115 human rights organizations and networks condemn the American-British aggression against Yemen

The undersigned human rights organizations express their extreme astonishment and shock at the Security Council Resolution No. 2722, adopted by the Council on 1/10/2024, in which the Council condemned the measures taken by the Yemeni army as a response to the occupying and apartheid entity crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Which came as a result of the Security Council failure to fulfill its responsibilities to maintain international peace and security and putting end to the crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the occupying entity in full view of countries and peoples of the world. Human rights organizations remind the Security Council that (13) of its member states voted on 12/8/2023 in favor of a draft resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and the draft fell due to the American veto against it, in addition to the fact that the United Nations General Assembly had previously voted with a majority of 153 countrie s in favor of a recommendation calling for a ceasefire. The United States of America exploited Resolution 2722 to launch aggressive attacks against Yemen, because of its response, and in the name of the international community, protecting a public interest of this international committee, which is to prohibit the crime of genocide and prevent its commission. The non-military countermeasures taken by Yemen to impose a naval blockade on the Israeli entity are aimed at pressuring it to stop its international crimes, especially since the international community and the United Nations failed to do so. The countermeasures taken by Yemen find their basis in the articles on the states responsibility for non-military and internationally legitimate acts, which require states to cooperate in order to put an end to a situation that includes a serious violation of a peremptory international norm. In addition, the aforementioned articles sanction countermeasures against any international breach of obligations that are binding on all; or a general decision in the general interest of the international community. Yemen has only resorted to military measures as an exception, and in principle, it has taken pressure measures to impose a siege on the Israeli entity until it stops its crimes. The use of non-military measures came as a result of the paralysis of the international community and the Security Council in ending the commission of these massacres and atrocities, as it is not legally and morally acceptable for countries to remain spectators in the face of unprecedented crimes in contemporary history. The issue is not a matter of positive legitimacy as much as it is a matter of international legitimacy. The signatory human rights organizations believe that Security Council Resolution No. 2722 and the Anglo-Saxon aggression carried out by the American-British arm would undermine the foundations of the contemporary international legal system, and that they conflict with peremptory rules in international law, and states mus t condemn that aggression and stand up to it out of concern for the requirements of international security and peace, and foundations of the international law. Based on the above, the undersigned human rights organizations condemn the American-British aggression against Yemen and consider it a violation of Yemen's sovereignty on the one hand; and a continuation of the aggression announced by Washington on March 26, 2015. Besides, the aggression contributes with all its military, diplomatic, media, and intelligence capabilities as a partner of the occupation and apartheid entity in the war of extermination and mass genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip; as it aims to divert attention from what is going on in the corridors of the International Court of Justice and obscure the occupation forces' continuation of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Human rights organizations express their confidence in the ability of the Yemeni people to defeat the goals of this brutal aggress ion and continue to support the struggle of the Palestinian people to stop the Israeli aggression and lift the ongoing siege imposed on the Palestinian people in Gaza since 2005. Finally, the organizations call on all free people in the world to condemn this American-British aggression against Yemen, which threatens global peace and security. Signatory organizations (in alphabetical order): Coordination for Maghreb Human Rights Organizations (include 26 HR organizations from Morocco, Mauretania, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya) Tunisian General Labor Union Union of Palestinian Women's Action Committees The Jordan Federation of the independent Trade Unions The Human Rights Coalition to Stop the Aggression, Lift the Siege, and Build Peace in Yemen (includes 10 organizations from ten Arab countries) The Moroccan Coalition for Human Rights Bodies (includes 20 Moroccan human rights organizations) The Academic Assembly for the support of Palestine-Lebanon NGOs Platform (Tajamoh)(includes 50 organizations)/Leba non Mauritania Professors Alliance Syrian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (SCODP) Iraqi Coalition Against the Death Penalty TheIraqiAllianceforHumanRightsOrganizations(includes55 organizations) The Arab Coalition against the Death Penalty Syrian