Yemen

Following the UN Secretary General’s appeal for an immediate global ceasefire, the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV) encourages all parties to agree with the initiative of Truce...

Amid worsening famine and cholera in war-torn Yemen, the head of the United Nations migration agency has called for greater humanitarian access to enable relief workers reach those most in need and...

The bomb that destroyed a residential building in Yemen's capital last month, killing 16 civilians and injuring 17 more was made in the USA, Amnesty International revealed on 22 Sep.

Efforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, currently the world’s largest, are being hampered by insufficient funding and other challenges, the top United Nations relief official warned.

The United Nations human rights chief has called for an independent, international investigation into the allegations of serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in...

An air strike which hit Faj Attan, a residential area of Yemen’s capital Sana’a, destroying three homes, killing ten people and injuring seven more, shows that after more than two years of...

Reiterating that attacks targeting civilians are prohibited under international law, the United Nations human rights office confirmed dozens of casualties in airstrikes on villages near the...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The majority of deaths from Yemen's cholera outbreak have occurred in rebel-controlled areas cut off from supplies due to airstrikes and blockades by a...

Warning about escalating suffering in Yemen's man-made catastrophe, senior United Nations officials addressed the Security Council, calling on the international community to push for a political...

More than 500,000 people in Yemen are suspected of having cholera, the United Nations health agency said, warning that the disease is spreading quickly due to a lack of clean water or health access.

One year since Sana’a Airport was shut down, more Yemenis have died from not being able to travel for specialised medical care than those who have been killed by airstrikes.

Expressing a deep concern about reports of airstrikes on civilians in Yemen's Sa'ada Governorate, a senior United Nations relief official has urged all parties to the conflict and those who...

As I have said before, even wars have rules and such rules must be respected. Said Mr. Jamie McGoldrick

Describing the situation in Yemen as “very bleak,” with “no end in sight,” a senior United Nations official envoy said the war-torn country, already reeling from malnutrition and dwindling health...

A Saudi-led military coalition and the government of Yemen denied four oil tankers access to a Yemeni port last week, a move that could hurt the flow of aid and exacerbate a cholera outbreak in the...

Yemen is facing the world's largest cholera outbreak, the United Nations health agency today warned, with 5,000 Yemenis falling sick every day – the majority of them children and the elderly.

As the war in Yemen grinds on, the increasing battles of attrition are extracting a terrible toll on the country’s women, men and children, senior United Nations officials told the Security...

Rights group and legal experts say arming Riyadh and Abu Dhabi makes the UK complicit in alleged war crimes. London court dismisses case that tried to stop Britain's multibillion-pound arms sales...

A “race” is under way to contain the cholera epidemic in Yemen where 20 out of 22 governorates are affected, United Nations agencies said.

Expressing grave concern about the humanitarian situation in Yemen, the United Nations Security Council adopted a Presidential Statement calling on all parties to engage constructively and in good...