Yemen: The Houthi group commits more than 28,000 violations and crimes against Yemeni children.
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The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms documented the Iran-backed Houthi armed group committing approximately 28,000 violations and crimes against children in various Yemeni governorates from January 1, 2015, to November 20, 2025, including the killing of 4,595 children and the injury of 6,317 others. The violations varied between killing, injury, abduction, displacement, deprivation of education, sniping, recruitment, and preventing access to treatment, food, and water, in addition to shelling residential neighborhoods using various types of weapons such as howitzers, Katyusha rockets, mortar shells, tanks, and landmines planted in public roads and schools. The report, issued on the occasion of Universal Children's Day, confirmed that the group committed 180 cases of abduction and 137 cases of enforced disappearance of children, most of whom are still detained in the group's prisons, while some children are used as hostages to pressure their families. The group also caused the displacement of 43,965 children. The report indicated that about 117 children were subjected to physical and psychological torture inside the group's prisons, including 9 children who died as a result of torture, while 53 cases of child rape were documented in various governorates. The report stressed the continued recruitment of children at a high rate, with about 6,728 children killed during military operations and 9,851 children injured, stressing that the recruitment of children is a crime against humanity and must stop immediately. The Yemeni Network called on the international community and human rights organizations to bear their legal and moral responsibility and pressure the Houthi group to stop these violations and respect local laws and international agreements, while emphasizing the need to stop using schools, educational facilities, and mosques for recruitment, mobilization, and brainwashing of children.
