A #Humanitarian Crisis Waiting to Happen #Taiz

The cries of #children in the Maternity and Children's Hospital make a distress call.

The oldest medical facility in the field is threatened to be shut down as Doctors Without Borders is soon to close its program in the hospital, with almost complete absence of public support.

How did the judiciary become a foe of women and girls?
Can you imagine how many girls have been sold in #Yemen?

#HumanRights
#SaveTheChildren

Mines do not distinguish a civilian from a soldier… the explosions will continue for a very long time after the war, threatening the country with instability and the eruption of conflicts for centuries.



#Yemen
#HumanRights

Prisoner released from detention with amnesia



Mohammed Rashad was detained by the Houthis in early 2018 and released in the last prisoners exchange deal

When his family received him, he didn't recognize them

Rashad lost his memory completely after leaving the Houthi prison

He lost his ability to speak also after being held for 4 months in inhumane conditions in a dark, dirty cellar known as “Al-Dhaghata”, without windows or sanitation facilities

Instead of taking him to the house, his family took him to the hospital

Many released prisoners complain about the torture and ill-treatment in Houthi prisons

Do other agreements include guarantees against torturing the detainees and abductees?

Schools lack the basic facilities in Taiz city

Neglect by the authorities of public schools forces students to study in this environment

Severely overcrowded schools with cramped classrooms which lack educational facilities

Dozens of students struggle to study

While dropping-out is the only alternative

A painful reality due to the ongoing conflict

In a country where the budget for bullets and guns is bigger than the budget for paper and pens

Has the activity of Total Oil Company shifted from energy producer to extractor of confessions?

Human rights organizations published a shocking report about the secret prisons in Balhaf oil facility.

Balhaf facility is a natural gas liquefaction project under the administration of French company Total Oil.

The investigative report documented testimonies of civilians detained inside the oil facility.

It also documented a detention center where the detainees were subjected to torture and ill-treatment by Emirate soldiers.

"One of the soldiers told me as soon as I entered the dungeon: You have arrived in hell, we will kill you and you will never leave," one of the former detainees in Belhaf facility reported.

How did France become a partner to the Emirates in violating human rights in Yemen?

And why does France continue to sell arms to Saudi and Emirate, despite their involvement in war crimes in Yemen?

The artist Roqaya Al-Wasi creates unconventional paintings.

After the coalition airstrikes are launched from its military base,

Al-Wasi goes out from her home to collect the remains of the glass.

Al-Wasi paints the vivid colors of life on the signs of collapse,

after the war destroyed her dreams and the dreams of this generation of Yemenis.

The UN previously considered the coalition airstrikes the main cause of civilian casualties in Yemen.

The latest report of the Group of Experts accused all warring parties of committing violations against civilians,

stressing that the coalition airstrikes were carried out without observing the principle of discrimination and prudent avoidance to protect civilians.


Do the colorful paintings lift the darkness inside Yemeni people's chests?

In besieged Taiz…children are born in untraditional ways.



The infant Jihad came to this life by the shrapnel of a tank shell.



The shrapnel seriously injured his mother, therefore the doctors performed a cesarean delivery to save the fetus.



While a mother's bosom is the first thing to receive babies all over the world, Jihad came to this life to find his mother had passed away.



Brutal massacre committed by Houthis shelling targeted civilian houses in Taiz city.



Shelling from one of the high peaks surrounding Taiz killed the mother of Jihad and 11 civilians, including 4 children.



This is not the first crime and won't be the last.



But life always wins over the death makers

Heinous crime sparks widespread anger in Yemen.