Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by FITZ Magnus
With Hamas and Hezbollah debilitated, the Yemeni group has emerged as Iran’s premier non-state ally, set to continue to disrupt trade and strike Israel.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Houthis’ hijacking of the Galaxy Leader. On Nov. 19, 2023, military personnel from the Yemeni (…)
, par NOYCE Eleanor
A Houthi-run court in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to executed, on charges relating to homosexuality, a judicial court confirmed this week.
Houthi rebels control large parts of Yemen. (AFP/Getty)
The death sentences were handed down in Ibb, an area controlled by the Houthis rebels. (…)
, by Palestinian BDS National Committee
Palestinians call for maximum pressure to stop the genocide and dismantle apartheid.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today made history. It confirmed the plausibility of South Africa’s charge under the Genocide Convention that “Israel has engaged in, is engaging in and risks further (…)
, by BANTAS Elizabeth, SALMON Alex
Democracy Now! reported on January 18 that the United States and Britain had launched missile attacks on Yemen for the fourth time in a week.
Reuters reported on January 24 that at least eight rounds of strikes have been launched in the past month.
The White House claimed the US was acting (…)
, by LACKNER Helen
By bombing Yemen and risking an extension of the conflict, the United States and its allies claim that they want to stop the attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea by the Houthists. The Houthis, who set themselves up as the sole defenders of the Palestinian cause, have solid assets at home and (…)
, par LACKNER Helen
En bombardant le Yémen et en prenant les risques d’une extension du conflit, les États-Unis et leurs alliés affirment vouloir stopper les attaques contre les navires marchands en mer Rouge menée par les houthistes. Ceux-ci, qui s’érigent en uniques défenseurs de la cause palestinienne, disposent (…)
, by OSMAN Nadda
Women trying to reach Saudi Arabia have been raped, trafficked and sexually assaulted while living in unorganised camps, Yemeni rights group alleges
Ethiopian women who try to cross into Saudi Arabia from Yemen are subject to “sexual slavery” and abuses by Houthi forces and fighters from the (…)
, by PROUHET Frank
In 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring, a gigantic popular uprising swept through Yemen. In a country dominated by corruption, plagued by divisions between north and south and the overwhelming role of old military-tribal hierarchies, there was hope. Young people occupied the squares for months (…)
, by LACKNER Helen , SHALOM Steve
The conflict in Yemen has been going on for a long time with horrendous human consequences. Non specialists find the situation extremely complex, with many internal parties and many outside players, so it makes sense to talk to one of the English-speaking world’s leading experts on Yemen, Helen (…)
, by ALI Tariq
The Saudi offer of a ceasefire in Yemen on 22 March was an acknowledgement by Riyadh and its backers in Washington that they had lost the war. Biden signalled the grudging surrender in February, when he announced the US would end its support for ‘offensive operations’ there. After six years of (…)
, by LACKNER Helen
In the early months of 2020, the already disastrous situation in Yemen worsened further, far from the eyes of the world, which was almost exclusively concerned with the Covid-19 pandemic. The huthi military offensive, the proclamation of autonomy for the South and devastating floods added to the (…)
, by ALWISHALIY Majed
In four years of aggression against Yemen, what has been produced? An humanitarian crisis for the Yemeni people.
The United Nations says nearly 100 civilians are killed or injured every week. Air strikes have killed or wounded 37 children a month in the past 12 months. According to Save the (…)
, by de WAAL Alex
After waging war in a manner that made deaths from hunger and disease inevitable, the Saudi prince should be tried for starvation crimes
There is a manmade famine in Yemen, even if it has not been officially acknowledged. The man who made it is Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and there is strong prima facie evidence that he should be charged with causing starvation in an international court.
Along with the comparably culpable Mohamed bin Zayed, crown prince of the (...)
, by HASSAN Omar
The Saudi-led war on Yemen has devastated a country already crippled by widespread poverty and systematic neglect.
In 2015, Saudi Arabia and its allies launched what has become a vicious, unrelenting assault on a defenceless population. Their goal is to defeat the Houthi rebels, who have (…)
, by MATHARU Aleesha
The Baha’is, among them eight women and a teenage girl, face charges which can carry the death penalty in Yemen, including espionage apostasy. Making matters worse, this later chapter comes after hate speeches by Houthi leaders have incited violence against the community in the war-torn country. (…)
, by WINTOUR Patrick
Negotiations to resolve civil war due to be held in Geneva in September
The UN’s special envoy for Yemen has told the security council that he would convene the country’s first talks in two years to secure peace between Saudi-backed forces and Houthi rebels.
Martin Griffiths said the “time (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Some general characteristics of the imperialist recolonization of the Arab world, which began with that brutal dress-rehearsal, the First Gulf War of 1991, are now clearly visible. Too many people supposed that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US eagle would discard its talons; (…)
, by CHRISTIANSEN Connie
Many Yemeni women are not victims of war or just escaping or hiding. In many and contrasting ways they are actively supporting it, and not only on humanitarian grounds.
Since 2015, a Saudi-led coalition has waged war against Shia Houthi forces in Yemen. More than 8,000 people have been (…)
, by AL-MUTAWAKEL Radhya
Death surrounds us in Yemen. Since March 2015, airstrikes from the Saudi-led coalition have led to the death of more than 800 civilians in 95 incidents, as documented here. But the ongoing civil war is not the only violence we fear. The United States’ covert drone war in Yemen - at least 15 (…)
, by Al-Baba
Omar Mohammed Batawil: abducted in front of his home in Aden. Youth shot dead after complaints about Facebook postings.
Omar Mohammed Batawil Takfeer in Yemen
Can’t stop thinking about Omar who was killed two days ago by a fanatic religious group because he dared to challenge one of the trio (…)
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