Yemen UNHCR Update, 1 – 14 April 2018
KEY FIGURES
22.2 million people in need
2M Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
89 per cent of IDPs displaced for more than a year
956K IDP returnees
1M recipients of CRIs since March 2015
280K refugees and asylum seekers
Funding
USD 198.7 M requested in 2018 $44.3M funded as of 17 April 2018
Operational Update
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is extremely concerned by a worsening situation for newly-arrived refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Yemen. Conflict, deteriorating economic conditions and now increasing criminality are exposing people to harm and exploitation. As prolonged conflict and insecurity threatens state institutions and weakens the rule of law, there are growing accounts of extortion, trafficking and deportations. Many persons of concern are arrested, detained, abused, and pushed out to sea or forcibly returned by the very same smugglers who brought them to Yemen.