Development of a national human rights strategy for Yemen

Purpose

The purpose was to increase the capacity of the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR) and Human Rights Strategy Committee and pave the way for an effective framework for human rights protection in Yemen. The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) provided the Yemeni partners with technical, methodological and editorial input and facilitated process and dialogue for the development of the national human rights strategy.

In the autumn of 2013 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between DIHR and the Yemeni MoHR and in October 2013 a secretariat of the MoHR was established to facilitate the work of the National Human Rights Strategy Committee. Workshops were conducted in December 2013, February and December 2014. The resurgence of conflict in 2015 meant that the strategy process was out on hold. In October 2015 work was resumed and another workshop was conducted focusing on a technical discussion of the content of the overall strategy plan.

The difference we made

It was the first time that the Yemeni Human Rights Strategy Committee with support of the Yemeni MoHR and DIHR drafted a national strategic plan on human rights.

Partners

• The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Deutsch Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
• The ministry of Human Rights inYemen (MoHR)
• The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)