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Al-Budheiji: Houthis recruited more than 900 child fighters in 2017
[06/03/2018 03:00]

GENEVA-SABA
The CEO of the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations Mutahar al-Budheiji said that theHouthi coupist militia recruited child fighters by various means; motivation, ideological incitement or compulsion.

In a speech at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, he pointed out that the forcible recruitment was accompanied by many violations to the child rights; deprivation of education and sexual exploitation by older militiamen, not to mention the risks of involvement in the hostility acts.

"Children's misery in Yemen is increasing every day as child abuse by militias and terrorist organizations increases and their use in military actions by the Houthi armed group is high," he said.

"Yemeni civil society organizations report that one third of the Houthi militia's fighters are children," he said. He said that his organization documented 902 such child recruitments in 2017 alone.

"The children of Yemen suffer various types of violations; killing, displacement, recruitment, deprivation of education and ideological indoctrination in such a way that glorifies killing and destruction acts. whichthreatens to bring up a generationimbued with terrorist ideology."

He called on the United Nations, the Human Rights Council, international organizations and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to protect children in Yemen from the armed groups mainly the Houthi militia.


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