Yemen: How The War Lengthened Our Journeys

Here, we are trying through a series of blogs, to highlight this pattern of violations to expose only little of what the people have been going through for almost seven distressful years, via documenting the journey of Mwatana’s team members from their governorates all around Yemen to Sanaa.

Monday, June 21, 2021
Yemen: How The War Lengthened Our Journeys
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21 June 2021

During the seven years of the Yemeni war, violating the freedom of movement and travel has been the most practiced by all parties to the conflict against the civilians on a large scale. As a result, to that violation, civilians have been experiencing many forms of suffering such as obstruction of humanitarian aid, access prevention to basic needs and goods, stopping family reunions, being prone to detention and other violations, that sometimes even threaten the right to life.

Recently, there has been a negotiation between the conflict parties’ to resolve the current crisis. And as the file of the right to movement and travel is one of the most critical files people are looking forward its being resolved. Here, we are trying through a series of blogs, to highlight this pattern of violations to expose only little of what the people have been going through for almost seven distressful years, via documenting the journey of Mwatana’s team members from their governorates all around Yemen to Sanaa.

The idea is contingent upon some of Mwatana’s researchers recording their personal experiences when traveling to Sana’a in September 2020 for a human rights training course.

These blogs may not reflect all about the practices of the parties to the conflict in the barricades and checkpoints, yet they highlights the hardships of roads, and long distances that people have to travel to make their livelihoods. Those hardships, which also include financial extortion, prevention of mobility, and the threat of detention practices, some could endanger the right to life itself.

Published Blogs:

The 10-km distance has turned into 62-km
A Shortage of Money and Plenty of Sand
As If It Were Not My Country
Currency as a Barrier to Travel
Anxiety About Traveling from Mocha to Sana’a
The Journey from Hajjah to Sana’a
A -24Hour Journey
Scenes of death and destruction everywhere- Traveling from Al-Jawf

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