Displacement in Taiz: ‘I Pledged My ID Card So I Could Give Birth’

An account of pledging an identity card to be able to give birth highlights the hardship facing displaced people in Taiz, Yemen, where access to basic necessities remains a struggle.

The testimony points to the difficult choices that can accompany displacement, with even childbirth becoming an occasion for desperate measures.

The World Food Programme says 73 percent of households in the areas it monitors in Yemen cannot meet their basic food needs.

That figure applies to the programme’s monitored areas, rather than specifically to Taiz. It provides a wider picture of food insecurity in which accounts of displacement in the city are unfolding.