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Yemen: Alkarama delegation visits Sanaa to prepare shadow report for UN Human Rights Committee

Alkarama, 03 January 2012
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Mr Michael Romig, of the Alkarama Foundation concluded a visit to Yemen during which he met members of the Yemeni government, representatives of Yemeni human rights organisations, journalists, and victims of the violent repression of demonstrations that the country has been experiencing since last February.
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Yemen: An appeal to lift the siege of the students in "Dar al-Hadeeth" in Sa'dah, and their families

Alkarama, 17 November 2011
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Alkarama and Hood urgently appeal to the Yemeni government to intervene immediately to lift the ongoing siege of thousands of people in the "Dar al-Hadeeth" centre in the Dammaj area of Sa'dah, North Yemen. The authorities should further ensure the delivery of food and medical aid to more than three thousand Yemeni families and foreign residents, including children, women, as well as sick and elderly people, who have been besieged for nearly one month and who are acutely lacking food and medecine.

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Yemen: Journalists suffer persecution for reporting on protests

Alkarama, 29 July 2011
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Alkarama today submitted the cases of 7 journalists, including 2 women, who have suffered persecution because of their activities reporting on, and participating in, protests in Yemen to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. These journalists have been subjected to various type of harassment including being enforcedly disappeared, detained arbitrarily, arrested, and received death threats.
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Yemen : Appeal for a stay of execution of two Yemeni Citizens detained in Iraq

Alkarama, 10 November 2011
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The Alkarama Foundation (Geneva) and the National organisation for defending rights and freedom - Hood (Sana) urge the Iraqi authorities not to apply the death penalty for two Yemeni citizens among a group of nineteen who have been detained for many years, and who faced unfair trials and sentences, including a Yemeni woman who has been sentenced for life imprisonment.

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Yemen: Alkarama provides information about the regime's crimes to the UN Human Rights Mission

Alkarama, 05 July 2011
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Through its office in Yemen Alkarama has in cooperation with local human rights and civil society organizations presented a legal dossier to the Mission of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, which has been appointed to evaluate the human rights situation in Yemen, where the UN Mission is currently conducting a several day long country visit.
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Yemen - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
ICCPR: Accession on 09.02.1987
Last report due: 01.08.2004 (4th)
Submitted: 04.08.2004 (4th)
Next report due: 01.07.2009 (5th)
ICCPR Optional Protocol: Not a signatory

Convention against Torture (CAT)
CAT : Accession on 05.11.1991
Last report due: 04.12.1996 (2nd)
Submitted: 03.07.2008 (2nd)
Next report due: 03.12.2000 (3rd), 04.12.2004 (4th) and 04.12.2008 (5th)

CAT Complaints Procedures
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): Yes
Art. 21 (Inter-State complaints): No
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

CAT Optional Protocol
Not a signatory

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
Last review: 11.05.2009
Next review: N/A
Alkarama made a submission to the UPR on 03.11.2008

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)
N/A