Documentation methodology.

Every event is linked to published sources. Describing Houthi crimes directly does not lessen our responsibility for accuracy in dates, locations and casualty figures.

Collecting information

We draw on United Nations reporting, human rights organizations, news agencies and local reporting documenting the event. We check attribution and exclude events committed by other parties. A report’s publication date is not automatically the event date.

Dates and missing information

Dates are shown at the precision available: a day, month or year. Unavailable fields remain empty. Differing or preliminary casualty figures are explained in the text, rather than added together.

The unit of documentation

A record represents an event or a documented campaign within a defined period, not each new report about the same incident. Translations are linked and do not constitute additional crimes. Victims of one attack are not turned into separate events to inflate the total.

Reading the statistics

Crime totals count published records in the selected language. Victim totals aggregate available event counts, including the types of harm specified in each record. They are not counts of unique individuals: a person may appear in more than one event. Missing figures do not mean zero victims. Source organizations are counted by the distinct names attached to published records.

Sources and photographs

Source names link to the original reports. Original texts and photographs retain their respective rights. Every photograph must be traceable to the event it documents. Unrelated photographs are not presented as evidence of an attack.

Record review and updates

Published information is reviewed against its cited sources and subsequent published evidence. Revisions are retained internally and the latest update date appears on the record. Historical accounts do not imply that a victim’s circumstances have remained unchanged.

Assessing local reporting

An incident does not require international coverage to be documented. Local reporting is assessed article by article: whether it rests on a correspondent, witness, victim’s family or named rights organization. Testimony, accusations and disputed accounts retain their attribution. Multiple outlets repeating one report do not constitute independent corroboration.

An offence in Houthi-controlled territory is not automatically attributed to the Houthis. We distinguish actions of their forces and agencies from unrelated crimes, read beyond headlines, and preserve uncertainty about unexplained deaths. Captured soldiers are not misidentified as civilians. The severity of an abuse does not justify invented details or degrading imagery of victims.