Mwatana for Human Rights has urged the Presidential Leadership Council and the internationally recognized government to take a series of immediate steps necessary to improve the human rights situation and enhance the rule of law in the upcoming phase in Aden and all Yemeni provinces under the authority of the council and government. The key steps include:
- Establishing a national mechanism to uncover the fate of the forcibly disappeared and to release those arbitrarily detained by all security and military formations.
- Closing illegal detention facilities and subjecting all prisons and places of detention to the authority of the public prosecution and judiciary.
- Rebuilding security and military agencies and formations, enhancing the capabilities of their members and personnel within the framework of the rule of law, while ensuring full compliance with the authority of the judiciary and public prosecution to guarantee rights and public freedoms.
- Ensuring freedom of movement and putting an end to arbitrary and unlawful practices that target travelers at security checkpoints, such as detention, travel bans, arbitrary detention, physical or verbal assault, phone searches and privacy violations, financial extortion, and regional discrimination.
- Lifting all restrictions imposed on civil society organizations, abolishing illegal procedures against them, stopping intimidation campaigns, and adhering to legal obligations to provide guarantees for associations and civil institutions to carry out their activities freely and independently, in line with their social responsibilities. This includes simplifying procedures and facilitating transactions related to the right to establish associations and civil institutions, enabling them to fulfill their mission effectively.
- Establishing effective mechanisms for filing complaints and reporting any violations or abuses affecting citizens, alongside creating immediate response mechanisms to halt any violations or abuses.
Mwatana renewed its call to all parties to the conflict to achieve a historic national settlement addressing all grievances and violations, ensuring the rights, interests, and aspirations of all Yemeni women and men within the framework of a state of equal citizenship, justice, the rule of law, and political, cultural, social, and intellectual pluralism.
