On Wednesday 6 March, Project Masam welcomed the United Nations Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen at the project’s headquarters in the de facto capital Aden.
Project Masam’s demining experts shared information and research with the United Nations team, including:
• The smuggling of explosives into Yemen
• Houthis manufacturing their own landmines
• Regional contamination
• Current developments
The panel praised Project Masam’s Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) efforts and reiterated the importance of educating the Yemeni population about the dangers of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO).
In December 2023, the UN experts found that “most [human rights] violations investigated by the Panel were attributed to the Houthis” and called on the Houthis to stop the indiscriminate use of landmines and remove existing landmines from civilian areas under their control.
The United Nations Human Rights Council established the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen in September 2017. The Panel was set up to investigate violations and abuses committed in Yemen since the beginning of the conflict in September 2014, when Iran-backed Houthi rebels and pro-former president Ali Abdullah Saleh forces seized the then-capital Sanaa.
