The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis
Declared to be one of the largest humanitarian crises by Unicef, 79 percent of the population of Yemen are subjected to dire conditions caused by the ongoing internal conflict of 7 years that has left the country in shambles. More than 23.4 million of the population are in need of humanitarian aid, of those 13 million being children. Political instibility of the country has contributed to a large number of people to be internally displaced, on the brink of famine, unable to access safe water and subjected to extremely unhygienic conditions and disease outbreaks.
Women and children remain the primary subject of the concern due to the crisis bringing on an increased vulnerability to exploitation, violence, abuse, child labour, killing and maiming, use of children by parties to the conflict as combatants and in various support roles, domestic and gender-based violence, child marriage, and psychologic distress.
Schools and hospitals being damaged has also subjected children to additional vulnerability while famine has led to around 2.2 million children under 5 years of age to experience wasting, including more than 500,000 children to suffer from severe wasting.
