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'A Slow Death for Yemenis': Why Is Saudi Arabia Still Blockading Yemen's Main Airport?

January 19, 2022

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'Not Sunni, Not Shi'a.' Against the Perpetuation of Sectarianism

December 20, 2021

JAZAN, SAUDI ARABIA--APRIL 10, 2105--At the border crossing of the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border, near the town of Jazan, members of the Saudi Arabia Border Police stand guard as a few people cross the border in and out of Yemen. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

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From Mass Expulsion to Alleged Torture: How Saudi Arabia Is Targeting Yemeni Migrants

December 6, 2021

Yemeni men inspect the damages at a factory allegedly targeted by Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes in the Red Sea town of Hodeidah on July 27, 2018. (Photo by ABDO HYDER / AFP) (Photo credit should read ABDO HYDER/AFP via Getty Images)

Congress Must Block $650M US-Saudi Arms Sale

November 29, 2021

iraqdemocracy017_mac.jpg Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution has just returned from Iraq as an advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority on how to democratize the country. event on 4/23/04 in Palo Alto Michael Macor / San Francisco Chronicle Ran on: 10-18-2006 Larry Diamond Ran on: 10-18-2006 Larry Diamond (Photo By Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

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'We're in an Era of Authoritarian Encroachment': Larry Diamond on Democracy's Fate

November 17, 2021

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Yemen's War Has Stoked New Divisions That Won't Fade With a Peace Deal

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From Diatribes to Dialogue: Why Iran and Saudi Arabia Are Talking

SANA’A, YEMEN – JUNE 25: People search for survivors under rubble of a house after it was destroyed by an airstrike of the Saudi-led coalition, that killed eight members of one family, and injured 15 others on June 25, 2018 in Amran province north Sana’a, Yemen. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

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Lasting Peace for Saudi in Yemen Requires a Public Apology and Reparations

US President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about the March jobs report in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2021. - The US economy regained a massive 916,000 jobs in March, the biggest increase since August, with nearly a third of the increase in the hard-hit leisure and hospitality sector, the Labor Department reported on April 2, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

National Coalition Calls for an End to Saudi Blockade of Yemen

Sharjar, UAE, May 2006: A portrait of a migrant labourer in an area close to Dubai where he is installing a well for ongoing construction. He is one of over a million construction workers working in Dubai. These sites are filled with construction labourers in Dubai live in labour camps.The camps are often over 2 hours away and the workers have just finished a 12 hour shift. The majority of labourers come to Dubai from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. These workers operate in extreme temperatures in the desert climate, the majority earning under $200 a month. Many have to spend a third of that sum on food provided at the camps as part of their contract. Most sign recruitment contracts in their own countries which take them into debt for many years. Their passports are held by their employers once they reach the UAE and if the company owners abscond the workers are often abandoned without their documents or due payment. Over two thirds of the Dubai population is migrant labour with 1.1 million working in construction. Dubai is currently second only to Shanghai in terms of the scale of construction underway on a 24 hour basis. All this is woefully underscrutinised by the Ministry of Labour, there are currently only 80 government inspectors for over 200 000 construction companies. Recently there have been rumblings of discontent from the workers, with strikes at numerous sites over the non-payment of wages and harsh working conditions. In 2005, according to Human Rights Watch, there were 84 suicides by construction workers in Dubai. Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.

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The UAE: Perpetuating an Unsustainable Pecking Order

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