"No to Sectarianization of Education"... A media campaign to raise awareness of the danger of Houthi militias targeting school curricula

Yemeni activists and media professionals launched a broad media campaign on Wednesday evening to confront the Houthis’ systematic targeting of the educational process in the country.

The campaign organizers, which was launched under the hashtag #No_to_Sectarianization_of_Education, said that it aims to spread awareness about the danger of the amendments imposed by the Houthi militia on school curricula, which target national identity and societal coexistence, spread sectarian thought, and pose a threat to future generations and the future of Yemen.

The campaign called on the Yemeni government and the Ministry of Education to play their role in confronting the targeting of education, which threatens future generations.

She urged media professionals, journalists, activists and interested parties to interact and participate through social media platforms to confront attempts to plant sectarian and racial ideas and publish content and images documenting the Houthi targeting of the educational process.

They killed the teacher, raped the students, changed the curriculum, and on top of that, an entire generation that reached the age of 11 had their brains washed. And those who prevented their son from education, they came and took their father under the pretext of communicating with America. This is what is happening to education, to teachers, and to students in Houthi areas.
#No_to_Sectarianization_of_Education pic.twitter.com/FGYOGeVIP5

— Ahmed Al-Abab (@ahmed_alabab) November 20, 2024

At a time of racing today, the Presidency of the Yemeni House of Representatives warned during a meeting of the danger of Houthi practices on the youth in the areas under its control, and the attempt to change identity and belief, and destroy the achievements made by Yemenis since the outbreak of the Yemeni revolution.

On Tuesday, academics and educators in Marib called on the Presidential Leadership Council to urgently direct the holding of a national conference to preserve the Yemeni identity from the mined ideas that the terrorist Houthi militias are working to spread in the areas under their control.

They also called, during a symposium in Marib, on the Ministry of Education to convene the Supreme Curriculum Committee with the aim of including topics that refute Houthi falsehoods and reinforce religious and national constants.

The intellectual symposium called for accelerating the implementation of the virtual education system to provide alternative opportunities for students in areas under the control of the militia, enabling them not to be forced to abide by the Houthi educational conditions.

#AlHouthi exploited education, schools, students and teachers to spread his ideology and his provocative project, and he continues to do so systematically.
This is one of the most dangerous violations because it rejects coexistence and peace. We are facing a worrying future as long as education continues to be targeted amid international silence. #No_to_Sectarianization_of_Education pic.twitter.com/fKiTAduj5W

— Ali Al-Oqabi ALI Al-OQABI (@AliMAloqabi) November 20, 2024

Earlier today, the International Organization for Migration reported that more than 2.4 million Yemeni children are out of school, with nearly a million children dropping out since the conflict escalated in March 2015.

The organization said in a statement coinciding with World Children's Day that UN estimates indicate that more than 2,000 schools have been damaged or reused since the beginning of the conflict, putting 8 million school-age children at risk of leaving the education system, including more than a million displaced children.