by Edward Hunt | Dec 14, 2022 | War & Peace
After years of backing a disastrous, Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen, the United States is shifting its approach to the war, supporting a UN-brokered truce that has resulted in the most significant reduction of violence since the war began. Bowing to the...
by Farrah Hassen | Jul 13, 2022 | Human Rights, War & Peace
The United Nations has called the Saudi Arabia-led war in Yemen the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Yet even that designation hardly captures the full extent of misery endured by its people over seven years of violence and unrelenting war. It is also a crisis...
by Andrea Prasow | Sep 21, 2020 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
The longstanding involvement of the United States in the conflict in Yemen is facing renewed scrutiny. On September 16, State Department officials testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about whether the State Department misled Congress — and the...
by Huzaifa Shahbaz | Aug 2, 2019 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Right now, the people of Yemen are suffering through the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. The Saudi-led coalition, backed by the United States, continues to bomb Yemen and launch unlawful airstrikes that have hit homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques. This...
by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies | Sep 26, 2018 | Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
The Saudi bombing of a school bus in Yemen on August 9, 2018 killed 44 children and wounded many more. The attack struck a nerve in the U.S., confronting the American public with the wanton brutality of the Saudi-led war on Yemen. When CNN revealed that the bomb used...
