The wounded mothers who lost the trick in searching for their abducted and forcibly disappeared sons knocked on all doors in order to release them, but that did not work.

It is the humanitarian definition of the Association of the Abductees' Mothers in Yemen, whose story began when the Houthis launched extensive abducting campaigns after their coup against the legitimate government, where then they abducted political opponents according to information provided to them by the security and intelligence services of the Ali Saleh regime, who then he announced his alliance with them.

After that, they carried out individual campaigns, through which they abducted and arrested every person thought likely to oppose them or adopt a position that does not correspond to their position in any way, on the pretext that he was from sleeper cells. Where they abducted activists, journalists, lawyers, doctors, university professors, teachers, and students of schools and universities.

The Association would not have been established in a conservative society that does not allow women to engage in any political or human rights activity if there was a degree of freedom that allowed families to pursue the cases of their abducted relatives through legitimate legal channels. However, despite these societal challenges, the Association was established in mid-April 2016 as an imperative necessity, as well as as a reaction to the Houthi repression machine in Sanaa and the Emirati oppression machine in Aden.

The mothers did not get acquainted with each other in a luxurious hall, and the Association was not established in a luxurious hotel but was established at the gates of prison camps under the scorching heat of the sun. The Association's first statement was issued in the city of Taiz on October 20, 2018, monitoring and documenting cases of abducting, torture and death under torture, where then they demanded that the fate of their sons be disclosed and their immediate release.

The Association’s activity was not limited to Houthi-controlled areas, but another branch of the Association was established in Aden Governorate, a city under the control of the Security Belt. The Association is present where there are violations and where the authorities practice their violations and attacks on civilians, according to human rights organizations.

The Association accuses the Security Belt of abducting and forcibly disappearing their sons. The Association has held dozens of protest standings to demand the disclosure of the fate of their abducted sons in secret prisons run by the Emirates.

Despite the attacks and threats that the Association was subjected to, as well as the letdown of international organizations regarding the violations that the abducted are subjected to, the Association is still the strongest voice and the first defender of the issue of the abducted and forcibly disappeared. The Association did not succumb to difficulties and obstacles until the victory of the cause of the thousands of people who were hidden behind the bars of the Houthi coup militias and the various illegal prisons.

On the current August 16, the Association carried out a protest standing in the city of Aden, and to find out what happened in this protest standing, we met the head of the Association, Mrs. Amat Al-Salam al-Hajj, who spoke about the latest developments in the file of the forcibly disappeared, in the presence of the new UN envoy to Yemen, where she said: "Unfortunately, the situation of the abducted and forcibly disappeared is still the same. Nothing has changed. Although they suffer from deprivation, pain and violence in all prisons, their file is still obstructed, no decision has been taken about it and there is no progress."

She added: "We submitted a letter to the UN envoy and another letter to the UN Security Council regarding the abducted, in which we asked them to quickly move the file by applying pressure on the Houthi militia and the conflicting parties and to release the abducted civilians, the detainees and the forcibly disappeared, and to take their humanitarian cause into consideration."

She continued: "The new UN envoy to Yemen is fully aware of the Yemeni situation, and we have previously interviewed him and presented our case to him when he was the ambassador of the European Union to Yemen, so we hope that he will play a major role in the issue of the abducted civilians and stand by us and support us in our humanitarian cause aimed at the release of all abducted unconditionally.

Regarding what happened in their last protest standing, al-Hajj spoke, saying: "The protest standing carried out by the Association on August 16 with the participation of the mothers in front of the local council in the city of Aden, in which they demanded the Minister of Human Rights and the local authority to exert pressure on the security belt forces of the UAE-backed Transitional Council to show the forcibly disappeared, as well as to pay attention to their cause, especially since it has been four years since the 45 persons are forcibly hidden in the security belt prisons, where their families do not know anything about their situation and their lives, in light of their complete deprivation of visiting their sons."

She stated that the mothers presented to the minister a list of the names of those forcibly disappeared by the security authorities in Aden, as well as a list of manes of those forcibly disappeared by the Houthi group. And the minister promised to hand over the lists to the foreign minister in order to exert pressure in this area, explaining that the minister of human rights promised the mothers to stand by their side after he felt their pain, although the situation in Aden is unstable and does not bode well.

And she said: “Mothers are tired of calling for their sons to be released, so many mothers and fathers have died longing to see their sons. Ruling entities are successive in Aden, sometimes entities affiliated with the Emirates, and other times affiliated with the legitimacy, and the tragedy is one, each of them placing responsibility on the other, and the fate of the forcibly disappeared remains unknown.”

She added: "Before our last protest standing in Aden, we had another protest standing that we implemented before the blessed Eid al-Adha for the detainees in Bir Ahmed, because of their difficult conditions and the bad treatment they suffer from inside prisons, which is still ongoing, as well as the continued deprivation of visiting their families tired from waiting for the trial of their sons, in light of the closure of the courts due to the spread of the Corona epidemic, so there is no hope for the detainees to get out of prison unless God releases them.”

At the end of her speech, Mrs. Amat al-Salam al-Hajj addressed the concerned authorities by saying: "We call on local and international human rights organizations and human rights activists to support the abducted and forcibly disappeared, to show them and give them their rights before they die under the intense heatwave."