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Shedding light on the main trends of violations against migrant workers in the Gulf, Mr. Khalid Ibrahim said that migrant workers are overworked and deprived of their salaries for few months securing their money for \u201c security deposit\u201d, and they are exposed to racial discrimination and physical abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Ibrahim continued to criticise the Kafala system as a real contradiction with human rights principles and international conventions. \u201c It cannot be tolerated that migrant workers are not allowed to established unions to defend their own rights\u201d he deplored.<\/p>\n","post_title":"DCT Features Reality of Asian Workers in the Gulf: Violations and Reforms","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dct-features-reality-of-asian-workers-in-the-gulf-violations-and-reforms-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4900","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":68},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\u201c Negotiations with the gulf contraries need to be continued till achieving a better situation for migrant workers there\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shedding light on the main trends of violations against migrant workers in the Gulf, Mr. Khalid Ibrahim said that migrant workers are overworked and deprived of their salaries for few months securing their money for \u201c security deposit\u201d, and they are exposed to racial discrimination and physical abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Ibrahim continued to criticise the Kafala system as a real contradiction with human rights principles and international conventions. \u201c It cannot be tolerated that migrant workers are not allowed to established unions to defend their own rights\u201d he deplored.<\/p>\n","post_title":"DCT Features Reality of Asian Workers in the Gulf: Violations and Reforms","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dct-features-reality-of-asian-workers-in-the-gulf-violations-and-reforms-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4900","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":68},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Professor Irudaya Rajan introduced a briefing on his survey in people who returned back from the Gulf because of the pandemic. He said that migrant workers have been subject to 4 major violations: Confiscation of their passports and documents, contract substitution, wage theft, and closure of borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c Negotiations with the gulf contraries need to be continued till achieving a better situation for migrant workers there\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shedding light on the main trends of violations against migrant workers in the Gulf, Mr. Khalid Ibrahim said that migrant workers are overworked and deprived of their salaries for few months securing their money for \u201c security deposit\u201d, and they are exposed to racial discrimination and physical abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Ibrahim continued to criticise the Kafala system as a real contradiction with human rights principles and international conventions. \u201c It cannot be tolerated that migrant workers are not allowed to established unions to defend their own rights\u201d he deplored.<\/p>\n","post_title":"DCT Features Reality of Asian Workers in the Gulf: Violations and Reforms","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dct-features-reality-of-asian-workers-in-the-gulf-violations-and-reforms-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4900","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":68},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\u201cQatar has regularised its industrial relations system and dismantled the systematic power imbalance between workers and employers. These changes are a break with the past and offer a future for migrant workers in Qatar underpinned by laws which respect workers, along with grievance and remedy systems\u201d Marinne Vind noted. She also flagged the necessity to incorporate human rights into the entire process of migrant labour, and to adopt diplomatic channels to continue the dialogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Irudaya Rajan introduced a briefing on his survey in people who returned back from the Gulf because of the pandemic. He said that migrant workers have been subject to 4 major violations: Confiscation of their passports and documents, contract substitution, wage theft, and closure of borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c Negotiations with the gulf contraries need to be continued till achieving a better situation for migrant workers there\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shedding light on the main trends of violations against migrant workers in the Gulf, Mr. Khalid Ibrahim said that migrant workers are overworked and deprived of their salaries for few months securing their money for \u201c security deposit\u201d, and they are exposed to racial discrimination and physical abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Ibrahim continued to criticise the Kafala system as a real contradiction with human rights principles and international conventions. \u201c It cannot be tolerated that migrant workers are not allowed to established unions to defend their own rights\u201d he deplored.<\/p>\n","post_title":"DCT Features Reality of Asian Workers in the Gulf: Violations and Reforms","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dct-features-reality-of-asian-workers-in-the-gulf-violations-and-reforms-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4900","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":68},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
