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Introduction: The crime of recruiting and involving Yemeni children in armed conflicts is constantly escalating due to the lack of mechanisms and means to protect children. Foremost among these is the absence of any national legislation criminalizing and punishing those who recruit children, and the existence of misguided notions that view bearing arms and participatingContinue reading “Yemen: Child Recruitment: Unchecked Violation – Siyaj Report 2011-2012”
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Seyaj Organization for Child Protection welcomes the historic decision of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Yemen, Field Marshal Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, to prohibit the recruitment of children under the age of 18 in #Yemen. Seyaj affirms that the President’s decision today represents a victory for children’s rights and the culmination ofContinue reading “As a culmination of efforts since 2009, President Hadi issues a decree banning the recruitment of children in Yemen.”
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Lawyers and human rights activists agreed on the necessity for Yemen to enact national legislation criminalizing the recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts, including deterrent penalties for perpetrators of this serious violation, and to align all national legislation with relevant international conventions and treaties, most notably the Convention on the Rights of theContinue reading “The fence and the Bar Association: National legislation must be enacted criminalizing the recruitment of children and imposing deterrent penalties.”
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The Seyaj Organization for Child Protection and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sana’a signed an agreement today to implement the second phase of the project to combat the recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts. During the signing of the project agreement at the embassy in Sana’a – in theContinue reading “The organization’s president and the German Federal Ambassador sign a second phase to combat child recruitment.”
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The Seyaj Organization agreed today with Major General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, Commander of the 1st Armored Division and the Northwestern Military Region, on a joint timeline for the demobilization, rehabilitation, and reintegration of recruits suspected of being under 18. As part of its campaign against child recruitment, the Seyaj Organization called on UNICEF Yemen toContinue reading “Fence: 100 Yemeni soldiers under the age of 18 were discharged”
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The world is preoccupied with the political situation in Yemen, but a far more serious issue, though largely overlooked, is the humanitarian crisis. In this context, the Catholic news agency AsiaNews published a report repeatedly using the term “humanitarian catastrophe.” Among the alarming figures cited by UNICEF is a 40% drop in traditional childhood immunizations,Continue reading “Vatican City Council: Deteriorating conditions for children in Yemen”
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Senior UN officials have warned that routine childhood immunization rates have dropped by 40 percent in some parts of Yemen, potentially leading to outbreaks of diseases like polio and measles. This reflects the increasing collapse of public services in the country, which is teetering on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF’s representativeContinue reading “The health problems of children in Yemen are worsening.”
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The Arab Childhood Committee continued its work yesterday in its seventeenth session, hosted by Qatar, represented by the Supreme Council for Family Affairs. The meeting sessions reviewed the guiding principles document on ensuring children’s rights in emergencies, guaranteeing that children affected by disasters and crises, and their families, receive the necessary assistance to resume theirContinue reading “At the meeting of the Arab Childhood Committee in Doha, a call was made to develop emergency plans that respond to children’s rights.”
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Childcare and Education Office in Aden Join Back-to-School Ceremony A “Back-to-School Ceremony” was held this morning in Aden, organized by the Education Office in Dar Saad District in cooperation with the Childcare Organization in Aden. Samira Ahmed Nasser Fartoush, a representative of the Education Office in Dar Saad District, stated that the number of first-gradeContinue reading “Childcare and Aden Education join the back-to-school celebration”
