Speaking on Monday to journalists at the UN headquarters in New York, Tom Fletcher who heads the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (Ochha) said: “We only have 19% of what we need.”
The international community is currently facing several humanitarian crises around the world, including crises focused on conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.
The other hot stories include Afghanistan, Haiti, Myanmar and the Sahel.
THEGlobal humanitarian overview 2025 (GHO), which is an annual assessment World humanitarian needs and responses was launched last December and covers 180 million vulnerable people in 70 countries.
The GHO requires $ 44 billion, but the last figures show that Just under 15 billion dollars have received to date.
Until now, in 2025, three crises of the occupied Palestinian territory, from Ukraine and Sudan have received almost a quarter of any funding.
The five main donors according to the OCHA financial service were the European Commission, the United States and the United Kingdom, followed by Japan and Germany.
Help cuts
According to Mr. Fletcher, hundreds of aid organizations have closed their doors and the humanitarian sector contracted a third of its size 10 months ago.
Meanwhile, OCHA has lost 20-25% of its staff in the past year.
In June, Ocha launched a “hyper-primary” callFor $ 29 billion to redefine the humanitarian plans of individual countries with the aim of saving 114 million lives.
The 29 billion dollars represent only one percent of what the world should spend on the defense this year, according to Mr. Fletcher, who asked “What is that say of our collective priorities?” »»
A man has food aid in the Kutalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Humanitarian needs grow
This year only this year, six million additional children are without school worldwide, according to the United Nations Fund for Children (Unicef), while managers of the United Nations High Commissioner Office for Refugees (Hcr) warned that 11 million refugees may no longer get the help they need.
In Gaza, more than half a million people are currently faced with extreme hunger, a figure which should exceed 640,000 by the end of the month, according to the latest classification report for the integrated food security phase (IPC). “We need a cease-fire now,” said the humanitarian chief.
Sudan, faced with the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, should be a major subject of discussion at the next UN world leader meeting from September 22. Haiti is also under the spotlight, where sexual violence and gangs remains widespread.
“Women took contraception in advance when achieving control points, anticipating acts of sexual violence,” said Fletcher.
Fight for what to be saved
The year 2025 also marks a record for assistance workers killed in the exercise of their duties, with more than 270 killed against 380 last year.
We must see “more anticipated, more preventive, more effective and more local approaches,” said Fletcher.
At a time when it was “old-fashioned to defend institutions, the defense of structures, hierarchies and order-the alternative is disorder and chaos,” he said.
“We have to cry what has happened, we have to fight for what to be saved, and we have to imagine what we can be in the future.”
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
