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World humanitarian aid organizations needs 20.1 bln dollars for 2016: UN report

Xinhua, December 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

The world's humanitarian aid organizations will require a record 20.1 billion U.S. dollars in funding to bring urgent help to more than 87.6 million vulnerable and marginalized people in 2016, a latest report has said.

The report, the Global Humanitarian Overview 2016, was launched here in Geneva by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Monday.

OCHA said that the appeal is based on response plans and strategies in 27 crises, including Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, Mali, occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.

"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," said Stephen O'Brien, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

According to OCHA, currently more than 125 million people in the world need humanitarian assistance, five times the amount of a decade ago.

According to the newly issued report, 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.

"Mass movement of people, be it refugees or people fleeing within their own countries, has become the new defining reality of the 21st century," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.

OCHA said that so far in 2015, international donors have provided 9.7 billion U.S. dollars to the global appeal but it represents only 49 percent of the requirements which in the course of the year rose to 19.9 billion U.S. dollars. Endit