Yemen, UNICEF launch report on child protection in conflict afflicted areas in North
The Source: SANA'A/ hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 11/08/2010
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Yemen and the UNICEF have launched a report on child protection assessment in conflict afflicted provinces in the North of the country.
The report aims at identifying the major child protection risks and challenges amongst affected and displaced children, skills amongst children, their families and communities, in addition to the national and international responses and gaps in the field of child protection.
It covers the governorates of Sa’ada, Hajjah, Amran, Al-Jawf and Sana’a, highlights key issues regarding killings, injuries, disabilities, recruitment, detention, domestic violence, separation, abuse as well as sexual and economic exploitation of children. FFurthermore, the report highlighted concrete and key recommendations at all levels for follow up to ensure the protection of children from all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and discrimination.The UNICEF Representative Geert Cappelaere stated that, “the content of the assessment must be a matter of concern for all players in the humanitarian and development landscape. It serves as a clarion call to ensure the immediate end to all hostilities by all parties, urgent scale-up of interventions and effective coordination of child protection responses and a strong call to the international and donor community as well as the government for increased funding allocation in order to ensure the protection of the children of Yemen from all forms of abuse, exploitation and violence”, Mr Cappelaere emphasised.Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Dr. Amat Elrazzaq Hummad, emphasised in her launching the Report “the urgent need to unify all efforts between the government of Yemen, UN agencies, and NGOs to assume their responsibilities and address the recommendations of the study”. She added: “The government of Yemen and the President strongly support building peace in the North and start a process of reconstruction together with all efforts to rehabilitate and reintegrate children who suffered a lot during the last war.”
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