Yemen UNHCR Update, 1 – 14 April 2018

KEY FIGURES

22.2 million people in need

2M Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

89 per cent of IDPs displaced for more than a year

956K IDP returnees

1M recipients of CRIs since March 2015

280K refugees and asylum seekers

Funding

USD 198.7 M requested in 2018 $44.3M funded as of 17 April 2018

Operational Update

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is extremely concerned by a worsening situation for newly-arrived refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Yemen. Conflict, deteriorating economic conditions and now increasing criminality are exposing people to harm and exploitation. As prolonged conflict and insecurity threatens state institutions and weakens the rule of law, there are growing accounts of extortion, trafficking and deportations. Many persons of concern are arrested, detained, abused, and pushed out to sea or forcibly returned by the very same smugglers who brought them to Yemen.