UN: Yemeni Civilians are Abandoned, Abused, Denied Justice After Six Years of War

GENEVA - UN human rights experts say the international community is abandoning millions of Yemeni civilians to a life of intolerable suffering and desperation as Yemen enters its seventh year of civil war with no end in sight.  The statement comes as the three-member UN Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen presents its findings ahead of a report to the UN Human Rights Council next week. 

The United Nations estimates more than 1,200 civilians have been killed or injured in Yemen this year.  This is on top of the more than 20,000 civilians who have been killed or injured since the war began in 2015.  Additionally, the UN humanitarian office reports about 233,000 people have died of causes related to hunger, disease, lack of health care, a collapsed economy, and other indirect causes. Eminent expert Ardi Imsels says civilians continue to pay the highest price in this conflict, as they sink deeper into hunger, poverty, suffering and despair.