Yemen rebels pledge to stop using child soldiers: UN

Yemen rebels pledge to stop using child soldiers: UN

Yemen rebels pledge to stop using child soldiers: UN

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Yemen’s Huthi rebels have agreed to stop using child soldiers, the United Nations said, after thousands of below-age combatants had been recruited for the seven years of civil war.

The Huthis will be released all infant soldiers within six months under a new movement plan, the UN stated, including that the warring parties have all now dedicated to ending “grave violations” towards kids.

There became no instant comment from the Huthis approximately the settlement, which became signed after a fragile, UN-brokered truce commenced on April 2.

Nearly 3,500 child soldiers have been identified and more than 10,200 children have been “killed or maimed” since the war started, the UN said.

A Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015 to prop up the internationally recognized Yemeni government after the Iran-backed Huthis seized the capital Sanaa the year before.

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“The Huthis have signed an action plan with the United Nations to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, the killing and maiming of children, and attacks on schools and hospitals as well as other grave violations,” a UN statement said on Monday.

In the latest evidence of child deaths, three children were among at least 80 people civilians, killed in coalition airstrikes in late January, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

More than 2,500 schools in Yemen are unfit for use, with some destroyed and others turned into refugee camps or military facilities, according to the UN children’s agency.

“The most difficult part of the journey starts now,” Virginia Gamba, the UN secretary-general’s special representative for children and armed conflict, said in the statement.

“The action plan must be fully implemented and lead to tangible actions for the improvement of the protection of children in Yemen,” she added.

The battle has killed extra than one hundred fifty,000 human beings and displaced tens of millions, creating the arena’s worst humanitarian disaster, the UN says.

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But there have been hopeful traits in the previous weeks. Following the truce, Yemen’s president-in-exile exceeded his powers to a brand new leadership council that is tasked with sporting out peace talks with the Huthis.

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