2019

Incidents of modern-day slavery are “only likely to increase” as a result of some of biggest challenges facing the world today, a UN expert outlined in a report for the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.…

The Human Rights Council opened in Geneva on Monday with a warning from the UN’s top rights official that, with forest fires raging in the Amazon, “we are burning up our future, literally”.…

Despite progress in national prevention strategies, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General lamented on Monday, highlighting key findings of the agency’s latest report on…

Bushra al-Mahtouri, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for the girl’s sector, stressed the protection of the girl’s right to education. She pointed out that the Saudi-led aggression has caused extensive damage to the…

The Tribal Cohesion Council on Monday condemned the international silence on Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes on the war prisoners detention facility in Dhamar Community College. The Council carried out a vigil at the crime scene,…

Citizens in the occupied southern province of Lahj on Monday protested the deliberate negligence of the security services in a case of a 10-year-old child rape. Citizens pointed out that three perpetrators of the rape crime are…

International Greenpeace on Monday called on the German government to extend the ban on the export of arms to Saudi Arabia because of the war on Yemen. “The government should continue to ban arms exports to Saudi Arabia because of…

"The UAE's legitimacy in Yemen is the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2216, which calls for the return of the so-called legitimate government and the preservation of the unity of Yemen," fomer US ambassador, Gerald Verstein…

Two children have died at the Al Sabeen Maternal and Child Hospital in the capital Sana’a due to severe acute malnutrition. The Director General of the hospital, Dr. Majida Al-Khatib said that a 7-months-old child, Al-Hanouf, has died in…

On the United Nations vessel in international waters, sessions were resumed to implement the Stockholm Agreement on Hodeidah. The member of the national team in the Joint Coordinating Committee, Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Qadari, said…