The Impact of the Yemeni Crisis on International Peace and Security

Abstract

Along with the Arab wave of protests in the Arab Middle East in 2011, nationwide protests in Yemen began a series of street marches, protests and civil disobedience against the Yemeni government and President Ali Abdullah Saleh on January 14, 2011. It reached its peak by February 3, which became known as the Day of Rage, and led to the regime's bloody and violent crackdown on protesters. Nearly nine months after the violence, the UN Security Council reacted by issuing a resolution in 2014, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressing grave concern about the continuing human rights situation in Yemen. Calling the situation in Yemen a crisis, he said that the best way to overcome the crisis is through peaceful means and that security and stability in Yemen are in line with counter-terrorism efforts in the region and described the deteriorating situation in Yemen as a threat to international peace and security, and recalled the Security Council's responsibility for international peace and security. Women regretted and strongly condemned the human rights violations by the Yemeni government. Although in The resolution noted that all groups should withdraw their weapons from the region and achieve a peaceful process, but in the wake of the crisis in Yemen, events became more tragic, not just government weapons resulting from the civil war.