Press Conference in Sana’a Reveals the Crimes ,Violations by the Aggression against Childhood in Yemen
Today, Monday, a press conference was held in Sana’a on the reality of childhood in Yemen…seven years of aggression and siege, organized by the Coordination Committee of Yemeni NGOs for Child Rights Care.
In the conference, which was attended by the advisor of the Supreme Political Council, Ambassador Abdul Ilah Hajar, political and human rights figures and representatives of the media, the Acting Minister of Human Rights, Ali Al-Dailami, explained that a number of human rights and international organizations have not fulfilled their human rights and humanitarian duty to do justice to the children of Yemen from the crimes and violations that they have been subjected to over seven years of aggression, siege, starvation and displacement.
He said, “There are more than three thousand children in critical health condition who need treatment abroad. The organizations stand idly by in supporting these cases in terms of human rights, which reflects the extent of the suffering and tragedy of the children despite the initial agreement with these organizations to build a medical bridge for patients, led by women. It was disabled for reasons that are not clear.”
He added, “Children were not spared from the raids of the aggression, neither in their homes, nor in their schools, nor even in health and worship homes, and in markets. Rather, the aggression made them a military target, indifferent to human and societal rights and norms, and international charters and laws.”
Al-Dailami stressed the importance of developing a program for the civil society that directs its interest in supporting the human and human rights of the child away from misinformation that serves aggression and changes the facts carried out by the mercenaries of aggression which do not know the size and disaster of their statements far from the truth and reality.
The Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, Akhlaq Al-Shami, explained that the conference sheds light on the actual implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the “Justice, Judiciary, Human Rights, Interior, Health, Education and the Higher Council for Motherhood and Childhood,” after discussing this in a three-day training course and proving the efforts of civil society organizations for childhood.”
She called for coordination and integration between the concerned authorities to support and protect children, and to amend legal legislation in line with the phase changes caused by the aggression and siege.
Al-Shami indicated that legal documentation of the crimes of aggression and its violations against childhood is necessary to prosecute the aggressors and their tools before local and international courts.
For his part, the coordinator of the Coordinating Body for Yemeni Non-Governmental Organizations for Child Rights Care, Abdo Salah Al-Harazi, explained that the steadfastness of Yemeni children for seven years is an achievement that reflects their ability to overcome the obstacles of aggression and the siege and their repercussions