Human Rights Watch (HRW) senior researcher Letta Tayler has stressed the importance of addressing all violations to serve transitional justice in Yemen.

In a lecture delivered to the NDC’s National Issues and Transitional Justice Working Group on Wednesday, Tayler said Human Rights Watch was concerned about enforced disappearances and airspace violations by U.S. drones in Yemen.

“It is very important to study, discuss and address enforced disappearances and their impact, especially because many enforced disappearances still need to be addressed in the country,” she said.

Transitional justice, however, should be achieved in a manner which never conflicts with the political settlement path and never leads to more conflicts or violations in the country, said Tayler.

Regarding U.S. drone strikes which have killed numbers of Yemeni citizens, Tayler affirmed that HRW was concerned about violations of Yemen’s airspace by U.S. drones.

“Efforts to serve transitional justice should live up to the size of sacrifices so that the principle of escaping justice and repeating violations does not prevail in Yemen anymore,” she said.

Tayler’s lecture included explanations of concepts and mechanisms concerned with transitional justice. Also discussed were approaches to addressing rights violations, fixing damages and compensating victims.

Following the lecture, the working group discussed its plan for field visits to government authorities and organizations in Aden, Abyan, Taiz and Sana’a.