By NNN-Saba
Sana’a : Human Rights Watch excluded Yemen from human rights violations countries blacklist of 2007 listed over 175 countries including 13 Arab states.
In its 2008 report on the human rights violations all over the world, the Human Rights Watch omitted Yemen from the blacklist which now comprise of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Ministry of Human Rights and the concerned bodies activists signalled that exclusion of Yemen form the blacklist showed the advancement of the human rights performance in the country.
The executive manager of Hood Organization Khalid al-Anesi, however, said that exclusion of Yemen “does not mean improving the human rights situation in the country”, making clear that the Organization’s researchers have been prevented from coming into the country to scrutinize human right situation in the reality.
The organization doesn’t have a bureau in Yemen, al-Anesi said, pointing out that the human rights organizations must carry out their works through field investigations and close assessments and observations.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch, an organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world, was established in the United States of America in 1978.
It has its own offices in Brussels, London, Moscow, Hong Kong, Los Angles, San
Francesco and other cities with 150 academic researchers responsible for conducting investigations over the violations against the human rights around the world.