Yemen: Armed Conflict

(asked on 24th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including people and organisations in breach of international law in Yemen in the UN Secretary General's 2020 report on Children and Armed Conflict.


Answered by
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Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 3rd September 2019

​We are firmly committed to protecting all children affected by armed conflict, including ending the recruitment and use of child soldiers.

The UK is an active member of the UN Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), which leads the international response to the issue of child soldiers and child protection. This includes pressing those parties to conflicts listed in the UN Secretary-General's annual report on CAAC, including Yemen, to enter into concrete action plans with the UN to verify and release child soldiers.

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