Yemen: Allow UN to Secure Oil Supertanker

Click to expand Image Satellite image of the Safer supertanker off Yemen’s coast taken on June 17, 2020, one month before experts warned the UN Security Council that unless Houthi authorities let the UN secure the aging vessel, its 1.1 million barrels of crude oil could spill and wreak environmental and humanitarian havoc. Satellite Image © 2020 Maxar Technologies/Getty Images Houthi authorities in Yemen should immediately permit United Nations experts access to a supertanker moored off Yemen’s coast that risks spilling over a million barrels of crude oil into the Red Sea, Human Rights…

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