{"id":886,"date":"2020-10-27T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/report.humanrightspolicy.us\/?p=886"},"modified":"2020-10-29T01:51:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T01:51:11","slug":"yemeni-children-suffer-record-rates-of-acute-malnutrition-putting-entire-generation-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/report.humanrightspolicy.us\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni children suffer record rates of acute malnutrition, putting \u2018entire generation\u2019 at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New analysis from the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcinfo.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)<\/a>, the global standard for gauging food insecurity, revealed that in some areas more than one in four children were acutely malnourished.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAcute malnutrition rates among children below five years old are the highest ever recorded in parts of southern Yemen, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification\u201d,\u00a0said\u00a0UN Children\u2019s Fund (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">UNICEF<\/a>)\u00a0spokesperson,\u00a0Marixie\u00a0Mercado. \u201cThis new analysis released today puts the number of children suffering from acute malnutrition this year at 587,573, which is an increase of around 10% since January this year.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter alignright wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd34 Yemen: nearly 100,000 children are at risk of death and need urgent treatment.<br><br>Acute malnutrition rates among children under 5 are the highest ever recorded in parts of Yemen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FrBVMOCslc\">https:\/\/t.co\/FrBVMOCslc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YemenCantWait?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#YemenCantWait<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sxQeL0dgrm\">pic.twitter.com\/sxQeL0dgrm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; UN Humanitarian (@UNOCHA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNOCHA\/status\/1321092548010643458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3>Nationwide crisis&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The IPC analysis looked at southern parts of Yemen, but a forthcoming analysis of northern areas is expected to show equally concerning trends.\u202f&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Mercado said the most significant increase in southern areas was a 15.5% rise in children with severe acute malnutrition, a condition that leaves children around&nbsp;10&nbsp;times more likely to die of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, malaria or acute respiratory infections, all of which are common in Yemen.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Food Programme<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www1.wfp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WFP<\/a>)&nbsp;spokeperson,&nbsp;Tomson Phiri,&nbsp;said the IPC forecast showed that by the end of 2020,&nbsp;40% of the population in the analysed areas, or about 3.2 million people, would be severely food insecure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose predictions, from what we are gathering on the ground, are likely to be an underestimate. It is highly likely that the situation is worse than initially projected as conditions continue to worsen beyond the forecast levels. Why is this so? The underlying assumptions of the projections&nbsp;have either been,&nbsp;or are close to being surpassed\u201d, he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time the data was gathered, it was assumed that food prices would be stable, but that was no longer the case.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Devastating food price increases&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn fact,&nbsp;food prices have skyrocketed and are now on average 140% higher than pre-conflict averages. For the most vulnerable, even a small increase in food prices is absolutely devastating\u201d, Mr. Phiri said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur colleagues on the ground are also telling us that the situation is worse than in 2018 when&nbsp;WFP&nbsp;expanded assistance by over 50% and in the process averted a possible famine. Those gains in 2018-2019, I\u2019m afraid we might be losing them as the conflict continues to intensify and economic decline continues unabated.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some families were being displaced for the third or even the fourth time,&nbsp;he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd each time a family is displaced, their ability to cope, let alone to bounce back, is severely diminished.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>\u2018Entire generation\u2019 at risk &#8211; Grande&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/profiles\/lise-grande\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lise&nbsp;Grande<\/a>, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said the UN had been warning since July that Yemen was on the brink of a catastrophic food security crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If the war doesn\u2019t end now, we are nearing an irreversible situation and risk losing an entire generation of Yemen\u2019s young children\u201d,&nbsp;she said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jens Laerke, spokesman for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OCHA<\/a>), told the Geneva briefing that Yemen needed help.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat can the world do right now? We have been warning for several months now that Yemen was heading towards a cliff. We are now seeing the first people falling&nbsp;off that cliff. Those are the children under five years of age. One hundred thousand of them are at risk of death, we are told. The world can help. The world can help by supporting the humanitarian response plan\u201d, Mr. Laerke said.\u202f&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Massive underfunding&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry to keep repeating that&nbsp;over and over again. It is massively underfunded. It is only 42% funded. It asked for $3.2 billion. We are 10 months into the year. That is way below the funding levels we\u2019ve seen in the past few years.&nbsp;So&nbsp;there is something the world can do. Money can help, and I think, of course, that now is the time to provide that money.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A staggering 80 per cent of Yemen\u2019s population \u2013 over 24 million people \u2013 require some form of humanitarian assistance and protection, including about 12.2 million children. A total of 230 out of Yemen&#8217;s 333 districts (69 per cent) are at risk of famine.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite a difficult operating environment, humanitarians continue to work across Yemen, responding to the most acute needs. However, funding remains a challenge: as of mid-October, only $1.4 billion of the $3.2 billion needed in 2020 has been received.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New analysis from the&nbsp;Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global standard for gauging food insecurity, revealed that in some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,10,11,25],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yemeni children suffer record rates of acute malnutrition, putting \u2018entire generation\u2019 at risk | Human Rights Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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