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The Right To Mental Health In Yemen, Waleed Alhariri, Amanda Mcnally, Sarah Knuckey
The Right To Mental Health In Yemen, Waleed Alhariri, Amanda Mcnally, Sarah Knuckey
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Mental health issues are all too common consequences of conflict and atrocity crimes, often causing upwards of one-quarter of the post-conflict, post-atrocity population to suffer from physical and mental sequelae that linger long after weapons have been silenced. After more than six years of ongoing conflict, Yemen’s already weak health care system is on the brink of collapse, and population resilience has been severely stressed by indiscriminate attacks, airstrikes, torture, food insecurity, unemployment, cholera, and now the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines Yemen’s responsibilities regarding the right to mental health and details the few actions the government has taken to …