A/HRC/33/38 60. Schools have been hit in the context of ground operations and aerial attacks. The conflict has forced 560,000 children out of school, raising the total number of school-age children out of school in Yemen to 2.2 million. During most of the 2015/16 school year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported 1,600 continued school closures across Yemen, including 919 school closures in the Jawf, Sa’ada and Taizz Governorates alone. H. Sexual and gender-based violence 61. The ongoing conflict has placed women in positions of increased vulnerability. An assessment of trends during 2015 revealed that girls and women were at an increased risk of physical assault.30 The Gender-Based Violence Information Management System, established in Yemen in 2015 and led by the United Nations Population Fund, has indicated that, among other issues, forced marriage has been a growing trend during the conflict. 62. Allegations of sexual violence, including rape, have been recorded by OHCHR. In July 2015, OHCHR visited Thawra hospital in Sana’a city and met with witnesses who confirmed cases in which internally displaced persons had been victims of rape. Doctors stated that in one reported incident, a 10-year-old girl who had been displaced to Bani Seyah District, Sa’ada Governorate, had been admitted to the hospital for injuries sustained after being raped while going to the local grocery store. 63. As a result of the conflict, some women reported having been subjected to various forms of ill-treatment, which may amount to torture, at the hands of the Popular Committees in Sana’a city. In February 2016, an OHCHR monitor visited the women’s central prison, located in Sana’a city and currently under the control of the Popular Committees, and interviewed women deprived of their liberty. Four victims told the monitor that they had been blindfolded during their capture and taken to an unidentified location where they had allegedly been subjected to electric shocks and accused by the Popular Committees of being prostitutes. They had been held incommunicado until the visit of the monitor. I. Forced displacement and eviction 64. The conflict has continued to generate unprecedented levels of displacement. Of particular concern has been the forced eviction of at least 155 persons from Aden, following the promotion of the “carry your identification” campaign by the local authorities in May 2016. Witnesses stated that the campaign had been used as a means to displace northerners, especially those originating from Hodeidah and Taizz, many of whom had been captured, forcibly transported on trucks to the Rabat checkpoint and made to find their way out of Aden, mainly by traveling to Taizz through the Al-Subayha route. Others were reportedly taken to the border between Lahj and Taizz governorates. 65. A witness stated that at around 3 a.m. on 13 May 2016, approximately 300 people had been forcibly evicted from hostels to a nearby car park and had not been allowed to take any belongings. They were transferred to Al-Mansura Prison and later taken to the Kirsh area near the border between Lahj Governate and Taizz Governorate, from where they were made to make their own arrangements to return to Taizz. 30 20 INTERSOS, “GBV trend analysis 2015: incident reporting by 30 local associations to INTERSOSUNFPA for 8 governorates, Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Shabwa, Al Dhalea, Amran, Sada’a and Hajjah” (December 2015).