Yemen, UNICEF launch report on child protection in conflict afflicted areas in North

SANA'A, Aug. 11 (Saba)- 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.
F Furthermore, 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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