HRW urges Yemen to rescind immunity law for former president
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday released a statement calling on Yemen's National Dialogue Conference (NDC) to endorse proposed legislation that would strike down a 2012 law providing blanket immunity to...
HRW urges Yemen to protect women's rights in new constitution
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the head of the Rights and Freedoms Working Group for Yemen's National Dialogue to incorporate protections for women in the country's new constitution. Yemen's National Dialogue...
Yemen's government should stop seeking and carrying out the death penalty for child offenders, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Monday. The report found that since 2007 Yemen executed at...
AI: Yemen forces must refrain from violent crackdown on protests
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday called on Yemeni forces to observe peace and restraint (AI report) during scheduled protest marches this week. Yemeni security forces fired on protesters on Thursday despite AI's plea. The protest...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday said Yemen authorities failed to investigate top officials in the shooting deaths of 45 anti-government demonstrators killed in the country's "Friday of Dignity Massacre" in March 2011. The report...
Paraguay Congress removes president from office after impeachment trial
Paraguay's Congress on Friday removed president Fernando Lugo from office after it found him guilty of mishandling armed clashes that took place last week during which 17 police and farmers were killed. The lower house of Congress voted 76-1...
Rights group urges US to investigate Yemen ex-president Saleh
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) sent a letter to US officials Tuesday urging an investigation into the crackdown against protesters by forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh [official website, in...
Guantanamo inmate's request to question Yemen president denied
A military judge on Tuesday denied the request of suspected USS Cole bomber and Guantanamo inmate Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri to question Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as a witness in his case....
US, Arab states not bound by grant of immunity to Yemen president: HRW
US and Arab Gulf states are not legally bound by a decision to grant immunity to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and should refrain from doing so, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy...
Lawyer for Guantanamo detainee seeks to question Yemen president
Lawyers for a suspect in the USS Cole bombing being held at Guantanamo Bay filed a motion Tuesday with the military commission overseeing detainee cases seeking to subpoena the president of Yemen for questioning. Lawyers for alleged al Qaeda senior...
