Eradah Organization concludes a work tour of the UK and a number of European countries.

Eradah Organization to Combat Torture and Forced Disappearance concluded a work tour of UK and a number of European countries aimed at highlighting the conditions of detainees and forcibly disappeared and the means to obtain information about the situation and whereabouts of the disappeared in Houthi’s jails. And how to release them. The meetings which were held with a number of international activists and UN representatives for human rights touched on the risk to civilians caused by millions of Houthi’s landmines planted in their main roads, villages and around homes resulted in the death, disability and amputation of thousands of civilians. The meetings were discussed many issues regarding Yemeni civilians, primarily violations against civilians live in Houthis-controlled areas, Houthi’s siege imposed on Taiz for 9 years, cutting off roads of many Yemeni provinces, including those leading to Taiz and Marib exacerbating the suffering of people especially those go through international desert road linking between Marib and Aljawf where they have been ripped off, blackmailed and in some cases killed due to Houthis militia’s intransigence and rejection to open the main road. The meetings also touched on the childhood situations and the need to prevent child recruitment. For its part, Eradah Org provided clarification on what Houthis militia doing in its Iranian-funded summer camps that became places for recruiting childhood and the violations against children whom Houthis militia forced to attend such summer camps where they were taught sectarian thoughts and prepared to be militants in its ranks, which poses a threat to the security and stability of Yemen and the World. The meetings also touched on the situations of IDPs, who were forced to leave their original resident by Houthis militia, live in refugees camps in Marib, Taiz, Hudaydah and other provinces, talking about the dire conditions of thousands of families live in those poorly equipped camps suffering from food insecurity, gave many examples of cases about the civilians subjected to serious violations constituted a serious crime of human rights. During the meetings, inwhich dozens of documented cases files of the violations were delivered, many views were bringing and exchanged views on the possible solutions for those cases and how to insure the prosecuting the perpetrators of these crimes and non-impunity. During the work tour, two films were shoot with Sheikh Jamal Al-Mamari, the head if Eradah Org, inwhich he talked about the situations of detainees and forcibly disappeared in Houthis militia’s jails and the suffering of their families, and the hard conditions of IDPs during the nine past years of war in Yemen.