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.