Yemen: A human rights report reveals that the Houthi group committed more than 21,000 violations against Yemeni children in ten years.
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Arabian Sea - Yemen - Follow-ups: The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms and the Ma'onah Association for Human Rights and Migration revealed that the Iranian-backed Houthi group committed approximately 21,342 violations against children in Yemen between January 2015 and July 2025, including 9,914 cases of killing and 6,417 injuries. The report, presented at the 60th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva under the title "Yemen's Children Between Killing and Recruitment," explained that the violations included killing, injury, abduction, displacement, depriving children of education, sniper attacks, forced recruitment, in addition to preventing access to food and medicine and pushing children into the labor market. The field team recorded approximately 598 cases of arrest and abduction of children in 17 governorates, in addition to 51 cases of rape involving Houthi leaders and supervisors, while the group recruited more than 30,000 children between the ages of 12 and 14. The report also monitored more than 314 murders and injuries committed by recruited children against their relatives as a result of intellectual and sectarian mobilization. The report indicated that the Houthi group's coup caused a humanitarian catastrophe that left more than 17 million children in need of humanitarian assistance and deprived approximately 2.5 million children of education as a result of the destruction and occupation of schools and their conversion into military barracks or shelters. The economic collapse and the interruption of salaries also pushed more than two million children into the labor market in unsafe conditions. The Yemeni Network and the Ma'onah Association called on the international community to compel the Houthi group to respect international laws on the protection of children, to include its leaders involved in the list of violators of children's rights, to open independent investigations into crimes targeting children, and to refer those involved to international justice on charges of war crimes.
