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Extreme Poverty Threatens Yemenis Living under Houthi Rule

Extreme Poverty Threatens Yemenis Living under Houthi Rule

Since the coup by the Iran-align Houthi militias in Yemen in September 2014, 75 percent of the population slid into poverty and 230,000 were killed…

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Thousands of Houthi violations leave hundreds of civilians dead in Yemen

Thousands of Houthi violations leave hundreds of civilians dead in Yemen

The Houthi militia committed 16,000 violations in the last three years against civilians in Yemen’s Al-Jawf province, according to the Right to Lif…

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Yemen civil war: Houthi militia kills over 14,000 civilians in four years

Yemen civil war: Houthi militia kills over 14,000 civilians in four years

Houthi militia, which has the backing of Iran, has killed greater than 14,000 Yemeni civilians within the final 4 years since its coup in oppositio…

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Quick impact projects have a long-term effect on cholera in Yemen

Quick impact projects have a long-term effect on cholera in Yemen

As soon as rain falls, the narrow streets of the poor neighborhood of Dar Sad in Aden are flooded with muddy water. Zakaria and his friends are use…

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Human Rights Body Accuses Houthis of Committing 636 Violations in 1 Week

Human Rights Body Accuses Houthis of Committing 636 Violations in 1 Week

A human rights report has said that Houthis committed 636 rights violations in Yemen's militia-run areas in a single week. In its report,…

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Indian Hospital Heals 1,000 Victims of Yemen Civil War

Indian Hospital Heals 1,000 Victims of Yemen Civil War

As a part of its international responsibility and humanitarian aid, the UAE government had decided to assist the unfortunate people who got injured…

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Stories from Yemen: Helping Yemenis Survive the Crisis

Stories from Yemen: Helping Yemenis Survive the Crisis

Food insecurity. Famine. Starvation. The dire reality facing the Yemeni people is caused by a war that has been devastating the country for over fo…

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Yemen Houthi court condemns 30 to death for 'spying'

Yemen Houthi court condemns 30 to death for 'spying'

A court run by Yemen’s Houthi militia Tuesday sentenced 30 academics, trade unionists and preachers to death for allegedly spying for the Saudi-led co…

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USCIRF Calls on Houthi Court in Yemen to Overturn Death Sentence for Religious Prisoner of Conscience Hamid bin Haydara

USCIRF Calls on Houthi Court in Yemen to Overturn Death Sentence for Religious Prisoner of Conscience Hamid bin Haydara

Commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), today called on the Houthi appellate court to overturn th…

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Two Yemeni abductees killed in Al Houthi-run prisons

Two Yemeni abductees killed in Al Houthi-run prisons

The Association of Yemeni Abductee Mothers Thursday declared the death of two of their loved ones in secret prisons run by the Iran-backed Al Houth…

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Half of kids in Yemen under five have stunted growth, UN says

Half of kids in Yemen under five have stunted growth, UN says

Since fighting broke out in Yemen four years ago, 7,300 children have been killed or seriously injured in the country, according to the United Nati…

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Center Works to Empower Yemen’s Women and Girls

Center Works to Empower Yemen’s Women and Girls

Yemen's four years of devastating civil war have taken the hardest toll on women and girls. Many have become widowed and must support their familie…

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Two Yemenis Killed Under Torture in Houthi Prisons

Two Yemenis Killed Under Torture in Houthi Prisons

Houthi militias have abducted 377 citizens from Hajjah, northwest Sanaa, according to the Abductees’ Mothers Association (AMA). Dozens of…

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Yemen's war: 1,000 newborn babies have died in just two years

Yemen's war: 1,000 newborn babies have died in just two years

At just two MSF hospitals in cities on the front line, 1,018 newborns died between 2016 and 2018 and mothers are also dying . Thousands o…

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Yemen Court must not punish faith with death – UN experts

Yemen Court must not punish faith with death – UN experts

 UN human rights experts* have urged the de facto authorities in Sana’a to quash immediately the death sentence against Hamid Kamali bin Hayda…

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Amnesty calls on Yemen to tackle child rape

Amnesty calls on Yemen to tackle child rape

Children as young as eight were raped in the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz, Amnesty International said yesterday, pointing out that the suspects are…

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Yemeni parents forced to ‘sell’ young daughters for food

Yemeni parents forced to ‘sell’ young daughters for food

With the bloody conflict in Yemen raging on, desperate parents choose to make their daughters child brides, feeling it is the only way to let other…

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KSrelief Continues Its Humanitarian Support in Yemen

KSrelief Continues Its Humanitarian Support in Yemen

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed on Monday 300 food baskets, Weighing 22 tons and 200 KGs, in Hajjah Governora…

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Starving Hodeidah where death stalks streets, as food for millions sits in storage

Starving Hodeidah where death stalks streets, as food for millions sits in storage

A woman rummaging through garbage for scraps of food; a father pushing his skeletal teenage son in a wheelbarrow searching for help – a tragic snap…

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LETTER: UN must launch inquiry into rights abuses on all sides in Yemen

LETTER: UN must launch inquiry into rights abuses on all sides in Yemen

Twenty four million people in Yemen (80% of the population) are in need of humanitarian aid, according to a new UN report. Some 3.2 million…

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