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Yemen Market Watch Report, Issue No. 25/26, June/July 2018
Highlights
The Yemeni Riyals continued to alarmingly depreciate in July 2018, and lost about 131 % of its precrisis purchasing power.
In-country food stock estimated at 1.1 million MT, wheat and rice stock may cover the national…
Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 30 August 2018…
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Yemen
And our humanitarian colleagues tell us that the number of reported suspected cholera cases in Yemen has been increasing over the last two months. Since April 2017, more than 1.1 million suspected cholera cases and…
UNFPA thanks the State of Kuwait for its generous contribution for the most vulnerable women and…
Sana’a, 29 August 2018 – UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund welcomed the generous contribution of $1.75 million from the State of Kuwait to assist the most vulnerable women and girls affected by the conflict in Yemen. This…
Yemen: Scathing UN report underscores need for arms embargo, tougher scrutiny
Responding to a scathing report published today by the United Nations Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (GEE) which concludes that all parties to the conflict may be guilty of war crimes, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle East…
Situation of human rights in Yemen, including violations and abuses since September 2014…
Yemen: United Nations Experts point to possible war crimes by parties to the conflict
Geneva (28 August 2018) – Information documented by the Group of Regional and International Eminent Experts on Yemen strongly suggests that parties to…
UNHCR calls for more protection for civilians fleeing Yemen’s Al Hudaydah
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is ramping up its response…
UN Child Rights Committee presses Saudi Arabia to protect children in armed conflict
GENEVA (27 August 2018) – Saudi Arabia must respect international humanitarian law and international human rights law, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child asserted following airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen…
UN Country Team statement on the situation in Yemen, 24 August 2018
The UN family in Yemen deeply mourns the deaths of more than 30 civilians in Al Hudaydah
Sana’a, 24 August 2018 - On 22 August, an airstrike struck a house in Ad Durayhimi district, south of Al Hudaydah city, killing four civilians and…
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock,…
At least 22 Yemeni children and four women were killed in an air strike on Thursday as they were fleeing the fighting in Al Durayhimi district in Hudaydah governorate. This is the second time in two weeks that an air strike by the Saudi-led…
No justification for killing of civilians in Yemen
The Norwegian Refugee Council is appalled by recent media reports of killings of civilians by parties to the conflict in Yemen.
Statement from the Norwegian Refugee Council's acting country director in Yemen, Suze van Meegen:
"We are…