The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on the international community to establish an international, independent body to carry out comprehensive investigations of human rights violations in Yemen. “[Civilians in Yemen] continue to suffer, absent any form
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District Court Says Drone Strike Case Raises a Political Question
Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle (D.D.C.) dismissed a complaint by the estates of two persons killed in a drone strike in Yemen. Judge Huvelle ruled that the complaint, which sought a declaration that the…
US Adds More Countries to the Visa Waiver Program Restrictions
By Liz LaRocca
The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced Thursday, February 18, 2015, that it is expanding the list of countries that will restrict travel with the Visa Waiver Program (“VWP”). The program lets citizens of certain countries travel to the US…
March 1 Deadline to Register for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemen
On Sept. 3, 2015, the Secretary of Homeland Security designated Yemen for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for an 18 month period due to the ongoing armed conflict in the country. The deadline to register for TPS for Yemen is March 1,…
EU Amends Economic Sanctions against Guinea, Moldova, Yemen, and Zimbabwe
The Council of the European Union (the “Council”) has issued Council Decisions amending sanctions regimes in force with respect to Guinea, Moldova, Yemen and Zimbabwe. See Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/1923 (Guinea), Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/1925 (Moldova), Council Implementing Decision (CFSP)…
Rethinking Global Protection: New Channels, New Tools
Today’s refugee protection regime, established in the aftermath of World War II, is ill-equipped to meet the protection needs of contemporary displacement situations. Recent crises in Syria, Yemen, the Central African Republic, Iraq, and elsewhere…
Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials | TheHill
U.S. military officials are concerned that Iran's support for Houthi rebels in Yemen could spark a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and plunge the region into sectarian war.
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Iran is sending an armada of seven to nine ships…
How the Yemen conflict risks new chaos in the Middle East – The Washington Post
BEIRUT The meltdown in Yemen is pushing the Middle East dangerously closer to the wider regional conflagration many long have feared would arise from the chaos unleashed by the Arab Spring revolts. What began as a peaceful struggle to unseat…
Yemen is just part of Iran’s Mideast master plan – Israel Opinion, Ynetnews
With the Arab response slow in coming, despite threats voiced by senior advisers to the Saudi king, the rebel commanders in Yemen were sure they had at least 24 hours in which to mount operations in the field before the…
Obama’s Mideast ‘free fall’ – Michael Crowley – POLITICO
Barack Obama faces a slew of Middle East crises that some call the worst in a generation, as new chaos from Yemen to Iraq along with deteriorating U.S.-Israeli relations is confounding the president s efforts to stabilize the region and…