In January, US President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on foreign aid pending a review, after which Washington announced the cancellation of 83 percent of programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Citing aid workers, the organisation said slashing funding “has led to the shut-down of life-saving assistance and protection services”.
Dozens of safe spaces for battered women and girls have also been closed, Amnesty said, warning that multiple facilities providing reproductive health services or protection for women were also at risk.
“Millions of people in Yemen are going to be left without desperately needed support” if aid cuts are not reversed, she said.
“We’ve been forced to make life and death decisions on little to no information. Often there is no one to speak to because USAID has been gutted,“ one aid worker told Amnesty.
“Hungry, displaced and exhausted by violence, people in Yemen already lived in one of the most dire humanitarian crises in the world,“ Haidar said.
Last month, Washington re-classified the Huthis as a foreign terrorist organisation, banning any interaction with the group that controls large swathes of Yemen.
“US measures targeting the Huthi de facto authorities should provide clear and effective exemptions for humanitarian aid operations,“ said Haidar.
“The majority of civilians in critical need of aid live in Huthi-controlled areas in northern Yemen.”
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