Yemen Organization for Combating Human Trafficking

09/03/2023

Hamtramck Government Honors President of Yemen Organization for Combating Human Trafficking

The government of Hamtramck honored the state of Michigan, in the United States of America, the President of the Yemeni Organization for Combating Human Trafficking, Mr. Nabil Fadel, for his efforts in defending human rights and combating human trafficking in the Republic of Yemen.
This came during the visit of the head of the organization to the headquarters of the government of Hamtramck, at the invitation of the mayor of the city, Dr. Amir Ghaleb Haidara.
During the visit, the President of the Organization met with the Mayor of the city, Mr. Max Gebreno, Executive Director of the city, Mrs. Luqman, Assistant Executive Director of the city, Mr. Muhammad Al-Samiri, member of the municipal council, and Mr. Mutahar Fadel, Commissioner of Housing Administration.
The head of the organization, Nabil Fadel, listened to a briefing on the activity of the city council during a tour of the council's facilities and the city hall.
The head of the Yemeni Organization for Combating Human Trafficking expressed his great happiness and pride in the honor and thanked the leaders in the city council, saying that it was a generous gesture.
He also expressed his praise and great pride in the great efforts that made by the city government and the qualitative successes it has achieved, which were reflected in the size of the tangible development witnessed by the city.
He expressed his wishes to the active leaders of the city council to achieve more successes.

24/01/2023

UNODC global report on trafficking in persons: crises shift trafficking patterns and hinder victim identification

© UNODC; Painting by Yasser Razahi
Vienna (Austria), 24 January 2023 – Fewer victims of trafficking in persons are being identified even as the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises are increasing vulnerabilities to exploitation, according to the latest Global Report on Trafficking in Persons launched today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The number of victims detected globally fell by 11 per cent in 2020 from the previous year, driven by fewer detections in low- and medium-income countries. The pandemic, in addition to reducing opportunities for traffickers to operate, may have weakened law enforcement capacities to detect victims.
“This latest report shows how the pandemic has increased vulnerabilities to trafficking in persons, further undercutting capacities to rescue victims and bring criminals to justice,” said UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly. “We cannot allow crises to compound exploitation. The UN and the donor community need to support national authorities, most of all in developing countries, to respond to trafficking threats, and to identify and protect victims especially in states of emergency.”
The seventh UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons covers 141 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels, based on trafficking cases detected between 2017 and 2021. The findings are further informed by analysis of 800 court case summaries and accompanied by detailed suggestions to policy makers to help formulate effective responses.
Fewer cases of trafficking for sexual exploitation were detected during the pandemic as public spaces were closed and related restrictions may have pushed this form of trafficking into more concealed and less safe locations, making it harder to identify victims.
Globally, the number of convictions for trafficking offences also fell by 27 per cent in 2020 from the previous year – with sharper decreases registered in South Asia (56 per cent), Central America and the Caribbean (54 per cent) and South America (46 per cent) – accelerating a longer-term trend registered by UNODC since 2017.
Court case analysis featured in the report further shows that trafficking victims, when they are identified, escape from traffickers on their own and are in effect ‘self-rescued’ – there are more cases of victims escaping and reporting to authorities of their own initiative (41 per cent) than cases where victims were located by law enforcement (28 per cent), members of the community and civil society (11 per cent). This is especially alarming considering many victims of trafficking may not identify themselves as victims or may be too afraid of their exploiters to attempt escaping.
The report also details how war and conflict offer opportunities for traffickers to exploit. It shows that the war in Ukraine is elevating trafficking risks for the displaced population. Most victims resulting from conflicts originate in and are trafficked to countries in Africa and the Middle East.
Breaking down trafficking in persons statistics by region, the report shows higher levels of impunity in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Countries in these regions convict fewer traffickers and detect fewer victims than the rest of the world. At the same time, victims from these regions are identified in a wider range of destination countries than victims from other regions.
The 2022 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons also examines court cases showing that female victims are subject to physical or extreme violence at hands of traffickers at a rate three times higher than males, and children are subjected almost twice as often as adults.
At the same time, women investigated for trafficking in persons are also significantly more likely to be convicted than men. This suggests that the justice system may discriminate against women, and/or that the role of women in trafficking networks may increase the likelihood that they are convicted for the crime.
Further information

The UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons has been published since 2009. Mandated by the UN General Assembly to inform an effective response to this crime and place it within the context of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda, the Report draws upon the largest existing dataset on trafficking in persons, with information on the more than 450,000 victims and 300,000 (suspected) offenders detected worldwide between 2003 and 2021.

01/01/2023

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28/11/2022

Human Trafficking Organization: The Houthi Code is a satanic method
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 4:48 PM
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The Yemeni Organization for Combating Human Trafficking confirmed that it is following with great concern what the Houthi militia has prepared a document called "Code of Professional Conduct".



The organization published a statement saying:



The Yemeni Organization for Combating Human Trafficking is following with great concern what the Houthi militia has prepared a document under the name of the "Code of Functional Conduct", which, through reviewing, reviewing and examining its provisions, has become clear that it is an extension of their racist priesthood project emerging from the vaults of ignorance and backwardness.

