Al-Dailami Reviews with a Member of the Children’s Committee of The Human Rights Council the Crimes against Yemeni Children
Today, the Acting Minister of Human Rights, Ali Al-Dailami, discussed, via a televised circuit, with a member of the Committee on the Rights of Children at the United Nations Human Rights Council Bin Wah, the aspects related to children’s rights in Yemen.
The meeting reviewed the crimes, violations and targeting of Yemeni children by the US-Saudi aggression coalition, and the psychological effects they are going through as a result of the aggression and siege.
The Acting Minister of Human Rights stressed the need for the United Nations to bear the responsibility of protecting the rights of children in Yemen, in accordance with international treaties, charters and norms.
He indicated that there are ten million children suffering from severe psychological effects, of whom 58.2 percent suffer from a feeling of fear, 37 percent suffer from anxiety, and 36.4 suffer from psychological effects and diseases, while 5-6 children die daily.
Al-Dailami pointed to the massacres committed and still committed by the warplanes of aggression against children, and targeting them while they were returning from schools, including the crime of Dahyan children in Saada.He considered these massacres war crimes against humanity whose perpetrators must be punished, according to United Nations charters.