ROME/MUNICH - There is a ring of fire stretching around the world where conflict and climate shocks compounded by COVID and rising costs are driving millions of people to the brink of starvation - threatening to increase migration and instability globally this year, the Executive Director of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), David Beasley warned today.
WASHINGTON DC/PANAMA: Poverty, food insecurity, climate shocks and violence pushed an estimated annual average of 378,000 Central Americans to migrate to the United States over the past five years, highlights a new report launched today. A high price is paid in human and economic costs, including an estimated $2.2 billion a year to travel regularly and irregularly.
DAMASCUS/BEIRUT ¨C United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley has warned that more Syrians are in the grip of hunger today than at any time during their country¡¯s decade-long conflict, blaming a deadly combination of conflict, climate change, COVID and rising food and fuel costs.
ROME ¨C Golden Globe-nominated actor and director Daniel Br¨¹hl was today appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ). As conflict, climate change and the impact of the pandemic increase global food insecurity, Br¨¹hl joins the world¡¯s largest humanitarian organization in its mission to reach a world with Zero Hunger.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine (IPC4/Emergency or worse) in 43 countries has risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world. This number has risen from 42 million earlier in the year and 27 million in 2019.
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Dubai ¨C UAE: The need to better anticipate climate shocks and invest in early humanitarian action was spotlighted at a high-level meeting hosted by the Embassy of Sweden in the United Arab Emirates at Dubai Expo 2020. Participants called for public and private sectors to work together to put anticipatory action at the center of humanitarian policies and strategies.
NEW YORK ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director, David Beasley, has called on world leaders to make food security a reality for all and to build a stronger, healthier planet through better food systems.
NEW YORK ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director, David Beasley, has urged the world to step-up support for the people of Yemen, saying Â鶹ÊÓƵ food assistance in the country could soon start to run out.
PEMBA, CABO DELGADO ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that without urgent funding, one of the world¡¯s fastest-growing displacement crises in northern Mozambique risks becoming a hunger emergency as families continue to flee insurgent violence.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a $60 million contribution from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) to help meet the urgent food needs of the most vulnerable in famine-risk Yemen.
AMBOVOMBE, MADAGASCAR ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director, David Beasley, is urging the world to step-up and take action after bearing witness to the invisible crisis enveloping Southern Madagascar, where whole communities are teetering on the edge of starvation.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that famine ¨C already present in four countries ¨C could become a reality for millions of people around the world, without urgent funding to stave off a catastrophe, and without access to families cut-off by conflict.
ROME ¨C Alarming new data has today confirmed the magnitude of the hunger emergency gripping Tigray, where at least 4 million people face severe hunger and 350 000 of them are facing famine. The lack of information on people¡¯s food security in western Tigray in the IPC analysis is also deeply worrying.
PANAMA CITY¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reached an agreement to commence operations in Venezuela with the priority of serving the most vulnerable children.
ROME ¨C The visit to Central America by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director, David Beasley renews Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s commitment to working with vulnerable communities, offering them sustainable livelihoods and food security in their villages, giving them reasons to stay at home and reducing migration. During his visit Beasley met families affected by climate change coupled with job losses and rising inequality, a fallout of COVID-19.
JUBA ¨C United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley today congratulated leaders of Sudan and one of the country¡¯s rebel groups for agreeing to principles to resolve their conflict including that freedom of religion would be guaranteed to all Sudanese in a civil, democratic federal state.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has announced the Finnish Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, Ville Skinnari, as the founding member of a high-level steering committee to support a global scale up of school meal programmes.
NEW YORK ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director, David Beasley, addressed the United Nations Security Council today on Yemen, conflict and food insecurity. Here are selected highlights from his remarks
ADEN/SANA¡¯A ¨C The Executive Director of the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ issued an urgent plea for peace in Yemen and called for funding to help the most vulnerable hungry families as he wrapped up a two-day visit to the country where the worst famine the world has seen in modern history is now looming.
KINSHASA¨C Reaffirming the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s commitment to build stronger communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Executive Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, David Beasley, today, concluded a visit to the country which included a meeting with the Country¡¯s new President, F¨¦lix Tshisekedi.
ADDIS ABABA/ROME - Today, the Executive Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, David Beasley, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia, Catherine Sozi, and the Federal Minister of Peace of the Government of Ethiopia, Muferihat Kamil, completed a joint visit to Mekelle in Ethiopia¡¯s Tigray Region, aiming to highlight the need for strong partnership to rapidly scale up a Government-led collective response to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of people in Ethiopia¡¯s Tigray Region.
Rome ¨C?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is honoured to accept the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on December 10 at 1 p.m. (CET), in a ceremony that recognizes our role in fighting hunger and fostering peace in conflict-affected areas.
ROME ¨C The COVID-19 pandemic is reversing development gains and testing the foundations of global peace, yet it also presents an unprecedented opportunity to collaborate in helping governments and communities build back better. This is the core theme of a high-level virtual meeting in Rome today (1500 CET), bringing together top representatives of the United Na-tions, international financial institutions, African Union and European Union and governments.
Transcript as delivered of remarks by UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director David Beasley during today¡¯s UN Security Council consultation on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
NEW YORK ¨C
I honestly wish I had some good news. It seems like a repeat performance of what we have done in 2018, 2019. I would literally like to be pretty clear and pretty blunt about the situation because I don¡¯t want a single person to leave here with any doubt about the scale of the humanitarian disaster that we¡¯re now confronting in Yemen.
