Rights groups urge countries to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia
Two human rights groups on Tuesday called for the US, the UK and France to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia due to accusations and evidence that the weapons are being used in attacks against Yemen. Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday criticized the Saudi Arabian coalition forces in Yemen for the more than 3,000 civilian casualties resulting from the conflict in just the past year. The...
HRW: Yemen rebels preventing aid from reaching besieged city
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Sunday for Iranian-backed Yemeni insurgents to stop illegally confiscating aid to people in the besieged of Taiz. HRW claims that rebels have confiscated items including food, water, cooking gas and...
Yemen no longer expelling top UN representative from country
The government of Yemen on Friday informed the UN that it would be rescinding its order expelling the top UN human rights representative from the country. Yemen's UN Ambassador Khaled Alyemany had previously sent...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday warned that the use of cluster bombs by a Saudi-led coalition against neighborhoods in Yemen may amount to a war crime. Cluster bombs spread bomblets over a wide area, many...
UN rights chief urges Yemen to reconsider expulsion of human rights official
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday encouraged the Yemen government to reconsider its decision to expel the country's human rights representative. The government claimed that George Abu al-Zulof, the...
UN rights office: Yemen civilian death toll reaches nearly 2,800
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Tuesday that the civilian death toll in Yemen has reached nearly 2,800 over nine months of fighting. The UN reported that the number of...
Amnesty: Russia air strikes, civilian bombing coverups may violate humanitarian law
Russian air strikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians and destroyed numerous structures in residential areas that may amount to violations of international humanitarian law, according to a new briefing published by Amnesty International (AI) ...
Amnesty urges war crime investigation into Yemen hospital airstrike
Amnesty International (AI) has called Tuesday for an independent investigation into possible war crimes surrounding the destruction of a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Yemen. According to local sources, the Saudi-Arabia led...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark A. Summers of Barry University School of Law discusses the legality of choice of weapons in the Syrian war in the context of International Humanitarian Law ... Amnesty International (AI) recently condemned the commission of war...
