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Today - on International Human Rights Day - CAAT launches a letter writing campaign calling on the Chief Prosecutor, British lawyer Karim Khan, to do everything in his power to secure accountability for the people of Yemen.
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A report published yesterday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimated that 377,000 people will have died in the war in Yemen by the end of 2021, from both direct and indirect causes. Sixty percent of these would be from hunger, preventable disease, and other indirect causes, while 70%
More Than 60 Groups Urge General Assembly to Establish New Investigative Mechanism
The undersigned organizations call upon the UN General Assembly to move quickly and establish a new international accountability mechanism for Yemen.
Check out highlights from our DSEI Resistance efforts in 2021! Thank you to our friends at Rainbow Collective for the video!
As part of the development of our new short-term strategy, CAAT is looking to work with external researchers on two exciting commissions supporting our ongoing work on Militarised Borders and Policing in the UK and internationally.
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) today held an “awards ceremony” for the top “Spoilers of Peace” (website no longer live) in the war in Yemen, who are doing most to perpetuate the war, cause death and suffering, and obstruct efforts to bring peace. The
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