“The secretary-general has brought shame on the UN by removing the Saudi-led coalition from his ‘list of shame’ even as it continues to kill and injure children in Yemen,” said Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. He also removed Myanmar’s armed forces for the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, and failed to list Russian forces in Syria, US forces in Afghanistan, or Israeli forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, despite abuses that have been well-documented by the UN and others.
In his annual report on children and armed conflict, released on June 15, 2020, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reported that the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for 222 child casualties and 4 attacks on schools and hospitals in Yemen in 2019, yet removed it from his list of parties responsible for grave violations against children. He also ignored violations by other powerful countries, including Russia, the United States, and Israel, by omitting them from his list. (New York) – The United Nations secretary-general removed the Saudi-led coalition from his latest “list of shame” despite continued grave violations against children in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said today. Children attending class on the first day of school, which was damaged by an airstrike during fighting between Saudi-led coalition-backed government forces and Houthi forces, Taizz, Yemen, September 3, 2019.
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