The United Nations revealed that approximately 10 million women and girls in Yemen are hungry and violence and in need of life -saving aid, in light of the devastating effect of the lengthy humanitarian crisis in the country on their lives.

Undersecretary of the United Nations Secretary -General for Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator said,; Tom Fletcher, in his surrounding during the Security Council meeting on Yemen, Thursday: "9.6 million women and girls in the country face hunger, violence and the collapse of the health care system, and they are in urgent need of life -saving aid."

Fletcher added that 1.3 million pregnant women and mother in Yemen suffer from malnutrition, which endangers their health, and exposes their children to diseases and long -term growth problems, and that the mothers' mortality in the country is the highest in the Middle East region, where more than 6 million women and an increasing risk girl face abuse and exploitation.

The UN official pointed out that 1.5 million girls in Yemen are still outside the school, which deprives them of their right to education and prevents them from breaking the discrimination and violence seminars that face them, and nearly a third of the girls in Yemen are married before the age of 18, which robs them of their childhood and their future.

Fletcher warned of what he described as a "dark image" of the humanitarian situation faced by women and girls in Yemen, and said: “The crisis has an unparalleled and destructive effect on them .. We suffered from the systematic discrimination and exclusion of decades. Town for women, peace and security, and there is no sign of any progress for them. ”

The UN official emphasized that the low funds provided to Yemen will increase the suffering of women and girls, and addressed the members of the Security Council by saying: “With evaporation of your financing, the numbers will be in my next surroundings worse. More than them will die, and more of them will have to resort to dangerous mechanisms for adaptation: sex for survival, begging, forced prostitution, human trafficking, and selling their children.”

Fletcher explained that the humanitarian response operations in Yemen face sharp discounts in financing, which exposes the services provided to girls all over the country, as "the suspension of financing has already been forced to deprive more than 11 thousand women and a girl of services and support, and the survivors of gender -based violence can no longer reach health care for life, psychological and social support and legal assistance, as children's protection programs stopped, which led To the high risk of child labor and recruitment in armed groups and child marriage. ”