(MENAFN) The Mwatana Organization for Human Rights and Columbia Law School's Human Rights Clinic has submitted a new report to the United Nations that is highly critical of Saudi Arabia's human rights record, MEM reported.
Radhya Almutawakel, Chairperson of Mwatana Organization for Human Rights said: "No one has been spared in the war in Yemen-for more than three years, Saudi-led coalition airstrikes have killed and injured thousands of civilians, destroying homes, schools, hospitals, and even hitting weddings and funerals."
Almutawakel went on, "When governments review Saudi Arabia's human rights record at the UN later this year, they must examine Saudi conduct not only in Saudi Arabia but also in Yemen, and offer recommendations to promote human rights and a peaceful solution to the conflict."
The report also describes Saudi Arabia's continued restriction of vital food imports and humanitarian aid to Yemen which has lead to what the United Nations has described as the "worst humanitarian crisis in the world."
Saudi Arabia and some other countries attacked Yemen in March 2015 to re-empower the deposed president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Thousands of Yemenis have been killed in the Arabian-American coalition's attack and more than 2,000 have died due to cholera epidemic.
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