MEP Marianne Vind said that the issue of migrant workers has become more significant during the pandemic, bringing about several consequences and badly affecting millions of people at different aspects including low wages, racial and gender-based discrimination, enforced labour; and exploitation of cheap labour. \u201c There must a dire need to find a comprehensive solution in cooperation with the Middle East governments\u201d, Marianne Vind maintained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cQatar has regularised its industrial relations system and dismantled the systematic power imbalance between workers and employers. These changes are a break with the past and offer a future for migrant workers in Qatar underpinned by laws which respect workers, along with grievance and remedy systems\u201d Marinne Vind noted. She also flagged the necessity to incorporate human rights into the entire process of migrant labour, and to adopt diplomatic channels to continue the dialogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Irudaya Rajan introduced a briefing on his survey in people who returned back from the Gulf because of the pandemic. He said that migrant workers have been subject to 4 major violations: Confiscation of their passports and documents, contract substitution, wage theft, and closure of borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c Negotiations with the gulf contraries need to be continued till achieving a better situation for migrant workers there\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shedding light on the main trends of violations against migrant workers in the Gulf, Mr. Khalid Ibrahim said that migrant workers are overworked and deprived of their salaries for few months securing their money for \u201c security deposit\u201d, and they are exposed to racial discrimination and physical abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Ibrahim continued to criticise the Kafala system as a real contradiction with human rights principles and international conventions. \u201c It cannot be tolerated that migrant workers are not allowed to established unions to defend their own rights\u201d he deplored.<\/p>\n","post_title":"DCT Features Reality of Asian Workers in the Gulf: Violations and Reforms","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dct-features-reality-of-asian-workers-in-the-gulf-violations-and-reforms-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4900","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":68},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
MEP Hauatala referred to the recent violations committed by Saudi Arabia against African workers in detention centres under unpleasant conditions, confirming that the progress taking there is still not enough. On the other hand, she hailed and welcomed the noticeable reforms in Qatar especially with Kafala system through allowing migrant workers to choose their work on their own accord and setting up the minimum wage scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MEP Marianne Vind said that the issue of migrant workers has become more significant during the pandemic, bringing about several consequences and badly affecting millions of people at different aspects including low wages, racial and gender-based discrimination, enforced labour; and exploitation of cheap labour. \u201c There must a dire need to find a comprehensive solution in cooperation with the Middle East governments\u201d, Marianne Vind maintained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cQatar has regularised its industrial relations system and dismantled the systematic power imbalance between workers and employers. These changes are a break with the past and offer a future for migrant workers in Qatar underpinned by laws which respect workers, along with grievance and remedy systems\u201d Marinne Vind noted. She also flagged the necessity to incorporate human rights into the entire process of migrant labour, and to adopt diplomatic channels to continue the dialogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Irudaya Rajan introduced a briefing on his survey in people who returned back from the Gulf because of the pandemic. He said that migrant workers have been subject to 4 major violations: Confiscation of their passports and documents, contract substitution, wage theft, and closure of borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c Negotiations with the gulf contraries need to be continued till achieving a better situation for migrant workers there\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shedding light on the main trends of violations against migrant workers in the Gulf, Mr. Khalid Ibrahim said that migrant workers are overworked and deprived of their salaries for few months securing their money for \u201c security deposit\u201d, and they are exposed to racial discrimination and physical abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Ibrahim continued to criticise the Kafala system as a real contradiction with human rights principles and international conventions. \u201c It cannot be tolerated that migrant workers are not allowed to established unions to defend their own rights\u201d he deplored.<\/p>\n","post_title":"DCT Features Reality of Asian Workers in the Gulf: Violations and Reforms","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dct-features-reality-of-asian-workers-in-the-gulf-violations-and-reforms-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4900","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":68},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Heidi Haulata started her intervention reminding that the situation of migrant workers has become really a human and social right issue, and it is well-documented and long standing problem. \u201c Kafala system puts migrant workers\u2019 lives at risk in terms of passport confiscation, inadequate access to justice, bad accommodation , and lack of sufficient medical assistance\u201d, Hautala asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MEP Hauatala referred to the recent violations committed by Saudi Arabia against African workers in detention centres under unpleasant conditions, confirming that the progress taking there is still not enough. On the other hand, she hailed and welcomed the noticeable reforms in Qatar especially with Kafala system through allowing migrant workers to choose their work on their own accord and setting up the minimum wage scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MEP Marianne Vind said that the issue of migrant workers has become more significant during the pandemic, bringing about several consequences and badly affecting millions of people at different aspects including low wages, racial and gender-based discrimination, enforced labour; and exploitation of cheap labour. \u201c There must a dire need to find a comprehensive solution in cooperation with the Middle East governments\u201d, Marianne Vind maintained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cQatar has regularised its industrial relations system and dismantled the systematic power imbalance between workers and employers. These changes are a break with the past and offer a future for migrant workers in Qatar underpinned by laws which respect workers, along with grievance and remedy systems\u201d Marinne Vind noted. She also flagged the necessity to incorporate human rights into the entire process of migrant labour, and to adopt diplomatic channels to