Yemen: UN Security Council condemns Houthi missile attacks targeting Saudi cities
Mar 30, 2018, at 01:55 pm
New York, Mar 30 (JEN): Reiterating the need for warring parties in Yemen to resume dialogue, the Security Council has condemned the latest missile attacks by the Houthi rebels targeting several cities of Saudi Arabia, including its capital, Riyadh.
UN receives nearly $1 billion from Saudi Arabia and UAE for humanitarian response to Yemen crisis
Mar 29, 2018, at 01:05 pm
New York, Mar 29 (JEN): Ahead of the upcoming international fundraising conference for Yemen, the United Nations has received nearly $1 billion contributions from Saudi Araba and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and urged other donors to follow suit and help tackle the world’s worst humanitarian crisis there.
UN renews push for political solution as Yemen marks three years of all-out conflict
Mar 27, 2018, at 02:11 pm
New York, Mar 27 (JEN): Three years after a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the Yemen war, and hours after reports that Houthi rebels fired missiles at cities in Saudi Arabia, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday said military escalation is not the solution and urged restraint on all sides.
UN Security Council calls for all Yemen’s ports to remain fully open to all aid imports
Mar 16, 2018, at 03:25 pm
New York, Mar 16 (JEN): The Security Council has urged warring parties in Yemen to allow humanitarian convoys to safely reach all conflict-affected governorates without hindrance, while also asking that all Yemen’s ports remain fully open to commercial and relief supply imports.
Feb 28, 2018, at 03:23 pm
New York, Feb 28 (JEN): A destructive pattern of zero-sum politics has plunged Yemen into ever deeper poverty and desolation, the United Nations envoy for the war-torn country said Tuesday, emphasizing that while the UN and the wider international community can try to bring about a favourable environment for a path to peace, Yemeni decision-makers must stop the fighting and bloodshed.
Yemen: UN aid chief welcomes $1 billion funding pledge as humanitarian crisis deepens
Feb 14, 2018, at 02:32 pm
New York,Feb 14 (JEN): Amidst ongoing conflict, the collapse of basic services and economic decline in Yemen, the United Nations aid chief welcomed a substantial humanitarian pledge from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Civilians in war-torn Yemen ‘under fire on all sides’ – UN rights chief
Feb 13, 2018, at 01:57 pm
New York, Feb 13 (JEN): The situation in Taizz governorate – located in south-west Yemen – is of particular concern.
Yemen: Raging violence displaces more than 85,000 civilians, says UN refugee agency
Feb 10, 2018, at 02:13 pm
New York, Feb 10 (JEN): Surging violence across Yemen has resulted in the displacement of more than 85,000 people in just the last 10 weeks, the United Nations refugee agency reported Friday.
UN releases $9.1 million to fill 'critical healthcare gaps' in Yemen
Feb 08, 2018, at 02:26 pm
New York, Feb 8 (JEN): With only 50 per cent of medical facilities fully functional in Yemen, the United Nations health agency is striving to fill a “critical” healthcare shortage and will use a $9.1 million emergency response grant to assist 630,000 vulnerable people in districts around Sana'a and al-Hudayda.
Feb 02, 2018, at 02:25 pm
New York, Feb 2 (JEN): This year’s UN Response Plan for Yemen, describes the war-torn country as “the worst man-made humanitarian crisis” in the world, with more than 22 million people – around three-quarters of the total population – in need of help.
Overcrowded boat capsizes off Yemen coast, 30 drowned; UN agencies condemn smugglers
Jan 27, 2018, at 01:08 pm
New York, Jan 27 (JEN): At least 30 refugees and migrants drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Aden, Yemen, the United Nations reported on Friday, saying the overcrowded vessel was believed to have been operated by unscrupulous smugglers who were trying to extort money from the passengers.
Yemen: UN chief welcomes measures by Saudi-led coalition to ease access for humanitarian aid
Jan 26, 2018, at 02:33 pm
New York, Jan 26 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed news that five tankers carrying 180,000 litres of fuel reached Yemen’s northern province of Marib on Wednesday as part of the Saudi-led coalition’s wider plan to facilitate humanitarian action in the war-ravaged country.
Record 22.2 million people need humanitarian assistance in Yemen – UN aid chief
Jan 24, 2018, at 01:59 pm
New York, Jan 24 (JEN): The top United Nations relief official has expressed his deep concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen, noting that a record 22.2 million people are now in need of assistance – 3.4 million more than last year.
Amid unprecedented needs, UN, aid partners launch largest consolidated humanitarian appeal for Yemen
Jan 22, 2018, at 01:06 pm
New York, Jan 22 (JEN): With the crisis in war-ravaged Yemen continuing to deteriorate, United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners have launched a $2.96 billion response plan to reach over 13 million people with lifesaving assistance.