The so-called "Code of Functional Conduct" confirms that the dynasty's arrogant view and the attempt to exclude others is an original and rooted thought in the Houthi militia project, and reveals the truth of its class project that is contrary to religion, customs, human values ​​and covenants, which carries great misleading, forgery and scraping of the national identity, as it is this document This serious attack represents a flagrant assault on rights, freedoms, and dignity, and an attempt to legitimize the culture of slavery and enslavement that it practices under various names and slogans, and the last of which will not be targeting a segment of state employees, intellectuals, and cadres, after deliberately depriving them of their salaries and entitlements and forcing them to work without salaries for nearly five years under justifications, names, and excuses. Its flimsy behavior refutes it by giving privileges and incentives to its new employees in all facilities according to abhorrent dynastic standards, as it grants them salaries, entitlements, and bonuses periodically and regularly, excluding other affiliates of the sectors of the Yemeni people.
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28/11/2022

2022 Nov 14

The organization considers a functional code of conduct dedicated to human trafficking

The Yemeni Organization for Combating Human Trafficking is following with great concern what the Houthi militia has prepared a document under the name of the "Code of Professional Conduct", which, through reviewing and examining its provisions, has become clear that it is an extension of their racist priestly project emerging from the vaults of ignorance and backwardness.
The so-called "Code of Functional Conduct" confirms that the dynasty's arrogant view and the attempt to exclude others is an original and rooted thought in the Houthi militia project, and reveals the truth of its class project that is contrary to religion, customs, human values ​​and covenants, which carries great misleading, forgery and scraping of the national identity, as it is this document This serious attack represents a flagrant assault on rights, freedoms, and dignity, and an attempt to legitimize the culture of slavery and enslavement that it practices under different names and slogans, and the last of which will not be the targeting of state employees, intellectuals, and cadres, after deliberately depriving them of their salaries and entitlements and forcing them to work without salaries for nearly five years, under justifications, names, and excuses. Flimsy refuted by her actions, by giving privileges and urging

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30/09/2021

Yemeni group: Houthi rebels hold, torture female detainees
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
January 17, 2019

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels hold dozens of women without bringing them to trial or charging them with a crime, often torturing the detainees and blackmailing their families, activists said on Thursday.

The allegations were first raised over the weekend by the Yemen Organization for Combating Human Trafficking, based in the capital, Sanaa. The group’s founder, Nabil Fadel, told The Associated Press that he received information from families, former female detainees, and other sources showing that over the past months, the Houthis have been rounding up women over allegations of prostitution and collaboration with the Saudi-led coalition, which is at war with the rebels.
The rebel-run Interior Ministry responded Monday by saying the allegations were rumors from the “mouthpieces of the mercenaries” that are “tarnishing the image of security apparatus.” It also denied the existence of secret prisons and illegal and arbitrary detentions and vowed to prosecute those behind the reports.

A Yemeni rights lawyer on Thursday told the AP the women were rounded up from cafes and parks the past months. Speaking on condition of anonymity for fears for personal safety, he said their families are searching for their missing daughters.

The Yemeni anti-trafficking group said it obtained new information showing that the rebels were carrying out atrocities such as “abuse, torture, and forced disappearances of women and girls in secret and illegal prisons.”

The rebel leader, Abdul-Malek al-Houthi, had recently warned in televised speeches about a so-called “soft war” against the Houthis by their enemies, pointing to their “corrupt morals and sins.”

Fadel, of the anti-trafficking group, said the arrests started after the Houthi appointment a year ago of Sultan Zabin as head of the Sanaa criminal investigation division.

Zabin promptly launched a crackdown on prostitution and smuggling. Women who had been rounded up in the crackdown and subsequently granted release were sent to secret detentions in villas across the Yemeni capital, instead of being set free.

An AP investigation last month showed that thousands of Yemenis have been imprisoned by the Houthi militia during the four years of Yemen’s grinding civil war.

Many of them suffered extreme torture — being smashed in their faces with batons, hung from chains by their wrists or ge****ls for weeks at a time, and scorched with acid.

The revelations about women detainees come as representatives of Yemen’s warring sides are in Jordan for talks on implementing a prisoners exchange deal agreed to in Sweden last month.

Yemen plunged into civil war in 2014, when the rebels captured the capital, Sanaa. A Saudi-led coalition intervened a year later, fighting alongside government troops.

In Sweden, the two sides agreed to confidence-building measures, including an exchange of thousands of prisoners. But the implementation of that has been slow marred by violence.

30/09/2021

There are evil men who only think about sexual satisfaction and they do not care how they get it

- Nabil Fadhel, Yemeni Organisation for Combating Human Trafficking
"Families fear scandal and society's reaction," said Fadhel. "They keep the incident secret, and the law cannot help the victims anyway."

He said his colleagues had also been threatened by camp supervisors fearful they would be held accountable.

Sikurajapathy added that there was little to no support for women and girls who had been abused - although last year UNFPA had helped more than 6,000 with legal aid, access to safe houses and healthcare.

