User:Darkness Shines/Child soldiers in Yemen

In 2011 it was estimated that in some areas, fifty percent of combatants in Yemen were under eighteen, and by 2016 UNICEF estimated fully one third of all combatants were under the age of eighteen.

"October 25, 2010, President Obama issued a waiver of the CSPA to four of the six countries: Chad, the DRC, Sudan, and Yemen (President 2010). In justifying this waiver, President Obama cited the importance of these countries in cooperating with key foreign policy objectives of the United States"