On the Day of International Youth Entesaf Organization Lunch Report

On the International Youth Day on the 12th of August, the young men and women of Yemen receive this occasion in light of these tragic conditions since March 2015, where young men, including girls, who make up a large percentage of the Yemeni population, live in difficult conditions that have affected all aspects of their lives, and the circumstances they go through country as an obstacle to their future aspirations. Yemen’s youth were subjected to systematic aggression, targeting youth capabilities and infrastructure throughout Yemen.

Today, young people face challenges similar to those faced by young people in any weak country; But it exceeded the impact of the aggression on Yemen and its siege on the economy, which has collapsed and caused the cutting of salaries for the Yemeni people, causing unemployment and a high rate of child marriage, as families suffering from severe economic hardship seek money or even a misleading way to protect young girls and increase gender-based violence to unprecedented levels. As women and girls have been subjected to rape, kidnapping, sexual harassment and domestic violence.

While the war affected the lives of people, especially young people, the widespread and exacerbated mental health crises, the systematic and deliberate destruction of the education system, as statistics indicate that the number of completely and partially destroyed educational facilities used to shelter the displaced and unsafe reached 3768 facilities.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the higher education and scientific research sector and its various institutions were exposed, during eight years of aggression and siege, to direct and indirect physical damage amounting to 727 billion 983 million 291 thousand riyals, which is approximately one billion 340 million 669 thousand dollars.

It also revealed that the cost of direct damage amounted to 188 billion and 612 million and 595 thousand riyals, while the cost of indirect damage amounted to about 538 billion and 850 million and 695 thousand riyals.

It pointed out that the cost of direct and indirect damages to the Ministry of Higher Education, the Information Technology Center, the Academic Accreditation Council and the Science Museum amounted to 116 billion and 949 million and 362 thousand riyals, approximately 215 million and 376 thousand dollars, of which 5 billion riyals were direct damages, and 111 billion and 926 million costs. Indirect damages.

We hold the aggression coalition led by America and Saudi Arabia responsible for all the crimes and violations committed by the aggression against civilians in Yemen for eight years. And that the continued aggression in detaining oil derivatives ships has catastrophic repercussions on all vital sectors.

We call on the United Nations, the Security Council, and human rights and humanitarian bodies to assume their legal and humanitarian responsibility for the heinous crimes committed by the coalition of aggression against the people of Yemen, and to pressure towards stopping the aggression and lifting the siege.