Almotamar.net-Hanaa Alwjeeh - The number of kidnapped children in Yemen during the last year reached 124, including 105 males and 19 females, Head of Seyaj Organization for childhood protection Ahmed Al-Qershi has said.

Al-Qershi added that most of the abducted children were victims of human trafficking .

In a press conference organized in Sana'a by the Monitoring and Advocating Center in Seyaj on the occasion of launching the first annual report on kidnapping children in Yemen 2013
al-Qershi confirmed that only 19 of children kidnapping cases were reported by their parents.

He demanded judicial and security bodies to perform their duties in punishing the kidnappers, considering the children abduction a crime and dangerous phenomenon threatening the society.

Al-Qershi urged the human rights organizations to raise the level of cooperation with the institutions involved in the field of childhood and to find solutions to ensure the end of child abduction.

Seyaj Organization is a voluntary, independent and non-profit civil society organization specialized in defending the rights of children.