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STORY: YEMEN / BORN INTO WAR
TRT: 01:45
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN / EMBARGO UNTIL 10:00 GMT 16 JANUARY,2018
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: DECEMBER 2017, SANA’A, YEMEN
RECENT - DECEMBER 2017, SANA’A, YEMEN
1. Various shots, malnourished babies in hospital
2. Med shot, mother swinging daughter in hospital
3. Various shots, malnourished babies in hospital
4. Med shot, mother sitting by child on hospital bed
5. Rack focus, child on hospital bed
6. Med shots, children on hospital bed
7. Close up, baby
8. Close up, baby
9. Med shot, mother cradling child on hospital bed
10. Wide shot, girl carrying jerrycan filled with water
11. Med shot, child filling bottle with water
12. Tilt up, bottle being filled with water to child
13. Med shot, jerrycan being filled with water
14. Med shot, children carrying jerrycans
15. Med shot, jerrycan being filled with water
16. Wide shot, child in walker by jerrycans
According to a new UNICEF report, more than 3 million children were born in Yemen since the escalation in violence in March 2015
The publication -Born into War-, details how children in Yemen have been scarred by years of violence, displacement, disease, poverty, undernutrition and a lack of access to basic services including water, health care and education.
In the report, UNICEF noted that over 5,000 children have been killed or injured in the violence – an average of five children every day since March 2015. Over 11 million children now need humanitarian assistance – nearly every child in Yemen. It also says that over half of the country’s children don’t have access to safe drinking water or adequate sanitation.
The United Nations Children's Fund estimates that 1.8 million children are acutely malnourished, including nearly 400,000 severe acutely malnourished children who are fighting for their lives. Nearly 2 million children are out of school, including almost half a million who dropped out since the conflict escalated in March 2015.
The report warns that suspected cholera and acute watery diarrhea have affected over 1 million people, with children under 5 years old accounting for a quarter of all cases.
Even before the conflict escalated in 2015, Yemen was the poorest country in the Middle East and among the poorest in the world. Yemen has suffered decades of conflict, under- development, economic decline, and the destruction of fragile public infrastructure and services. Most children and families survive only thanks to humanitarian assistance.
The report calls on all parties to the conflict, those with influence on them and the global community to prioritise the protection of children in Yemen.
