What will Obama do with Guantanamo's single largest group of detainees? One hundred Yemenis wait to go home--but those who've already returned to Yemen didn't find a warm welcome.

The United States and Yemen should quickly move to develop a humane repatriation plan for the nearly 100 Yemeni prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay.

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.

Tens of thousands of civilians in northern Yemen have been displaced or cut off from aid in fighting between government and rebel forces.

In preventing aid agencies from reaching civilians caught between the warring sides, Yemen has failed to respect its international legal obligations.

(Washington, DC) – Yemeni security forces have systematically and unlawfully detained several hundred people, including journalists, in the context of the four-year civil war with rebel forces in northern Yemen, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

As UN member states begin three days of debate on the rights of the child, more than 300 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from 82 countries called on the UN General Assembly to take urgent action to end executions for crimes committed by children.

Under a new law signed today by US President George W. Bush, leaders of military forces and armed groups who have recruited child soldiers may be arrested and prosecuted in the United States.