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Amnesty International has raised the alarm about the dire situation of millions of people with disabilities in Yemen, saying they are hit the hardest by a years-long Saudi-led military campaign against the impoverished state.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

In a report, entitled \u201cExcluded: Living with disabilities in Yemen\u2019s armed conflict<\/a>\u201d\u00a0and published on Tuesday, the London-based rights group called on international donors to address the suffering of at least 4.5 million disabled Yemenis amid the bloody Saudi-led war.<\/p>\n\n

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The report was published on Tuesday as the world marks the International Day of Disabled Persons.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cYemen\u2019s war has been characterized by unlawful bombings, displacement and a dearth of basic services, leaving many struggling to survive. The humanitarian response is overstretched, but people with disabilities \u2014 who are already among those most at risk in armed conflict \u2014 should not face even greater challenges in accessing essential aid,\u201d said Rawya Rageh, senior Crisis Advisor at Amnesty International.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

\u201cInternational donors, the United Nations, and humanitarian organizations working with the Yemeni authorities must do more to overcome the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from meeting even their most basic needs,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n

The report is based on a six-month research, including visits to three southern Yemeni provinces and interviews with nearly 100 people.<\/p>\n\n

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Many of those interviewed said they undertook exhausting displacement journeys without wheelchairs, crutches or other assistive devices, adding that such equipment is in very short supply.<\/p>\n\n

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Migdad Ali Abdullah, an 18-year-old with limited mobility and difficulties in communicating, described as \u201ctorturous\u201d his trip alongside his family from Hudaydah to Lahij in early 2018.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI was transferred from bus to bus \u2014 in total four buses\u2026 My neighbor carried me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n

Some of the disabled Yemenis also told Amnesty International that they had been left behind as their families fled.<\/p>\n\n

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Yemenis protest against Saudi airstrikes on the eve of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, in front of United Nations' office in the capital city of Sana'a on December 02, 2018. (Photo by AFP)<\/p>\n\n

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Meanwhile, families said they had sold belongings or delayed rent to prioritize costs associated with supporting a loved one with a disability.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cI sold the furniture in my house and took her to Sana\u2019a to get her treatment there. \u2026 Four months later, I could see she was not moving or laughing or playing. I took her up [to Sana\u2019a] again. \u2026 The other day I even asked my friend about selling my kidney. I would sell my kidney and buy her a year\u2019s worth of medication, the shoes she needs and everything else,\u201d said the mother of a three-year-old girl with epilepsy and spinal muscular atrophy.<\/p>\n\n

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According to the report, there is only one prosthetic center in southern Yemen, which has to send some types of prosthetics abroad for repairs.<\/p>\n\n

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Rasha Mohamed, Yemen Researcher at Amnesty International, urged donors to provide the disabled Yemenis with more and better-suited assistive devices.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cPeople with disabilities worldwide rightly demand that no decisions be made \u2018about us, without us\u2019 \u2013 and Yemen is no exception. International donors must step up to fully fund humanitarian pledges and do a better job of ensuring that people with disabilities in Yemen are not left behind,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its vassal states launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall a Riyadh-backed former regime.<\/p>\n\n

The Western-backed military aggression, coupled with a naval blockade, has plunged Yemen\u00a0into \u201cthe world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis,\u201d according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n

The US-based\u00a0Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization,\u00a0estimates that the Saudi war has claimed more than 100,000 lives\u00a0so far.<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2019-12-04 09:40:49","content_date_finish":"2019-12-04 09:40:49","content_date_register":"2019-12-04 09:41:39","content_date_last_edit":"2019-12-04 09:41:39","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2736169060","attach_date_register":"2019-12-04 09:41:37","attach_id":"6764","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"650","attach_img_height":"365","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"754","visit_date_last":"2024-11-02 05:59:20","attach_title":"Disabled Yemenis suffering most in Saudi-led war: Amnesty 2","node_title":"News,Ordinary","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":98, \"left\":2, \"right\":11},{\"node_id\":127, \"left\":66, \"right\":67}]","node_number":"2","allowable_node":"2"}]]