Yemen: 30 March 2019:
With deep concern, the Women Solidarity Network continues to witness the violations, abuses, and atrocities committed against women, children, and civilians in Yemen, as the country witnessing an armed conflict that has been raging for nearly five years.
The horrendous violations and abuses of human rights and liberties that have taken place in the lives of many, and the accompanying crimes that have occurred carry psychological consequences that are not easy to cure and recover from for a long period of time.
The war in Yemen has left an environment infested with many violations and abuses committed by all the conflict parties in the Yemen. These included violations and abuses of civil, political, economic and social rights and varied between daily killings, forced displacement, the siege of civilians, the recruitment of children, rape and extra-judicial imprisonment and human trafficking.
The parties to the conflict in Yemen have committed serious violations of International Humanitarian Law of war by means of missiles, air raids and indiscriminate shelling targeting civilians as well as the laying of anti-personnel mines and ill-treatment of detainees, flagrant violations and abuses of press and human rights freedoms, the bombing of medical, educational and historical facilities, the restriction and confiscation of humanitarian aid, arbitrary detention, torture, and enforced disappearance, to social problems exacerbated by gravity.
In light of this, the Women Solidarity Network call upon all parties to the conflict to stop the war and to pursue the option of peace.
We appeal to the parties of the conflict to give priority to the public interest, to abide by the Stockholm Agreement, to stop starting new fronts of conflict and to engage seriously with the UN-sponsored peace negotiation process to spare Yemen more blood shed.
Issued by the Women Solidarity Network
30 March 2019
