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A New Year Added to the Age of Bloody Conflict
2021 was a witness to the failure of the international community for supporting accountability and redress efforts for victims in Yemen. It was obvious in the scandal surrounding the Human Rights Council's decision to terminate the Group of Eminent Experts mandate on Yemen.
Global Legal Community Stands in Solidarity with Egyptian Lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer
We call on the Egyptian authorities to drop all charges against el-Baqer, to promptly release him unconditionally, and to lift the restrictive measures imposed on him for his work as an attorney.
Arms sales:
80 Rafale fighter jets: the striking outcome of President Macron's December 2021 tour of the Gulf countries, illustrating the vitality of French military exports in the region.
On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Over more than seven years of war in Yemen, even though the warring parties represent multiple, different authorities, they share the same unlawful behaviors, including torturing detainees and subjecting them to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Turning a Deadly Blind Eye
the Government has a moral obligation not to look away. Boris Johnson, in particular, has a moral obligation not to. He, and his Government, have repeatedly made a choice to continue arming Saudi Arabia, with the most terrible consequences for the people of Yemen.
Pandemic of Hunger Symposium
In the context of extreme food insecurity, such as in the case of Yemen, the destruction of sources of food and water has the potential to cause significant civilian harm.
After 20 years of harmful military action in Yemen, the U.S. must change course
“My friends … weren’t remotely related to any military group. They were sitting here just like you right now,” a friend of two victims said after a drone strike killed both his friends and burned their beehives.
Arms sales: France and the United Arab Emirates, partners in the crimes committed in Yemen ?
On 3 September 2019, as the conflict in Yemen, which is in the midst of the worst humanitarian crisis according to the UN and aggravated violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, enters its fifth year,..
A Tragedy Without Justice
While Yemenis bid farewell to the year 2020, they did not bid farewell to their hopes of an imminent end to the war, even though the practices adopted by the warring parties did not leave much room for optimism.
Starvation Makers
When asked about the impacts that warring party attacks and other conduct have had on their lives, people across Yemen described dire effects on food sources, water sources and critical civilian infrastructure.
Research paper: Right to peaceful assembly in the context of Yemen’s armed conflict
the largest Yemeni cities, such as Sana'a, Taiz and Mukalla, have seen large groups of society come together in peaceful gatherings and marches that raised human rights demands and slogans rejecting the war.
Mwatana’s chairperson brief before the UN Security Council on the use of explosive weapons in populated areas
Radhya Al-Mutawakel, the chairperson of Mwatana for Human Rights briefed the UN Security Council, chaired by Norway this month, in an open debate entitled “Wars in Cities: protection of civilians in urban settings”.
Verbal Briefing of Radhya Almutawakel, U.S House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Thursday, March 11, 2021
I’ll say again: Yemenis are not starving; they are being starved. Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe can only be understood as linked to the ways in which the warring parties have carried out attacks in the absence of accountability.
Quaker organisations announce Nobel Prize nominations
International solidarity has helped heal some of the scars that have clung to our souls, helped us continue our work, and fed our hope that we will see a just Yemen without war. – Radhya Almutawakel, Mwatana for Human Rights
Radhya Almutawakel (YEMEN) IS THE WINNER OF THE 2020 RAW in WAR ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA AWARD
Six years into the Saudi-led coalition’s war against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Mwatana, the organization that Radhya co-founded, has documented hundreds of abuses by all sides.
Frequent Disregard for Civilian Lives in Al-Jawf
Civilians in Al-Jawf province, northeast of Yemen, have been attacked by Saudi– UAE led coalition airstrikes, that have intensified since March 2020 after Ansar Allah group, the Houthis, took control of vast territories in the province bordering Saudi territory.
New Year’s Wishes
Mwatana for Human Rights renews its commitment to stand with all victims of this conflict against all perpetrators and will endeavor with all its energy and effort to advance justice and create a space for accountability and redress.
I Fled to my Family;
The city of Marib was overwhelmed with displaced residents fleeing from a death, whose voracity for more victims was open in the south, constantly fed indiscriminately by parties to the conflict with everything that fell on their way..
The Last of the Guards
I reached the stairway to the lane, I felt as if I were on my way to death. From Al-Furn alley in Al-Rawda of the Qahirah District in Taiz city, you begin to walk on foot, which can barely carry you to the danger that awaits you.