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...
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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...
Child soldiers used by both sides in northern conflict – NGOs
The huge poster hanging in the press conference shows a Yemeni boy dressed in a traditional brown robe, holding a detonator in one hand, while with the other he lifts his gown to reveal packages strap...
Children recruited in Yemen conflict
By Rachelle Kliger, Media Line U.N. says children made to fight on both sides of conflict between the Yemeni government and rebels. Children are being recruited in the battle between the Yemeni army a...
The war wounds that cut the deepest
SANA’A // Children living in Sa’ada during the four-year conflict between government troops and al Houthi rebels are in need of immediate psychological and social rehabilitation programmes...
SEYAJ: War-affected children suffer psychological disorders – study
A four-year conflict between government forces and Shia rebels in the northern governorate of Saada has caused psychological problems for children and had an adverse effect on their behaviour, accordi...
Yemen crisis talks fail as Saleh’s deputy shuns meetings
SANA’A // Talks to resolve Yemen’s political crisis have failed after the deputy to the country’s wounded president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, refused to speak with groups demanding he ced...
