Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch wrote a joint letter to the UN Human Rights Council this week, urging member states to initiate an “international, independent investigation into civilian deaths and injuries in Yemen".
“The council has missed critical opportunities to address alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in Yemen," said the letter. "No valid human rights-based reason has been identified that would justify failing to create an international inquiry."
Thousands of civilian deaths have occurred with millions more facing malnourishment and displaced from their homes.
The groups warned that "If the Council once again fails to create an international inquiry, it will have shirked its mandate to promote accountability, failed to help provide victims of violations in Yemen the justice to which they are entitled, and undermined its own credibility as the Council marks its tenth anniversary".
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