Unconfirmed estimates suggested that 10 Yemeni children were trafficked into Saudi Arabia per day, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.
In 2008 the Government of Yemen did not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it made significant efforts to do so.
[2] Although Yemen did not express any specific plan to reduce the occurrence of human trafficking occurring within their borders causing some to believe that the numbers are inaccurate in order to display a false improvement for global perception.
Government corruption is also a major contributor to this where some profit monetarily from this fast growing transnational crime creating tens of billions of dollars annually.
[6] An independent report in 2023 noted that Yemen is a major transit point for Ethiopians being trafficked to Saudi Arabia, with an average of 12,000 people travelling through the country each month.
The government may encourage child victims to assist in investigations against their traffickers, but it does not offer legal alternatives to remove countries, which face hardship or retribution.
In addition, the Ministry of Human Rights distributed brochures on the threat of child trafficking in cooperation with UNICEF, providing logistical support to this project.
The government also did not undertake any public awareness efforts targeting citizens that travel to known child sex tourism destinations abroad.