$14 million UN support for Houthi subsidiary condemned

RIYADH: The World Organization for the Protection of the Child has condemned the report of the Arab alliance that the UN will provide $14 million to the so-called “Ministry of Education of Yemen,” local media reported.
The organization said in a statement issued on Friday that the so-called “Ministry of Education of Yemen” is a subsidiary of the Houthi militias.
Earlier, the Kingdom slammed the Houthi rebels and their cohorts at the UN for allegedly planting 50,000 mines on the Saudi-Yemeni border at random.
This came in the Kingdom’s address before the Fourth Committee on “the item on mine action” prepared by Manal Radwan, political coordinator and first secretary at the Saudi mission to the UN.
Radwan said that the Houthis has recruited children to plant mines, putting them at grave risk and violating their childhood and the right to a safe life.
The organization stressed that the support of the UN for the Houthi militias poses a great threat and danger to the security and safety of Yemeni children in particular, and the region and the world in general.
The organization said that it is following with great interest Yemen’s new situation with the Houthi militias recruiting children to plant mines.