Child Labor Overview/Issue
The emergency and the potential loss of livelihoods, breadwinners and access to education, and when families are displaced and separated, children become particularly vulnerable to child labor and WFCL.
Number of children affected
56.25% of a total of 32 surveyors of an assessment carried out in Abyan end of April, directly observed ‘many people begging in the street’.82 No information is available on the percentage of children among them.
Capacities
No information available.
Response to date
No information available.
Gaps
No information available.
Unaccompanied and separated children Overview/Issue
The ongoing conflict and population displacement is likely to cause separation of children from their parents and families, which exposes boys and girls to increase risk of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect. Unaccompanied and separated children are for example at increased risk of trafficking.
There is little data on unaccompanied and separated children, but different assessment indicate whether whole families fled or only women and children:
A rapid assessment carried out in Al Jawf reports that the approximately 1,250 families having entered the area were mainly comprised of women and children.83
An assessment in Abyan showed that nearly 50% of the displaced left with the whole family. 45% of respondents said that women and children left, but some men stayed behind.84
86.7% of respondents of a rapid assessment in Aden, fled their homes, of which 76.7% fled with the whole family. 10% of the respondents said that only women and children had fled.85
An assessment in Amran showed that caregivers spoke about the unstable psychological status of children, due to, among other, the fear of losing their mother and father.86
Number of children affected
In Abyan Governorate, 81.25% of respondents reported that there a serious problem in their community because people have been separated from family members.87 12.5% said there was no such problem and 6.25% answered that they didn’t know. Unfortunately is it not clear, who got separated. 78.13% reported that it is a problem that unaccompanied children, orphans, widows, elderly people, people who are sick or disabled do not get enough help. The percentage of each category of persons in need is not known.
An assessment in Amran Governorate indicated that there are three families that have a child/children missing. But more than 40 families are taking care of children who were not part of their families before the displacement.88
Since the beginning of April, 941 unaccompanied minors (of a total of 5,161) have returned from Yemen to Ethiopia having transited through Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Sudan.89
Capacities
No information available.
Response to date
Prevention and life-saving messages reach hundreds of thousands of IDPs and community members. The messages focus, among other, on avoiding family separation.90
Gaps
No information available.
Justice for children Overview/Issue
Humanitarian situations often increase the possibility of children coming into contact with the justice system as alleged offenders, victims or witnesses, or in a combination of these roles.
The many armed checkpoints are presenting a danger in this regard.
Number of children affected
9 boys were detained by Ansar Allah as they reportedly conducted “law enforcement operations”. 6 other incidents of detention by Ansar Allah were also verified involving 6 boys, 4 of whom were detained for their alleged association with Islah (the Muslim Brotherhood-linked party), and 1 because of his father’s association with Islah.91
No further information is available.
Capacities
No information available.
Response to date
No information available.
Gaps
No information available.
Annex I: Abbreviations
AQAP Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
CBO Community based organization
CFS Child friendly space
CP Child protection
CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child
ERW Explosive remnants of war
FGM/C Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
GBV Gender based violence
GDP Gross domestic product
GNI Gross national income
HIV Human immunodeficiency virus
ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
IDP Internally displaced people
INGO International Non-Government Organization
LGBTI Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex
MOSAL Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
MRM Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism
NGO Non-Government Organization
OCHA Office for the CO-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UNDP United Nations Development Program
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner’s Refugee Commission
UNICEF United Children’s Fund
UNMAS United Nations Mine Action Service
UXO Unexploded ordnance
WFCL Worst forms of child labor
Annex II: Timeline92
Facing popular protests, a secessionist movement in the south, a spiraling security crisis, and a deep fracturing of political factions, Yemen’s political elite acceded to the Gulf initiative in 2011, which established a caretaker transitional government. The agreement signed in Riyadh stipulated a two-year transitional period and created a National Dialogue Conference (NDC) as a forum to solve the country’s political problems.93
2014
January - National Dialogue Conference winds up after ten months of deliberation, agreeing a document on which the new constitution will be based.
February - Presidential panel gives approval for Yemen to become a federation of six regions as part of its political transition.
July - Tribesmen blow up the country's largest oil pipeline, disrupting supplies from the interior to a Red Sea export terminal.
August - President Hadi sacks his cabinet and overturns a controversial fuel price rise following two weeks of anti-government protests in which Houthi rebels are heavily involved.
September - Houthi rebels take control of the capital Sanaa. The UN brokers a peace deal according to which the Houthis agree to withdraw their fighters from cities they have seized once a new national unity government has been formed.
2015
January - The Houthis reject the draft of a new constitution proposed by the government. They seize state TV and clash with troops in the capital, in what the government describes as a coup attempt.