continue the dialogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Irudaya Rajan introduced a briefing on his survey in people who returned back from the Gulf because of the pandemic. He said that migrant workers have been subject to 4 major violations: Confiscation of their passports and documents, contract substitution, wage theft, and closure of borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c Negotiations with the gulf contraries need to be continued till achieving a better situation for migrant workers there\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shedding light on the main trends of violations against migrant workers in the Gulf, Mr. Khalid Ibrahim said that migrant workers are overworked and deprived of their salaries for few months securing their money for \u201c security deposit\u201d, and they are exposed to racial discrimination and physical abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Ibrahim continued to criticise the Kafala system as a real contradiction with human rights principles and international conventions. \u201c It cannot be tolerated that migrant workers are not allowed to established unions to defend their own rights\u201d he deplored.<\/p>\n","post_title":"DCT Features Reality of Asian Workers in the Gulf: Violations and Reforms","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dct-features-reality-of-asian-workers-in-the-gulf-violations-and-reforms-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4900","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":68},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heidi Haulata started her intervention reminding that the situation of migrant workers has become really a human and social right issue, and it is well-documented and long standing problem. \u201c Kafala system puts migrant workers\u2019 lives at risk in terms of passport confiscation, inadequate access to justice, bad accommodation , and lack of sufficient medical assistance\u201d, Hautala asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MEP Hauatala referred to the recent violations committed by Saudi Arabia against African workers in detention centres under unpleasant conditions, confirming that the progress taking there is still not enough. On the other hand, she hailed and welcomed the noticeable reforms in Qatar especially with Kafala system through allowing migrant workers to choose their work on their own accord and setting up the minimum wage scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MEP Marianne Vind said that the issue of migrant workers has become more significant during the pandemic, bringing about several consequences and badly affecting millions of people at different aspects including low wages, racial and gender-based discrimination, enforced labour; and exploitation of cheap labour. \u201c There must a dire need to find a comprehensive solution in cooperation with the Middle East governments\u201d, Marianne Vind maintained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cQatar has regularised its industrial relations system and dismantled the systematic power imbalance between workers and employers. These changes are a break with the past and offer a future for migrant workers in Qatar underpinned by laws which respect workers, along with grievance and remedy systems\u201d Marinne Vind noted. She also flagged the necessity to incorporate human rights into the entire process of migrant labour, and to adopt diplomatic channels to continue the dialogue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Irudaya Rajan introduced a briefing on his survey in people who returned back from the Gulf because of the pandemic. He said that migrant workers have been subject to 4 major violations: Confiscation of their passports and documents, contract substitution, wage theft, and closure of borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c Negotiations with the gulf contraries need to be continued till achieving a better situation for migrant workers there\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shedding light on the main trends of violations against migrant workers in the Gulf, Mr. Khalid Ibrahim said that migrant workers are overworked and deprived of their salaries for few months securing their money for \u201c security deposit\u201d, and they are exposed to racial discrimination and physical abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Ibrahim continued to criticise the Kafala system as a real contradiction with human rights principles and international conventions. \u201c It cannot be tolerated that migrant workers are not allowed to established unions to defend their own rights\u201d he deplored.<\/p>\n","post_title":"DCT Features Reality of Asian Workers in the Gulf: Violations and Reforms","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dct-features-reality-of-asian-workers-in-the-gulf-violations-and-reforms-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4900","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":68},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to world leaders on Tuesday, groups working to fight against inequality said up to 270 million people are acutely food insecure with millions \u201cteetering on the very edge of famine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to world leaders on Tuesday, groups working to fight against inequality said up to 270 million people are acutely food insecure with millions \u201cteetering on the very edge of famine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n originally published:<\/em> 20 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/20\/without-urgent-aid-ngos-warn-millions-at-brink-of-famine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to world leaders on Tuesday, groups working to fight against inequality said up to 270 million people are acutely food insecure with millions \u201cteetering on the very edge of famine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lee reported from Washington and Bilginsoy from Istanbul. Associated Press writer Avet Demourian in Yerevan, Armenia, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"biden-recognizes-atrocities-against-armenians-as-genocide","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4914","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4905,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 20 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/20\/without-urgent-aid-ngos-warn-millions-at-brink-of-famine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to world leaders on Tuesday, groups working to fight against inequality said up to 270 million people are acutely food insecure