Mwatana in the 42nd session of Human Rights Council
Chairperson of Mwatana, and the Director of the Media, Communication and Advocacy Unit, with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.
September 18, 2019
Geneva – Mwatana for Human Rights participates in the events of the 42nd session of Human Rights Council during September 2019 held in Geneva.
On September 10, 2019, Osamah Alfakih, the director of media, communications, and advocacy unit at Mwatana delivered an oral intervention in the interactive dialogue session in Yemen on behalf of Mwatana, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Amnesty International, Gulf Center for Human Rights, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), PAX, International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), and the Global Center for Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P).
On September 12, 2019, an event titled “Yemen: the need to strengthen the international accountability” was held. The organizers and co-sponsors of this event was the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Mwatana for Human Rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, CIVICUS, FIDH, GCR2P, and Gulf Center for Human Rights. In this event, the panelists were Kamal Jendoubi, the chairperson of the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (GEE), Radhya Almutawakel, the chairperson of Mwatana, Dimitris Christopoulos, the president of FIDH, and Rawya Rageh, senior crisis advisor at Amnesty International. The side event was moderator by Bahey Eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies.
On September 13, 2019, Mwatana for Human Rights and Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies met the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. The meeting discussed the importance of strengthening the mandate of GEE to include “collect and preserve evidence” to ensure accountability for all grave human rights violations committed by all parties to the conflict in Yemen.
