TO YEMEN WITH LOVE

Saturday 15th June 2019 | Glasgow School of Art
20 Scott Street, Glasgow G3 6PE
https://www.toyemenwithlove.org/
An event in Glasgow full of poetry, music, art, Yemeni culture, as well as speakers highlighting the situation in Yemen.

Food: Cafe opens 12 noon: Yemeni inspired food & stalls

To Yemen With Love: Main event: 3.00pm – 6.00pm
Glasgow School of Art
20 Scott Street, Glasgow G3 6PE
Tickets: click here to buy

To Yemen With Love: The Afterparty: 10.00pm – 3.00am
live painting & after party
Glasgow School of Art
20 Scott Street, Glasgow G3 6PE
Tickets: click here to buy

All profits will be donated to Yemen Aid.

Yemen: 4 Years of British Enabled Tragedy
The evidence of just how destructive the UK-backed Saudi war on Yemen has been continues to flood in. Last week, two separate reports outlined the scale of brutality unleashed on the Yemeni people. A United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report concluded that nearly one-hundred civilians were killed or injured in Yemen every week in 2018 whilst the preface of the Days of Judgement report from US-based University Network for Human Rights (UNHR) and Yemeni monitoring group Mwatana spells out just how dire the situation is:

“In a country that was already among the poorest and most fragile in the region, 14 million people are now threatened by famine and even more depend on humanitarian assistance. While precise figures are lacking, an estimated 50,000 people have been killed as a direct effect of the war and 85,000 children may have died of hunger and preventable diseases.” ……..read the full article here

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