with millions \u201cteetering on the very edge of famine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n ___<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lee reported from Washington and Bilginsoy from Istanbul. Associated Press writer Avet Demourian in Yerevan, Armenia, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"biden-recognizes-atrocities-against-armenians-as-genocide","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4914","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4905,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 20 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/20\/without-urgent-aid-ngos-warn-millions-at-brink-of-famine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to world leaders on Tuesday, groups working to fight against inequality said up to 270 million people are acutely food insecure with millions \u201cteetering on the very edge of famine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWithin the United States and outside the United States, the American commitment to basic human values has been questioned now for decades,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is very important for people in the world to continue to have the hope and the faith that America\u2019s aspirational values are still relevant, and that we can in fact do several things at once. We can in fact carry on trade and other relations with countries while also calling out the fact that a government cannot get away with murdering its own citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ___<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lee reported from Washington and Bilginsoy from Istanbul. Associated Press writer Avet Demourian in Yerevan, Armenia, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"biden-recognizes-atrocities-against-armenians-as-genocide","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4914","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4905,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 20 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/20\/without-urgent-aid-ngos-warn-millions-at-brink-of-famine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to world leaders on Tuesday, groups working to fight against inequality said up to 270 million people are acutely food insecure with millions \u201cteetering on the very edge of famine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Salpi Ghazarian, director of the University of Southern California\u2019s Institute of Armenian Studies, said the recognition of genocide would resonate beyond Armenia and show Biden\u2019s seriousness about respect for human rights as a central principle in his foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWithin the United States and outside the United States, the American commitment to basic human values has been questioned now for decades,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is very important for people in the world to continue to have the hope and the faith that America\u2019s aspirational values are still relevant, and that we can in fact do several things at once. We can in fact carry on trade and other relations with countries while also calling out the fact that a government cannot get away with murdering its own citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ___<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lee reported from Washington and Bilginsoy from Istanbul. Associated Press writer Avet Demourian in Yerevan, Armenia, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"biden-recognizes-atrocities-against-armenians-as-genocide","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4914","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4905,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 20 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/20\/without-urgent-aid-ngos-warn-millions-at-brink-of-famine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to world leaders on Tuesday, groups working to fight against inequality said up to 270 million people are acutely food insecure with millions \u201cteetering on the very edge of famine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n California is home to large concentrations of Armenian Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Salpi Ghazarian, director of the University of Southern California\u2019s Institute of Armenian Studies, said the recognition of genocide would resonate beyond Armenia and show Biden\u2019s seriousness about respect for human rights as a central principle in his foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWithin the United States and outside the United States, the American commitment to basic human values has been questioned now for decades,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is very important for people in the world to continue to have the hope and the faith that America\u2019s aspirational values are still relevant, and that we can in fact do several things at once. We can in fact carry on trade and other relations with countries while also calling out the fact that a government cannot get away with murdering its own citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ___<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lee reported from Washington and Bilginsoy from Istanbul. Associated Press writer Avet Demourian in Yerevan, Armenia, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"biden-recognizes-atrocities-against-armenians-as-genocide","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4914","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4905,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 20 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/20\/without-urgent-aid-ngos-warn-millions-at-brink-of-famine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to world leaders on Tuesday, groups working to fight against inequality said up to 270 million people are acutely food insecure with millions \u201cteetering on the very edge of famine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor Armenian-Americans and everyone who believes in human rights and the truth, today marks an historic milestone: President Biden has defied Turkish threats and recognized the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians for what it was \u2014 the first genocide of the 20th Century,\u201d Schiff said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n California is home to large concentrations of Armenian Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Salpi Ghazarian, director of the University of Southern California\u2019s Institute of Armenian Studies, said the recognition of genocide