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They’re the innocent victims of a famine caused by a senseless Saudi/USA-led war. Another Yemeni child dies every TEN minutes.
The worst part is that our governments are complicit. Despite the famine, despite the bombing of a busload of school kids, countries like the US, UK, France, and Canada are still supplying the Saudis with hundreds of billions of dollars in tanks and missiles.
We can’t let this go on — so we’re taking them to court!
Small, tenacious groups in the UK, France, Canada, and beyond are pursuing groundbreaking legal cases to sue governments for selling weapons to Saudi. But they’re working on a shoestring — and need our urgent help to keep going. If they win — and they could — it’d be an incredible precedent that could finally bring an end to Saudi’s brutal war in Yemen.
Chip in just the cost of a meal — something most families in Yemen won’t have today — if we raise enough we could stop the Saudi war machine and save countless lives in Yemen:
The secret of Saudi is that they rely almost entirely on our governments — to sell them weapons, buy their oil, and give them legitimacy.
But the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi — and the tragic death of Amal, a starving 7-year-old Yemeni girl whose picture appeared in the New York Times — have those same governments wavering in their devoted support.
This is without a doubt the best moment we’ve ever had to put Saudi Arabia in the crosshairs and finally end their brutal bombing of Yemen.
If pressure fades, Saudi will continue buying our governments’ silence, giving them billions in exchange for weapons to turn against Yemen’s civilians and their own people — in breach of our governments’ own arms export rules!
But if we ramp it up, and take this fight not only to the courts, but to the corridors of power to push for a meaningful peace process, while exposing the human toll through high quality investigative journalism — we can end this war once and for all.
Avaaz has already funded undercover journalists to get into Yemen and get stories out, and rallied massive public support for legislators to act in the US, the UK, the EU and Canada. Now let’s take our outrage into court, and stop our governments fuelling these children’s deaths.
With hope and determination,
Allison, Marigona, Danny, Jenny, Bert, Martyna, Camille, Rosa and the rest of the Avaaz team
More information:
Germany halts arms deals with Saudi Arabia, encourages allies to do the same (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/22/germany-its-allies-well-halt-future-arms-sales-saudi
Yemen war: Vote in US Senate delivers rebuke to Trump (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46376807
Judges grant appeal against decision to allow UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/may/04/judges-grant-appeal-against-decision-to-a
Canada’s $15-billion Saudi arms deal violates export rules, lawsuit argues (The Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-saudi-arms-deal-violates-geneva-conventions-lawsuit-argues/article29315657/ |
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