UN Documents for Yemen
Selected Security Council Resolutions | View All |
14 November 2023 S/RES/2707 | This resolution renewed the Yemen assets freeze and travel ban sanctions until 15 November 2024 and the mandate of the Yemen Panel of Experts until 15 December 2024. |
10 July 2023 S/RES/2691 | This resolution extended the mandate of UNMHA until 14 July 2024. |
15 February 2023 S/RES/2675 | This resolution extended the Yemen asset freeze and travel ban sanctions measures nine months until 15 November, and the mandate of the Yemen Panel of Experts until 15 December. |
Selected Security Council Presidential Statements | View All |
29 August 2019 S/PRST/2019/9 | This was on developments in southern Yemen and efforts to resume comprehensive political negotiations. |
15 March 2018 S/PRST/2018/5 | This was a presidential statement calling for the full and sustained opening of all of Yemen's ports, including Hodeidah and Saleef ports, and for increased access to Sana'a airport. |
9 August 2017 S/PRST/2017/14 | This was on the threat of famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and north-east Nigeria. |
Selected Secretary-General's Reports | View All |
27 August 2021 S/2021/761 | The present report, the third on the situation of children and armed conflict in Yemen, has been prepared pursuant to Security Council resolution 1612 (2005). |
3 June 2019 S/2019/453 | This was the Secretary-General's report on children and armed conflict in Yemen. |
21 January 2019 S/2019/69 | This was a report on the implementation of resolution 2451. |
Selected Sanctions Committee Documents | View All |
2 November 2023 S/2023/833 | This was the final report of the Yemen Panel of Experts. |
10 July 2023 S/2023/518 | This informed the Council of the Secretary-General's appointment of the Yemen Panel Experts' member for regional affairs. |
27 March 2023 S/2023/235 | This was a Secretary-General's letter on the appointment of four of the members of the Yemen Panel of Experts. |
Selected Security Council Letters | View All |
12 June 2023 S/2023/432 | This was the Secretary-General's annual review of the UN Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement. |
21 October 2022 S/2022/791 | This was was a Yemeni government letter on Houthi attacks against oil infrastructure. |
5 October 2022 S/2022/773 | This was a letter from the Secretary-General on the appointment of the armed groups expert to the Yemen Panel of Experts. |
Selected Security Council Meeting Records | View All |
14 November 2023 S/PV.9473 | This was the adoption of resolution 2707 renewing the Yemen sanctions and contained explanations of vote by the UK and Russia. |
16 August 2023 S/PV.9396 | This was a briefing on Yemen by Special Envoy Grundberg; OCHA Director for Operations and Advocacy Division Edem Worsunu; and Founder and President of the Abductees’ Mothers Association Amat al-Salam Abdullah Abdo al-Hajj. |
10 July 2023 S/PV.9370 | This was a briefing on Yemen with UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msyuya and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen David Gressly. |
Selected Security Council Press Statements | View All |
1 December 2023 SC/15513 | This press statement condemned in the strongest terms recent Houthi attacks against a commercial vessel in the Red Sea, and called for the immediate release of the vessel MV Galaxy Leader and its crew, which the Houthis seized on 19 November. |
29 September 2023 SC/15430 | This press statement condemned the "egregious and escalatory" drone attack, attributed to the Houthis, on Bahraini forces serving in the Saudi Arabia-led coalition on the southern Saudi border. |
27 April 2023 SC/15272 | This press statement welcomed the visit to Sana’a by the Saudi and Omani delegations and their support to UN mediation efforts. |
Selected General Assembly Documents | View All |
14 December 1967 A/RES/2310 (XXII) | This resolution admitted Democratic Yemen (the People's Republic of Southern Yemen) as a member of the UN. |
30 September 1947 A/RES/108 (II) | This resolution admitted Pakistan and Yemen as members of the UN. |
Selected Human Rights Council Documents | View All |
10 September 2021 A/HRC/48/20 | This was the fourth report of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen. |
29 September 2020 A/HRC/45/CRP.7 | This was the conference room paper containing the detailed findings of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen from its report A/HRC/45/6. |
28 September 2020 A/HRC/45/6 | This was a report of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen, which recommended that the UN Security Council refer the situation in Yemen to the International Criminal Court. |
Selected Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict Documents | View All |
24 June 2022 S/AC.51/2022/1 | These were the conclusions on the Secretary-General’s report on children and armed conflict in Yemen, which covers the period from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020. |
8 April 2020 S/AC.51/2020/1 | These were the Working Group's conclusions on children and armed conflict in Yemen. |
9 December 2013 S/AC.51/2013/3 | This document contained the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict conclusions on Yemen. |
Selected Other Documents | View All |
26 February 2018 S/2018/156 | This was a draft resolution on the Yemen sanctions regime, which Russia vetoed, objecting to references to the Yemen Panel of Experts’ findings that Iran was in non-compliance with the arms embargo. Eleven members voted in favour, China and Kazakhstan abstained with Bolivia also voting against. |