With the record of human rights abuses mounting on all sides of the Yemen conflict, the United States should use its leverage to reestablish an independent oversight mechanism and work to bring accountability for these violations.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), MoveOn, Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Demand Progress, Just Foreign Policy, Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), and the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft released a coalition letter today calling on congressional lawmakers to support the Yemen War Powers Resolution.
Fighting is starting to escalate in Yemen and peace is seeming more and more elusive.
A War Powers Resolution will cut U.S. aid to the kingdom’s war on Yemen; it has wide bipartisan support and a fast-track legislative process.
Stephen Zunes is a Quaker and a Middle East expert at the University of San Francisco. We spoke with him to learn more about the situation in Yemen and what Quakers can do to help.
Punctuated by unrelenting Saudi airstrikes and Houthi drone attacks, the Saudi-led coalition’s war and blockade have led to one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Punctuated by unrelenting Saudi airstrikes and Houthi drone attacks, the Saudi-led coalition’s war and blockade have led to one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
FCNL applauds news that Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to extend the UN-brokered truce for two additional months.
As lawmakers move to end US complicity in the Saudi-led war, warring parties take a stab at peace.
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