Worldwide, $ 1.4 billion in the agency’s programs are closed or suspended, Hcr said in a new report.

“We cannot stop water, you cannot stop sanitation, but we must make decisions when it happens, for example, to shelter,” said the director of UNHCR external relations, Dominique Hyde.

“We have people who arrive from Sudan daily, regions of Darfur … arriving in Chad, I cannot have shelter.”

In an urgent call for flexible funding from donors, Hyde noted that up to 11.6 million refugees and others are likely to lose access this year to direct the humanitarian aid of the UNHCR. The figure represents approximately a third of those affected by the organization last year.

On the border of Sudan-Chad, the United Nations agency is now unable to provide a “basic refuge” to more than six out of 10 refugees fleeing the conflict. Thousands of more vulnerable people have also been blocked in locations of remote borders in South Sudan. “If we just had a little more support, we could bring them to colonies,” She insisted.

Due to the financing cuts, basic activities have already been hardly affected. These include registration of refugees, child protection, legal advice and prevention and responses to sexist violence.

All sectors of help strike

In South Sudan, 75% of safe spaces for women and girls supported by UNHCR have closed. This means leaving up to 80,000 women and girls refugee without access to medical care, psychosocial support, legal aid, material support or income -generating activities. This includes survivors of sexual violence, noted the UNHCR.

“Behind these figures are a real life suspended in the scale”, ” Ms. Hyde said.

“Families see the support on which they leaning on Vanish, forced to choose between feeding their children, buying medication or paying rent, while hope for a better future slips out of sight. Each sector and operation have been affected and critical support is suspended to maintain rescue aid. ”

Afflux de Libya

Many of them affected by the war in Sudan have made the decision to pass from Chad and Egypt in Libya, in the hands of smugglers who dangerously overload boats with desperate people seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea in Europe.

“What we observe now is that in terms of arrivals in Europe of … Sudanese refugees, [it] has has increased since the start of the year by around 170% compared to the first six months of 2024“Said the HCR spokesperson, Olga Sarrado.

Reduced support from Niger to Ukraine

In the camps welcoming the Rohingyas refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh, the education of some 230,000 children could now be suspended. Meanwhile, in Lebanon, “the UNHCR health program may be closed by the end of the year,” continued Ms. Hyde.

In Niger and other emergency circles, reductions in financial aid for the refuge have left families in overcrowded structures or at risk of homelessness. In Ukraine, financial aid has also been reduced, “leaving the uprooted families unable to afford rent, food or medical treatment,” she noted.

Assistance to the return of the Afghans has also become another victim of the reductions in the world aid. About 1.9 million Afghan nationals have returned home or have been forced since the start of the year, “but financial assistance for returnees is barely sufficient to afford food, not to mention rent, undergoing efforts to ensure stable reintegration,” said UNHCR.

Legal aid has stopped

Overall, several UNHCR operations have struck by serious financing gaps had to reduce investments in strengthening asylum systems and promoting regularization efforts.

In Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Mexico, any lack of prolonged legal status means prolonged insecurity for people in moving, said the United Nations agency. The result is the deepening of poverty “because refugees are excluded from formal employment and greater exposure to exploitation and abuse,” said Ms. Hyde.

About one of the 550 out of three offices in the world was affected by the cuts, Ms. Hyde told journalists in Geneva:

“We are not able to do so much contingency planning; What we are able to do is make decisions on priorities and, at this stage, priorities as I mentioned are dramatic. ”

For 2025, UNHCR needs $ 10.6 billion. Only 23% of this amount was provided.

“In this context, our teams focus on efforts to save lives and protect those who are forced to flee,” said Ms. Hyde. “If additional funding becomes available, UNHCR has systems, partnerships and expertise to resume and increase assistance quickly.”

Since February 2022, the legal and illegal economies in Ukraine have been seriously disrupted by the war.

The report examines the evolution of the structures of the crime organized in the country and is focused on six distinct areas: drug trafficking and production, online and fraud scams, arms trafficking, economic crime, trafficking in people and facilitation of illegal exit and escape.

“War not only inflicted incalculable suffering on the Ukrainian people, but has also triggered a marked development of organized crime – which may have profound implications for the country’s journey to takeover and reconstruction,” said Angela Me, head of research and analysis Unodc.

Drug trafficking

While cocaine and heroin trafficking in Ukraine has decreased considerably since 2022, production and traffic in synthetic drugs such as Cathinons and methadone have increased.

The expansion of Cathinone traffic in recent years has been facilitated by Darknet, in particular through market platforms such as Hydra, which was dismantled in April 2022.

Regarding methadone, the report noted that most of Ukrainian production is treated in the country and not abroad, because domestic demand for drugs are increasing.

Arms trafficking

War has also increased the availability of weapons in the country, especially due to a massive influx of weapons in the battlefield.

This surplus leads to an increase in convulsions and violence among civilians, marked in particular by an increase in the violence of domestic and intimate partners.

Although there is no evidence suggesting that large -scale arms trafficking outside Ukraine, UNODC stressed the importance of monitoring the situation in light of the number of weapons available and the historic regional presence of criminal actors specializing in arms trafficking.

Although there is, for the moment, no evidence of drones used in a non -military context, civil drones and 3D printed components for front -line attacks could feed new illicit markets, according to the report.

Trafficking

As around 14 million people were moved by war, some criminal groups have exploited these populations by attracting them to shelters or dwellings disguised as humanitarian assistance suppliers, where they are subject to forced work.

While the intensified border patrol, associated with the almost complete closure of the eastern and northeast borders, limited the smuggling of migrants via Ukraine, the traffickers rather turned to the facilitation of the escape of the project by Ukrainian men.

“The reduction of organized crime is a key requirement to achieve sustainable peace, justice, national security and the protection of human rights,” said Matthias Schmale, United Nations humanitarian resideer and humanitarian coordinator in UkraineAs the World Organization is ready to support the country in this critical work.