Author profile: Baraa Shiban and Camilla Molyneux

Baraa Shiban is a Middle East and North Africa Caseworker at Reprieve. He also works as a political consultant to the Yemeni Embassy in London. Prior to this role, Baraa was Reprieve’s Yemen Project Coordinator, investigating drone strikes across Yemen. Baraa also served as a youth representative in Yemen’s National Dialogue, a convention tasked to negotiate Yemen’s new constitution and reviewing its laws. Baraa is a Business Administration graduate and was involved with a number of civil society organisations in Yemen from 2006–2011. In 2011, he participated in peaceful demonstrations against Ali Abdullah Saleh, helping run a media centre in Sana’a’s Change Square. As Reprieve’s Yemen Project Coordinator, Baraa interviewed witnesses and civilian victims of US air strikes around Yemen, including people from Rada’a, Khashamir, Wessab, and towns in Ayban and Marib. Baraa speaks Arabic and English.

Camilla Molyneux is a research consultant and Policy Advisor at the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones, with a focus on sustainable security, civilian protection in armed conflict and parliamentary scrutiny over the use of force. She is also an independent analyst and researcher specialising in remote warfare and its impact on civilian populations and Yemen. Camilla has previously worked on defence, foreign policy and human rights for a civil society organisation and as the Human Rights Officer at the Norwegian Embassy to Saudi Arabia, also covering Yemen, Bahrain and Oman.

The Human Cost of Remote Warfare in Yemen

Baraa Shiban and Camilla Molyneux • Feb 16 2021 • Articles

Remote warfare operations in Yemen have led to the deaths of thousands of civilians, along with having significant economic, educational and mental health implications for impacted communities.

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