Human Rights Department participates in launching report on violations in South organized by Civil Network for Media Development and Human Rights

The Civil Network for Media, Development, and Human Rights launched on Saturday, its report on human rights violations in the South and West Coast for the period 2015-2019, in a press conference held in the capital Aden, with the participation of the Human Rights Department of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, and in presence of a group of journalists, media outlets, press, human rights and community activists.

Dr. Abdulaziz Ali Hadi, Deputy Head of the Human Rights Department at the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council said in his intervention at the press conference: “The report presented by the Civil Network for Media, Development and Human Rights is a human rights report par excellence far from being political, and it included distinguished monitoring and accurate documentation of the violations witnessed against the south", stressing that there are monitoring reports of violations submitted to international organizations, although they have been ignored, but the time will come for them to reach and to show the truth about the human rights and humanitarian violations facing the south.

Dr. Mahmoud Shaif, President of the Civil Network for Media, Development and Human Rights, had inaugurated the press conference of launching the human rights report by welcoming the attendees, noting that the launch of this report had witnessed a delay due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and it appears today coinciding with the 45th session of the Human Rights Council, and also along with the current difficult stage witnessed in the southern arena due to economic crises, deterioration in services, unpaid salaries, spread of epidemics and diseases, and human rights violations such as the aggressions committed by the Houthis in Al-Dhale'e and in the western coast, especially the destruction and displacement of people in Al-Dhale'e in an area that appears to be forgotten by international community amid the lack of attention of the international organizations, as well as what the citizens of Shabwa suffer from due to the violations committed by the Brotherhood militias and the special forces affiliated with the legitimacy.

Dr. Shaif emphasized that the Civil Network aims to document those crimes that have not been involved in by international reports, relying on the methodology of what the south is exposed to and the miserable situation it witnesses of human rights violations according to accurate reports and details to prove the truth, and to show it and not to be ignored.

Dr. Mahmoud Nasr, the coordinator of the Civil Network for Media, Development and Human Rights, reviewed in the press conference the contents of the report and its terms in monitoring and documenting the violations that the South suffered from by the Houthis in the western coast, Al-Dhale'e, and the rest areas in the south, and the violations of the Brotherhood militia in Shabwa and other areas, indicating to planting mines, massacres against civilians, and damages to various service and institutional sectors as a result of the war, in addition to the situation of detainees and forcibly disappeared persons, and violations against the rights of women and children.

The press conference, which was also attended by the head of the Social Affairs Department in the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Transitional Council, Mr. Aad Mohammad Ali Haitham, witnessed the distribution of copies of the human rights report documenting the violations against the south and the regions of the West Coast for the period March 26, 2015 until December 31, 2019 in the form a book entitled "Civilians with Protection and Crimes Without Punishment".

During the press conference, clips of examples of some cases of violations committed against citizens were shown,  and after that discussions and interventions about the report took place by the participants.

The press conference was concluded by declaring a statement issued by the Civil Network and the participants about the report and its contents with a number of condemnations and calls in the statement regarding the cases of violations in the report and the situation in the South.