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STORY: YEMEN / CHILDREN CONFLICT
TRT: 02:30
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: RECENT – AMRAN / HODEIDAH / SA’ADA / SANA’A / TAIZ, YEMEN
21 JANUARY, 2017, AMMRAN DISTRICT, YEMEN
1. Various shots, girl being held by mother in hospital
28 DECEMBER, 2016, SANA’A, YEMEN
2. Med shot, child being treated for illness
FEBRUARY 2017, HODEIDAH, YEMEN
3. Close up, child being treated for malnutrition
6 MARCH 2017, TAIZ, YEMEN
4. Close up, displaced boy eating a biscuit
5. Med shot, displaced girl eating from an iron cup
11 MARCH 2017, HODEIDAH, YEMEN
6. Wide shot, mother tending to their children in hospital
7. Various shots, malnourished children
29 December, 2016, SANA’A, YEMEN
8. Pan right, premature infants in incubator
9. Zoom out, doctor checking premature infant
2 March, 2017, YEMEN
10. Wide shot, people lined up to fill water
11. Close up, jerry can being filled with water
12. Wide shot, people filling jerry cans with water
13. Tracking, woman walking through rubble with bucket filled with water
6 MARCH, 2017, SA’ADA, YEMEN
14. Wide shot, school destroyed by conflict
15. Various shots, students in tented classroom
8 MARCH, 2017, HODEIDAH, YEMEN
16. Wide shot, ship at dock
17. Various shots, men offloading nutritional supplies from ship
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said nearly half a million children in Yemen were suffering from severe acute malnutrition after two years of brutal conflict in the country. The number represents a 200 percent increase since 2014 and raises the risk of famine.
In a report released today (27 Mar), UNICEF said families in Yemen were increasingly resorting to extreme measures to support their children. The Fund reported that families were eating much less, opting for less nutritious food or skipping meals as the number of extremely poor and vulnerable people is skyrocketing. Around 80 percent of families are in debt and half the population lives on less than two dollars a day according to the report.
UNICEF said more and more children were being recruited by warring parties and pushed into early marriage as family resources diminished. It said the health system in the country was also on the verge of collapse, leaving close to 15 million men, women and children with no access to health care. An outbreak of cholera and acute watery diarrhoea in October 2016 continued to spread, with over 22,500 suspected cases and 106 deaths. The report added that up to 1,600 schools could no longer be used because they are destroyed, damaged, being used to host displaced families or occupied by parties to the conflict. As a result, some 350,000 children are unable to continue their education, bringing the total number of children out of school to 2 million.
According to the report, the number of children killed in Yemen’s conflict has also increased by 70 percent, and nearly twice as many children were injured and recruited into the fighting since March 2016 compared to the same period last year.
UNICEF urged parties to the conflict to reach a political settlement to the conflict while prioritizing and upholding the rights of children in the war-torn country. It also appealed for an immediate and massive scale up of the response to combat malnutrition among children and pregnant and lactating women describing the improvement of humanitarian access throughout Yemen as a must to reach the most vulnerable.
