São Paulo – The United Nations (UN) said this Monday (5) it will require USD 22.2 billion to fund humanitarian aid actions targeting 93 million people in 2017. The figure, an all-time high, is from the Global Humanitarian Report released in Geneva by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The scale of the humanitarian crisis is the biggest “since the founding of the United Nations,” a press release quoted UN undersecretary general for Humanitarian Affairs Stephen O´Brien as saying. Never did so many people need “support and solidarity in order to survive and live in safety and dignity,” he added.
OCHA’s humanitarian response plan outlines actions in 33 different countries. Conflicts in Syria, Yemen, South Sudan and Nigeria are the primary sources of humanitarian aid needs, since they provoke cross-border displacements.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
