India, Oct. 12 -- Save the Children Chief Executive Inger Ashing has urged the United Nations Security Council to take urgent action to protect children in Yemen, warning that renewed violence is deepening an already severe humanitarian crisis and threatening children's access to education, healthcare and safety.
Conflict Leaves Children Facing Dangerous Choices
In a statement delivered to the Security Council on October 9, Ashing described meeting Mohammed, a teenage boy who deliberately fails his examinations because passing would force him to leave his temporary learning space. Outside school, he fears being drawn into conflict or dangerous work. For girls, the alternatives can include child marriage.
Ashing said education has become ...