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Yemen Enforcing the International Prohibition on the Juvenile Death Penalty Submission for the Secretary-General's report on a death penalty moratorium Human Rights Watch's submission documents laws and practices resulting in the death penalty against juvenile offenders in the five countries known to have executed juvenile offenders since January 2005: Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. July 7, 2008 Legal Submissions Printer friendly version Saudi Arabia: Investigate Police for Burning Yemenis Interior Ministry Protects Officers Implicated in Inhumane Act The Saudi government should investigate Khamis Mushayit police officers who allegedly set fire to the hiding place of Yemeni migrants, 18 of whom suffered serious burn injuries, Human Rights Watch said today. Victim accounts of the incident contradict Ministry of Interior and Civil Defense denials that the fire was accidentally set by the victims and not ignited by the police. May 14, 2008 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Letter to the Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Urging the Organisation to Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism 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, we urge the OIC to consider two amendments to the Convention in order to narrow its overbroad definition of terrorism and to make absolutely clear that there is no sanction in Islam for deliberately attacking civilians, whatever the circumstances or justifications. March 11, 2008 Letter Also available in
Printer friendly version UAE: Meetings Should Address Migrant Workers’ Rights When labor ministers from 22 Asian and Middle Eastern countries meet in Abu Dhabi this week to discuss Asian contract migrant workers, they should address widespread violations of migrant workers’ rights, Human Rights Watch said today. January 18, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Letter to Governments in Asia and the Middle East on International Migrants' Day Migrants’ Groups Call for Key Reforms 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. December 17, 2007 Letter Printer friendly version Asian Migrant Workers Abandoned to Abuse Migrants’ Groups Call for Key Reforms on International Migrants Day Governments in Asia and the Middle East must take stronger action to fight rampant abuse against migrant workers, several migrants’ and human rights groups said in a joint letter on the eve of December 18, International Migrants’ Day. December 17, 2007 Press Release Printer friendly version Leading Human Rights Groups Name 39 CIA ‘Disappeared’ Detainees Three Groups File Lawsuit Seeking Information about ‘Ghost’ Detention In the most comprehensive accounting to date, six leading human rights organizations today published the names and details of 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret US custody and whose current whereabouts remain unknown. The briefing paper also names relatives of suspects who were themselves detained in secret prisons, including children as young as seven. June 7, 2007 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Off the Record U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the “War on Terror” This 21-page briefing paper, published by six leading human rights organizations, includes the names and details of 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret US custody abroad and whose current whereabouts remain unknown. The briefing paper also names relatives of suspects who were themselves arrested and detained, including children as young as seven. The list of missing people includes nationals from countries including Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan and Spain. They are believed to have been arrested in countries including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan, and transferred to secret US prisons operated by the CIA. June 7, 2007 Background Briefing Cartoon Controversy: Drop Criminal Charges for Publication Jordan, Yemen, Algeria Must Free Journalists The governments of Jordan, Yemen and Algeria should immediately drop criminal charges against editors and journalists who reproduced controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in their publications, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch also called on Yemen, Algeria and Malaysia to immediately lift bans on newspapers closed in recent days for printing the caricatures. February 16, 2006 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Egypt: Suspects Sent Back Face Torture Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, and Other Countries Have Rendered Suspects to Egypt Scores of alleged Islamist militants have been sent back to Egypt, where they have faced torture and serious mistreatment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The United States is among the countries that have rendered such suspects to Egypt. May 11, 2005 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Cairo to Kabul to Guantanamo A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper `Abd al-Salam `Ali al-Hila, a Yemeni intelligence officer, disappeared in Cairo in 2002. Since then, he is believed to have been held without trial in Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. March 30, 2005 Background Briefing Also available in
Printer friendly version The United States' "Disappeared": The CIA's Long-Term "Ghost Detainees" In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the Bush administration has violated the most basic legal norms in its treatment of security detainees. Many have been held in offshore prisons, the most well known of which is at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. As we now know, prisoners suspected of terrorism, and many against whom no evidence exists, have been mistreated, humiliated, and tortured. But perhaps no practice so fundamentally challenges the foundations of U.S. and international law as the long-term secret incommunicado detention of al-Qaeda suspects in “undisclosed locations.” October 12, 2004 Background Briefing Also available in
Yemen: Closure of Newspaper, Journalist Flogging Yemeni government's announced the intention to close down the weekly newspaper Al-Shura. Human Rights Watch expressed grave concern that the related flogging sentence against journalist Abd al-Jabbar Saad, convicted on defamation charges, may be implemented in the near future. June 20, 2001 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Yemen: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There are indications of under-18s in government armed forces. Children reportedly participate in ongoing conflicts among tribal groups. Forced recruitment was also reported during the civil war in 1994. June 12, 2001 Multi Country Report Yemen's Constitutional Referendum and Local Elections If Yemeni voters cast a "yes" vote in the constitutional referendum on February 20, Field Marshall Ali Abdallah Saleh's term as president will be extended for two years and enable him to be re-elected in 2006 for another seven years. President Saleh seized power in 1978 and was first elected president by popular vote in 1999. February 1, 2001 Background Briefing Yemen: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: The Level One Survey, the first comprehensive survey of its kind to be conducted in any landmine-affected country in the world, began in January 2000. The Mine Clearance Unit of the National Demining Program conducted its first operation and handed over the cleared field to villagers in December 1999. Yemen began destruction of its antipersonnel mine stockpile in February 2000. An additional 20,000 AP mines were found after submission of its Article 7 report. Yemen has served as the co-chair of the Standing Committee of Experts on Technologies for Mine Action. The Mine Ban Treaty entered into force for Yemen on 1 March 1999. August 1, 2000 Multi Country Report Democracies Urged to Protect Rights Participation of One-Party States in Democracy Summit Questioned (Warsaw, Poland, June 24, 2000) - Human Rights Watch today expressed dismay that a number of one-party states and governments restricting political freedom are attending the Community of Democracies Conference in Warsaw on June 26 and 27. Human Rights Watch questioned the participation of non-democracies such as Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Azerbaijan, Qatar, Kenya, and Kuwait. June 1, 2000 Letter Printer friendly version Human Rights in Yemen During and After the 1994 War During 70 days of conventional warfare between government forces and the separatist southern army, the government army won a military victory over the rebels. This report highlights our concerns regarding both sides as they resorted to unlawful tactics during the conflict. In particular government forces killed and injured hundreds of civilians by indiscriminately shelling the city of Aden, the attackers deliberately damaged a water pumping station, cutting off Aden’s water supply on June 28 and leaving the city and its suburbs almost entirely without water for weeks. The separatist forces injured and killed civilians by aiming Scud rockets at northern cities, and by indiscriminately attacking government military positions in the immediate vicinity of a Somali refugee camp, injuring and killing scores of refugees. October 1, 1994 Report
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