HRW urges Saudi-led coalition to stop using cluster bombs in Yemen

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Saudi Arabia to “immediately stop” its use of cluster munitions against Yemen, which has resulted in the deaths of dozens of civilians in the country. 

The leading New York-based rights group said that it had evidence showing that at least seven such attacks had occurred in the northwestern province of Hajjah between the months of April and July. 

HRW added that its researchers had inspected four of the seven attack sites, where they found unexploded sub-munitions or remnants of cluster munitions. 

The HRW recently joined a number of other rights groups in urging the United Nations Human Rights Council to form a commission to investigate “alleged serious laws-of-war violations by all parties to the armed conflict in Yemen since September 2014.”