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Bombing of schools by Saudi Arabia-led coalition a flagrant attack on future of Yemen’s children
Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces have carried out a series of air strikes targeting schools that were still in use, in violation of international humanitarian law, and hampering access to education…
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Human Rights in Climate Pact Under Fire
A handful of countries were blocking human rights references in important parts of the climate change agreement as ministers gathered in Paris on December 7, 2015 to continue climate change…
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Saudi Arabia: Execution looms for at least 50 on death row, including Shi’a activists
More than 50 people are at increased risk of imminent execution following reports in national media outlets close to the Saudi Arabian authorities that they will soon be put to…
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Yemen: Coalition used UK missile in unlawful airstrike
The Saudi Arabia-led coalition used a British-made missile to destroy a Yemeni ceramics factory, a civilian object, on 23 September, 2015, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today, based…
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UN expert working group highlights Saudi Arabia’s appalling record on unlawful detention of peaceful activists
A UN Working Group has determined that the Saudi Arabian authorities have arbitrarily detained nine peaceful activists in blatant violation of international law, in an Opinion that sets out damning…
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Saudi Arabia: 151 executed this year in highest recorded toll in nearly two decades
At least 151 people have been put to death in Saudi Arabia so far this year –the highest recorded figure since 1995 – in an unprecedented wave of executions marking…
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Brazilian cluster munitions suspected in Saudi Arabia led coalition attack in Yemen
Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces appear to have used a Brazilian variant of internationally banned cluster munitions on a residential neighborhood in Ahma in Sa’da, northern Yemen, this week, wounding at…
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Yemen: Bombing of MSF hospital may amount to a war crime
The apparently deliberate targeting and destruction of a hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in northern Yemen last night, which may amount to a war crime, demands an urgent,…
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Saudi Arabia: Prisoner of conscience latest to be convicted in ‘counter-terror purge’ of human rights NGO
The Saudi Arabian authorities today continued their cynical use of a repressive and overly vague counter-terrorism law to purge the Kingdom’s small and embattled civil society by convicting the human…
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Saudi Arabia: Fears grow that three young activists could soon be executed
There are rising fears about the impending executions of Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr and two other young Shi’a activists in Saudi Arabia who were arrested as juveniles after participating in…