NCIAVHR Submits Its Thirteenth Report to Presidential Leadership Council Chairman

Aden | September 10, 2025

Today, the National Commission to Investigate Alleged Violations of Human Rights (NCIAVHR), led by Judge Ahmed Saeed Al-Maflahi, met with His Excellency Dr. Rashad Mohammed Al-Alimi, Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, and presented him with the Commission’s Thirteenth Annual Report.

During the meeting, President Al-Alimi praised the Commission’s significant efforts and reaffirmed the Council’s and the government’s commitment to provide full support for its mandate. This includes implementing its recommendations to strengthen human rights, judicial, and security institutions to guarantee rights and enforce the rule of law.

Mr. Al-Alimi expressed confidence in the Commission’s continued efforts to coordinate with relevant authorities to monitor and document violations, and to combat impunity—particularly in cases involving restrictions on public freedoms, violence against women and children, and violations targeting journalists and human rights defenders.

The President renewed his directives to the government and concerned bodies to facilitate the Commission’s work, grant access to its field monitors, and engage seriously with its reports. He emphasized the Commission’s role as the nationally and internationally recognized mechanism for conducting professional, impartial investigations and documenting human rights violations.

The Thirteenth Annual Report, covering the period from August 1, 2024, to July 31, 2025, documents more than 3,003 alleged violations of human rights across multiple governorates, encompassing over 36 different categories of violations and resulting in 3,766 victims of both genders.

Judge Al-Maflahi and Commission members briefed the President on the report’s findings and the Commission’s recent activities in documentation and investigation. These included visits to prisons, detention facilities, and sites of civilian casualties, as well as identifying the requirements needed to continue their work in line with national and international law.

Since its establishment in January 2016 and up to this latest report, the Commission has documented a total of 32,953 incidents of violations.

According to the new report, between August 2024 and July 2025, the Commission interviewed more than 13,192 witnesses, informants, and victims, and reviewed around 7,768 documents and related materials tied to the cases investigated and verified.

The report highlights the Commission’s handling of violations under both international humanitarian law and international human rights law, with particular focus on cases involving the killing and injury of civilians, child recruitment, the planting of anti-personnel mines, targeting of medical facilities, forced displacement, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and unlawful detention, as well as attacks on places of worship and education, and the use of sieges to starve civilian populations.