Articles for Yemen

On 19 October 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (SR SUMMEX) regarding the case of 27 schoolgirls victim of two car bombs detonated at a checkpoint controlled by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition in the southwest city of Rada'a, Al Bayda Governorate, in December 2014.

On 12 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) as well as an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the cases of two Yemeni citizens victims of the Houthi-Saleh Coalition in Sanaa.

On 8 September 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR SUMX) regarding the case of 27 members of a same family killed by an air strike launched by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen in May 2015.

On 3 September 2015, Alkarama sent and urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of nine media workers abducted by armed Houthi forces from Sana'a's Dream Castle Hotel on 9 June 2015 and disappeared since their transfer to an unknown location the following month. It is suspected that the reason behind the victims' abduction is that all of them had previously documented human rights violations committed by Houthi forces.

On 6 May 2015, during its 54th session, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) adopted a List of 34 issues prior to reporting (

A new report released in an online panel discussion by Alkarama on 24 June 2015 shows the traumatising impact that the U.S.

On 24 June 2015 at 5.30pm, Alkarama will launch its new report on "Traumatising Skies: U.S. Drone Operations and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Civilians in Yemen." The event will take the form of an online discussion will feature a panel of four experts from diverse backgrounds, including military, legal and psychiatry.

On 9 February 2015, Alkarama provided the Committee against Torture (CAT) with a list of 56 issues to be raised by the United Nations experts with the Yemeni authorities during their consideration of Yemen's initial report

Alkarama welcomes the release of Mohammad Muthana Al Ammari by the Yemeni authorities on 30 September 2014, 10 months after he finished serving his two-year prison sentence for participating in demonstrations.

Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur against Torture concerning two French-Tunisians, Aissaoui Taha and Ben Ayed Mourad, arrested and secretly detained in Yemen since May 2014.