The overwhelming cloud of impunity surrounding the Yemen conflict endangers civilians, normalizes war crimes and ultimately facilitates warring party abuse.

States should help pave the way towards credible accountability and redress for the people of Yemen by renewing and strengthening international investigations into war crimes, other serious violations of international humanitarian law.

The parties to the conflict should respect international humanitarian law, perpetrators should be held accountable and appropriate redress should be provided to victims.

Warring parties carried out more than 380 attacks impacting schools and educational facilities in Yemen, Mwatana for Human Rights and Ceasefire Center for Civilian Rights said in a new report.

Yemeni authorities must take swift action to protect economic, social, and cultural rights, and to end violations in the face of the country’s dire humanitarian situation.

France must investigate its role and that of its officials in regards to the violations and the war crimes allegedly committed by its allies in Yemen.

Mwatana said that all parties to the conflict in Yemen must urgently release all arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared persons, in light of the risks arising from the spread of Covid-19 pandemic in Yemen.

(Houthi) group must immediately rescind the newly introduced and discriminatory implementing regulations to the Zakat Law. The new regulations impose a “khumus” or “one-fifth” levy in one of the chapters, stating the revenues are to be distributed to those belonging to “Bani Hashem” and their poor.

Hundreds of children gaze at their doors every day whenever someone knocks. You can give them a chance to rejoice; the joy that they have missed very much. We call for the freedom of all arbitrarily detainees and forcibly disappeared to make it a happy Eid.

The organisations call on all the parties to the conflict to uphold the right to freedom of expression and cease their efforts to muzzle journalists and media organisations.