A number of US senators sent a letter to Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo asking him to explain his decision to exclude Saudi Arabia from the list of countries known to recruit children in the 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report.
The senators said the exclusion came at a time when Saudi Arabia had been blacklisted for countries that failed to address human trafficking and appeared to run counter to what was set out in the 2008 Prevention of Child Recruitment Act.
They added that the Office for Monitoring and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings had included information on the reported Saudi recruitment of children and that it may have funded Yemeni militias that in some cases may have used minors to fight.
The Senate stressed that the US administration has a responsibility to ensure that US assistance does not support the recruitment of children.
The British Daily Mail reported to the United Nations on the recruitment of children in Yemen after a strong and strong reaction to the report.
After publishing its report on Yemen, the newspaper received a request for information from the official team of United Nations experts on Yemen, which advises the Security Council on the conflict situation.
According to the Daily Mail, 13-year-old Yemeni children are treated on the basis that they are capable of fighting alongside adults.
British Minister of State for Asia Mark Field said there were reports that 40 percent of the Saudi-Saudi Arabian forces in Yemen were children, while the New York Times reported that hundreds of them had been killed over the past four years in Yemen.