Marib Governorate, according to the Yemen Shelter Cluster hosts the largest internally displaced population (IDPs) in Yemen and as many as 90 per cent of the 1.6 million people in Marib governorate are internally displaced. Marib governorate alone has received and hosts over a million internally displaced people.
Forced eviction is common in conflict-affected settings and remains one of the biggest challenges for internally displaced people. Broadly defined by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as “the permanent or temporary removal against their will of individuals, families and/or communities from the homes and/or land which they occupy, without the provision of, and access to, appropriate forms of legal or other protection”, forced eviction is one of the increasing protection risks that people living in sites and out of sites in Yemen continue to face.
Against this background, this report aims to provide a brief analysis/overview of eviction trends in managed IDP sites in Marib governorate. With Marib cited as one of the two governorates in IRG areas with the highest number of evictions, the report provides an analysis on forced eviction trends specific to Marib through the period of January to June 2024.
