Human Rights Watch is writing to you with regard to the armed conflict currently taking place in Sa`da governorate and other areas of northern Yemen.

Human Rights Watch is writing to acknowledge receipt of your fax communication of June 22, 2009 in which you indicated that the forces under your command will respect the laws of war in the conduct of any hostilities with government or other forces.

We are writing to urge you to stop the execution of A’isha Ghalib al-Hamza, scheduled for Saturday, April 18, 2009, following her conviction on charges of murdering her husband, Yahya Ali Ahmad al-Sharif.

Letter to Yemen's President Saleh urging him to protect Yemen's Jewish community following the recent killing of Moshe Yahya, and to emphasize in a public and unambiguous way that the religious identity of Yemeni Jews in no way ties them to the policies of the state of Israel.

Human Rights Watch writes to urge Dr. Ihsanoglu to use his position as Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to support measures at the upcoming Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Dakar, Senegal on March 13-14 that would improve and strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism. In particular, the OIC should consider two amendments to the Convention to narrow its overbroad definition of terrorism and make absolutely clear that there is no sanction in Islam for deliberately attacking civilians, whatever the circumstances or justifications.

We are writing on December 18, 2007, International Migrants’ Day, to call upon you to implement key reforms to respect and uphold migrants’ rights. On January 21-22, 2008, the United Arab Emirates will host the latest round of the “Colombo Process,” a series of regional consultative processes focused on Asian contract migrant workers. We believe this meeting could provide an important stepping stone to establishing regional minimum standards regarding recruitment, employment, and protection of migrant workers.