The cases that SEYAJ got of violations and crimes against children were 900 cases during the first year of Monitoring and legal and psychological support Unit's work. It was considered as the first report done by a non-government local organization and came up to light.
SEYAJ analyzed only 257 cases of the total number of monitored cases which it succeed to document and confirm all their details.
‘’The violations that the report included are murder, arrest, detention, imprisonment, beating, physical tortures, kidnapping, rape, early marriage, sexual exploitation, displacement, neglect, harassment and other kinds violations’’, SEYAJ said.
In 2009, the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Amat Al-Rzaq Hamad revealed that 400 children were smuggled in 2009 as compared to 900 in 2008.
SEYAJ managed to collect information about exploitations of 200 children in Hajjah and Hodeidah provinces for smuggling and drug trafficking to neighboring countries, most of them were males.
‘’As a result of the fact that illiteracy of mothers in Yemeni community is around 96 percent in some areas while it's 65 percent among fathers, the violence against children will definitely increase’’, the organization added.
The report was conducted with volunteers researchers in many Yemeni provinces using a special monitoring forms and it was analyzed and issued on the bases of such form's data. The report aims to monitor and document violations and to provide indicators of crimes in order to contribute to developing policies and treatments that reduce violence and crimes against children.
In 2009, Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawar has said that more than 3 million Yemeni children were dropped out school and half of the population are still lacking some basic services especially electricity which covers only the needs of 42 percent of the population while 26 percent of them have no water services and 32 percent of the Yemeni families facing a serious shortages in food.
SEYAJ explained those numbers were shocking because it could result increasing crimes and
violence especially against the vulnerable groups in society “children and women".
The low level of the awareness of child rights in Yemeni community and wrong point of view to these rights contributed in the weakness of community participation in protecting child rights and defending them.
‘’The difficulties to prove many crimes against children, especially sexual abuses, were because of the lack of rehabilitation and technical capabilities’’.
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