In Yemen after nearly five years of war, 80 percent of the population is in need of aid. But it’s women who have been hit hardest by the conflict. Even before the war, Yemen was one of the toughest places to be female. A deeply ingrained patriarchy means many women and girls cannot access their […]
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Yemen is facing the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Over 22 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, the country is on the brink of famine, and a million people have suffered from the worst cholera outbreak in modern history. Since 2015, Yemen has been in the grip of a brutal civil war.
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Caught up in a brutal war since 2015, Yemen is on the brink of famine. According to the United Nations, 13 million people are at risk of starvation. Widespread violence, cholera and long-standing poverty have created the world’s most severe humanitarian crises. Sarah Abdulhakim Shamsan, IROY nutritional manager for clinics in Sana’a and Hodeidah, daily
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Conflict in Yemen has unleashed one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises. Millions of people are suffering from hunger and those with life-threatening illnesses don’t have access to the treatment they need. Yousra is suffering from cancer in her left eye. Her mother, Hayat Ali, had to bring her nearly 175 miles from their home in the port city of Hodeidah to the country’s capital Sana’a to get the diagnosis. Yousra then underwent a week of chemotherapy at Sana’a’s Al-Jumhuri
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Here are four reasons the International Refugee Organization’s Emergency Watchlist ranks Palestine as one of the countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in 2024. This year, the occupied Palestinian territory rose to its highest ever position on the Watchlist, as devastating violence is causing a humanitarian emergency that will persist long after the
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On Monday, February 6, 2023, a devastating series of earthquakes struck Türkiye (Turkey) near the Syrian border, with the most powerful one measuring a magnitude of 7.8. The impact was catastrophic, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of lives and leaving countless others injured and deprived of basic necessities. A year after the earthquake, families
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