• Human Rights in Yemen
    Yemen’s political transition is threatened by loyalists of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and other entrenched interests, who are resisting the new government’s attempts to restructure the security forces and enact legislative reforms. Saleh’s relatives retain command of security forces implicated in attacks on protesters during the 2011 uprising, and Yemen’s parliament granted the former president and his aides immunity from prosecution. A draft transitional justice law is stalled. State security forces and other armed groups deploy children. Nearly a half-million Yemenis are internally displaced. The US has rebuffed calls to detail its legal rationale for using drones in Yemen to target Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
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    Iraq: Halt Execution of Yemeni Juvenile
    Iraqi authorities should immediately stay the execution of a Yemeni national who was 16 at the time of his alleged offense.
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  • Iraq: Halt Execution of Yemeni Juvenile
    Dec 9, 2012
    Iraqi authorities should immediately stay the execution of a Yemeni national who was 16 at the time of his alleged offense.
  • Lessons of war - the misuse of schools by militaries
    Nov 26, 2012
    The contrast was striking. Outside the laughter of boys playing echoed around the school courtyard while inside one classroom a nervous 14-year-old, Ashraf, described the day bullets and shells rained down on his school. "When they started shooting, the principal led us all to the basement," he told me.
  • Keep Soldiers Out of Schools and Universities
    Nov 20, 2012
    The use of schools and other education institutions for military purposes by armed forces and non-state armed groups during wartime endangers students and their education around the world, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack in a study released today.
  • Yemen: Security Forces Raiding Aden Hospitals
    Oct 19, 2012
    Yemeni state security forces are threatening health care in Aden by forcibly removing wounded alleged militants from hospitals, exchanging fire with gunmen seeking to block the arrests, and beating medical staff, Human Rights Watch said today. One hospital in that southern port city has suspended operations as a result.
  • It's time for governments to finally put an end to child marriage
    Oct 11, 2012

    The first UN International Day of the Girl, designed to promote education for young women everywhere, is the perfect opportunity to finally stamp out child marriage, writes Gauri van Gulik from Human Rights Watch.

  • Yemen: Massacre Investigation Badly Flawed
    Sep 27, 2012
    The previous Yemeni government’s investigation into the so-called Friday of Dignity massacre on March 18, 2011, in Yemen’s capital is marred throughout by flaws and political interference.
  • UN Human Rights Council: Yemen's Human Rights Situation; and the OHCHR Report on South Sudan
    Sep 25, 2012
    In Yemen, the transitional government has taken several bold and positive steps. Nevertheless, human rights violations continue and efforts to implement a United Nations-facilitated blueprint for the two-year political transition period have at times met with violent resistance from supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Human Rights Watch also welcomes the report of the OHCHR on South Sudan. As a new nation-state, the country has faced a number of human rights challenges.
  • Protecting Yemen's Students From Attack
    Sep 20, 2012
    In March, our researchers visited seven Yemeni schools occupied by armed forces on both sides of the fighting. Afterward, we met with government officials and opposition armed groups, voicing the danger this posed to children and their education. By August, troops had vacated five of the schools we visited.
  • Guantanamo still a blight on US record
    Sep 17, 2012
    The death of Adnan Latif should serve as a wake-up call for the United States to change its tarnished response to 9/11 by closing Guantanamo, even as it grapples with the horrifying attacks on its missions in Libya, Egypt and Yemen.
  • Yemen: Troops Used Schools, Endangering Children
    Sep 11, 2012
    Government forces and other armed groups deployed in schools in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, during the 2011-2012 uprising, putting students at risk and undermining education. The uprising ended the 33-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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