Saudis Wins Reprieve From UN Blacklist of Child Rights Abusers in Yemen

© AFP 2023 / Mohammed HuwaisA Yemeni boy (C) walks past a mural depicting a US drone and reading " Why did you kill my family" on December 13, 2013 in the capital Sanaa.
A Yemeni boy (C) walks past a mural depicting a US drone and reading  Why did you kill my family on December 13, 2013 in the capital Sanaa. - Sputnik International
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Saudi Arabia has been removed from an annual UN report condemning countries that violate the rights of children during wartime, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has announced in a statement.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — CAAC refers to the Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict, which is compiled by the United Nations.

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"On the CAAC report, he [Ban Ki-moon] accepts a proposal by Saudi Arabia that the United Nations and the Saudi-led coalition review jointly the cases and numbers cited in the text," the statement said on Monday. "The Secretary-General shares the objective that the report reflects the highest standards of accuracy possible."

On Thursday, Ban added the Saudi-led coalition conducting a military campaign against the Houthi rebels in Yemen to the blacklist of states and armed groups that violate children's rights, claiming the coalition’s airstrikes were responsible for more than half of child deaths in Yemen’s civil war.

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In reversing that decision on Monday, Ban invited the Saudi-led coalition to send a team to New York to review UN findings.

Since 2014, Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict between the government headed by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and Shia Houthi rebels, the country’s main opposition force.

Since March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes on Houthi positions.

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