(NPR) – The mothers of Yemen’s disappeared fill city streets with the sound of their chants. They protest outside the prisons that hold their sons, and the offices of human rights workers they feel should do more to help. In Yemen’s conservative society, women are rarely prominent in public life. But the women of the […]
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(Reuters) – Humanitarian aid workers and medical supplies began arriving in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Saturday, U.N. officials said, after the easing of a nearly three-week military blockade that sparked an international outcry. Aid groups have welcomed the decision to let aid in but said flights are not enough to avert humanitarian crisis. About 7 […]
(The Guardian) – The record number of civilians killed or injured by explosive weapons in worldwide conflicts last year has prompted calls for UN member states to conduct an urgent review of military rules of engagement. Germany and Austria have urged states to prevent and reduce the “devastating harm” to civilians from airstrikes and bombs in […]
(IRIN) – Hodeidah port and Sana’a airport were shut down after Houthi rebels fired a missile at Riyadh earlier this month, and the coalition responded by closing all routes into Yemen, saying it was to prevent weapons smuggling. The situation inside Yemen deteriorated quickly and was feared to get much worse, with a run on […]
(UNICEF) – The death toll continues to climb in Yemen, as scores of children are lost to starvation or disease with each passing day. And now a recent decision by the Saudi-led military coalition to close all borders in response to a rebel missile strike threatens to stall critical relief operations. UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, […]
(The Intercept) – Saudi Arabia’s Years-Long blockade and bombing campaign in Yemen has gotten very little coverage in the United States, even as the extreme food and fuel shortages have developed into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Now, as the Saudi noose on Yemen tightens — leaving 7 million people facing starvation and another […]
(UNICEF) – Despite global progress, 1 in 12 children worldwide live in countries where their prospects today are worse than those of their parents, according to a UNICEF analysis conducted for World Children’s Day. According to the analysis, 180 million children live in 37 countries where they are more likely to live in extreme poverty, be […]
(Stanford Medicine) – Whether responding to humanitarian emergencies, advocating for quality education, intervening when children are most vulnerable — in war, natural disasters or extreme poverty — Save the Children receives worldwide recognition as one of the chief protectors and defenders of children in crisis. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the organization’s international chief executive officer, is no stranger to diplomacy, advocacy […]
(Vice News) – Eight-year-old Sara is sitting on the floor next to her mother when she spreads her arms out and reenacts the moment a Saudi-coalition airstrike, using an American-made bomb, left her pinned under the rubble of her family’s home here in the Yemen capital. On August 25, the Muthanya family of six awoke […]
(The New Yorker) – In the main hospital in the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah this August, the malnutrition ward overflowed with patients. In the corridor, a man sat on the floor, with two children beside him whose ribs protruded under their pale skin. Inside the makeshift ward, every bed held two skeletal children. Saleha, a […]
