Browsing Category
International reports
Cholera in Yemen: A Case Study of Epidemic Preparedness and Response
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
BACKGROUND:
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) declared Yemen a Level 3 (L3) emergency. On September 28, 2016, a largescale cholera outbreak began. Between April 27, 2017 and July 1, 2018, more than one million…
Middle East and North Africa: Humanitarian Pooled Funds (January – August 2018) [EN/AR]
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/middle-east-and-north-africa-humanitarian-pooled-funds-january-august-2018-enar
Humanitarian assistance continues to prevent a massive human catastrophe in Yemen but it is not…
UN agencies warn that an urgent scale up of humanitarian assistance is needed to save lives
As many as 20 million Yemenis are food insecure in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Already, 15.9 million people wake up hungry, according…
UNHCR urges protection of Yemeni civilians
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Nearly 1,500 civilian casualties were reported in Yemen in…
Yemen: Talks Should Address Rights Concerns
Groups Call for Concrete Steps to Minimize Civilian Harm
Participants to the Yemen talks in Sweden should prioritize key human rights issues, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Mwatana Organization for Human Rights said…
Yemen: The impact of war on people’s lives
Robert Onus, MSF's outgoing head of mission in Yemen, describes the four-year conflict and its impact on people across the country
How has the war affected people in Yemen?
One can really see how, year on year, the effect of the war…
Medical care is a target in Yemen
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) humanitarian affairs officer Alex Dunne writes from Yemen, where years of conflict have decimated public health systems and left millions without access to care. This article was…
Almost Four Years of Conflict Leads to Declaration of Catastrophic Food Security Conditions in Yemen
SANAA – (December 6, 2018) – As pockets of famine-like conditions are announced in parts of Yemen and the majority of the population are shown to be suffering from emergency or crisis levels of food insecurity, CARE urgently calls for more…
Full Text of the Special Envoy’s Remarks at the Opening of the Yemeni Political Consultations…
Sweden, 6 December 2018 -
Thank you very much. Thank you very much indeed. And thank you through Your Excellency and the Foreign Minister of Sweden, Margot Wallstrom, thank you to your government, for your hosting, for your welcome, as…
Famine or Not, 120,000 Children in Yemen are in a ‘Catastrophic’ Condition
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (December 6, 2018) – In response to the release of a new report on food insecurity in Yemen, Tamer Kirolos, Save the Children’s Yemen Country Director said: “Whether or not we call the hunger crisis in Yemen a famine is…