1. Today, the UN body tasked w/ "promoting + protecting human rights" failed.

The UNHRC decided to delete the only int'l investigation into #Yemen abuses while the war(s) continue + justice is absent b/c... those implicated would rather not.

A thread on the history of #UNGEE: 2. Since warring parties began fighting, others have been trying to mitigate impact. They've done so in myriad ways, calling for peace, for aid, for int'l law compliance, reporting facts amidst a sea of nonsense, working towards justice. In and outside #Yemen.

1. Following #HRC48 vote in Geneva on #Yemen, as have done for years, and disbelieving that in 2021, there's a worry states will quash only int'l investigation into rights abuses due to pressure from parties, as war continues. #SupportUNGEE

Watch here: media.un.org/en/asset/k1s/k… 2. Netherlands introduces resolution to renew mandate of UN Yemen investigation (UNGEE) for two years. Reminds that UNGEE created by consensus in 2017. Efforts to quash UNGEE came only after first report on warring parties' rights violations.

I always knew that "relevant" in the @POTUS announcement on arms sales and #Yemen was going to end up doing a lot of work I did not like, but this is pretty ridiculous.

#UAE has been + remains one of the major players in #Yemen, + again (+ again ) implicated in gross abuse. UAE role in abuse ranges from egregious detention-related abuse, some of which #US implicated in, to backing abusive forces on ground, who continue to torture + disappear people, to intimidating local activists, to role in #US raids like Al Bayda 2017.
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1. Days before a #US raid killed at least 15 Yemeni civilians -- including 10 children under the age of ten and four women -- one US General wrote to another, “Good hunting...”

New @MwatanaEn report on the #US use of lethal force in #Yemen out today.

Thread 👇 2. The #US has been using lethal force in #Yemen for nearly two decades.

These operations, in which people are targeted + killed, began under Bush, dramatically expanded under Obama + expanded yet further under Trump.

Throughout: Civilians killed, wounded + otherwise harmed.

1. #Yemen #UN Group of Eminent Experts just released second annual report.

GEE recommend states strengthen their mandate at #UN Human Rights Council this month, incl. to collect + preserve evidence of abuse and report directly to HRC.

Thread below.

ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HR… 2. After release of first report, #Yemen #UAE #Saudi #Egypt refused to cooperate with group.

Despite restrictions, GEE conducted >600 interviews w/ victims, witnesses and other sources, and examined a large volume of documentary and open-source material.

1. Today, @MwatanaEn PAX @unitedforrights released a report--the most comprehensive look yet--on the role of US and European weapons in apparently unlawful #Saudi #UAE coalition attacks #Yemen.

Read the full 128-page report here: mwatana.org/en/day-of-judg… 2. The numbers:
- 27 attacks documented killed at least 203 civilians and wounded 749.
- At least *122 children* and 56 women among the casualties.
- *All 27 attacks* involved US or UK weapons.
- Specifically: 22 w/ US weapons, 2 w/ UK weapons, and 3 w/ US and UK parts.

1. #Saudi has a bad track record of announcing formal mechanisms to look into deaths of civilians at the hands of its own officers which have then utterly failed to credibly investigate those deaths. See #Yemen. See #Khashoggi.

justsecurity.org/61178/saudi-pl… 2. Each victim of an unlawful Saudi coalition strike in #Yemen is as worthy of concern as a Washington Post columnist. A groom and his wedding party. A child locked in jail. Villagers digging a well. Crowds shopping at a market. All killed or wounded in coalition bombings.