The Yemeni government said that the Houthi coup militia recruited more than 30 thousand children, and put them on the battlefields, stressing that the militias have made children the weakest link in society by turning against the legitimate authority, turning schools into barracks for military purposes, and exploiting the difficult conditions experienced by Yemeni families to recruit Her children and thrust them into the fighting fronts.

This came in a speech delivered by Yemen's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Abdullah al-Saadi, the night before last, effectively commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child at the United Nations in New York.

He pointed out that the Yemeni government is exerting great efforts to protect and safeguard the rights of children, and take the necessary measures and procedures to harmonize national legislation with the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, pointing to the signing of his government with the United Nations in 2014 on the plan of action to prevent the use and recruitment of children in armed conflict, and a road map To implement.

He urged the international community to continue to support those efforts to reduce the impact of conflict on children. He added that Yemen joined the Safe Schools Declaration in 2017, underlining the importance of protecting education during armed conflict and taking concrete measures to deter military use of schools.

He pointed out that the militias have made the children the weakest link in society by turning against the legitimate authority, turning schools into barracks for military purposes, and exploiting the difficult conditions experienced by Yemeni families to recruit their children and put them on the fronts of fighting, adding that the militias recruited more than 30 thousand children, and forced them On the battlefield, it has also changed curricula, instilling sectarian and ideological concepts in areas of its control, serving the extremist ideology of those militias, and brainwashing children with extremist concepts that threaten their future.

Ambassador Saadi noted that the government is taking all measures to rehabilitate and reintegrate war-affected children with the support of the King Salman Center and hand them over to their families through the International Committee of the Red Cross, noting that it is important for the international community to continue supporting these efforts to reduce the impact of conflict on children.

This comes at a time when a Yemeni human rights report, the Houthi militias committed 65 thousand and 971 incidents of violation against childhood in 17 Yemeni governorates, during the period from January 1, 2015 to August 30, 2019.

The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms, in a statement on the occasion of the International Children's Day (November 20), reported that it monitored these Houthi violations against children in Yemen, in cooperation with 13 international organizations.

During the same period, Houthi militias directly killed 3,888 children, injured 5,357 children, and caused 164 permanent disabilities due to indiscriminate projectiles on densely populated neighborhoods.

The statement said that the militias have abducted 456 children, and are still in the prisons of the militias so far, and caused the displacement of 43 thousand and 608 other children, and recruited about 12,341 children, and forced them into various fronts.

The network called on the international community to break its silence and to take serious action to stop these violations against children and crimes against all moral values ​​and principles and international and humanitarian norms and local laws, and implement the resolutions issued by the Security Council and human rights, and bear the legal and moral responsibility towards the targeting of children in Yemen, All of their rights are recognized in accordance with international law of the rights of the child, especially the right to life, education and others.

The Yemeni government said last Wednesday that 4.5 million children have been deprived of education since the Houthi militia coup in late 2014. In addition to the development of curricula calling for sectarianism and hatred, and threaten the social fabric.

This came in a statement to the Yemeni Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, the joy of perfection, on the occasion of the International Children's Day, which falls on November 20.

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