Sec. 104. Report on accountability for violations of international law, including war crimes, and other harm to civilians in Yemen
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It is the sense of Congress that— all stakeholders in the conflict in Yemen should end all practices involving arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, and other unlawful treatment; all stakeholders in the conflict in Yemen should reveal the fate or the location of all persons who have been subjected to enforced disappearance by such stakeholders; all persons who remain in custody as a result of the conflict in Yemen should be granted immediate access to their families; the locations of all detention facilities run or supervised by members of the Saudi-led coalition should be revealed and brought under the supervision of the Prosecutor General of Yemen; independent monitors should be granted access to all places of detention in Yemen; all stakeholders to the conflict in Yemen should fully cooperate with the United Nations Panel of Experts on Yemen.
In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate ; the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate ; the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives ; and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives . Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that describes the causes and consequences of civilian harm occurring in the armed conflict in Yemen, including war crimes, and gross violations of human rights as a result of the actions of all parties to the conflict.
The report required under subsection
(c)shall include— a description of civilian harm occurring in the context of the armed conflict in Yemen, including— mass casualty incidents; and damage to, and destruction of, civilian infrastructure and services, including— hospitals and other medical facilities; electrical grids; water systems; ports and port infrastructure; and other critical infrastructure; violations of the law of armed conflict committed during the war in Yemen by— all forces involved in the Saudi-led coalition and all forces fighting on its behalf; members of the Houthi movement and all forces fighting on its behalf; members of violent extremist organizations; and any other combatants in the conflict; as examples of violations referred to in paragraph (2)— alleged war crimes; specific instances of failure by the parties to the conflict to exercise distinction, proportionality, and precaution in the use force in accordance with the law of armed conflict; arbitrary denials of humanitarian access and the resulting impact on the alleviation of human suffering; detention-related abuses; and other acts that may constitute violations of the law of armed conflict; and recommendations for establishing accountability mechanisms for the civilian harm, war crimes, other violations of the law of armed conflict, and gross violations of human rights perpetrated by parties to the conflict in Yemen, including— the potential for prosecuting individuals perpetrating, organizing, directing, or ordering such violations; and establishing condolence payments for the impacted members of the civilian population. The report required under subsection
(c)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.