Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 3 June 2016

An estimated one-third of the fighters in Yemen are children, who have been used by all parties in the conflict. Captured children should be released and all sides should make a commitment to not re-enlist child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said today. The week in numbers. In some countries already devastated by war, the situation for children is only getting worse. The deterioration in five countries – Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Somalia - in 2015 is particularly alarming, according to a new UN report. With the Western Balkan route closed, more than 50,000 asylum seekers, including many women and children, are stranded in Greece in largely unsafe and appaling conditions. Meanwhile the EU scheme to relocate refugees moves at a glacial pace... The US has decided to halt transfers of deadly cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia. That's good, but they should make the suspension permanent and extend it to other countries, said Human Rights Watch.