Ministry Human Rights comments on UN report on situation of Yemeni Children
SANAA, Aug. 10 (YPA) – The Ministry of Human Rights held a press conference on Tuesday to respond to the report of the Secretary-General of the UN on the situation of Yemeni children.
“We are shocked by what was stated in the report of the Secretary-General of UN on violations against Yemeni children, noting that the report contained significant and clear inaccuracies” The Acting Minister of Human Rights, Ali Al-Dailami, said.
Al-Dailami pointed out that the report of the Secretary-General deliberately ignored many of the aggressor parties, in addition to the fact that the monitoring and reporting mechanisms adopted by the report are unknown and not based on the evidence referred to.
He explained that the Secretary-General’s report spoke of multiple parties and ignored the crimes of the US-Saudi aggression, which are the main cause of the tragedies of Yemen’s children.
“The UN only interacts with countries that have money and dollars, and here lies the problem, adding that we are talking about more than 8,000 children who were not mentioned in the report, ” he said.
Al-Dailami reviewed the violations and crimes committed by the aggression against Yemeni children, such as bombing schools and targeting hospitals, markets and school buses.
He stressed that the continuous and multiple targeting of Yemeni children represents a serious violation of international humanitarian law.
Al-Dailami pointed out that the United Nations, through its issued reports, continues to cover up the perpetrators of crimes and violations, falsify facts, distribute numbers and accusations that lack investigation and monitoring, and lack sources and credibility.
He stressed that the children of Yemen, since the beginning of the aggression, have been subjected to US-Saudi-Emirati violations, including killing, orphanhood, injury and detention in the prisons of aggression, displacement and separation, dropping out of school, disease and epidemics, as well as depression and various psychological effects that are medically classified as post-traumatic stress.
Al-Dailami further stressed the need for independent investigation and criminal accountability of the leaders of the coalition and all those who prove their involvement in crimes committed against civilians in general and children in particular.
He called on all the free and honorable people in the world to assume their moral and humanitarian responsibility in supporting the oppressed Yemeni people and condemning the horrific crimes committed by the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression coalition and pressure the United Nations, specifically the Secretary-General and the Security Council to carry out their legal and moral duty to protect children and civilians in Yemen and stop the aggression.
The official also called on the United Nations to restore its credibility, transparency and professionalism towards its reports, to be biased towards victims, especially children and women, and to verify its monitoring and reporting mechanisms to avoid the contradictions and fallacies witnessed in this report.
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