Intisaf Organization: Over 13,000 women, children are aggression victims during past 8 years

The Intisaf Organization for Women and Children’s Rights reported that the number of children and women victims of the US-Saudi aggression in eight years has exceeded 13,437 killing and wounded.

The organization stated in a statement on the occasion of International Human Rights Day December 10 that Yemeni children and women are killed and their rights violated as a result of the aggression and the siege imposed by the aggression under international and international cover, as all laws and charters launched by the nations have fallen in Yemen. The United Nations has no longer played any role in preserving even a small part of the rights of women and children in Yemen.

The statement indicated that the number of killed women and children reached 6,312, including 2,436 women and 3,876 children, while the number of injured women and children reached 7,125, including 2,862 women and 4,263 children.

It also pointed out that the number of the displaced rose to five million and 159 thousand and 560 displaced until the end of August 2022, including 740 thousand and 122 families.

According to statistics, half of the displaced are women, 27 percent of whom are under the age of eighteen, which increases their chances of being subjected to violence.

The organization pointed out that with the lack of shelter options available, displaced women and girls suffer most due to the lack of privacy, the threat to their safety, and the lack of access to basic services, which makes them more vulnerable and vulnerable to violence and abuse.

The statement said that one out of every three displaced families is headed by women, and the girls who support 21 percent of these families are under the age of 18. According to a UN report, 60,000 women have lost their husbands, and the number of families headed by women at the level of Yemen has reached 417,000 families.

Moreover, it noted that the number of violations committed by the aggression forces in the western coast amounted to 695 violations, including 132 rape crimes and 56 kidnapping crimes, while the violations in the southern provinces, and Aden in particular, amounted to 443 rape crimes, according to the reports.

The statement also stated that there are approximately 6.1 million male and female students who suffer from the collapse of the education system, and approximately three thousand and 500 schools are either destroyed or damaged, and there are two million and 400 thousand children out of school, while the number of children who face interruption from education may rise to six million children.

Furthermore, it pointed out that the aggression caused the deprivation of women of the right to education as a result of targeting educational facilities, the economic blockade, and non-payment of salaries, which led to the inability of some families to provide basic educational needs such as breakfast, and 31 percent of Yemeni girls became out of school.

According to the statement, the number of persons with disabilities has increased from three million before the aggression to 4.5 million now, indicating that about six thousand civilians have been disabled as a result of armed hostilities since the start of the aggression, including approximately five thousand and 559 children, and it is expected that the actual number will be much higher.

The statement noted the expansion of child labor phenomenon during the war by more than four times what it was previously, indicating that 1.4 million working children are deprived of their most basic rights, and about 34.3% of working children between the ages of 5 and 17 work in Yemen.

It added, “The number of those affected by the aggression remnants rose to four thousand civilian victims, including about 131 children, of whom 25 were killed, and 26 women, including four dead, as a result of mines, cluster bombs and remnants of the aggression, since the truce took effect on the second of last April.”

On the health side, the statement stated that public and private hospitals throughout the Republic are threatened with closure during the next few days due to the blockade and the detention of oil derivative ships by the aggression.

The blockade has led to an increase in malnutrition rates, as more than 2.3 million children under five years of age suffer from malnutrition and 632 thousand children suffer from severe acute malnutrition that threatens their lives during the current year.

In addition to that there are more than 1.5 million pregnant and breastfeeding women who suffer from Malnutrition, of which 650,495 women are moderately malnourished.

While a woman and six newborns die every two hours due to complications during pregnancy or during childbirth, the number of women who may lose their lives during pregnancy or childbirth is estimated at approximately 17 thousand women.

Also, the statement continued, “Approximately 70% of obstetric medicines are not available in Yemen due to the blockade and the aggression coalition’s prevention of their entry, and more than 80 newborns die every day because of the internationally prohibited weapons used,” noting that this is one of the reasons for the high number of preterm infants, as it is 39%. Of the percentage of newborns every year, they are born preterm, as one million and 120 thousand newborns are born per year.

According to the statement, more than 5,000 patients with kidney failure are at risk of death, while the number of people with cancer has reached 35,000, including more than 1,000 children.

And the organization held the aggression coalition led by America and Saudi Arabia responsible for all crimes and violations against civilians, especially women and children, over a period of eight years, calling on the international community, international organizations, human rights and humanitarian bodies to bear legal and humanitarian responsibility for the violations and heinous massacres that occur against civilians.

Finally, the organization called on the free people of the world to take effective and positive action to stop the aggression and protect civilians, and to form an independent international commission to investigate all crimes committed against the Yemeni people, and to hold accountable all those found involved in them.