Human rights organization accuses UN of abandoning Yemen’s people

SANAA, Aug. 19 (YPA) – The Entesaf Organization for Women and Child Rights affirmed on Saturday that the United Nations and its organizations had abandoned their responsibilities towards the Yemeni people.

In a statement issued on the occasion of International Humanitarian Day, August 19, the Entesaf Organization said that “21.6 million Yemenis need humanitarian aid at a time when the role of the United Nations and its organizations is absent, and it even abandoned its responsibilities and withdrew support from most vital sectors, including the health sector.”

The statement mentioned that the Yemeni people live under the burden of lack of health care, killing, and displacement, and all their rights claimed by international laws, charters, and treaties are violated.

The Entesaf Organization noted the United Nations’ lack of transparency, accountability, and integrity in the aid of international organizations, calling for sharing the mechanisms for implementing the United Nations humanitarian programs in Yemen with the Sanaa government to achieve transparency.

“The increasing suffering of the Yemeni people every day requires the humanitarian community to review the mechanisms of work of international organizations, which lack the most transparency and integrity in providing humanitarian aid,” the organization said.

The organization’s statement referred to the flow of rotten, expired, and unusable humanitarian aid since the beginning of the war on Yemen by international organizations, which contributed to the increase in the suffering of the Yemeni people, who are being subjected to a war of starvation by the Saudi-led coalition.

The statement stated that this year witnessed an alarming increase in attacks against aid workers in Yemen, noting the killing of an aid worker as well as injuries, kidnappings, and detention of humanitarian workers in the areas under the control of the coalition.

YPA