Aid workers told Amnesty researcher Abdullahi Hassan the newly reduced services were due to lack of funding. The sheer magnitude of the crisis is another challenge as every part of the world needs help — and now. This new analysis, like any measure of aid, is imperfect — it looks at data published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative, which is voluntary but widely used. Last week, the United Nations again increased its request for the pandemic response alone to $10.3 billion — the largest appeal in its history. “The response of wealthy nations so far has been grossly inadequate and dangerously short-sighted,” U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said.

Source: Standard Digital July 28, 2020 14:03 UTC