International Reports

Jo Becker Advocacy Director, Children's Rights Division The United Nations is finally calling out the Saudi Arabia-led coalition for horrific attacks that have killed hundreds of Yemeni children. After months of controversy,…

Kristine Beckerle Bombing and shelling of civilians. Denial of access to food and medicine. Landmines and cluster bombs. Torture and abduction. Child soldiers. For more than two years, international, regional, and Yemeni human rights…

By:SOMINI SENGUPTA Saudi Arabia and its allies are pushing back on a renewed effort to establish a United Nations-backed independent international panel to investigate human rights abuses in Yemen. A draft resolution, proposed…

Saudi Arabia has succeeded in lobbying against the establishment of a commission of inquiry into allegations of human rights violations in Yemen, where the war machine in Riyadh has been breathing in the past two and a half years. The…

Human Rights Watch criticized the failure to host Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup to protect 800,000 foreign construction workers from extremely high temperatures in the country and called for investigations into the high number of deaths…

The Saudi-led coalition’s restrictions on imports to Yemen have worsened the dire humanitarian situation of Yemeni civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The restrictions, in violation of international humanitarian law, have delayed and…

Donald Trump has more than doubled the number of covert US airstrikes in Yemen compared with the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency, new estimates show. The rise, combined with Trump’s rollback of Obama-era safeguards, has sparked…

A bomb used by the Saudi regime in a deadly air strike on a residential building in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in August was manufactured in the United States, Amnesty International said. The attack destroyed the building on…

Far from international human rights convictions, the UAE continues to torture Yemeni citizens and prisoners in secret prisons in the southern provinces, which are supported by the United States of America. An investigation by the…

The US-led coalition claimed responsibility for the massacre of 61 civilians in Syria and Iraq calling it “unintentional civilian deaths.” Since the beginning of its intervention in battles in Iraq and Syria against ISIS, the US,…