AMHRI Renews Its Call for International Investigation about Crimes in Yemen
Association Ma’onah for Human Rights and Immigration (AMHRI) Renews Its Call for a Comprehensive International Investigative Process into All Violations, War Crimes, and Acts of Terrorism Committed Against Civilians in Yemen .
Yemen – New York – Geneva
Date: 18 January 2026
The Association Ma’onah for Human Rights and Immigration (AMHRI) expresses its profound concern over the severe and ongoing deterioration of the humanitarian and human rights situation in the Republic of Yemen, amid the continuation of the armed conflict and the multiplicity of its local, regional, and international actors. This context has been accompanied by a widespread and systematic pattern of grave violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, economic blockade, acts of terrorism, and other most serious international crimes.
Throughout the years of conflict, Yemen has witnessed successive waves of violations, including attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, the forced recruitment of children, terrorist attacks, and arbitrary restrictions on humanitarian assistance. These violations have occurred in a climate marked by the absence of accountability and the persistence of impunity. The paralysis of effective national and international investigative mechanisms has further deepened victims’ suffering and undermined confidence in avenues for justice.
In fulfillment of its human rights and moral responsibilities, AMHRI calls upon the international community and United Nations Member States to take urgent action to:
1. Establish comprehensive, independent, and impartial international criminal investigative mechanisms with a clear mandate to collect, preserve, and analyze evidence, and to investigate all violations and international crimes committed in Yemen without exception or selectivity, while ensuring the protection of victims and witnesses.
2. Strengthen international accountability pathways by seriously pursuing the full referral of the Yemeni situation to the International Criminal Court, enabling investigation and prosecution of those responsible for acts of terrorism and the most serious international crimes, regardless of their status or position.
3. Guarantee victims’ right to effective remedy, including reparations, compensation, rehabilitation, and guarantees of non-repetition, in accordance with relevant international standards.
4. Support justice and the rule of law as fundamental pillars of any sustainable peace process, and affirm that genuine peace cannot be achieved without accountability.
AMHRI emphasizes that impunity constitutes a direct threat to international peace and security, and that failure to take decisive action will result in further crimes and increased suffering of civilians. Accordingly, we urge the international community to uphold its legal and moral responsibilities and to take concrete and immediate steps to ensure justice, accountability, and the dignity of victims in Yemen.
Association Ma’onah for Human Rights and Immigration (AMHRI)
Yemen – New York.
