• Human Rights in Yemen
    The fragile transition government that succeeded President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012 following mass protests faces multiple human rights challenges, including arbitrary arrest and detention, attacks on free speech and assembly, and judicial execution of child offenders. The parliament in 2012 granted Saleh and his aides immunity from prosecution, and the current president, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, has not created mechanisms to provide accountability for past abuses. Sporadic clashes continue between state security forces and armed factions demanding greater autonomy in southern Yemen, between Salafist groups and armed tribesmen and Huthis in the north, and with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). US targeted killings against AQAP have resulted in an unknown number of civilian deaths. Yemen faces a growing humanitarian crisis, with nearly half the population lacking sufficient food.
  • Yemen: Crackdown on Protest Leaves 13 Dead
    Yemeni authorities used lethal force against an apparently peaceful demonstration in Sanaa on June 9, 2013, that caused at least nine deaths and several dozen injuries, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should ensure that its promised investigation into the incident is carried out promptly, impartially, and thoroughly, and results in appropriate prosecutions of those responsible for serious abuses
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  • Yemen: UPR Submission June 2013
    Jun 19, 2013
    Popular discontent, already rising due to widespread unemployment and government corruption, soared in late 2010 after then President Ali Abdullah Saleh proposed to amend electoral laws and the constitution so that he could again seek re-election when his seventh presidential term expired in 2013. In January 2011, inspired by mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt, thousands of Yemenis took to the streets calling for an end to Saleh’s 33-year rule.
  • Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 13 June
    Jun 13, 2013
  • Yemen: Crackdown on Protest Leaves 13 Dead
    Jun 12, 2013
    Yemeni authorities used lethal force against an apparently peaceful demonstration in Sanaa on June 9, 2013, that caused at least nine deaths and several dozen injuries, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should ensure that its promised investigation into the incident is carried out promptly, impartially, and thoroughly, and results in appropriate prosecutions of those responsible for serious abuses
  • Yemen: Order to Free Hunger Strikers Ignored
    Jun 5, 2013
    Prison officials in Yemen should carry out a June 5, 2013 order by President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi to the attorney general to release immediately 19 of 22 detainees on a hunger strike. The detainees have been held for 18 months without charge.
  • Yemen: Investigate, Respond to Landmine Use Reports
    May 27, 2013

    The government of Yemen should investigate and respond to allegations that the Republican Guards laid banned antipersonnel landmines at a location north of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, in 2011.

  • Compliance with the Mine Ban Treaty
    May 27, 2013

    Steve Goose, arms division director, delivered a statement on compliance at the Mine Ban Treaty Intersessional Standing Committee Meetings in Geneva.

  • US/Yemen: "I just want the U.S. to send my father home"
    May 24, 2013
    The family of a Gitmo detainee twice cleared for transfer remains pessimistic, despite Obama's speech vowing reform.
  • Yemen: Letter to Defense Minister Calls on Government to Investigate, Respond to Landmine Use Reports
    May 21, 2013

    On May 21, 2013, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to the Minister of Defense of Yemen to request information regarding allegations indicating that Republican Guard forces emplaced antipersonnel landmines in 2011 around military camps they maintain in the Bani Jarmooz area near Sana’a and have since resisted the removal of these prohibited munitions although they have caused civilian casualties, including children. 

  • The Trials of Child Marriage
    May 13, 2013
    In Yemen, South Sudan, and other parts of the world, instead of going to school or spending time with their friends and families, girls, some as young as 8, are married -- often to much older men. If the girls don’t want to marry, their families generally force them. After they are wed, life often changes for the worse.
  • A New Chance to Act on Guantanamo
    May 9, 2013
    The last time Amina al-Rabeii video conferenced from Yemen with her brother Salman, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, she barely recognized the skeletal man on the screen.
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