The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in coordination with partners, carries out assessments for displaced families. More than 11,500 displaced families (more than 70,000 people) were assessed nationwide.
The war in Yemen also affects refugees and asylum seekers. UNHCR and partners face significant challenges in ensuring a safe environment, adequate protection, humanitarian assistance and access to basic life-saving services to refugees who may be subject to serious protection concerns such as early marriage, child labor, increased detention and dangerous movement. live it.
Yemen hosts more than 270,000 refugees, the vast majority (more than 256,000) are Somalis. Despite the difficult security environment that makes humanitarian access difficult, UNHCR is trying to assist refugees and asylum seekers in the province of Hodeidah. Mostly Eritreans.
Yemen is currently the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, with some 22 million people, or 75 per cent of the population, in need of some form of humanitarian assistance and protection.
