Rights activist say move is akin to asking Vladimir Putin to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine
is exploring the creation of a new international committee to document and report on human rights violations in Yemen, months after a Saudi lobbying campaign quashed an independent United Nations investigation into possible war crimes.
Faqih said the administration’s proposed plan to “replace” the independent UN body that had been investigating possible war crimes was deeply flawed. The state department, he said, was considering including representatives from, which has close ties to Riyadh, as a “partner” in the new international mechanism.
Two others familiar with the preliminary discussions, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, said they were also aware of efforts by the administration to reach out to NGOs to discuss the plans. The work of the GEE – a group of three independent experts who were appointed by the Office of the UN high commission for human rights in 2017 to investigate human rights abuses committed in the Yemen war – came to an abrupt halt last October, after thefollowing a campaign by Saudi Arabia.
Faqih said he had also raised at a recent meeting with the state department what he called a “double-standard” in which the US had quickly moved to “document and investigate” war crimes by Russia, while leaving Yemen in the lurch.
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