{"id":37325,"date":"2019-03-25T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37325"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T17:24:01","slug":"un-envoy-says-houthis-have-taken-no-action-to-protect-children-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37325","title":{"rendered":"UN envoy says Houthis have taken no action to protect children in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1472341\/middle-east\" readability=\"48\">\n<p>\nRIYADH: The Houthi militia\u00a0have taken no action to protect children in Yemen, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, said on Monday.\u00a0<br \/>In a press conference held in Riyadh, Gamba said that the Iranian-backed Houthis had\u00a0committed great violations against Yemeni children, while the Arab coalition fighting to support the legitimate government in Yemen has taken many measures to protect the children in conflict areas.\u00a0<br \/>The UN will launch an international campaign in New York in April on the dangers children face in the armed conflict in Yemen, she added.\u00a0<br \/>During the press conference, it was announced that the Arab coalition\u00a0signed a memorandum of understanding with the UN to protect children affected by Yemen\u2019s war.\u00a0<br \/>Maj. Gen. Fahd bin Turki bin Abdulaziz, the Arab coalition\u2019s commander of the joint forces,\u00a0signed the agreement with Gamba\u00a0earlier in Riyadh.<br \/>The commander said the agreement\u00a0deals with \u201cnoble humanitarian aspects\u201d and the two sides will work in accordance to strengthen the goals toward the protection of children.<br \/>The deal\u00a0signed between the UN and the coalition is the first of its kind in the world, said Gamba.<br \/>Meanwhile, the Kingdom\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, said: \u201cWe have not seen enough attention from the international organization to education children in Yemen.\u201d<br \/>He added that the issue was brought to the attention of the United Nations International Children\u2019s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to change the curricula in Yemen that was introduced by the Houthis.<br \/>Gamba said the King Salman Humanitarian Aid And Relief Center (KSRelief) would\u00a0continue to play a big role with the UN agency in helping tp protect\u00a0children in Yemen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH: The Houthi militia\u00a0have taken no action to protect children in Yemen, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, said on Monday.\u00a0In a press conference held in Riyadh, Gamba said that the Iranian-backed Houthis had\u00a0committed great violations against Yemeni children, while the Arab coalition fighting to support the legitimate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}