Thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in Aden on Tuesday, calling for the south to regain independence. The protesters were responding to exiled southern leader Ali Salem al-Baid's calls to commemorate his 1994 declaration to break away from the north. Meanwhile, the ...

The Kuwaiti government should scrap a controversial media reform law, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. Following news that the Ministry of Information suspended a popular television program, “Talk Shawk”, presented by opposition journalist Mohammad al-Washeehi late Wednesday, HRW is renewing ...

Freedom House released its annual report on freedom of the press around the world in 2012. The report identified a global decline, asserting that "the percentage of people worldwide who enjoy a free media environment fell to its ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) praised a Yemeni court order to investigate the country's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and 11 top aides in connection with a fatal attack on peaceful protesters in Sa'ana in March 2011 that killed 45. Calling ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on the  implications of the U.S. conducting targeted killings using drones. Yemeni democracy activist Farea al-Muslimi testified at the hearing, saying that the use of drone strikes in ...

The State Department's 2012 report on the status of human rights in Yemen identified "arbitrary killings and acts of violence committed by the government and various entities and groups; disappearances and kidnappings; and a weak and corrupt judicial ...

The State Department released the 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. These reports provide detailed assessments of the status of human rights around the world. Uzra Zeya, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor,

Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi removed several top security officials from their positions on Wednesday. The most prominent removal is Brigadier General Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, son of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and head of the Republican Guard. General ...

Yemen's National Dialogue Conference concluded its first session on Wednesday and all but one of the conference's nine workings groups have agreed on their presidential committees. The finalized leadership of the group to discuss the governorate of Sa'ada has ...

Encouraging U.S. support for Yemen's National Dialogue Conference, Danya Greenfield and David Kramer stress in a Washington Post Op-Ed that the U.S. threatens its efforts to curb extremism by focusing too heavily on counter terrorism operations in the country. " By focusing primarily on acute, ...

With the inauguration of President Obama’s second term and the commencement of the National Dialogue Conference, now is an opportune moment to reevaluate U.S. policy towards Yemen. In this spirit, the Project on Middle East Democracy has, in collaboration with ...

Yemen's U.N.-backed National Dialogue conference began on Monday in Sanaa. Including over 500 representatives of the country's various political groups, the dialogue will attempt to draft a new constitution in preparation for elections in early 2014. It is also slated to address ...

Southern separatists in Yemen engaged in a general strike in Aden to express their unwillingness to engage in the national dialogue set to begin on Monday. The strike took place primarily in schools and universities over ...

Deputy Secretary of State William Burns led a U.S. delegation to the Friends of Yemen meeting held in London on Thursday. In remarks following the meeting he referred to the political progress that has been made in Yemen ...

Opposition forces in Kuwait  announced the formation of a new alliance Sunday. The Opposition Coalition will bring together a wide spectrum of political groups under one umbrella, with the objective of reinvigorating the country's protest movement. The announcement was ...

Bahrain's Ministry of Interior issued a press release Saturday rejecting as "wrong and contradictory" a Human Rights Watch (HRW) statement on the country's progress in addressing human rights violations. On a five-day visit ending February 28, Sarah Leah Whitson, ...

On Monday, Yemen's President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi continued his surprise visit to southern Yemen by meeting with officials in Aden and advocating for using the upcoming national dialogue to solve the country's issues. Hadi arrived on Saturday amid Hirak (Southern Movement) ...