INFORMATIONAL BRIEF Childhood Interrupted: Two cases highlight Yemen’s ongoing child recruitment crisis
The Houthis have received considerable media coverage and international condemnation for their systematic recruitment of child soldiers during the Yemen war. Among other strategies, the Houthi movement has manipulated education to recruit children by altering curricula, holding in-school indoctrination sessions and weapons displays, and organizing mobilizing summer camps. A U.N. panel of experts reported that …










