Human Rights Watch Inc. released its annual global report for 2024, featuring a dedicated section titled “Yemen Events” 2023, highlighting various indicators of violations affecting childhood in Yemen as follows:
- Over 11 million children in Yemen require humanitarian assistance.
- There are more than 3.1 million internally displaced children in the country.
- UNICEF reports indicate that more than 11,200 children have been killed or maimed.
- Both the Houthis and government forces have enlisted over 4,000 children and engaged them in war.
- Child casualties due to landmines and unexploded ordnance have increased eight-fold from 2018 to 2022, with a significant rise even during periods of ceasefire.
- Houthi forces persist in the use of anti-personnel landmines, contravening the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on their Destruction, a treaty to which Yemen is a party.
- Demining authorities have failed to adhere to International Mine Action Standards in their clearance efforts concerning landmines, explosive remnants of war, and improvised explosive devices.
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