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Eighteen months of war has pushed Yemen to the brink of catastrophe and left millions of people running out of means of survival, warned Oxfam in a new report published today.

On the European Parliament's call to ban arms sales from the European Union to countries accused of targeting civilians in Yemen, Oxfam's International Policy Advisor Arms and Conflict, Martin Butcher, said:“We welcome the European Parliament's call for a stop to arms sales to the belligerents in Yemen's conflict. The European Parliament has recognised the civilian deaths, suffering and destruction in Yemen resulting from the ongoing war. We look forward to working with the EU and member states to uphold international humanitarian law and enforce the EU's own rules on arms exports,…

The Human Rights Council decision not to set up an independent inquiry to investigate human rights violations by all sides to the conflict in Yemen is unacceptable.