{"id":1411,"date":"2015-08-22T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1411-rights-groups-call-on-world-powers-to-end-yemen-s-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2015-08-22T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T15:15:20","slug":"rights-groups-call-on-world-powers-to-end-yemen-s-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1411-rights-groups-call-on-world-powers-to-end-yemen-s-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights groups call on world powers to end Yemen&#8217;s tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<address class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.11999988555908px; line-height: 11.8559999465942px;\">The war in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine<\/span><\/address>\n<p> <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">The war in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with both commercial food imports and aid deliveries held up by the fighting and millions of hungry women and children facing possible starvation, the United Nations said.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">Ertharin Cousin, head of the U.N.\u2019s World Food Program, said that while some food aid is flowing in, fighting around major ports is stalling deliveries, while reaching the country\u2019s interior is proving difficult and donor funding is still falling short<span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">Cousin was in Cairo following a three-day trip to Yemen. The World Food Program says all sides in the conflict must approve food deliveries<span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O\u2019Brien, who also just returned from Yemen, told the U.N. Security Council \u201cthe scale of human suffering is almost incomprehensible<span dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\">The humanitarian situation has steadily deteriorated since the fighting picked up in March, when Saudi Arabia launched a U.S.-backed coalition air campaign against\u00a0the Arab country.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine \u00a0 The war in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with both commercial food imports and aid deliveries held up by the fighting and millions of hungry women and children facing possible starvation, the United Nations said. 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