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Joint declaration by ECW, GPE, UNESCO, UNICEF on the dire situation of teachers in Yemen
October 5, 2018 --- The violent conflict in Yemen is severely affecting the education of millions of children throughout the country and takes a heavy toll on teachers.
The war has pushed at least half a million children out of…
Yemen: MSF strongly condemns attack against its staff in Ad Dhale and suspends activities
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 — Amsterdam / Sanaa / London - The staff house of the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Ad Dhale governorate, southern Yemen, was targeted with…
Joint oral statement by Save the Children and 17 Civil Society Organizations: Urgent need to address…
A call for renewal and strengthening of the mandate for the Group of Eminent Experts
United Nations Human Rights Council
39th session
26th September 2018
Item 10, Technical assistance and capacity building – ID on HC report on…
Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore: More violence in Yemen’s Hodeida will push…
NEW YORK, 21 September 2018 – “Renewed violence in Hodeida is yet another blow to peace efforts in Yemen, a country sliding further into chaos and misery.
“Escalating hostilities are putting thousands of children living in and around the…
Statement from David Beasley, WFP Executive Director: WFP Chief urges all sides in Yemen to end…
ROME – Yemen has witnessed ferocious armed clashes, and a sharp deterioration of the security situation in Hodeidah and other cities across Yemen in recent days. Conflict, widespread economic hardship and currency devaluations are similarly…
Humanitarian Medical Air Bridge in Yemen
Sana’a, 16 September 2018: The United Nations is working to open a humanitarian medical air bridge for Yemeni civilians who are suffering from conditions which cannot be treated inside Yemen.
“The aim is to help patients suffering from…
INGO statement on the renewed and rapidly advancing offensive on Hodeidah
INGOs working in Yemen are extremely worried about the new advances of pro-government forces on Hodeidah and the closure of key routes between Hodeidah city and the north and east of the country. The humanitarian catastrophe that has been…
Statement attributable to Dr Ahmed Al Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean…
7 September 2018 – The scale of human suffering and health needs in Yemen today is unprecedented. An entire country and its health infrastructure has been brought to its knees. People who have survived more than three and a half years of…
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on the eve of Yemen peace talks
NEW YORK, 5 September 2018 – “Twenty-one children were killed in the Yemen conflict in July, according to United Nations teams on the ground. Another 55 were reportedly killed in two weeks in August. After more than three years of fighting,…
Statement from UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on latest deadly attacks on children in…
NEW YORK, 24 August 2018 – “I had hoped that the outrage that followed the Saada attack in Yemen two weeks ago would be a turning point in the conflict. Yesterday’s reported attacks in Ad-Durayhimi, killing 26 children, indicate that it was…