[Peace] JFP alert: Demand UN Security Council Save Yemeni Children From Starvation

[Robert Naiman]

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Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:34 PM
Subject: Demand UN Security Council Save Yemeni Children From Starvation
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Dear Robert,

*Demand the UN Security Council stop Saudi Arabia from starving hundreds of
thousands of Yemeni children to death. *

*Take Action
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=F2TFUv30U8DmHQknlJTma7d0La%2F2JQ%2Fe>*

"*Hundreds of thousands of Yemeni children* languishing in refugee camps
and remote villages are *nearing starvation*," the *Washington Post* reports
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5o1xnTL8ZccUH28uYgHFnLd0La%2F2JQ%2Fe>.
Airstrikes near the port of *Hodeida* - *main entry point for food,
medicine and humanitarian aid into northern Yemen* - have slowed the
delivery of supplies. Half a million children are severely acutely
malnourished. The UN says Yemen is “*on the brink of famine*.”

*U.S.-backed Saudi airstrikes have destroyed roads and bridges across
Hodeida province*. Unexploded rockets have landed inside the port, further
reducing imports and the number of ships willing to come to Yemen. *The
Saudis are enforcing a blockade that is restricting food imports*, and have
told humanitarian agencies to redirect shipments to Aden. *That would mean
vital food and medicine would need to be trucked from Aden through war
zones to reach the millions at risk of starvation in the north.* [1]

To save hundreds of thousands of Yemeni children from starvation, someone
must stop the U.S.-backed Saudi attacks on Hodeida. Sadly, so far *Washington
has turned a deaf ear* to the cries of Yemeni children. But *any member of
the UN Security Council* can demand a meeting to discuss action to save
Yemeni children from starvation. Of the fifteen current members
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2dyF6STMzvAGANvlZnd5Xbd0La%2F2JQ%2Fe>
of the Security Council, [2] Bolivia and Russia are the most independent of
the U.S.-Saudi alliance that is pushing Yemen into famine. *A vigorous
Security Council debate would put pressure on the U.S. to stop supporting
the Saudi assault on Hodeida.*

*Urge Bolivia and Russia to demand the UN Security Council save hundreds of
thousands of Yemeni children from starvation by signing our petition at
MoveOn
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9%2Bsx7EO3zlRfCJy7U7NsTbd0La%2F2JQ%2Fe>.
*

Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,

Robert Naiman, Avram Reisman, and Sarah Burns
Just Foreign Policy

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References:
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/hundreds-
of-thousands-of-yemeni-children-are-nearing-starvatio
n/2017/02/23/f01ead8a-f850-11e6-aa1e-5f735ee31334_story.html
2. http://www.un.org/en/sc/members/

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