The undersigned human rights organizations express their extreme astonishment and astonishment at Security Council Resolution No. 2722, which was adopted by the Council on 1/10/2024, in which the Council condemned the measures taken by the Yemeni army to respond to the crimes of the occupying entity and apartheid against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Which came as a result of the failure of the Security Council to fulfill its responsibilities to maintain international peace and security and put an end to the crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the occupying entity in full view of the countries of the whole world. Human rights organizations remind the Security Council that (13) of its member states voted on 12/8/2023 in favor of a draft resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and the draft fell due to the American veto against it, in addition to the fact that the United Nations General Assembly had previously voted With a majority of 153 countries in favor of a recommendation calling for a ceasefire.
The United States of America employed Resolution 2722 to launch aggressive attacks against Yemen because of its movement in the name of the international community to protect a public interest of the international community, which is to prohibit the crime of genocide and prevent its commission. The non-military countermeasures taken by Yemen to impose a naval blockade on the Israeli entity are aimed at pressuring it to stop its international crimes, especially since the international community and the United Nations failed to do so.
The countermeasures taken by Yemen find their basis in the articles on the responsibility of states for non-military and internationally legitimate acts, which require states to cooperate in order to put an end to a situation that includes a serious violation of a peremptory international norm. In addition, the aforementioned articles sanction countermeasures against any international breach of obligations that are binding on all. Or a general decision in the general interest of the international community. Yemen has only resorted to military measures as an exception, and in principle it has taken pressure measures to impose a siege on the Israeli entity until it stops its crimes. The use of non-military measures came as a result of the paralysis of the international community and the Security Council in ending the commission of these massacres and atrocities. It is not legally and morally acceptable for countries to remain spectators to crimes that are unprecedented in contemporary history. The issue is not a matter of positive legitimacy as much as it is a matter of international legitimacy.
The signatory human rights organizations believe that Security Council Resolution No. 2722 and the Anglo-Saxon aggression carried out by the American-British arm would undermine the foundations of the contemporary international legal system, but rather contradict peremptory rules in international law, and states must condemn that aggression and stand up to it out of concern for the requirements of legality. International law and to maintain the pivotal pillars and foundations of the contemporary international law system.
Based on the above, the undersigned human rights organizations condemn the American-British aggression against Yemen and consider it a violation of Yemen’s sovereignty on the one hand and a continuation of the aggression announced by Washington on March 26, 2015, in addition to being an aggression that contributes with all its military, diplomatic, media and intelligence capabilities as a partner of the occupation and apartheid entity in the war. Genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and aims to divert attention from what is going on in the corridors of the International Court of Justice and obscure the occupation forces’ continuation of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Human rights organizations express their confidence in the ability of the Yemeni people to defeat the goals of this brutal aggression, and continue to support the struggle of the Palestinian people to stop the Israeli aggression and lift the ongoing siege imposed on the Palestinian people in Gaza since 2005.
Finally, the organizations call on all free people in the world to condemn this American-British aggression against Yemen, which threatens global peace and security.
Signatories (in alphabetical order):
- Maghreb Coordination of Human Rights Organizations (includes 26 human rights organizations in Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya)
- Tunisian General Labor Union
- General Federation of Yemeni Trade Unions
- Palestinian Women's Labor Union
- Union of Palestinian Women’s Action Committees
- Jordanian Federation of Independent Trade Unions
- The Tunisian Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (includes 8 human rights organizations)
- The Human Rights Coalition to Stop the Aggression, Lift the Siege, and Build Peace in Yemen (includes 10 organizations from ten Arab countries)
- Moroccan Coalition of Human Rights Bodies (includes 23 bodies)
- Academic gathering in Lebanon to support Palestine/Lebanon
- Cultural Rally for Democracy/Iraq
- Association of NGOs (includes 50 organizations)/Lebanon
- Alliance of Mauritanian Professors
- Lebanese Democratic Women's Gathering
- Syrian Coalition Against the Death Penalty ( SCODP )
- The Iraqi Coalition Against the Death Penalty
