OIPMA

Organisation Internationale pour les Pays les Moins Avancés (OIPMA)

International Organisation for the Least Developed Countries (IOLDCs)

THEMATIC REPORT

Child Recruitment in Yemen: Challenges Facing the United Nation Mechanisms

February 2019

The present report focuses on the challenges facing the United Nations (UN) Monitoring and Reporting Mechanisms (MRM) and UN decision-making bodies on the recruitment of children in Yemen, under the relevant Security Council resolutions. In this regard, this report highlights the deficiencies of the UN MRM, which has been unable to adequately monitor the escalating operations, both in terms of size and scope, on the recruitment and use of children in the conflict.