One million women lose aid access due to funding cuts, UN Women says
UN Women says 84% of surveyed groups cannot meet rising demand as funding cuts force service reductions and closures.
- On Friday, a United Nations report found that at least one million women and girls lost access to life-saving support within the last year due to global donor aid cuts.
- The Trump administration slashed foreign assistance this year, while other major international donors reduced budgets due to fiscal pressures and increased defence spending, creating the steepest drop in aid funding on record.
- Surveying 855 organizations, the report found 60% are reaching fewer women and girls than before January 2025, while 40% face temporary or permanent closure within the next year.
- United Nations Women Chief of Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp warned that "Every dollar withdrawn" harms survivors, as 65% of women-led organizations report staff working without pay to maintain services.
- Some 120 million women and girls require humanitarian assistance worldwide, with the United Nations characterizing the cuts as part of a broader gender backlash affecting women's leadership initiatives.
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Geneva. At least one million women and girls were left without access to humanitarian aid and other crucial support over the past 18 months, due to budget cuts in agencies involved in crisis situations, a report on that sector of the United Nations (UN) yesterday.
At least one million women are deprived of aid at a time when budget cuts are affecting humanitarian aid organizations, says UN Women.
At least one million women and girls have been without assistance since January 2025 due to budget cuts in agencies that act in crisis situations, warns a UN Women report. Bombs, blackouts and maternal anxiety: Stress of war turns pregnancy into a challenge for Ukrainian women The GLOB in the world: receive international news directly on your mobile Humanitarian organizations face significant cuts in international aid, particularly since Republi…
At Least 1 Million Women and Girls Have Lost Aid Access After Global Cuts Led by Trump
"Every dollar withdrawn from women's organizations is a dollar withdrawn from survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, displaced mothers, girls forced from school, and communities struggling to survive."
Since January 2025 and Donald Trump's return to the White House, at least one million women and girls have been deprived of assistance due to budget cuts in humanitarian aid, UN Women warned on Friday. Victims of conflict-related sexual violence, displaced mothers, and girls forced to leave school are among those most affected, according to the organization.
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