- The Iraqi Alliance of Human Rights Organizations (includes 55 human rights organizations)
- Arab Coalition Against the Death Penalty
- The Syrian Feminist Alliance to activate Security Council Resolution 1325
- The Yemeni Coalition Against the Death Penalty
- Jordanian Society for Human Rights
- Civil Solidarity Association-Mousset, Tunisia
- Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Morocco ( ASDHOM )
- Women's Action Association/Palestine
- Al-Rowad Society for Culture and Arts - Aida Camp - Bethlehem / Palestine
- Lebanese Association of Democratic Jurists
- Palestinian Working Women Association for Development/Palestine
- Arab Women Association in Jordan
- Moroccan Association for Human Rights
- Mauritanian Society for Human Rights
- Najda Social Association for Women’s Development/Palestine
- Juzoor Association for Citizen Rights/Jordan
- Citizenship Bridges Association/Tunisia
- José Martí Association for Arab-American Solidarity
- Rachel Corrie Association for Solidarity between Peoples
- Candles Association for Equality/Morocco
- Mothers School Association/Palestine
- Orient Forum for Freedom and Peace Association/Lebanon
- Protecting human rights defenders in the Arab world/France
- Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights
- Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights
- Association of Women Heads of Households from Mauritania
- Iraqi Human Rights Trainers Association
- Freedom Pioneers for Training on Integrity and Human Rights/Jordan
- The Jordanian Network for Human Rights (includes 11 human rights organizations)
- International Network for Human Rights and Development/France
- Global Network for the Defense of the Palestinian People
- Women's Network for Peace and Security/Yemen
- The Syrian National Network for Civil Peace and Community Safety
- One Justice/France
- Committees for the defense of human rights and democratic freedoms in Syria
- Syrian Medical Committee/Paris
- Popular Committees to Resist Settlement and the Wall/Palestine
- Arab Committee for Human Rights/Paris
- Vigilance Committee for Democracy in Tunisia, Belgium
- The Palestinian Initiative to Deepen Global Dialogue and Democracy - Key
- International Council in Support of Fair Trials and Human Rights (ICSFT).
- World Council for Rights and Freedoms/Yemen
- Justice Lawyers is an organization concerned with rights and freedoms/Yemen
- School of Human Rights / Kuwait
- Arab World Observatory for Democracy and Elections (Observatory)
- Arab Observatory for Human Rights and Citizenship/Lebanon
- French Observatory for Human Rights/Paris
- Mauritanian Observatory for Human Rights
- Hurriyat Observatory / Morocco
- Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS”/Palestine
- Center for Arab Media Women/Jordan
- Center for Research, Legal Consultation and Protection for Women/Palestine
- Al Badil Center for Studies and Research/Jordan
- Khiam Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture/Lebanon
- Center for Feminist Studies/ Palestine
- Center for the Defense of Civil Liberties and Rights “Hurriyat”/ Palestine
- The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession “Musawa”
- Tunis Center for Freedom of the Press
- Roots Center for Human Rights/Jordan
- Geneva Center for Democracy and Human Rights
- Damascus Center for Theoretical and Civil Rights Studies
- Amman Center for Human Rights Studies/Jordan
- Metro Center for Defending Journalists' Rights/Iraq
- Call of Karama Center for Rights and Development/Yemen
- Scandinavian Institute for Human Rights/Geneva
- Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
- International Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights/Geneva
- Yemen Media Forum / Yemen
- Houran Forum for Citizenship/Syria
- Bahrain Forum for Human Rights
- Forum for Renewal of Citizen and Democratic Thought / Tunisia
- The National Civil Forum in Sudan (includes 54 civil society organizations)
- African Human Rights Monitoring Organization/Morocco
- International House for Human Rights/France
- Tunisian Organization Against Torture
- Gender Studies and Information Organization/Iraq
- Organization for the Defense of Victims of Violence/Geneva
- Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria
- Habitat Organization for Rights and Development/Yemen
- National Organization for Human Rights in Syria
- The Yemeni Organization for Interfaith and Cultural Dialogue
- Intisaf Organization for Women and Children’s Rights/Yemen
- Insan Organization for Rights and Freedoms/Yemen
- Freedom House Organization for Defending Human Rights and Combating Slavery and its Remnants/Mauritania
- Organization for Freedom of Media and Expression. Hatem/Morocco
- Organization for the Protection of Law and the Promotion of Peace/Yemen
- Desert Youth Organization for Development and Human Rights/Libya
- Defenders for Human Rights, Morocco
- Yemen Organization for Defending Democratic Rights and Freedoms/Yemen
- Middle East Foundation for Development and Human Rights/Yemen
- National Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking/Yemen
- Foundation for the Protection of Law and the Promotion of Social Peace / Yemen
- Community Development and Protection Support Foundation - Aden / Yemen
- Mada Foundation for Human Rights/Iraq
- Palestinian Journalists Syndicate
- Yemeni Bar Association
- National Union of Tunisian Journalists
- The International Commission to Support the Rights of the Palestinian People “Hashd”
- Sahel Organization for Defending Human Rights and Supporting Education and Social Peace/Mauritania