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Human Rights Watch
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Scottish smart bombs key in landmark legal case on Yemen
The High Court will hear a judicial review into UK weapons exports to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen’s war.
Safe House
Graphic novel: over the coming weeks, girls as young as nine will be forced to undergo female genital mutilation - or “cutting.”
Scots doctors call for an end to UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Doctors in Scotland are among hundreds of medics who’ve signed a letter calling on the UK Government to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
US arms firm linked to alleged war crimes had 57 private meetings with UK Government
Raytheon has wined and dined MPs and even treated a minister at the MoD to a slap up Burns Supper with haggis, neeps and whisky.
Experts say Scotland must engage Rwanda on human rights abuses
The Scottish Government has said it will partner with the Rwandan Government on international development - but experts say the latter's poor human rights record must be addressed.
Hundreds of thousands Yemeni children face starvation
Harrowing images of starving children have revealed the horror of Yemen’s humanitarian crisis
Code on bomb debris links Scots firms to alleged war crime
A US arms firm in Fife has been linked to an alleged war crime in Yemen after a code was found on a bomb fragment
A second Syria
What does the future hold for the millions of people that have fled to Turkey from war-torn Syria?
UK ‘distorts’ torture evidence putting lives at risk
Government officials are increasingly challenging independent evidence of torture, raising fears genuine asylum seekers could be sent home.
