Children at risk as aid access denied
Thousands of people under “siege” by armed rebels in northern Yemen lack food and healthcare, which has already resulted in deaths and risks killing many more, local leaders and aid workers say. F...
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Tackling trauma in displaced children
Children make up 60 percent of the 100,000-plus internally displaced persons (IDPs) in southern Yemen, Geert Cappelaere, a UNICEF representative in Yemen, told IRIN. “Almost all child IDPs in th...
2010 Human Rights Report: Yemen
Domestic human rights NGOs operated throughout the year. The NGO landscape was complex. The government provides a stipend to all registered NGOs; however, some ministries reportedly harassed NGOs crit...
Seyaj foils wedding of two children
Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection (Seyaj) has managed to delay the wedding of two Yemeni children for five years. Fathers of Neamah Abdullah al-Shoaitar, 13 years old girlو and Hafez Manso...
Landmines take toll on Yemeni children
SANA’A // Ten children have been killed and 15 other people injured in landmine explosions since the truce was reached in February between the government and the Shiite Houthi rebels in the nort...
Protesters in Yemen target child bride law
SANA’A // Hundreds of Yemeni women gathered in front of Sana’a’s parliament building yesterday to protest against the government establishing a minimum legal age for marriage.Most of...
2009 Human Rights Report: Yemen
Domestic human rights NGOs operated throughout the year. Although progovernment NGOs received support from the government or ruling party, others received support from opposition parties or were fully...
Both sides in war blamed for Yemen’s dead children
SANA’A // One hundred and eighty-seven children were killed and nearly 700 used as child soldiers in the most recent round of fighting between government troops and al Houthi rebels that erupted...
Children hit hardest by northern conflict
Hundreds of children have either been killed or used as child soldiers in fighting between Yemeni government forces and Houthi-led Shia rebels in the north of the country since August 2009, according ...
A statement of condemnation to the Yemeni and Saudi aviation against the civilians in Sa’ada.
SEYAJ is condemns all acts of killing, destructing and displacing that exercised by the Yemeni and Saudi military aviation against the Yemeni civilians in Sa’ada province. The organization calls th...