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Yemen: Talks Should Address Rights Concerns
Groups Call for Concrete Steps to Minimize Civilian Harm
Participants to the Yemen talks in Sweden should prioritize key human rights issues, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Mwatana Organization for Human Rights said…
Yemen: The impact of war on people’s lives
Robert Onus, MSF's outgoing head of mission in Yemen, describes the four-year conflict and its impact on people across the country
How has the war affected people in Yemen?
One can really see how, year on year, the effect of the war…
Medical care is a target in Yemen
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) humanitarian affairs officer Alex Dunne writes from Yemen, where years of conflict have decimated public health systems and left millions without access to care. This article was…
Almost Four Years of Conflict Leads to Declaration of Catastrophic Food Security Conditions in Yemen
SANAA – (December 6, 2018) – As pockets of famine-like conditions are announced in parts of Yemen and the majority of the population are shown to be suffering from emergency or crisis levels of food insecurity, CARE urgently calls for more…
Full Text of the Special Envoy’s Remarks at the Opening of the Yemeni Political Consultations…
Sweden, 6 December 2018 -
Thank you very much. Thank you very much indeed. And thank you through Your Excellency and the Foreign Minister of Sweden, Margot Wallstrom, thank you to your government, for your hosting, for your welcome, as…
Famine or Not, 120,000 Children in Yemen are in a ‘Catastrophic’ Condition
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (December 6, 2018) – In response to the release of a new report on food insecurity in Yemen, Tamer Kirolos, Save the Children’s Yemen Country Director said: “Whether or not we call the hunger crisis in Yemen a famine is…
Yemen: Agreement to release, transfer and repatriate detainees in relation to the conflict
Quotes by Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director for the Near and Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
We welcome this agreement between Yemeni parties for the release, transfer and repatriation of…
Yemen’s children: 15 million lives scarred and voices not heard
Statement from Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the end of his visit to Yemen
ADEN/AMMAN, 5 December 2018 – “The living conditions of millions of children in Yemen are a disgrace. There…
Yemen political consultations
Statement by Mohamed Abdi, Yemen country director for the Norwegian Refugee Council, as political consultations on Yemen commence in Stockholm
“As humanitarian staff delivering food, water and medicine to millions of people who would die…
Statement by Mohamed Abdi, Yemen country director for the Norwegian Refugee Council, as political…
"As humanitarian staff delivering food, water and medicine to millions of people who would die without it, we are typically too consumed dealing with the consequences of this war to closely observe what is being done to bring it to an end.…