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'Adapt, Shrink Or Die': US Pledges $2 Billion For UN Aid As Trump Cuts Funds
The $2 billion is only a sliver of traditional US humanitarian funding for UN-backed programs, which has run as high as $17 billion annually in recent years, according to UN data.
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Humanitarian Funding Cuts Put 11 Million Refugees At Risk: UN
Massive cuts to humanitarian budgets risk leaving more than 11 million refugees without desperately needed aid, the United Nations warned Friday.
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UN Slashes Global Aid Plan Over 'Deepest Funding Cuts Ever'
The United Nations said that it was drastically scaling back its global humanitarian aid plans due to the "deepest funding cuts ever" -- leaving tens of millions of people facing dire straits.
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Baby Paralysed In Gaza's First Case Of Type 2 Polio For 25 Years: WHO
A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health Organization said on Friday, with U.N. agencies appealing for urgent vaccinations of every baby
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US Pause On Funding UN Relief Agency For Gazans May Become Permanent
U.S. officials are preparing for a pause on funding the main U.N. agency for Palestinians to become permanent due to opposition in Congress, even as the Biden administration insists the aid group's humanitarian work is indispensable.
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U.N. Seeks $144 Million To Offload Decaying Yemen Oil Tanker
David Gressly, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said he hoped a donors conference held with the support of Netherlands in the Hague would quickly mobilise funds to avert a catastrophe on the Red Sea coast and its region.
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U.N. Seeks $144 Million To Offload Decaying Yemen Oil Tanker
David Gressly, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said he hoped a donors conference held with the support of Netherlands in the Hague would quickly mobilise funds to avert a catastrophe on the Red Sea coast and its region.
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UN Security Council Adopts Resolution To Ease Humanitarian Aid In Afghanistan
The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a US-proposed resolution to help humanitarian aid reach desperate Afghans, while seeking to keep funds out of Taliban hands.
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"World Doesn't Realise...": UN Agency Sounds Alarm On Afghan Food Crisis
Millions of Afghans, including children, could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken to pull Afghanistan back from brink of collapse, a senior United Nations official warned, calling for frozen funds to be freed for humanitarian efforts.
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UN Chief Warns Of "Humanitarian Catastrophe" In Afghanistan As US Troops Exit
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday of a looming "humanitarian catastrophe" in Afghanistan as he urged countries to provide emergency funding following the departure of US forces.
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'Adapt, Shrink Or Die': US Pledges $2 Billion For UN Aid As Trump Cuts Funds
The $2 billion is only a sliver of traditional US humanitarian funding for UN-backed programs, which has run as high as $17 billion annually in recent years, according to UN data.
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Humanitarian Funding Cuts Put 11 Million Refugees At Risk: UN
Massive cuts to humanitarian budgets risk leaving more than 11 million refugees without desperately needed aid, the United Nations warned Friday.
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UN Slashes Global Aid Plan Over 'Deepest Funding Cuts Ever'
The United Nations said that it was drastically scaling back its global humanitarian aid plans due to the "deepest funding cuts ever" -- leaving tens of millions of people facing dire straits.
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Baby Paralysed In Gaza's First Case Of Type 2 Polio For 25 Years: WHO
A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, the World Health Organization said on Friday, with U.N. agencies appealing for urgent vaccinations of every baby
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US Pause On Funding UN Relief Agency For Gazans May Become Permanent
U.S. officials are preparing for a pause on funding the main U.N. agency for Palestinians to become permanent due to opposition in Congress, even as the Biden administration insists the aid group's humanitarian work is indispensable.
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U.N. Seeks $144 Million To Offload Decaying Yemen Oil Tanker
David Gressly, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said he hoped a donors conference held with the support of Netherlands in the Hague would quickly mobilise funds to avert a catastrophe on the Red Sea coast and its region.
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U.N. Seeks $144 Million To Offload Decaying Yemen Oil Tanker
David Gressly, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said he hoped a donors conference held with the support of Netherlands in the Hague would quickly mobilise funds to avert a catastrophe on the Red Sea coast and its region.
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UN Security Council Adopts Resolution To Ease Humanitarian Aid In Afghanistan
The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a US-proposed resolution to help humanitarian aid reach desperate Afghans, while seeking to keep funds out of Taliban hands.
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"World Doesn't Realise...": UN Agency Sounds Alarm On Afghan Food Crisis
Millions of Afghans, including children, could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken to pull Afghanistan back from brink of collapse, a senior United Nations official warned, calling for frozen funds to be freed for humanitarian efforts.
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UN Chief Warns Of "Humanitarian Catastrophe" In Afghanistan As US Troops Exit
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday of a looming "humanitarian catastrophe" in Afghanistan as he urged countries to provide emergency funding following the departure of US forces.
