SANA'A: Yemen's cabinet discussed on Tuesday a drafted transitional justice and national reconciliation law, which was written after the 2011 popular uprising. The uprising ousted the former regime via a power transfer deal brokered by the GCC and backed by the United Nations. But the GPC still represents half of the power-sharing government formed according to the deal. The law aims to ensure political transition, promote the values of tolerance, achieve national reconciliation and fight violence and revenge forms, give the rights of the collective and individual victims and build a civil state to impose the rule of law, establish dialogue and prevent violations. Under the law, an equity and national reconciliation body will be set up to establish national reconciliation after political conflicts and establish equity for and compensate whose rights were violated and suffered during conflicts. Because of the importance of this law, the cabinet will hold an exceptional meeting next week to continue the discussion of the law before approving and referring it to Parliament. In addition, the weekly meeting of the cabinet dealt with ways to validate the job transfer law which was approved in 2009. It urged the competent ministries to submit the bylaw in two weeks and apply it to all public offices.