But for Rehab, there has been little help, and the unfair stigma of her torment remains.

"We need to leave this camp, where most people know what happened," said her mother.

"Then we need to look for someone to help Rehab psychologically. I can say that Allah is stronger than the savage people and He will take revenge for us."

Rehab is an assumed name and has been used to protect the victim

War has forced two million Yemenis from their homes. For many women and girls, it is only the beginning of their nightmare

03/06/2021

01/03/2020

Houthis illegally detaining, torturing women: Yemeni activists
Sanaa-based monitor says Houthi rebels are holding dozens of women without trial and often torturing the detainees.

Yemen's Houthi rebels are holding dozens of women without trial and often torturing the detainees and blackmailing their families, activists and a human rights lawyer have told the Associated Press (AP) news agency.

A Yemeni rights lawyer told the AP on Thursday that the women were rounded up from cafes and parks in the past months.
Speaking on condition of anonymity for fears for personal safety, he said families were still searching for their missing daughters.
The allegations were first raised over the weekend by the Yemen Organization for Combating Human Trafficking, based in the capital, Sanaa.
The group's founder, Nabil Fadel, said he had received information from families, former female detainees and other sources that, over the past months, the Houthis had been rounding up women over allegations of prostitution and collaboration with the Saudi-led coalition, which is at war with the rebels.

Fadel said that the arrests started after the Houthi appointment a year ago of Sultan Zabin as head of the Sanaa criminal investigation division.
Zabin promptly launched a crackdown on prostitution and smuggling. Women who had been rounded up in the crackdown and subsequently granted release were sent to secret detentions in villas across the Yemeni capital instead of being set free.
The rebel-run Interior Ministry responded to the allegations on Monday saying they were rumours from the "mouthpieces of the mercenaries" that are "tarnishing the image of security apparatus".
It also denied the existence of secret prisons and illegal and arbitrary detentions and vowed to prosecute those behind the reports.
The leader of the Houthis, Abdul-Malek al-Houthi, had recently warned in televised speeches about a so-called "soft war" against the Houthis by their enemies, pointing to their "corrupt morals and sins".

Sanaa-based monitor says Houthi rebels are holding dozens of women without trial and often torturing the detainees.

01/03/2020

The Associated Press has revealed that the Iran-backed Houthi rebels detain dozens of Yemeni women inside private prisons and brutally treat them. In a report released today, Thursday, the Associated Press quoted activists as saying that the Houthi torture the women and blackmail their families. It also quoted an activist as saying that the Houthis have been rounding up women over allegations of prostitution and collaboration with the Saudi-led coalition, which is at war with the rebels. “The Yemeni anti-trafficking group said it obtained new information showing that the rebels were carrying out atrocities such as “abuse, torture, and forced disappearances of women and girls in secret and illegal prisons.” The Associated Added. An activists of an anti-trafficking group Nabil Fadel told that Associated Press that the arrests started after the Houthi appointment a year ago of Sultan Zabin as head of the Sana’a criminal investigation division. “Zabin promptly launched a crackdown on prostitution and smuggling. Women who had been rounded up in the crackdown and subsequently granted release were sent to secret detentions in villas across the Yemeni capital, instead of being set free,” the news agency added.

09/02/2020

Women are arrested, detained, beaten, tortured and sexually abused by Houthi group in their controlled territory
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08/02/2020

Image shows the r***d and killed by Houthis in Ibb city central Yemen, the woman activist Amal Al-Qalesi.

Mohammed Al-Rumim - ACJ

Yemen - Sana’a

The Panel of UN Experts on Yemen have issued its report in 27 January 2020, indicating to the violations that are committed by Houthis against Yemeni women who were targeted both directly and indirectly.

The report added that, " Yemeni women are perceived to be, a threat to Houthi rule. The Panel has documented a growing pattern of the repression of women In Houthi-controlled territory."

In addition to the repression of women, In a total of 11 cases documented by the Panel, women were arrested, detained, beaten, tortured and/or sexually abused because of their political affiliations or participation in political activities or public protests.

These women were threatened with charges of prostitution or organized crime if they persisted in activities against the Houthis.

As described in several Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2467 (2019), the increased repression of women expressing political views or taking part in demonstrations affects their capacity to take part in efforts and decision-making processes related to the resolution of conflict.

The Panel is investigating the involvement of the director of the criminal investigation department in Sana’a, Sultan Zabin, in relation to the torture of a female political activist in an identified location.

The Panel has identified an extensive network involved in political repression under the guise of curbing prostitution.

The Panel is also investigating the involvement of Abdul Hakim al‑Khaiwani, who has publicly stressed the strong relationship between the ministry of the interior, the prosecution and legal authorities in carrying out these arrests and detentions.

Documentary evidence of torture and testimonies. The Panel also received documents that demonstrate that Sultan Zabin and/or his office engaged in the arrest, detention and enforced disappearances of other women.

Women are arrested, detained, beaten, tortured and sexually abused by Houthi group in their controlled territory