The crisis in Yemen – considered by the United Nations to be the world’s most severe humanitarian catastrophe – is disproportionately affecting women and girls. The desperation is so severe that girls as young as three years old are being married off for food, experts say.
The crisis in Yemen – considered by the United Nations to be the world’s most severe humanitarian catastrophe – is disproportionately affecting women and girls. The desperation is so severe that young girls are being married off for food, experts say.
The nearly five-year-long conflict in Yemen between a Saudi-led coalition supporting the Yemeni government and Iran-aligned rebels has killed tens of thousands of people and left as many as 12 million more on the brink of famine. Cholera remains a threat, experts say, because of poor water sanitation.“Women are the most acutely impacted by food shortages with women often eating last, and least, putting their families ahead of them,” she said.
“Families are so desperate now, because they simply have no money and no means to feed themselves, that they have resorted to extremely harmful coping mechanisms like marrying off their young daughters to much older men so that they have one less mouth to feed,” Lambert said. Girls as young as three years old are among those being married off, she added.
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