President Hadi and his government resign in protest at the takeover of the capital by Houthi rebels. He later rescinds his resignation.
February - Houthi rebels say that they are seizing power and that a transitional five-member presidential council will replace President Hadi. UN Security Council denounces Houthi move, demands they negotiate power-sharing agreement under Gulf Cooperation Council aegis.
President Hadi flees house arrest in Sanaa, escapes to Aden.
March - Islamic State carries out its first major attacks in Yemen - two suicide bombings targeting Shia mosques in Sanaa in which 137 people are killed.
Houthi rebels start to advance towards southern Yemen. President Hadi flees from Aden.
A Saudi-led coalition of Arab states launches heavy air strikes against Shia Houthi rebel targets and imposes a naval blockade.
June – With more than 21.1 million people, over 80 percent of Yemen's population, who need some form of humanitarian assistance, the UN activates the IASC system-wide level 3 emergency response for Yemen for six month.
July – A UN brokered fire pause does not materialize as fighting and airstrikes continue.
1 UNICEF and the Republic of Yemen, Situation Analysis of Children in Yemen, 2014: www.unicef.org/mena/MENA-Situation_Analysis_report_-_English_Final(1).pdf
3 UNICEF and the Republic of Yemen, op. cit.
4 Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations on the report submitted by Yemen under article 8, Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2014: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/Countries.aspx?CountryCode=YEM&Lang=EN
5 CNN, UNICEF: 279 children die in 10 weeks of violence in Yemen, June 2015: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/16/middleeast/yemen-child-deaths-in-conflict/
6 Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations on the 4th periodic report of Yemen, 2014: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/Countries.aspx?CountryCode=YEM&Lang=EN
7 Human Rights Watch, op. cit.
8 CPWG Country Profile Yemen, 2015.
9 UNICEF and the Republic of Yemen, op. cit.
10 UNICEF, In Yemen, one girl fights back against the practice of early marriage, March 2014: www.unicef.org/infobycountry/yemen_72918.html
12 Girls not Brides, Yemen’s chance to set 18 as the minimum age of marriage: www.girlsnotbrides.org/yemens-chance-to-set-18-as-the-minimum-age-of-marriage-says-human-rights-watch/
13 UNICEF and the Republic of Yemen, op. cit.
14 Al Jazeera, Saudis warned over marrying 'unidentified' Yemen women, August 2015: www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/saudis-warned-marrying-unidentified-yemen-women-150806110721916.html
15 Sexual violence in conflict, Report of the Secretary-General, A/67/792–S/2013/149, March 2013: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5167bd0f4.html
16 CRC, Concluding observations article 8, op. cit.
17 UNICEF and the Republic of Yemen, op. cit.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 WHO Mental Health Atlas Yemen Profile, 2011: www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/atlas/profiles/yem_mh_profile.pdf
21 See: http://sfd-yemen.org/uploads/issues/health%20english-20121015-132757.pdf
22 American Psychological Association, Psychology in Yemen, 2008: www.apa.org/international/pi/2008/05/yemen.aspx
23 Ibid.
24 Information based on the on the report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council (A/69/926–S/2015/409) issued on 5 June 2015: https://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/countries/yemen
25 Human Rights Watch, op. cit.
26 Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council, op. cit.
27 CRC, Concluding observations article 8, op. cit.
28 Ibid.
29 See: http://watchlist.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Yemen-conclusions.pdf
30 CPWG Country Profile Yemen, 2015.
31 UNICEF and the Republic of Yemen, op. cit.
32 U.S. Department of State, Office to monitor and combat trafficking in persons, 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report, Yemen Country Narrative: www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/countries/2014/226849.htm
33 Ibid.
34 CRC, Concluding observations 4th periodic report, op. cit.
35 IOM, IOM Aids Ethiopian Minors to Return from Tanzania and Yemen, February 2015: www.iom.int/news/iom-aids-ethiopian-minors-return-tanzania-and-yemen
36 UNICEF Yemen SitRep, February 2015: www.unicef.org/mena/MENA-UNICEF_Yemen_SitRep_February_2015.pdf
37 UNICEF Yemen SitRep, December 2014: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/UNICEF%20Yemen%20SitRep%20Dec2014.pdf
38 Al Jazeera, Yemen unyielding on child executions, 2013: www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/03/20133485144413946.html
39 CRIN, Inhuman sentencing of child offenders in Yemen, 2012: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CCPR/Shared%20Documents/YEM/INT_CCPR_NGO_YEM_104_10334_E.pdf
