Reconstruction and Urgent Recovery:
Reconstruction in Yemen requires an integrated package of processes, measures, and procedures that enhance the country’s stability and contribute to improving living conditions through restoring and upgrading infrastructure and public facilities, while gradually mitigating and ultimately eliminating the material damage inflicted upon society during the conflict. Among other measures, this process includes:
Conducting a comprehensive assessment of damage to infrastructure and the economic and social sectors through transparent mechanisms carried out by specialists and experts in the field.
Developing and implementing a comprehensive reconstruction plan and program that includes short-, medium-, and long-term priorities, based on the results of needs assessments, urgent priorities, and available resources, alongside phased plans for implementing the various reconstruction operations.
Transitional Justice:
Addressing the legacy of the current conflict and previous cycles of conflict and violations through engaging in a genuine transitional justice process that leads to a peaceful and carefully managed transition toward a just and sustainable peace, while eliminating the causes of social tension and polarization generated by the current conflict and prior cycles of violence. This process includes addressing protracted issues such as enforced disappearances, political exclusion, confiscation of rights, and related grievances. Transitional justice efforts may begin simultaneously with, or even prior to, reconstruction and urgent recovery processes. Transitional justice in Yemen should be founded upon several core principles:
Ensuring the genuine and effective participation of all segments of Yemeni society in designing transitional justice programs and developing their various plans, while providing appropriate mechanisms to guarantee such participation.
Guaranteeing the rights of individuals, particularly the direct victims of the various violations committed by parties to the conflict, including victims of killing and mutilation, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance, torture and extrajudicial killings, executions without trial, forced displacement, gender-based violations, and other abuses committed during the conflict. These rights include the right to truth, reparations, criminal accountability, justice, guarantees of non-recurrence, and official recognition of the harm they endured. Victims must remain at the center of this process, and their voices must take precedence within it.
Preventing any perpetrators of past violations from escaping transitional justice or benefiting from any form of leniency in legal provisions or mechanisms that could overlook such violations under any justification.
Developing appropriate plans and programs to implement reparative measures for victims of violations against human dignity and their families, including acknowledgment of the harm they suffered after the conflict and the provision of symbolic reparations that assist them in overcoming their suffering.
Conducting societal discussions regarding the violations committed during the conflict, including practices of exclusion, detention, political, social, cultural, and economic violations, discrimination, confiscation of rights, erasure of identity, torture, and other abuses, while establishing legal, institutional, judicial, and social guarantees to prevent their recurrence. This includes rebuilding the security and justice institutions on foundations that respect people’s fundamental rights and freedoms and strengthen accountability, civilian oversight, and the rule of law.
His father was overthrown by the Constitutional Revolution in 1948. At the time, he was seeking support from the tribes surrounding Sana’a, where the Zaydi majority was concentrated, as the loyalty of the Shafi‘i population in the central regions was considered doubtful.