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‘Limited response to Yemen crisis due to collapse of intl. law’

Tuesday, 27 November 2018 8:56 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 27 November 2018 9:10 AM ]

This picture, taken on November 22, 2018, shows Abdelrahman Manhash, a five-year-old Yemeni boy suffering from severe malnutrition and weighing a mere 5 kilograms lying on a bed at a treatment clinic in the Khokha district in the western province of Hudaydah, Yemen. (By AFP)

The limited international response to the Saudi-led war on Yemen and a resultant humanitarian crisis there is the result of the “general collapse of international law,” says an academic.

“What we are witnessing here (in Yemen) is part and parcel of the general collapse of international law and the ideals that were established after World War II,” Lawrence Davidson, a professor at the West Chester University, told Press TV on Tuesday.

Responding to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen depends on the ability of humanitarian organizations “to impact governments,” Davidson said, adding that those organizations had shown a “very limited” capability to stop the Saudi-led war.