Yemen Resource Centre
Understanding the Relationship Between Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation: A statistical overview of their co-occurrence and risk factors
The well-being of millions of girls around the world is threatened by child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM). Both child marriage and FGM have existed for generations due to gender inequality. In many countries where both practices are common, ...
Read moreKilled and Maimed: A generation of violations against children
Millions of children are living in conflict. Hundreds of thousands of children have experienced grave violations of their rights – a quarter of a million violations against children have now been verified by the UN. Of these, more than 40% have involved ...
Read moreFive Years of Fear and Loss: The devastating impact of war on the mental health of Yemen’s children
Over the past five years, the war in Yemen has had a devastating impact on the children in Yemen, including on their mental health. Save the Children interviewed over 1,250 children, parents and other adult caregivers across three governorates in Yemen ...
Read moreLiving in Chains: Shackling of people with psychosocial disabilities worldwide
Hundreds of thousands of people, both adult and children around the globe with mental health conditions have been shackled at least once in their lives. Inadequate support and mental health services, as well as stigma concerning people with psychosocial ...
Read moreReproductive Health in Emergencies Tablet-Based Supervision System to Improve Competency of Health Care Providers
This brief provides an overview of the Reproductive Health in Emergencies Tablet-Based Supervision System. The tablet-based supervision system allows streamlining supervision systems, prioritization of whom to supervise based on the needs, adapting individual ...
Read moreReproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Service Delivery during Conflict in Yemen: A case study
At the time of writing, Yemen is one of two countries identified by the United Nations (UN) Inter-Agency Standing Committee as a level three emergency, indicating the need for large-scale response to meet immediate humanitarian needs. The health system ...
Read moreHumanitarian Action for Children 2021: Yemen
Yemen is still the worst humanitarian crisis globally. 80 per cent of the total population – of whom 12.4 million are children – are in need of humanitarian assistance due to armed conflict, economic collapse and a breakdown in national systems and ...
Read moreYemen Five Years On: Children, conflict and COVID-19
Children in Yemen are facing a daily struggle to survive in what is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. After five years of conflict, around four in five children – 12.3 million – are in desperate need of aid. Tens of thousands of children have ...
Read moreFamily Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Yemen
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Yemen. Family Planning
Read moreChild Protection COVID-19 Guidance: Yemen
The outbreak of infectious diseases like COVID-19 can disrupt the environments in which children grow and develop. In Yemen, children already face protection risks due to conflict and violence. In this context, response measures to the spread of COVID-19 ...
Read moreRädda Barnen Dokumentär: Kriget mot barnen och den svenska vapenexporten
”Jag grät varje natt för att jag skulle föda mitt barn, mitt första, in i det här kaoset” Sukaina födde barn mitt under brinnande krig. Idag fem år senare växer hennes son upp i världens största humanitära kris. I Jemen dör ett barn var ...
Read moreI Wish Tomorrow Will Not Come: Adolescents and the impact of conflict on their experiences
In 2017 Save the Children conducted a participatory study with 571 adolescent girls and boys, caregivers and community members in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. We wanted to hear directly from adolescents how conflict affects their lives, what challenges ...
Read moreMigration, Displacement and Education: Building bridges, not walls
No part of the world is currently affected by migration and displacement as much as the Arab States. Even though the region only accounts for five percent of the global population, it holds 32 percent of the global amount of refugees and 38 percent of ...
Read moreAnnual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) 2018
In 2018, killing and maiming of children reached record high levels since the creation of the monitoring and reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict. More than 24 000 grave violations against children were recorded by the United Nations in ...
Read moreSafeguard Yemen’s Future: Protect education from attack
Since it began in March 2015, the nearly four-year long armed conflict in Yemen has devastated the country’s educational system. According to UNICEF and the Yemen Education Cluster, close to 500,000 children have dropped out of school since the conflict ...
Read moreEmergency Contraception in Reproductive Health Programs in Humanitarian Settings
Our reproductive health in emergencies program strives to provide a full range of modern contraceptive methods so that women may access the contraception method that is best suited to their needs. Emergency contraception (EC) is a critical part to the ...
Read moreFrom Words to Action: Promoting gender equality and transformative action through the Grand Bargain
This brief presents the key points from a global consultation organized by UN Women and the Grand Bargain Friends of Gender Group. The goal of the consultation was to enable dialogue among the Grand Bargain Facilitation Group, Workstream co-conveners, ...
Read moreChildren and Armed Conflict Special Update: August 2019
On August 2, 2019, the UN Security Council will hold its open debate on children and armed conflict (CAC) under Poland’s presidency. Poland will seek to highlight the 10-year anniversary of the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1882 (2009), as ...
Read moreCentrality of Protection in Humanitarian Action: GPC 2018 review
The five country case studies selected for the 2018 GPC Review (Afghanistan, South Sudan, Ukraine, Whole of Syria and Yemen) allow for more context specific reflection and highlight particular issues around accountability, shrinking humanitarian space, ...
Read moreChild Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme Case Study: Salem
This document is a case study of a participant in the Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme. Salem Ahmed shares his experience from the development programme and how it has helped him as the lead for Child Protection in Emergencies ...
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