Yemen on brink of worst man-made famine: UN

UNITED NATIONS: The situation in Yemen is one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises – ‘and one that is entirely man-made’ – in saying that the United Nations human rights deputy chief urged the national commission of inquiry to fulfill its mandate of investigating all alleged violations of international and Yemeni laws. “We encourage the Yemeni National Commission to make progress on all aspects of its mandate to investigate all allegations of violations of international law and Yemeni law, including those that go beyond the extent of the Commission’s cooperation with OHCHR [the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights],” UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore told a UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva.