonstrates the commitment of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to upholding human rights standards and the rule of law in pursuit of justice and accountability for oppressed persons, groups and peoples around the world, while reaffirming OHCHR’s independence and impartiality in the face of undue political pressure.
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.
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.
The continued engagement of Sudanese forces in the bloody war in Yemen is a key test for the change process in Sudan. Regional and international human rights organizations have documented gruesome violations to human rights on the hands of the Saudi-Emirati led coalition that encompasses Sudanese forces in addition to other countries.
As organizations working to protect civilians in armed conflict, we urge Angela Merkel to renew the suspension of export licenses for arms transfers to Saudi Arabia for use in the conflict in Yemen.
Mwatana and other NGOs sent a letter to the UN General-Secretary.
In the interest of effective and meaningful efforts towards accountability, it is vital that member states adopt a resolution at the upcoming 39th session of the Council providing for the continuation of the Group of Eminent Experts in its vital work to investigate all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law, to establish the facts and circumstances and identify those responsible.
credible reports indicate that Saudi Arabia has killed thousands of civilians, including women and children, in disproportionate and indiscriminate airstrikes.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND MWATANA ORGANIZAION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT Tue - (23 May 2017) Huthi-Saleh authorities in Yemen should immediately and unconditionally release Hamid Haydara as he is a prisoner of conscience who is being held and tried on account of his conscientiously held beliefs and peaceful activities as a member of the [...]
