The Justice Charter Coalition for Yemen renews its call for accountability and justice for Yemen in the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights

The Center for Strategic Studies in Women and Child Support proudly presents a Joint Statement for the Universal Periodic Review as an active member of the Justice for Yemen Coalition, supported by the DT Institute, during the Universal Periodic Review session this week in Geneva. At the current Human Rights Council meeting, our coalition addressed urgent issues related to human rights violations in Yemen, including the ongoing conflict, arrests, enforced disappearances, and their impact on civilians. We participated strongly and effectively through two important events: the pre-sessions of the Universal Periodic Review as well as through exchanges of views with NGOs and EU Member States.

The joint statement highlights pivotal human rights issues, with a particular focus on children's rights, and expresses concerns about arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and torture. As part of the coalition, we put forward the following key recommendations:

Conduct impartial and transparent investigations into alleged violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law by all parties to the conflict. Publish results and ensure accountability by holding perpetrators responsible for all violations and abuses. Ensure that any peace agreement or political settlement in Yemen includes provisions related to transitional justice, accountability and reparations, in consultation with victims, survivors and civil society. The full statement can be found here.

In our commitment to expanding our advocacy efforts, we have cooperated with several local and international organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, to strengthen the impact and unify efforts in the Universal Periodic Review through a number of joint recommendations. This collective statement includes reports submitted by civil society organizations, addressing accountability and redress, arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearance, women's rights and gender equality, children and armed conflict, obstruction and obstruction of humanitarian access, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, internally displaced persons, People with disabilities, freedom of expression, journalists, and human rights defenders. You can see the full shared recommendations here.