would resonate beyond Armenia and show Biden\u2019s seriousness about respect for human rights as a central principle in his foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWithin the United States and outside the United States, the American commitment to basic human values has been questioned now for decades,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is very important for people in the world to continue to have the hope and the faith that America\u2019s aspirational values are still relevant, and that we can in fact do several things at once. We can in fact carry on trade and other relations with countries while also calling out the fact that a government cannot get away with murdering its own citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ___<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lee reported from Washington and Bilginsoy from Istanbul. Associated Press writer Avet Demourian in Yerevan, Armenia, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"biden-recognizes-atrocities-against-armenians-as-genocide","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4914","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4905,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 20:30:14","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 20 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/20\/without-urgent-aid-ngos-warn-millions-at-brink-of-famine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0addressed to world leaders on Tuesday, groups working to fight against inequality said up to 270 million people are acutely food insecure with millions \u201cteetering on the very edge of famine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe combined impacts of conflict, climate change and inequality, coupled with the COVID-19 crisis, have led to an acute food insecurity situation around the world,\u201d the letter, whose key signatories include Oxfam, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNeeds already cannot be met, and we are increasingly likely to face multiple famines if we do not respond now,\u201d the letter, which came in conjunction with the UN\u2019s call for action to avert famine, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a joint statement, the aid groups noted that a year on since the UN warned of \u201cfamine of biblical proportions<\/a>\u201d, donors have only funded five percent of this year\u2019s $7.8bn food security appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The statement<\/a> said that the amount of additional funding called for by the UN\u2019s World Food Programme amounts to $5.5bn, which is equivalent to less than 26 hours of the $1.9 trillion that countries spend per year on the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe richest countries are slashing their food aid even as millions of people go hungry; this is an extraordinary political failure,\u201d Oxfam\u2019s executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey must urgently reverse these decisions. And we must confront the fundamental drivers of starvation \u2013 global hunger is not about lack of food, but a lack of equality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While at least $5.5bn is needed in urgent food and agricultural assistance to avert the imminent risk of famine, millions more is needed to provide health care, clean water and other essential, basic services, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of last year, the UN estimated that 270 million people were either at high risk of, or already facing, severe levels of hunger. Some 174 people in 58 countries have reached that level and are at risk of dying from malnutrition or lack of food, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They warned that this figure will likely increase in the coming months if no actions are taken, and noted that conflict is the biggest driver of global hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key conflicts in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria are forcing millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The joint statement included testimonies from people living in conflict zones and dire humanitarian conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fadya, from Lahj governorate in Yemen, recalled how she considered suicide \u201cseveral times\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen humanitarian workers came to my hut, they thought I had food because smoke was coming from my kitchen. But I was not cooking food for my children \u2013 instead I could only give them hot water and herbs, after which they went to sleep hungry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI thought about suicide several times but I did not do it because of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The open letter further warned that funding alone is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe situation requires urgent action, at a scale we are simply not seeing. If no urgent action is taken, lives will be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries need to take immediate political action to stop these conflicts from continuing, and need to address rising inequality, the groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is imperative that we raise our collective voices to secure the international attention this cause deserves before it is too late,\u201d they said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n","post_title":"NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ngos-call-for-urgent-aid-as-millions-on-brink-of-starvation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:36:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=4905","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":4900,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_date_gmt":"2021-04-25 09:54:33","post_content":"\n Friday, 23rd<\/sup> April, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democracy Centre for Diplomacy organised a virtual meeting to feature the current status of migrant workers in the Gulf. The meetings hosted Heidi Hautala MEP, Vice-president of the European Parliament \u00a0and member of the Delegation for relations with countries of southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>; Marianne Vind MEP, Vice-chair of delegation for relations with the southeast Asia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Khalid Ibrahim<\/a>, executive director of Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and Irudaya Rajan<\/a>, Professor at Centre for Development Studies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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