'Brutal funding cuts' for aid threaten millions of lives: UN refugee chief

The organization said it was running out of supplies of life-saving food due to lack of funding

Millions of lives at risk from ‘brutal’ funding cuts, UN refugee chief says - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

GENEVA — Millions of lives are at risk from “brutal funding cuts” from donors, the U.N. refugee chief said on Thursday, warning that women refugees are already at greater risk of rape and that children are being pushed into trafficking or early marriage.

‘People will die’: UN food aid agency warns Trump cuts will see millions starve

With an $8.1 billion shortfall and the U.S. leading other Western countries in pulling support, the World Food Programme is making drastic aid cuts and scrambling to find donors.

Miliband calls on CEOs to fill gap left by cuts to government aid budgets

The ScoopOne of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations is calling on businesses to help fill the gap left by cuts to government aid budgets as part of a broader “reinvention” of global aid.David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee and a former UK foreign secretary, told Semafor his group could lose a third of its roughly $1.5 billion in revenues because of the Trump administration’s cuts to programs funded through USAID a…

Humanitarian aid is under pressure like never before. UN emergency chief Tom Fletcher sees a «world in flames».

'Brutal funding cuts' for aid threaten millions of lives: UN refugee chief

Dramatic aid cuts globally are putting millions of lives at risk, the UN refugee chief warned Thursday, as he prepared staff for mass layoffs due to a US foreign aid funding freeze."Brutal funding cuts in the humanitarian sector are putting millions of lives at risk," Filippo Grandi said in a statement."The consequences for people fleeing...