Reports

6/10/2017 Every time the United Nations makes concessions that allow perpetrators of crimes under international law to evade criticism or justice, it emboldens others to commit violations that cause immense misery to people around the…

2/10/2017 The bill introduced by a bipartisan group of House members last week to end the direct U.S. military role in the Saudi coalition war in Yemen guarantees that the House of Representatives will vote for the first time on the single…

8/10/2017 Every week unfortunately brings more news that Yemen’s cholera epidemic continues to spread and claim more lives: The death toll of the Cholera epidemic in war-ravaged Yemen has risen to 2,151 since it broke out in late April,…

3/10/2017 Rep. Ro Khanna issued a press release on the resolution that he is co-sponsoring with three other House members that would end U.S. involvement in the war on Yemen: Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Mark Pocan…

10/10/2017 Reps. Ro Khanna, Mark Pocan, and Walter Jones explain why they are co-sponsoring H. Con. Res. 81 to halt U.S. support for the war on Yemen: We believe that the American people, if presented with the facts of this conflict,…

13/9/2017 This week diplomats meet in Geneva to discuss the progress of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the world’s first treaty regulating the international trade in conventional weapons. For people in countries like Yemen and Iraq…

Yemen’s Humanitarian Catastrophe and Saudi ‘Aid The Saudis are trying to distract attention from their crimes in Yemen by talking up the aid they have provided. Saudi Arabia’s campaign at the United Nations to emphasize its…

5/9/2017 Yemen’s cholera epidemic continues to spread, and has now infected more than 600,000 people Yemen’s cholera outbreak has infected 612,703 people and killed 2,048 since it began in April, and some districts are still reporting…

28/9/2017 Oxfam reports that there are over 750,000 cases of cholera in Yemen, and they are warning that Yemen’s cholera epidemic could reach as many as a million cases by November. Over 2,100 people have already died from cholera, and…

21/9/2017 The cholera epidemic started exploding in April, so the current number of suspected cases works out to roughly 140,000 per month and more than 4,500 per day. There have been almost another 20,000 cases reported since my last post…