UN makes record 20.1B humanitarian appeal
Date
12/7/2015 12:27:36 PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The United Nations and its partners have launched a record $20.1 billion humanitarian appeal for 2016 to provide urgent help to more than 87.6 million of the most vulnerable people around the world.
Addressing the launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview 2016 at a press conference in Geneva Monday Stephen O’Brien UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator said: "Suffering in the world has reached levels not seen in a generation. Conflicts and disasters have driven millions of children women and men to the edge of survival. They desperately need our help".
UN asked $8 billion in total for 13.5 million people in Syria and 4.7 million Syrian refugees in neighboring countries for 2016.
Worldwide more than 125 million people in the world need humanitarian assistance and UN aims to "bring urgent help to more than 87.6 million of the most vulnerable and marginalized of them in 2016. This will require a record $20.1 billion in funding – five times the amount a decade ago" O’Brien said.
At the start of 2016 the plans span responses in 37 countries; conflicts in Syria Iraq South Sudan and Yemen will remain among the greatest drivers of prolonged humanitarian needs in 2016 fueling new displacement within countries and across borders.
"Worldwide the number of people forced to flee their homes has already reached 60 million a level previously unknown in the post-World War II era" UN said.
"Mass movement of people be it refugees or people fleeing within their own countries has become the new defining reality of the 21st century" the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said.
International donors have provided $9.7 billion to the global appeal in 2015 so far and it represents only 49 percent of the requirements which in the course of the year rose to $19.9 billion UN noted.
"Humanitarian organizations approach the end of this year with a funding gap of a record $10.2 billion - the largest gap ever" O’Brien said.
"The number of people now affected by conflicts and other crises is unprecedented with an unprecedented impact on their health" Dr. Margaret Chan director-general of the World Health Organization said.
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