On Thursday, December 5, 2024, local sources reported the discovery of a 16-year-old boy, Omar Khalid Al-Qahmi, who was found hanged in a qat farm in the Amran Governorate, north of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a. According to the sources speaking to Barran Press, residents discovered the boy h...
Marib, Yemen – On Saturday, November 23, 2024, the city of Marib hosted a fun day for displaced children at the Al-Jufaina camp, the largest displacement camp in Yemen, in celebration of World Children’s Day, observed annually on November 20. The event, organized by the Office of So...
MARIB, YEMEN – The director of the Social Affairs and Labor Office in Marib Governorate, Abd al-Hakim al-Qaysi, highlighted the significant challenges facing children in Marib and across Yemen on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, World Children's Day. Al-Qaysi emphasized the profound impact ...
Marib, Yemen – On November 20, 2024, Socotra Al-Baqma, the Director of the Women and Children Department at the Social Affairs and Labor Office in Marib, emphasized the psychological toll of war and displacement on children in the region during an interview with Baran Press. Her remarks came...
Children in Marib, northeastern Yemen, held a solidarity protest on Monday, October 7th, 2024, expressing their support for Palestinian children in Gaza. The young demonstrators carried signs condemning Israeli actions and demanding that international law and human rights be upheld. A statement...
On Saturday, October 5, 2024, the Yemeni Teachers' Union stated that the suffering of teachers in Yemen, along with the hundreds of thousands of families they support, has "crossed the line from poverty to the brink of death." In a statement issued on World Teachers' Day, whic...
International aid organizations operating in Yemen have issued a dire warning about the deteriorating humanitarian situation, stating that over 18 million people are facing food insecurity, with an estimated 2.6 million at risk of slipping into emergency or worse food insecurity levels. The sta...
Two children were injured on Thursday, September 12, 2024, when a mortar shell fired by the Houthi group, designated as a terrorist organization by the international community, struck the village of Hadiya in the countryside of Maqbana district, west of Taiz governorate. The official Yeme...
Redaa, Yemen (August 28, 2024): A court affiliated with the Houthi group, designated as a terrorist organization by several countries, has sentenced a child rapist to death by stoning. The verdict was handed down on Wednesday against Abdulkarim Ahmed Saleh Al-Omrani, a Houthi supervisor, who ...
The Yemeni Alliance to Monitor Human Rights Violations (RASD) has accused the Iranian-backed Houthi group, designated as a terrorist organization by several countries, of recruiting over 10,000 children between 2014 and 2021. In a report, the rights group stated that the United Nations has inve...
The Houthi group, internationally designated as a terrorist organization, is robbing children of their childhoods and jeopardizing Yemen's future by indoctrinating them with extremist ideologies, according to Dr. Ali Al-Tam, head of the "Protection" organization for civil orientation...
Today, on Wednesday, June 12th, the world observes "World Day Against Child Labour," shining a spotlight on the distressing issue of child labor in war-torn Yemen. As the country enters its tenth consecutive year of conflict, human rights reports reveal that a staggering 29% of Yemeni ch...
The internationally designated terrorist group, the Houthis, has drawn condemnation for conducting a military exercise involving 150 children in the Qanawis Directorate of Al Hodeida province, western Yemen. The exercise, announced on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, was presented as a show of &qu...