It is vital that these countries use their influence and resources to resolve the conflict, not fuel it—and that those responsible for violations of international law in Yemen are held to account.As the coronavirus reaches war zones and refugee camps, you can help us ensure families have immediate aid, including urgent medical care and emergency food. Houthi forces, government-affiliated forces, and the UAE and UAE-backed Yemeni forces have arbitrarily detained or forcibly disappeared scores. The US has also worked closely with the UAE, which leads coalition efforts in southern Yemen, including by supporting Yemeni forces carrying out security campaigns. To make matters worse, humanitarian funding has dwindled to an alarming degree.
Feb. 26, 2019; CAIRO — Aid workers in Yemen gained entry on Tuesday to a major food storage warehouse where grain has languished for nearly six … EIN number 13-5660870. Some have been threatened, subjected to smear campaigns, beaten and detained in retaliation. Houthi forces Houthi forces, the Yemeni government, and the UAE and UAE-backed Yemeni forces have arbitrarily detained people, including children, abused detainees and held them in poor conditions, and forcibly disappeared people perceived to be political opponents or security threats. This list included many of Yemen’s warring parties—the Houthis, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, pro-government militias, and UAE-backed Yemeni forces, but the Saudi-led coalition was treated differently.The secretary-general placed the coalition on a special list for countries that put in place “measures to improve child protection,” despite noting that the coalition continued to kill and maim children and attack schools and hospitals. "COVID-19 is ripping through the country."
The UN considers Yemen to be the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 14 million people at risk of starvation and repeated outbreaks of deadly diseases like cholera.
In January 2018, fighting broke out between Yemeni government forces and United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed Yemeni forces in Aden. Over 17 million of Yemen's population are at risk; over 3.3 million children and pregnant or lactating women suffer from acute malnutrition. Parties to the conflict have exacerbated what the UN has called the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe, including by unlawfully impeding delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid.The armed conflict has taken a terrible toll on the civilian population. Yemeni human rights groups and lawyers have documented hundreds of cases of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance.Since late 2014, Human Rights Watch has documented dozens of In 2018, the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen concluded that the Houthi, Yemeni, Saudi, and UAE forces were credibly implicated in detainee-related abuse that might amount to war crimes. Children suffer the most. Houthi forces have used banned antipersonnel landmines, recruited children, and fired artillery indiscriminately into cities such as Taizz and Aden, killing and wounding civilians, and launched indiscriminate rockets into Saudi Arabia.Both sides have harassed, threatened, and attacked Yemeni activists and journalists. In the city of Aden alone, the price of food has gone up by 35 percent.UNICEF reports that by the end of 2020, the number of malnourished Yemeni children could increase by 20 percent, pushing 2.4 million children to the brink of starvation. Forces in Aden beat, raped, and tortured detained migrants.Despite mounting evidence of violations of international law by the parties to the conflict, efforts toward accountability have been woefully inadequate.Since 2015, Human Rights Watch has documented about 90 Houthi forces have repeatedly fired artillery indiscriminately into Yemeni cities and launched indiscriminate ballistic missiles Landmines have killed and maimed civilians, disrupted civilian life in affected areas, and will pose a threat to civilians long after the conflict ends. Since the conflict escalated in March 2015, the country has become a living hell for the country’s children.
The UAE has run informal detention facilities in Yemen, but has not acknowledged any role in detainee abuse nor conducted any apparent investigations.
Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with more than 24 million people – some 80 per cent of the population – in need of humanitarian assistance, including more than 12 million children. In 2017, the UN In June, the UN secretary-general released his annual “list of shame” for violations against children in armed conflict.
“Yemen could fall off the cliff without financial support,” warns U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock.Yemen's economy is collapsing.