Visual content produced by Mwatana to highlight one or more patterns of violations. Videosinclude documentary films,awareness films, interviews with the Mwatana team, and any visual content that highlights our work.
A documentary film about the landmines planted by various parties to the conflict in Yemen. Since the outbreak of the armed conflict in Yemen at the end of 2014, Mwatana for Human Rights organization has documented hundreds of landmine incidents affecting civilians, including children, in various Yemeni governorates. Thousands of victims have been killed or injured in areas where the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group planted different types of mines. Mwatana has also documented the use of landmines as a weapon of starvation in the conflict.
From Sanaa, Aden, Hadramout, Taiz, and Shabwa, along with a live broadcast linking participants in the conference halls with online attendees, Muwatana for Human Rights organized a unique and groundbreaking conference titled "The Legacy of Gunpowder", which addressed the state of human rights in Yemen after ten years of conflict.
A documentary comparing the cycles of conflict in Rwanda and the cycles of conflict in Yemen, their heavy legacy and the inevitability of peace.
Radhya al-Mutawakel, Chairperson, Mwatana for Human Rights Oral Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Civilian Harm from the United States’ Use of Lethal Force in Yemen on February 9, 2022.
The use of starvation is not incidental to the conflict in Yemen - the conflict, and the conduct of the warring parties, drive it. #Yemen continues to head towards the biggest famine in modern history.
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”. Additionally, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer briefed the Council in the same open debate.
Due to the conflicting parties in #Yemen , civilians' lives, hopes and limbs are being amputated. Mwatana reiterates its call that All persons with disabilities must enjoy their rights without any discrimination
A new documentary
Parties to the conflict in Yemen continue to arbitrarily detain, forcibly disappear, torture, and subject people to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment which sometimes ends with death in detention centers. Conditions of detention across Yemen are appalling. Such violations and crimes inflict indelible scars on individuals, families, and Yemeni’s memory.
