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The Saudi-led coalition in the ongoing war in Yemen has been added to a United Nations  blacklist of child rights violators for causing the deaths and injuries of hundreds of children in the ongoing war in Yemen.

The alliance, assembled by Saudi Arabia in 2015, was added on Thursday to the UN chief's annual list of shame for killing and maiming 683 children and for 38 verified attacks on schools and hospitals during 2016.

However, the report further indicated that the Saudi-led coalition had taken some efforts to curb improve the protection of Children in the ongoing war.

The blacklist also named the Houthi rebel group, Yemen government forces, pro-government militia and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for violations against children in 2016 - as it did in last year's report.

Before the report's submission to the Security Council, rights groups warned against the removal of the coalition from the list once again.

"All groups working on children's rights in Yemen and around the world would be very, very disappointed if, for the second year running, despite clear patterns of grave violations, the party is removed from the list," Caroline Anning, senior advocacy adviser on Yemen for the UK-based Save the Children NGO, told newsmen from London.

"All sides in Yemen have shown a complete disrespect for the protection of children. We've seen a situation in which the world's worst humanitarian crisis has been created as a direct result of the war - the cholera epidemic, the hunger crisis; it's all a result of the conduct of the warring parties."