19th March 2016 By Vanessa Beeley On the 15th March, during the UNHRC 31st session, the Saudi-led coalition mercilessly bombed a civilian market place in Hajjah province, massacring over 100 civilians and injuring countless others. Cover photo provided by the Arabic-language Mersad news agency shows a victim lying dead on the ground following Saudi airstrikes against…
18th March 2016 By Vanessa Beeley My Statement to the UNHRC on the Saudi Coalition illegal use of US supplied Cluster Munitions in Yemen and the deliberate targeting of civilian areas that constitutes a War Crime. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, my name is Vanessa Beeley. I am a British independent journalist, working with Sheba…
18th March 2013 Arabian Rights Watch Association: 31st SESSION – WRITTEN STATEMENTS Ongoing Serious Systematic Rights Violations Against the People in Yemen. IDO, together with Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain, and Arabian Rights Watch Association, express our utmost concern over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its Coalition’s (the “Saudi-led Coalition’s”) a)…
16th March 2016 The following are a selection of short videos used during our presentations during the 31st Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva 2016. I was working with http://www.arwarights.org and http://www.shebarights.org to present the case against the Saudi-led coalition, for war crimes and grave human rights violations against the people of Yemen…
Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire OpEd “The UN World Food Program (WFP) aids for the restricted Syrian civilians in Deir Ezzor city have landed mostly in ISIS controlled territories, a source in the city’s administration said Thursday.” A report in ALALAM states that WFP food drops have landed predominantly in ISIS held territory, despite UN claims…
28th February 2016 Heading to Geneva. The UN Human Rights Commission to present the case against the Saudi-led coalition for the use of illegal Cluster Bombs in Yemen’s densely populated civilian areas. A short statement written to accompany a harrowing video depicting the suffering of the Yemeni people that is being largely ignored by the…
16th February 2016 Statement prepared for the UN Human Rights Commission on behalf of Yemen by Sheba Rights. Yemen: The Endlessly Forgotten War. Saudi-led Coalition Cluster Bombs The Rain of Death for Yemeni Civilians Article 1, Convention on Cluster Munitions “An obligation never to use, produce, transfer or stockpile cluster munitions. It…
4th February 2016 This page will be added to, as I create new videos leading up to the UN Human Rights Summit in Geneva 1st March 2016, which I will be attending with delegates from Yemen and Lebanon to present the case for The illegal use of Cluster Bombs in Civilian areas The horrifying Humanitarian…
30th November 2015 By Felicity Arbuthnot for Dissident Voice As Prime Minister David Cameron attempts to persuade Parliament to back another illegal assault on a country posing no threat to the UK, Syria, it transpires that Britain may face war crimes charges anyway for arms sales to Saudi Arabia, arms being used to…
26th November 2015 An honour to be on UK Column with Kim Sharif of Human Rights for Yemen. This is a must watch, Kim deconstructs ALL western media, NGO and government myths that support the Saudi coalition’s systematic extermination of the Yemeni people. Thank you once more Mike Robinson. You and UK Column do an…
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