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The document discusses a draft UN resolution on addressing the hunger crisis in Yemen. It calls for an end to conflicts in Yemen, opening ports and roads for aid access, increasing local food production and fishing, and providing humanitarian aid and resources to Yemenis.

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Draft Resolution

The document discusses a draft UN resolution on addressing the hunger crisis in Yemen. It calls for an end to conflicts in Yemen, opening ports and roads for aid access, increasing local food production and fishing, and providing humanitarian aid and resources to Yemenis.

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Draft resolution: 1.

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Committee : The United Nations Social, Humanitarian and culture committee

Topic : Hunger Crises in Yemen

Authors: State of Japan, Republic of Korea

Signatories: Ukraine , Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 

The United Nations Social, Humanitarian and Culture committee states that

Recalling the roll of governments to provide adequate facilities to its people.

Guided by Article Two of the United Nations charter of the rights of sovereignty and capacities
to manage the affairs of their own states.

Understanding that the Yemen family's is the main effete of the Yemen crisis

To resolve the hunger issues of the people that is going on in Yemen.

Need to resolve the on going conflicts in Yemen.

Keeping in mind the foreign factors or actors involved in Yemen.

1. Requests: The UN should make an effort so that People of Yemen should solve their own
problems. All the warring factions should be brought to negotiation table. all the foreign factors
should stop interfering in Yemeni affairs.

2. Calls for: the Gulf cooperation council to accept Yemen as it's members so together Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and UAE can help Yemen.

a. Different countries should provide humanitarian aid, food supplies, and clean water to
Yemen.

b. Sea ports, and roads should be opened so aid could reach the Yemeni citizens.

c. Help to increase the local food production activities to overcome the food crisis

d. Assistance for the fishing sector , as it is the most important industry for the countries with
coasts

Urges: the Saudi and US government to call a ceasefire fire in Yemen in order to bring peace

a. The protection of the Yemeni citizens


b.Providing enough resources for Yemen to survive on it's own

Recommends: to supply the Yemeni forces with arm in order to reduce the Al Qaeda influence

To the parties in the conflict in Yemen:

• Protect all civilians from the effects of the war, including ending attacks which directly target
civilians or civilian installations, those which do not distinguish between military targets and
civilians and civilian objects, and those which have a disproportionate impact on civilians or
civilian objects, including civilian infrastructure and markets;

• Fully re-open all sea, land and air ports immediately for humanitarian and commercial
imports and without any further restrictions imposed;

• Rehabilitate and repair Yemen’s infrastructure, all port facilities, including installing all five
cranes at Hodeidah port; and the road network, to enable quicker and safer transportation of
food from all entry points to all parts of the country to restore the pre-conflict capacity to
address the food insecurity situation;

• Ensure unimpeded access to all people in need. All barriers to access for humanitarian
personnel should be lifted and all sides of the conflict should ensure the safety of humanitarian
personnel and their equipment;

• Ensure that commercial food transportation throughout the country is not obstructed;

• Reconvene comprehensive and inclusive peace talks that prioritize the alleviation of civilian
suffering, end the bloodshed and facilitate humanitarian assistance; create a meaningful space
for the participation of women, civil society, youth and minority groups at all levels of the peace
process, and commit to an immediate ceasefire and cessation of hostilities.

To donors and the international community:

• Urge the immediate re-opening of all ports in Yemen – both sea and air ports – to ensure the
sufficient importation of food and other vital commodities;

• Recognizing its importance in the food security pipeline, ensure the installation of additional
cranes in Hodeidah port to restore pre-conflict capacity, and ensure viable transportation
routes from the port of Aden to other parts of the country;
• Provide sufficient funding to ensure that the current and ensure viable transportation routes
from the port of Aden to other parts of the country;

• Provide sufficient funding to ensure that the current and increasing humanitarian needs of
Yemenis are met in 2017 and 2018;

• Come to Yemen to engage with all actors on the ground in order to gain first hand
understanding of the situation, build meaningful interventions and long-term engagement, and
facilitate the operational environment for INGOs;

• Increase pressure on warring parties and their international allies to return to negotiations to
set up a peace process, and to impose an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire across the
country;

• Ensure access of humanitarian and commercial goods to and within the country, and ensure
that all points of access are kept open and accessible. Funding and logistics such as cargo planes
and storage capacities need to be provided to enable the shipment of sufficient quantities of
humanitarian goods into Yemen;

• Use all available channels of communication with national actors to facilitate the
transportation of humanitarian goods within the country without delay and ensure its safe and
unhindered access to people in need;

• Identify modalities to pay the salaries of civil servants.

Assess the impact of the blockade on the food security pipeline and identify the support that
will be needed to recover to pre-blockade and preconflict capacity to address the immediate
threat of starvation and the longer-term food insecurity situation faced by civilians;

• Increase the coordination capacity between UN agencies and INGOs to support the
international response and its readjustment to the new crisis;

• Conduct negotiations on humanitarian access challenges, including specifically on removing


any and all impediments such as the lack of cranes in Hodeidah and the closure of Sana’a
airport

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