The start of 51st session of the Human Rights Council

Geneva Human Rights Council:

The start of 51st session of the Human Rights Council will begin today, Monday, 12 September, in Geneva, and will continue until 7 October.

In a statement to Arafat Al-Rafid, Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights Information and Training – HRITC, that the center, in cooperation with the Haqqi Center for Supporting Rights and Freedoms in Geneva, will participate in a joint team in this session and will participate in seminars held on the sidelines of the Council’s session on human rights violations.

For his part, Legal Adviser Hani Al-Aswadi, head of the Haqqi Center for Supporting Rights and Freedoms and the resident representative of the Information and Rehabilitation Center for Human Rights at the United Nations, confirmed that the focused participation and all international organizations in Geneva will include an explanation of the lack of impact of the armistice in Yemen on the war crime committed by the Houthis, represented by the continued siege of the city of Taiz. Yemen and the closure of its ports and main roads.

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Al-Aswadi added that the team will also deliver a number of oral statements in general discussions and interactive dialogues within the council’s ten work items, in addition to holding meetings with the number of international missions participating in this session to inform them about the extent of human rights violations in Yemen, and that it is necessary to ask them to pressure the Security Council to refer crimes The war and crimes against humanity committed by the Houthis to the International Criminal Court, in addition to holding a number of meetings with leaders of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and international organizations.

Al-Aswadi called for unifying the efforts of Yemeni civil society and non-governmental organizations in confronting human rights violations in Yemen in order to ensure justice for the victims and not impunity for criminals, especially with the continued pressure of Iranian lobbies to use the human rights and humanitarian files in Yemen as pressure cards in Iran’s negotiations with the West over its nuclear file.

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Yemen and the Human Rights Council

It is worth mentioning that the Council will consider, in this session, the continuation of the technical and technical support provided by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to Yemen in raising its capabilities in the field of human rights.

There are European efforts to reappoint a team of international and regional experts and expand its powers as an international mechanism to monitor human rights violations in Yemen.

This will be the first session of the new High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk.