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The Society for Humanitarian Solidarity is a non profit humanitarian NGO based in the Mayfa'a District (Shabwa Governorate) near Aden, Yemen. It was founded by Naseer Salim Ali Al-Hamairy in 1995. The SHS provides assistance to refugees and migrants who arrive in Yemen every year. The NGO has 290 staff members.
The number of refugees fleeing the civil war in Yemen and seeking shelter on Jeju Island through its visa-waiver program rapidly increased in the year 2018. [7] [8] No Yemenis requested refugee status on Jeju in the first year of the war, only seven did so in 2016, and only 42 did so in 2017, but in 2018, the number of applications rose to about 500. [9]
Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation was founded in 2017 and registered both Seattle [2] as a 501(c)(3) charitable organisation and in Yemen. [1] It is governed by a volunteer board of directors, with minimal staff in the US. [1] Staff in Yemen are also volunteers, mostly current or former civil servants from the health and education ...
The U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen will visit the Gulf on Monday "to advance ongoing un-led efforts to expand the truce and launch a comprehensive peace process," the U.S. State Department said in a ...
In 2010, Reuters reported that poverty among Somali refugees in Yemen remains common. [9] Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, the World Health Organization reported that migrant groups faced stigmatization as "transmitters of disease" after a Somali refugee was identified as the first case in the country.
Tourism in Yemen is overseen by the Government of Yemen's Ministry of Tourism. According to the World Bank, there were an estimated 1,174,000 international inbound tourists in Yemen in 2012. [3] Additionally, the USCRI indicates that Yemen hosted a population of refugees and asylum seekers numbering around 124,600 in 2007. [4]
Yemeni diaspora refers to Yemeni migrants and their descendants who, whether by choice or coercion, emigrated from Yemen and now reside in other countries. There are 7 million Yemenis living outside Yemen, including 2 million in Saudi Arabia. [2] [3] In the United Kingdom there are between 70,000 and 80,000 Yemenis.
In 1959, another 3,000 Jews from Aden fled to Israel, while many more left as refugees to the United States and the United Kingdom. The emigration of Yemeni Jews continued as a trickle but stopped in 1962 when a civil war broke out in North Yemen, which put an abrupt halt to further emigration. In 2013, a total sum of 250 Jews still lived in Yemen.