40 CRC, Concluding observations 4th periodic report, op. cit.
41 UNICEF and the Republic of Yemen, op. cit.
42 Humanitarian Response Plan, June 2015: www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/system/files/documents/files/yem_hrp_190615_final.pdf
43 IASC Emergency Directors Group, IASC L3 Response Activation Background and Benchmarks, Yemen, 6 July 2015; and, OCHA, Yemen: Presence of Humanitarian Actors (as of 02 June 2015): www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/system/files/documents/files/3w_operational_presence_03june2015_1735.pdf
44 Deborah Clifton, Gender equality in the 2015 Yemen conflict, June 2015.
45 Humanitarian Response Plan, op. cit.
46 UNICEF and the Republic of Yemen, op. cit.
47 Deborah Clifton, op. cit.
48 CRC, Concluding observations 4th periodic report, op. cit.
49 UNICEF and the Republic of Yemen, op. cit.
50 Ibid.
51 Save the Children Multi-Sector Rapid Needs Assessment, Amran Governorate, April 2015.
52 IASC L3 Response Activation, op. cit. ; OCHA, Yemen 3W, op. cit.
53 Human Rights Watch, Yemen: Saudi-Led Airstrikes Used Cluster Munitions, May 2015: www.hrw.org/news/2015/05/03/yemen-saudi-led-airstrikes-used-cluster-munitions
54 MSF, Yemen: War Crimes and Severe Shortages, July 2015: www.msf.org/article/yemen-war-crimes-and-severe-shortages
55 UNICEF SitRep, 24 June – 7 July 2015: www.unicef.org/mena/UNICEF_Yemen_Crisis_SitRep_-_24_June_to_7_July_2015(2).pdf
56 UNHCR, Aden Governorate Multi Cluster Rapid Assessment as of 6 June 2015
57 Ibid.
58 Ibid.
59 Ibid.
61 UNICEF SitRep, 17 – 23 June 2015: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/UNICEF%20Yemen%20Crisis%20SitRep%20-%2017-23June2015.pdf
62 UNICEF, Humanitarian Action for Children: www.unicef.org/appeals/yemen.html
63 Save the Children, op. cit.
64 UNHCR, op. cit.
65 Save the Children, op. cit.
66 CARE, It’s time to focus on child marriage in emergencies, June 2015: http://insights.careinternational.org.uk/development-blog/humanitarian-emergencies/it-s-time-to-focus-on-child-marriage-in-emergencies
67 UNHCR, op. cit.
68 Yemen: Humanitarian Emergency, SitRep No. 14, 6 July 2015: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/OCHA%20Yemen%20Situation%20Report%20No.%2014%20-issued%20on%207%20July%202015.pdf
69 Abyan Rapid Multi-Cluster Assessment, Initial Automated Report, April 2015.
70 NRC and ADRA MIRA for Sa’ada and Amran IDPs in Bani Al-Hareth, May 2015.
71 Initial findings of the Rapid Multi-Cluster Assessment in Sadah Governorate: 21-23 April 2015
72 Save the Children Multi-Sector Rapid Needs Assessment, Amran Governorate, April 2015.
73 UNICEF SitRep, 17 – 23 June 2015, op. cit.
74 UNICEF, Humanitarian Action for Children: www.unicef.org/appeals/yemen.html
75 Save the Children, op. cit.
76 Human Rights Watch, Yemen: Houthis Send Children Into Battle, May 2015: www.hrw.org/news/2015/05/12/yemen-houthis-send-children-battle
77 Human Rights Watch, Yemen: Houthis Send Children Into Battle, op.
78 Save the Children, op. cit.
79 Human Rights Watch, Kids Are Paying the Price for Yemen’s War, June 2015: www.hrw.org/news/2015/06/11/kids-are-paying-price-yemens-war
80 Abyan Rapid Multi-Cluster Assessment, Direct Observation Initial Results.
81 UNICEF SitRep, 17 – 23 June 2015, op. cit.
82 Ibid.
83 ACTED, Rapid needs assessment in Al Jawf, May 2015.
84 Abyan, Initial Automated Report, op. cit.
85 UNHCR, op. cit.
86 Save the Children, op. cit.
87 Abyan, Initial Automated Report, op. cit.
88 Save the Children, op. cit.
89 Yemen crisis IOM regional response: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/IOM%20Yemen%20Crisis%20Sitrep%2018%20June%202015%20%2311.pdf
90 UNICEF SitRep, 17 – 23 June 2015, op. cit.
91 Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council, op. cit.
92 BBC Yemen profile – Timeline, June 2015: www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14704951
93 Middle East Institute, Yemen’s National Dialogue, 2014: www.mei.edu/content/yemens-national-dialogue
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