UN Rights Council: Renew Yemen Inquiry

Expand Members of the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen present their report on abuses by parties to the conflict on August 28, 2018 in Geneva. © 2018 Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP (Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen during its current session in Geneva, Human Rights Watch said today. The parties on both sides of Yemen’s armed conflict are committing laws-of-war violations and human rights abuses with impunity. In their initial report published in August 2018, the experts found evidence that members of…

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