Nearly every child in war-torn Yemen now needs humanitarian aid – UNICEF
Jan 17, 2018, at 01:45 pm
New York, Jan 17 (JEN): As the brutal conflict in Yemen nears its grim third anniversary, malnutrition and disease are running rampant in the country and virtually every child there is dependent on humanitarian aid to survive, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
UN approves largest-ever emergency funding allocation to scale up response in war-torn Yemen
Jan 06, 2018, at 01:59 pm
New York, Jan 6 (JEN): Despite progress over the past month in opening Yemen’s Red Sea ports to commercial and aid shipments, the United Nations relief chief on Friday approved the largest-ever emergency relief allocation – $50 million – amid concerns that the humanitarian catastrophe in the war-raved country is being made worse by the recent increase in fighting and airstrikes.
Yemen: Amid spike in casualties, UN relief official says civilians bearing brunt of ‘absurd war’
Dec 29, 2017, at 09:44 am
New York, Dec 29(Just Earth News): After separate airstrikes on a crowded market and a rural farm left nearly 70 people dead earlier this week in Yemen, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the country denounced the incidents and reminded the warring parties of their international legal obligations to spare civilian lives and infrastructure.
Yemen: At least 15, including rebels and civilians, killed in Saudi coalition airstrikes
Dec 15, 2017, at 04:39 pm
Sanaa, Dec 15 (IBNS): At least 15 people, including Houthi rebels and civilians, have been killed in airstrikes conducted by Saudi-led coalition in several parts of Yemen, reports said.
Dec 03, 2017, at 01:43 pm
New York, Dec 3 (Just Earth News): Top officials from across the United Nations system called on Saturday for the Saudi-led coalition to fully lift its blockade of Yemen's Red Sea ports, warning that unless commercial imports are resumed, “the threat of widespread famine in a matter of months is very real.”
Nov 28, 2017, at 09:47 am
New York, Nov 28(Just Earth News): The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday warned that more than 11 million Yemeni children – almost every single Yemeni boy and girl – are in acute need of humanitarian assistance, despite the successful delivery of 1.9 million doses of vaccines to Sana’a airport on Sunday.
Yemen facing largest famine the world has seen for decades, warns UN aid chief
Nov 10, 2017, at 04:30 am
New York, Nov 9(Just Earth News): Yemen will be gripped by famine – one the likes of which the world has not seen in years – if the blockade on basic supplies into the country imposed by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition is not lifted immediately, the top United Nations humanitarian official has warned.
Oct 30, 2017, at 05:10 am
New York, Oct 29 (Just Earth News): At the end of a five-day mission to conflict-torn Yemen, the United Nations humanitarian chief on Saturday stressed the need for more funding and better humanitarian access to help the population in need.
Yemen: UNICEF warns conflict shutters one in 10 schools; teachers unpaid for a year
Oct 19, 2017, at 09:48 am
New York, Oct 19(Just Earth News): The conflict in Yemen – now into its third year – continues to take a toll on millions of children, with their education now under threat, adding to an already long list of bitter hardships including malnutrition, displacement and violence, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned.
Concerned at ongoing rights violations in Yemen, UN advisers back call for international probe
Sep 21, 2017, at 03:25 pm
New York, Sept 21(Just Earth News): As civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict in Yemen, two United Nations Special Advisers have voiced their concern over continued allegations of grave human rights abuses and expressed support for the call by the High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish an international investigation.
Yemen: UN report urges probe into rights violations amid 'entirely man-made catastrophe'
Sep 06, 2017, at 04:33 am
New York, Sept 5(Just Earth News): The United Nations human rights chief has called for an independent, international investigation into the allegations of serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Yemen, in a new report published on Tuesday.
Yemen's 'man-made catastrophe' is ravaging country, senior UN officials tell Security Council
Aug 19, 2017, at 04:30 am
New York, Aug 18(Just Earth News): Warning about escalating suffering in Yemen's man-made catastrophe, senior United Nations officials on Friday addressed the Security Council, calling on the international community to push for a political solution to the more than two-year-old conflict.
Yemen's cholera epidemic surpasses half-million suspected cases, UN agency says
Aug 15, 2017, at 04:22 am
New York, Aug 13(Just Earth News): More than 500,000 people in Yemen are suspected of having cholera, the United Nations health agency on Monday said, warning that the disease is spreading quickly due to a lack of clean water or health access.
Yemen: Senior UN relief official voices concern at reports of airstrikes on civilians
Aug 08, 2017, at 01:09 pm
New York, Aug 8(Just Earth News): Expressing a deep concern about reports of airstrikes on civilians in Yemen's Sa'ada Governorate, a senior United Nations relief official has urged all parties to the conflict and those who influence and support them to uphold their responsibility under international humanitarian law to protect civilians.
Jul 05, 2017, at 04:23 am
New York, July 4(Just Earth News): Access, funding and security are urgently needed to ensure humanitarians can reach hundreds of thousands of children suffering from cholera and diarrhoea across Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.
Yemen hit by world's worst cholera outbreak as cases reach 200,000 – UN
Jun 25, 2017, at 01:21 pm
New York, June 25(Just Earth News): Yemen is now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world, with suspected cases exceeding 200,000 and the number increasing at an average of 5,000 a day, the United Nations warned on Saturday.