The National Committee to Investigate Allegations of Human Rights Violations concluded, in the capital, Aden, its first regular meeting with its field researchers deployed throughout the governorates of the Republic for the new year 2024, in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The periodic meeting, in which 40 male and female field researchers participated, and which lasted for three days, reviewed the most important results of monitoring and documentation work for the past year 2023, and reviewed and evaluated the level of achievement quantitatively and qualitatively to measure the progress achieved in implementing the monitoring and documentation plan in light of the general strategy of the National Commission of Investigation.

The meeting, which was opened by the Chairman of the National Committee, Judge Ahmed Al-Muflhi, and moderated by the members of the committee, focused on the most important difficulties in field work, the challenges facing monitors and ways to overcome them. It also discussed technical observations on monitoring and documentation work and proposals for improving performance during the new year.

The assistant investigators also discussed with the committee’s monitors the review and evaluation of the monitoring and documentation work based on the monitoring forms, discussing the level of work based on the investigators’ observations, and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the monitoring and documentation work in order to submit the treatments to the committee members in a way that increases the effectiveness of the work and improves performance.

In the same context, Emma Walker, Human Rights Officer at the High Commissioner, discussed with the Committee’s observers the work of monitoring and documenting human rights violations and challenges. She also discussed, in a special meeting with the Committee’s researchers, monitoring and analyzing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.

The three-day meeting discussed identifying needs and priorities for expanding the circle of observed violations and reaching new areas, and the requirements for field visits to areas of violations, prisons, and detention centers, and discussing ways to implement them in the context of political, military, and security developments and their impact on accessibility for victims.

The meeting also developed a summary of proposals and recommendations for developing monitoring and documentation work and means of implementing them in light of the plan of the National Commission of Inquiry for the year 2024.