Feminist Alliance to activate Security Council Resolution 1325 Yemeni Coalition Against the Death Penalty Civil Solidarity Association / Tunis Women's Action Association/Palestine Lebanese Association of Democratic Jurists Moroccan Association for Human Rights Mauritanian Association for Human Rights Association Bridges Citizenship / Tunisia Jose Marti Association for Arab-Latin American Solidarity Chamoua Association for Equality/Morocco Mothers School Association /Palestine Protecting human rights defenders around the Arab world/ France The Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights Association of Women Heads of Families from Mauritania Iraqi Human Rights Trainers Association The Jordanian Network for Human Rights (includes 11 human rig hts organizations) International Network for Human Rights and Development / France Women's Peace and Security Network (Yemen) The Syrian National Network for Civil Peace and Community Safety. Committees for the Defense of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria (LDH) Syrian Medical Committee/Paris Popular Committees to Resist Settlement and the Wall/Palestine Palestinian Initiative to Deepen Global Dialogue and Democracy-MIFTAH Yemeni Council for Rights and Freedoms / Yemen Lawyers for Justice /Yemen The Arab Observatory for Human Rights and Citizenship/ Lebanon French Observatory for Human Rights/Paris Observatoire mauritanien des droits de l'homme Human Rights and Democracy Media Center 'SHAMS"/Palestine Center for Research, Legal Consultation and Protection for Women/Palestine Al-Badeel Center for Studies and Research/Jordan Women's Studies Center/ Palestine Center for the Defense of Freedoms and Civil Rights "Hurriyat" / Palestine The Palestinian Center for the Independence of th e Judiciary and Advocates "Musawa" Tunis Center for Freedom of the Press Jothor Center for Human Rights/Jordan Geneva Center for Democracy and Human Rights Metro Center for Defending the Rights of Journalists/ Iraq Call of Karama Center for Rights and Development/Yemen International Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights/Geneva Houran Forum for Citizenship/Syria Bahrain Forum for Human Rights Sudanese National Civil Forum (includes 54 civil society organizations) / Sudan African Organization for Human Rights Monitoring/Morocco The Tunisian Organization against Torture Gender Studies and Information Organization / Iraq The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria Al Mouel Organization for Rights and Development / Yemen Yemeni Organization for Dialogue of Religions and Cultures Intisaf Organization for Women and Children's Rights/Yemen Insan Organization for Rights and Liberties/Yemen Freedom House Organization to defend human rights and combat slavery and its remnants/ Mauritania O RGANIZATIONFORFREEDOMOFMEDIASAND EXPRESSION- OFME- HATIM / MOROCCO Organization for the Protection of Law and the Promotion of Peace / Yemen Desert Youth Organization for Development and Human Rights / Libya Defenders for Human Rights, Morocco YemeniOrganizationforDefenseRightsandDemocratic Freedoms/Yemen The Middle East Foundation for Development and Human Rights (Yemen) National Foundation to Combat Human Trafficking/Yemen Foundation for the Protection of Law and the Promotion of Social Peace / Yemen Community Development and Protection Support Foundation - Aden / Yemen Mada Foundation for Human Rights / Iraq Palestinian Journalists Syndicate Yemeni Bar Association National Union of Tunisian Journalists The International Commission for Supporting the Rights of the Palestinian People Sahel Organization for Defending Human Rights and Supporting Education and Social Peace/Mauritania General Federation of Yemeni Trade Unions Palestinian Women's Labor Union Tunisian Coalition Against the Death P enalty Cultural Rally for Democracy / Iraq The Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering-RDFL The Jordan Society for Human Rights Association pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme au Maroc (ASDHOM) Al-Rowad Society for Culture and Arts - Aida Camp - Bethlehem / Palestine Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development PWWSD' Arab Women Organization of Jordan Najda Social Association for Women's Development/Palestine Jothor Society for Human Rights-Jordan Rachel Corrie Association for Solidarity Among Peoples Orient Forum Association for Freedom and Peace The Algerian League for Defense Human Rights Freedom Pioneers for Integrity and Human Rights Training / Jordan Global Network for the Defense of the Palestinian Peopl One Justice/France Arab Commission for Human Rights The Vigilance Committee for Democracy in Tunisia / Belgium The International Council Supporting Fair Trials and Human Rights (ICSFT) School of Human Rights / Kuwait Arab World Observatory for Democracy and Elections Hurriyat Ob servatory / Morocco Arab Women Media Center / Jordan Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture-Lebanon Damascus Center for Theoretical and Civil Studies Amman Center for Human Rights Studies (ACHRS) Scandinavian Institute of Human Rights/Geneva Institut de Recherche Appliquée - Jérusalem (ARIJ) Yemen Media Forum / Yemen Renewal Forum for Citizen and Democratic Thought / Tunisia International House for Human Rights / France rganization for the Defense of Victims of Violence / Geneva National Organization for Human Rights in Syria Al-hamadani Source: Yemen News Agency