In front of the Human Rights Council .. Information Center Widespread violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law committed by parties to the conflict in Yemen, led by the Houthi militia
Geneva / Special:
Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRTIC), a non-governmental organization with a consultative status for the Economic and Social Council at the United Nations, in cooperation with Center Of My Right For Support The Rights and Freedoms – Geneva CRSRF, presented a written statement regarding the oral update of the Group of Experts on Yemen to the Human Rights Council, which started its sessions yesterday. Monday and it was distributed to all member states and observers of the Human Rights Council as part of session documents # HRC46.
HRITC statement referred to the significant deterioration in the human rights situation in Yemen over the past 6 years, explaining that those violations committed by the parties to the conflict in Yemen are considered widespread in international humanitarian law and international human rights law, indicating that the Houthi militia is the first to commit most of them directly.
The statement pointed out that the governorate of Taiz suffers from the continued targeting of civilians and their property directly by the Houthi militia, as the scene of bombing and military targeting of some notables, public and private properties and agricultural lands is repeated almost daily, noting that the militia continues to impose collective sanctions and restrictions on the city for nearly six years on Consecutively, by closing the entrances to the city and preventing the passage of goods, food, medicine, and citizens, including patients, to receive the necessary treatment for them in hospitals outside the city, which prompted them to take bumpy roads, which multiplied their suffering.
The statement also clarified the repeated acts of noise, firing off bullets and multiple clashes in the liberated areas of the Houthi militia by armed men outside the framework of the state and individuals in the government army affiliated with multiple partisan or regional factions or unknown armed men, which exacerbated the rates of deterioration of humanitarian conditions and escalated acts of looting. Violence and clashes resulted in the deaths of many civilians and the wounding of others and caused damage to some private and public property as a result of the use of firearms.
The statement included the HRITC field team documenting 8 massacres that took place during the year 2020, committed by the Houthi militia, through direct bombardment of densely populated residential neighbourhoods, which resulted in killing 28 civilians, including 8 children and 8 women, and wounding 33 civilians, including 7 women and 5 children.
In conclusion, the statement recommended that the necessary measures be taken and that more efforts be made to release the detainees, as well as to reduce the cases of detention and enforced disappearance, and it urged the effective presence of the group of eminent international and regional experts on Yemen, and work with all parties.
HRITC participates in the work of the 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, which started on Monday and will continue until the 23rd of next March.
In this session, the Council discusses a number of reports submitted by experts and international investigation bodies related to the human rights situation in a number of countries, and the group of eminent international and regional experts on Yemen, in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31, will present an oral report to the Council on February 25.
Human Rights Information and Training Center – HRTIC, also presented a parallel report on the developments of the situation in Yemen, in which it dealt with the various violations committed by various parties.
The Center also provided additional information about the siege of Taiz, which suffers from a siege implemented by the Houthi militia and systematic bombing for six years.
It is worth noting that the Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) and Center Of My Right For Support The Rights and Freedoms – Geneva (CRSRF) will provide an oral intervention tomorrow, Wednesday, February 25, during the interactive dialogue session with the team of prominent international and regional experts at the Human Rights Council on the latest human rights and humanitarian developments in Yemen.
