{"id":67609,"date":"2015-12-14T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=67609"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:31:54","slug":"un-issues-record-aid-appeal-amid-unprecedented-human-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/12\/un-issues-record-aid-appeal-amid-unprecedented-human-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Issues Record Aid Appeal amid Unprecedented \u2018Human Suffering\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A growing number of conflicts and natural disasters are spreading misery across the globe, affecting some 125 million people, the UN said on Monday [7 Dec], as it requested a record amount of aid from donor governments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/suffering-misery-world-hunger.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-67610\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/suffering-misery-world-hunger.jpg\" alt=\"suffering misery world hunger\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/suffering-misery-world-hunger.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/suffering-misery-world-hunger-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>8 Dec 2015 &#8211; <\/em>The UN has appealed for $20.1 billion (\u20ac18.6 billion) in aid next year to respond to staggering number of conflicts and disasters. Last year donor governments only provided 49 percent of the UN appeal.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of conflicts and natural disasters are spreading misery across the globe, affecting some 125 million people, the UN said on Monday, as it requested a record amount of aid from donor governments.<\/p>\n<p>Conflict has engulfed 27 countries, the UN said, while in six cases \u2013 the Central African Republic, Burundi, Nigeria, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen \u2013 the impact is pouring across borders to affect 37 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman suffering has reached levels not seen since the Second World War,\u201d UN humanitarian aid chief Stephen O\u2019Brien said on Monday. \u201cConflicts and disasters have driven millions of children, women and men to the edge of survival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UN agencies for health (WHO), refugees (UNHCR), humanitarian assistance (OCHA) and other humanitarian partners requested $19.9 billion (18.4 billion euros) last year, but donor governments failed to fund aid operations, leaving a record funding gap of $10.2 billion (9.4 billion euros) this year.<\/p>\n<p>The funding shortfall has impacted the provision of food, shelter and healthcare to millions of the world\u2019s most vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe international humanitarian system is all too often the only safety net that exists for people fleeing wars,\u201d UNHCR head Antonio Guterres said. \u201cIt has to be funded on a scale that\u2019s realistic and commensurate with today\u2019s immense challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that with the present level of resources, we are not able to provide even the very minimum in both core protection and life-saving assistance,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Next year UN agencies want to help the most vulnerable 87 million people out of 125 million in need. Some 40 percent of the appeal is to respond to the Syria crisis, which along with conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan has triggered a flood of refugees to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The UN said conflicts in Syria, Iraq, South Sudan and Yemen are the \u201cgreatest drivers of prolonged humanitarian needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conflicts around the globe have displaced 60 million people from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMass movement of people, be it refugees or people fleeing within their own countries, has become the new defining reality of the 21st century,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p><em>cw\/jr (AFP, AP, dpa)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/2015\/12\/08\/un-issues-record-aid-appeal-amid-unprecedented-human-suffering\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 dailynewsegypt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of conflicts and natural disasters are spreading misery across the globe, affecting some 125 million people, the UN said on Monday [7 Dec], as it requested a record amount of aid from donor governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}